# The Saint: Sonata for a Slayer (EP4976)

An episode of [The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio| Daily Mystery Dramas](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/335549005), 18 May 2026, 33 min.

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Today's Mystery: A man asks Simon to investigate a case where a talented pianist's life is endangered by Beethoven, but then is murdered himself. Original Radio Broadcast Date: June 18, 1950 Originating from Hollywood Starring: Vincent Price as Simon Templar; Alice Frost; Fritz Feld; Tony Barrett; George Neise Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Patreon Supporter of the Day: BookGeek28, Patreon Supporter since December 2021 Support the show on a one-time basis at http://support.greatdetectives.net Mail a donation to: Adam Graham, PO Box 15913, Boise, Idaho 83715 Take the listener survey at http://survey.greatdetectives.net Give us a call at 208-991-4783 Follow us on Instagram at http://instagram.com/greatdetectives Follow us on Twitter @radiodetectives Join us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of Radio.

## Transcript

[0:28] Speaker 1: Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho.
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[1:10] Speaker 1: Great Detectives dot net. But here from June eighteenth, nineteen
[1:15] Speaker 1: fifty is Sonata for a Slayer.
[1:40] Speaker 2: The Adventures of the Saint, starring Vincent Price. The Saint,
[1:57] Speaker 2: based on character is created by Leslie Chatteris and none
[2:00] Speaker 2: to millions from books, magazines, and motion pictures. A robin
[2:04] Speaker 2: Hood of modern prime now comes to radio, starring Hollywood's
[2:08] Speaker 2: brilliant and talented actor Vincent Price as the Saints.
[2:25] Speaker 3: A proof that the language of music is a truly
[2:28] Speaker 3: universal one.
[2:29] Speaker 2: Mister Templar isn't.
[2:31] Speaker 3: The people gathered here there and the Gamwood from sings
[2:35] Speaker 3: to sing? Would you not agree?
[2:37] Speaker 4: I would indeed, mister Aftor won't you join me?
[2:41] Speaker 3: Accept with pleasure?
[2:43] Speaker 4: Then you know me, mister Temple. And if you promise
[2:45] Speaker 4: to keep the deep dark secret out, confess that I
[2:48] Speaker 4: have bought tickets to Karnegie Hall from time to piano
[2:52] Speaker 4: count it mostly and those performed by Laurett Opdor primarily.
[2:56] Speaker 2: Ah.
[2:57] Speaker 3: That is a pleasing compliment, mister Templar.
[2:59] Speaker 4: And annimal how I'd recognize the famous concert pianist like Lauretta.
[3:04] Speaker 2: Hack you, but the reverse is rather puzzling.
[3:07] Speaker 3: And then if you will keep the deep dug it's written,
[3:11] Speaker 3: I shall confess. You were pointed out to me by
[3:14] Speaker 3: a newspaper reporter seated at my table.
[3:17] Speaker 4: Explained half the compliment. But why did you come to
[3:20] Speaker 4: my table?
[3:21] Speaker 3: Why did you come here to this nightclub called the
[3:24] Speaker 3: Bird Kid, mister.
[3:25] Speaker 4: Findler, Well, I could say because it reminds one of
[3:28] Speaker 4: the Black Hole of Calcutta, But the real reason was
[3:32] Speaker 4: to hear the piano music of Johnny Crock.
[3:34] Speaker 3: Yes, precisely, as did I.
[3:38] Speaker 4: Dixie Land hepcat receiving recognition from a Carnegie Hall master.
[3:42] Speaker 3: Johnny Crawford was one my pupil, mister Templar. Oh, he
[3:46] Speaker 3: had a magnicity technical grasp of classical music, but no
[3:50] Speaker 3: artistic souls. He was a greatest appointment to me. Nevertheless,
[3:55] Speaker 3: I do not wish to see Johnny Crawford's this. That
[3:58] Speaker 3: is why I have come to you.
[4:00] Speaker 4: So now, that's rather ma Carb attached to an otherwise
[4:02] Speaker 4: lighthearted evening. Murder is always macab and mister Templar, so
[4:06] Speaker 4: it's to be death by violence, it is, and I
[4:09] Speaker 4: shall tell you a great deal more about it at
[4:11] Speaker 4: my home tomorrow morning.
[4:12] Speaker 3: Mister Templar, six thirty seven, receiver a drugs. I'm certain
[4:16] Speaker 3: that you will be kind enough to be there.
[4:18] Speaker 4: That's the kind of certainty that causes horse players to
[4:21] Speaker 4: go broke. Mister Afton.
