# The Saint: It's Snow Use (EP5046)

An episode of [The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio| Daily Mystery Dramas](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/335549005), 24 Aug 2026, 35 min.

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Today’s Mystery: Simon Templar travels to a winter resort after being summoned by Peggy, a lively woman whose unusual request for protection involves asking the Saint to pose as her husband. Her tangled romantic history soon draws Simon into an increasingly peculiar mystery, where people—and even a snowman—have a habit of disappearing. Original Radio Broadcast Date: October 29, 1950 Originating from Hollywood Cast: • Vincent Price as Simon Templar, The Saint • Script by Louis Vittes • Based on characters created by Leslie Charteris Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Patreon Supporter of the Day: Pat, Patreon supporter since February 2024. 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…http://survey.greatdetectives.net Give us a call 208-991-4783Become one of our friends on Facebook. 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.Share this:

## Transcript

[0:28] Speaker 1: Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho.
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[1:12] Speaker 1: Well after the two episodes with Barry Sullivan, the Saint
[1:17] Speaker 1: went off the air, being replaced in its timeslought by
[1:22] Speaker 1: the Phil Harris and Alice Faith Program. But The Saint
[1:26] Speaker 1: return for the last Sunday in October. Here from October
[1:31] Speaker 1: twenty ninth, nineteen fifty is It's now use.
[1:58] Speaker 2: The Adventures of the Saint, starring Vincent Price. The Saint,
[2:14] Speaker 2: based on characters created by Leslie Charterers and known to
[2:17] Speaker 2: millions from books, magazines, and motion pictures. The robin Hood
[2:21] Speaker 2: of Modern Crime now comes transcribed to radio, starring Hollywood's
[2:24] Speaker 2: brilliant and talented actor Vincent Price.
[2:27] Speaker 3: As the Saint snows sports who likes ski trainers?
[2:40] Speaker 4: I'd rather have an old fashioned mountains I should have stood.
[2:45] Speaker 4: On the other hand, grabs not hello?
[2:48] Speaker 5: Feed next to you?
[2:49] Speaker 4: Isn't I admire intelligent women? Sit down, Hi, but I'm
[2:54] Speaker 4: not intelligent. Oh you're being modest, I am not. I'm sorry.
[2:58] Speaker 4: You are beautiful, though.
[3:00] Speaker 5: Let you say that to all the beautiful girls you meet.
[3:02] Speaker 5: Do you like to ski?
[3:03] Speaker 6: No?
[3:04] Speaker 5: Why are you on the ski train?
[3:06] Speaker 4: Because of the telegram you sent me?
[3:08] Speaker 5: Then you are Simon Templary. I kind of thought you
[3:11] Speaker 5: looked like one.
[3:12] Speaker 4: Thank you. Your telegram sounded desperate. What do you want
[3:16] Speaker 4: me to do?
[3:17] Speaker 5: A very small thing? Yes, I like you to be
[3:20] Speaker 5: my husband. Why are you married so well? But nobody
[3:23] Speaker 5: will mind if you're my husband, and.
[3:25] Speaker 4: Nobody will mind.
[3:26] Speaker 5: Look, Peggy, I said, only for a while. None of
[3:29] Speaker 5: my husbands was ever able to say I stayed my.
[3:32] Speaker 4: Welcome, none of your, Peggy, How many husbands have you had?
[3:37] Speaker 7: I have a terrible memory. I do remember a Smith
[3:40] Speaker 7: and and Joe, so of course very easy name.
[3:42] Speaker 4: Yeah, look, and may I ask you why you want
[3:45] Speaker 4: me to be your husband, so nobody.
[3:46] Speaker 5: Will murder me.
[3:49] Speaker 4: Easy.
[3:51] Speaker 7: If Charlie thinks I'm married to the saint, he'll think
[3:54] Speaker 7: twice before beating my brains out, which would be the
[3:56] Speaker 7: neatest trick of the year, he said, on account of
[3:58] Speaker 7: I don't have any.
[3:58] Speaker 4: Brains, I'm acording to who is Charlie?
[4:01] Speaker 5: He's in the car of ahead with a blond.
[4:04] Speaker 4: Oh? Oh, he's a friend of yours.
[4:06] Speaker 5: Oh no, he used to be my last husband. I
[4:08] Speaker 5: mean he was my husband live.
[4:10] Speaker 4: I think I understand. And why should he want to
[4:12] Speaker 4: kill you? Alimony did you get from him? It doesn't
[4:17] Speaker 4: seem much of a motive.
[4:18] Speaker 5: It's a lot of alimony. Also, he doesn't like my
[4:21] Speaker 5: following him around.
[4:22] Speaker 4: You follow him around?
[4:23] Speaker 7: Why to make sure Vicky doesn't kill him? VICKI that's
[4:26] Speaker 7: a blonde she married, Charlie.
