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Now, I said I'd talk a little bit more about Gil Gordon's career, and it really was a fascinating multifasted one over radio really began in the thirties, doing a lot of roles for wide variety of radio serials.
Played the villain in in Speed Gibson of the International Secret Police.
He played Flash Gordon.
He appeared in Front Page's Drama, which was an early old time radio program, made lots of appearances on the Lox Radio Theater, and became kind of a key character actor, appearing on a lot of shows.
Really.
In nineteen forty he took on the role of Mayor La Trivia, and that role in many ways set the direction for a lot of his career because he would end up playing a lot of these somewhat stuffed shirt authority figures, and he would have roles like that in The Great Guildersleeve, the Halls of Ivy, and his best radio role in that regard was of course his Osgood Conklin and Armis Brooks.
Over television he continued the same way a lot of series opposite Lop Seal Ball, and of course he was also the second mister Wilson on Dennis the Menace.
By Our Radio a little bit more of a variety, particularly in the early years, and certainly a prova detective series very different from that.
Well, let's go ahead and take a listen out to today's episode of the Case Book of Gregory Hood is the Black Museum.
Speaker 3Pat three Wine brings you.
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Well, it's Monday night in San Francisco and we have a weekly date with Gregory to night's rendezvous.
Speaker 4Is that one of us that he's oldest and best.
Speaker 5Restaurants there of the titans, furnishing, the tasteful, the service, the screets, and the Revealscalipini a maison, so Gregory tells me, is incomparable.
Speaker 6Let's join.
Ll believe me, mister.
Speaker 3Missilippi, you're journey mister Hood of Girt.
Speaker 5Yes, he tells me that life is incomplain until life tries Gallupini.
Speaker 3If you ord of.
Speaker 5Italian, we do fight ourselves on the dish.
Follow me, please, mister Battell.
Mister Hood always has the same table.
He came in a few moments ago.
Speaker 6What this is his stable?
Speaker 3But where did he.
Speaker 4Go into the kitchen?
Speaker 5Perhaps I know he's an amateur cook of some notes, he's more than likely the Please who sit down, mister Botel, and I will see if I can find it.
Thanks, miss Pilippish, here he comes now?
Speaker 3Oh an't in Gregory, Ollo.
Speaker 4Harry see Battle of Lipers taking care of you.
Thank you b later, Harry.
This is quite an occasion.
Speaker 5I've got it, You've got what the secret.
George and Frank mannin As finally broke down and gave me the missing link to that scillapini into the ally volumes.
I had a pinchab Reagan, a whist of time, and.
Speaker 4Then no more than a faint murder of top.
Speaker 6Green minutes and the wine.
Speaker 5Harry, Ah, that's where the fund start when you pourt Gregory.
Right now, our listeners want an adventure out of the case book of Gregory.
Hoot, It'd be much more profitable to learn how to cook scallapini if or Italia, Harry, crime is common good cooking forests may be Gregory, but I'll take the scalapini later, if you don't mind, for the next half hour has about Gregory hood versus the underworld.
Speaker 6Well, if you insist, let me see what story did I found you last week?
Speaker 4One that you called the Black Music.
Speaker 5Ah?
Yes, yes, that was not adventure, Harris.
I suppose it really began a couple of months ago in my apartment on nob Hill.
Andy Taylor and I had a dinner date with some friends, and he'd propped by from Martini.
I thought I had scelled myself with the martinis that night.
But Sandy, h is my best friend as well as my attorney, is the unfortunate victim of an overdeveloped sense of punctuality.
After half an hour, he was championing at his bit to be off.
Finally, with the devilish cunning of the season batchelor, I convinced him that one more martini was almost.
Speaker 4All right, Gregory, you win.
Speaker 5The snap of your arm was positively deafening.
Sand Me, let's watch the time the Austins are expecting us at seven fifteen.
They're such nice people that I'm always astonished as they're gastronomic indifference.
Their cook deserves to be stewed in her own culinary juicing.
Pleasant thought, but she'd need a colossal saucer fan t true.
By the way, Sandy, did you know Tim Brady arrived back in time today?
Speaker 6Tim Brady?
Speaker 4Oh?
Yes, he's your agent down in Mexico, isn't he?
Speaker 3Has he unearthed any.
Speaker 4Treasures this trip?
Speaker 5I haven't seen him yet.