[4:22] Speaker 3: Then let us say I'm playing a longshot, and I'm
[4:25] Speaker 3: betting that among the saints and singers present years, you
[4:28] Speaker 3: are numbered among the form one question, Yes, could you
[4:33] Speaker 3: give me any idea to why someone should desire to remove?
[4:36] Speaker 4: Therefore, sir Johnny Crawford's from the ranks of the living.
[4:38] Speaker 3: Oh, I can do better than That's mister Templar, I
[4:41] Speaker 3: can give you the name of the person who will
[4:43] Speaker 3: be responsible. And that person a musical composer who has
[4:48] Speaker 3: been dead for over a hundred years, Ludwig van Beethoven.
[5:09] Speaker 5: Yes, well, should I say thank you or slap your face?
[5:14] Speaker 4: What do you think ms?
[5:15] Speaker 6: Slaps have it?
[5:17] Speaker 5: What could I do for you?
[5:18] Speaker 4: You must be kidding.
[5:20] Speaker 5: And if you're here to see mister Astall, you must
[5:22] Speaker 5: be signing Templar guilty. And you Nicky Clark, mister OPTAs secretary,
[5:27] Speaker 5: Nickey Clark, Well won't you lope in?
[5:31] Speaker 4: Mister Templar, Oh, thanks, I could hardly refuse such an
[5:34] Speaker 4: enthusiastic incertation. Well, well, rockmandingough prey luding the shops? Is
[5:42] Speaker 4: that the master playing?
[5:44] Speaker 5: It's not Jimmy Duranty. The music rooms at the far
[5:47] Speaker 5: end of the foyer, mister Optall is expecting you come
[5:50] Speaker 5: with me.
[5:50] Speaker 4: Thanks, I'll take advantage gentification. Acknowledge what stay behind me
[6:00] Speaker 4: and let me find.
[6:01] Speaker 5: Out first, mister Templary, that was.
[6:07] Speaker 4: No prelude in these sharp being played in here, Mickey,
[6:11] Speaker 4: it was a prelude to murder.
[6:13] Speaker 5: To murder.
[6:14] Speaker 4: Where do those French doors lead.
[6:15] Speaker 5: To to the terrace?
[6:17] Speaker 4: Why see if it isn't too late to help miss
[6:20] Speaker 4: dropt her while I well, it's nasty weather out anyway.
[6:29] Speaker 5: Aren't you going after him?
[6:30] Speaker 4: My halo wouldn't look too well on top of a shroud.
[6:32] Speaker 4: Where's the nearest telephone?
[6:34] Speaker 5: Telephone?
[6:35] Speaker 4: I know this comes as a great surprise, Mickey, but
[6:37] Speaker 4: the police are rather fussy about these things.
[6:39] Speaker 5: Oh, yes, of course the telephone's right up. He's not dead.
[6:46] Speaker 5: He's trying to play something. He's trying to.
[6:52] Speaker 4: Actor. It's Simon Templar, who shut you? Do you know
[6:55] Speaker 4: who shot you?
[6:59] Speaker 5: Talk?
[7:00] Speaker 4: But he's trying to play opto Can you hear me?
[7:03] Speaker 4: It's Temple who shot your man? Who?
[7:09] Speaker 1: It's a Templer?
[7:11] Speaker 4: He is nicky this time, it's for sure.
[7:16] Speaker 5: What was he trying to say? Is he died justin murder?
[7:20] Speaker 4: One thing I've learned in this drab, weary life, my dear,
[7:22] Speaker 4: is never the second guess a dead man. Hey, what's
[7:26] Speaker 4: this caught under the music rack? It looks like a
[7:30] Speaker 4: couple of tying bits of paper You thereby when you're
[7:33] Speaker 4: a for a cub and Mickey.
[7:34] Speaker 5: Well, I recognize at top of miss Templar personal notepaper
[7:38] Speaker 5: used by mister Optall.
[7:40] Speaker 4: Who is Paul Paul?
[7:42] Speaker 5: Oh, paula Gage, mister Odo's concert manager.
[7:46] Speaker 4: Why the name Paul is the only written word left
[7:49] Speaker 4: on the page. We might have a slightly better lead
[7:53] Speaker 4: on his second bit of proach.
[7:55] Speaker 5: Well, it's part of a music man.
[7:56] Speaker 4: Is yeah, and an old one too, judging by the
[7:59] Speaker 4: condition of the paper and the signature attached there too.
[8:02] Speaker 4: Ludvig van Beethoven Beto MM, the popular tune smith who
[8:06] Speaker 4: left this mortal cloak one hundred years ago? Do you
[8:09] Speaker 4: think it's possible that the old boy came back?
[8:12] Speaker 3: Oh?
[8:23] Speaker 4: You sure you want to come along with me on
[8:25] Speaker 4: this little joint.
