WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:18.240 Crime and Peter Chambers. 00:18.240 --> 00:27.440 Created by Henry Kane, transcribed and starring Dane Clark. 00:27.440 --> 00:39.120 A well-known investigator, duly licensed and duly sworn, Peter Chambers. 00:39.120 --> 00:47.240 You're a private eye. That's your business. Anything else? That's for laughs. 00:47.240 --> 00:52.880 It's mid-afternoon and you're in a nightclub on business. There's nothing more 00:52.880 --> 00:57.320 ghastly than a nightclub in the daytime. Reminds you of the whitewash inside of 00:57.320 --> 01:02.920 an unfinished coffin. Anyway, this one's called a Cafe Tropicale and in the 01:02.920 --> 01:07.520 nighttime when its tinsel isn't showing it's considered quite swanky. Mr. Chambers? 01:07.520 --> 01:12.360 Yes? I'm Bruce Eldridge. I'm delighted that you could come. Bruce Eldridge, 01:12.360 --> 01:16.760 prospective client. He's one of the owners of the Cafe Tropicale. About 35, 01:16.760 --> 01:21.280 well-dressed and quite good-looking and quite composed, except his eyes are 01:21.280 --> 01:25.720 nervous. I take it that you know what happened here last night. 01:25.720 --> 01:30.320 Well, your partner Paul Maxwell, he caught up with a slight case of lead poisoning. 01:30.320 --> 01:33.640 He was shot to death right here in the club. So I've read in the newspapers. 01:33.640 --> 01:37.840 Observe the architecture of a little nightclub here. Now there's this narrow 01:37.840 --> 01:42.480 little room where the bar is. Yeah. And off there, there's the archway which leads 01:42.480 --> 01:47.000 into the club proper. That's where we have our entertainment. And this stairway 01:47.000 --> 01:50.360 right here? Now that leads upstairs where Mr. and Mrs. Maxwell have their apartment. 01:50.360 --> 01:54.760 Oh, the guy that was killed? Yes, he and his wife Claire. This was, well, sort of 01:54.760 --> 01:59.120 their town apartment. Very cozy. Last night, our entertainment was in full 01:59.120 --> 02:04.680 blast. Paul, Miss Paul Maxwell, was seated out here at the bar alone. He was shot 02:04.680 --> 02:10.240 and killed. He slumps over. Nobody's the wiser. Tobias, the bartender, thinks Paul 02:10.240 --> 02:13.880 has grabbed a little catnap. And it's definitely established by the police 02:13.880 --> 02:18.080 that he was shot from the main room through the archway. And what about the 02:18.080 --> 02:21.880 gun? Well, sir, one of our patrons, the distinguished book critic, Mr. Charles 02:21.880 --> 02:25.640 Morse, felt something strange in his top. Wait, wait, wait. Don't tell me that turned 02:25.640 --> 02:29.640 out to be the murder gun. Yes, yes it did. In the rush of the crowd, the culprit 02:29.640 --> 02:33.160 probably slipped into the first strange pocket he found, which turned out to be 02:33.160 --> 02:36.680 Mr. Morse's. And what did this Charles Morse do? Well, he turned it over to the 02:36.680 --> 02:40.840 management, which in this case was Mrs. Maxwell, Claire Maxwell. The new widow. 02:40.840 --> 02:45.700 Well, how many people in this management? There were three. Paul, myself, and Claire, 02:45.700 --> 02:50.260 equal partners. Claire also acted as hostess. So what happened then? Well, Mr. 02:50.260 --> 02:53.920 Morse waited for the police, told them the story, and that was that. The police, of 02:53.920 --> 02:59.800 course, now have the gun. Okay, Miss Eldridge, where do you fit me into this? I 02:59.800 --> 03:06.320 have reason to believe that it was my gun. What? I owned a gun like that. I have a 03:06.320 --> 03:10.180 license for it. Two days ago it disappeared from my apartment. Now, Mr. 03:10.180 --> 03:15.320 Chambers, I want to retain you right now to find out who stole