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[opening theme playing]
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Miss Carter, these l'm taking.
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Three 25?s, one 50?,
and two _1 ones.
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Even Einstein would have to admit
that's _3.25.
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- Agreed?
- Yes.
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l'll call Mr. Kraft.
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So big a deal as this--
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you can't handle it alone, Miss Carter?
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Or you think perhaps l have
a Shakespeare First Folio here?
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[laughs]
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No, but you know how Mr. Kraft is.
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He's very suspicious
of rival bookstore owners.
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Joseph Kraft is welcome
to buy books in my store.
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Why should l not be welcome
to buy in his?
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l guess it's all right, Mr. Gilfain.
May l wrap these for you?
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From Joseph Kraft, for _3.25,
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l don't expect to get
even a-- a paper bag.
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[whispering]
Kenneth, what are you doing here?
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- l've got to talk to you.
- [doorbells ding]
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lf Mr. Kraft sees you, you're likely
to be talking to a policeman.
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Besides, l told you--
no more money.
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You don't understand.
They're gonna cream me if l don't pay up.
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l mean really wipe me out.
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You should have thought of that
a long time ago,
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before you ever started
playing with professional gamblers.
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Oh, nothing tonight, Professor Muntz?
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How's that? Oh, no thank you.
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l'm strictly a browser
after that Izaak Walton l purchased last week.
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Ruinous-- simply ruinous.
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Good night.
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Good night.
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Okay, sis, you win.
Come visit me at the morgue.
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Kenneth, wait.
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lt's just that l had to borrow so much
from Mr. Kraft,
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and each time
l have to make up a dimerent story.
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But this is the last time, sis.
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l promise.
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Oh.
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After this, no more gambling-- never.
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Do you hear me? Do you?
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Never.
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Thanks, sis.
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Miss Carter?
Miss Carter, l think l found it.
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Found what?
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The song for the Mississippi section
of my book.
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Oh good.
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- Would you hold the music for me?
- Sure.
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Let's give a lesson here.
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This train is bound for glory
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This train
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This train is bound for glory
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This train
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This train is bound for glory...
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- [radio playing classical music]
- [singing continues]
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This train don't pull no sleepers,
this train
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This train don't pull no sleepers...
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Will you stop that?
What do you think this is--
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some kind of comeehouse
or beatnik joint?
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Now take that instrument and get out.
Get out and stay out.
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Yes, sir, Mr. Kraft. Yes, sir.
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- l'm sorry.
- You should be.
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- Now turn om the lights and close up.
- Yes, Mr. Kraft.
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[doorbells ding]
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Uh...
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Mr. Kraft?
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You remember that money
l said l might need for my landlady's--
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[Mr. Kraft]
Ellen, come here.
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That Tristam Shandy on this shelf--
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you sold it?
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No, you said l wasn't to sell these books
without consulting you.
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Then what's become of it?
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l don't know.
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That brother of yours--
was he here today?
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Kenneth? You know you told him
never to come in here, Mr. Kraft.
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But if you feel l'm responsible
for the book being gone,
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l'll gladly pay the _8 you had it marked.
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_8? _8,OOO would be more like it.
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_8,ooo?
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Yes, _8,OOO.
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Either you're stupid
or you're a sneaky thief like your brother.
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- l don't know which, but you're through.
- But Mr. Kraft--
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Now get out! Get out.
Get out before l have you arrested,
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you and your brother both.
You want that? You want that? Do you?
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Miss Carter?
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Oh, Mr. Norland.
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l was-- l was just waiting around out here
to see if l could...
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escort you home.
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But l-- l couldn't help hearing
through the open door,
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and l think that's a darn dirty trick.
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You want me to go in there
and wrap this guitar around his fat neck?
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lt's a nice thought, Mr. Norland,
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but l'm afraid it wouldn't do any good.
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Uh, would comee?
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- Would comee?
- Do any good.
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[sighs]
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Well...
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yes, l think it would.
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[dialing]
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Pearl, Joseph Kraft.
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About that Tristam Shandy,
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l thought you were
supposed to pick it up tomorrow.
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You didn't come by
and get it this evening?
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Why no, Joseph, l've been here
in front of the fire all evening,
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thinking of you.
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Gone?
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Are you sure?
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You don't suppose the police
could have had anything to do with it, do you?
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No no, that's out of the question.
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Maybe he changed his mind
and took it back.
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You'll let me know
if anything happens, won't you?
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l won't be able to sleep a wink.
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Good night, Joseph.
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[Man] Instead of a fashion artist, Pearl,
you should have been an actress.
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Mmm.
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Now how about unraveling the mystery?
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l steal this beat-up old book for you;
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you got the phone call you've been waiting
qo_. So now where are we?
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Well, first, this beat-up old book,
as you call it,
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happens to be worth about _8,OOO.
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_8,ooo?
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lf l'd have known that, l'd never let you
con me into taking it.
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Well, that's why l didn't tell you, darling.
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Besides, it's hot, so there'll be no
complaints-- at least not to the police.
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Oh. The old boy Kraft,
he's a book thief.
