Richard Diamond, Private Detective: Mary Bellman Killed 06/28/1950
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Choice Classic Radio Detectives | Old Time Radio
29 min
2 speakers
6 chapters
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What is the setup and sponsor message that opens 'Mary Bellman Killed'?
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Good health to all from Rexall. And now your Rexall family druggist brings you transcribed another exciting half hour with Richard Diamond, private detective, starring Dick Powell.
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Diamond Detective Agency, if you have a little corpse in your home, swap it in for something useful. Mr. Diamond? Yes? I'd like to hire you, Mr. Diamond. Well, bless your little heart. One hundred a day in expenses. My name is Raymond R. Walter, an attorney at law. Would you mind coming right over to my office? Will you have a retainer ready? By the time you get here? Where is here? 758 East 45th Street. Just sign the check and I'll stamp in the amount with my track shoes. Then I can expect you. You could even clock me. Who knows? You may witness the first four-minute mile. I quickly bounded over to the sink, pulled out a bundle of soaking laundry, grabbed a straight razor that looked like it had been used to hack out shrapnel, applied the Brillo to my overnight beard, and 20 bloody strokes later, I observed myself in the mirror.
Wounded, sire, but not dead. By 11 o'clock, I was standing in the reception office of Raymond R. Waldron, attorney at law. I looked for the secretary, but none was to be seen. Then the door of Mr. Waldron's inner office opened, and a man about six feet tall, sporting a heavy black beard and thick horn-rimmed glasses, stood facing me. I suppose you're Mr. Waldron?
Yes. Take this chair, if you will.
Thank you. Now, what's your trouble? Oh, not mine. My client's.
You see, I'm supposed to give you $100 as a retainer until you speak with my client this evening.
Uh, before you wave the bills around, tell me something about your client. My ethics get so double-jointed when someone shows me money. My client is a she. Hmm. Well, you certainly present the beginning of an interesting argument. Her name is Miss Mary Bellman. Miss? Twenty-eight. Blonde. Showgirl. Very attractive. Hmm. Oh, so she killed 30 members of the volunteer fire department. I like tough cases. She's in fear of her life, Mr. Diamond, and since I'm her attorney, she called me and asked me to hire a good detective. You said Miss Bellum was in fear of her life. Somebody trying to kill her? I think it best to let Miss Bellum tell you. She has all the facts. Here's her address and here's your retainer. She expects you at 8.
It was close to 12 when I got back to the office and spotted my landlord nailing up my door. His eyes dropped blushingly down to his waist when he saw the two months' back rent at my hand, and he hurriedly explained his carpenter work on my door as a delayed April 1st joke. I paid him off as the last board fell and then left the building and went to my flat on 53rd Street to take it easy until that evening. By 7.30, I was dressed in my best suit, the gray one that stands out from the rest because the rest are one brown gabardine that even a starving moth would gag on. Suddenly, I remembered my dinner date with Helen, So I put in a fast call and told her butler, Francis, that I'd be a little late.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the setup and sponsor message that opens 'Mary Bellman Killed'?
0:00–6:53
2
How does Raymond R. Waldron recruit Richard Diamond and what job is requested?
6:53–14:05
3
What happens when Diamond visits Mary Bellman at her apartment?
14:05–15:34
4
How is Richard Diamond assaulted and what evidence ties him to the murder?
15:34–21:05
5
What do police discover at the crime scene and who are the immediate suspects?
21:05–23:12
6
How do Diamond and Lieutenant Walt investigate Raymond Waldron and the Aetna payroll connection?
23:12–29:37
Speakers
2 identifiedMore from Choice Classic Radio Detectives | Old Time Radio
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