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[00:00:59] Speaker B: Mystery is my Hobby.
Ladies and gentlemen, Barton Drake speaking. This week I've selected for our drama case history number 135 from my book. Mystery is my Hobby.
I call it Death Writes an Epitaph.
When a person writes mystery novels as I do, he's very apt to think that nobody can write them the way he can. His plots are best. His characters step right out of his books and they live.
But I found out there are others, other writers whose stories sell too.
But when an author is living his own story, that's another matter.
Take the case of Herbert Wesley, for instance. Herbert Wesley was a mystery writer. He used to be a good one.
[00:02:21] Speaker C: Operator.
Operator. And a dialing new mark 5293. Martin Drake.
[00:02:30] Speaker B: I can't get any answer.
[00:02:31] Speaker C: Mine's been busy. Albert, please take a message.
Tell Barton Drake word for word. Tell him Herbert Wesley called. Herbert Wesley the writer.
Tell Drake I'm gonna die. No use calling a doctor. Poison will get me before a doctor can get here.
Count Bartendrake read the manuscript in my just finished manuscript.
[00:03:05] Speaker B: Tell him.
[00:03:07] Speaker C: Read it.
Want him to know Herbert Wesley made great comeback.
Herbert Wesley, Best mystery writer ever lived.
Wasn't book poison.
[00:03:24] Speaker B: Dr. No Good?
[00:03:25] Speaker C: Oh, no. You too?
[00:03:44] Speaker B: I didn't know about that phone call that afternoon. It was hot, muggy. Much too hot for the concentrating energy consuming labor of writing.
I walked aimlessly through the deep shade of the park and out again into the burning heat of the main thoroughfare.
Almost without knowing it, I found myself in front of headquarters.
Why not? The good inspector's office at least is air conditioned. And what I wanted more than anything else in the world was copious amounts of cold, cold air.
The air I got was hotter than a baked potato.
[00:04:27] Speaker D: Where the devil have you been, Bart? I've had the whole force out looking for you for the past hour.
[00:04:32] Speaker B: Why, Inspector, I had no idea. Why all this sudden desire for my company.
[00:04:36] Speaker D: You know a guy by the name of Herbert Wesley.
[00:04:38] Speaker B: Herbert Wesley. Yeah, sure. Fellow writer of thrills and chills, great talent and greater eccentricity.
[00:04:44] Speaker D: Yeah, yeah. Well, go on, go on, go on. Tell me more.
[00:04:48] Speaker B: Well, Herbert Wesley could be a great writer if he gets down to earth, but he won't. He lets his emotions get the better of him. Consequently, his life has been one upheaval after another.
Inspector, if you'd ever seen Herbert Wesley, you'd most surely remember him. He has a gaudy flair for the flamboyant. Huh? I said he has a flare for the flamboyant.
[00:05:09] Speaker D: What's that?
[00:05:11] Speaker B: Excuse me, Inspector. He likes garish clothes.
[00:05:14] Speaker D: He's a show off.
[00:05:15] Speaker B: For example, one of his eccentricities used to be that he'd never sit down at a typewriter unless the ribbon was brown rather than black.
[00:05:22] Speaker D: Drew Wallace.
[00:05:22] Speaker B: Well, after that I've heard that he's given up that sort of thing. Though I've heard for the past year he's been really, in honesty, trying to do good work.
[00:05:29] Speaker D: Uses a black typewriter ribbon now.
[00:05:32] Speaker B: So I've heard. Now, might I ask you a question?
[00:05:34] Speaker D: Sure should.
[00:05:35] Speaker B: Has your sudden interest in my rival mystery writers anything to do with your sudden desire for my company, or has the seat gone to your head?
[00:05:42] Speaker D: Bart, you know where this screwball lives?
[00:05:44] Speaker B: Yeah, 418 Mile Street. Why?
[00:05:46] Speaker D: Okay, come on. I'll tell you all the rest I know on the way.
[00:05:48] Speaker B: You want to meet Herbert Wesley?
[00:05:50] Speaker D: Yeah, I'd like to, but I don't think I'm going.
