August 22, 2024 • 39 mins
Today's Mystery: A typist for a murder mystery writer is murdered in his home.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: October 26, 1949
Originating from New York City
Starring: Karl Swenson as Mister Chameleon; Frank Butler as Sergeant Dave Arnold
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Original Radio Broadcast Date: October 26, 1949
Originating from New York City
Starring: Karl Swenson as Mister Chameleon; Frank Butler as Sergeant Dave Arnold
Support the show monthly at https://patreon.greatdetectives.net
Patreon Supporter of the Day: Luce, Patreon Supporter since April 2021
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Speaker 1 (00:28):
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(01:15):
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and also wherever fine ebooks are sold. But now it
is time for this week's episode of Mister Chameleon. The
original aired eight October twenty sixth, nineteen forty nine, and
(01:40):
the title is The Girl who Typed Murder.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Next Mister Chameleon and the Girl Who Typed Murder. Tonight
(02:15):
we again present the famous mister Chameleon of Central Police
Headquarters in his famous Cases of Crime and Murder, brought
to you by the makers of Genuine Bayer Aspiring. Mister Cameleon,
as you know, is the famous and dreaded detective who
frequently uses a disguise to track down a killer, a
disguise which at all times is recognized by the audience.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Tonight we give you, mister Chameleon.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
In The Girl Who Typed Murder, the scene opens in
the home of a successful writer of murder and mystery fiction,
Basil Carlile, where we see him with his head resting
on his folded arms on top of his battered desk,
(03:02):
and as a knock is heard at the door, he
drowsily arises and says, huh.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
Who's that come here? Oh hello, Jim. I didn't hear
you at first, mister fallen asleep.
Speaker 5 (03:18):
I had a hunt you walk personally. I think you're
taking too many of those bromides, but I guess you
do get pretty nervous working the way you do, dreaming
up murder plots.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
I have been jittery lately. Anyway, I'll lay two to one.
Speaker 5 (03:32):
I know what brought you, sure your publishers raising the
devil for the last chapter of your book.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
Well, I finished it last night and gave it to
miss Russell early this morning to be typed. I guess
she's done with it. I don't hear a typewriter in
the next room.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
Well, I'll have a look in there and get it
from a Basel. Okay, let's Russell, let's Russell. Look here, Basil.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Quick, she's been stabbed.
Speaker 5 (03:56):
She's dead, Basle, cold stone dead.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Could this be Jeon?
Speaker 6 (04:01):
You?
Speaker 7 (04:01):
Wait here?
Speaker 5 (04:02):
Where are you going.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
Upstairs my wife's room. I didn't want her to walk
in on this.
Speaker 5 (04:07):
Yeah, and while you are breaking the news to her,
I'll be breaking it to the police. My friend.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
Why were you so quick to call a police, Jim?
After all, this is my house.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
But it's not your private murder, Basil, What are you
talking about? Look, writing a book about a murder is
your business. That's not harming anybody. But when one comes
off in your own house, that's not for the book.
It's for the cops.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
I guess that's the police. Now open the door, Jim.
Speaker 7 (04:47):
I'm comedian that sent the police headquarters. A murder has
been reported here. I reported it my name's Jim Ferriss.
I'm Basil Carlyle's literary agent. I just stumbled into this,
Basil carl Isle, at whom right and mister commedian. Oh,
by the way, this is Detective.
Speaker 6 (05:03):
Onald h Am, Mister Ferris.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
Mister Basil Carlyle, Come in, mister Comeleion. This is a
strange thing.
Speaker 7 (05:14):
Where is the body, mister Carlyle in that.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
Room, mister Camelion, unfortunate girl was my typist.
Speaker 7 (05:19):
Yes, I understand, Swan Russell. There she is, mister Camelion.
Nothing's been touched, she's been stammed. Is he any knife
or danger anywhere? Dave Well, I'll.
Speaker 6 (05:32):
Look, mister Comellion. But chances are the killer got off
with it.
Speaker 7 (05:35):
Mister Carlyle. What is the story? What happened to him?
Speaker 4 (05:38):
That's what I can't understand. She was evidently killed while
I was asleep. Asleep, Yes, I've been taking a lot
of bromides lately, took some in fact, just before I
gave miss Russell the last chapter of a new book
I was finishing to type. I didn't wake up until
my literary agent here, mister Ferris, knocked on the door.
Who discovered the murder, Jimdy.
Speaker 5 (05:58):
That fright, mister Comeleion. Then Basil ushed upstairs to tell
his wife and I call the police.
Speaker 7 (06:03):
Mister Carlyle, Why did you think it more important to
tell your wife about this murder than to call the police?
Speaker 4 (06:10):
No reason at all. I suppose I was a bit befuddled.
You know how it is after taking a lot of bromides.
Speaker 7 (06:17):
The place I learned it was after reading one of
your books, mister Carlyle, My books, the one which tagged
bromides as the drug of forgetfulness, the plot being that
bromides frequently make you forget everything that happened. So a
man killed a girl in this book and put up
the successful defense that he had committed the murder without
knowing that he had, hence intent to murder could not
(06:38):
be proved.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
I write so many plots. I forget from one minute
to the next.
Speaker 7 (06:43):
What I write? Hmm, I seem do I ask a chameleon?
Speaker 6 (06:48):
Yes, here's some murder weapon.
Speaker 7 (06:50):
Oh, a dagger made in London during the warmarked England's blitz.
Where do you find it?
Speaker 6 (06:57):
Dave the bottom drawer of mister Carlyle Eld's desk in
the other room, wrapped up on a couple of soiled towels.
Speaker 7 (07:03):
Not very ingenious. Ever see this dagger before, mister Carlyle.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
Why, oh, yes, it's mine.
Speaker 7 (07:10):
But where'd you get it?
Speaker 4 (07:12):
What's frightful? Miss Russell gave it to me?
Speaker 7 (07:15):
What the murdered girl gave it to you.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
Yes, she went to London several years ago and brought
this back to me.
Speaker 7 (07:22):
Do you know what the story behind these London blitztaggers is,
mister Carlyle, story. No, They were made from the metal
of the German bombs dropped down London, and they signified
that England would take the bombs that fell on her
and convert them to weapons.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
I get it, weapons to pay the enemy back. Exactly,
mister Carlyle. And miss Russell didn't tell you this strange?
Are you inferring something, mister chameleon?
Speaker 7 (07:49):
Nothing more perhaps than it would supply a good plot
for one of your murder stories. Uh, something like this.
A beautiful and seductive girl gives a dagger with a
story of vengeance behind it to some man she's in
love with. He tires of her, remembers the legend, and
in poetic fancy, murders her with it. When he can't
get rid of it any other way. This is fantastic, Chameleon,
(08:10):
no more fantastic than the murder books you write, all
unsolved crimes with obvious clues missed by the stupid police
until your very clever character, Bradshaw, the private dick with
all the answers, runs in and quickly brings the killer
to heel.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
You're trying to build up a case against me because
you're resentful of the stories I write. Well, their fiction.
This unfortunate girl's murder is fact. And I told you
I was asleep when she was killed. I'd taken too
many bromides. I see the evidence against me as clearly
as you see it. What evidence the dagger was mine?
(08:47):
Was found at my desk. I'm almost beginning to wonder
if in a bromide sleep, unconscious of what I was doing,
I might not have killed.
Speaker 7 (08:55):
Her the drug of forgetfulness. So back to that, Well,
tell me what do you know about the murdered girl's
private life?
Speaker 4 (09:03):
I don't know anything about it.
Speaker 7 (09:06):
Where is your wife, mister Carlyle.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
She's still in her room, dressing. She was asleep when
I want to tell her about Swan Russell's murder. I'll
get her if you want to see her. So she
was asleep too.
Speaker 7 (09:17):
Uh no, don't disturbine now to take the varnold here.
We'll bring her down to headquarters later.
Speaker 6 (09:23):
In about half an hour. Mister Comelion, right you are, Dave.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
I demand that you question my wife right here and now,
in my presence, mister Camelion.
Speaker 7 (09:29):
Don't get upset, mister Carlyle. It's just my way of
handling a murder investigation. I like to speak to people alone. Dave.
Speaker 6 (09:38):
Yes, mister Comerlion, wait.
Speaker 7 (09:40):
Thirty minutes and then bring mister Carlyle's wife into my office.
I'm going back to headquarters now with mister Feris. You
don't mind doing you, mister Fennis.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
Jim Ferris is only my literary agent, Chameleon. He doesn't
know anything about this. I'll ply it mister Camelion's way. Basil,
be glad to help mister Chameleon.
