Michael Shayne 450625 Body by the Piano, Old Time Radio
Step into the world of classic detective thrillers with the old-time radio show "Michael Shayne, Private Detective." The episode "Body by the Piano," originally aired on June 25, 1945, is a perfect example of the gripping storytelling and atmospheric tension that characterized the golden age of radio.
Michael Shayne, the tough and savvy private eye, has become synonymous with the noir detective genre. Created by writer Brett Halliday in the late 1930s, Shayne is a character who embodies the hard-boiled detective archetype: resourceful, relentless, and with a moral code that often puts him at odds with the very people he's trying to help.
"Body by the Piano" is a quintessential Shayne adventure, filled with suspense, mystery, and the kind of plot twists that keep listeners on the edge of their seats. As Shayne investigates the mysterious circumstances surrounding a body found by a piano, audiences are treated to a masterclass in audio drama, complete with sound effects that bring the scene to life and performances that convey the urgency and danger of Shayne's world.
For fans of detective stories and radio history enthusiasts, this episode is a must-listen. It's a testament to the enduring appeal of Michael Shayne and the talented actors, writers, and producers who brought such stories to the airwaves. Whether you're discovering it for the first time or revisiting an old favorite, "Body by the Piano" is a thrilling journey into the heart of detective fiction.
To experience this classic episode, you can find recordings available online, offering a nostalgic trip back to a time when radio was king and Michael Shayne was the detective everyone turned to for their fix of crime-solving excitement. So dim the lights, turn up the volume, and let the intrigue of "Michael Shayne, Private Detective" transport you back to the captivating world of old-time radio.
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Step into the world of classic detective thrillers with the old-time radio show "Michael Shayne, Private Detective." The episode "Body by the Piano," originally aired on June 25, 1945, is a perfect example of the gripping storytelling and atmospheric tension that characterized the golden age of radio.
Michael Shayne, the tough and savvy private eye, has become synonymous with the noir detective genre. Created by writer Brett Halliday in the late 1930s, Shayne is a character who embodies the hard-boiled detective archetype: resourceful, relentless, and with a moral code that often puts him at odds with the very people he's trying to help.
"Body by the Piano" is a quintessential Shayne adventure, filled with suspense, mystery, and the kind of plot twists that keep listeners on the edge of their seats. As Shayne investigates the mysterious circumstances surrounding a body found by a piano, audiences are treated to a masterclass in audio drama, complete with sound effects that bring the scene to life and performances that convey the urgency and danger of Shayne's world.
For fans of detective stories and radio history enthusiasts, this episode is a must-listen. It's a testament to the enduring appeal of Michael Shayne and the talented actors, writers, and producers who brought such stories to the airwaves. Whether you're discovering it for the first time or revisiting an old favorite, "Body by the Piano" is a thrilling journey into the heart of detective fiction.
To experience this classic episode, you can find recordings available online, offering a nostalgic trip back to a time when radio was king and Michael Shayne was the detective everyone turned to for their fix of crime-solving excitement. So dim the lights, turn up the volume, and let the intrigue of "Michael Shayne, Private Detective" transport you back to the captivating world of old-time radio.
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00:38San Francisco is a city of color and activity.
00:41And in the course of time, Mike Cheyne's office has had its share of both.
00:45At the moment, Mike and his assistant Phyllis Knight have almost more color than they can take.
00:50Seated between their two desks is a young man with curly red hair, a red tie, orange shirt and green coat.
00:56Mike squints at him thoughtfully.
00:58But I don't understand, Mr. Collinward. Why would anyone want to kill Mr...
01:03What's his name?
01:04Demetro Sador.
01:05Oh, yes. But why? Has he got any enemies?
01:08Mr. Cheyne, a great piano virtuoso like Demetro Sador has many jealous rivals.
01:13And then his awful temper is no telling.
01:16Why did he start getting these threatening letters, Mr. Collinward?
01:19Last week. We went to the police at once. They investigated, or tried to.
01:24But Demetro wouldn't help in the least. He was very annoyed.
01:27Then this afternoon, your friend the inspector told me if we still wanted to look into it, I might come to you.
01:33You are his secretary?
01:34Oh, no, no, no, my no. I've got a friend. I live in the next apartment to Demetro. I'm a poet.