He called me just before you arrived.
That's old him to drop by of her drink.
Don't know what happened to him.
Speaker 4Well, he'd better hurry.
Speaker 6Oh that must be him.
Speaker 4There Oh Lord, give him a fast price, Gregory.
Speaker 6There's a martini left.
I'll give him that and then he can walk.
Speaker 4Down to the top.
Speaker 7Hello, Jim, let's see you again Gregory.
Speaker 4Oh oh, Brady, too bad you arrived so late.
We've got a rush.
We're behind schedule now, Sorry, but.
Speaker 3I got tied up.
Can I walk down to the car with you?
Speaker 6Just what I was going to suggest?
In the meanwhile, there's one martini.
Speaker 3That homes not me longer, Gregory, ain't.
Thanks?
Speaker 6Are things down in Mexico.
Speaker 5Not too promising for Gregory of Hood to import it?
Speaker 6Government control?
Speaker 3Yeah, most of the good stuff sewed up.
Speaker 5And smuggling is not what it used to be here.
Did you get anything really?
Speaker 6Choice?
Speaker 3Well, just the one item.
Gonna say, honey, what did you think of it?
Speaker 5So I went through your last shipment at the warehouse that I didn't notice anything special?
Speaker 4And what did you dig up?
Speaker 6Brady on Knight?
Speaker 3Sacrificial Knights.
It's a genuine pre.
Speaker 5Conqueror item of city in blade, cop stone, handled and it's guaranteed to have been using human sacrifices for the war.
Got good work, of course you didn't send it with a regular consignment no special.
Speaker 3Packaging, but it should have been here by now.
Speaker 6It sounds like a real time did you pay a big price for it?
Speaker 4All?
Speaker 6Got it for a song?
Speaker 3But there's a reason for that.
Speaker 4It's previous owner just got himself murdered with it.
Speaker 3From what I hear they usually do.
Speaker 6Huh.
The knife's got a curse on it.
Speaker 5Gregory, whoever has it in his possession, is supposed to die soon and violently.
Dear me, polish up my steel whiskers.
But in the meantime, I guess we must be moving the one who.
Speaker 3Walked down at the car with us.
Speaker 6Oh sure, Gregory, we'll get our hat standing with you.
Speaker 4I mean, I've really got you on your wonders.
We'll never see.
Speaker 6Here's the car, Gregory.
Speaker 3Barry would have to rush to him.
That's okay.
I've got a day too.
Speaker 6We'll see the opos morning.
Speaker 3Well, I'll go over to.
Speaker 4The other stuff with him.
Oh hello, mister Markham, here ready when you get back to town.
Speaker 3That's this afternoon.
Speaker 4Oh this is mister Hood, that's the teller.
Speaker 6I don't know your Gregory Hood.
Speaker 4Aren't you ahead of the important firms?
Speaker 6Right?
I have a neighbor of yours.
Speaker 4Just a block down the hill from here.
Speaker 6I've wanted to meet you.
Speaker 8I think I've got some stuff that will interest you quite a bit.
Speaker 6Yes, I'm afraid we have to go, mister Markham.
What kind of stuff are you referring to?
Speaker 8How would you like to see the very hatchet with which the boat and murders.
Speaker 6Would to make it?
Speaker 8You have it, mister Markin, and more gracious, I think I have one of the finest collections of murder weapons in the world.
Why not stop and see them?
Speaker 4It would only take a few second.
Speaker 6How about tomorrow, mister Martin.
Speaker 8Well, I'm afraid I'll be out of town for the next few days.
Speaker 6I will not come now.
Speaker 4Well, Greggory, we can't.
Speaker 6Or quarter of an hour won't hurt Sandy.
Speaker 5Come on, you can figure with missus Olson on fault, Oh, Gregory, Here, mister hood is the carving knife which Henry White, to Pete Montgommer, used to decapitate his wife.
Speaker 6I remember the case.
They never did find her head, did they?
Speaker 5Strikes me as a rather grizzly hobby, mister Markham, though I'm sure your collection's priceless to.
Speaker 8A student of criminology like myself.
Speaker 4Mister Taylor, it's far from grizzly.
Speaker 8Naturally, I knew mister Hood's reputation as.
Speaker 5An amateur detective, and I was certain he'd be inter see I am, I am immense.
Speaker 6It's a superb black museum.