Speaker 7 (09:56):
Very good, Jim, let's go, Thanks very much for coming,
mister Ferris. Here's my car to hop in the trouble
with that guy.
Speaker 5 (10:11):
Mister Chameleon mean.
Speaker 7 (10:12):
Basil Carlile, who else?
Speaker 5 (10:15):
Like all writers, he's unstable and since he's been taking
those bromides by the jar. He's beginning to believe his
own stories.
Speaker 7 (10:22):
Yeah, it could be. The reason I asked you to
come with me was I thought you might give me
the loawdown on what goes on in Carlile's house.
Speaker 5 (10:30):
Well, I don't know any too much, mister chameleon. But
fire away.
Speaker 7 (10:34):
Was there any connection between Basil and the murdered girl?
She was about the most glamorous typist I've ever seen,
just the kind of bloke like him with go far
he went for a lot of the mister Comeleian, all
come now, why should you hold anything back? The only
people in the murdered investigation with any reason to lie
or can seal anything other guilty. All it does for
the innocent has put them on a spot with the police.
Speaker 5 (10:55):
Well, I don't want anything repeated. But Basil went overboard
on Swan Russell and hard.
Speaker 7 (11:00):
What about her?
Speaker 5 (11:02):
Well, she had a pretty good job. Guess she thought
it smart to act nice. But don't play your cards
that way, mister comedian. She was gonna marry another guy,
a guy she knew in England, fellow named Cearl Hawks.
Speaker 7 (11:12):
Did Basil know this, not unless she told him where
is Cyril Hawke's You know where he lives?
Speaker 5 (11:16):
No, I never even Medam. What else do you know
about Swan wor Russell's private life? Absolutely nothing, mister comedian.
Speaker 7 (11:24):
I went about Basil Carlyle's wife. Was she jealous of
the murdered girl? Tell us not the jealous type. Besides,
she's seen Basil fall for a lot of girls. Then
get over it and come back to her. Well, you
can never be sure of what a woman thinks under
those circumstances.
Speaker 5 (11:37):
Basil's wife is simply not that kind.
Speaker 7 (11:40):
Well, then you think Basil killed the girl himself?
Speaker 5 (11:42):
Why should I?
Speaker 7 (11:43):
Well, as I get the story, only Basil and his
wife were in the house at the time of the murder.
Speaker 5 (11:47):
Well, somebody could have got in through the window the
little room Swan Russell worked him and killed her.
Speaker 7 (11:51):
There's no window in that room, just to sound ventilator
in the ceiling, and only one door, the door to
Basil Carlyles. Avis.
Speaker 5 (11:58):
I hadn't thought of that.
Speaker 7 (12:00):
You're not very familiar with the house.
Speaker 5 (12:01):
Oh sure, I am. But well, why should I notice
that the room didn't have a window. Nothing strange about that?
Is there?
Speaker 7 (12:08):
Nothing? Incidentally? Jim, do you help mister Carlyle develop any
of his murder.
Speaker 5 (12:13):
Plots, may certainly not. They're all a lot of hulk
m anyway in one ear and out the other stuff.
Speaker 7 (12:20):
You, as Carlyle's literary agent, don't seem to think very
highly of his work.
Speaker 5 (12:23):
Well, it's not exactly Shakespeare.
Speaker 7 (12:26):
We're already at headquarters.
Speaker 5 (12:28):
I shan't ask you in. You've given me all I
need for the present, all Chemist Chameleon. And if there's
anything more, here's my phone up.
Speaker 7 (12:34):
Make you Jim, I may call on you goodbye.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
And meanwhile, at Basil Carlyle's home, as Detective Arnold waits
downstairs to take Basil's wife Ella to see mister Cameleon
at headquarters, we hear her and Basil saying, I.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
Tell you, Ella, Chameleon suspects me of killing Swan Ross.
Speaker 8 (12:54):
Why should he, Basil? You didn't, did you? That would
be an odd turn, to say the least.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
What do you mean?
Speaker 8 (13:01):
Isn't it usually the wife who is disposed of in
cases like this?
Speaker 4 (13:04):
I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 8 (13:06):
I think you do.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
It's quite clear to me that Cameleon refused to question
you in my presence because he's trying to get conflicting
stories from us.
Speaker 8 (13:13):
I heard everything you and he said downstairs, Basil, I
was leaning over the stair rail, including your story about
taking so many bromides, so many that you may have
killed your most recent love interest without realizing it yourself.
Speaker 6 (13:26):
Dear, but hi, missus Carlile, mister cameleon said, thirty.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
Minutes, Detective Arnold, give us one more minute, won't you.
I have something to tell my wife.
Speaker 8 (13:35):
I'm ready to go now, Detective Arnold, goodbye, Basil. If
mister Camelion doesn't arrest me, I'll be back very soon.
Speaker 7 (13:52):
Ah, Missus Carlyle'll sit down and don't be nervous. This
is all customery routine.
Speaker 8 (13:56):
I understand, mister comedian.
Speaker 7 (13:59):
The murdered swam Russell was an extraordinary pretty girl, wasn't she?
Speaker 8 (14:03):
Every man she met seemed to think so, including your husband.
He never commented on that to me. He said, she
was a very competent typist.
Speaker 7 (14:10):
Do you know anything about her personal life?
Speaker 8 (14:13):
Her personal life, No, I don't. I've no idea how
she lived.
Speaker 7 (14:16):
Why do you think she was murdered, Missus Carlyle, I'm only.
Speaker 8 (14:20):
A house fighte, mister comedian, not a detective, and.
Speaker 7 (14:24):
In the murder stories that your husband writes, detectives are
pictured as a particularly stupid lot. It's quite natural that
you don't want to be grouped with them.
Speaker 8 (14:32):
Oh why not say that about you, mister comedian. You're
rather famous, don't you.
Speaker 7 (14:36):
One stupid police theory in this particular case, Missus Carlyle,
would be that your husband killed Swan Russell, with whom
I'm informed he was infatuated when she tossed him over
to marry another man.
Speaker 8 (14:46):
He wasn't infatuated with.
Speaker 7 (14:47):
Her, and the other theory would be equally stupid. No
doubt that you expressed your jealousy in the way so
many wives have.
Speaker 8 (14:57):
I don't understand.
Speaker 7 (15:00):
I seen many wives hold everything inside until one particular
rival came along, and then quietly blow up.
Speaker 8 (15:06):
I wasn't jealous of Swan Russell, and I didn't kill her.
Speaker 7 (15:08):
I am not accusing you of anything, Missus Carlyle. Please
don't misunderstand me.
Speaker 8 (15:14):
Mister comedian.
Speaker 7 (15:15):
I have a confession to make a confession.
Speaker 8 (15:19):
I heard everything you and my husband Basil said when
you questioned him. Do you believe he could have killed
Swan under the romantic influence of not knowing what he
was doing, do you I, I don't know.
Speaker 7 (15:33):
Does seem far fetch? Doesn't it? Tell? Men? Who helped
your husband collect his reference books?
Speaker 8 (15:39):
Why I did? I suppose? Why do you ask?
Speaker 7 (15:41):
Because he has one of the most complete libraries on
how to kill people and get away with it that
I've ever seen, what endless books on obscure poisons, bacteria
noted unsolved murder cases, books on weapons, books on concealing evidence,
and all the criminal devices used successfully by clever criminals
to point the evidence away from them.
Speaker 8 (15:59):
I didn't choose the books. I had no idea what
they were, except they were things he used in his
work as a writer.
Speaker 7 (16:05):
I see one more question, Who, besides his literary agent
Jim Ferris, helped your husband develop the murder plots in
his books?
Speaker 8 (16:16):
Nobody else?
Speaker 7 (16:17):
Thank you, missus, Carlyle. I think that's all. Oh, it
occurs to me, however, showing just how stupid a cop
can be. I forgot to ask you where you were
at the time of the murder Basil.
Speaker 8 (16:30):
My husband insisted that I take several broom I tablius
the night before. He thought I looked ill and needed
extra sleep. I didn't wake up until I heard you
coming into the house.
Speaker 7 (16:40):
And where is your husband?
Speaker 8 (16:43):
I heard him tell you he was asleep at his
desk at the time, mister Comellion, that's all I know
about where he was.
Speaker 7 (16:51):
May I go now, Yes, certainly, missus Carlyle, good bye,
mister Camellon, And the girl who typed murder continues in
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Now back to mister Cameleon and the case of the
Girl who typed murdered. A beautiful typist, Swan Russell has
been found murdered in the home of Basil Carlisle, mystery writer.