that gun and who 03:15.320 --> 03:18.040 murdered Paul Maxwell. Well, don't you think the cops will attend to that? That's 03:18.040 --> 03:23.500 just what I'm afraid of. They'll attend to it. They'll come up with me. Guns can be 03:23.500 --> 03:29.240 traced, can't they? I see what you mean. There's a $500 fee in it for you, sir. 03:29.240 --> 03:34.640 All right. Now, just where were you about the time Paul Maxwell was killed? Inside, 03:34.640 --> 03:39.080 in the main room. I was seated at a table with Claire Maxwell, Charles Morse, and 03:39.080 --> 03:42.680 Ruth Benson, whose Ruth Benshey sings here in between shows. What were you 03:42.680 --> 03:46.120 people doing at your table at the time? We were watching the show. New actor, 03:46.120 --> 03:52.040 Calvin Cole, a wizard on the Afro-Cuban drums, and a dancer, Menage. All right, now 03:52.040 --> 03:56.400 explain to me how a guy can get shot from the main room to this bar here 03:56.400 --> 04:00.520 without anybody hearing the shot or seeing the flash. Well, Mr. Chambers, you 04:00.520 --> 04:07.080 see, there was a show. Good afternoon, Mr. Elridge. Well, hello, Mr. Chambers. Oh, you know our bartender, sir. You know 04:07.080 --> 04:12.920 Tobias? He knows a lot of bartenders. I used to serve him when I worked in PJs. 04:12.920 --> 04:20.440 Toby Tobias, blank and thin, with a shock of hair falling over his forehead, and the 04:20.440 --> 04:24.560 wise old ageless eyes that seem to be the trademark of bartenders born to be 04:24.560 --> 04:29.120 bartenders. Well, Toby, would you explain to Mr. Chambers how a shot can be fired 04:29.120 --> 04:31.760 and a man killed during our entertainment without anyone being the 04:31.760 --> 04:35.480 wiser? It would be my pleasure, Mr. Elridge. You know who we got here, don't you, Mr. 04:35.480 --> 04:39.680 Chambers? Yeah, Calvin Cole, they tell me, and his Afro-Cuban drums, and Menage. Yeah, 04:39.680 --> 04:43.880 and here's how it works. The lights go out, you see, with a small spot on Calvin. 04:43.880 --> 04:47.760 Now, he wraps them drums like gunshots. Then this Menage comes out in a wild 04:47.760 --> 04:51.400 veil dance, and they work the lights like flashes of lightning around us. So, a 04:51.400 --> 04:56.280 shot from a real gun, it gets covered by Calvin Cole's drumbeat gunshots, and then 04:56.280 --> 05:02.560 flashes a lightning around this Menage. I get it. Is Mrs. Claire Maxwell upstairs? 05:02.560 --> 05:06.880 Yeah, she is. Is it okay, Elridge, if I go up and see her? I don't see why not. 05:06.880 --> 05:22.680 Well, thanks. It's the door at the head of the stairs. Yes, who is it? Mr. Elridge said I could speak with you. May I come in? You may. 05:22.680 --> 05:28.640 She sits down, crosses her legs, and lights a cigarette. She's blonde, blue-eyed, on 05:28.640 --> 05:34.040 the sunny side of 40, and she's got her points. She's also got a pretty quick 05:34.040 --> 05:38.480 temperate scene. What is it, please? My name is Peter Chambers. I'm a private 05:38.480 --> 05:41.600 investigator, and I've been requested to look into the events of last night, so... 05:41.600 --> 05:46.560 You've been requested, huh? Yes, ma'am. Well, listen, you private eyes in books, private 05:46.560 --> 05:50.980 eyes in radio, fine, a lot of fun. When it comes to real life, I don't go for it. We 05:50.980 --> 05:53.320 got the police, and the police are working on this, and I'm cooperating with 05:53.320 --> 05:57.680 them fully. So, do yourself a favor, young man. Get out of here. 05:57.680 --> 06:06.760 You do yourself a favor, and you get... You get all the way downtown to police 06:06.760 --> 06:10.820 headquarters, the office of Detective Lieutenant Louis Parker, cop, gentleman, 06:10.820 --> 06:16.200 and good friend. Hi, I'm Peter Piper. Afternoon, Lieutenant. Oh, I detect a real 06:16.200 --> 06:21.800 sweet note in your voice. Okay, what client is paying you how much for you to find 06:21.800 --> 06:25.120 out from us what he could have found out for himself? You know the usual cry of 06:25.120 --> 06:29.040 the private eye, it's confidential. All right, young fellow, what are you working on? 06:29.040 --> 06:33.560 I'm working on that shooting last night at the Cafe Tropical. Did you trace the 06:33.560 --> 06:38.680 murder gun yet? No, we're working on it. Real interesting case, Pete. How so? Know 06:38.680 --> 06:41.920 the details? I know he was shot from the main room all the way out to the bar 06:41.920 --> 06:45.840 while the drum guy was working, the day when the lightning was dancing. Yeah, one 06:45.840 --> 06:50.440 bullet, one shot, that finished him. You know anything about trajectory, Pete? An 06:50.440 --> 06:55.360 angle of entrance. Hey, hey, hey, them's fancy words. I got them from my science 06:55.360 --> 06:59.400 boys. Trajectory tells you about the flight of a bullet. Angle of entrance 06:59.400 --> 07:03.520 tells you from what direction the bullet came. My science boys measured it 07:03.520 --> 07:08.560 perfectly. It eliminated everybody in that main room except a group around one 07:08.560 --> 07:12.580 table. And what table was that? The one Bruce Eldridge was at. There's no question, 07:12.580 --> 07:17.000 the bullet came from that room, from that table. No powder marks on the body, 07:17.000 --> 07:22.200 distance estimated, trajectory, angle of entrance perfect, everything. Well, all you had 07:22.200 --> 07:26.520 around that table were Bruce Eldridge, Claire Maxwell, Charles Morse, and Ruth 07:26.520 --> 07:32.040 Benson. And one of those is eliminated. Which one? Ruth Benson. She left the room 07:32.040 --> 07:35.520 while Maxwell was still alive when upstairs powder room. Well, does she know 07:35.520 --> 07:38.960 that she's eliminated yet? No, no, Pete. I like to keep them all guessing, you know. 07:38.960 --> 07:44.480 Claire Maxwell, the wife, Charles Morse, a book critic, and Bruce Eldridge, his 07:44.480 --> 07:49.560 partner. Well, it certainly narrows them down. To what? The wife? Why should she? She's 07:49.560 --> 07:54.120 married to a rich man, she's sitting pretty. The book critic? Why should he? If 07:54.120 --> 07:58.560 he were the murderer, would he plant the murder gun in his own pocket? The partner? 07:58.560 --> 08:03.240 Why should he? Paul Maxwell is the brains of Cafe Tropical and the operation is 08:03.240 --> 08:08.960 making money. Well, how about prints on the gun? Eh, smudges. Look, Louis, I might... 08:08.960 --> 08:14.840 Yeah, there's a request for a favor coming up. Well, two things. One, I'm going up to 08:14.840 --> 08:18.800 interview Ruth Benson. Can I tell her that you've eliminated her as a suspect? 08:18.800 --> 08:22.760 Well, it'll make a real big Sherlock out of me and it'll make for her cooperation. 08:22.760 --> 08:26.640 Yeah, well, you talk me into it, Pete. I have to break it to all of them sooner or 08:26.640 --> 08:30.800 later. What is the second favor? Well, the addresses of the interested parties. Ah, 08:30.800 --> 08:34.240 it's an easy one for a change. 08:34.240 --> 08:42.880 So, armed with addresses and an affectionate pat on the back from Parker, 08:42.880 --> 08:47.280 you're riding your white horse again and you at Ruth Benson's neatly furnished 08:47.280 --> 08:51.960 apartment. I'll be glad to cooperate, Mr. Chambers. Please make yourself comfortable. 