 for that most famous of all men hunters the detective whose ability at solving crime is unequaled in the history of detective fiction Nick Carter master detective you can back to the office at this time of night I just want to be sure that I finished everything before I left scubby but Nick away it sort of leaves the responsibility on my shoulders okay but shake it up will you have a last show start today 40 to say 20 now this one take for a minute scubby I simply want to have everything in order for the morning it's a good feed we had that was out of this world dog on it I knew we should have stayed away from this place Nick Carter's office Patty Bowen speaking that's a card in there not at the moment who's calling please exactly can I do something for you I'm his assistant I'll be glad to if I can suppose you tell me why you're called Oh but when I stopped in a room just now she was slumped on the floor dead looks very odd to me why don't you call the police I was going to do but the not have been killed so I wanted it Mr. Carter you see I met him the other evening at one of his lecture I so I wondered if he wouldn't come up further if you have any suspicion that a death wasn't natural Mr. Bradley you better call the police yes I suppose I had that who should I call can you tell me oh look Mr. Bradley leave it to me I'll take care of it for you well that'll be fine thank you so much goodbye now what more trouble not for us scubby I have to call Sergeant Madison then it's up for the movie oh well I thought for a minute we were going to miss that Weston oh no side Sergeant Madison oh hello sergeant this is Patsy I am Patsy what's up off Bradley manager of the Red Goose on West 7th Street says his girl singer is dead and he thinks maybe she didn't die naturally you better take a look and see what's what that going over oh no Nick's out of town for a few days you'll have to solve this alone if you can what do you mean if I can solve murder cases before you was born just because Nick has helped me out once or twice I apologize sergeant happy happy we just got time to make it right with you scubby let's see how the movies do it just for a change it was just the way you found her Bradley and nothing been touching nothing sergeant you see I opened the door to the dressing room to speak to her and there she lay on the floor shut the door again and called Mr. Carter good yeah it's murder all right you see this that mark around her neck you mean yeah strangle with a fine cord or a wire maybe it's murder sure only that a few minutes to not more in 15 to 20 I'd say how did you happen to come to her dressing room Bradley was payday today and I brought up the payroll sheet for the sign I'd given her envelope downstairs some time before but she hadn't signed for it how much did she make 150 a week good racket she was in made more than I do that her handbag on the dressing table yes I think so notice it's open and see if she's still got all that dough if you buy golly not a cent left in it hey that must have been the motive for the killing yeah robbery beautiful kid like that kill for a measly hundred and fifty bucks wait till I get my hands on the guy that is you do well cut see what are you doing here and the demon reporters scubby Wilson I am Matty we were almost to the movies when Pat see feminine curiosity got the better of her she just couldn't stand the idea of a murder investigation going on without her being here to poke her nose in it well Pat see now that you poke your nose in you can just poke it right out again I don't need no help from you and I wasn't trying to help I was just interested is that was she killed sergeant yeah strangle with a quarter of piece of wire hundred and fifty bucks stolen out of her handbag and no more questions see yes but please may I just watch okay okay just don't bother me I won't Bradley how many rooms on this floor there are three rooms on the second floor sergeant my office this dressing room in the dark room all on this side of the building dark room what's that for that's with a girl who takes the flashlights of customers in the club develops the pictures she takes as soon as she gets three or four snaps she comes up and makes prints for the customers to buy then she could have been in and out of this room any time yes yes you could I want to talk to her sure sure hey if all three rooms are on this side they must all look out onto that roof next door yes they do the adjoining building is a one-story flat roof to pay the same length as this one uh-huh when there's always kept open only on hot nights like this yes you ever see anyone on that roof from this club I mean no I don't ever remember any of our people ever going out there no reason why the oh marie just a minute sergeant this is Marie the girl who takes the picture you want to talk to her yeah I do and Marie when did you see this girl this what happened to her yes Marie she's dead been killed when did you see her last it was just after her first show maybe half an hour ago was she all right when you saw oh yes she was as happy as anything she came upstairs just as I finished printing my last batch of photos I asked her for an autographed picture of herself and she said that if I'd take one she'd autograph it for me you took one did you yes I snapped it right then you developed it yet no I was just going to now uh-huh well let me say it as soon as you get it done might get some ideas from it I'll have it for you in 10 minutes and may I watch you Marie I used to take pictures when I was a kid I'm Patsy Bowen Sergeant Matheson's assistant my assistant my pain in the neck I'm glad to have you did you ever develop your picture women they give me a pain mr. Bradley how many employees do you have here in the Red Goose why there are 12 in the kitchen crew seven in the orchestra five front men in the lobby and inside the Czech girl flower girl and Marie I want to talk to all of them get them up here and look sergeant couldn't we sort of take it easy just talk to them one at a time kind of private like I don't want to upset the whole club give a club bad name you know oh don't give it another thought mr. Bradley sergeant Matheson is the soul of discretion