The circumstances throw suspicion on Basil, who is infatuated with Swan,
Ella his wife, and Jim Ferris, his agent, who found
(18:42):
the body. It is now some time later at police headquarters,
and we hear mister Cameleon saying to his assistant Dave Arnold.
Speaker 7 (18:49):
Evny luck day finding that murdered girl's roommate.
Speaker 6 (18:51):
I've got her outside now, mister Communion. But she don't
know anything. She just got in from a weekend in
the country, a nice kid, all broken up by Swan's murder.
Speaker 7 (19:00):
Well, I'm afraid you miss a point, day, What point?
The point that I asked every suspect in this case,
do you know anything of the murdered girl's personal life?
And everyone was quick to say nothing, And that is
not natural. In fact, it's impossible.
Speaker 6 (19:13):
Hey, I get you. That is funny. Shall I bring
her in? Her name is Cora Bush. He's on a
Broadway show.
Speaker 7 (19:19):
An actress thought having a dizzy writer was enough. Stage
people are worse, all right, bring her in, dave.
Speaker 6 (19:26):
Im, Miss Cora, Well, I really don't know anything.
Speaker 7 (19:29):
I'll not keep you a minute. Miscotta.
Speaker 9 (19:31):
I was weekending in Connecticut when it all happened, mister Cameleon.
The friends I was staying with will verify this. You
can bring them up, an ass.
Speaker 7 (19:38):
I'm not interested in your alibi right now. What I'd
like you to tell me is everything that you know
about Swan Russell, your murdered roommate.
Speaker 9 (19:46):
Oh I see, well, we were roommates for three years
and very good friends besides, almost like sisters.
Speaker 7 (19:52):
Where did you meet? Hi, Miss Cordra.
Speaker 10 (19:54):
Basil Carlyle introduced this.
Speaker 7 (19:56):
Bazel Carlyle, sure.
Speaker 9 (19:58):
One of his murdert stories is made into a that
I was in. I used to go out with him
before I knew he was a married.
Speaker 7 (20:04):
Man and then he fell in love with Swans. That ended.
Speaker 10 (20:07):
Yeah, she told me he promised to divorce his wife
and marry her. When was that, corra Oh about a
year ago?
Speaker 9 (20:14):
But nothing came of it broke up Swan terribly when
it dragged down and nothing happened.
Speaker 7 (20:19):
Well, I was told that Swan was engaged to marry
an English champ named Cyril Hawks.
Speaker 9 (20:24):
Cyril Hawks, She I never heard of him, Say, who
told you that story?
Speaker 7 (20:29):
Jim Ferris Dazil Carlyle's literary agent.
Speaker 10 (20:32):
So he did, did he what? He's a first class liar.
Speaker 9 (20:36):
He was in love with Swan himself, just like him
to try that kind of trick on you.
Speaker 10 (20:41):
You take my word for that guy. Cyril Hawks doesn't exist.
Speaker 7 (20:44):
I'm inclined to agree with you. The entire police force
can't even find anybody of that name.
Speaker 9 (20:48):
He's just as real as one of the characters Jim
Ferris helps Battle Carlyle write in his books.
Speaker 7 (20:54):
I didn't know that Ferris helped Carlyle in his writing.
Speaker 10 (20:57):
Oh he does, all right, they're actually co well.
Speaker 7 (21:01):
Thank you tremendously, miss Cora. That'll be all. Oh, by
the way, when did you arrive back in town from
the country.
Speaker 10 (21:08):
I mean late last night.
Speaker 7 (21:10):
A goodbye for now, Cora. I may drop in to
see your show one night.
Speaker 9 (21:15):
Can a body suffer afterwards? That'd be just fine.
Speaker 6 (21:22):
Seems I guess wrong on that baby, mister comedian. She
didn't get back to town this morning, but last night.
Speaker 7 (21:27):
Reading between the lines, Dave, I'd say she's still crazy
about Basil Carlyle herself. She's not the kind of break
with the man just because she finds out that he's married.
Speaker 6 (21:36):
Personally, I'm not going for any of their stories, mister Chameleion.
Speaker 7 (21:39):
Dave, I think I got the flash. I'm going up
to see the Commissioner and I have a fantastic thing
that I want him to arrange for me. If it
comes off, we'll have Swan Russell's killer.
Speaker 11 (21:58):
Hello Chameleon, Miss nam, I've been looking over your reports
on the Swan Russell case. You are not really falling
for the idea that Basil Carlyle killed or unconsciously while
under the influence of bromides.
Speaker 7 (22:09):
Are you looks pretty thin to me. There's been a
lot of talk about bromides and the case commissioner.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
Rubbish, I call it.
Speaker 7 (22:16):
The point is that I've got a couple of suspects
to deal with who are experts on murder. Carlyle spends
his life writing murder mysteries and studying clever murder devices,
and so does his literary agent, Jim Perris. Might not
be so rubbishy as you think.
Speaker 11 (22:31):
Well, what's your next move, chameleon?
Speaker 7 (22:33):
Well, i am certain that I know who the killer is,
but I've got to force the evidence. How well I'm
going in disguise, But to make it come off, you
will have to arrange the stranger stage said, I've ever
called on you for commissioner, what stage set? Well, I
want you to use your influence with one of the
movie companies. Movie company write commissioner to block off the
street where Basil Carlyle lives on the excuse they're making
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a movie with a quiet street in New York. As
it's backing, it is not easy enough.
Speaker 4 (23:00):
But where do you come in?
Speaker 7 (23:02):
As one of the cameramen on the set who took
a few shots out of turn early this morning showing
who entered and who left the Carlisle house, I'm a
lad named Enrico Selase, fresh from Hollywood.
Speaker 11 (23:15):
It sounds a bit wild to meet comeleion, but I'll
play along. When do you want these particular goings on to.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Start tomorrow morning, commissioner, So early the following morning. The
block on which Basil Carlyle lives takes on the aspect
of a Hollywood set, Cameras grinding away, Actors in costume
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grouped around, directors getting last many directions. When Basil Carlisle,
attracted by the commotion, opens the door of his house,
the house where his type as Swan Russell was stabbed
to death, we hear him calling to his.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
Wife, Ella, come here, what's this all about?
Speaker 8 (23:58):
I wanted to make you a movie best.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
Don't you think I've got eyes in my head?
Speaker 8 (24:02):
Let me finish here. I know all about it.
Speaker 4 (24:04):
You what?
Speaker 8 (24:05):
We got a notice from the police last night that
the street would be blocked off this morning, that Ajax
Pictures was going to take a street scene.
Speaker 4 (24:12):
A police notice. Why didn't you tell me why?
Speaker 8 (24:15):
I forgot?
Speaker 4 (24:15):
Bazil forgot? That's wonderful. Go in and get Jim Ferriss here.
Speaker 5 (24:19):
Did you call me, Basil?
Speaker 4 (24:21):
What do you know about this Jim funny thing? The
police would have to shut off this block.
Speaker 5 (24:25):
Don funny, Take it easy, Basil, one of the camera
means coming up here.
Speaker 4 (24:28):
Listen to you. This is private property.
Speaker 7 (24:30):
Keep off your basil, Carlyle. Aren't you the mid the
story guy?
Speaker 4 (24:37):
Suppose? I am.
Speaker 7 (24:38):
I don't like your stories myself, but that's not what
I came to tell you. I got a bit of
film and this can.
Speaker 4 (24:46):
I'm not interested in what you've got.
Speaker 7 (24:47):
Mister Enrico Selassie's the name, mister Carlyle Enrico Selassi. I
thought you might be interested in this bit of film
I shot at myself yesterday morning, just about the time
that girl Swan Russell was made here.
Speaker 4 (25:04):
What yesterday morning?
Speaker 8 (25:05):
Didn't see you yesterday morning?
Speaker 7 (25:08):
Question is do you want to buy it for a
couple of thousand? Have me tyne it over to the police.
That cop Comedon is close enough behind you. The phenis
breadth on your neck, buddy.
Speaker 5 (25:20):
Better get him inside the house, basil, where we can
talk private.
Speaker 8 (25:23):
That's right, basil, don't make any mistakes you'll be sorry for.
Speaker 4 (25:25):
Please, I beg you all right, Come in, mister Scott tole,
mister Carlyle Salas. I don't give it. I don't care
what it is now, what about that film? What's on it?
Speaker 7 (25:38):
Just by chance. I came out here yesterday morning and
took a few shots to get the.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
Layer of the lane.