08:51.960 --> 08:58.480 A brunette with glistening black hair and glistening black eyes and more curves 08:58.480 --> 09:03.320 than the Indiana Raceway. You give her Parker's dope about her being eliminated 09:03.320 --> 09:09.400 as a suspect and you get what you want. Cooperation. Anything, Mr. Chambers. 09:09.400 --> 09:18.040 Anything at all. Well, well, first Bruce Eldridge. He used to own a gun once. 09:18.040 --> 09:23.000 That's a joke. I know about that gun. Would you break that down for me a little? 09:23.000 --> 09:27.520 Well, about two weeks ago I was at his place. Bruce writes beautiful music and 09:27.520 --> 09:32.520 I'm a singer, you know. I understand. We were out on the terrace and he brought 09:32.520 --> 09:38.920 that gun of his and by accident went off. And guess what? I give up. He faded dead 09:38.920 --> 09:44.680 away. Guy's got a phobia. As a matter of fact, when Paul Maxwell found out I'd been 09:44.680 --> 09:49.320 at Bruce's apartment, he raised the roof. What'd he raise the roof about? Oh, well, 09:49.320 --> 10:00.520 Paul and I, we sort of had a thing going. And Paul and Bruce, was this thing what 10:00.520 --> 10:06.200 they argued about? Mm-hmm. But it's ridiculous. Bruce was perfectly innocent of any 10:06.200 --> 10:14.600 wrong intentions. Of course. Well, Miss Benson, thank you very kindly. Not at all, Mr. Chambers. 10:14.600 --> 10:26.900 Next stop, the book-lined retreat of Charles Morse in Greenwich Village. I welcome 10:26.900 --> 10:31.760 this visitor. I've always been keenly interested in the myriad and varied 10:31.760 --> 10:37.560 operations of the private investigator. Charles Morse. Tall, slender, great 10:37.560 --> 10:42.560 temple and distinguished. He's sipping brandy from an oversized snifter glass. 10:42.560 --> 10:47.460 A drink perhaps, Mr. Chambers? No, no, no, thank you. Shall we get on then? Mr. 10:47.460 --> 10:54.160 Morse, are you a frequent customer at the Cafe Tropiquel? Frequent and regular. An 10:54.160 --> 10:59.120 ardent patron, shall we say. Good. The man of your intelligence, it's a help. How 10:59.120 --> 11:04.480 come you're so good a patron of a saloon? Well, sir, it's difficult to put it into 11:04.480 --> 11:09.240 words, but I'll certainly try. Well, that's real sporting of you, sir. Are you perhaps 11:09.240 --> 11:13.080 chiding me, Charles? No, no, no, I ain't doing a thing except fishnetting for facts. 11:13.080 --> 11:19.040 Well, about my being a patron of saloons, let me see now. A good many of us, you see, 11:19.040 --> 11:23.600 in my profession, book critics, are frustrated writers, and I'll admit to 11:23.600 --> 11:28.320 being one of those. Our creative abilities just do not measure up to our 11:28.320 --> 11:33.520 desires, so I'm a rather heavy drinker and, in consequence, an excellent customer 11:33.520 --> 11:38.920 of watering spots like Cafe Tropiquel. Good enough. Do you know anything of a 11:38.920 --> 11:43.520 scrap between Paul and Bruce Eldridge? No, no, I do not. All right then, Mr. Morse, 11:43.520 --> 11:48.480 thanks for the use of the hall. Well, it was most stimulating, Mr. Chambers. I'm at 11:48.480 --> 11:52.260 the cafe almost every night, you know, so if you have any further need of my 11:52.260 --> 11:57.400 assistance in any way at all, please don't hesitate. 12:03.640 --> 12:08.320 So that night you're back at Cafe Tropiquel and the join is jumping like 12:08.320 --> 12:12.360 they're featuring a strip dancer and handing out binoculars for free. You're 12:12.360 --> 12:17.520 greeted by Bruce Eldridge. Evening, Mr. Chambers. Hey, wow. Nothing like a 12:17.520 --> 12:22.280 murder to jump up business. Quite macabre tonight, aren't you, Mr. Chambers? Macabre. 