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No, he's a receiver.
And he's not so old, either.
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Oh? Where do you fit in with him?
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Not how you're thinking, sweet.
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Actually l'm sort of
a junior business partner.
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Only l'm ambitious;
l'd like to move up in the firm.
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And that's where you fit in.
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All right, what's the proposition?
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About once a month,
l get a call from Kraft.
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He has a first edition
o_ Tristam Shandy
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or Vanity fair or Alice in Wonderland
for me to buy.
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- Buy?
- The ne_ day l go to the store.
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The book's marked _6.50
or _T or _8.
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The clerk checks the price with Mr. Kraft,
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but there's no contact between us.
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l just pay for the book and walk out.
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Then what?
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Over here.
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Specially aged inks, paper, thread,
old-time pens;
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even special kinds of glues
they used in the old days.
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You change the books.
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Exactly as Kraft tells me to;
nothing drastic.
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Just enough so that nobody
will quite be able to identify
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any particular copy
of an edition.
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Then l mail them back to Kraft.
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ln a couple of days,
the postman hands me an envelope
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with five crisp _100 bills in it.
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_500? You're kidding me.
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You didn't think fashion sketching
Iet me live like this, did you?
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l wondered.
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How does Kraft get the books
in the first place? Who steals them for him?
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He doesn't know.
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lf he doesn't know him,
how does he pay this guy?
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l don't know.
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But l did learn one thing
checking the book auctions.
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Kraft's been averaging
better than _6,OOO
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on the books l've fixed for him.
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Ho! At a book a month,
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that's better than _TO,OOO a year.
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That's right, sweet.
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So don't you think this is one book club
you ought to join?
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lt does seem a bit arbitrary, Miss Carter,
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dismissing you
because one book is missing.
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However, l'm afraid you'll have trouble
collecting damages,
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if that's what you're thinking of.
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Oh no, that's not it.
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l just want to know
how to go about...
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straightening things out
so l don't have to live in fear
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of his suddenly deciding
to have me arrested.
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Have you tried to see him today?
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No.
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Well, l did.
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That's where l got this.
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But it took Kraft, his clerk and three
customers to throw me out of the store.
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You also arranged
for this interview, l believe.
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Yeah, that's right.
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Why all this interest, Mr. Norland,
when you barely know Miss Carter?
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Just say it's the slice of life
for the great American novel l'm gonna write...
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and nosiness.
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Nosiness?
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Over why Kraft would mark a book _8
and then say it was worth _8,OOO.
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Temper, maybe.
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Yeah, but would he get into such a temper
if the book was worth only _8?
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He might have thought
l was starting to...
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do what Kenneth did.
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My brother.
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When our mother died,
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Mr. Kraft asked us both
to come and work for him.
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We'd never met him,
but we're the only relatives he has.
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And the idea was that someday
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we might even inherit the bookstore.
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But last month,
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Kenneth took _200 from the cash register
to gamble with
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and couldn't pay it back.
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And Mr. Kraft fired him?
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Yes, even though l gave him the money.
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But l...
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owe him some more.
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Look, Mr. Mason,
Kraft is just suspecting her
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because of the kind of guy
her brother is.
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But has he got the right
to condemn Ellen without proof?
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Certainly no moral right, Mr. Norland.
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Della, didn't you tell me
that volume 6
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o_ Manning & Granger's Reports
had somehow been lost?
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That was two years ago.
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Don't you think it's about time
l tried replacing it--
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perhaps after lunch
at Mr. Kraft's bookstore?
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Yes l do.
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No, madam,
Tropic of Cancer is not a medical book--
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far from it.
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May l assist you, sir?
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Are you Joseph Kraft?
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No, Pickson-- Herbert Pickson,
chief clerk,
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but if it's a particular book,
l'm sure l can find it for you.
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You can find Mr. Kraft for me.
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He's in his omice, but he never
sees anyone without any appointment.
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He'll see me.
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[Mr. Kraft]
Who is it?
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My name is Gene Torg,
Mr. Kraft.
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l'm calling in regard
to a mutual friend
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by the name of Laurence Sterne.
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Steel mesh on the window;
Iocks on the door.
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What do you keep in here, Mr. Kraft?
Gold bullion?
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Valuable books sometimes.
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Would have been wiser if you'd have kept
this Tristam Shandy in here
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instead of on a shelf outside.
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You took it last night?
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Borrowed it, let's say...
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pending an agreement on it
and future stolen books.
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What's the idea of that?
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So you won't leave, Mr. Torg,
while l'm calling the police.
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Are you out of your head?
How are you going to explain this to them?
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l'll leave that to you.
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Apparently you came into my store last night,
took a copy of Tristam Shandy om the shelf,
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and now for some mysterious reason,
you're attempting to use it to threaten me.
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You've got the nerve
of a riverboat gambler.
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Only l happen to have the hole card
that'll call your blum--
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the Queen of Hearts,
Pearl Chute.
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She's in this with you?
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- [knock at door]
- [Pickson] Mr. Kraft?
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Can you spare a minute
for a Mr. Mason--
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Mr. Perry Mason?