01:40Perhaps Miss Knight has seen some of my work? My sonnets to a porcelain Cupid?
01:47Oh, yes, well, yes, yes.
01:49Mr. Collinward, you want me to investigate these threats against your friend, but I doubt I can do anything unless he's willing to help.
01:56But we can't let a great pianist, a great genius, gamble with his life.
02:00If you'd come out with me and talk to him, will he be furious? Of course.
02:04But you might convince him.
02:06You know, I'd like to meet him, Mike. They say he's a character.
02:09Yeah?
02:11All right, sir.
02:12All right, we'll go talk to your lion of the keyboard.
02:14When?
02:15Today.
02:16Today? This afternoon?
02:17Right now.
02:38I don't believe he hears us.
02:39Oh, yes, it's always this way. I'll just keep pounding.
02:42Demetro! Demetro!
02:46Don't the neighbors complain of this racket?
02:48Oh, no, there are only five of us in this building. We all love Demetro, and we used to know him.
02:54Oh, I should think. Living over a garage in a poultry market.
02:58Oh, he stopped playing.
03:00Demetro! Demetro! It's Eric!
03:04Demetro, I want you to...
03:06Go away, go away.
03:07What? Oh, the...
03:11Demetro! Come back! Demetro!
03:15I am practicing.
03:16Demetro, we've got to talk to you. It's important. Go on in, Mr. Shane, quick.
03:19No, no, I have a concert tomorrow.
03:21You can practice while we talk.
03:24This is Mr. Shane and Miss Knight, Demetro Sedor.
03:26It's a pleasure to meet you, Mr. Sedor.
03:28You are welcome.
03:29Mr. Cullenward tells us you've had letters threatening your life, sir.
03:32We'd like to ask you to...
03:33Police. Police. I will not talk.
03:35Huh?
03:36No! No! No! No!
03:38Mr. Sedor, please. Mr. Shane is a private detective, and he...
03:41We simply want to look at those letters, sir. It's possible that...
03:44No letters. Foolishness. Nobody killed Demetro Sedor.
03:47Oh, we hope not, Mr. Sedor.
03:49It would be a tragedy if anything happened to a musical genius like Demetro Sedor.
03:53Genius? Oh, yes, that is so.
03:55Why, I've heard you play. It was out of this world.
03:59We can't risk losing you, Mr. Sedor. San Francisco's greatest pianist.
04:03America's greatest.
04:04Yes, America's greatest.
04:06That's why we must find who sent you those threatening letters.
04:09They are nothing. Women fall in love with Demetro Sedor.
04:14I spurned them. Now they hate. I have no time for them.
04:18I am married to my music.
04:19Yes, yes, sure, sure. Now, if you'll just show us the letters, please.
04:22No, all foolishness.
04:23But we have to see them.
04:24No!
04:25Please, Mr. Sedor.
04:26Well, there is the door. Go! Now, go!
04:29Be fair, Mr. Shane. I'm sorry.
04:31Okay, you're the boss.
04:33You are the first people to come to my studio today.
04:36And you are the last.
04:39Well, how do you feed that guy? Through the bars?
04:43I'm frightfully sorry, Mr. Shane.
04:45Eric, what in the name of three-toed Pete went on in there?
04:48I could hear it through the walls.
04:50Oh, it was about those letters again.
04:52Mr. Shane, Miss Knight, Rita Amodio.
04:55How do you do?
04:56How do you do?
04:57Oh, those letters. Probably they were mailed by some crank.
05:00That's possible.
05:01Well, we'd better be moving along, honey.
05:04I'm sorry we couldn't do anything for you people.
05:06Here, hold on, hold on.
05:08We just can't let you walk off with just a thank you.
05:11Let me take you both to dinner.
05:13That's very nice of you.
05:15What do you say, Mike?
05:16It's okay with me.
05:17Oh, fine.
05:18We'll go to the little Russian restaurant on the hill.
05:20The Cossack Club.
05:22And I'll read you some of my poetry, Miss Knight.
05:24Oh.
05:25I know you'll get a kick out of it.
05:27Right on the shin.
05:39Gene, another feather?
05:41But please, you must have some dessert.
05:44No, no, no thanks, no.
05:45We really have to be going.
