Michale Shayne: Mr. Dixon's Life in Danger 09/17/1945
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What is the opening premise of the Mr. Dixon danger case?
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The Adventures of Michael Shane, private detective.
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Yeah. No, no, no.
Our detective friend Mike Shane solves most of his cases by a combination of clues, shrewd thinking, and daring action. But he's also a great student of criminal files and case histories of famous crimes. This morning, Mike is at his desk, deep in study of the latest exploit of another well known detective, Mr. Dick Tracy. When suddenly Mike's useful and very ornamental associate, Phyllis Knight, opens the office door.
Yes. Mine.
Huh? Uh yes, Angel?
Hide that funny paper. There's a client in the waiting room.
Oh, just when I was getting to the
Come on, come on.
Okay, okay. Show 'em in.
Uh Mr Shane will see you now, Mr. Carter. This is Mr. Shane, Mr. Nelson Carter.
I'm glad to know you, Mr. Carter. Won't you sit down, sir? Yes, yes. Thank you very much. Mr. Shane, I'll have to be very brief. I'm an attorney and I'm on my way to see a client. It's uh it's about him, about Mr. Dixon, that I've come here. Mm-hmm. I see. The situation is so uh fantastic, really, I'm afraid Mr. Dixon's life is in peril. I fear for him, I really do.
Is it uh case that the police department should
handle Mr. Carter? Well no, no. I I don't see how the Mr Shane, three days ago when Gregory Dixon walked into my office, I I screamed in terror. I almost fainted.
Fainted? But but
Yes. Two months ago we had buried Mr Dixon.
Oh, you had buried Mr. What?
Yes. Oh oh yes, it was a perfectly proper funeral. Hm. Well, I thought I was seeing his ghost. We'd received word that Mr Dixon was killed in an accident down in Mexico, in Yucatan. Imagine, imagine my consternation. Here he walked into my office while I'm administrating his estate.
Uh huh. That would make anybody do nip ups.
Yet you say you buried him. Oh, it was a mistake, a horrible mistake. Oh. Somebody died in Yucatan. They thought it was Mr. Dixon. The coffin was shipped to Mr. Dixon's cousin. We held a funeral and I was appointed administrator of the estate.
How does Nelson Carter first alert Mike Shane to Dixon’s peril?
But uh uh just a minute, sir. You started off by telling us Mr Dixon's life is in danger.
Yes. His heirs have received his bequests. Now they'll have to refund the money, and uh well, with all respect for Mr. Dixon's relatives, I must say several of them are extremely unsavory.
Well, that's no reason for thinking that they
will uh
try to kill him.
Well, I think there's every danger they will, Mr. Shane. One of his cousins came into my office yesterday. He was absolutely furious because he was cheated out of his inheritance. He asked me about Mr. Dixon's health and how long I thought he might live and so you So
you want us to protect your client?
Yes. Now I'm going out to his house right now. I I'd like you to come along and talk to Mr. Dixon.
Well, I would rather prevent a murder than solve one. Then you will come with me? Yes, Mr Carter, we will.
Well, well, Carter, you're an old worry wart. A good attorney, but an old worry wart. Now, now, Mr. Dixon, you don't appreciate the serious danger which you're in. Do you, Mr. Shane and Miss Knight, feel that I'm a man about to be murdered?
Well, we really don't know, sir. You see.
I can understand Carter's feelings. He doesn't want to have to probate your will a second time. Every time you die, you make more work for the poor man. Clarence, then you heard. As I was coming in from the garden, I'm Clarence Fisher, Mr. Dixon's cousin.
How do you do, Mr. How do you do, Mr. Dixon? Fisher?
Of course, Carter may be right. I'm worth considerably more to you, Clarence, dead than alive. I can talk like that to Clarence. He's got a fine sense of humor. Not like his cousin Howard. Howard is sober as a judge with a toothache.
Assuming Mr. Dixon's life is in danger, who would be the most likely suspect?
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What is the opening premise of the Mr. Dixon danger case?
0:00–2:40
2
How does Nelson Carter first alert Mike Shane to Dixon’s peril?
2:40–5:33
3
Why do the heirs claim the estate and how might that endanger Dixon?
5:33–10:04
4
What clues do the detectives find in the empty coffin and the water‑well?
10:04–13:53
5
How is Howard Connell linked to the false death and the missing ring?
13:53–19:43
6
What evidence points to murder rather than suicide in the house?
19:43–24:41
7
How do the investigators reconstruct the scene of Connell’s fall?
24:41–27:25
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