 War old Dutch cleanser famous for chasing dirt presents Nick Carter famous for chasing crime Every week at this time two great names are joined as new post war old Dutch cleanser Brings you one of the most resourceful and daring characters in all detective fiction Nick Carter master detective Oh Oh, Nick if only he'd come he's ten minutes late now. I want to see him just as much as you do Patsy I sure hope he can tell us what we want to know 12 hours on this case, and we don't even know the victim's name That's true Patsy Nick is he did they yes Patsy they did he'll never tell us anything now. He's dead Now the case of the nameless blonde today's exciting adventure starring Lon Clark as Nick Carter Brought to you by new post war old Dutch cleanser as our story opens Nick has just returned to his office from lunch Finding no one in the reception room. He makes his way back to the laboratory where Patsy Bowen greets him Oh, Nick you have a visitor in your office. Oh, I'm he came right after you left a very attractive blonde. That's nice Who is she? She wouldn't give me her name. Okay. Let's see what she wants. Well, me Why she isn't here Nick look behind your desk great Scott she must have fainted have a look This woman hasn't painted Patsy She's dead and that's the story on your mysterious blonde Nick medical examiner finished his autopsy about 10 minutes ago So our death wasn't from natural causes not with that much poison in her. Huh? We don't even know who she was there was nothing on her to identify her Well, I let the newspaper photographers take her picture the dishes should be on the streets by now Have you seen them? Patsy's out getting the papers now. Uh-huh. Well, somebody may be able to identify her I'll let you know if anything develops. I'm back Nick. Okay, buddy. Thanks for calling Her pictures on the front page of all the papers Nick. Let me see what the sergeant have to say just that our nameless blonde was poisoned Poison yeah, she was fed arsenic three hours before she died Nick I thought arsenic resulted in violent death Well, she looked more as if she'd suffered a heart attack or sometimes it acts this way Well, then she just came in here and toppled over without uttering a sound. Mm-hmm. That's why you didn't hear it. Oh Well, I guess I better straighten up this office the sergeant men certainly made a mess of your desk. You'd think they'd Nick yeah, what is it? These aren't your keys. Are they? Well, let me see No, I never saw them before and they must belong to that woman. She was sitting here before she died Look here. Oh, what is it? There's a name printed here on the case the keys are in. Oh, it's almost worn off Can you make it out Nick? Just? Simon Grandin Yeah, well, that's an odd name. Is that all it says? Yeah, just the name. Hand me the city directory William. Yeah Thanks. Yeah, let's see what we can find There we are G Gremly Randall Well, there's no Grenander at all. Oh Then we oh, I'll get it. Okay, Nick Carter speaking Nick. This is Maddie again. Yeah, we got a nibble on that picture in the paper You mean somebody identified her no, but a cab driver just came into my office. He says he recognizes her as a fairy picked up downtown yesterday Good. He took her out on Lafayette Road Lafayette Road. Yeah, that's a pretty swank neighborhood. I'll say now the street number was 1720 1720. Yeah, I'm on my way out there now. That's you now. I'll meet you there 20 minutes Here I am over here Nick. Okay, Maddie. Oh, hi a fancy. Well, this is the place Nick I thought I'd wait for you to before I did any investigating She the house is completely dark. Yeah, don't look like anyone's home not the friendliest place I've ever seen Uh-huh ring the bell for your money, right There is no use trying to get in what the end right where you are Don't try anything because I have a gun. Hey, look, who are you? Who are you? And what are you doing trespassing on private property? We happen to be the police. Mr. The police. Yeah Yeah, now who are you? I'm the caretaker. My name is Weber. Nobody home here No, there's no one living in the house now hasn't been since the funeral funeral who's funeral mr. Stokes He died just last week. He lived here alone Do you mean Marvin Stokes of Stokes and Whitaker the big real estate company? That's right Are you here all day yesterday Weber? Sure? I'm here all the time day and night and maybe you can tell us the name of the visitor you had yesterday visitor yes, I Did not have any visitors yesterday look we know a woman came to this house in a taxi cab late last evening now Who was she yeah crazy? No woman came here the cab driver says he let her out here And she walked up the steps before he drove off that is not so who's Simon