05:46Yes, we have tickets to the theater or something.
05:48Oh, just one more poem.
05:49Just one more.
05:50My ode to a lonely seagull.
05:53Listen.
05:54What meanest thou, bird of sad lament?
05:57Mike, Phil.
05:58Oh, hey.
05:59Inspector.
06:00Well, what are you doing here?
06:01They told me I'd find you here.
06:02I understand you talked to that piano player this afternoon.
06:04Yes, about an hour and a half ago.
06:06Mind going back to his studio with me?
06:08Well, it's useless, Inspector.
06:09He won't talk to you, me, or anybody.
06:11I know he won't.
06:12He's dead.
06:29This is the floor, Inspector.
06:31It's at the end of the hall, studio A.
06:33I can't believe it.
06:34Our laundromats were dead.
06:36Murdered, you say?
06:37I don't know.
06:38Some woman told me on the ladder, said it was murder.
06:41She told me about you, Mike, and where you were eating,
06:43so I thought I'd better bring you along.
06:44Here we are, Inspector.
06:46Well, at least Sergeant beat me here.
06:48What do you say, Doc?
06:49Oh, Inspector.
06:50Haven't had time for real examination yet.
06:53There's something weird about this.
06:54Oh, there's the body.
06:55By his old piano.
06:57Who's the man with the beard?
06:59Dr. Castle.
07:00He found the body.
07:01Huh?
07:02Yes, he did.
07:03All right.
07:04What's the story?
07:05Well, you see, I lived the other end of the hall, studio D.
07:07I got a phone call.
07:08It was Dimitro.
07:09He said something was wrong with him, gasped,
07:10and then I heard him fall.
07:11What time was this, Doc?
07:12About an hour ago, ten past six.
07:14Well, I found his door locked,
07:16so I got Professor Gebhardt across the hall
07:18and broke the door down.
07:19I found him here by the piano.
07:21The phone had fallen from his hand.
07:23No signs of violence, no wounds on the body.
07:26Maybe it was his heart.
07:27Heart?
07:28No, no, no.
07:29He was in perfect health.
07:30What do you say, Dr. Collins?
07:32Pressure under the ribs.
07:34You aren't giving him artificial respiration.
07:36No.
07:37Dead too long.
07:38I want to...
07:41Yes, that's it.
07:42What is?
07:43A diet of asphyxiation.
07:45Asphyxiation?
07:46Are there any gas jets in this studio?
07:47It's not that kind of gas, Inspector.
07:49I know the smell.
07:50It's poison gas.
07:52It was deliberate murder.
08:02We'll return to Michael Shane and his adventures in just a moment.
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09:28The Famous Pianist
09:31The famous pianist, Dimitro Sedor,
09:33has been murdered by poison gas,
09:35and Mike, Phyllis, and the inspector
09:37have just completed a search of the dead man's studio apartment.
09:41Mike, I don't see how it could be murder.
09:43The door was locked from the inside,
09:45the same with the windows.
09:46Yeah, Dimitro Sedor was asphyxiated by poison gas.
09:49He did it himself.
09:50Fine, except for one thing.
09:52The poison gas must have been in some kind of a container.
09:55Well, where is it?
09:56We've checked the whole apartment.
09:58He didn't have anything stronger than aspirin.
10:00Okay, it was the work of a ghost
10:02who oozed through the keyhole,
10:03gave the guy chloroform,
10:04then trickled out under the windowsill.
10:06Maybe I can help you, inspector.
10:07Yes, Dr. Collins.
10:08I've just examined the man's throat.
10:10Oh.
10:11There's signs of cauterizing.
10:12Death was almost instantaneous.
10:14I'd say the gas was something like Jotite,
10:17supposedly a secret German product.
10:19Hmm?
10:20In the liquid of vapor.
10:21Yeah, uh-huh.
10:23That's a terrific help.
10:24Mike?
10:25Do you smell something?
10:26Huh?
10:27Smell what?
10:28Well, it's, uh...
10:29I'm almost sure it's perfume.
10:31A brand I know.
10:32Huh?
10:33It's very strong here by the piano,
10:34that little case.
10:35Hmm.
10:38Say, you're right.
10:39I don't remember smelling anything
10:41when we were in here before.