[8:25] Speaker 5: Mickey Laurence Aupdahl was a swell boss and a wonderful guy.
[8:30] Speaker 5: There is anything I can do to help you get
[8:31] Speaker 5: the man who killed him.
[8:32] Speaker 3: I'm going to do it.
[8:32] Speaker 4: And all the time I thought it was my personality
[8:35] Speaker 4: that intrigued him. Well, let's hope I am not as
[8:38] Speaker 4: disappointed by a mister Opto's concert manager, Paul the Gage.
[8:50] Speaker 4: I still can't believe it.
[8:54] Speaker 7: Mister Templar, Laurence Aupto dead murdered? Oh why would anyone
[9:00] Speaker 7: want a murder?
[9:01] Speaker 4: My doctor that was going to be my question, mister Gage,
[9:04] Speaker 4: you don't suppose it was because he was going to
[9:06] Speaker 4: tell me who wanted to marry Johnny Crawford, do you
[9:09] Speaker 4: Johnny Crawford? Yeah, who is he? No, you obviously don't
[9:15] Speaker 4: suppose any other suggestions. I'm starting.
[9:18] Speaker 7: It's a templar, but I'm so stunned by this news.
[9:21] Speaker 7: Ladys was going to play for me this very evening.
[9:23] Speaker 5: And I'm not aware that mister Aptahl had a concert date.
[9:26] Speaker 7: For this evening, mister be game, or it wasn't a
[9:28] Speaker 7: concert engagement, Miss Clark.
[9:30] Speaker 4: By a stroke of.
[9:31] Speaker 7: Good fortune, I come into possession of an original musical
[9:34] Speaker 7: manuscript of Beethoven's Piano Vanosa, and.
[9:37] Speaker 4: Lady, would you say Beethoven?
[9:40] Speaker 7: Yes, it's it's an original that's never been published. It
[9:44] Speaker 7: was known to exist, but with last and roup do
[9:45] Speaker 7: they published in eighteen twenty four and it never turned
[9:48] Speaker 7: up again until just recently.
[9:50] Speaker 5: I must be where the fortune, Missy the gauge.
[9:52] Speaker 4: Well, it is quite valuable.
[9:53] Speaker 7: Yes, I'm going to offer it for sale to a
[9:55] Speaker 7: small group of collectors and caught an out of the evening.
[9:58] Speaker 4: Lawrets had agreed to play it for me. But you
[10:01] Speaker 4: wouldn't happen to have this manuscript here? Would you for it? Yes,
[10:06] Speaker 4: it's in my stay. Do you mind if we take
[10:07] Speaker 4: a look at it.
[10:08] Speaker 7: Well, of course I'll have it for you in Dustinal
[10:11] Speaker 7: say the remarkable.
[10:12] Speaker 4: Document seems to know question it to its authenticity, and
[10:17] Speaker 4: that always helped. How did you happen to get hold
[10:19] Speaker 4: of it?
[10:20] Speaker 7: A refugee from Vienna brought it to this country some
[10:22] Speaker 7: years ago, just discovered it among some more family positions
[10:25] Speaker 7: he brought along with him.
[10:26] Speaker 4: I don't know how it got there. I'm selling it
[10:29] Speaker 4: for him. There you go a please handle it carefully,
[10:33] Speaker 4: mister Templer, quite old and fad yours would probably care
[10:36] Speaker 4: quite easily. That wouldn't be an apology for the fact
[10:38] Speaker 4: that it's torn right now?
[10:39] Speaker 7: When it's gone, why, I'm not certainly I.
[10:42] Speaker 4: Understand the missing signature should supply the missing meaning missing signatures?
[10:47] Speaker 4: You mean that? Oh?
[10:48] Speaker 3: Good heavens.
[10:52] Speaker 4: Well, you really had me worried for a moment, mister Templar.
[10:55] Speaker 4: But as you can see, this manuscript is in perfect condition.
[11:00] Speaker 4: There's the original signature Loodwig Beethoven.
[11:04] Speaker 3: He's right on.
[11:06] Speaker 4: Exactly what I was going to say. Nikki, thanks for
[11:08] Speaker 4: your trouble, mister the Gage. Sorry I bothered you.
[11:11] Speaker 7: Not a question of bothering me, mister Keimpler, I'm I'm
[11:14] Speaker 7: merely puzzled. I don't understand what a Betos.
[11:17] Speaker 4: Manuscript might have to do with the murderer. Lord it up,
[11:20] Speaker 4: and that's the reason I'm sorry. I bothered you, mister
[11:23] Speaker 4: the Gauge. Now neither of I.