[00:05:54] Speaker B: Inspector, stop talking like a sphinx.
[00:05:56] Speaker D: I think Herbert Wesley's dead.
There was a telephone call. Burns.
[00:06:09] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:06:10] Speaker D: This guy told the operator to relay the call to you. The operator tried to get you, but you didn't answer. That's right.
[00:06:14] Speaker B: I've been out all afternoon.
[00:06:15] Speaker D: She figured it was police business anyway, so she called us down at headquarters. She gave it us word for word, just like I told you.
[00:06:22] Speaker B: That's strange. Very strange.
[00:06:24] Speaker D: She was smart, though. She put it down at exactly 2:15pm.
[00:06:29] Speaker B: Why did you wait around for an hour for me? Why didn't you go out there and investigate at once?
[00:06:33] Speaker D: Gooden. No telephone listed under the name of Herbert Wesley. Had to wait around for you to get his address.
[00:06:39] Speaker B: Well, knowing Wesley as I do, this might be one of his unconventional ways of getting publicity. I hope so, anyway.
[00:06:46] Speaker D: If it is, I'll cool him off for a few days in the jug. Nobody's going to spend the taxpayers money for no publicity stamp. None of me. They aren't?
[00:06:53] Speaker B: I might as well warn you, Inspector. Herbert Wesley hasn't Always played entirely and strictly within the law.
[00:06:59] Speaker D: Got a record?
[00:07:00] Speaker B: No. I doubt if he's ever been caught. But he hasn't been above making money by sharp practices. I think it's more his fair for adventure, as I said before, the flamboyant than any real desire to break the law.
The same with his women. He likes to play them fast and loose.
[00:07:14] Speaker D: Well, if he ain't dead, I'll slow him down.
[00:07:17] Speaker B: Well, you'd better slow down now, inspector. This is the place.
[00:07:23] Speaker D: Hey, is that the guy?
[00:07:24] Speaker B: Who, Inspector?
[00:07:25] Speaker D: That guy coming out of his house.
[00:07:26] Speaker B: No, no, it isn't. Hey, come on, Inspector.
[00:07:28] Speaker D: Hey, you, stop.
[00:07:30] Speaker B: Stop in the name of the law. We'll get him, inspector. He's running down the blind alley.
[00:07:33] Speaker D: Yeah. Hey, you, stop. Where are you? Okay, okay.
[00:07:36] Speaker E: Don't shoot.
[00:07:36] Speaker F: I got my hands up.
[00:07:37] Speaker D: Okay. All right. What's the idea of running?
[00:07:41] Speaker F: He's dead. Guy's dead.
[00:07:43] Speaker D: Who's dead?
[00:07:44] Speaker F: The guy in there. He said if that's what you cops came to see stead.
[00:07:47] Speaker D: Well, then, let's just go right back in there.
[00:07:50] Speaker F: Look, I didn't kill him. I didn't have anything to do with killing him. I swear to heaven I didn't.
[00:07:53] Speaker D: What's your name, fella?
[00:07:55] Speaker F: Mary. Danny Mary.
[00:07:57] Speaker B: Did you say Dan? Mary.
[00:07:58] Speaker D: Hey, hey, hey. I know this guy, Bart.
[00:08:01] Speaker B: Wait a minute.
[00:08:02] Speaker D: Stands still. You.
I thought so. I'll just take that guy.
[00:08:07] Speaker F: I didn't kill Wesley. I didn't do it.
[00:08:09] Speaker D: We'll see about that. We sent this guy up for three years, Bart, for passing stolen bonds. You break out and marry her. Did he let you out?
[00:08:16] Speaker F: I was released last week.
[00:08:17] Speaker D: We'll see about that, too.
[00:08:18] Speaker B: So you're Dan. Mary. Well, well, huh?
[00:08:22] Speaker D: What do you know about him, Mark?
[00:08:24] Speaker B: You used to be Herbert Wesley's secretary, didn't you, Danny?
[00:08:27] Speaker F: Yeah, that dirty skunk.
[00:08:28] Speaker B: Both Wesley and you were mixed up in that stolen bond deal, weren't you?