Granada? Simon Granada. I have never heard of anyone by that name. All right You have the authority to let us in this house No, I cannot do that you would have to see mr. Stokes partner mr. Whitaker He is the only one who could let you in why mr. Whitaker because he is in charge of this property now Okay, yes, that means we drop in on mr. Whitaker. Well, you go ahead Nick. I gotta get back to headquarters. See you later then Matty Okay, come on Patsy Of course mr. Carter you can get into the stokes how many time you want to thanks mr. Whitaker However, I doubt that it will throw any light on this mysterious woman You've been telling me about why do you say that mr. Whitaker because miss bone It's hard for me to believe that Marvin Stokes had any dealings with a woman Oh, he and I were partners for 20 years mr. Carter and at all that time He had no interest in women at all. In fact, he was woman shy was an obsession with him This gets cruel ear and screwy and Nick the only thing we're sure of about that woman is that she went to Stokes's house Well, and now we find that she had no reason to go there and that nobody saw when she got there a rather way mr. Whitaker does the name of Granada mean anything to you Simon Granada No, no, I've never heard the name before the best of my right Hello, this is Sergeant Matheson of homicide Nick Carter there. Yes, just a moment for you, mr. Carter. Thanks Hello, Nick Matty. We got another bite on that newspaper picture. Oh a guy named McIntyre Just called to say he thinks he can identify the dame say his name from McIntyre Yeah, Captain Ernest McIntyre meeting him at the morgue in 20 minutes. Okay, Matty. We'll get over there right away What the devil's keeping that guy he's 15 minutes late already take it easy sergeant. He'll be here No matter you have any idea who this captain McIntyre. No, he just said he was retired sea captain. I ask him What's that? Holy smoke those were shots and they're right outside. Yeah, come on, right? Look, there's a man lined there's been shot. Yeah kill must be in that car that just pulled away, Nick Yeah, it's the only way to get out of here so fast. Yeah, well whoever blessed this guy did a good job He's dead Nick. Do you think this is captain McIntyre? Wait? I see whether there's any identification on him. Yeah Hey, what's that Nick billfold find anything in it? Yeah, he's Captain McIntyre. All right. Well, how do you like that for a lousy break? Well, now we know somebody's determined to keep us from identifying that woman So determined in fact, they'll even commit murder to do it and so once again Nick is frustrated and his desire to learn the identity of the nameless blonde We'll see what happens next in just a minute and now back to the case of the nameless blonde today's adventure with Nick Carter Brought to you by new post war old Dutch cleanser as We pick up our story two hours have passed since the death of captain McIntyre the man who promised to identify the mysterious woman Nick found murdered in his office now in the bright moonlight Nick Patsy and Sergeant Matheson approach a small waterfront shanty The next shack down the beach and be the one where McIntyre lived if what do you expect to find in the captain's shanty Nick there's just a chance Maddie that McIntyre had something in his possession That'll tell us what he himself would have told us if he'd live like what the dead woman's name was and who poisoned her Yeah, the key to her death must be your name. Uh-huh Otherwise why would somebody be so darned anxious to keep us from learning what it was? Well, that makes sense But oh, that's McIntyre shack over there. There's somebody in it Nick. Yes The lights are on and looks as though somebody's moving around inside. Come on. We got a hurry. Yeah Hey, the lights went out better watch it. We'd make swell targets in this moonlight Get out fancy. What they're saying whoever's in that shack spotted us and doesn't want us to spot him Yeah, he's staying in the shadows Nick. He must have gone around behind the shack I'm going after I'll hold it Maddie what I have a feeling those shots were meant to cover a getaway There's no use trying to catch him now. Yeah. Yeah, I guess you're right Nick Well, aren't we gonna take a look in that check you bet we are watch your step. That's it. I'm okay open the door Keep your gun ready Maddie. Don't worry It's open Gee it's dark in here. Can you find a light? Maybe there's a switch by the door here. Yeah, here we are. Oh Boy look at this place looks like a cyclone hit it. I expected something like this Yeah, if we're right in thinking that McIntyre was killed to stop him from telling us who the woman was then the murderer was pretty Sure to have the same idea we