[4:29] Speaker 5: Asked me.
[4:30] Speaker 4: And she wants to kill him.
[4:31] Speaker 7: Well, who wouldn't side She doesn't even like him, But
[4:35] Speaker 7: she's crazy about money and if she kills him, she'll
[4:37] Speaker 7: get all the money and I won't get any alimony.
[4:40] Speaker 7: So I know a girl isn't supposed to be forward,
[4:44] Speaker 7: and that's the man to be her husband anyway, not
[4:47] Speaker 7: the first time they meet. After all, this is a
[4:50] Speaker 7: matter of a life and death.
[4:53] Speaker 8: So so, Simon, who will you be wond.
[5:10] Speaker 4: Yeah, snow Valley, out we go.
[5:14] Speaker 5: Oh look all the tactic has the.
[5:17] Speaker 4: Slaves, so they are I'm right in. Oh, thank you,
[5:23] Speaker 4: thank you, well to. We're going to the snow Talp Hotel,
[5:29] Speaker 4: snow Top Hotel.
[5:30] Speaker 9: Keep.
[5:47] Speaker 4: It's a nice lobby. I'd better go registers. Look, Peggy,
[5:54] Speaker 4: let's pretend we're not married. I mean, let's not pretend
[5:58] Speaker 4: we're married to the hotel clerk.
[6:00] Speaker 5: I never marry a hotel clerk.
[6:02] Speaker 4: I didn't never marry Charlie.
[6:05] Speaker 7: Vicky must have gone upstairs already. You think they were
[6:08] Speaker 7: on a honeymoon.
[6:09] Speaker 4: Finish, I'm going to register. I'll get separate rooms for it.
[6:14] Speaker 5: Oh but Simon, is that friendly?
[6:16] Speaker 4: It's practical? Excuse me?
[6:19] Speaker 10: Oh my gort you okay, at least you're coming to
[6:24] Speaker 10: What are you doing here?
[6:26] Speaker 6: Sculpting like anything? Even snow man.
[6:29] Speaker 4: I'm sculpting, but.
[6:29] Speaker 7: For right now, I'm making a bust wiki what anybody
[6:33] Speaker 7: can see A Vicky, you'll be busy all winter.
[6:36] Speaker 10: I'm having not the studio in the woods you wishing
[6:40] Speaker 10: I make you a bust.
[6:42] Speaker 7: Also, I'm going to be too busy to be sculptured.
[6:46] Speaker 10: Oh, Peggy, don't saying that all my life.
[6:49] Speaker 4: I'm dying for you.
[6:50] Speaker 5: You're not fine.
[6:54] Speaker 6: Ready byoch you're laughing.
[6:56] Speaker 4: Laughing, that's what?
[6:57] Speaker 5: Oh well, I think about it.
[6:59] Speaker 6: What's the thing, Peggy is necessary to leave?
[7:03] Speaker 5: I'm married again.
[7:07] Speaker 4: No, his name is Simon Mind and their husband.
[7:10] Speaker 5: The husbands might be minding you.
[7:12] Speaker 10: Oh mind, beautiful what I'm doing with mine chisel.
[7:16] Speaker 4: It's not the business of.
[7:17] Speaker 5: Any Schlie doesn't mind your Scott making a busy.
[7:22] Speaker 4: No, she's not so beautiful like you. Also, I'm not
[7:27] Speaker 4: admiring this childie calling I go, But mine heart stays
[7:33] Speaker 4: with you.
[7:34] Speaker 5: You better live it here. Somebody might step on it.
[7:36] Speaker 4: Oh hag, who heard was that?
[7:39] Speaker 5: Oh? That was.
[7:41] Speaker 4: I don't believe it.
[7:42] Speaker 7: Well, it happens in Bulgary all the time. That's where
[7:44] Speaker 7: he comes from. He's got a studio out in the
[7:46] Speaker 7: woods and he's making a bus to Bickie.
[7:49] Speaker 5: He tries to do that with all of Charlie's.
[7:50] Speaker 4: Why I never heard of him before?
[7:52] Speaker 5: You must have. He's a very famous chiselam.
[7:56] Speaker 4: Peggy. I've got this a couple of rooms yours is
[7:58] Speaker 4: two eighteen. We can pretend we're married for your husband's
[8:02] Speaker 4: former benefit. The kirk will show you after your room
[8:05] Speaker 4: in a minute.
[8:06] Speaker 5: What are you going to do?
[8:07] Speaker 4: I'm going to find the bar and drink myself to death.
[8:17] Speaker 6: To sixteen to seventeen.
[8:21] Speaker 4: Ah, here we asked to a sy Thanks.
[8:26] Speaker 5: Which room to the Thompson's.
[8:28] Speaker 4: Room right next to yours, ma'am? If you need any
[8:30] Speaker 4: thank you, you're very welcome.