[00:08:31] Speaker F: Yeah, that's right. That's right. The louse left me to take the whole rack. Double cross agent.
[00:08:36] Speaker B: Yes, yes, indeed. I should think you rather owed Wesley something, Danny.
[00:08:40] Speaker D: You bet I owe them something.
[00:08:42] Speaker F: I came here today to pay him off, but I didn't kill him. Somebody else beat me to it.
[00:08:55] Speaker D: Come on, Mary. We're going back in.
[00:08:57] Speaker F: Okay, but remember, I didn't do it.
[00:08:58] Speaker D: Phew.
[00:08:59] Speaker B: Open the window, Danny.
[00:09:01] Speaker F: Okay.
[00:09:03] Speaker D: Yep. Your friend's dead all right, Bart.
[00:09:05] Speaker B: No denying that, Inspector.
[00:09:07] Speaker D: Mine right by the telephone.
[00:09:08] Speaker B: Rooms in disorder.
That's funny.
[00:09:12] Speaker D: What is?
[00:09:12] Speaker B: The receiver is back on the hook.
[00:09:14] Speaker D: Hey, hey, look. His Clothes are all mud stuff.
[00:09:17] Speaker B: Yeah. Did you notice this bruise on the left temple, Inspector?
[00:09:20] Speaker D: Yeah.
Well, that clothing business could have happened in his death spasm. Some poisons do that.
[00:09:26] Speaker B: Yes, and the bruise could have happened when he fell, hit his head against the desk of it a minute. Yeah.
[00:09:32] Speaker D: Yeah. Maybe this is the way to solve a case. Good old police routine.
[00:09:37] Speaker B: Maybe you're right. Look, here's something a bit peculiar, inspector.
[00:09:41] Speaker D: What's that?
[00:09:41] Speaker B: It's small purplish bruise here on the inside of his arm. Right here under his elbow.
[00:09:46] Speaker D: Oh, that. Yes.
[00:09:49] Speaker B: Anything in the pockets, Inspector?
[00:09:51] Speaker D: Yeah. Address book in his coat pocket, bunch of keys, handkerchief, wallet with $4.83 in his pants.
[00:10:03] Speaker B: Here's an open box of candy, inspector. Several pieces are gone.
There's a typewritten manuscript over there on the end table.
[00:10:10] Speaker D: Hey, you're doing all right, Bart. Want to join the force?
[00:10:13] Speaker B: No, no, thanks, inspector. But thanks for the invitation.
[00:10:15] Speaker D: Hey, wait a minute.
[00:10:16] Speaker B: Hold on a second.
[00:10:17] Speaker D: I thought you said this guy quit being crazy.
[00:10:20] Speaker B: What makes you think he didn't?
[00:10:21] Speaker D: The manuscript. It's all typed in brown ink.
[00:10:24] Speaker B: Oh, dear.
Looks like Wesley must have reverted to type.
[00:10:29] Speaker D: Quit trying to be funny.
[00:10:30] Speaker B: I'm sorry.
Look at this typewriter, Inspector. There's a brown ribbon in it.
[00:10:35] Speaker D: Well, what'd you expect?
[00:10:36] Speaker B: Hm? No, nothing. You go ahead and put Danny through your routine, inspector. I want to look at this manuscript for a few minutes.
[00:10:43] Speaker D: Yeah. Well, Danny, you might as well confess. Why'd you do it?
[00:10:46] Speaker F: Look, I told you. I came here to kill him. But I didn't. He was already dead.
[00:10:49] Speaker D: Sure, the awful. That one. Now, come on.
[00:10:51] Speaker F: Okay, okay, I'll tell you one thing.
[00:10:53] Speaker D: Wait a minute. Wait a minute. I gotta warn you. Anything you say, I'll be used against you. Now, go on. What was it?
[00:11:00] Speaker F: Nothing. I wasn't going to say anything.
[00:11:01] Speaker D: Why, you little spectre.
[00:11:03] Speaker B: Stay out, Danny, for a minute. Come over here, huh?
[00:11:05] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:11:08] Speaker B: This manuscript seems to be a combination mystery story and autobiography.