Speaker 7 (25:43):
What's on that film the solution of who killed your typist,
mister Carlyle. It shows who came out of the side
door of your house, entered the front door, slipped in
and might it the guile did it while you claimed
that the cops was asleep on the Bromides, you get me?
Speaker 4 (26:04):
Who told you? I said I was asleep when Swan
was murdered.
Speaker 7 (26:07):
I got next to comedian's sidekick, Detective Anold, I slipped
in fifty bucks. They loosen up, told me, among other items,
that the chameleon wasn't fallen for that sleep story, either
about you or your wife. And they caught this guy
Ferris Lion to what me? Don't take it too hot, Ferris,
(26:29):
Mister Carlyle, is this film a bargain at two thousand
or not?
Speaker 4 (26:34):
So you think you can blackmail me to you give
me the film?
Speaker 8 (26:38):
Are you atterally crazy?
Speaker 10 (26:38):
Basil?
Speaker 8 (26:39):
Give him the money?
Speaker 5 (26:40):
Getting neck for two thousand. Battle's easier than the chair.
Speaker 8 (26:42):
If you won't give it to a battle, I will.
Will you take my check, mister Selassie, I'll write one.
Speaker 4 (26:47):
Now, how do you know this man isn't a figure?
Speaker 8 (26:52):
I'll take my chance's Basel. Here's your chick, mister Selassie.
Jury may not believe your story about the Bromides Basel.
Speaker 7 (26:59):
I thought you'd say that, Missus Carlyle. You see the
party who slipped out of the side door and into
the front was a woman.
Speaker 8 (27:05):
You got your money? Give me the film.
Speaker 4 (27:07):
What woman's Lsie? Here's the detective Arnold coming up the
walk with Cora Bush. I see now Cora Bush hated Swann.
She killed her.
Speaker 7 (27:14):
No, Carlyle, the murderers was your wife.
Speaker 4 (27:17):
It's a trick, you're mister Comedian's a million.
Speaker 10 (27:20):
Oh what a fool I was to give you that check.
Speaker 7 (27:22):
That's right, I'm comedian. Missus Carlyle, you had taken all
any woman could take from your husband quietly. And then,
as I told you the first time we talked, the
moment comes in cases like this when the one intolerable
rival appears and everything blows up. And then you thought
of that dagger.
Speaker 8 (27:37):
Yes, I took the Daggerswan Russell gave my husband I
killed her with.
Speaker 4 (27:41):
Yes.
Speaker 7 (27:41):
I was sure of that too. So clearly a woman's
way of thinking. I'm sorry for you, missus Carlyle, but
murderers must be punished.
Speaker 4 (27:50):
I'll spend every dollar I've got for my wife's defense, Chameleon.
Speaker 7 (27:52):
And the rest of your life, remembering I hope that
your behavior led to this crime. Come along, missus Carlyle.
It is my duty to arrest you.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
And with these words, mister Chameleon concludes tonight's murder case.
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Speaker 3 (29:09):
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Speaker 2 (29:13):
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(29:34):
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Speaker 3 (29:40):
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Speaker 2 (29:44):
The part of mister Camelion is played by Carl Swenson,
with dialogue by Frank Hummert.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
From the original story by.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
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Speaker 3 (29:56):
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Speaker 2 (30:54):
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carved gold Wedding Ring next Wednesday night at the same time.
Is this EBS the Columbia Broadcasting System Welcome back.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
I was really curious about the shrapnel dagger. It's one
of those details which is interesting but completely irrelevant to
the plot. I found a couple examples of this in
some completed online auctions. There were a couple trench knifs
(31:40):
as well as a couple letter openers, And the way
that the trench knif worked is that they take natural
shrapnel and make a very rough handle, and then the
actual blade would be a typical blade for the given
style of knife. This selling price currently seems to vary
(32:03):
between two hundred dollars and four hundred. What I couldn't
find was any confirmation about the daggers being some sort
of defiant gesture. It would be cool if that we're true,
but again I can't confirm it. Also some really good
to detail on the camera man disguise, even if it
was a bit of an elaborate ruse. He came up
(32:25):
with a last name that was definitely unusual. And yes,
our murderous was foolish, as is every criminal who gets
taken in by a chameleon disguise after knowing that he's
on the case. But that's one of those things that's
kind of typical for this series. I will admit that
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the Humertz fooled me. I really thought the agent did it.
The way he reported the murder and was so helpful
to Chameleon are usually red flags. Plus he did a
lot to cast a suspasion on his client, but I
could never buy the logic of a strong suspicion that
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the mystery writer was behind it. Yes, he had reference
books on crime, murder, poisons, and a lot of information
on how to commit and get away with elaborate crimes,
but does that mean he knocked a stenographer in his
own house and planted the knife in his own drawer?
(33:30):
Although I think Chameleon wanted to suspect him on general principle,
though this appealed less to him in his capacity as Chameleon.
The detective and more as Chameleon the amateur literary critic. Well,
I should let you know that we will be pausing
our times with mister Chameleon on the podcast in three weeks.
(33:55):
We are running out of episodes that are available to
play for you. The episodes I acquire, I get under
condition that I wait a certain number of months to
share them. And while I expect I'll have a few
more that I could play in October and then sum
in January, i'd rather build up a supply of available
(34:17):
episodes rather than talking in and out of the series.
So we'll pause mister Chameleon after this show that we've
play in three weeks, and I expect will return to
him in fifteen to eighteen months. However, we'll return to
the hummert verse before that. More on that to come.
(34:38):
In four weeks, though, we'll be bringing you mister and
Missus North and I'm really going to look forward to that,
and I hope you'll enjoy that as well.
Speaker 6 (34:47):
Well.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
Now we turn to listener comments and feedback, and we
start out with an email from Ken and Ken riots Adam.
As they say, the past is a foreign country, but
I don't think anywhere in the past or any place
in the world has there ever been an itinerant rope
ladder salesman The disguise mister Camellion used to insinuate himself
(35:13):
into the house of all the suspects, And I think
an actual human reaction to a rope salesman showing up
at a house immediately prior to a family hearing the
last will of the recently departed would be to give
the favor peddling interloper the bombs rush. But don't get
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me wrong, I love the show. If you sold mister
Comeleian merch like, say a mister Comeleion branded fake nose
and mustache, I would buy a dozen. Friday's Joni Doler
was an interesting radio play, but I got the sense
Johnie was working in Encyclopedia Brown Side of the Street
(35:54):
breaking the case on the fact that Wales aren't fish.
Still a fun week of old time radio. You know, well,
thank you so much. Appreciate the comment. Ken. Of course,
I have a soft spot for Encyclopedia Brown. I kind
of am eager for the time when my son gets
old enough to enjoy them so I can reintroduce those,
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because those are definitely fun reads, but I can see
the point, and there are some Bob Bailey scripts that
do get to that sort of level, but sometimes it's
a bit more sophisticated, but it's like Encyclopedia Brown Plus. Now,
as to mister Chameleon merch, we already do have the
(36:40):
famous Investigator t shirt. It's one of our t shirts
at t shirt dot Great Detectives dot net, which is
kind of a nod to both mister Chameleon and mister King.
I definitely should give some thought as to what types
of merch that people would be interested in for mister
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Chameleon as well as other detectives, and of course we
do have mister Chameleon's birthday coming up in a few months.
Thanks so much for the email, and let me know
anybody out there if you have me not tenorant rope
ladder salesman rope ladders. Maybe that should be the next merch. Okay,
(37:25):
we do also have another comment here, uh, this one
from YouTube. Terry writes three enjoyable detective stories in one evening. Wow,
really spoilt well. Thank you so much, and it's always
fun to have a lot of episodes posted big archives
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so people can really just dig into a lot of episodes.
Thanks so much, And now it is time to thank
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for yours truly, Johnny dollar Ware.
Speaker 3 (38:41):
You better slow down?
Speaker 4 (38:43):
What did you say?
Speaker 13 (38:45):
When he's got more and to love it, be able
to use stash to win at old step in the cellar?
Speaker 4 (38:49):
Why should I.
Speaker 3 (38:49):
Have I said? Take it easy?
Speaker 4 (38:52):
How? Why don't those trucks stay off those backcountry roads?
Speaker 1 (38:57):
Well?
Speaker 13 (38:59):
Why should I work?
Speaker 6 (39:00):
Well?
Speaker 13 (39:00):
All I need to do is to get my hands
to some of that pile. He's gotten a safe and
I can live like a king. He'll never spend it,
and I'll never leave it to me when he kicks off.
That's why I haven't knocked them off myself.
Speaker 3 (39:14):
But believe me, look, just stop this craton. Let me
take the way.