[8:38] Speaker 5: Coming. Simon, Simon, where are you are you ying to do?
[8:54] Speaker 4: Heggy, Heggy, piggy? What are you doing on the floor?
[9:05] Speaker 11: It was an earthquake and the hotel fell down and
[9:09] Speaker 11: hit me on the head and I'm dead.
[9:11] Speaker 4: Oh, come on now, let me help you up. I'll
[9:15] Speaker 4: put you on the couch.
[9:19] Speaker 5: And now you can go right back and get my heads.
[9:22] Speaker 5: You're left and on the floor.
[9:23] Speaker 4: Your head Squeare it belongs? Seems to be a little
[9:27] Speaker 4: too much of it.
[9:28] Speaker 5: Though it's where the hotel.
[9:31] Speaker 4: But this isn't the earthquake season.
[9:32] Speaker 5: What happened, Well, somebody knocked at the door just after
[9:35] Speaker 5: I got here.
[9:36] Speaker 4: It would be about an hour ago.
[9:37] Speaker 5: Go on, I stuck my head and I didn't see him.
[9:42] Speaker 5: Do you want a booming bag.
[9:43] Speaker 4: I might enjoy it, But diggy, do you have anything
[9:46] Speaker 4: worth stealing?
[9:47] Speaker 5: Simon? You can believe me. Who steals my purse steals trash?
[9:51] Speaker 4: Mm. Besides, your purse wasn't stolen, it's right here on
[9:54] Speaker 4: the table. Strange.
[9:56] Speaker 5: I'm hungry, Simon.
[9:57] Speaker 7: I think getting hit on the heads my apptock may not.
[10:00] Speaker 4: Be good for your head, especially if the next time
[10:02] Speaker 4: you get hit a little harder. How does your head feel.
[10:17] Speaker 5: Now like its begetting to belong to me?
[10:19] Speaker 4: Eat some more at steaks?
[10:21] Speaker 5: Simon? Are you trying to sat in the of course,
[10:24] Speaker 5: not speak the top off. I mean he's a sculptor,
[10:26] Speaker 5: you know. Well, he's crazy about my figure.
[10:29] Speaker 4: It's all mine and he is married to look neither
[10:32] Speaker 4: am I.
[10:32] Speaker 5: You don't have to shout.
[10:34] Speaker 7: Even though I did throw myself with your head, it
[10:36] Speaker 7: doesn't mean I have to have a figure like a Flowers.
[10:39] Speaker 4: I didn't see.
[10:43] Speaker 5: Simon, this is papa.
[10:45] Speaker 10: No, no, I tell you that's debatable.
[10:49] Speaker 4: But oh I'm beautiful. This one sounds like her husband.
[10:54] Speaker 7: Well, yes, he's a husband. His name is Simon, your husband.
[10:58] Speaker 10: Don't apologizing also not necessarily standing.
[11:01] Speaker 4: I'm being courteous and I'm not inviting you to sit down.
[11:05] Speaker 6: This is a way to treat great sculpture like myself.
[11:09] Speaker 4: You are the Michelangelo right now, there's one thing you
[11:12] Speaker 4: un questionably have in common with michelangela genius. Your fingernails.
[11:18] Speaker 6: I am insult all sides.
[11:21] Speaker 4: Week is coming in? Weiki? Oh Vicky? Yes, so she is?
[11:26] Speaker 4: Who is her husband? He doesn't coming? We why not?
[11:29] Speaker 4: Who cares?
[11:31] Speaker 6: Maybe perhaps she's suffering from dizel pepsik.
[11:34] Speaker 4: She dearly love to see a man suffering from dislopepsik.
[11:36] Speaker 10: Something eat, no doubt you know she's coming.
[11:43] Speaker 5: Okay, my love, we've been waiting long. And who with
[11:46] Speaker 5: this lovely man?
[11:48] Speaker 4: Have these lovely people? You are aware? Well? She is Peggy,
[11:51] Speaker 4: he's her husband. How do you do? My name is
[11:54] Speaker 4: Temperance Tompson.
[11:56] Speaker 5: You lost something? Haven't you done? Your husband? What are you?
[12:02] Speaker 5: I've seen you someplace before?
[12:04] Speaker 3: Uh huh?
[12:05] Speaker 7: Where in Charlie's photograph album.
[12:08] Speaker 5: Oh you're not. I am Darling Charlie's.
[12:12] Speaker 7: Former wife, and I know all about the long winter
[12:16] Speaker 7: evenings from Charlie shows his photograph album to his wife's age.
[12:21] Speaker 7: I don't think we'd better bother these nice people any
[12:24] Speaker 7: long and let's go have our dinner.
[12:25] Speaker 5: But have you seen Charlie Moore? I see what come along?
[12:29] Speaker 5: Say confidential?
[12:31] Speaker 4: I do not understanding Weekie. Oh why not?