[11:36] Speaker 5: Oh, thanks Heaven, the police are gone. I don't think
[11:39] Speaker 5: I could have returned here, dropped all this.
[11:42] Speaker 4: I'm not too happy about homicidal surroundings myself.
[11:44] Speaker 5: Mickey, Well, then why I come back at all?
[11:46] Speaker 4: I find myself with an ungovernable impulse to indulge in
[11:50] Speaker 4: musical composition, and I more of that later. Nikki, it
[11:54] Speaker 4: would appear we have an unexpected eavesdropper, unexpect Oh oh,
[11:59] Speaker 4: don't start up if you don't mind. I just assume
[12:02] Speaker 4: the farther away I am from lethal weapons, the better
[12:04] Speaker 4: I like it.
[12:05] Speaker 5: That is a gun in his hand.
[12:08] Speaker 4: Genius automatic pistol species caliber forty five.
[12:11] Speaker 8: That's very scientific, chump, Well you better hand over that paper.
[12:15] Speaker 8: Don't play coy chum the paper You took him up
[12:18] Speaker 8: to those music?
[12:19] Speaker 4: Oh that I'm sorry but I'm saving autographs. Never had
[12:21] Speaker 4: one of Beethoven's before?
[12:23] Speaker 8: Bet you never had your tummy blasted by a forty
[12:26] Speaker 8: five slug before?
[12:27] Speaker 4: A true true? I think I better take that jum.
[12:37] Speaker 4: You killed him? Shut up?
[12:38] Speaker 7: He said you killed him?
[12:40] Speaker 4: You kill me? Said he shut up? Did I stand back?
[12:43] Speaker 4: When I look at that paper?
[12:45] Speaker 8: Should be somewhord Yeah, inside pucket, Thanks chump.
[12:52] Speaker 5: Pretty braved with a gun, aren't you?
[12:55] Speaker 4: Yeah?
[12:56] Speaker 8: I retired in the music business. From where I sit,
[12:59] Speaker 8: it don't look too well. Be Hello, baby.
[13:11] Speaker 5: Son, Simon, Please answer me? Are you all right? An
[13:16] Speaker 5: you please?
[13:17] Speaker 4: I must speak to my barber about this.
[13:20] Speaker 5: Simon.
[13:21] Speaker 4: Somehow the patting and massage I get after a shave
[13:23] Speaker 4: doesn't give me anything like the sensation i'm getting now.
[13:28] Speaker 5: You're all right?
[13:29] Speaker 4: Well, I will be when the boy's operating the trip
[13:31] Speaker 4: hammers on my skull knock off at five o'clock.
[13:34] Speaker 5: Why didn't you let me know? Why did you lie
[13:36] Speaker 5: there playing possum like that?
[13:38] Speaker 4: I doubt that a possum would appreciate the lovely picture
[13:41] Speaker 4: you made as you bent over me. But as for me, well,
[13:44] Speaker 4: I was in no hurry to wake up. What happened
[13:48] Speaker 4: to chum.
[13:49] Speaker 5: He departed with your prize autographs after creasing your skull
[13:53] Speaker 5: with a bullet and threatening me with the same.
[13:55] Speaker 4: Lovable soul, isn't he? My only consolation is that his
[13:58] Speaker 4: aim is far worse than even intentions.
[14:01] Speaker 5: Simon, for pizza, come across. So far, I don't understand
[14:04] Speaker 5: a thing.
[14:05] Speaker 4: Which puts us boat in the same boat. And speaking
[14:07] Speaker 4: of boats, come along, Mickey, we've got an appointment with one.
[14:11] Speaker 5: How nice? Any particular kind?
[14:13] Speaker 4: Oh yeah, a very particular kind of fairy boat that's
[14:15] Speaker 4: going to take us across the bet of Coronado.
[14:34] Speaker 5: Simon, this is the fairy boat is.
[14:36] Speaker 3: Like a ghost ship.
[14:37] Speaker 4: Oh now, don't tell me that a little fog is
[14:39] Speaker 4: getting you down, nicky.
[14:41] Speaker 3: H little fog.
[14:42] Speaker 5: It's so thick we can't even see the rail from here.
[14:45] Speaker 5: Why are you so insistent on getting over to Coronada
[14:47] Speaker 5: to night?
[14:48] Speaker 4: All the gauge is selling a Beethoven manuscript to a
[14:50] Speaker 4: bunch of collectors. They remember one of my more famous
[14:53] Speaker 4: punches tells me that among those peasants should be a
[14:56] Speaker 4: guy for whom capital punishment was.
[14:58] Speaker 5: Invented better than the two hunters you had on that torn.