He says it's important.
246
00:13:54,122 --> 00:13:55,257
Mason?
247
00:14:00,125 --> 00:14:01,694
Come in. Come in, sir.
248
00:14:01,825 --> 00:14:04,129
Mr. Torg here was just leaving.
249
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Mr. Torg.
Haven't we met before?
250
00:14:07,296 --> 00:14:10,634
No, l don't think so.
251
00:14:10,764 --> 00:14:14,704
Our deal-- l'll be back tonight
to iron out the details.
252
00:14:14,833 --> 00:14:17,336
Good day, sir.
253
00:14:20,037 --> 00:14:22,774
Well, what can l do for you, Mr. Mason?
254
00:14:22,904 --> 00:14:24,873
l'm here on behalf of Ellen Carter.
255
00:14:25,005 --> 00:14:28,677
Oh. You're a lawyer, aren't you?
She came to you?
256
00:14:28,807 --> 00:14:33,014
E_remely disturbed over a threat
you allegedly made when you discharged her,
257
00:14:33,144 --> 00:14:36,716
namely that you would
have her arrested for theft.
258
00:14:36,845 --> 00:14:40,517
Mr. Mason,
l have a hair-trigger temper
259
00:14:40,647 --> 00:14:44,252
and l very often do things
that l regret later on.
260
00:14:44,382 --> 00:14:48,489
l'm ashamed of threatening Ellen
and l'm ashamed of discharging her.
261
00:14:48,619 --> 00:14:52,424
And all the result of a misunderstanding
over a mislaid book
262
00:14:52,554 --> 00:14:54,924
which l found this morning.
263
00:14:55,056 --> 00:14:56,892
This book--Tristam Shandy?
264
00:14:57,023 --> 00:14:59,093
As a matter of fact, yes.
265
00:14:59,225 --> 00:15:02,262
How is it you'd keep a book
as valuable as this on an open shelf?
266
00:15:02,392 --> 00:15:04,362
Valuable? Oh, l see.
267
00:15:04,494 --> 00:15:07,364
You mean my telling Ellen
that it was worth _8,OOO?
268
00:15:07,495 --> 00:15:09,732
Temper again, Mr. Mason.
269
00:15:09,864 --> 00:15:13,936
Actually it's worth about _8,
as you can see. It's marked.
270
00:15:14,067 --> 00:15:16,938
So it is.
271
00:15:17,069 --> 00:15:19,439
Now as to your misunderstanding
with Miss Carter
272
00:15:19,569 --> 00:15:21,204
do you plan to rectify it?
273
00:15:21,338 --> 00:15:25,511
Oh, l've been trying to reach her all morning
to apologize and give her her job back.
274
00:15:25,640 --> 00:15:27,676
That seems fair enough.
275
00:15:28,874 --> 00:15:30,844
This is quite a handsome volume.
276
00:15:30,976 --> 00:15:34,247
Since l've always enjoyed Sterne,
l'll take it.
277
00:15:34,378 --> 00:15:36,180
Oh, no no,
that books been sold.
278
00:15:36,313 --> 00:15:38,215
l'm sorry, Mr. Mason.
279
00:15:38,348 --> 00:15:41,352
May l ask if the buyer was Mr. Torg?
280
00:15:42,350 --> 00:15:44,119
Odd that he didn't take it with him.
281
00:15:44,250 --> 00:15:48,122
Well, it's part of a deal
that we're concluding.
282
00:15:48,252 --> 00:15:51,090
You, uh...
283
00:15:51,221 --> 00:15:52,890
you won't forget to phone Miss Carter?
284
00:15:53,022 --> 00:15:55,225
Oh, l'll do that right away--
right away, sir.
285
00:15:55,357 --> 00:15:56,559
Good.
286
00:15:59,826 --> 00:16:01,828
Good day, sir.
287
00:16:17,702 --> 00:16:19,538
Pearl?
288
00:16:19,670 --> 00:16:21,105
Oh, l see.
289
00:16:21,238 --> 00:16:23,641
Do you know where Miss Chute is?
290
00:16:24,639 --> 00:16:27,577
No no, l'll call back later.
291
00:16:33,878 --> 00:16:37,149
Excuse me.
You're Professor Muntz, aren't you?
292
00:16:37,280 --> 00:16:40,685
You're Mr. Mason. l haven't seen you
since that regrettable hazing amair
293
00:16:40,815 --> 00:16:43,452
at the university five--
or was it six-- years ago.
294
00:16:43,584 --> 00:16:44,751
Six, Professor.
295
00:16:44,884 --> 00:16:48,924
As l recall, you were specializing
in 1Tth- and 18th-century English literature.
296
00:16:49,054 --> 00:16:50,356
l still am.
297
00:16:50,488 --> 00:16:52,657
Then perhaps you can tell me
what distinguishing marks
298
00:16:52,789 --> 00:16:55,092
to look for in a first-edition
Tristam Shandy
299
00:16:55,224 --> 00:16:57,795
to be sure it's genuine.