[12:33] Speaker 10: She's worrying about her husband. Ridiculous. I'm seeing you sooner?
[12:37] Speaker 4: Not if I'm seeing you sooner?
[12:42] Speaker 5: Did you know Sticky, Yes.
[12:43] Speaker 4: I she does that to people.
[12:46] Speaker 7: What I meant was she turned tail as soon as
[12:48] Speaker 7: I mentioned Charlie to us.
[12:49] Speaker 4: So she did, which reminds me, where is Charlie?
[13:03] Speaker 5: Oh so pretty?
[13:05] Speaker 4: A very high type snow Of course, none.
[13:08] Speaker 7: Of my farmer husbands ever took me for a walk.
[13:10] Speaker 5: On my honeymoon.
[13:12] Speaker 4: I don't good, It's funny Charlie didn't show up all
[13:15] Speaker 4: through dinner.
[13:16] Speaker 5: Simon, Yeah, would you mind not discussing other people?
[13:20] Speaker 4: Let's discuss well, hey, what happened to that snowman?
[13:25] Speaker 5: Snowman? Oh, he must have melted?
[13:29] Speaker 4: He was right there on the side of the road.
[13:31] Speaker 4: He didn't melt tagy because it gets cold or not
[13:34] Speaker 4: warmer in the nighttime.
[13:35] Speaker 5: I wouldn't say that.
[13:36] Speaker 4: Take e the still hu The snow is completely flat.
[13:40] Speaker 4: Where the snowman wasn't sleigh Mark's right next to the spot.
[13:45] Speaker 5: I'm cold, silent. Why are you more interested in that
[13:49] Speaker 5: snowman than you are.
[13:50] Speaker 4: Me thought he had a kind face. Hey, let's go
[13:54] Speaker 4: back to the hotel and get warm.
[14:09] Speaker 5: I'm going back to my room.
[14:10] Speaker 4: I'll take care of Oh Simon, I want to make
[14:14] Speaker 4: sure nobody hits you on the head again. Oh, but
[14:18] Speaker 4: before I do, you know, I'm a little worried about Charlie. Perhaps,
[14:22] Speaker 4: uh oh clerk, yes, sir, have you seen mister Thompson
[14:25] Speaker 4: around mister Thompson, Oh yes, oh no, oh, yes, I
[14:28] Speaker 4: don't know what.
[14:29] Speaker 12: I was merely remarking that I know who mister Thompson is,
[14:32] Speaker 12: and I have not seen him around. As a matter
[14:34] Speaker 12: of fact, missus Thompson was asking about him too.
[14:36] Speaker 4: I see, thank you. The things seem to be disappearing
[14:43] Speaker 4: around here. The snowman, Charlie Thompson, thank you. We're not
[14:46] Speaker 4: going on stairs. We're going out again to look for Charlie. No,
[14:51] Speaker 4: the snowman.
[14:59] Speaker 8: Simon, and the resemblance between me and Eskimos no coincidence.
[15:04] Speaker 5: It sly I'm freezing. They've been all over time looking
[15:08] Speaker 5: for that time thing.
[15:09] Speaker 4: It's only a little more ground to cover. We're working
[15:12] Speaker 4: our way around to the back of the hotel.
[15:14] Speaker 5: I know what time I'm finding a snowman.
[15:16] Speaker 7: In the middle of all the snow. It's like looking
[15:19] Speaker 7: for a needle in a haystack.
[15:20] Speaker 4: The difficulty of that has always been overrated. There's an
[15:24] Speaker 4: easy way of finding a needle in a haystag. How
[15:27] Speaker 4: we just sit down on a haystack.
[15:29] Speaker 7: That's the end.
[15:32] Speaker 5: What I just said, Sid, it was a joke.
[15:35] Speaker 4: Yeah, let's keep the conversation on a higher level.
[15:39] Speaker 5: Sad straight ahead middle trees there is.
[15:44] Speaker 4: Yeah, it doesn't seem to have been damaged much. He's
[15:49] Speaker 4: frozen silent. We're about one hundred yards from the hotel,
[15:54] Speaker 4: and she'd have a woodpile here, which is just what
[15:57] Speaker 4: we need. Some nice dry wood, I.
[16:00] Speaker 5: Mean a nice hot bath as good.
[16:02] Speaker 4: As wood burns. I'm gonna build a fire.
[16:05] Speaker 10: Oh.
[16:05] Speaker 7: I appreciate your worrying about me, Simon, but it.
[16:07] Speaker 5: Would be even warmer with motel.
[16:09] Speaker 4: I'm not building the fire for one. I'm building it
[16:12] Speaker 4: because I want to give that snowman a hot foot, Simon.
[16:28] Speaker 7: That's a very pretty fab Why do you keep staring
[16:32] Speaker 7: at that snowman? Oh, I'm waiting for it to know
[16:35] Speaker 7: now that isn't a nice thing to do to take
[16:37] Speaker 7: his looks.
