Lamont Cranston
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Well, what is it, Cranston?
Commissioner, do you remember Killer Novelli?
I certainly ought to.
I sent him to the chair in 1931.
He was a tough customer, all right.
Murdered about five people with his knives.
Commissioner, before he started on his career of crime, he was a knife thrower in Fortwood, is that right?
Yes, that's right.
Now, what are you driving at?
And Dr. Giles tells me he performed the autopsy on him.
What's the murderer electrocuted eight years ago got to do with the death of the doctor?
I don't know the answer to that, Commissioner.
But there's an odd similarity in the murder technique.
And as Dr. Giles pointed out, the weapon used on Dr. Kilgore...
Left the same tricornered mark as found on Novelli's victims.
Why, if I didn't know Novelli was dead and buried, I'd say he was our man.
Now, wait a minute.