10:43Of course, we weren't paying attention.
10:45Well, it might mean that somebody came in after we left.
10:47But... but how?
10:48Dimitro said we were the first people in the studio today
10:51and that we'd be his last.
10:52And the door was locked from the inside,
10:54wasn't that right, Doctor?
10:55Hmm?
10:56Oh, yes, yes, that's right.
10:57Uh, Professor Gephardt and I had to break in.
10:59He lives right across the hall, you know.
11:00Mike, maybe you'd better double-check that with the professor.
11:02Yeah, we will, Angel.
11:03But first, here's something we overlooked.
11:06Letters.
11:08Where'd you find them?
11:09On top of that pile of sheet music.
11:11Hmm.
11:12Like we'd like, Bill.
11:13Advertisement.
11:14Uh-oh.
11:15Here we are.
11:16One of those death notes, Mike?
11:17Yeah.
11:18Let's see.
11:19Postmarked San Francisco, day before yesterday.
11:21Dimitro, this is your last warning.
11:24This week, you die.
11:27Hmm.
11:28Here, look it over, Inspector.
11:29Uh-huh.
11:31Written in green ink, unsigned.
11:33Sheet about the size of a woman's stationery.
11:35Is it?
11:36Let me see.
11:37Recognize the handwriting, Doctor?
11:40Uh, no.
11:41You, Eric?
11:42I don't think so.
11:44Phil.
11:45Look, Phyllis.
11:47What are you doing, dusting the apartment?
11:49Well, it certainly needs it.
11:51Dust and grit all over the top of that bookcase.
11:54Here, look at this letter.
11:56Would you say it's a woman's handwriting?
11:58It could be.
11:59It's small enough.
12:01The writing looks sort of crude, doesn't it?
12:03Yeah.
12:04Disguised.
12:05Maybe written with the left hand.
12:06Well, this is beginning to stack up.
12:08Perfume in the room.
12:09A threatening letter, written probably by a woman.
12:11Eric.
12:12Eric, did Dimitro have any special women friends?
12:15Well, you heard what he said.
12:16Maybe some women were in love with him, then it turned to hate.
12:18He said he was married to his music.
12:20It was true.
12:21But that's not an answer.
12:23Among the women, who was closest to him?
12:26Well, perhaps Rita.
12:29Was she in love with him?
12:31Well, was she, Eric?
12:34Okay.
12:35We'll find out for ourselves.
12:37Come on, Inspector.
12:49I'll be glad to answer your questions, gentlemen.
12:52Won't you sit down on my hassets?
12:54On your what?
12:55Hassets.
12:56My pillows.
12:57Oh.
12:58I don't believe in chairs.
12:59Rita, Miss Imodio, after Eric took us to dinner,
13:02which was about 5.45 p.m.,
13:04did you hear anything unusual in the studio next door?
13:06Not a thing.
13:07I was sitting here reading.
13:09I heard Dimitro playing Grieg's piano concerto.
13:11That was his favorite piece.
13:13And then, by and by, it sort of trailed off.
13:16That's probably when he was killed.
13:18But he had no callers.
13:19I would have heard them.
13:20You were quite a friend of Dimitro Sedor's, weren't you?
13:23Yes.
13:24He was a wonderful man.
13:26I can't imagine anyone killing him.
13:29Yes?
13:30I was just wondering.
13:32Could it be possible?
13:34Oh, no, it's foolish.
13:35Could what be possible?
13:36Well, it was at a cocktail party last week at the Raynor's.
13:39I remember something Dr. Classen said.
13:41He was talking of some method he knew to kill a man
13:45so there would be no clues.
13:46Go on.
13:47We're interested.
13:48Well, that's all I heard.
13:49Somebody came over to our group and took me away.
13:51Of course, the doctor may have said more.
13:53Of course.
13:54But coming back to the murder itself,
13:56Dr. Classen says Dimitro's door was locked from the inside,
14:00that he and Professor Gebhardt had to break in.
14:03Do you know if that's right?
14:04Yes, I heard the noise.
14:05I went out and watched them.
14:07Phil, would you mind making some notes over at Miss Amodio's desk?
14:13Oh, of course.
14:14It's a poor sort of desk, really.
14:16It's my make-up table.