[15:02] Speaker 4: MANUSCRIPTA what Is it time the lounge be here? Eh? Yes, right,
[15:11] Speaker 4: it should be if Piannist is a former pupil of
[15:13] Speaker 4: the Lara top Dog now holding forward for the dingy
[15:17] Speaker 4: dive called the bird Cage Diamond.
[15:22] Speaker 5: You mean Johnny Crawford.
[15:23] Speaker 4: And if it isn't, he should sue for plagiarism. That's
[15:26] Speaker 4: his personal theme song. Johnny Crawford A board. This very bold.
[15:31] Speaker 5: Now, why would he be going to Coronado?
[15:34] Speaker 4: That's a good question, Nikki. Suppose we asked Johnny for
[15:36] Speaker 4: the answer the order the lounge should be somewhere over here.
[15:41] Speaker 5: Maybe it is, but it looks like you have to
[15:43] Speaker 5: navigate by radar find it.
[15:46] Speaker 4: Somebody's coming out on deck. Now I would have to
[15:49] Speaker 4: do it. I'm done. Everything's going to be okay. I
[15:51] Speaker 4: hope you're right, Jensen.
[15:53] Speaker 6: I've got the creeps for fair.
[15:54] Speaker 4: Never mind it. We won't get excited. We've got the signature.
[15:58] Speaker 4: We know the difference. Now I know it, Jensen. Maybe
[16:02] Speaker 4: someone else does too.
[16:03] Speaker 2: Oh forget it, Johnny, I'll make you the bird kidding
[16:06] Speaker 2: what it's all over?
[16:07] Speaker 4: A bird cage?
[16:09] Speaker 6: Johnny Crawford at the bird cage?
[16:11] Speaker 4: What are you kicking about? It's a living in it
[16:13] Speaker 4: for sure, but you so will all be in a
[16:15] Speaker 4: heavy sugar.
[16:15] Speaker 5: I just you wait, gone, Son, hidden in the fog?
[16:22] Speaker 5: Who were they?
[16:23] Speaker 4: Didn't you recognize one of the voices? It was the
[16:27] Speaker 4: friendly one who tried to part my hair with a
[16:29] Speaker 4: forty five? What was it all about? That's the second
[16:33] Speaker 4: question I have to ask. Crawford. You wait here, Mickey,
[16:36] Speaker 4: Hobby right back.
[16:37] Speaker 3: Simon, you can't gone.
[16:39] Speaker 4: Oh, don't worry about that. I'll keep my fingers crossing
[16:42] Speaker 4: Cobby seeing there is Simon.
[16:43] Speaker 5: I can't stay here alone. I'm allergic to pog Oh
[16:46] Speaker 5: you crazy for I can't even see you. So Simon, Son,
[16:53] Speaker 5: what was that?
[16:54] Speaker 3: What happened?
[16:56] Speaker 4: Simon?
[16:57] Speaker 2: Oh?
[16:58] Speaker 4: No, Silon, I haven't anything, frankly, no, I'm dance my headaches.
[17:28] Speaker 4: I've swallowed liberal quantities of sea water, which I found
[17:32] Speaker 4: much too salty. And I have a terrific y end
[17:34] Speaker 4: to play the piano.
[17:35] Speaker 6: To play.
[17:36] Speaker 4: Oh no, not nicky, my dear. Any psychiatrist will warn
[17:40] Speaker 4: you of the dangers of inhibiting a creative verge. I
[17:44] Speaker 4: think I'd better get into that lounge and get this
[17:46] Speaker 4: one out of my system. Me children make a grave mistake.
[18:08] Speaker 4: Mickey by not paying attention to music lessons. Now, if
[18:11] Speaker 4: i'd only listened to Professor Heinrich Wertzow.
[18:14] Speaker 5: If you'd only listen to me, Jensen or Crawford, whoever
[18:17] Speaker 5: it was, wouldn't have hit you on the head, and
[18:19] Speaker 5: you'd be rational now rather than non compassmentedg.
[18:22] Speaker 4: Or you shouldn't speak so harshly of whoever it was,
[18:25] Speaker 4: Nicky when he tossed me into the briny. For some reason,
[18:27] Speaker 4: I thought of music, piano music, and I think I've
[18:30] Speaker 4: got something I could only find the right I think you.
[18:38] Speaker 5: Should try to find that psychiatrist you mentioned earlier. More
[18:41] Speaker 5: attention to your noodle and less to noodley my result.
[18:44] Speaker 4: Micky, you've jumped to a big, fat and incorrect conclusion.
[18:49] Speaker 4: Listen to this.
[18:54] Speaker 5: Hardly what i'd call a musical two or four.
[18:56] Speaker 4: Nicky, you're not listening. I'll give you one more chance.