certainly he's come here to look for evidence that might help us to identify her Then it was probably the murderer who took that pot shot at us Big Nick there's someone on the porch Okay, you guys what's going on here? Take it easy brother this thing in my hand ain't no water pistol The police police, huh? Yeah, well, what's the idea of tearing a joint apart? What's that to you? It so happens I bunk here copper thought this was Captain McIntyre's shack it is him and me We live here together. I was Mac's first mate before he quit shipping on it. What's your name Gunther? Al Gunther, huh? Well, you better start looking for a new roommate Gunther Captain McIntyre's dead dead Of course, you wouldn't know anything about that. No, I wouldn't or about the woman He was going to identify when he was murdered. You mean Somebody bumped Mac off. That's right Well, I'll be done. Hey, you don't seem exactly broken up about it. Well, you want me to do sister bust out and cry We all got to die sometime. Well, I Gunther you ever hear of a man named Simon Grenander Simon good it Well, it looks like he has no no no no I don't mean nothing to me What do you do for a living now Gunther me who else I'm working on a private yard It's owned by a guy named Whitaker with Whitaker. Yeah, what's wrong with that? Not a thing good Anybody got any objections if I fill my pipe not at all go right ahead. Thank you Very expensive humidor you keep a tobacco in it ain't mine. It's max may I see it a minute Gunther? I can't stop you. Can I? Well now what is it Nick has a very interesting inscription on the lid of this humidor. Yeah, what's it saying Nick? June 1938 to Captain Ernest McIntyre with deepest gratitude from Marvin Stokes And you say we can get in the Stokes house this time Nick yes, Mary I called Whitaker's home his sister Elizabeth said she'd meet us there and let us in Well, what do you think that'll get you Nick? Do people have been murdered and the only link between them is that somehow they were connected with Marvin Stokes? I know one thing I hope I can find something in Stokes personal papers to tell us what kind of favor Captain McIntyre did for him ten years ago Yeah, and maybe we can find out why the woman who died in your office went to his house after he was dead I hope so the answers to those questions should tell us who the woman was and why she was murdered Find anything of interest in Mr. Stokes correspondence, Mr. Carter. No, not yet, Miss Whitaker But they're not even halfway through yet. Where the start can go Nick? Oh, I'll to find Weber said he was going to see Mr. Carter. Okay, okay, Weber get in there. Yeah, and it sounds as though he found him. Well, I finally got the truth out of this guy Nick. He was lying all right. He was. Yeah, the dame who died in your office was here in this house. Okay, who was she, Weber? I don't know her name. She did not tell me. And why did you lie about her being here? I had orders not to let anybody in. She gave me $20 to forget them and well You took that bribe and then we're afraid to admit it. Yeah, I was afraid Mr. Whitaker would fire me. Nick, look what I found. I see. Well, well. What is it Nick? Recognize the woman in this photograph, Matty? Do I re- Holy smoke. It's the blonde that died in your office. And listen to what's written on the bottom. To Marvin from Marjorie with all my love always. Oh no, no. Miss Whitaker, what's the matter? You know this woman? No. No, I never saw her before. Nick, she looks like she's going to faint. Sit down here, Miss Whitaker. Hey, what's eating her anyway? You better tell us the truth, Miss Whitaker. I don't want to talk about it. You say you never saw this woman before and yet a picture of her almost makes you faint. Why? Well, because she... Oh, I always suspected there was another woman. That's why Marvin wouldn't marry me. Why? Yes, I loved Marvin Stokes. I loved him for years, but there was something standing between us. Now I know it was this Marjorie. And it also gives you a pretty good motor for poisoning her, Miss Whitaker. Poisoning her? Yeah. Well, that's absurd. I never laid eyes on her. Well, how could there be a woman in Stokes' life that neither you nor your brother knew anything about? There's only one answer to that, Mr. Carter. He must have met her the year he spent abroad. Abroad? What year was that? He went to Europe in the summer of 1938. Oh, now this is beginning to add up. Hey, Patsy, give me the Stokes papers for 1938. Ah, seven... yep, 1938. Thanks. Here they are, Nick. Hey. What's this? What did you find, Nick? Cablegram Center Stokes. Signed by Alphonse de Grasse, manager of the Hotel Louis Cut. That's the hotel where Marvin always stayed when he was in Paris. What's it