12:22.280 --> 12:26.240 Everybody in this cast of characters makes with the big words. You, that Charlie 12:26.240 --> 12:30.320 Morse. You mind if I go in the bar and mix with a Hoy Polloil like Toby 12:30.320 --> 12:35.080 Tobias? Don't mind if I leave, Mr. Chambers. Oh, hiya, Shamus. How's the Shamus 12:35.080 --> 12:40.440 business? Eh, how's with the bartending business? Eh, it stinks too, but if I play me 12:40.440 --> 12:43.640 cards right, I'm getting out of it. Well, before we go any further in this 12:43.640 --> 12:49.880 colloquy, point of order. Yeah? Scotch and soda. Coming at you, Mr. Chambers. And now 12:49.880 --> 12:56.800 what's with your imminent retirement? Listen hard, Mr. Chambers, because either 12:56.800 --> 13:00.600 I make it or you make it. Look, Tobias, a little late for riddle. This is a moment 13:00.600 --> 13:04.920 of relaxation for me. It's about this here case you're working on. Oh, well, well. 13:04.920 --> 13:08.720 Talk it up, Tobias, my lad. Now, if I spill the dope I got, this whole case 13:08.720 --> 13:12.760 becomes a hanger for you. So spill? Nah, I ain't spilling yet, but I got a hunch I 13:12.760 --> 13:17.080 know just what this thing is all about. That kind of information is good for a 13:17.080 --> 13:22.280 little payola from a certain party. Enough payola for me to retire. So tonight, 13:22.280 --> 13:27.400 I make me play. I'm off tonight at 11, and then I make me little old play. If 13:27.400 --> 13:32.360 your little old play backfires? Then I'm calling on you at home, on the phone, and 13:32.360 --> 13:37.760 with the info I got for you, you're gonna turn out to be a big hero. How much you 13:37.760 --> 13:42.520 asking for, Toby? Ten thousand smackers, and the party's getting off cheap. 13:42.520 --> 13:46.240 Excuse me for now, Mr. Chambers, I got to go to work, and don't forget to be home 13:46.240 --> 13:49.320 come 11 o'clock. 13:51.320 --> 13:56.000 The crowd keeps pouring in like it's bargain day at Macy's, and the confusion 13:56.000 --> 14:00.840 mounts, and you like it because right now you can use confusion. It gives you a 14:00.840 --> 14:05.680 chance to slip off your barstool and slip up the stairs. The door to Clare Maxwell's 14:05.680 --> 14:11.760 room isn't locked, and inside you do a rapid search, and out of a dresser drawer 14:11.760 --> 14:18.880 you come up with an interesting item, an expensive heavy gold medal. On one side 14:18.880 --> 14:26.680 there's an engraving of crossed pistols, and beneath that the initials CM. 14:30.040 --> 14:36.240 The reverse side says Westchester Target Club Competition, first prize June 15th, 14:36.240 --> 14:41.120 1953. You slip the medal in your pocket, and you're ready for a further gander 14:41.120 --> 14:48.560 when... What's going on here? Clare Maxwell, indignation in her eyes, and much worse, an 14:48.560 --> 14:58.600 automatic in her hand, big, black, deadly. Nothing special, Mrs. Maxwell? Get out of here 14:58.600 --> 15:03.840 quickly, please. I'm not finished yet, Mrs. Maxwell. You're finished or you will be. Look, I got a 15:03.840 --> 15:15.120 right to shoot. You're a trespasser here. Now don't come a step nearer or I'll shoot. Now I've got the gun 15:15.120 --> 15:21.520 and you've got nothing but, let's say, a guilty conscience because you meant to shoot. Get out! 15:21.520 --> 15:30.080 Get out! A little lesson first, Mrs. Maxwell. Right here, see? See? This is a safety catch. The gun 15:30.080 --> 15:36.600 don't go off unless the safety catch is unhooked. That's for next time. Now for now, I take the clip 15:36.600 --> 15:51.560 out, throw your gun back to you like so, and I say, bye now. You go home but you don't go to bed. You 15:51.560 --> 15:58.120 linger over a cup of coffee like a guy in a cafeteria killing time for a dime. Then at 1115, 15:58.120 --> 16:08.880 hello? Mr. Chambers? Yeah? Toby, Toby, the party give me