[16:38] Speaker 5: WIT's begin the mails already.
[16:40] Speaker 3: Oh.
[16:44] Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, And now we know why the snowman was smooved,
[16:48] Speaker 4: don't you.
[16:50] Speaker 5: That's jolly. He was getting the snow. Oh Simon.
[16:56] Speaker 4: If he pard, he's very dead. But he beat his
[17:00] Speaker 4: head in. Sheriff will be over a little while, Peggy,
[17:15] Speaker 4: as soon as he gets these gloshes on.
[17:17] Speaker 7: I hate to think of Charlie lying out there.
[17:19] Speaker 4: In the snow.
[17:20] Speaker 5: It was never an outdoor man, Peggy.
[17:24] Speaker 4: Maybe you better run upstairs to your ro It's just
[17:27] Speaker 4: that I wanted to get over to Sagate studio before
[17:30] Speaker 4: the sheriff gets there.
[17:31] Speaker 5: Do you think killed Charlie and put him in the snowman?
[17:34] Speaker 4: It's possible Charlie's death makes Vicky a very rich widow
[17:38] Speaker 4: who Surga might approve of that. I'd like to ask Peggy.
[17:43] Speaker 7: Wife's places at her husband's.
[17:45] Speaker 4: Signed and it looks still weird?
[17:47] Speaker 5: Not a word, and I'll know you're right out here
[17:50] Speaker 5: in the lobby.
[17:51] Speaker 4: Never mind, let's go get ourselves a sleigh.
[18:08] Speaker 9: This here's the studio, folks.
[18:10] Speaker 4: Oh Piggy, why don't you stay out.
[18:12] Speaker 7: Here in this leg You don't think all ther sculptures
[18:15] Speaker 7: have seen inside him.
[18:17] Speaker 4: No, but he might be dangerous.
[18:18] Speaker 5: I'm coming with you.
[18:19] Speaker 9: You don't mind if I come too?
[18:21] Speaker 6: A little dark out here?
[18:22] Speaker 4: Oh no, we'd love having come on.
[18:25] Speaker 5: Okay, Oh the studio looks like it.
[18:30] Speaker 4: Yeah, the Prince of Graustof should be inside, but it
[18:32] Speaker 4: won't be. Let the windows three fourths cover to a snow.
[18:40] Speaker 6: He ain't answering too quick.
[18:42] Speaker 4: Uh huh the doors open, Come on, it's so dark.
[18:48] Speaker 4: Wait a minute, find the knights getting that window? Say
[18:54] Speaker 4: what's going on here?
[18:56] Speaker 12: All right?
[18:58] Speaker 6: Hey, that's my sway?
[19:01] Speaker 4: That was your sleigh?
[19:04] Speaker 6: All right?
[19:06] Speaker 9: Now, what are we gonna do?
[19:07] Speaker 6: Well? Phone town?
[19:08] Speaker 4: Anyone see one? O?
[19:10] Speaker 9: They don't have lines strung out in theast wooden?
[19:12] Speaker 4: Well, that's fine.
[19:14] Speaker 6: Look what I fall?
[19:15] Speaker 4: Huh? Oh it's a wallet, not much help, no identification.
[19:23] Speaker 7: In it, Simon, is a kind Charlie always carried with
[19:25] Speaker 7: lots of lots.
[19:26] Speaker 4: Of money in it's what is empty now it could.
[19:29] Speaker 5: Just as well be carry's a purse, Simon.
[19:33] Speaker 4: Now you mentioned that Charlie's wallet was missing when we.
[19:36] Speaker 9: Found it, can't miss anymore.
[19:38] Speaker 4: I wonder if any spare socks. They're gonna turn out.
[19:42] Speaker 4: Charlie Thompson was wearing one red sock and one green one.
[19:46] Speaker 4: Somebody may have walked off with a mate to one
[19:48] Speaker 4: of them. Well, come on, everybody, let's start walking.
[19:52] Speaker 6: It's gonna take us about a week to walk back
[19:54] Speaker 6: to the hotel.
[19:55] Speaker 9: Snow's kind of deep out there.
[19:57] Speaker 4: May not be back for hours and month.
[20:00] Speaker 5: Simon. There a couple of pairs of skis in the
[20:01] Speaker 5: corner of the door.
[20:05] Speaker 4: Very decorative.
[20:06] Speaker 5: People go from place to place on ski.
[20:08] Speaker 4: Sure, sure people who can ski.
[20:10] Speaker 5: I almost read a book, Simon. They said. Skiing is
[20:12] Speaker 5: really very simple.
[20:14] Speaker 4: It died.
[20:15] Speaker 9: Don't look at me. I ain't getting on them. Wouldn't
[20:18] Speaker 9: death trap?