300
00:16:57,925 --> 00:17:01,797
First-edition Tristam Shandys
are a little rich for my blood, Mr. Mason,
301
00:17:01,927 --> 00:17:03,429
but, well, let me think.
302
00:17:03,561 --> 00:17:05,730
Could one of the libraries help me?
303
00:17:05,863 --> 00:17:07,498
The Cosgrove maybe?
304
00:17:07,630 --> 00:17:09,199
ln San Marino, yes.
305
00:17:09,332 --> 00:17:11,936
Yes, l guess the Cosgrove
might be worth trying.
306
00:17:17,036 --> 00:17:21,776
You see, Mr. Drake, first editions
have their own unique fingerprints,
307
00:17:21,905 --> 00:17:23,440
so to speak,
just as people do.
308
00:17:23,572 --> 00:17:26,376
Now take the King James Bible--
309
00:17:26,508 --> 00:17:30,113
the important fingerprint there
is in the Book of Ruth--
310
00:17:30,244 --> 00:17:32,715
''He measured five measures
of barley...
311
00:17:32,845 --> 00:17:34,881
and he went into the city.''
312
00:17:35,013 --> 00:17:38,585
Subsequent issues read:
''...and she went into the city.''
313
00:17:38,715 --> 00:17:40,350
And that makes a dimerence?
314
00:17:40,482 --> 00:17:45,389
Of about _200,OOO in regard
to the King James Bible, Mr. Drake.
315
00:17:45,519 --> 00:17:46,586
[whistles]
316
00:17:46,719 --> 00:17:49,657
Yes, but you were asking me
317
00:17:49,788 --> 00:17:53,059
about some Tristam Shandy fingerprints.
318
00:17:53,190 --> 00:17:57,764
Now suppose we start with volume 1 ,
published in 1T60.
319
00:17:57,893 --> 00:18:01,365
Now this particular copy
is rather valuable.
320
00:18:01,494 --> 00:18:04,465
lt was one of several
presentation copies
321
00:18:04,596 --> 00:18:07,499
given by Sterne to David Garrick,
the actor.
322
00:18:07,631 --> 00:18:09,801
And there's his inscription--
323
00:18:09,933 --> 00:18:12,670
''To David Garrick
from his constant admirer
324
00:18:12,801 --> 00:18:14,270
L. Sterne.''
325
00:18:14,402 --> 00:18:18,709
Now the answer here comes
from certain missing fingerprints.
326
00:18:18,838 --> 00:18:22,176
Oddly, the first-edition title page
327
00:18:22,307 --> 00:18:24,677
bore no printer's, no publisher's name,
328
00:18:24,808 --> 00:18:27,278
no place of publication
and not even...
329
00:18:30,510 --> 00:18:33,581
''By L. Sterne.''
330
00:18:33,712 --> 00:18:37,117
- By L. Sterne?
- What's wrong?
331
00:18:37,248 --> 00:18:40,586
The first-edition title page
was also without the author's name.
332
00:18:40,716 --> 00:18:44,054
This book is a substitution,
and even the inscription must be a forgery.
333
00:18:44,186 --> 00:18:46,689
But that's impossible.
334
00:18:46,820 --> 00:18:48,857
That's impossible.
335
00:18:48,988 --> 00:18:52,827
[Beethoven's fi Fth playing]
336
00:19:04,163 --> 00:19:07,101
EIIen_. The Indoor Barbeque Cookbook
marked _1 .50.
337
00:19:07,232 --> 00:19:08,968
[Man]
Here you are.
338
00:19:09,099 --> 00:19:12,070
- Would you like me to wrap it?
- No thanks, l'll eat it here.
339
00:19:12,202 --> 00:19:15,807
- Eat it?
- Barbequed Cookbook. Eat!
340
00:19:17,871 --> 00:19:20,107
Well, you can't win 'em all.
341
00:19:22,274 --> 00:19:25,846
Mr. Mason, l tried to reach you
this afternoon to thank you.
342
00:19:25,976 --> 00:19:28,245
Where's Mr. Kraft, Ellen?
343
00:19:28,377 --> 00:19:30,113
ln his omice.
344
00:19:35,881 --> 00:19:39,152
You sure he's in there, Ellen?
345
00:19:39,283 --> 00:19:43,255
Yes, Mr. Mason, l heard him
turn the radio on an hour or so ago.
346
00:19:43,385 --> 00:19:46,523
Perry, l smell gas.
347
00:19:49,156 --> 00:19:51,959
Mr. Kraft? Mr. Kraft.
348
00:19:58,694 --> 00:20:00,963
Mr. Kraft?
349
00:20:04,097 --> 00:20:06,099
[coughing]
350
00:20:09,555 --> 00:20:10,990
When the radio came on?
351
00:20:11,122 --> 00:20:13,525
Well, l'd just come back from dinner,
352
00:20:13,658 --> 00:20:16,828
so it couldn't have been
much after T:OO.
353
00:20:16,958 --> 00:20:19,629
Mr. Pickson was still here.
354
00:20:19,761 --> 00:20:22,499
- Pickson?