Speaker 5Just think of it.
Every one of these choice implements have actually tasted human blood, and usually in a celebrated case.
Speaker 4And that's why I regard the hobby as.
Speaker 6A grizzly one.
Speaker 5You wouldn't consider selling any of these trophies, would you, mister martam telling you print Scott knows would I'd like to buy more to add to the collection?
Speaker 6It concuse me, mister Markham, he is for?
What is?
If your wife would like to speak to you for a moment?
He's in the dance.
Speaker 4Oh very well, I'll be back in a moment.
Speaker 5Gentlemen, I look after my guests for I'm Peel Jackson, mister Markham secretary, you are, mister Gregory Hood?
Speaker 6Answer yes, and this is Sam Taylor.
Speaker 4Gregory is nearly half time.
Speaker 6As soon as mister Markham gets back, will be on our way.
Mister Hood.
I've got a business proposition to make you well.
I'm a businessman.
What proposition.
You're an import with connections.
Speaker 5All over the world, mister Hoods, it has to me that occasionally you would be bound to come across something that would be a perfect addition to mister Markham's museum.
Speaker 6I've just been thinking the same thing myself.
Me too.
Speaker 5It would be the first opportunity I've ever had to put my interest in murder on a strictly commercial basis.
Speaker 4The propositions to Jackson.
Speaker 5I'd love to handle such a deal on a commission that.
Speaker 6Hardly seems ethical.
Speaker 5Mister Markham's your employer, and he has more money than he knows what to do with.
We told jack the price up and split the extra three ways.
I don't want to appear stuffy, mister Jackson, but my firm doesn't do business that way.
No dice, my friends now here he comes an hour with his wife.
Please don't be peaping, I said, yet, little and I want you to meet my wife.
My dear, we've heard of missus Markham and missus Taylor.
Speaker 1How you do.
Speaker 7I was telling Howard that I was so anxious to meet you, mister Hurd, but I wish he'd warned me when he's saying.
Speaker 9This is I look perfectly awful.
Speaker 6You look charming, missus Markham.
But I'm afraid that we must be getting along.
Speaker 9The collection.
Speaker 6Yes, yes, it's definitely.
Speaker 9That's how I didn't show you my contribution.
He doesn't seem it's worthy of the rest of the stuff.
I mean, here and let me show you.
Speaker 6Here's this for the moment.
It's never been proven to be your friendy.
Speaker 9So howard both, let me keep it this collection, it's vanished to the study.
Speaker 6What is the treasure?
A dating question?
Speaker 9Somebody is supposed to have conscious fifty.
Speaker 7Girls and on the head with its forty three times before to the study for the test, I brought it in China down.
Speaker 6Oh is it on the desk?
Yeah, y's a hood.
Speaker 9Yes, you have to talk about the question.
Speaker 6The boy is screaming, Okay, let's.
Speaker 5Not talk about him.
Well the last night you have to pay yes, yes, and I'm late for it now blonde bring white hair.
And in the late fifties, she must have a daughter.
She has to play chow plans for pirblade.
Speaker 9That's when you want.
You have to go yes once to drop five over.
How are you going to club?
Speaker 6You're crazy about how it?
Don't you?
Oh?
Speaker 9So the tenant boy at the nineteen hundred and one n Latin.
Yes, if I'm not doing something about it.
Speaker 6I'm suffering from a rush of epics to the head.
Speaker 4That's unfortunate.
Speaker 9Yes, this ws a my living a numbers in book, and.
Speaker 6Let's go.
Speaker 9This side.
Speaker 5Where?
Speaker 4Lord?
Speaker 6Do you think it's so authentic?
Speaker 5I rather doubt it's, mister Marsham that then it's hard to say, Oh, Sanday, what's the time?
Speaker 4Seven o'clock?
Speaker 6Cracker?
Ain't that an o'clock?
Speaker 3Sandy?
You're a dope?
Speaker 6Why didn't you keep an eye on your watch?
You're late?
Speaker 5All right, Gregory, I'll come up to your apartment for John's one glass of port.
But Padros was worse than usual, an horse in a standay, And I can't think why even the Austin folks decided that brilliant team is a good spaces for a salad dressing.
Speaker 4Oh it wasn't that bad, Gregory.
Speaker 6I'll never quite understand you.