14:17About Dr. Classen again, you made a point of talking about him.
14:20Have you any reason to suspect him?
14:22Well, the doctor fancies himself a composer.
14:25I suppose he did resent it when Dimitro wouldn't play any of his pieces.
14:29They were about as musical as the brains of a love-sick donkey.
14:32Did you ever hear them follow?
14:34Oh, constantly.
14:35But we all did.
14:36That's the spice of our existence.
14:38We live in all four dimensions at once.
14:40Mike.
14:41That is what you wanted.
14:42What did you find?
14:43One bottle of green ink, one bottle of perfume.
14:45What?
14:46Why, how dare you put those back?
14:47Phil, is it the same perfume we smelled in his studio?
14:49I'm sure of it.
14:50Plus a death note written in green ink.
14:52Miss Amodio, I'll have to ask you to...
14:54You will not.
14:55I won't be bullied.
14:56Rita.
14:57Rita, what's wrong?
14:58Doctor, these pickle-brained snoopers think I killed Dimitro.
15:01What about that clap-trap?
15:02Perfect clap-trap.
15:03Maybe.
15:04Miss Amodio, just where were you from 5.45 to 7 p.m. tonight?
15:07She was with me.
15:08We were having supper in my apartment.
15:10She was there when Dimitro telephoned you?
15:12Yes, she was.
15:13Doctor Claston.
15:14Didn't you tell us your apartment is at the other end of the hall?
15:18I did.
15:19Studio D.
15:20It's rather remarkable that Miss Amodio could have dinner with you
15:23at the same time she was sitting here listening to the piano concerto next door.
15:28Oh.
15:29Yes.
15:32May I talk to you outside, please?
15:34Yes, certainly.
15:39Now, this is very embarrassing.
15:42I did lie.
15:43For a moment, I suspected that Rita might be guilty.
15:47And you see, she's the woman I love.
15:50Then you didn't have dinner with her.
15:52No.
15:53All right.
15:54Now, strain your memory a little more, Doctor.
15:55A few days ago, you told some people you knew a way to kill a man
15:58so that it could never be traced.
16:00We're dying to hear that little secret.
16:01How did you know?
16:02From your dinner date.
16:03Little pal, Rita.
16:05Oh.
16:07Well, it was just an academic discussion.
16:09Professor Gebhardt and I were talking of various methods of murder, not just one.
16:13Oh, I could name 15 ways of killing a man without a trace.
16:17You're not going to accuse me of 15 murders.
16:19A neat answer without telling us anything.
16:22It is as I said.
16:23Okay.
16:24That's all for now.
16:25But don't leave this building.
16:29Well, I thought you were just about to land your fish
16:32and then you let him off the hook.
16:33Oh, no, we didn't.
16:35Let the two of them fry in their own fat awhile.
16:37Whatever they cook up will be our dish, not theirs.
16:40And while they're cooking it up, Mike,
16:42let's take a hard look at the much-talked-about Professor Gebhardt.
16:59Yes, gentlemen, it was most sad about the meatball.
17:03In such a strange death that the class and I were completely mystified.
17:07We wanted to talk to you, Professor.
17:09You stay very much to yourself, don't you?
17:11Yes.
17:12Yes, I am working on experiments.
17:14As you see, my apartment is also my laboratory.
17:17I will clear off the chair so you may sit.
17:19Gee, please, did you ever see such a jungle?
17:21Stuffed animals, glass, tubing, goosenecks, pots, kettles, office machines.
17:26Sit down.
17:28Professor Gebhardt, we'll come right to the point.
17:30First, do you know if Dimitri Sedor had any visitors tonight between 5.45 and about 6.10?
17:36No.
17:37No, I wouldn't have heard them.
17:38These walls are like tissue paper.
17:40Uh-huh.
17:41And now about Dr. Classen.
17:43We understand, Professor, that last week at a party
17:46he told you of some special way of killing a man without leaving a clue.
17:50Yes, I remember.
17:53Do you know what that method was, Professor?
17:55In part, it was some sort of gas.
17:58A gas?
17:59Yes, it was something he learned as a doctor, I suppose.
18:03Do you know what kind of gas?
18:05No.
18:06He uses my laboratory and experiments with his ideas,
18:09but he does not tell me everything.