in the epitome of integrity hey are you calling me names again all not at all maddy they were compliments if you only knew it well pipe down with you okay Bradley I'll take it easy but I want to talk to every one of them alone or together I don't care now come on let's get started I got some news for you yeah what is it coming your homicide squad is all through just left some new that helps a lot your face you check up yeah we've accounted for all but two waiters and one of the front men and all three of them have been with me for years they can't be mixed up in this who says they can't anybody could be mixed up in it but we'll let him go for now I want to ask that Maria a few questions she's the one nobody can check up on let's go back up and see what she's got to say for us if you don't mind charge you know say down here you do go right ahead all right come on right with you maddy all right Bradley says she only makes 35 bucks a week what she can get out of the customers she could have needed that money oh she seems like a nice kid maddy I don't think she'd be new to when will you guys learn that appearances don't mean a thing the reason we're going to show you the picture she took a Paula here it is officer yeah she'll never autograph it for me now looks happy enough and look at this one sergeant that's a picture Marie took while Paula was singing her last number see her in the background and see whose picture it is hey that's all worth and capital a millionaire playboy does he come here often oh about once a month and always with a different girl blonde this time he always get his picture taken to him he's always good for a swell tip Marie suppose you and me have a little talk yeah I have to go down and deliver these pictures before the customers leave okay but make it snappy I'll go with you just in case in case of what just in case was Marie nice copy she made me extra copies of her last batch of pictures for my scrapbook pants he let me see that picture of Ann Keppel again it's a good one isn't it hmm passing how many men do you see in the orchestra of this picture huh oh she's gonna be there so far in the background is hard to tell well look closely five six six why well Bradley told us there were seven men in the band the picture shows only six huh I wonder where the other one was how are you folks making out fine anything yet Mr. Bradley you said there were seven men in the band yeah well this picture taken during the first show tonight shows only six that's so let's see yes the guitar player Steve Dawson isn't there that's funny any idea why he wasn't there when this picture was snapped no no I know he was there when the show started and he's there now I saw him as I came up I don't understand this copy do you suppose he couldn't I'll probably yeah Marie tells me this was Paula's last night here she was going to work for another club beginning tomorrow night yes that's true well how come you didn't tell me about that before I guess it just slipped my mind sergeant why was she leaving she got a better job more money than I could pay her that's all sergeant while Paula was singing her last number the guitar player was missing from the band you suppose he could have come up here and done this a guitar player right hey Bradley do these musicians have a dressing room here anywhere yes yes they do on the third floor they keep the stuff in lockers up there how much longer they're going to be playing you see it's nine ten now they break at nine thirty so we got twenty minutes let's have a look at this guitar player's locker maybe he knows something about this which one is this Steve's locker the third one from the left got his name on it good not locked that helps nothing in this old jacket just the racing form hey what's that written on it huh central eight seven four or Mike that's probably his bookmaker yeah probably these boys play the horses he pretty heavily I understand oh yeah then the Steve couldn't eat money maybe if the nags were fun and for anything else there sergeant now perhaps the only this old guitar case and that's empty gosh they use nice velvet for the lining don't they well maybe it was nice once but it's pretty well shot now happy oh yes look at this big tear and it is a sergeant look at this but money hidden in the line right seven twenties and a ten say that's what I paid Paula tonight so Steve took it but why did he have to kill it to get it he could have got without that we don't know that he did kill him Mr Bradley the guy that got the money is the guy that did the killing according to my book hey Bradley get Steve Dawson up here we'll see if he can get out of this certainly sergeant I'll hadn't meet you in Paula's room right after the band breaks for intermission and you can bet I'll keep my eye on him until Mr Bradley do you have a phone we could use yes of course it's one of my office the room right next to Paul thanks come with me scotty I've got a job for you anywhere with you beautiful just leave the way you say you want me to call this number we found on Steve's racing form right scotty and ask for Mike oh do you want me to ask him anything special no just say it's Steve Dawson calling them stall around and see if maybe he won't let something slip about Steve's finances okay what can we lose here goes back 87 I wish I knew what this Steve's voice sounds like just talk a little husky is if it were a bad connection Michael never know the difference I hope the purple pig good evening well hello is Mike there Steve Dawson oh I've got part of it oh isn't there some way I can let you have part of it now and the rest of it okay Mike goodbye Steve didn't he sure did $400 by one o'clock tonight and no fooling around either Steve might have needed that money so bad he'd be willing to kill Paula to get it well it sure looks that way from where I said I wonder if I sat on the floor over under the window huh oh it's like far far yeah far off somebody's heel maybe somebody was out on the roof and got so on a shoe Bradley said nobody ever went out there but look here here's a smudge on the windows though too scotty do you suppose you got a flashlight pet yeah my my throat won't hear my bag I think I'll have