[00:11:12] Speaker D: Autobiography?
[00:11:12] Speaker B: Some of the events described in here really happened to Wesley. I know.
[00:11:15] Speaker D: It's out of a diary, huh?
[00:11:17] Speaker B: The I'm saying is that his death has described in here perfectly. Even to that box of candy that has lost the candy on the table.
[00:11:24] Speaker D: Well, how we do it?
[00:11:25] Speaker B: In the manuscript here, it says that the candy has been poisoned.
[00:11:27] Speaker D: Oh, nice. Then I've got to let this merry guy go. That settles it. It was nothing but an ordinary suicide.
[00:11:34] Speaker B: But the manuscript says it was murder.
[00:11:36] Speaker D: Now, look, Bart, if he knew the candy was poisoned, he wouldn't have eaten a bite.
[00:11:41] Speaker B: Inspector, look in that address book. See if there's a girl by the name of May Brewer. She's a nurse, according to this.
[00:11:47] Speaker D: Oh, wait a minute.
Hey. Yeah, there's a Brewer in here. Amy Brewer. But I'm not seeing it.
[00:11:54] Speaker B: Must be a detective. The three letters are just changed around. An old trick with writers. May, M, A Y A M Y, Amy. Simple, huh?
[00:12:00] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:12:01] Speaker B: According to Westley's last, it was a May Brewer who sent him the candy. The poison candy.
[00:12:06] Speaker D: I still think the whole thing is nuts.
[00:12:08] Speaker B: Is there a dress in there, inspector?
[00:12:10] Speaker D: Sure, sure. 5544 North Linwood Street.
[00:12:14] Speaker B: If you don't mind, Inspector, I think I'll visit the young lady and see what she knows.
[00:12:18] Speaker D: I don't mind a bit. I'll phone for a detail to come out here and take care of the body. Then I'm going to drive this mug down to the station and sweat the truth out of it.
[00:12:27] Speaker F: But I don't know anything.
[00:12:27] Speaker D: I don't.
[00:12:28] Speaker F: I don't.
[00:12:28] Speaker D: That's what they all say.
[00:12:29] Speaker F: Please let me go. I've had enough punishment out of that guy. Three years in prison, but something that's.
[00:12:34] Speaker D: As good a motive as I ever heard. Come on.
[00:12:52] Speaker B: So the good inspector took poor old Dan Mary down to headquarters and I went up the North Linden street addressed young woman of about 29. Entered her. Now.
You're Ms. Amy Brewer?
[00:13:05] Speaker E: Yes.
[00:13:06] Speaker B: How do you do? I'm Barton Drake.
[00:13:08] Speaker E: Yes.
[00:13:08] Speaker B: You're a nurse, aren't you, Miss Brewer?
[00:13:10] Speaker E: I am.
[00:13:11] Speaker B: Do you happen to know a man by the name of Herbert Wesley?
[00:13:15] Speaker E: Come in, Mr.
[00:13:17] Speaker B: Thank you.
[00:13:20] Speaker E: What's Herb done now?
[00:13:22] Speaker B: What is your connection with Mr. Westing? Brewer?
[00:13:26] Speaker E: I know him in Echo. How well I kept company with him for a while.
[00:13:31] Speaker B: It might be easier for you, Ms.
[00:13:33] Speaker D: Brewer, if you told me.
[00:13:35] Speaker B: I represent the police.
[00:13:36] Speaker E: Police?
[00:13:38] Speaker B: Herbert Wesley is dead.
We're not certain as yet. But you think he died from the effects of poisoned candy?
[00:13:45] Speaker E: Oh, who happened to. He tried to kill me. Who tried to kill me?
[00:13:53] Speaker B: A bit of explaining.
[00:13:55] Speaker E: How do I know everything? You'll find out anyway. If you ever find the candy, my fingerprints will be on the box.
[00:14:02] Speaker B: I hope you realize what you're saying.
[00:14:04] Speaker E: I received the box of candy. This.
I opened it without bothering to see who it was from, with a card from Herb inside.
When I discovered it was from him, I wrapped it up and sent it back to him.
[00:14:16] Speaker B: My messenger.