[19:02] Speaker 4: There sounds for you.
[19:03] Speaker 5: To you not in the least. But then I didn't
[19:06] Speaker 5: take lessons with Professor Heinrich Wisdom, which might attunt for that.
[19:11] Speaker 5: Wait a minute, that phrase, she isn't definitely lot ofto
[19:16] Speaker 5: to all played justify dime.
[19:17] Speaker 4: You see, you should have studied under Professor Wertzel, he
[19:20] Speaker 4: would have given you a hundred in musical identifications.
[19:23] Speaker 5: No, you're not trying to tell me that that little
[19:25] Speaker 5: musical phrase means something.
[19:27] Speaker 4: Simon, I've seen being coronat at six. Yeah, that should
[19:31] Speaker 4: give me about two hours to prove its meaning. To you.
[19:34] Speaker 5: It sounds like a rather complicated procedure.
[19:36] Speaker 4: Or the procedure itself will be simple, but first I
[19:38] Speaker 4: have to clutter it up with a call to Lieutenant's
[19:40] Speaker 4: Flann again and a little visit to the public library.
[19:57] Speaker 5: I can only say, Simon, that I trust to pass
[19:59] Speaker 5: our and a half in that library was more entertaining
[20:02] Speaker 5: to you than it was to me.
[20:03] Speaker 4: Oh it was, NICKI it was. You'd be surprised at
[20:05] Speaker 4: the amount of interesting information one can garner in the library.
[20:08] Speaker 5: Maybe I wouldn't be so surprised if you'd share some
[20:11] Speaker 5: of it with me.
[20:12] Speaker 4: Well, I learned a very interesting tidbit that Ludwig van
[20:15] Speaker 4: Beethoven lived from seventeen seventy to eighteen twenty seven, that
[20:20] Speaker 4: he wrote nine symphonies amazing, that he had a sketch
[20:23] Speaker 4: book containing a mass in C sharp, a piano sonata,
[20:26] Speaker 4: a few goune Bach and if that's all.
[20:29] Speaker 5: You can tell me about an hour and a half
[20:30] Speaker 5: a wasted.
[20:31] Speaker 4: Time, will not quite I could mention the fact that
[20:34] Speaker 4: one of the more incorrect books on Beethoven was written
[20:37] Speaker 4: by a John Masefield Crawford.
[20:39] Speaker 5: What difference is it make who wrote it? Oh, John
[20:43] Speaker 5: mayfiel crofton? Could that be our Johnny Crawford? By any check?
[20:49] Speaker 5: Could be an authority on theo.
[20:52] Speaker 4: A poor one, but an authority. So what of this?
[20:56] Speaker 4: We're going to make a bit on a Beethoven manuscript
[20:58] Speaker 4: and don't be too surprised as if we win it,
[21:01] Speaker 4: and a murderer as well. To begin, you couldn't answer
[21:18] Speaker 4: better timing from a metronome.
[21:21] Speaker 7: Quiet, reason, Quiet, This was to be a very happy occasion, gentleman,
[21:26] Speaker 7: as you all know. But we were to present here
[21:28] Speaker 7: tonight in the original, authentic and pisitive unknown manuscript of
[21:32] Speaker 7: a piano Snopa by Faith Roven in honor of the occasion,
[21:36] Speaker 7: I prevailed by my dear friend Laury.
[21:38] Speaker 4: It's up to to be the first to play the scenopa.
[21:41] Speaker 7: Unfortunately, as most of you now know, he has met
[21:44] Speaker 7: with the tragic against. In deference to lardest memory, I
[21:48] Speaker 7: have not thought another pianist the substitute for him. I
[21:51] Speaker 7: am certain you all share my feelings, and so.
[21:54] Speaker 4: I'd be very happy to play this tonatipor you, mister
[21:57] Speaker 4: the Gage.
[21:58] Speaker 6: Are you crazy?
[22:00] Speaker 7: I'm not certain I quite understand the meaning of this
[22:02] Speaker 7: Interruptionist Temple.
[22:03] Speaker 4: I wouldn't let that botany missed the gauge. Now as
[22:06] Speaker 4: soon as I reached that piano.
[22:09] Speaker 6: M h.
[22:13] Speaker 4: Well, really, mister Templer, It's quite simple, mister de Gauge.
[22:17] Speaker 4: I'm going to substitute for Lawrence optor you. Well, I
[22:20] Speaker 4: didn't know that you were a pianist. Temple, sure one
[22:23] Speaker 4: of the best. Listen to this, mister Temple.
[22:30] Speaker 7: There can only be two explanations for this this out
[22:32] Speaker 7: greatest accent on your part.
[22:34] Speaker 4: You're either drunk or mad.