a look at the roof outside this window there might be footprints or something if you're going out there I am too give me a hand okay beautiful here easy now there you are hey on this roof is soft isn't it yeah our rough generally get that way in warm days no I don't see any prints here anyway well it doesn't prove anything of course soft tar wouldn't hold print very well scotty this fireplace must fire escape I'm getting all mixed up must be the one that goes up to the musicians locker room well it probably is I remember seeing one when we were up there before Paula's body still in the room no they took it away after the homicide boys finished their investigation I'm glad of that I don't know what the matter I tripped over something caught my toe in it well there's nothing here fancy oh wait huh here's an old guitar string maybe a trip done that an old guitar string and Steve plays the guitar funny isn't it how do you mean funny the sergeant says Paula was choked with a cord or a piece of wire of course and finding this guitar string here is no coincidence at all at all I wonder what do you mean I wonder oh I don't know scuppy but that's what Nick always says when he's not sure of something oh his master's voice something like that I'm just trying to think the way Nick would do it if he were here oh I wish he were here too oh I don't know it looks pretty open and shut to me I know it does but that's always a time Nick says to scuppy is one of the musicians just coming into Paula's room that must be Steve Dawson yeah come on I want to hear what he has to say you want me started yeah come on in I would share a mind if we join you sergeant for the love of Pete what are you two doing out there on the roof all just looking at the stars that's all do you mind if we come in I don't mind what you do so long as you don't get my way thanks help me up scuppy right here very easy watch the sale thanks scuppy won't you come in too Mr. Wilson all the light of this phone so kind of you to all think will you two ever stop clowning this is a murder case murder what have I got to do with the murder everything if I ain't mistaken Dawson where are you at about eight o'clock tonight eight o'clock playing with the band same as all that's so that's it where's that picture you had here it is sergeant thanks now in Steve show me which one in this picture is you why I don't seem to be there when was this taken during Paula's last number in the first show tonight now where were you oh yeah I remember now I was late coming in Mr Bradley said you were there when the show opened huh oh yeah I had to step out for a minute you need money pretty bad don't you money yeah no I just got paid tonight I got plenty you didn't get paid enough to repay the loan Mike major three hundred bucks plus a hundred interest hey what's that where did you find out Mike told us Mike what do you know about Mike and he's calling for a one o'clock tonight isn't he I don't know what you're talking about now and why did you kill Paula Windsor tonight and then swipe a hundred and fifty dollars from a purse and don't try to lie out of it we found the money in that old guitar case in your locker I didn't kill her I swear it sergeant we found this on the roof just outside the window what's that string for a fiddle or something so what could be a guitar string that ain't what that settles it Dawson you saw Bradley give Paula her salary earlier tonight so you sneaked off the bandstand during your last number came up to her room and tried to sneak her purse she caught yet and you killed it I didn't kill her I didn't just wrangle her with a guitar string you happen to have in your pocket and threw it out the window I didn't kill her she wasn't even the woman I took the money oh so you admit you stole the money yeah yes I stole it but I didn't kill her she was just finishing her song when I got back downstairs now good Dawson if you can make a jury believe that you're a better man I think you are but I didn't look here's guy here's a slip of paper on a dressing table with that same number on it that we just called a seven four oh wonder what she was doing with that playing the horses maybe I doubted sergeant may I ask mr. Dawson a question oh you again all right ask it let me get out of here Mr. Dawson what did you and Paula have in common about the purple pig nothing Mike is a manager there and he's my bookie Paula was supposed to start singing there tomorrow night Mike met her here when when he came over once to see me and gave her a job that's all so that's where she was going yeah Bradley was all burned up about it but Mike over more than Bradley did so she gave notice come on Dawson you and I you and I have a data headquarters look sorry I'm booking you for robbery and possible murder now hold out your hand I got a bracelet for it but I tell you I just you tell me don't count so long miss Pat see Carter if you pick up anything I missed give me a ring I'm always happy to hear from you why thank you sergeant well scubby what do you think I think if I kill the girl with a guitar string I'd never throw it out the window where it would be found first thing that's the way I feel and it seems to me that if Paula did catch Steve Dawson stealing her money he wouldn't be likely to go fishing around in his pocket to see if he had an old guitar string he could kill her with gosh you're right Pat see he'd more likely strangler with his bare hands you know scubby I think the murder had nothing to do with the robbery I think whoever killed Paula did it deliberately and use the guitar string to throw suspicion on Steve Dawson which would account for his leaving it right outside where it would be sure to be firm and I noticed another thing too scubby that makes me think Dawson didn't kill us it's not proof but it's something to think about yeah what's that well when I saw Paula's body I noticed that she had unvipped her dress as if she were going to take it off uh-huh and her shoes were off and one of her stockings was unfastened which means she'd been in her room long enough to start changing her costume good girl and if she'd been leaning over and fasting her stockings the killer could have crept up behind