[00:14:17] Speaker E: Yes.
[00:14:18] Speaker B: What time was it?
[00:14:20] Speaker E: I don't know. I'm not sure.
[00:14:21] Speaker B: Was it before or. Afternoon.
[00:14:24] Speaker E: Afternoon.
[00:14:25] Speaker B: 12:31, 1:32:3. I've got to be sure, Ms. Lewis.
[00:14:28] Speaker E: About one, I think.
[00:14:31] Speaker B: Now let's look into this other remark you made.
[00:14:33] Speaker E: Which one?
[00:14:34] Speaker B: That if it turned out that the candy was poisoned, Wesley was trying to. What do you want to do in. Sir?
[00:14:40] Speaker E: I've known her for a long time.
He thought he was going to marry me. He promised me he would.
[00:14:46] Speaker B: Instead we threw you off.
[00:14:48] Speaker E: He kept putting me off. Finally I realized he didn't intend to marry me ever.
He said I was being weak for a while. I wanted to ruin him. I'll confess, I tried to. I tried every way.
[00:14:59] Speaker B: How long ago was this, Miss Julie?
[00:15:01] Speaker E: About a year. I haven't seen him since.
[00:15:04] Speaker B: Isn't it strange then that after a year you received a box of candy from him this morning?
[00:15:08] Speaker E: Got from her to get him. He was always doing crazy things. Nothing who would do would surprise me.
[00:15:14] Speaker B: As a nurse you have a pretty thorough knowledge of poisoning, haven't you?
[00:15:18] Speaker E: Of course.
Surely you don't think I killed her. I couldn't kill anyone, no matter how much I hated him.
[00:15:26] Speaker B: Then you admit you did hate him.
[00:15:28] Speaker E: Yes.
His death is a shock. But I'm not sorry, Ms.
[00:15:34] Speaker B: Brewer. Herbert Wesley left a manuscript. The manuscript of a book he was writing. However, it seems to be more of a biography. It even points out his murder. It also names two men who he said wanted to kill him. We have one of the men in custody. The other is an Ellis Hazelson. Did you ever hear of such a name?
[00:15:54] Speaker E: There was an Ellis Hazelton who used to be Herb's guidance.
[00:15:56] Speaker B: Do you know anything about him?
[00:15:58] Speaker E: Yes, he had a very pretty young wife. If you knew Herb, you know that he could never resist a pretty woman.
[00:16:05] Speaker B: In his manuscript heard mentioned that he was a thought for Mrs. Hagerton's death, right?
[00:16:13] Speaker E: I guess he was at least one.
[00:16:15] Speaker B: Could you explain that?
[00:16:17] Speaker E: Well, the way Herb told it to me, Mr. Hazelton found out about the affair. He faced his wife with it and they had a big row.
She said she was going to Herb and Hazelton said she wasn't.
They were on the street and she started to run. He ran after her.
She ran into the street and killed her car.
[00:16:34] Speaker B: Hazelden brooded over the incident and swore he would kill Wesley.
[00:16:38] Speaker E: Yes, but how did you know?
[00:16:39] Speaker B: It's all there in the manuscript. Everything you just told me.
[00:16:42] Speaker E: Please tell me, Mr. Bates, who does the manuscript name afforded murder?
[00:16:48] Speaker B: You, Ms. Brewer.
[00:16:51] Speaker E: But I didn't. I didn't.
[00:16:53] Speaker B: It says that you killed him by sending him the poison candy.
[00:16:57] Speaker E: I'll admit it looks bad however, that.
[00:16:58] Speaker B: Doesn'T prove that you did.
[00:16:59] Speaker E: Not by any means, I assure you I didn't.
[00:17:01] Speaker B: Have you any ideas where I can find this Ellis Hazleton?
[00:17:04] Speaker E: Yes, I know where he lives.
[00:17:06] Speaker B: I'd like to have you take me out there, if you will. If you won't, I'll be forced to take you down to headquarters.
[00:17:11] Speaker E: I'll take you to that.
[00:17:12] Speaker B: Thank you.