Speaker 11 (39:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (39:17):
Why oh with all you're running and raving, you're all
over the road.
Speaker 4 (39:20):
Sure, okay, okay, sure you can.
Speaker 7 (39:22):
Drive me stop, sure, stop, God we'll skip. Let's skip.
Speaker 1 (39:31):
I hope you'll be with us then in the meantime.
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and also wherever fine ebooks are sold. But now it
is time for this week's episode of Mister Chameleon. The
original aired eight October twenty sixth, nineteen forty nine, and
(01:40):
the title is The Girl who Typed Murder.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Next Mister Chameleon and the Girl Who Typed Murder. Tonight
(02:15):
we again present the famous mister Chameleon of Central Police
Headquarters in his famous Cases of Crime and Murder, brought
to you by the makers of Genuine Bayer Aspiring. Mister Cameleon,
as you know, is the famous and dreaded detective who
frequently uses a disguise to track down a killer, a
disguise which at all times is recognized by the audience.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Tonight we give you, mister Chameleon.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
In The Girl Who Typed Murder, the scene opens in
the home of a successful writer of murder and mystery fiction,
Basil Carlile, where we see him with his head resting
on his folded arms on top of his battered desk,
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and as a knock is heard at the door, he
drowsily arises and says, huh.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
Who's that come here? Oh hello, Jim. I didn't hear
you at first, mister fallen asleep.
Speaker 5 (03:18):
I had a hunt you walk personally. I think you're
taking too many of those bromides, but I guess you
do get pretty nervous working the way you do, dreaming
up murder plots.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
I have been jittery lately. Anyway, I'll lay two to one.
Speaker 5 (03:32):
I know what brought you, sure your publishers raising the
devil for the last chapter of your book.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
Well, I finished it last night and gave it to
miss Russell early this morning to be typed. I guess
she's done with it. I don't hear a typewriter in
the next room.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
Well, I'll have a look in there and get it
from a Basel. Okay, let's Russell, let's Russell. Look here, Basil.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Quick, she's been stabbed.
Speaker 5 (03:56):
She's dead, Basle, cold stone dead.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Could this be Jeon?
Speaker 6 (04:01):
You?
Speaker 7 (04:01):
Wait here?
Speaker 5 (04:02):
Where are you going.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
Upstairs my wife's room. I didn't want her to walk
in on this.
Speaker 5 (04:07):
Yeah, and while you are breaking the news to her,
I'll be breaking it to the police. My friend.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
Why were you so quick to call a police, Jim?
After all, this is my house.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
But it's not your private murder, Basil, What are you
talking about? Look, writing a book about a murder is
your business. That's not harming anybody. But when one comes
off in your own house, that's not for the book.
It's for the cops.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
I guess that's the police. Now open the door, Jim.
Speaker 7 (04:47):
I'm comedian that sent the police headquarters. A murder has
been reported here. I reported it my name's Jim Ferriss.
I'm Basil Carlyle's literary agent. I just stumbled into this,
Basil carl Isle, at whom right and mister commedian. Oh,
by the way, this is Detective.
Speaker 6 (05:03):
Onald h Am, Mister Ferris.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
Mister Basil Carlyle, Come in, mister Comeleion. This is a
strange thing.
Speaker 7 (05:14):
Where is the body, mister Carlyle in that.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
Room, mister Camelion, unfortunate girl was my typist.
Speaker 7 (05:19):
Yes, I understand, Swan Russell. There she is, mister Camelion.
Nothing's been touched, she's been stammed. Is he any knife
or danger anywhere? Dave Well, I'll.
Speaker 6 (05:32):
Look, mister Comellion. But chances are the killer got off
with it.
Speaker 7 (05:35):
Mister Carlyle. What is the story? What happened to him?
Speaker 4 (05:38):
That's what I can't understand. She was evidently killed while
I was asleep. Asleep, Yes, I've been taking a lot
of bromides lately, took some in fact, just before I
gave miss Russell the last chapter of a new book
I was finishing to type. I didn't wake up until
my literary agent here, mister Ferris, knocked on the door.
Who discovered the murder, Jimdy.
Speaker 5 (05:58):
That fright, mister Comeleion. Then Basil ushed upstairs to tell
his wife and I call the police.
Speaker 7 (06:03):
Mister Carlyle, Why did you think it more important to
tell your wife about this murder than to call the police?
Speaker 4 (06:10):
No reason at all. I suppose I was a bit befuddled.
You know how it is after taking a lot of bromides.
Speaker 7 (06:17):
The place I learned it was after reading one of
your books, mister Carlyle, My books, the one which tagged
bromides as the drug of forgetfulness, the plot being that
bromides frequently make you forget everything that happened. So a
man killed a girl in this book and put up
the successful defense that he had committed the murder without
knowing that he had, hence intent to murder could not
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be proved.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
I write so many plots. I forget from one minute
to the next.
Speaker 7 (06:43):
What I write? Hmm, I seem do I ask a chameleon?
Speaker 6 (06:48):
Yes, here's some murder weapon.
Speaker 7 (06:50):
Oh, a dagger made in London during the warmarked England's blitz.
Where do you find it?
Speaker 6 (06:57):
Dave the bottom drawer of mister Carlyle Eld's desk in
the other room, wrapped up on a couple of soiled towels.
Speaker 7 (07:03):
Not very ingenious. Ever see this dagger before, mister Carlyle.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
Why, oh, yes, it's mine.
Speaker 7 (07:10):
But where'd you get it?
Speaker 4 (07:12):
What's frightful? Miss Russell gave it to me?
Speaker 7 (07:15):
What the murdered girl gave it to you.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
Yes, she went to London several years ago and brought
this back to me.
Speaker 7 (07:22):
Do you know what the story behind these London blitztaggers is,
mister Carlyle, story. No, They were made from the metal
of the German bombs dropped down London, and they signified
that England would take the bombs that fell on her
and convert them to weapons.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
I get it, weapons to pay the enemy back. Exactly,
mister Carlyle. And miss Russell didn't tell you this strange?
Are you inferring something, mister chameleon?
Speaker 7 (07:49):
Nothing more perhaps than it would supply a good plot
for one of your murder stories. Uh, something like this.
A beautiful and seductive girl gives a dagger with a
story of vengeance behind it to some man she's in
love with. He tires of her, remembers the legend, and
in poetic fancy, murders her with it. When he can't
get rid of it any other way. This is fantastic, Chameleon,
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no more fantastic than the murder books you write, all
unsolved crimes with obvious clues missed by the stupid police
until your very clever character, Bradshaw, the private dick with
all the answers, runs in and quickly brings the killer
to heel.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
You're trying to build up a case against me because
you're resentful of the stories I write. Well, their fiction.
This unfortunate girl's murder is fact. And I told you
I was asleep when she was killed. I'd taken too
many bromides. I see the evidence against me as clearly
as you see it. What evidence the dagger was mine?
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Was found at my desk. I'm almost beginning to wonder
if in a bromide sleep, unconscious of what I was doing,
I might not have killed.
Speaker 7 (08:55):
Her the drug of forgetfulness. So back to that, Well,
tell me what do you know about the murdered girl's
private life?
Speaker 4 (09:03):
I don't know anything about it.
Speaker 7 (09:06):
Where is your wife, mister Carlyle.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
She's still in her room, dressing. She was asleep when
I want to tell her about Swan Russell's murder. I'll
get her if you want to see her. So she
was asleep too.
Speaker 7 (09:17):
Uh no, don't disturbine now to take the varnold here.
We'll bring her down to headquarters later.
Speaker 6 (09:23):
In about half an hour. Mister Comelion, right you are, Dave.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
I demand that you question my wife right here and now,
in my presence, mister Camelion.
Speaker 7 (09:29):
Don't get upset, mister Carlyle. It's just my way of
handling a murder investigation. I like to speak to people alone. Dave.
Speaker 6 (09:38):
Yes, mister Comerlion, wait.
Speaker 7 (09:40):
Thirty minutes and then bring mister Carlyle's wife into my office.
I'm going back to headquarters now with mister Feris. You
don't mind doing you, mister Fennis.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
Jim Ferris is only my literary agent, Chameleon. He doesn't
know anything about this. I'll ply it mister Camelion's way. Basil,
be glad to help mister Chameleon.
Speaker 7 (09:56):
Very good, Jim, let's go, Thanks very much for coming,
mister Ferris. Here's my car to hop in the trouble
with that guy.
Speaker 5 (10:11):
Mister Chameleon mean.
Speaker 7 (10:12):
Basil Carlile, who else?