- Terrible--
355
00:20:22,630 --> 00:20:24,131
a terrible thing.
356
00:20:24,264 --> 00:20:27,167
l-- l couldn't believe it
when the police phoned me.
357
00:20:27,298 --> 00:20:29,367
The radio, Pickson?
358
00:20:29,499 --> 00:20:30,834
Oh yes.
359
00:20:30,966 --> 00:20:34,705
When Mr. Kraft turned it on,
it was a moment or two after T:OO,
360
00:20:34,837 --> 00:20:36,773
which is when l always leave
for the night.
361
00:20:36,905 --> 00:20:40,777
And it was around 9:OO
when you broke in here, Paul?
362
00:20:40,907 --> 00:20:44,012
That's right. So knockom time must have been
between T:OO and 9:OO.
363
00:20:44,141 --> 00:20:47,913
Well, thank you very very much,
Mr. Norland.
364
00:20:48,043 --> 00:20:50,112
l might never have figured that out.
365
00:20:50,244 --> 00:20:53,782
And now if you don't mind,
you two-- you and you--
366
00:20:53,914 --> 00:20:55,483
wait outside.
367
00:20:55,614 --> 00:20:58,352
Uh, anything there, Andy?
368
00:20:58,483 --> 00:21:01,454
Hasn't been tampered with
as far as l can make out.
369
00:21:01,585 --> 00:21:04,555
All right,
Iet's see what we've got so far,
370
00:21:04,686 --> 00:21:07,657
preliminary to the autopsy, of course.
371
00:21:07,788 --> 00:21:10,959
A little before 6:OO,
according to half a dozen witnesses,
372
00:21:11,089 --> 00:21:13,592
Kraft comes back from supper
to hole up in here
373
00:21:13,725 --> 00:21:16,095
the way he did almost every night.
374
00:21:16,226 --> 00:21:18,662
At T:OO, he turns on the radio;
375
00:21:18,794 --> 00:21:21,632
maybe the heater
and the lamp too then.
376
00:21:21,763 --> 00:21:25,201
Anyway, he goes back
to the couch
377
00:21:25,331 --> 00:21:28,202
- and falls asleep.
- What makes you say that?
378
00:21:28,333 --> 00:21:31,438
Well, if he'd been awake,
he'd have smelled the escaping gas.
379
00:21:33,236 --> 00:21:36,373
He turned the valve like so,
380
00:21:36,504 --> 00:21:39,475
not noticing that the pilot light was out.
381
00:21:39,606 --> 00:21:41,241
And they do go out.
382
00:21:41,373 --> 00:21:44,611
l know because l've got one in my basement
l have to light about once every month.
383
00:21:44,742 --> 00:21:46,277
An accident then?
384
00:21:46,410 --> 00:21:48,379
Of course, suicide's a possibility too,
385
00:21:48,511 --> 00:21:52,183
but the pilot light would probably have been
actually turned om in that case,
386
00:21:52,313 --> 00:21:54,349
and there'd most likely be a note.
387
00:21:54,481 --> 00:21:57,318
Doesn't it seem to you
that he fell asleep rather quickly?
388
00:21:57,449 --> 00:22:00,887
Gas escaping like that would certainly
be noticed in three or four minutes.
389
00:22:01,017 --> 00:22:03,855
You should see me fall asleep.
390
00:22:03,986 --> 00:22:08,392
Perry, Homicide has to double check
these things.
391
00:22:08,523 --> 00:22:10,859
Don't you try to make a murder out of it.
392
00:22:10,990 --> 00:22:12,692
Why not?
393
00:22:12,825 --> 00:22:16,497
Well, it's the granddaddy of all
the locked-room puzzles that l've ever heard o_.
394
00:22:16,627 --> 00:22:19,264
And how.
No other way into the room
395
00:22:19,395 --> 00:22:21,364
except through this door,
396
00:22:21,496 --> 00:22:24,333
and that locked from the inside
until you smashed it,
397
00:22:24,465 --> 00:22:27,168
and these windows,
also locked from the inside
398
00:22:27,299 --> 00:22:29,235
and protected by steel mesh.
399
00:22:29,367 --> 00:22:31,336
Anyway, nobody'd get through 'em
but a midget,
400
00:22:31,468 --> 00:22:36,175
and none did or else these dead flies
and this dust would be disturbed.
401
00:22:37,172 --> 00:22:38,774
Well, Perry?
402
00:22:39,940 --> 00:22:42,878
You have the locked room, Lieutenant.
l'll grant you that.
403
00:22:43,008 --> 00:22:44,677
But l'd still like to know what happened
404
00:22:44,810 --> 00:22:47,180
to that copy of Tristam Shandy
l told you about.
405
00:22:47,310 --> 00:22:50,148
[knock at door]
406
00:22:50,279 --> 00:22:53,350
- Who is it?
- It's me, Pearl-- Gene. Open up.
407
00:22:53,481 --> 00:22:55,217
Coming.
408
00:23:10,023 --> 00:23:11,558
What's the matter?
409
00:23:11,691 --> 00:23:15,196
Kraft. He's dead.