18:11Oh.
18:12Do you know, Professor, if Rita Amodio was in love with Dimitri?
18:15In love?
18:17Well, in other words, she was?
18:20She is a lovely girl,
18:22but she was for Dimitri just a fly buzzing around.
18:26Dimitri was very cruel.
18:27Then perhaps she might have killed him.
18:29Rita?
18:30No, no, she could not.
18:32She was with me.
18:34With you?
18:35But the doctor?
18:36Yes, yes, yes.
18:37We had dinner here, the two of us.
18:39Dr. Classen tried to claim he had dinner with her.
18:43Now, don't tell us, Professor, that you're in love with her, too.
18:46Well, I am not ashamed.
18:48Mind if we take a little look around your laboratory?
18:50I would prefer not.
18:52I'm afraid we must, Professor.
18:53Well, tell me what you want.
18:55I do not like anyone to handle my apparatus.
18:57What are all these broken glass tubes?
18:59Please, gentlemen.
19:00Good heavens, what now?
19:02It's Rita.
19:03Come on.
19:08Rita, what is it?
19:09It's Eric.
19:11He's dying.
19:24In just a moment, we'll rejoin Mike and Phyllis in their adventures.
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20:55Mike, Phyllis, and the inspector
20:57are no nearer a solution to the murder of Dimitro.
21:00Rita's scream brought them to the hallway
21:02where they are trying to revive a very pale and limp young man,
21:05Eric Cullenworth.
21:07Eric, what happened to him?
21:09He's dying.
21:10Don't crowd him, folks. Give him air.
21:12I'm all right.
21:14Yes, you are.
21:15Your writer's death can hardly stand up.
21:17He staggered into my room and fell down.
21:19I knew he was dying.
21:21Just like Dimitro.
21:22Come on, son, come on. What happened to you?
21:24I don't know.
21:25Suddenly, I couldn't breathe.
21:27I strangled.
21:28See, it's just like Dimitro.
21:30Where did this happen?
21:31Well, I was just walking down the hall.
21:34You'd better lie down.
21:35Dr. Klassen can take care of you.
21:36No, no, I'm all right.
21:38I'm quite all right.
21:39I'll just sit down in here with Rita.
21:42Mike, this was just like Dimitro.
21:44There must be something deadly in this building.
21:46Phyllis, Inspector.
21:47What is it, Mike?
21:48Follow me. We've got to act fast.
21:50We've got to get back into that laboratory.
22:03Oh, jeepers. If the professor walks in here on us...
22:06Now, listen, listen.
22:08Just before Rita screamed,
22:09I asked the professor about some broken glass tubes and bottles.
22:12Yeah, Mike.
22:13Here they are on this bench.
22:14They look almost like electric light bulbs.
22:16Phil, Phil, back in Dimitro's studio,
22:19you said something about a lot of dust and grit.
22:21Yeah, yeah, on the bookcase.
22:23Was it like the grit on this bench here?
22:26Yes, it was.
22:28That's not grit, Angel.
22:29It's powdered glass.
22:31Does it mean something to you, Mike?
22:32I don't know yet, but there might be some connection.
22:35Hey, wait a minute.
22:36Honey, that cabinet you're leaning on,
22:38is it a phonograph?
22:39Yes.
22:40Has it got a record on it?
22:41Wait a minute.
22:42Wait a minute.
22:43It's...
22:45Why, it's Grieg's piano concerto.
22:47I'll bet that's it.
22:48All right, all right, kids.
22:49We're going to make an experiment.
22:51Honey, start that phonograph.
23:05All right, quiet, please.
23:07Is everybody here now?
23:08Rita, Eric, Dr. Classen, Professor Gabon?
23:11All right.
23:12Okay.
23:13Now, you probably wonder why we ask all of you into D'Amico's studio.
23:17Yes.
23:18During the course of our investigation,
23:19you've all come under suspicion for one reason or another.
23:23Now that we know who the murderer is,
23:26we think the innocent parties are entitled to a little explanation.
23:30You know the murderer?
23:31We do.
23:32Dr. Classen,
23:33you claim to know 15 ways to commit a successful murder.
23:37One of them, I believe, is poison gas.
23:40Am I right?