[00:17:13] Speaker E: But Hazelden didn't kill her, Mr. Drake. He didn't kill him any more than I did.
[00:17:24] Speaker B: I understand that you're a gardener, Mr. Hazel.
[00:17:26] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:17:27] Speaker B: You were Mr. Wesley's gardener at one time.
[00:17:29] Speaker D: Yeah. That's dirty lies.
[00:17:30] Speaker B: Have you seen Mr. Wesley in the past two or three days?
[00:17:32] Speaker D: I ain't left my place here for two days.
[00:17:34] Speaker B: Can you prove that?
[00:17:35] Speaker D: What's all this about?
[00:17:36] Speaker B: I notice you have a box of arsenic over there on the shelf.
[00:17:39] Speaker D: Sure use lots of arsenic. Those gophers and snails. What are you talking that way for? What are you asking me all them questions for? I don't even know you.
[00:17:48] Speaker B: Mr. Wesley has just been murdered, Mr. Hazelton. Poisoned, I believe.
[00:17:53] Speaker D: You accusing me of doing it?
[00:17:54] Speaker B: He left a manuscript in which he says you threatened to kill him.
[00:17:57] Speaker D: Why, you dirty, snooping cop. I'm going to Mr. Drake.
[00:18:00] Speaker F: I'll beat the bridge on it.
[00:18:03] Speaker B: Mr. Drake.
[00:18:04] Speaker E: He knocked you down.
[00:18:05] Speaker B: Don't you think I know that?
[00:18:06] Speaker F: I'll bust your head in with a spoil of.
[00:18:08] Speaker B: I don't think you will.
Get up, my friend. Behave yourself. Hand me that cord, Ms. Brewer. I'm going to tie his hands to make sure.
[00:18:18] Speaker E: Yes. Here.
[00:18:20] Speaker D: I didn't kill him. I didn't kill him.
[00:18:22] Speaker B: I didn't say you did.
[00:18:23] Speaker D: I wish.
[00:18:24] Speaker F: I wish I had a.
[00:18:26] Speaker B: Whatever holds you, my friend. Now, where's your telephone?
[00:18:29] Speaker D: On the bench there.
[00:18:40] Speaker B: Hello? Inspector Denton, please.
Inspector?
[00:18:44] Speaker D: Bart.
[00:18:44] Speaker B: I have another suspect for you. Yes, 426 Wells Street. Send the car out, will you?
Listen, you better come yourself. And bring Dan Mary with you. And if they've made out the autopsy, bring the laboratory reports along too. That's a good boy. We'll be waiting here for you.
Well, Ms. Brewer, I see you're still here.
[00:19:03] Speaker E: Where else would I be?
[00:19:04] Speaker B: You had plenty of time during the excitement to make your getaway. Why didn't you leave?
[00:19:08] Speaker E: That would have been more or less a confession of guilt, wouldn't it, Mr. Dave?
[00:19:20] Speaker B: Well, you got here nothing flat, Inspector. Where's Mary?
[00:19:23] Speaker D: One of the boys has him on the car.
[00:19:24] Speaker B: Good. Well, we'll leave him there for a few minutes. Here's your two other prisoners Anything on them? Only the accusations made by Wesley in his books before he died.
[00:19:32] Speaker D: That's all we've got on any of them.
[00:19:34] Speaker B: What about that lavatory report?
[00:19:35] Speaker D: Oh, yeah, yeah. Wesley died somewhere between 2 and 2:30 this afternoon.
[00:19:40] Speaker B: Just with the phone operator. She said the girl was put through about 2:15. What about the candy?
[00:19:44] Speaker D: It was loaded with arsenic.
[00:19:45] Speaker B: And I'll bet you didn't find a grain of arsenic in Wesley's stomach. Did you inspect it?
[00:19:49] Speaker D: No. How'd you know?
[00:19:50] Speaker B: I'll even wager that the poison you did find in the body was a thousand times more deadly. Right, inspector? Yeah, but after all, inspector, I'm surprised that you do. You forget that smell of acid when we came into the bathroom? I'm sure you smelled almonds the same as I did.
[00:20:02] Speaker D: Yeah, but all that talk about poison candy threw me off the drink.