Speaker 5What makes you say that you were equally charming both to missus Markham, who had all the subtlety of a steamroller, and to miss Austen, was really a.
Speaker 4Very nice girl.
Obviously you didn't like either of us.
Speaker 6What kind of a woman do you like?
Where's my keys?
Oh?
Speaker 3Here we are?
Speaker 6What kind of a woman do I know?
I don't have much sandies, just an off beat sense of humor.
Speaker 5Great usual in a certain way with nim, I shouldn't be too hard, fine nose.
Speaker 6That's what I had in mind, was something like, yes, just might easily be someone.
Speaker 3Very like you?
Speaker 4Who she or she's just?
Speaker 6Oh?
And who are you?
And how did you get in here?
Speaker 9It's managed to man's service.
He thought you might take me to stay.
Speaker 6That's friendly of him.
Speaker 9But I have not come here to this man at you?
You don't have I come here to sit down.
I have come here to warn you about the Knight.
Speaker 4What's nice?
Speaker 6The facts?
Speaker 9Your knife of the which approaches the god of wars.
That's nice belongs to the followers the god.
You must not keep it, misterhood.
Speaker 5Listen to what did I say?
Speaker 9Whoever onto my friends will die, We will die by the Knight?
Speaker 4Are you sure you haven't reading too many mystery stories?
Speaker 6And lady, I'm in front of me.
Speaker 3I've come here to.
Speaker 6Bring you warning.
That's very nice of you.
Who are you?
Speaker 9I am obvious as fat as I am and I think I.
Speaker 3Want you to others follow you while.
Speaker 6You're on the knight with that is, if you must threaten me.
I do wish to sit down.
We all be more comfortable.
That is all I have to say.
Speaker 3Remember what I have said.
Speaker 6Now, wait a minute, Joe fathers has been a one track conversation.
Why do you have to leave?
Speaker 4To leave?
Good?
Speaker 6I'll be back in a je sending why do you par I'm not.
I'm just being a gentleman and seeing you to your card.
Who's thinking here?
Speaker 9Nobody?
Speaker 6Where do you live?
Speaker 9I should not tell you?
Speaker 6What's your phone?
Speaker 3Have no phone?
Speaker 6Mis Douglas sixty nine seven?
What's your other name?
Bron?
You can't here to try and scare me?
And now I'm scaring you, fellow.
Oh well, let me drive you home.
Speaker 3Good.
Speaker 6Oh we'll meet again.
I promise you will meet again.
Speaker 5And the nice Greggory should have been here a week ago instead of waiting, arrived this morning.
The strange things happening in the custom opened the window when it's him and stuffy in anyway, it was well worth waiting for.
Speaker 6It's a beautiful specimen and number what the girl said last night?
Gregory?
Whoever owns the knife wrongfully?
Will die?
Was that girl?
Speaker 3Gregg?
Speaker 5Last name, address, telephone number unknown, But he put on quite a convincing act.
He didn't gam it us herself, though, I'll find out if are up to it.
Oh, this nice ExPASy, I'll hold it up by the windows, candy and in fact a lot of money, Gregory if I feel it, Markham and.
Speaker 6Probably give his I teeth for it.
It is, and there's his eye, teeth undoubtedly detachable.
Speaker 4I don't think it would do much of a bargain.
Speaker 6Look at the blood stains on this probably fifteenth century.
Speaker 5Oh month, somebody chucked a knife through the.
Speaker 4Window, and there's an office building opposite.
Speaker 6But I can't see any I didn't expect you to.
You're dealing with an expert.
You only missed me by a few inches, hopfully bad to the redwood paneling, though, yes, I see, I'm a nice at modern Nate Gregory.
Speaker 9But it's the same pattern as the one I got in Mexico.
Speaker 6Shall I call a police?
Oh Brady, this is hood company, bas we can take care of it well.
And what are you going to do?
Banks?
Speaker 5This unknown individual for testing me a nice new import for free and plan to thank him in person as soon as possible.
Gregory is, I'm crazy about riding in the open section of these table cars, good am, I, but we've been up knob.
Speaker 4Hill twice and down at once.
This is the second trip down.
Speaker 5Where is it getting it up and down knob Hill?
Table cars are conducive to clear thinking.
Speaker 6I think I've been thinking.
Speaker 4Man get rid of that sacrificial night, the only sensible thing to do.