Speaker 5 (10:15):
Like all writers, he's unstable and since he's been taking
those bromides by the jar. He's beginning to believe his
own stories.
Speaker 7 (10:22):
Yeah, it could be. The reason I asked you to
come with me was I thought you might give me
the loawdown on what goes on in Carlile's house.
Speaker 5 (10:30):
Well, I don't know any too much, mister chameleon. But
fire away.
Speaker 7 (10:34):
Was there any connection between Basil and the murdered girl?
She was about the most glamorous typist I've ever seen,
just the kind of bloke like him with go far
he went for a lot of the mister Comeleian, all
come now, why should you hold anything back? The only
people in the murdered investigation with any reason to lie
or can seal anything other guilty. All it does for
the innocent has put them on a spot with the police.
Speaker 5 (10:55):
Well, I don't want anything repeated. But Basil went overboard
on Swan Russell and hard.
Speaker 7 (11:00):
What about her?
Speaker 5 (11:02):
Well, she had a pretty good job. Guess she thought
it smart to act nice. But don't play your cards
that way, mister comedian. She was gonna marry another guy,
a guy she knew in England, fellow named Cearl Hawks.
Speaker 7 (11:12):
Did Basil know this, not unless she told him where
is Cyril Hawke's You know where he lives?
Speaker 5 (11:16):
No, I never even Medam. What else do you know
about Swan wor Russell's private life? Absolutely nothing, mister comedian.
Speaker 7 (11:24):
I went about Basil Carlyle's wife. Was she jealous of
the murdered girl? Tell us not the jealous type. Besides,
she's seen Basil fall for a lot of girls. Then
get over it and come back to her. Well, you
can never be sure of what a woman thinks under
those circumstances.
Speaker 5 (11:37):
Basil's wife is simply not that kind.
Speaker 7 (11:40):
Well, then you think Basil killed the girl himself?
Speaker 5 (11:42):
Why should I?
Speaker 7 (11:43):
Well, as I get the story, only Basil and his
wife were in the house at the time of the murder.
Speaker 5 (11:47):
Well, somebody could have got in through the window the
little room Swan Russell worked him and killed her.
Speaker 7 (11:51):
There's no window in that room, just to sound ventilator
in the ceiling, and only one door, the door to
Basil Carlyles. Avis.
Speaker 5 (11:58):
I hadn't thought of that.
Speaker 7 (12:00):
You're not very familiar with the house.
Speaker 5 (12:01):
Oh sure, I am. But well, why should I notice
that the room didn't have a window. Nothing strange about that?
Is there?
Speaker 7 (12:08):
Nothing? Incidentally? Jim, do you help mister Carlyle develop any
of his murder.
Speaker 5 (12:13):
Plots, may certainly not. They're all a lot of hulk
m anyway in one ear and out the other stuff.
Speaker 7 (12:20):
You, as Carlyle's literary agent, don't seem to think very
highly of his work.
Speaker 5 (12:23):
Well, it's not exactly Shakespeare.
Speaker 7 (12:26):
We're already at headquarters.
Speaker 5 (12:28):
I shan't ask you in. You've given me all I
need for the present, all Chemist Chameleon. And if there's
anything more, here's my phone up.
Speaker 7 (12:34):
Make you Jim, I may call on you goodbye.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
And meanwhile, at Basil Carlyle's home, as Detective Arnold waits
downstairs to take Basil's wife Ella to see mister Cameleon
at headquarters, we hear her and Basil saying, I.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
Tell you, Ella, Chameleon suspects me of killing Swan Ross.
Speaker 8 (12:54):
Why should he, Basil? You didn't, did you? That would
be an odd turn, to say the least.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
What do you mean?
Speaker 8 (13:01):
Isn't it usually the wife who is disposed of in
cases like this?
Speaker 4 (13:04):
I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 8 (13:06):
I think you do.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
It's quite clear to me that Cameleon refused to question
you in my presence because he's trying to get conflicting
stories from us.
Speaker 8 (13:13):
I heard everything you and he said downstairs, Basil, I
was leaning over the stair rail, including your story about
taking so many bromides, so many that you may have
killed your most recent love interest without realizing it yourself.
Speaker 6 (13:26):
Dear, but hi, missus Carlile, mister cameleon said, thirty.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
Minutes, Detective Arnold, give us one more minute, won't you.
I have something to tell my wife.
Speaker 8 (13:35):
I'm ready to go now, Detective Arnold, goodbye, Basil. If
mister Camelion doesn't arrest me, I'll be back very soon.
Speaker 7 (13:52):
Ah, Missus Carlyle'll sit down and don't be nervous. This
is all customery routine.
Speaker 8 (13:56):
I understand, mister comedian.
Speaker 7 (13:59):
The murdered swam Russell was an extraordinary pretty girl, wasn't she?
Speaker 8 (14:03):
Every man she met seemed to think so, including your husband.
He never commented on that to me. He said, she
was a very competent typist.
Speaker 7 (14:10):
Do you know anything about her personal life?
Speaker 8 (14:13):
Her personal life, No, I don't. I've no idea how
she lived.
Speaker 7 (14:16):
Why do you think she was murdered, Missus Carlyle, I'm only.
Speaker 8 (14:20):
A house fighte, mister comedian, not a detective, and.
Speaker 7 (14:24):
In the murder stories that your husband writes, detectives are
pictured as a particularly stupid lot. It's quite natural that
you don't want to be grouped with them.
Speaker 8 (14:32):
Oh why not say that about you, mister comedian. You're
rather famous, don't you.
Speaker 7 (14:36):
One stupid police theory in this particular case, Missus Carlyle,
would be that your husband killed Swan Russell, with whom
I'm informed he was infatuated when she tossed him over
to marry another man.
Speaker 8 (14:46):
He wasn't infatuated with.
Speaker 7 (14:47):
Her, and the other theory would be equally stupid. No
doubt that you expressed your jealousy in the way so
many wives have.
Speaker 8 (14:57):
I don't understand.
Speaker 7 (15:00):
I seen many wives hold everything inside until one particular
rival came along, and then quietly blow up.
Speaker 8 (15:06):
I wasn't jealous of Swan Russell, and I didn't kill her.
Speaker 7 (15:08):
I am not accusing you of anything, Missus Carlyle. Please
don't misunderstand me.
Speaker 8 (15:14):
Mister comedian.
Speaker 7 (15:15):
I have a confession to make a confession.
Speaker 8 (15:19):
I heard everything you and my husband Basil said when
you questioned him. Do you believe he could have killed
Swan under the romantic influence of not knowing what he
was doing, do you I, I don't know.
Speaker 7 (15:33):
Does seem far fetch? Doesn't it? Tell? Men? Who helped
your husband collect his reference books?
Speaker 8 (15:39):
Why I did? I suppose? Why do you ask?
Speaker 7 (15:41):
Because he has one of the most complete libraries on
how to kill people and get away with it that
I've ever seen, what endless books on obscure poisons, bacteria
noted unsolved murder cases, books on weapons, books on concealing evidence,
and all the criminal devices used successfully by clever criminals
to point the evidence away from them.
Speaker 8 (15:59):
I didn't choose the books. I had no idea what
they were, except they were things he used in his
work as a writer.
Speaker 7 (16:05):
I see one more question, Who, besides his literary agent
Jim Ferris, helped your husband develop the murder plots in
his books?
Speaker 8 (16:16):
Nobody else?
Speaker 7 (16:17):
Thank you, missus, Carlyle. I think that's all. Oh, it
occurs to me, however, showing just how stupid a cop
can be. I forgot to ask you where you were
at the time of the murder Basil.
Speaker 8 (16:30):
My husband insisted that I take several broom I tablius
the night before. He thought I looked ill and needed
extra sleep. I didn't wake up until I heard you
coming into the house.
Speaker 7 (16:40):
And where is your husband?
Speaker 8 (16:43):
I heard him tell you he was asleep at his
desk at the time, mister Comellion, that's all I know
about where he was.
Speaker 7 (16:51):
May I go now, Yes, certainly, missus Carlyle, good bye,
mister Camellon, And the girl who typed murder continues in
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Now back to mister Cameleon and the case of the
Girl who typed murdered. A beautiful typist, Swan Russell has
been found murdered in the home of Basil Carlisle, mystery writer.
The circumstances throw suspicion on Basil, who is infatuated with Swan,
Ella his wife, and Jim Ferris, his agent, who found
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the body. It is now some time later at police headquarters,
and we hear mister Cameleon saying to his assistant Dave Arnold.
Speaker 7 (18:49):
Evny luck day finding that murdered girl's roommate.