[00:20:05] Speaker B: And the acid was administered by a hypodermic needle in the vein under the elbow on my right. Infected?
[00:20:09] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:20:10] Speaker B: And of course, Herbert Wesley was first knocked out by that blow on the head. The bruise.
[00:20:14] Speaker D: Hey, hey, hey. Why do we go to all the trouble of having a knoth? I'll see you.
[00:20:18] Speaker B: In the first place, I could be wrong, you know.
[00:20:21] Speaker D: I just wish for once you would.
[00:20:23] Speaker B: One more thing, inspector. Death must have been instantaneous due to the type of poison used. Am I right?
[00:20:28] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:20:29] Speaker B: How about bringing Danny Mary in now, Inspector?
[00:20:39] Speaker E: That's him. That's the man.
[00:20:40] Speaker B: What?
[00:20:41] Speaker E: That's the man who forced himself into my apartment the way the man of rudiment.
[00:20:44] Speaker B: He didn't tell me about this.
[00:20:46] Speaker D: Yeah? What do you mean by that?
[00:20:47] Speaker E: He forced himself into my apartment five days ago. He said he was a federal agent.
[00:20:50] Speaker B: Jeez.
[00:20:51] Speaker F: Nuts. I never saw this thing before in my life.
[00:20:53] Speaker E: He made me tell him everything I knew about Herb and his friends.
[00:20:56] Speaker B: How about that, Danny?
[00:20:57] Speaker F: She's a liar.
[00:20:57] Speaker E: He's a liar, Mr. Drake. I know who he is now, Mr. Drake. He's Danny Mary, Herb's ex secretary. Been in prison for the past years. That's why I didn't recognize him at first.
[00:21:07] Speaker B: Yes, that's quite true, mister.
[00:21:08] Speaker F: She's trying to pin the murder on me. Mr. Drake, don't believe her.
[00:21:11] Speaker B: Well, then, what's your story, Danny?
[00:21:12] Speaker F: I couldn't possibly have done it. She did it herself. Who else but a nurse or a doctor would know how to use a hypodermic needle?
[00:21:17] Speaker E: And who else but you knew how I felt about her? And who else but you knew I had threatened to kill him? Who else but you knew that I hated him enough so that I'd sent back the box of candy he sent me. You sent that candy yourself because you.
[00:21:26] Speaker D: Knew for, you little minx, a Serviatiski Devil Rail. I'm here to share a break.
[00:21:36] Speaker B: Well, that just about winds it up, doesn't it, Inspector, huh? This is just about as good a time and place to make your arrest as any, don't you think, huh?
[00:21:46] Speaker D: Oh, good.
[00:22:12] Speaker B: And so the good inspector made his arrest.
[00:22:15] Speaker D: Amy Brewer, I arrest you for the willful murder of one Herbert Wesley. Anything you may say was Ellis Hazelton you're under arrest for.
[00:22:29] Speaker B: Yes, the inspector made his arrest. Danny Merrick was taken kicking and screaming and turned over to the boys out in the car. And the inspector and I dropped in at Joe's place for our usual cup of coffee.
Three spoons, Inspector, not four.
[00:22:46] Speaker D: It's too hot. I'm drinking. I stay right gone it. Bart, I was sure that dame was guilty.
[00:22:51] Speaker B: Oh, now, Inspector, you're not really sorry she wasn't, are you? That dame, as you call her, was pretty smart. You could use her down on the floor.
[00:22:58] Speaker D: You mean because she figured out who it was that sent the candy?
[00:23:01] Speaker B: Of course, Inspector.
[00:23:02] Speaker D: Yeah, that's right. She figured out he did that to throw suspicion on her and throw us off the trail of the real murder.
[00:23:07] Speaker B: Of course, I must admit you were pretty smart too, Inspector. I doubt if I ever could have figured this one out for myself.
What did I do? Well, for one thing, you had your first suspicions when you found the telephone placed back on the hook very neatly, right in its proper place.
[00:23:22] Speaker D: Yeah, I'll admit I did wonder about that. Of course you did.