[20:19] Speaker 4: All right, you stay here, we're sending for you. Do
[20:21] Speaker 4: you mind, don't mind at all you pegging out. I'll
[20:24] Speaker 4: help you get those skis trapped on.
[20:26] Speaker 8: I hope it's downhill all the way, Simon.
[20:43] Speaker 5: You're such a liar. You ski beautifully.
[20:46] Speaker 4: Yes, this is wonderful, just right, Yeah, as long as
[20:50] Speaker 4: you stay on your feet hungry. Well, when we get
[20:53] Speaker 4: back to town.
[20:54] Speaker 5: And I like, what a salami sandwich, Peggy.
[20:58] Speaker 4: People get shot for jokes like shots came from the
[21:05] Speaker 4: pump of trees down the slope. Tay, you do you
[21:08] Speaker 4: know what bad little boys do? I think we can
[21:11] Speaker 4: get under the smoke here, get to some rocks.
[21:16] Speaker 5: Next, now ball with rocket.
[21:18] Speaker 4: Yeah, he can't get us. Let he gets a lot closer.
[21:21] Speaker 4: I can't see what it is moving in you to
[21:24] Speaker 4: come out and to be open. Okay, I've got one ready,
[21:28] Speaker 4: all right, Now he's moving out. Here goes Simon.
[21:34] Speaker 7: You hit him for the next him again?
[21:40] Speaker 11: Oh, Simeon, No, I know how be go to you?
[21:56] Speaker 5: Gosh, I'm so glad to get back to the hotel.
[21:58] Speaker 12: Oh, mister Temper, Oh yeah, the sheriff said he wanted
[22:01] Speaker 12: to see you as soon as you came in. He's
[22:03] Speaker 12: in the manager's office to your left.
[22:05] Speaker 4: Thank you. Would you send someone out to mister Popoff
[22:08] Speaker 4: studio who's left the slave drivers standard there? I'll take
[22:11] Speaker 4: care of it, sir.
[22:12] Speaker 5: Thanks Simon. Do you know who killed Charlie and Charlotte?
[22:16] Speaker 4: Well, I'm not sure, but I think it isn't going
[22:18] Speaker 4: to take much longer to find out. I mean, hello, sheriff,
[22:24] Speaker 4: I'm Simon Templar. I know, mister Templar, the satan. This
[22:28] Speaker 4: is a great pleasure, Thank you, and this is Peggy Snith,
[22:32] Speaker 4: Jones and so forth. Glad to meet you. My name's Hudson.
[22:35] Speaker 13: That statement from mister Thompson the sculpler fellow, mister templar.
[22:39] Speaker 4: I thought you might have something dead, Yes I have.
[22:42] Speaker 4: It might be better if you got them in here, though,
[22:44] Speaker 4: and we cleaned up the whole thing at once.
[22:46] Speaker 13: Hold right in the next room. Hold on, would you
[22:50] Speaker 13: mind stepping in here, boots? I am disgusting. Is this
[22:55] Speaker 13: the word to spending?
[22:57] Speaker 5: Maybe several long?
[23:00] Speaker 4: When your husband arrived at the hotel, what was the
[23:02] Speaker 4: first thing he did?
[23:03] Speaker 5: Well? He said he was going to take a shower.
[23:05] Speaker 5: I left him upstairs.
[23:07] Speaker 4: I see, excuse me a desk, Oh, clerk, will you
[23:13] Speaker 4: get me a sprig of holly with berries on it?
[23:17] Speaker 4: I noticed the florist shop in the lobby. No, I
[23:19] Speaker 4: know it isn't Christmas yet. No, it's not for a gag.
[23:24] Speaker 4: It's for a noose.
[23:34] Speaker 10: Confidential, everybody, this Simon, he's crazy.
[23:37] Speaker 4: For miss I kissed the girl under a missiletoe, no difference. Oh,
[23:43] Speaker 4: come in.
[23:44] Speaker 6: Here you are, mister Temper.
[23:46] Speaker 4: Oh, thank you. Would you please hand me that vase
[23:49] Speaker 4: on the table, sir, thank you again? Very nice fig
[23:56] Speaker 4: the berries are green? Now? Why? Why? Just a minute, Peggy.
[24:02] Speaker 4: Look like when a man wants a sprig of Hollywood berries,
[24:04] Speaker 4: he wants red berries. Now, you go right out and
[24:07] Speaker 4: get me what I want.
[24:08] Speaker 12: I'm sorry about the berries being green.
[24:11] Speaker 4: I guess they aren't right yet. I'll go right now.
[24:14] Speaker 4: Oh no, excuse my boss.
[24:18] Speaker 5: You broke the ball.
[24:19] Speaker 10: He's also breaking the head the clerky.
[24:23] Speaker 4: I just wanted to make sure he wouldn't try playing
[24:25] Speaker 4: games with his gun share and done. Yes, Peggy, the
[24:28] Speaker 4: one he tried to kill us with.