say, Nick? Congratulations. Reservation's changed as requested. And it's addressed to Stokes on the SS Simon Grenander. Simon Grenander? Hey, Nick, that's the name that's on the dead woman's key case. Well, I'll be darned. It's not a man at all. It's a ship. Oh, brother, now this case is more balled up than ever. Not at all, Maddie. Not at all. I'd say it's beginning to clear up quite nicely. Who really know who the murderer is? Why the Dickens don't we go get him instead of sitting around the office waiting? We're waiting for Maddie to track down the proof. Meaning the log of the SS Simon Grenander? Yeah. He's going to call us from the harbormaster's office. But what do you expect to find in the logs? Well, look, Patsy, we know the ten years ago in 1938, a ship's captain named McIntyre performed some sort of service for Martin Stokes. Something that Stokes was great before, right? Yes, but... We also know that Stokes met a woman named Marjorie in 1938, and that she was in love with him. But go on, so what? Remember what the cablegram said? Of course. Congratulations. Reservation's changed as requested. Right. Now, why would a hotel manager cable Stokes as congratulations? Why? And why would Stokes want his reservation changed? Well, I don't know. Patsy, think. He's one of the functions of a captain on a ship at sea. One of the... Well, he can marry people. And that's why the congratulations... Now, you're catching on. In other words, I believe Captain McIntyre married Marvin Stokes to this Marjorie, whoever she was. But can you prove it? Well, I hope I can. And I think the log of the SS Simon Grenander will bear me out if we can find it. Uh-huh. Marjorie and Stokes must have separated. We know she didn't come back to America with him. Barely not. But now after Stokes is dead, this Marjorie suddenly bobs up. Now, who's the one person who'd be most anxious to get rid of her? Uh-huh. You tell me. Well, if this Marjorie could have proved that she was Stokes' legal wife, she'd have had a claim to his estate, no matter what kind of a will he left. Well, I get it. Whoever inherited Stokes' property would have had to get rid of her or lose his inheritance. Right. And Thomas Whittaker was the sole heir to Stokes' estate. That's what the will says. Then... Then Whittaker is the murderer. I believe he is. Well, I'll be darned. Of course, it's still just a theory. There's no record of the marriage and the log of the SS Grenander then. Oh, that must be the sergeant now. Nick Carter speaking. It's Matty, Nick. The SS Grenander was junked a couple of years ago. What? Don't tell me the log's lost, Matty. No, no. Though I just spoke to the manager of the steamship company that owned it. He says all the ship's papers are stored in the warehouse on Pier 32. Can he get the log for us? Yeah, he says he'll give me the key to the warehouse. So I'll pick it up and meet you there, huh? Okay, Matty. Pier 32, 15 minutes. Down this way, Nick. Boy, is this some fog that's rolling in. I can't see a darn thing. Hold on to my arm, Matty. Hey, you're pretty sure Whittaker's our man, huh? All adds up that way, Matty. Of course, I can't swear to it, but I certainly... Back against the wall, quick. Can you see anyone, Nick? No. The fog's too heavy. You got your gun, Matty? Yeah, I got it all right. What am I going to do with it? When you can't see what you're going to... Listen, someone's running toward the end of the dock. Yeah, you can see your shadow. Stop or I'll shoot! Okay, if that's what you want... Matty, I think you dropped him. Yeah, come on. Do you think it's Whittaker, Nick? My theory's right, it should be. He came down here after the log two. That's the last piece of evidence he had to dispose of. All right. Here he is. Is he dead, Matty? Oh, blast it, yes. I didn't want to kill him. Oh, crack this fog. Nick, look. What is it, Matty? This isn't Thomas Whittaker. What? No! It's Captain McIntyre's first mate, Al Gunther. Bewildered, Nick, Patsy and Matty stare down at the body on the dock. Does this mean that Nick's deductions were wrong? That it was Gunther and not Thomas Whittaker who committed the murders? We'll bring you the conclusion of this adventure in just a minute. Now, for the conclusion of the case of the Nameless Blonde. Today's adventure with Nick Carter brought to you by new post-war old Dutch cleanser. Standing in the ghostly glow of a small electric lantern on a fog- shrouded dock, Nick Patsy and Matty stare down at the man who has just died, surprised to learn that it is not, as Nick had predicted, Thomas Whittaker. This means Whittaker wasn't the killer. It must have been this man, Gunther. Patsy's right, Nick. Looks like your big theory kind of blew up in your face. Maybe, Matty. And