a bellyache so now I give the party a 16:08.880 --> 16:14.080 bellyache. Where are you at, the Trapical? No, no. I'm in a little broken down salon on 3rd Avenue and 56th. 16:14.080 --> 16:18.520 I want you to meet me here right away. Well, what happened to your retirement plans, Toby? I ain't 16:18.520 --> 16:24.920 gonna retire but the party is. The party is gonna retire for good. But... Now come on down here, Mr. Chambers, 16:24.920 --> 16:32.960 and listen to Toby make like a canary. The name of this joint... Hello? Toby? Toby! 16:36.960 --> 16:43.400 You get to 56th and 3rd fast but not fast enough because the cops are there already. And the boss 16:43.400 --> 16:48.560 man is Louis Parker. You set him up on the facts. And it's directly connected with the other thing, 16:48.560 --> 16:53.680 right? Couldn't be righter, Louis. Any idea who that certain party was? No idea at all. Any 16:53.680 --> 16:59.760 witnesses shooting? No, nothing. Look, Pete, it's late. No use you knocking yourself out on this one. 16:59.760 --> 17:06.800 Go home, go to sleep. We'll be in touch. I think you're right, Louis. Oh, by the way, you traced that 17:06.800 --> 17:12.200 gun yet? Gun? What gun? You know, the gun in the other shooting, the Paul Maxwell deal. But what's with guns? 17:12.200 --> 17:18.640 What's your interest? Nothing, nothing. Just asking. Look, stop bothering me with guns now. I got work to do. 17:18.640 --> 17:29.640 Good night, Detective. So you're still at sea about Bruce Eldridge's gun. And that after all is your 17:29.640 --> 17:35.600 real interest. That's what you're going to be paid $500 for. Anyway, you go to sleep, 17:35.600 --> 17:41.960 sleep like a log. And the next afternoon you're at the Westchester Target Club, asking questions 17:41.960 --> 17:49.240 and getting answers. You're back in Manhattan now and ready for the wrap-up. You put in a call of 17:49.240 --> 17:58.720 Parker and comes nighttime, you're a saloon goer again. Cafe tropical. Any news for me, Mr. Chambers? 17:58.720 --> 18:07.200 Eldridge, could we talk somewhere alone? Sure, come on upstairs. Charlie Moss show up yet? Expect him 18:07.200 --> 18:11.200 practically any moment. Do you want to talk to him too? Don't mind if I do. All right, I'll leave her 18:11.200 --> 18:23.440 down here for him. All right then, Mr. Chambers. Mr. Eldridge, why didn't you tell me there was bad 18:23.440 --> 18:29.840 blood between you and Mr. Maxwell? Well, I wouldn't. Over Ruth Benson. Good. Well, because I don't 18:29.840 --> 18:35.560 believe in washing dirty linen in public. Now look, Mr. Chambers, I didn't kill Paul Maxwell. I was told 18:35.560 --> 18:40.160 you people wanted to speak with me. Mr. Chambers, I said I didn't kill Paul Maxwell. I know that. I'm not 18:40.160 --> 18:46.920 accusing you. But I am, however, accusing him. Charles Morris? I'm accusing him of the murder of 18:46.920 --> 18:52.920 Paul Maxwell and Toby Tobias. Have you gone out of your mind, Chambers? Now listen, my dear cultured 18:52.920 --> 18:59.480 book critic. You see this medal, see it? Which I found in Mrs. Maxwell's room? Well, that set me on 18:59.480 --> 19:05.800 the right track. The initials on it are CM. I thought it was Claire Maxwell. But this afternoon, 19:05.800 --> 19:11.680 I learned at the Westchester Target Club that CM was for Charles Morris. And on the strength of 19:11.680 --> 19:16.520 that, you're accusing me. Only one of three people could have killed Paul Maxwell. That's right. The 19:16.520 --> 19:21.040 police have already informed us of that. Bruce Eldridge, no soap. A gunphobia. Claire Maxwell, 19:21.040 --> 19:24.840 no soap because she pulled a gun on me yesterday. And she didn't even know how to flip the safety 19:24.840 --> 19:31.520 catch. Plus, our murderer had to be a crotch shot. He killed Paul with one bullet. That, my good 19:31.520 --> 19:36.840 friend, leaves us- That is all, Mr. Chambers. My compliments. Notice, please, I'm holding a gun. 19:36.840 --> 19:41.320 And as you know now, it's in the most competent of hands. And as long as you've got the drop on us, 19:41.320 --> 19:46.680 friend, you may as well complete the story just to satisfy our curiosity. No, but I will finish it 19:46.680 --> 19:51.400 to exonerate Claire Maxwell. She had nothing to do with Paul's murder. She had your medal, pal, 19:51.400 --> 19:56.320 and a rather expensive one. I loved her and she loved me. We asked Paul, we begged Paul for a 19:56.320 --> 20:01.120 divorce, but he wouldn't exceed. So I figured out the next best way. I went to bias with the big eyes, 20:01.120 --> 20:06.000 added two and two together, and tried blackmail. I was then compelled to dispose of Tobias, too. 20:06.000 --> 20:11.520 And now, what kind of chance do you think you have now? I don't know, but I'll find out. I intend to 20:11.520 --> 20:17.120 make a run for it. So, I back to the door. And remember, gentlemen- Don't say Charlie, drop the gun! 20:17.120 --> 20:29.200 Charles Morse may have won a medal, but Parker has won many medals. Anyway, in the exchange of gunfire, 20:29.200 --> 20:36.000 Morse winds up with a leaking shoulder and Parker winds up with a wide smile. And the next day, 20:36.000 --> 20:41.600 seated in your office, you thank Louis Parker for his nick of time heroics, and you're back to your 20:41.600 --> 20:49.440 favorite subject. Louis, just for kicks, was that original gun traced yet? No, I got it right here. 20:49.440 --> 20:54.240 My bet is he bought it in the hot shop. You see, every possible mark of identification has been 20:54.240 --> 20:59.360 filed off. Nobody can actually trace them. Oh, I don't know, I don't know. Some people have an 20:59.360 --> 21:05.040 intuitive sense. Some people can tell just by looking at things. Oh, meaning you. That's 21:05.040 --> 21:11.200 precisely what I mean, Lieutenant. Look, Detective, if you can tell me where this gun came from, 21:11.200 --> 21:17.760 I'll donate $500 to the Damon Runyon Fund. Fair enough. But if you don't, you donate. That's a deal. 21:18.400 --> 21:22.800 Now, look, Louis, I got big fat news for you. I couldn't tell you before, but that gun- 21:22.800 --> 21:28.880 Mr. Chambers, Mr. Chambers, I found my gun. You what? Yes, it had fallen behind some books in the 21:28.880 --> 21:34.400 shelf and my maid and clear- Hey, what's this? But nevertheless, Mr. Chambers, I owe you $500, 21:34.400 --> 21:40.000 and I want to write my check for it this very moment. Yeah, yeah, you write your check and 21:40.000 --> 21:44.240 make it out to the Damon Runyon Fund. Oh? Give it to the lieutenant here. 21:44.240 --> 21:56.960 Well, now, that's very charitable of you, Mr. Chambers. Very charitable of thee. 21:56.960 --> 22:00.400 And there you've had crime and Peter Chambers. 22:00.400 --> 22:14.160 Dane Clark was starred as Peter Chambers. Crime and Peter Chambers was created and written by 22:14.160 --> 22:20.400 Henry Kane. Others in the cast were Bill Zuckert, heard as Lieutenant Parker, and Petoniak as Claire, 22:20.400 --> 22:27.360 Ed Peck as Charles, and Nelson Almstead as Bruce. It was directed by Fred Wade. This is Fred Collins 22:27.360 --> 22:44.320 inviting you to tune in next week, same time, same station, for Dane Clark in Crime and Peter Chambers. 23:27.360 --> 23:42.080 Crime and Peter Chambers has come to you through the worldwide facilities of the United States Armed 23:42.080 --> 23:58.000 Forces Radio and Television Service. 24:42.080 --> 24:56.000 Thank you.