Speaker 5And you've got a perfect market.
Speaker 6You mean mister Markham's Black Museum.
Speaker 4Sure, I know, Sandy, but there's something about this whole business that smacks.
Speaker 6The fourth rate melodrama.
Gregory.
Speaker 5I'd say turned the case over to the police and sell the.
Speaker 6Knife to mock and admit that I'm scared.
No, standy, that isn't what I mentioned.
Speaker 4Another night thrown after this time?
It is really close then, the fourth rate melodrama or not.
Speaker 6I'm beginning to think I'm unpopular.
Speaker 8As diction.
Speaker 5Yes, take this letter please here, mister Harris, regard to your letter of the sixteenth instant.
As attorney for the firm of Gregory Hood Importers, I hereby give notice and your receipt of this registered letter will acknowledge such notice, whereas the party of the first.
Speaker 7Mister, Oh, yes, he's right here, thank you.
Speaker 5Mistake, Yes, Gregory, Sandy, I'm phoning from a oh very unusual.
Speaker 10Yes, this is sad.
Speaker 6They let me tell you something.
Speaker 3I don't look.
Speaker 6He's crazy to buy the sacrificial knives.
Speaker 4Good sell it, Gregory.
Speaker 6But I had a right idea supposing this guy was purchasing me with knives.
Decides to take a crack of fox if we would.
Speaker 5We don't worry, Gregory.
I'll work out out formal waiver of damages or something.
I'm glad you've come to your senses, though, and decided to sell.
Speaker 4I just wanted to know what, Gregory, what's wrong?
Speaker 5I heard a man scream, hope, Gregory, Gregory, Gregory.
You'll hear the rest of Gregory who had story in just a second.
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Speaker 6Golden in colored.
Speaker 5One sip and you'll know that you've discovered the kind of wine you've long looked for And let me tell you.
Petre so turned is not only great with chicken.
Wait, did you serve it with fish or any other kind of seafood?
It's just about well, I've sort of run out of words.
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Remember, there are lots of wine, so be sure you get a good wine.
Always get a Petree wine.
Well, it was a fine place to lead me.
Cliff Hayes, Were you killed Gregory this early in the series, No, Harry by a happy work of faith.
Speaker 6I wasn't too.
Speaker 5Oh, I'm so glad that Sandy was worried, though he was.
He tried unsuccessfully traced the call and waited anxiously.
Speaker 6Until I called him back.
Speaker 4Yes, Gregory, you're scared the daylight, thought him.
Sorry, I got what happened another night?
Speaker 6Throw n't you?
Speaker 5Yes?
Speaker 6But this time an aby barfly lights in front of me.
That was the yelp you must he did it?
Get him picked his shoulders hing cereal, except that.
Speaker 10He might sign the plane.
Speaker 4It made me mad.
Speaker 8It's giving me an idea.
Speaker 5I think I know how to settle this business now, Gregory, leave it alone or at least let me.
Speaker 6Okay, okay, counselor you're enough beat me at Sam Mackman's office area half out.
Who's Sam Macklin?
What the heck tell you when I see you?
Speaker 3Well?
Speaker 6Sam House business, ah, greg and business ain't what he used to me.
I don't think it ever has been.
What can I do for you this time?
Greg?
You're chasing down the phone number of another ballet dancer.
I do want to find a dancer, but I assure you it's strictly business this time.
Speaker 4M Well, I'll see what I can do.
Speaker 5I want the addresses of any female Spanish dancers now in San Francisco.
Speaker 6Spanish dances.
Speaker 4I can find you one hundred Mexican ones.
Speaker 6No, no, Sam, real Spanish dancers, not Mexicans.
Speaker 5Okay, i'll'll through my book, and while you're at it, see if you can tack down any knife throwers for me.
Speaker 11Spanish enters and knife throwers.
Gregory, My boy, your taste is certainly changing, Gregory.
Speaker 4Why are we doing a round to the night.
Speaker 5I'm trying to catch the right floor show, the one that.
Speaker 4Has a certain Spanish dancer.
Speaker 5But I think we will recognize where does the Spanish dancer fit into the picture of records.
That girl Killar, the so called Aztec priestess, descried to scare me last night.
Speaker 6I have a hunt.
She's a dancer.
Speaker 4What makes you think that?
Well, at first, when I heard that luscious voice, I thought she might have been a singer.