[00:23:25] Speaker B: You knew as well that if Wesley died while he was talking on the phone, he wouldn't have been able to do that.
[00:23:30] Speaker D: Of course he wouldn't. Anybody knows that.
[00:23:32] Speaker B: Of course, Inspector. And of course you knew it wasn't suicide for the same reason. Sure as Stites made sense for a death call and the time the death coincided so perfectly.
[00:23:40] Speaker D: Yep.
[00:23:40] Speaker B: But then when you found out what kind of poison had been used, you knew that it was impossible for Wesley himself to even have made the call.
[00:23:46] Speaker D: Of course not. The guy died instantaneously.
[00:23:49] Speaker B: Sure. So you knew that because it was a man who called. The call must have been made by the murderer himself.
[00:23:55] Speaker D: Naturally. Naturally.
[00:23:56] Speaker B: Naturally. More sugar and sex?
[00:23:57] Speaker D: No, lemon is.
Thanks.
[00:24:00] Speaker B: You're welcome. And I could see that you were very suspicious when you saw that manuscript was quite written in brown. Me? You knew that Danny Mary had been in prison for the past three years and he couldn't have known that Wesley had given up that brown ink kind of stuff over a year ago. Yeah, and of course, that brand new ribbon on the tanks writer in Wesley's machine proved it.
[00:24:17] Speaker D: You mean the brown Mary proved what?
[00:24:19] Speaker B: Why, Inspector, you know. You know that Danny Mary wrote that manuscript himself. In Wesley's style, of course.
[00:24:24] Speaker D: Oh, sure. On account of, well, he'd been Wesley's secretary once. He knew just how to do it.
[00:24:29] Speaker B: Of course they did. When he went to Wesley's desk and found that Wesley's typewriter had a black ribbon, he had to go out and buy a brown one and change it before he started typing.
[00:24:37] Speaker D: Sure. That's why the guy was still at Wesley's place when we drove up.
[00:24:40] Speaker B: That's right. You know, you're getting, well, bigger than ever.
[00:24:43] Speaker D: Experience, that's what it is. One thing, though, Bart. How about that telephone call?
[00:24:48] Speaker B: Which one?
[00:24:48] Speaker D: The guy who called the operator. He said he'd been trying to call you all afternoon. Said he got a busy signal. Well, you said you weren't home. He was lying, wasn't he?
[00:24:56] Speaker B: Well, if he wasn't, then I am.
[00:24:58] Speaker D: Whoa. Why would you want to do that?
[00:25:00] Speaker B: Well, if you'll retrace my steps with me, Inspector, I believe I can prove I was really alpha.
[00:25:03] Speaker D: That guy didn't call you at all?
[00:25:05] Speaker B: Of course not. He wouldn't dare. He'd have known I'd have recognized his voice if it wasn't Wesley's. You know, it's just the same as you, Inspector.
[00:25:12] Speaker D: What do you mean?
[00:25:13] Speaker B: Well, you recognize the fact that Danny Murray was the killer the minute he accused Ms. Brewer of using a hypodermic to administer poison, didn't you?
[00:25:21] Speaker D: Pass your sugar, Mike.
[00:25:22] Speaker B: Here you are. Thanks. You're welcome. You knew he was a murderer then. Because he couldn't have known that a hypodermic had been used unless he'd been there when it was used.
[00:25:31] Speaker D: Yep, that's right.
[00:25:32] Speaker B: Yes, it is.
[00:25:33] Speaker D: You know something, Barbara? I don't? We did pretty good on this case, didn't we?
[00:25:36] Speaker B: Yes. Modestly, I hesitate to. Yes.
[00:25:39] Speaker D: Why don't you join the force, Bart? You and me make a pretty good taste.
[00:25:42] Speaker B: Thank you.
[00:25:43] Speaker D: Secret, but I.
[00:25:44] Speaker B: No, no, I don't think I will.
[00:25:45] Speaker D: I'll show you the rooms. I'll help you a lot.
[00:25:47] Speaker B: I appreciate that. But, you know, I. I think I'll just keep on making Mystery. My ho.
[00:26:05] Speaker D: Foreign.
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