[22:35] Speaker 7: I shall have to ask you to leave this all
[22:37] Speaker 7: at once.
[22:37] Speaker 4: Now, surely, mister Degage, you wouldn't want me to leave
[22:39] Speaker 4: so soon, not before I've told these gentlemen that Beethoven
[22:42] Speaker 4: never wrote the music on that manuscript you have for sale.
[22:45] Speaker 4: Beethoven never wrote manuscript is a fake. No such Pianos
[22:49] Speaker 4: Sonata was ever written by Beethoven or lost on its
[22:51] Speaker 4: way to the publish it.
[22:53] Speaker 7: The record of that snota is in Beethoven's own sketch.
[22:56] Speaker 4: I'll admit that a piano sonata is noted in the sketchbook. Yes,
[22:59] Speaker 4: but if the person who forged this manuscript had looked
[23:02] Speaker 4: far enough, he'd have learned that the original was written
[23:04] Speaker 4: for four hands as a duet, not for two. I
[23:08] Speaker 4: believe this manuscript is a forgery written by our former
[23:12] Speaker 4: so called expert named Johnny Crawford. What if this is so?
[23:16] Speaker 8: Is it?
[23:17] Speaker 4: Do you have any proof? Mister Templer Laurenzopdov's death is
[23:19] Speaker 4: proof enough. He discovered the forgery, but then he made
[23:23] Speaker 4: a grave mistake. He thought Crawford's life would be in
[23:25] Speaker 4: danger to prevent the knowledge from coming out, But it
[23:28] Speaker 4: was his own life that was taken sin. Then it
[23:31] Speaker 4: was Crawford killed him. OPTU told me who killed him?
[23:34] Speaker 4: Mister d gage Ottum. He couldn't talk, but he could play,
[23:39] Speaker 4: and he played six notes. These notes. Those notes fell
[23:47] Speaker 4: the name of the murderer, a name that will be
[23:49] Speaker 4: verified by his accomplices when they're picked up by the police.
[23:52] Speaker 4: For the edification of those who never studied under Professor
[23:55] Speaker 4: Heinrich Wodzill, the notes you have a hang it on me,
[24:02] Speaker 4: such alding the game foxibility. Now what was that you
[24:12] Speaker 4: were saying, mister the Gage, I'm to think of her,
[24:18] Speaker 4: so he is. And look at the time, just eight o'clock.
[24:21] Speaker 4: I told you you'd have your answer for two hours
[24:23] Speaker 4: for night.
[24:36] Speaker 5: Then the whole idea was the Gauges from the start,
[24:39] Speaker 5: and Johnny Crawford and Jensen were working for him.
[24:42] Speaker 4: Nicky, why don't you stop your intellect from taking over
[24:46] Speaker 4: for your emotions, sion.
[24:49] Speaker 5: Then Crawford must have forged the manuscript. He was a
[24:52] Speaker 5: good enough pianist and a semi authority on Beethoven to
[24:55] Speaker 5: do it. But how did mister Aptal come into it?
[24:58] Speaker 4: You know they say that both rides are wonderful therapy
[25:02] Speaker 4: in cases of inhibited romance.
[25:06] Speaker 5: Of course Crawford was his pupil. How bet he got
[25:10] Speaker 5: cold seat and showed mister Opdall a copy of the manuscript,
[25:13] Speaker 5: and mister the Gauge got wind of it, killed mister
[25:16] Speaker 5: Updall and made off of the copies. The only part
[25:18] Speaker 5: of it was torn off of the music.
[25:20] Speaker 4: Rack. Uh, this blessed fog, it makes everything so warm
[25:24] Speaker 4: and cold.
[25:26] Speaker 5: It must have been the idea of a second manuscript
[25:29] Speaker 5: that tipped you off. Huh, particularly when Jensen was so
[25:33] Speaker 5: anxious to get the torn signature.
[25:36] Speaker 4: I wonder if you'd still feel like slapping my face.
[25:39] Speaker 5: And of course I finally got what you meant about
[25:44] Speaker 5: those six notes, mister updaph played. They were the gauge spellings,
[25:51] Speaker 5: the gauge nicky.
[25:54] Speaker 4: When are you going to stop being logical? Oh son?
[26:00] Speaker 2: Right now, you have been listening to another adventure of
[26:19] Speaker 2: the Saints, the robin Hood of modern Crimes, And now
[26:24] Speaker 2: here is our star Vincent Price, Ladies and gentlemen, One
[26:28] Speaker 2: of the four Horsemen is still riding across Europe, scarring
[26:32] Speaker 2: the bodies and spirits of millions with brutal whos.