then again, maybe not. It was Gunther's body. He was shot once in the head. So what? I fired three times. Two of my shots missed. One hit him. Sorry, Matty, but all three of yours missed. Oh, now look, Nick. The bullet that killed Gunther wasn't fired from your gun. What? Your gun is a 45-police automatic. The wound in his head was obviously made by a gun of a much smaller caliber. Holy smoke, Nick. You're right. Which means that Gunther was the goat for somebody else. He was down here with a murderer. And the murderer killed him hoping we'd think we'd caught our man. And that means the murderer is still somewhere on this dock. Right, right. And that's too far away from you. That's swittaker, Nick. I know his voice. Yeah. Whoever he is, I can't see him because of this darn phone. I can see you plainly, Carter. Under that light. Put your hand to all three of them. Do as he says. Oh. He's already killed three people to protect his interest in Marvin Stokes' estate. So you figured it all out, did you, Carter? I'm sure you agree that I had no choice once I learned that Marvin was married to Markary Lawson. Yes, and once she threatened to prove that fact by hiring me to find either Captain McIntyre or the log of the Simon Grenander. Precisely. But she made the mistake of paying a call only before she went to your office. I treated her well. In fact, I gave her a cup of coffee. With Arson, Nick, in it. Unfortunately, yes. And then when you heard that McIntyre was going to meet us at the morgue, you ambushed him outside and shot him before he could tell a story. Right again. Just as I'm going to shoot you. I don't think so, Whitaker. She told us to raise our hands. But you forgot to say anything about dropping our guns. Nice work, Nick, shooting out that life. Now we can't see us any better than we can see him. Hey, he's trying to get past us. There he goes. You can see his silhouette. Stop, Whitaker. Stop for us. Get to the hospital while Whitaker made a statement. Oh, what is he saying? Everything was pretty much the way we figured it, Patsy. We? Well, you know what I mean. Marjorie Lawson or Marjorie Stokes, I should say. I arrived from London last week. She'd been living there ever since she left her husband. Well, why did she leave him? Well, from what Whitaker said, they came from different social levels. Stokes was wealthy and she was a shop girl. Oh. Apparently, after the honeymoon was over, he was ashamed of her. Well, that's a fine thing. That's why they broke up only a few months after they were married. And that must be why Stokes never mentioned the marriage. Yeah, I suppose so. And the only proof Marjorie had of their marriage was in that ship's log. No marriage certificate? No. Whitaker says she told him all her papers were destroyed in the London Blitz during the war. Oh, what a break. Now, wasn't it? She was probably looking for some kind of proof in Stokes papers the night she bribed Weber to let her in. Uh-huh. But she didn't find it. So she came to see me. It all makes sense, Nick. That is except for Gunther. Where did he fit in the picture? Why, you put him in the picture, Patsy. I did? Uh-huh. By your reaction when he said he worked for Whitaker. But... It made him curious. He went straight to Whitaker tonight to find out what it was all about. Uh-huh. And Whitaker persuaded him to help him find the logbook. So it seems. Uh-huh. But how about Whitaker, Nick? Would he badly hurt? Oh, Matty's butt got him in the right leg. I think he'll be up and around in time to go on the last walk he'll ever take. Well, Nick, what about the adventure new post-war old Dutch cleansers going to bring us next week? Mike, it's one of my most unusual cases. It's about a man who prayed people to death. Prayed them to death? And did they really die? Uh-huh. I'll say they did. And before it was all over, Mike, this man started praying for Nick to die. Well, I guess a lot of criminals have felt the same way about Nick. Uh, what do you call the story, Nick? I call it a case of the salesman of death. Nick Carter, master detective, is presented each week at this time by the Cuddehy Packing Company. It is produced and directed by Jock McGregor, and is copyrighted by Street and Smith Publications Incorporated. Charlotte Manson is featured as Patsy. Ed Latimer plays Matty. Today's script was written by Ken Pettis and Lou Schofield. Original music is played by Henry Silverne. This program is fictional, and any resemblance to actual persons living or dead is purely coincidental. Every ten minutes, somebody dies of tuberculosis. Yet tuberculosis is curable and can be wiped out. And the sooner it's caught, the quicker and easier the cure. 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