Speaker 6But when I saw the way she.
Speaker 5Moved around and how she skimmed down the stairs, I changed my mind.
Speaker 6Yes, Andy, I have a definite hunt.
Speaker 4She's a dancer.
Speaker 6One thing's certain.
He's obviously not an ask how do you figure that one?
Speaker 5Not?
Speaker 4She said, how do you say in English a taker?
Speaker 6As taka?
She gave the z a th eight sound.
Speaker 5That's Castilian, Spanish, Mexican or any Spanish American would say as taker.
Oh, she's a phony, and that's why we're calling the knight.
I'm trying to find that.
Speaker 6I hope he can lead us to whoever's at the back of this night's throwing business.
Speaker 5Well, we've seen three Spanish dancers so far, and you've made two dates.
Speaker 6I hope this is the right place.
Speaker 5Do a it is it is?
Speaker 4Let's setting out in the potlight, man, Dad.
Speaker 6It's the same girl, all right.
How soon as the numbers over.
We're going to persuade her to take a.
Speaker 5Cab ride with us to the officers are putting company.
Speaker 10And put mister rud why are you taking me from the club.
It must downstair camp to night.
Speaker 6Oh, don't worry to last.
Speaker 5I'll get you back there in time and stay to watch you right now.
We want information who hired you to come up and time scare me last.
Speaker 9Night, It would not be there to stay you you turned me.
Speaker 8It was only a joke, and you pay me way.
It would not be right to give the joke away.
Speaker 5Listen to I'm a lawyer, and I assure you you're not mixed up with a joke.
You're mixed up with attempted murder.
Not He said, you must believe me all right, that they just answer my questions and you'll be all right.
Speaker 6It's try to murder you me through apparently, though of course they really after someone else.
Speaker 4How do you figure that, Gregory?
Speaker 5If they were really after me, no expert knife throwers coul have failed in three attempts.
Therefore, the whole act of sending Pala with the warning and the night drawing was a deliberate plan.
Speaker 6To scare me in selling the knife fairs.
Speaker 5Now, who would be the obvious customer?
Mister MARKT sure?
So what we've uncovered now is a plan to murder Mark them I.
Speaker 6Understand it now.
Speaker 5By making the killing seem to hinge on the knife, it cast suspicion away from a personal motive for killing Mark.
Speaker 4Harry perver of you to figure that, Gregory?
Speaker 6If I may say so, you may have hand it.
Speaker 9Please me to what I do not understand what you bought to talk about.
Speaker 6I'll explain it.
That suffer, lad, Now just tell me who hired you.
Speaker 8I do not know his name is, and I hardly saw his face.
He came to the club and spoke to me outside the stage doors.
Speaker 9It was very dark.
Speaker 6I would that to him again, but you'd know his voice, Pala, wouldn't you?
Speaker 5Oh?
Speaker 9Yeah, I never forget a voice.
Speaker 6Ah.
Then we'll say, but Gregory, why.
Speaker 5Are we going to your office instead of Markham's house.
You know my methods and me as well as you do, which is that you make them up as you go along.
All right, but you do recall one of my basic ideas.
Find out what you want to know, then see the guy that knows it.
That's why We're going to the office right now.
I want to see our Mexican expert Tim Brady.
Speaker 6So that's the situation.
To him, somebody's scheming to murder Markham.
Speaker 5Doesn't seem possible.
Yesilla, Gregory, have you any idea?
Speaker 4Who's the back of it?
Speaker 6All?
Speaker 2Right?
Speaker 6Pillar?
Speaker 9Now here are mister Brady?
Speaker 3You heard me?
Speaker 8Hi, Reckon, thank your voice?
Speaker 6Are you crazy?
Speaker 5It had to be Tim, because Pilla approached me with the warning before I got the knife.
At that time, you were the only man in California who knew that I was going to receive an ancient sacrificial knight.
Speaker 6You didn't foresee the delay.
Speaker 5Gregory, You're nuts.
What possible motive could I have?
You know the Markhams you introduced me, and the motive for any man of average susceptibility is obvious enough after you've met missus Markham.
Speaker 3Very ingenious you could bring in Tilar as a witness of court.
Speaker 5Will Brady and my old pale Lieutenant Silbers at the San Francisco Police has put a tracerro out for me for night brawers.