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[27:45] Speaker 4: This is Vincent Price inviting you to join us again
[27:48] Speaker 4: next week at this same time for another exciting adventure
[27:51] Speaker 4: of the Saint. Good Night.
[28:11] Speaker 2: Tonight's script of The Saint was written by Sydney Marshall.
[28:15] Speaker 2: Our cast included Alice Frost, Fritz Feld, Ted Osborne, Tony
[28:19] Speaker 2: Barrett and George Needs. The music was composed and conducted
[28:23] Speaker 2: by Von Dexter. The Saint, based on characters created by
[28:27] Speaker 2: Leslie chatteris as a James L. Safier production and is
[28:31] Speaker 2: directed by Helen mac Vincent Price is soon to be
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[29:24] Speaker 1: Welcome Back. An enjoyable episode, and one thing I did
[29:29] Speaker 1: like was the dying clue. And what I liked is
[29:33] Speaker 1: that there was actually some logic to it. You know,
[29:37] Speaker 1: when you get into this whole idea that you have
[29:40] Speaker 1: in classic mysteries about dying clues, the thing that usually
[29:46] Speaker 1: makes the most sense is when it turns out they
[29:49] Speaker 1: were faked by the killer, because what it ends up
[29:53] Speaker 1: meaning otherwise is that as their lifeblood was ebbing out
[29:58] Speaker 1: and they were passing from this world, they came up
[30:02] Speaker 1: and constructed this elaborate puzzle that's very involved and difficult
[30:09] Speaker 1: and unlikely to be solved. Here, it makes perfect sense.
[30:16] Speaker 1: The man who's dying knows that the Saint is there.
[30:20] Speaker 1: Because of the shot, he is unable to speak or
[30:24] Speaker 1: find the strength to form words, but he is a
[30:29] Speaker 1: musician and can still play these simple notes, which he
[30:33] Speaker 1: then does, and it makes sense. I totally buy that
[30:38] Speaker 1: as a dying clue. One thing that is kind of
[30:42] Speaker 1: interesting here is Alice Frost featuring in the Cask. Vencent
[30:47] Speaker 1: Price lived in Hollywood, and that's where the Saint originated.
[30:52] Speaker 1: So I wonder if Alice Frost had some project that
[30:58] Speaker 1: took her to Hollywood for a while. Of course, she
[31:02] Speaker 1: was still playing Missus North on the radio, and probably
[31:06] Speaker 1: Missus North could have sold this even faster than The Saint.
[31:10] Speaker 1: All right, Well, now it's time to thank our Patreon
[31:14] Speaker 1: supporter of the day, and I want to go ahead
[31:17] Speaker 1: and think book Geek twenty eight Patreon supporter since December
[31:21] Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, currently supporting the podcast at the shawmus
[31:25] Speaker 1: level of four dollars or more per month. Thanks so
[31:27] Speaker 1: much for your support, book Geek twenty eight, and we
[31:31] Speaker 1: will be back next Monday with another episode of The Saint.
[31:36] Speaker 1: But join us back here tomorrow for the big story where.
[31:42] Speaker 6: He's been playing me all day about him who is him?
[31:46] Speaker 6: Missus wil hired hands Chuck Snyders. My husband had a
[31:50] Speaker 6: silly idea that Chuck and I were too friendly. That's
[31:54] Speaker 6: why fired. He stopped off at Ross's Bars for beer.
[32:00] Speaker 6: Always calms him down. Today he got worse. You went
[32:03] Speaker 6: directly home from there, that's right, and I went to bed.
[32:06] Speaker 6: What about your kids? They were all right, They were
[32:09] Speaker 6: sleep when we got home. I wasn't sleeping more half
[32:13] Speaker 6: an hour when I woke up. Suddenly there he was standing,
[32:17] Speaker 6: all dressed with a gun in his hand. I screamed
[32:21] Speaker 6: and ran. He fired at me and missed. I ran
[32:25] Speaker 6: outside into the fields, and then I heard some more shots.
[32:28] Speaker 6: I ran back, didn't see him, so I ran to
[32:31] Speaker 6: the kid's room and I saw Linda was shot. I
[32:36] Speaker 6: grabbed her and ran for the car. Go as fast
[32:38] Speaker 6: as I could at the hospital because.
[32:39] Speaker 4: She was just up to your boy Paul.
[32:41] Speaker 8: Weren't you worried about him too?
[32:44] Speaker 6: He loved Paul more than anything. I didn't believe he
[32:46] Speaker 6: would ever hurt him.
[32:49] Speaker 3: He killed my boy. O.
[32:51] Speaker 1: You'll be with us then in the meantime. Send your
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[33:09] Speaker 1: your host, Adam Graham, sign and all

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