Speaker 6 (18:51):
I've got her outside now, mister Communion. But she don't
know anything. She just got in from a weekend in
the country, a nice kid, all broken up by Swan's murder.
Speaker 7 (19:00):
Well, I'm afraid you miss a point, day, What point?
The point that I asked every suspect in this case,
do you know anything of the murdered girl's personal life?
And everyone was quick to say nothing, And that is
not natural. In fact, it's impossible.
Speaker 6 (19:13):
Hey, I get you. That is funny. Shall I bring
her in? Her name is Cora Bush. He's on a
Broadway show.
Speaker 7 (19:19):
An actress thought having a dizzy writer was enough. Stage
people are worse, all right, bring her in, dave.
Speaker 6 (19:26):
Im, Miss Cora, Well, I really don't know anything.
Speaker 7 (19:29):
I'll not keep you a minute. Miscotta.
Speaker 9 (19:31):
I was weekending in Connecticut when it all happened, mister Cameleon.
The friends I was staying with will verify this. You
can bring them up, an ass.
Speaker 7 (19:38):
I'm not interested in your alibi right now. What I'd
like you to tell me is everything that you know
about Swan Russell, your murdered roommate.
Speaker 9 (19:46):
Oh I see, well, we were roommates for three years
and very good friends besides, almost like sisters.
Speaker 7 (19:52):
Where did you meet? Hi, Miss Cordra.
Speaker 10 (19:54):
Basil Carlyle introduced this.
Speaker 7 (19:56):
Bazel Carlyle, sure.
Speaker 9 (19:58):
One of his murdert stories is made into a that
I was in. I used to go out with him
before I knew he was a married.
Speaker 7 (20:04):
Man and then he fell in love with Swans. That ended.
Speaker 10 (20:07):
Yeah, she told me he promised to divorce his wife
and marry her. When was that, corra Oh about a
year ago?
Speaker 9 (20:14):
But nothing came of it broke up Swan terribly when
it dragged down and nothing happened.
Speaker 7 (20:19):
Well, I was told that Swan was engaged to marry
an English champ named Cyril Hawks.
Speaker 9 (20:24):
Cyril Hawks, She I never heard of him, Say, who
told you that story?
Speaker 7 (20:29):
Jim Ferris Dazil Carlyle's literary agent.
Speaker 10 (20:32):
So he did, did he what? He's a first class liar.
Speaker 9 (20:36):
He was in love with Swan himself, just like him
to try that kind of trick on you.
Speaker 10 (20:41):
You take my word for that guy. Cyril Hawks doesn't exist.
Speaker 7 (20:44):
I'm inclined to agree with you. The entire police force
can't even find anybody of that name.
Speaker 9 (20:48):
He's just as real as one of the characters Jim
Ferris helps Battle Carlyle write in his books.
Speaker 7 (20:54):
I didn't know that Ferris helped Carlyle in his writing.
Speaker 10 (20:57):
Oh he does, all right, they're actually co well.
Speaker 7 (21:01):
Thank you tremendously, miss Cora. That'll be all. Oh, by
the way, when did you arrive back in town from
the country.
Speaker 10 (21:08):
I mean late last night.
Speaker 7 (21:10):
A goodbye for now, Cora. I may drop in to
see your show one night.
Speaker 9 (21:15):
Can a body suffer afterwards? That'd be just fine.
Speaker 6 (21:22):
Seems I guess wrong on that baby, mister comedian. She
didn't get back to town this morning, but last night.
Speaker 7 (21:27):
Reading between the lines, Dave, I'd say she's still crazy
about Basil Carlyle herself. She's not the kind of break
with the man just because she finds out that he's married.
Speaker 6 (21:36):
Personally, I'm not going for any of their stories, mister Chameleion.
Speaker 7 (21:39):
Dave, I think I got the flash. I'm going up
to see the Commissioner and I have a fantastic thing
that I want him to arrange for me. If it
comes off, we'll have Swan Russell's killer.
Speaker 11 (21:58):
Hello Chameleon, Miss nam, I've been looking over your reports
on the Swan Russell case. You are not really falling
for the idea that Basil Carlyle killed or unconsciously while
under the influence of bromides.
Speaker 7 (22:09):
Are you looks pretty thin to me. There's been a
lot of talk about bromides and the case commissioner.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
Rubbish, I call it.
Speaker 7 (22:16):
The point is that I've got a couple of suspects
to deal with who are experts on murder. Carlyle spends
his life writing murder mysteries and studying clever murder devices,
and so does his literary agent, Jim Perris. Might not
be so rubbishy as you think.
Speaker 11 (22:31):
Well, what's your next move, chameleon?
Speaker 7 (22:33):
Well, i am certain that I know who the killer is,
but I've got to force the evidence. How well I'm
going in disguise, But to make it come off, you
will have to arrange the stranger stage said, I've ever
called on you for commissioner, what stage set? Well, I
want you to use your influence with one of the
movie companies. Movie company write commissioner to block off the
street where Basil Carlyle lives on the excuse they're making
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a movie with a quiet street in New York. As
it's backing, it is not easy enough.
Speaker 4 (23:00):
But where do you come in?
Speaker 7 (23:02):
As one of the cameramen on the set who took
a few shots out of turn early this morning showing
who entered and who left the Carlisle house, I'm a
lad named Enrico Selase, fresh from Hollywood.
Speaker 11 (23:15):
It sounds a bit wild to meet comeleion, but I'll
play along. When do you want these particular goings on to.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Start tomorrow morning, commissioner, So early the following morning. The
block on which Basil Carlyle lives takes on the aspect
of a Hollywood set, Cameras grinding away, Actors in costume
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grouped around, directors getting last many directions. When Basil Carlisle,
attracted by the commotion, opens the door of his house,
the house where his type as Swan Russell was stabbed
to death, we hear him calling to his.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
Wife, Ella, come here, what's this all about?
Speaker 8 (23:58):
I wanted to make you a movie best.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
Don't you think I've got eyes in my head?
Speaker 8 (24:02):
Let me finish here. I know all about it.
Speaker 4 (24:04):
You what?
Speaker 8 (24:05):
We got a notice from the police last night that
the street would be blocked off this morning, that Ajax
Pictures was going to take a street scene.
Speaker 4 (24:12):
A police notice. Why didn't you tell me why?
Speaker 8 (24:15):
I forgot?
Speaker 4 (24:15):
Bazil forgot? That's wonderful. Go in and get Jim Ferriss here.
Speaker 5 (24:19):
Did you call me, Basil?
Speaker 4 (24:21):
What do you know about this Jim funny thing? The
police would have to shut off this block.
Speaker 5 (24:25):
Don funny, Take it easy, Basil, one of the camera
means coming up here.
Speaker 4 (24:28):
Listen to you. This is private property.
Speaker 7 (24:30):
Keep off your basil, Carlyle. Aren't you the mid the
story guy?
Speaker 4 (24:37):
Suppose? I am.
Speaker 7 (24:38):
I don't like your stories myself, but that's not what
I came to tell you. I got a bit of
film and this can.
Speaker 4 (24:46):
I'm not interested in what you've got.
Speaker 7 (24:47):
Mister Enrico Selassie's the name, mister Carlyle Enrico Selassi. I
thought you might be interested in this bit of film
I shot at myself yesterday morning, just about the time
that girl Swan Russell was made here.
Speaker 4 (25:04):
What yesterday morning?
Speaker 8 (25:05):
Didn't see you yesterday morning?
Speaker 7 (25:08):
Question is do you want to buy it for a
couple of thousand? Have me tyne it over to the police.
That cop Comedon is close enough behind you. The phenis
breadth on your neck, buddy.
Speaker 5 (25:20):
Better get him inside the house, basil, where we can
talk private.
Speaker 8 (25:23):
That's right, basil, don't make any mistakes you'll be sorry for.
Speaker 4 (25:25):
Please, I beg you all right, Come in, mister Scott tole,
mister Carlyle Salas. I don't give it. I don't care
what it is now, what about that film? What's on it?
Speaker 7 (25:38):
Just by chance. I came out here yesterday morning and
took a few shots to get the.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
Layer of the lane.
Speaker 7 (25:43):
What's on that film the solution of who killed your typist,
mister Carlyle. It shows who came out of the side
door of your house, entered the front door, slipped in
and might it the guile did it while you claimed
that the cops was asleep on the Bromides, you get me?
Speaker 4 (26:04):
Who told you? I said I was asleep when Swan
was murdered.