[24:30] Speaker 5: But if he was the one, and he must have
[24:33] Speaker 5: been the one.
[24:34] Speaker 4: Who killed Thompson, he is, But why.
[24:36] Speaker 7: I don't what reason would he have to kill John?
[24:39] Speaker 4: I think you'll tell us. Seems to be with us again.
[24:43] Speaker 4: Good evening. I hope you slept well. You listen, Thank you, Sheriff.
[24:49] Speaker 4: Charlie Thompson was killed in his shower. Then he was dressed,
[24:52] Speaker 4: dragged out of the hotel, and planted inside the snowman.
[24:55] Speaker 4: That's why you moved the snowman. Wasn't it so that
[24:59] Speaker 4: you wouldn't have to carry the body so great a distance.
[25:01] Speaker 4: I never touched Charlie Thompson, and I know you did
[25:04] Speaker 4: how temper. Thompson's corpse was wearing one red sock and
[25:08] Speaker 4: one green. It meant whoever had dressed him was color blind. Yes, yes,
[25:12] Speaker 4: in the business with the holly proved that the berries
[25:15] Speaker 4: were really red. But when I told our friend here
[25:17] Speaker 4: that they were greeny had to take my word for it.
[25:19] Speaker 4: He couldn't tell the difference.
[25:20] Speaker 5: Why why you gavil Man Simon. He must have been
[25:24] Speaker 5: the one who kicked me over the head in my room.
[25:27] Speaker 5: M m.
[25:27] Speaker 4: That's why I knew missus Thompson hadn't killed her husband.
[25:30] Speaker 4: What do you mean You wouldn't have had to hit
[25:32] Speaker 4: Peggy over the head and in order to get into
[25:34] Speaker 4: your husband's room. And I couldn't suspect mister popall. Why not?
[25:38] Speaker 4: Some of my best friends are suspecting me because you
[25:41] Speaker 4: would never have left Thompson's empty wallet in your own studio.
[25:44] Speaker 4: It was the clerk Peggy, and I surprised planting it
[25:47] Speaker 4: there after. Of course he had taken all the money
[25:49] Speaker 4: out of it. But that's why Thompson was killed, mister Poppa.
[25:53] Speaker 4: He always carried lots and lots of money in his wallet.
[25:56] Speaker 4: If Peggy supplied that information, you mean this clerk.
[25:59] Speaker 10: He tried to frame me, so I am looking like
[26:01] Speaker 10: a what tho?
[26:05] Speaker 6: And men who tried to.
[26:06] Speaker 5: Choosel on a chiseler.
[26:16] Speaker 7: Simon, real long, Oh there we are, Simon. Did you
[26:24] Speaker 7: know that some people cannot sez she?
[26:29] Speaker 4: There must be a moral in that. Someday I'm immoral.
[26:34] Speaker 5: Simon. We're not really married, but you could kiss me.
[26:40] Speaker 4: Mm hmmm.
[26:41] Speaker 5: Nice Simon.
[26:55] Speaker 2: You've been listening to another transcribed adventurer of the Saint
[26:58] Speaker 2: the robin Hood of modern Crime.
[27:00] Speaker 4: Here's our style, ladies and gentlemen, this is Dincent Price
[27:02] Speaker 4: inviting you to join us again next week at the
[27:05] Speaker 4: same time for another exciting adventure of the Saint. Good
[27:08] Speaker 4: Night then. Script was written by Lewis Vidies. This is NBC,
[27:21] Speaker 4: the National Broadcasting Company.
[27:29] Speaker 1: Welcome back. Well, great to have Vincent Price back. Somewhat
[27:33] Speaker 1: unusual in that we have a killer who is just
[27:39] Speaker 1: hotel staff operating on a robbery motive. Not the type
[27:43] Speaker 1: of thing you expect from these top of shows, but
[27:46] Speaker 1: it's a bit of a twist now. Of course, this
[27:49] Speaker 1: is not the first time that we've heard the Saint
[27:52] Speaker 1: U's color blondness as a clue. If you'll recall color
[27:57] Speaker 1: blindness was the key to Simon and solving a murder
[28:03] Speaker 1: on a cruise ship back during the nineteen forties when
[28:07] Speaker 1: the series was airing on Mutual. That portrayal really kind
[28:12] Speaker 1: of went over the top in the way that it
[28:16] Speaker 1: showed colorblindness. I mean, in that case, the killer, who
[28:22] Speaker 1: was this professional man, couldn't match his own clothes, and
[28:29] Speaker 1: it's this very pervasive, cartoonish sort of colorblindness. Here are
[28:34] Speaker 1: things very much more grounded, maybe not perfect, but still
[28:40] Speaker 1: close enough for radio. And really what gives him away
[28:45] Speaker 1: is that he doesn't just disclose being colorblind. He was
[28:50] Speaker 1: obviously aware of being colorblind and may have been afraid
[28:55] Speaker 1: that somehow or another that could be a cloe. Maybe
[29:00] Speaker 1: it's into too many mystery stories, all right, Well, now
[29:03] Speaker 1: listener comments and feedback, and we start on YouTube with
[29:08] Speaker 1: a comment regarding the horrible hamburger, and Jeffrey writes, not
[29:17] Speaker 1: to be nitpicking, but we have huckleberries here in Wyoming.