23:41Well, yes.
23:42In fact, a few days ago, Doctor,
23:44you concocted such a gas in Professor Gebhardt's laboratory
23:48and told about it at a cocktail party.
23:50Yes, but I...
23:51And you, Professor Gebhardt,
23:53in your laboratory,
23:54you experimented with very thin glass globes
23:58which shatter by musical vibrations.
24:01Is that correct, Professor?
24:03It was no secret.
24:04I demonstrated it to D'Amico several times.
24:06That was very unfortunate, Professor.
24:09The combination of experiments by you two gentlemen
24:11killed Dimitri Sedor and almost killed Eric.
24:14No.
24:15I have two of the professor's glass globes here in my hand.
24:20One I have filled with cigarette smoke,
24:22which we will pretend is poison gas.
24:25The other one contains water,
24:27which we will say is Rita's perfume.
24:29Now, look here.
24:30The perfume was used to cover up the smell of the poison gas.
24:36Now, I'll take these globes
24:38and tuck them behind this oil painting
24:40above the bookcase here, like so.
24:44This is fantastic.
24:45Okay.
24:46Okay, honey.
24:47Sit down at the piano and do your stuff.
24:49All right.
24:50Just the part we marked.
25:06Look.
25:07Look, there's water running down the wall.
25:09And the cigarette smoke.
25:10The globes broke.
25:11Yes.
25:12Yes, as Dimitri played his favorite piece,
25:14the Greek concerto,
25:15he unwittingly released the gas, which killed him.
25:18This is diabolical.
25:20But who could have done it?
25:22The door was locked from the inside,
25:24and the window...
25:25We know.
25:26We know.
25:27We know.
25:28We know.
25:29We know.
25:30We know.
25:31We know.
25:32We know.
25:33We know.
25:34We know.
25:35We know.
25:36We know, sir.
25:37We know.
25:38We know.
25:39We know, sir.
25:40We know, sir.
25:41We know that Dimitri was playing
25:42the Greek concerto
25:43when we first came to see him this evening.
25:45No gas had been released then.
25:47But...
25:48But when he played the concerto
25:50the next time after we left,
25:52he died.
25:53Now, you all get the significance of that?
25:55We leave a live pianist in his room.
25:57He locks the door.
25:59Half a dozen witnesses see
26:00the doctor and the professor
26:02break down the door.
26:03in the room while you were missing
26:04misnight were in the room correct
26:07and i didn't slip those glass globes behind the picture
26:10and i know that misnight didn't and that leaves mister eric colin with the
26:14senate saying
26:15those threatening letters to be true god i hired chain to protect the makers live
26:19the letters you wrote yourself
26:21and you had asked to give you an alibi
26:24you make sure we were with you when you part of the poison gas
26:28and that we were eating with you
26:30when dimitri died that's the story of the derrick
26:34yes sir
26:36yes it is
26:37just one thing we're in the dark about
26:39how did you get a dose of your own poison
26:43it's next to globes of the gas
26:46trying to get rid of them
26:48one of them dropped and broke
26:51everything went wrong
26:53everything yes eric
26:55yes in murder everything is wrong
26:58right from the first chapter
27:01well inspector
27:03i guess the last chapter
27:04is yours
27:23thank you
27:23what about club
27:25you realize for once we've solved the case and we're on our way home before
27:27midnight
27:28meaning
27:30and what's the matter with you
27:32is so quiet
27:33uh... i was just thinking
27:35disposed eric was in love with me to
27:38of course
27:39when eric thought he was dying
27:40where did he had four
27:42readers apartment
27:43that was his motive
27:45but it was in love with the meat
27:47eric figured his only chance with her was to get rid of the meat
27:50is one dumb trick was to use their perfume
27:53that almost put the handcuffs on his lady love
27:59three men in love with one woman
28:02i wonder
28:04what does she got that i haven't
28:09well now that shouldn't worry you
28:11what have you got that she hasn't
28:14you know the answer
28:18michael
28:42then again next week at eight o'clock for another adventure with michael
28:46shane private detective starring wally mayer and kathy lewis with joe forte as
28:51the inspector
28:53tonight's story was written by richard degrasse and based on the character
28:56created by brent halliday
28:58music was composed and directed by bernard katz
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