I imagine you told the man who threw the knives that it was a joke too.
This business of throwing near misses.
The final knife that would not have missed Markham, I imagine you planned.
Speaker 6To wield yourself.
You're making a good case, Gregory, But of what No crime has been committed, Yes, all of otters a detective who forced all the murder for a chase.
But it seems to lave me in the clear, not priced him.
Speaker 5That man who was wounded in the bar when the knife nickname this afternoon infection set him.
Speaker 6He died in the hospital an hour ago.
I'm afraid of the murder charge, Brady.
Speaker 3He died, Okay, you're the only ones to come up.
Speaker 9That's a honey knocked him out.
Speaker 5Told and to think that I selected that you had to represent our Mexican interests.
Speaker 6Call the police, Sandy, when you went right away.
Speaker 9You did not hurt yourself, be though.
Speaker 6No, I just ruse my knuckles a Sanday.
Speaker 5Tim pulled a gun on as I imagine, we can book him on the source of intention to commit murder country Sure, But this man that cried, Gregory, why didn't you tell me?
Because I only dreamed it up just now.
It seems the one way to make Tim Joy's hands.
Speaker 4Gregory, you're completely unprincipal.
Speaker 5Sure, I think you're wonderful as when Tim pulled that gun.
Just now you called me Gregory, why go back to mister.
Speaker 9Craig.
But Pa, you must take me back to my club.
Speaker 5Soon, just as soon as the police get here to allow the two of us take you back, and later on tonight we will really show you the town.
Oh not may, Gregory, I'm going home, marry and the children.
Speaker 6Give me police requarter, then plied, I will do the town alone.
Speaker 4It's the date seller, very much, your redeef, greg.
Speaker 5Well, that story was a duty, greg But there's one thing I'd like to know.
I'd like to know if if I kept my datist till Oh yeah, that's right.
But you know I was going to ask that everybody else does.
Speaker 6Why not you?
And I can tell you that your next question is going to be so what till our phone number right?
And your answer?
Speaker 5As they say at the phone company, I'm sorry, we cannot devout that information.
Okay, okay, let's order dinner and to get good shall we try the Sciliponi George to tell you?
Speaker 6Sure, let's see wine?
Speaker 3Shall I order?
Speaker 6As if you don't know?
Speaker 5All right, go ahead, kid me but you know as well as either that we can't mess with Petrie.
Speaker 6One say why.
Speaker 5The Petrie family has been making wine for generations.
The art of making fine wine is their hares, a heritage handed on down from father to son, from father to son.
No wonder Petrie wine is so good, and no wonder the Patrie business is grown and grown through that.
Speaker 4Today the Petrie family.
Speaker 5Are America's lightest independent wine making.
Yes, the making of Petrie wine is a family affair, and the Petrie family intends to keep it that way because by so doing they can be sure that every bottle.
Speaker 6Of wine that bears the name Petrie is and always will be good wine.
Speaker 5Well, Gregory, what story out of your casebook are you planning to tell us next week?
Speaker 6A little tale that concerns the date at the top of the mark Hofkins Hotills, and a certain gunman by the name of lem Carker, who was convinced that I'd looked so much better as a course to you next Monday area.
Speaker 5The Case Book of Gregory Hood is written by Dennis Green and Anthony Boucher.
Original music is composed and played by Dean Fossman.
Gail Gordon plays the part of Gregory Hood and Sanderson Taylor is played by Art Gilmore.
The Battery Wine Company of San Francisco, California and brite you to tune in again next week, same time, same state.
The case Book of Gregory Hood comes to you from.
Speaker 4Our Hollywood studio.
Speaker 5This is Harry Bartel saying good night for the Pattery family.
Speaker 2Welcome back.
I guess I got a reminder of the power of radio as I was sitting here kind of feeling very roast by the Black Museum, which was not actually there was just reading a radio script, but I was just kind of like, oh, that's ikey.
But it's really does kind of establish the character of Gregory hooding you can kind of see certainly the character's definitely a connoisseur and with very particular taste, but not quite a snobbish, which I think makes an interesting character.
Speaker 4All right.
Speaker 2Well, oh and I also love the joke about when Harry Bartell asked.
Speaker 4Him did you get killed?
Speaker 2Which was obviously an absurd question, and his answer was equally absurd.
What this early in the series was cute.
All right, Well, that'll do it for today.
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