[29:21] Speaker 1: Daughter canned a bunch of it into gym for us.
[29:24] Speaker 1: Good show. Thanks well, thank you, Jeffrey. And that's definitely
[29:29] Speaker 1: not nitpicking. That's providing some valuable additional details and learn
[29:35] Speaker 1: more about the huckleberries, and yes, there are huckleberries in Wyoming,
[29:42] Speaker 1: the same sort of mountain huckleberry variety that's available in
[29:47] Speaker 1: Montana and also in the Pacific Northwest. But in the
[29:53] Speaker 1: Pacific Northwest they have other varieties of huckleberry. In addition,
[29:59] Speaker 1: they're there are huckleberries in Colorado. These are very different
[30:04] Speaker 1: as they grow close to the ground and so you
[30:08] Speaker 1: really have to be looking for them. And then I
[30:12] Speaker 1: came across an interesting article from Oregon where, according to
[30:17] Speaker 1: a professor of horticulture at the Oregon State University, Bernadine Strick,
[30:28] Speaker 1: huckleberries as we know them in the West are not
[30:31] Speaker 1: technically huckleberries. She said that what we commonly called huckleberry
[30:37] Speaker 1: in the West are native blueberry species, and all the
[30:42] Speaker 1: different huckleberries that we have here are the same genis
[30:47] Speaker 1: as commercial huckleberries, and also the same genus as other
[30:53] Speaker 1: native blueberry species in other states and regions of the country,
[30:58] Speaker 1: although they don't call their berries huckleberries. She identifies the
[31:07] Speaker 1: true huckleberries as actually only growing in New England, the
[31:13] Speaker 1: black huckleberry. Now, during my research, I came across a
[31:18] Speaker 1: sixteen year old blog entry by a lady in Colorado
[31:25] Speaker 1: who reported that she ate some huckleberries in New Hampshire
[31:33] Speaker 1: and to her they tasted like blueberries, And that would
[31:38] Speaker 1: actually make sense of the joke. Now, according to Professor Beck,
[31:45] Speaker 1: the black huckleberry looks very much like a blueberry. It's
[31:51] Speaker 1: got these ten large seeds which make it stand out.
[31:57] Speaker 1: So I think in some ways the original joke could
[32:02] Speaker 1: make more sense if the writer was thinking about the
[32:05] Speaker 1: New England huckleberry. Might even have been on vacation somewhere
[32:11] Speaker 1: in New England ordered a huckleberry pie and notice, hey,
[32:16] Speaker 1: this tastes us like a lot like the blueberry pie,
[32:20] Speaker 1: so I appreciated another bite at the apple or I
[32:25] Speaker 1: guess maybe I should say the huckleberry. And this has
[32:29] Speaker 1: me thinking that maybe a huckleberry eating tour might be
[32:34] Speaker 1: a good vacation. We'll have to say about that one
[32:37] Speaker 1: of these days. All right, Well, now it's time to
[32:40] Speaker 1: thank our Patreon supporter of the day. But thanks so
[32:44] Speaker 1: much for the comment. Now it's time to thank our
[32:47] Speaker 1: Patreon supporter of the day. Thank you so much to
[32:51] Speaker 1: pat currently supporting us at the red huckleberry level. Oh
[32:56] Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I think I forgot which podcaster are doing.
[33:00] Speaker 1: Thank you to pat supporting us at the Detective Sergeant
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[33:06] Speaker 1: a month. Has been a Patreon supporter since February twenty
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[33:13] Speaker 1: that will do it for today. If you're enjoying the podcast,
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[33:33] Speaker 1: the Big Story. Where sure.
[33:42] Speaker 4: Running a fever share if you ought to stick to
[33:43] Speaker 4: your office on a night like this.
[33:45] Speaker 14: I like Canada. There's a search going up. I got
[33:51] Speaker 14: the reward up to eleven hundred and fifty dollars.
[33:53] Speaker 4: Now any think he's dead by now? He's been missing
[33:59] Speaker 4: four days?
[34:00] Speaker 14: What can I do? You and I know we're up
[34:03] Speaker 14: at Blind Alley had a standstue. But whoever took Paul
[34:08] Speaker 14: away mustn't know that. Whoever took Paul away mustn't get
[34:11] Speaker 14: a minute's rest.
[34:13] Speaker 4: That's what you can do.
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[34:32] Speaker 1: This is your host, Adam Graham signing off.

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