Speaker 7 (26:07):
I got next to comedian's sidekick, Detective Anold, I slipped
in fifty bucks. They loosen up, told me, among other items,
that the chameleon wasn't fallen for that sleep story, either
about you or your wife. And they caught this guy
Ferris Lion to what me? Don't take it too hot, Ferris,
(26:29):
Mister Carlyle, is this film a bargain at two thousand
or not?
Speaker 4 (26:34):
So you think you can blackmail me to you give
me the film?
Speaker 8 (26:38):
Are you atterally crazy?
Speaker 10 (26:38):
Basil?
Speaker 8 (26:39):
Give him the money?
Speaker 5 (26:40):
Getting neck for two thousand. Battle's easier than the chair.
Speaker 8 (26:42):
If you won't give it to a battle, I will.
Will you take my check, mister Selassie, I'll write one.
Speaker 4 (26:47):
Now, how do you know this man isn't a figure?
Speaker 8 (26:52):
I'll take my chance's Basel. Here's your chick, mister Selassie.
Jury may not believe your story about the Bromides Basel.
Speaker 7 (26:59):
I thought you'd say that, Missus Carlyle. You see the
party who slipped out of the side door and into
the front was a woman.
Speaker 8 (27:05):
You got your money? Give me the film.
Speaker 4 (27:07):
What woman's Lsie? Here's the detective Arnold coming up the
walk with Cora Bush. I see now Cora Bush hated Swann.
She killed her.
Speaker 7 (27:14):
No, Carlyle, the murderers was your wife.
Speaker 4 (27:17):
It's a trick, you're mister Comedian's a million.
Speaker 10 (27:20):
Oh what a fool I was to give you that check.
Speaker 7 (27:22):
That's right, I'm comedian. Missus Carlyle, you had taken all
any woman could take from your husband quietly. And then,
as I told you the first time we talked, the
moment comes in cases like this when the one intolerable
rival appears and everything blows up. And then you thought
of that dagger.
Speaker 8 (27:37):
Yes, I took the Daggerswan Russell gave my husband I
killed her with.
Speaker 4 (27:41):
Yes.
Speaker 7 (27:41):
I was sure of that too. So clearly a woman's
way of thinking. I'm sorry for you, missus Carlyle, but
murderers must be punished.
Speaker 4 (27:50):
I'll spend every dollar I've got for my wife's defense, Chameleon.
Speaker 7 (27:52):
And the rest of your life, remembering I hope that
your behavior led to this crime. Come along, missus Carlyle.
It is my duty to arrest you.
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Speaker 1 (31:20):
I was really curious about the shrapnel dagger. It's one
of those details which is interesting but completely irrelevant to
the plot. I found a couple examples of this in
some completed online auctions. There were a couple trench knifs
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as well as a couple letter openers, And the way
that the trench knif worked is that they take natural
shrapnel and make a very rough handle, and then the
actual blade would be a typical blade for the given
style of knife. This selling price currently seems to vary
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between two hundred dollars and four hundred. What I couldn't
find was any confirmation about the daggers being some sort
of defiant gesture. It would be cool if that we're true,
but again I can't confirm it. Also some really good
to detail on the camera man disguise, even if it
was a bit of an elaborate ruse. He came up
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with a last name that was definitely unusual. And yes,
our murderous was foolish, as is every criminal who gets
taken in by a chameleon disguise after knowing that he's
on the case. But that's one of those things that's
kind of typical for this series. I will admit that
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the Humertz fooled me. I really thought the agent did it.
The way he reported the murder and was so helpful
to Chameleon are usually red flags. Plus he did a
lot to cast a suspasion on his client, but I
could never buy the logic of a strong suspicion that
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the mystery writer was behind it. Yes, he had reference
books on crime, murder, poisons, and a lot of information
on how to commit and get away with elaborate crimes,
but does that mean he knocked a stenographer in his
own house and planted the knife in his own drawer?
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Although I think Chameleon wanted to suspect him on general principle,
though this appealed less to him in his capacity as Chameleon.
The detective and more as Chameleon the amateur literary critic. Well,
I should let you know that we will be pausing
our times with mister Chameleon on the podcast in three weeks.
(33:55):
We are running out of episodes that are available to
play for you. The episodes I acquire, I get under
condition that I wait a certain number of months to
share them. And while I expect I'll have a few
more that I could play in October and then sum
in January, i'd rather build up a supply of available
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episodes rather than talking in and out of the series.
So we'll pause mister Chameleon after this show that we've
play in three weeks, and I expect will return to
him in fifteen to eighteen months. However, we'll return to
the hummert verse before that. More on that to come.
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In four weeks, though, we'll be bringing you mister and
Missus North and I'm really going to look forward to that,
and I hope you'll enjoy that as well.
Speaker 6 (34:47):
Well.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
Now we turn to listener comments and feedback, and we
start out with an email from Ken and Ken riots Adam.
As they say, the past is a foreign country, but
I don't think anywhere in the past or any place
in the world has there ever been an itinerant rope
ladder salesman The disguise mister Camellion used to insinuate himself
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into the house of all the suspects, And I think
an actual human reaction to a rope salesman showing up
at a house immediately prior to a family hearing the
last will of the recently departed would be to give
the favor peddling interloper the bombs rush. But don't get
(35:33):
me wrong, I love the show. If you sold mister
Comeleian merch like, say a mister Comeleion branded fake nose
and mustache, I would buy a dozen. Friday's Joni Doler
was an interesting radio play, but I got the sense
Johnie was working in Encyclopedia Brown Side of the Street
(35:54):
breaking the case on the fact that Wales aren't fish.
Still a fun week of old time radio. You know, well,
thank you so much. Appreciate the comment. Ken. Of course,
I have a soft spot for Encyclopedia Brown. I kind
of am eager for the time when my son gets
old enough to enjoy them so I can reintroduce those,
(36:17):
because those are definitely fun reads, but I can see
the point, and there are some Bob Bailey scripts that
do get to that sort of level, but sometimes it's
a bit more sophisticated, but it's like Encyclopedia Brown Plus. Now,
as to mister Chameleon merch, we already do have the
(36:40):
famous Investigator t shirt. It's one of our t shirts
at t shirt dot Great Detectives dot net, which is
kind of a nod to both mister Chameleon and mister King.
I definitely should give some thought as to what types
of merch that people would be interested in for mister
(37:02):
Chameleon as well as other detectives, and of course we
do have mister Chameleon's birthday coming up in a few months.
Thanks so much for the email, and let me know
anybody out there if you have me not tenorant rope
ladder salesman rope ladders. Maybe that should be the next merch. Okay,
(37:25):
we do also have another comment here, uh, this one
from YouTube. Terry writes three enjoyable detective stories in one evening. Wow,
really spoilt well. Thank you so much, and it's always
fun to have a lot of episodes posted big archives
(37:48):
so people can really just dig into a lot of episodes.
Thanks so much, And now it is time to thank
our Patreon supporter of the day, and I want to
thank lows Patreon supporter since April twenty twenty one currently
supporting the podcast at the shamous level of four dollars
or more per month. Thank you so much for your support,
(38:10):
Lose and that'll actually do it for today. If you're
enjoying the podcast, please follow us using your favorite podcast software.
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(38:32):
episode of Mister Chameleon. But join us back here tomorrow
for yours truly, Johnny dollar Ware.
Speaker 3 (38:41):
You better slow down?
Speaker 4 (38:43):
What did you say?
Speaker 13 (38:45):
When he's got more and to love it, be able
to use stash to win at old step in the cellar?
Speaker 4 (38:49):
Why should I.
Speaker 3 (38:49):
Have I said? Take it easy?
Speaker 4 (38:52):
How? Why don't those trucks stay off those backcountry roads?
Speaker 1 (38:57):
Well?
Speaker 13 (38:59):
Why should I work?
Speaker 6 (39:00):
Well?
Speaker 13 (39:00):
All I need to do is to get my hands
to some of that pile. He's gotten a safe and
I can live like a king. He'll never spend it,
and I'll never leave it to me when he kicks off.
That's why I haven't knocked them off myself.
Speaker 3 (39:14):
But believe me, look, just stop this craton. Let me
take the way.
Speaker 11 (39:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (39:17):
Why oh with all you're running and raving, you're all
over the road.
Speaker 4 (39:20):
Sure, okay, okay, sure you can.
Speaker 7 (39:22):
Drive me stop, sure, stop, God we'll skip. Let's skip.
Speaker 1 (39:31):
I hope you'll be with us then in the meantime.
Send your comments to Box thirteen at Great Detectives dot nat,
follow us on Twitter at Radio Detectives, and check us
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Boise Alahol. This is your host, Adam Graham. Sign and
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