The Saint: The Birds and the Bees of East Orange 03/18/1951
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Choice Classic Radio Detectives | Old Time Radio
29 min
3 speakers
5 chapters
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What is the opening premise of the Saint’s investigation in this episode?
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Mm. Mm. Mm-hmm. Okay. Mm-hmm.
Who Oh. It's you. Uh for a minute I thought uh I just stopped in for a a book. Yeah, that's it. You know what? So Mm. No.
All right, all right. Rome wasn't built in a day. How long did it take?
What?
Never mind.
You're Simon Templar.
Yes.
Then please let me in quickly.
Of course.
I'm going crazy.
Well, uh, could you wait until we got into the living room chairs there? You see?
Maybe you won't believe me, but I am going crazy.
Well, all right, but sit down, hm? No, I You're very pretty, and I'm glad you came to visit, but I won't have you going crazy in my apartment.
Where should I go crazy?
I have a suggestion. Don't go at all.
You don't understand. My name is Mae Owen.
How do you do?
I'm going crazy.
We were explaining why.
I'm sorry. You see, I own a little bookstore.
And you've been reading all the best sellers.
Of course not. I just rent books. I don't have to read them.
Oh, my apologies. A circulating library, hmm?
That's right.
Are you starting to cry?
Yes.
You have beautiful eyes. And lovely lass. Do they belong to you?
Of course they do.
Amazing, may.
Elaine.
I beg your pardon.
Maybelline on my lashes? I'm not gonna cry any more.
Good. Now then, you own a circulating library and to tell me what's bothering you. What is?
Mr. Templet. Have you ever heard of a book called Birds and Bees of East Orange?
I've been a luckier man than I'd realized. The answer is no. What about it?
Well, Mr. Templer, in the last month that book has been constantly in demand. It's crazy. Who cares about the birds and bees of East Orange?
I don't know.
It goes out of the library, a reservation comes in. As soon as it comes back to the library, it goes out again. And then another reservation, and then it comes in and goes out and comes in. Well, why should that happen all the time?
Well, perhaps the author has a lot of relatives.
You still don't understand.
Is there anything to understand? For some reason or other the book happens to be popular and There's no real problem.
Oh, but there is. You see, the people who've been taking that book out all the time Well we're the same people.
There it is, Mr Templer.
Uh stop right here, Louis.
Okay, Mr Temple. Yeah. Want I should wait, Mr. Templer?
I want you to wait, Louie.
I'll wait.
Mr Templer.
Yes, ma'am.
You're not speaking to me.
I'm trying to invent a good reason why I'm going to your bookstore with you.
Oh?
May, could I seriously tell anyone I'm going to a bookstore at this hour of the night in order to look at a book called The Birds and Bees of East Orange?
Sure you could.
Yeah, but they wouldn't believe me, just as I don't believe.
This is my place.
Oh.
It's small, but The books get in all right.
Well, that's convenient.
Just a minute till I put the lights on. Yeah.
I'd better shut the door. Before any any uh midnight browsers come around, hmm?
Now uh the birds and bees of East Orange? Yes. Well, it came in just before I shut up shop. It's on reserve, though, of course. So I left it behind the counter.
Well, who reserved it?
One of the people who've been taking it out regularly, uh It should be down here.
AHHHHH
May. Oh don't faint.
I've got a write.
No, no no what is it?
A man. Down here behind the counter.
Get out of there and let me take a look at him.
Oh all right.
Ordinary kitchen knife buried in his chest. He hasn't been dead very long. The body's still warm. Me, who is he?
I never saw him before.
You sure?
What I am it? He he doesn't even look like the kind of man who ever read a book.
I'm not so sure of that. Where is the birds in the bees book, huh?
I left it on the shelf right here. I don't understand I
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the opening premise of the Saint’s investigation in this episode?
0:00–7:32
2
How does Simon Templar first learn about the mysterious book “The Birds and Bees of East Orange”?
7:32–13:36
3
Why does Templar suspect the circulating‑library owner Mae Owen of being involved?
13:36–18:50
4
What clues lead Templar to discover the dead gambler James Dugan in the bookstore?
18:50–25:09
5
How do the characters use the book as a secret code for a payoff?
25:09–29:43