410
00:23:15,326 --> 00:23:17,295
Dead?
411
00:23:17,427 --> 00:23:19,564
But l saw him not--
412
00:23:20,763 --> 00:23:23,567
- When did he die?
- How should l know?
413
00:23:23,698 --> 00:23:24,866
The desk clerk at my apartment
414
00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:26,936
just said there was a lot of excitement
down by his store--
415
00:23:27,066 --> 00:23:29,169
police cars, ambulance.
416
00:23:30,635 --> 00:23:32,738
When did you see Kraft?
417
00:23:34,671 --> 00:23:38,878
l didn't mean ''see him.''
l meant when l talked to him on the phone.
418
00:23:39,008 --> 00:23:40,577
Phone?
419
00:23:40,708 --> 00:23:44,213
That how you got this from him?
By phone?
420
00:23:45,210 --> 00:23:48,381
- [knock at door]
- Paul: Miss Chute?
421
00:23:48,512 --> 00:23:49,680
Yes, what is it?
422
00:23:49,813 --> 00:23:53,018
l'd like to speak to Mr. Torg a minute
if you don't mind.
423
00:24:00,753 --> 00:24:03,557
- Who are you?
- My name is Paul, Miss Chute.
424
00:24:03,688 --> 00:24:07,593
l'm a collector of old books and Mr. Torg
has one l'm very interested in.
425
00:24:07,723 --> 00:24:10,594
You see, l arrived at his apartment
just as he was leaving,
426
00:24:10,725 --> 00:24:12,527
so l...
427
00:24:14,160 --> 00:24:16,062
Come in, come in.
428
00:24:18,996 --> 00:24:20,932
You know who this is, Pearl?
429
00:24:21,064 --> 00:24:23,734
The pet private eye
of that lawyer, Perry Mason.
430
00:24:23,866 --> 00:24:26,336
Name's Paul, all right--
Paul Drake.
431
00:24:26,467 --> 00:24:28,803
l'll lay odds the only books
you ever collected in your life
432
00:24:28,935 --> 00:24:31,305
were bound copies
o_ The Police Gazette.
433
00:24:31,436 --> 00:24:32,638
Could be, Torg.
434
00:24:32,771 --> 00:24:36,443
But right now l am interested
in a first edition of Tristam Shandy.
435
00:24:36,572 --> 00:24:38,842
You mean Mason is.
436
00:24:38,975 --> 00:24:42,447
Well, you can tell him for me the last time
l saw the book was when he did,
437
00:24:42,576 --> 00:24:44,578
on Kraft's desk
today around noon.
438
00:24:46,945 --> 00:24:50,817
- Then this couldn't be it over here.
- Drake!
439
00:24:50,947 --> 00:24:53,418
Get out.
440
00:24:53,549 --> 00:24:56,319
Just as you say.
441
00:24:56,451 --> 00:24:58,420
Good night, Miss Chute.
442
00:25:02,821 --> 00:25:04,757
Well, big shot, you've done it.
443
00:25:04,889 --> 00:25:07,526
lt's my fault.
l shouldn't have let him in.
444
00:25:08,524 --> 00:25:10,694
How did that book get here, Pearl?
How?
445
00:25:10,826 --> 00:25:13,462
l got it from Kraft.
He called after you'd been there.
446
00:25:13,593 --> 00:25:15,228
So you went over there
and made you own deal with him, huh?
447
00:25:15,361 --> 00:25:17,464
But l didn't; l made our deal--
448
00:25:17,595 --> 00:25:20,333
half of whatever he cleared on the books
with you to collect the money.
449
00:25:20,464 --> 00:25:22,500
And then he agreed to that
without a fuss?
450
00:25:22,632 --> 00:25:25,103
Yes.
451
00:25:25,233 --> 00:25:28,438
lt couldn't be, could it,
that he didn't agree?
452
00:25:28,569 --> 00:25:31,639
And in the argument you shoved him
a little too hard or something?
453
00:25:31,771 --> 00:25:35,309
Kraft said you were
supposed to come by his place tonight.
454
00:25:35,440 --> 00:25:40,113
Now it couldn't be that you shoved him
a little too hard or something?
455
00:25:43,811 --> 00:25:46,782
Volume 2 of our Tristam Shandy,
l believe you said, sir?
456
00:25:46,913 --> 00:25:47,814
That's right.
457
00:25:47,947 --> 00:25:50,016
Please return it to me when you finish.
458
00:26:09,759 --> 00:26:12,295
l think you'll agree that this is one way
it could have been done.
459
00:26:12,427 --> 00:26:15,697
Notebooks?
It never occurred to us
460
00:26:15,829 --> 00:26:18,200
that books could be hidden in them.
461
00:26:18,330 --> 00:26:20,599
How many substitutions
have been discovered so far?
462
00:26:20,731 --> 00:26:24,703
Six if you include the volume 1
o_ Tristam Shandy--
463
00:26:24,835 --> 00:26:28,340
one Fielding, two Bront?s,
one George Eliot,
464
00:26:28,470 --> 00:26:32,042
and an exceptionally fine copy
o_ Swih!s Gulliver's Travels.