her without being seen that's what I was thinking just look at this picture of how the Marie took tonight she's laughing and looks as if she didn't have a look at this picture look at the mirror hey there's a figure of a man reflected in the mirror from the angle at which the picture was taken he must have been standing on the roof just outside her window probably thought he couldn't be seen but the camera caught him in the mirror plain enough to make out who it is no the picture doesn't show him very plainly but it's definitely a man in a black coat and the musicians were white so it's not the guitar player scubby this man has a flower in his buttonhole it's the right buttonhole instead of the left the way most men wear them hey let's ask Bradley maybe he'll be able to recognize who it is right scubby come on we'll show sergeant mathison yet I'm going to show you can we go somewhere where it won't be so no yes yes suppose you go right in here with the door closed you can at least see yourself think yes this is bad now what have you found that would interest me and Mr Bradley this picture was taken this evening in Paula's room right after the first show always I remember Marie saying that she took one if you look in the mirror you can see the reflection of a man standing outside her window on the roof what. Yes yes I see it's a pretty pity it isn't a better picture of him so he could recognize who it is Mr Bradley have you ever been out on the roof outside your office but no I never go out there and how do you suppose the spot of root I got on the rug in your office I wouldn't have it probably came off your shoe Mr Bradley I see there's still some tar on the heel but I did your right heel say look here are you implying that I killed Paula I am I didn't realize it until I saw you again just now but you wear your flower in your right lapel practically no one does that you're a pair of idiots why should I kill Paul I had no motive to do a thing like that I don't understand about the motive party to Mr Bradley but I'm sure you killed her I'll see here just because I happen to be standing outside Paula's window when Marie snapped that picture doesn't prove that I killed her just went out for some air and then went back to my office she was alive the last time I saw you forgotten one thing Mr Bradley your fingerprints around the guitar string you strangled her with go right so I killed her what are you going to do about it I'll have you to take care of so fast sit down Mr Bradley you can't scare me with that little pop guns don't kid yourself Mr Bradley that's he knows how to use that gun and she will if she has to and at twenty two makes just as good a hole in a man's heart as a forty five does if it's aimed right the way past the end thank you scubby now we just sit down Mr Bradley now scabby if you're called Sergeant Madison he can put both the rubber and the killer in the same cell you mean you're going to be at that typewriter for another hour yet sorry but I have to have a full report ready for Nick when he comes back and I want to get it down and black and white while it's still fresh okay okay I quit I'm going home I'll see you again some time I hope I hope so scabby give me a ring sometime when you're free old darn you Patsy Bowen if I wasn't in love with you I'd bring your neck good night scabby oh yes Nick Carter's office Patsy Bowen speaking this is my name Patsy I just wanted to tell you Bradley made a full confession he did oh that's good I'll put that in my report to oh what do you say he said he planned to kill Paula tonight so he waited on the roof outside her window for her to come back from the floor show uh-huh it was while he was standing out there that is as well as the robbery so he went up the fight someone else did he say what his motive was yeah turned him down cold for her first job he had done nothing for her and that she was leaving him for a better job with a better thing so mad back in the fact that they really loved her desperately that he decided if he couldn't have her nobody else was gone oh the poor guy well I've been awful things sometimes yeah especially if it's not returned yeah but look Patsy there's one thing I don't understand well Nick always has something to clinch the case with so I happen to think of that sergeant I knew it but Mr. Bradley didn't help Patsy in the absence of Nick I suppose I'll have to get my hints on next week's show from you how about it I sure can do Carl the case started when both Vince O'Neill and Otto Lerner found they were married to the same girl hmm what did Nick do about that well he started out to find the girl and straighten things out if he could and he found her I suppose knowing Nick oh yes he did but when he located her finally she could no longer give many information she'd been using a new jar of cold cream and taking a bath for what did that have to do with it why everything is that and the fight on the train yeah all right all right what's the name of the story we call it the case of the extra husband it caught her master detective which is produced and directed by Jack McGregor is copyrighted by Street and Smith publications incorporated pictured stories of Nick Carter appear in every issue of the shadow comics in the broadcasts of Nick Carter master detective long Clark is starred as Nick Charlotte Manson is featured as Patsy Maddie is played by Ed Latimer scubby by John Kane original music is played by George Rice script is by Jack McGregor any resemblance in these programs to actual persons living or dead or to actual places is purely coincidental Nick Carter master detective is presented over most of these mutual stations each week at the same time this is Carl Caruso saying so long until next week auctions are exciting but we've never heard of a public auction where the bidding went up up up to murder there's your promise of thrilling mystery entertainment again tomorrow night over these mutual stations on Bulldog Drummond's case called upholstered for murder that's Bulldog Drummond Mondays on mutual this program was heard in Canada through the facilities of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation this is the mutual broadcasting system