465
00:26:32,171 --> 00:26:33,673
And their total value?
466
00:26:33,806 --> 00:26:35,675
_30 to _40,OOO,
467
00:26:35,807 --> 00:26:37,876
provided they could
be sold somewhere, of course.
468
00:26:38,008 --> 00:26:41,980
l don't think the Shandy's been sold yet,
but the others probably have.
469
00:26:42,111 --> 00:26:45,349
Have you received any replies
from the other libraries?
470
00:26:45,479 --> 00:26:48,350
UCLA has found two substitutions;
471
00:26:48,481 --> 00:26:51,452
Huntington and Oldbury,
one each.
472
00:26:51,583 --> 00:26:53,319
Then the losses could run
into hundreds of thousands.
473
00:26:53,450 --> 00:26:54,885
Quite easily.
474
00:26:55,018 --> 00:26:58,456
You see, the substitute books
are so close to the originals
475
00:26:58,587 --> 00:27:00,690
that only an expert
would notice the dimerence
476
00:27:00,821 --> 00:27:03,992
and then only if his suspicions
had been aroused.
477
00:27:04,124 --> 00:27:07,529
So this may have been going on
for a long time.
478
00:27:07,658 --> 00:27:10,896
A fiendishly clever man,
this Joseph Kraft.
479
00:27:11,027 --> 00:27:14,332
Clever, but not very lucky.
480
00:27:14,462 --> 00:27:16,231
We'll keep in touch.
481
00:27:16,363 --> 00:27:18,966
l would appreciate that.
482
00:27:19,098 --> 00:27:21,402
Uh, Mr. Mason?
483
00:27:21,533 --> 00:27:23,769
Aren't you forgetting something?
484
00:27:34,206 --> 00:27:37,277
Joseph Kraft substituted
second or third editions
485
00:27:37,408 --> 00:27:39,711
for valuable first editions.
486
00:27:39,843 --> 00:27:42,781
Pearl Chute altered the stolen
first editions.
487
00:27:42,912 --> 00:27:46,183
Then Kraft sold them as finds
he'd come on to someplace.
488
00:27:46,313 --> 00:27:48,983
But where did Gene Torg fit in?
489
00:27:49,115 --> 00:27:52,320
Wherever he could get his foot in the door.
That's why Perry had me go after him.
490
00:27:52,450 --> 00:27:54,753
We'd met Torg once before
in a con-game case.
491
00:27:54,885 --> 00:27:57,522
Did the police question him?
492
00:27:57,653 --> 00:28:00,089
This morning.
He denied everything and so did Pearl.
493
00:28:00,220 --> 00:28:01,589
And it looks like
they're gonna make it stick.
494
00:28:01,722 --> 00:28:04,426
Your people are still watching them,
aren't they, Paul?
495
00:28:04,557 --> 00:28:07,728
Also the boy from the robbery detail,
so it's gotten a little crowded.
496
00:28:07,859 --> 00:28:09,228
[phone buzzes]
497
00:28:11,261 --> 00:28:13,631
Yes, Gertie?
498
00:28:13,762 --> 00:28:15,598
Peter Norland?
499
00:28:15,730 --> 00:28:18,134
Send him in.
500
00:28:22,800 --> 00:28:24,469
Mr. Norland.
501
00:28:24,601 --> 00:28:27,339
For an hour l've been pacing up and down
in front of your building, Mr. Mason,
502
00:28:27,470 --> 00:28:29,506
like a picket without a signboard.
503
00:28:29,638 --> 00:28:32,876
But l can't decide whether coming here
makes me a double crosser
504
00:28:33,007 --> 00:28:34,509
or a knight on a white mustang.
505
00:28:34,641 --> 00:28:36,243
Sit down.
506
00:28:36,375 --> 00:28:38,377
lt sounds as though
you have a very serious problem.
507
00:28:38,509 --> 00:28:41,914
l have-- Miss Carter
and a small snowstorm
508
00:28:42,045 --> 00:28:45,350
- of brand-new _100 bills...
- _100 bills?
509
00:28:45,480 --> 00:28:48,017
...that floated out of her purse
when l accidentally knocked it om a table
510
00:28:48,149 --> 00:28:49,450
in the bookstore this afternoon.
511
00:28:49,582 --> 00:28:52,119
How many _100 bills?
512
00:28:52,250 --> 00:28:54,686
She collected them so fast,
l couldn't count.
513
00:28:54,818 --> 00:28:57,756
About _2,OOO, l'd say.
514
00:28:57,887 --> 00:29:01,525
l feel like a heel reporting this thing,
but Pickson saw the money too
515
00:29:01,656 --> 00:29:03,358
and he'll probably tell the police.
516
00:29:03,490 --> 00:29:05,292
Pickson-- he's the chief clerk.
517
00:29:05,424 --> 00:29:07,226
How did the bookstore
happen to be open?
518
00:29:07,358 --> 00:29:09,562
lt isn't. He and Ellen
are taking inventory,
519
00:29:09,694 --> 00:29:13,199
along with Professor Muntz, who the police
called in to check the rare books.
520
00:29:13,329 --> 00:29:16,066
l don't like the sound of this at all.
521
00:29:16,198 --> 00:29:17,800
The inventory?
522
00:29:17,932 --> 00:29:20,303
The snowstorm of _100 bills.
523
00:29:20,433 --> 00:29:23,704
Do you think somebody could be trying
to frame Ellen Carter for the book theft?
524
00:29:23,835 --> 00:29:26,873
l think somebody is trying
to frame Ellen Carter for murder.
525
00:29:29,605 --> 00:29:32,276
Mr. Mason, l can't explain the money.
526
00:29:32,407 --> 00:29:35,210
l-- not sensibly--
527
00:29:35,341 --> 00:29:38,045
l found it in my handbag,
528
00:29:38,177 --> 00:29:41,649
folded in a little zipper pocket
l hardly ever use.
529
00:29:41,779 --> 00:29:43,581
That's just about what we thought, Ellen.
530
00:29:43,713 --> 00:29:46,584
You mean you believe me?
531
00:29:46,715 --> 00:29:48,417
Yes.
532
00:29:48,549 --> 00:29:51,887
But the question is
will the police believe you?
533
00:29:52,018 --> 00:29:54,121
What have the police got to do with it?
534
00:29:54,252 --> 00:29:56,588
l'll try to show you.
535
00:29:57,588 --> 00:30:00,224
Now let's go back
to T:OO last night.
536
00:30:00,355 --> 00:30:02,859
Mr. Kraft had been in here since 6:OO,
reading, napping--
537
00:30:02,991 --> 00:30:04,360
whatever he did after supper.
538
00:30:04,491 --> 00:30:06,827
This still the locked-room deal
the police were talking about, Mr. Mason?
539
00:30:06,960 --> 00:30:09,831
That's right-- door bolted on the inside,
windows tightly secured,
540
00:30:09,962 --> 00:30:11,464
no other way in.
541
00:30:11,596 --> 00:30:13,865
At T:OO, it being dark outside,
542
00:30:13,997 --> 00:30:15,999
let us say Mr. Kraft rolled over
543
00:30:16,131 --> 00:30:18,802
and switched on the reading light...
544
00:30:18,933 --> 00:30:21,136
also the radio
545
00:30:21,267 --> 00:30:23,370
and the heater.
546
00:30:25,904 --> 00:30:30,076
And then he sank back on the couch
intending to read for a while.
547
00:30:30,206 --> 00:30:31,975
And then he dozed om again.
548
00:30:32,107 --> 00:30:34,010
Paul?
549
00:30:34,142 --> 00:30:36,178
Now watch the heater.
550
00:30:40,545 --> 00:30:42,849
Now listen. Listen closely.
551
00:30:42,981 --> 00:30:45,117
( gas hissing )
552
00:30:47,415 --> 00:30:50,153
lt's gas.
553
00:30:50,284 --> 00:30:51,853
All right, Paul, that'll do.
554
00:30:51,986 --> 00:30:54,356
( classical music continues )
555
00:30:54,486 --> 00:30:57,324
Just as the murderer
must have done last night,
556
00:30:57,455 --> 00:30:59,157
Paul turned om the gas at the meter,
557
00:30:59,289 --> 00:31:02,460
thus e_inguishing both the heater
and the pilot light.
558
00:31:02,591 --> 00:31:04,293
Then he turned the gas on again.
559
00:31:04,425 --> 00:31:05,927
And goodbye, Kraft.
560
00:31:06,060 --> 00:31:08,563
How'd the killer know
where the gas meter was?
561
00:31:08,694 --> 00:31:10,196
l called the gas company.
562
00:31:10,328 --> 00:31:14,300
l knew where it was. Anyone who ever used
the little washroom at the back did.
563
00:31:14,430 --> 00:31:15,799
'Evening, folks.
564
00:31:15,932 --> 00:31:18,469
Well, that's a very interesting
experiment there, eh?
565
00:31:18,600 --> 00:31:22,939
And closely duplicating one
that we pe_ormed earlier today.
566
00:31:23,069 --> 00:31:26,441
And thank you for saying that you knew
where the gas meter was.
567
00:31:26,571 --> 00:31:28,540
lt helps.
568
00:31:28,672 --> 00:31:31,043
Helps, Lieutenant?
In what way?
569
00:31:31,174 --> 00:31:34,646
ln justifying this first-degree-murder
warrant l have here
570
00:31:34,776 --> 00:31:37,045
for Miss Carter.
571
00:31:46,401 --> 00:31:49,172
The prosecution's going to have
a lot to work with, Ellen--
572
00:31:49,302 --> 00:31:53,608
your telling the police that you were alone
in the store at the time of death;
573
00:31:53,738 --> 00:31:55,574
then the money found
in your purse;
574
00:31:55,706 --> 00:31:59,679
not to mention the fact that
you are going to inherit the bookstore.
575
00:31:59,809 --> 00:32:02,078
l am? Still?
576
00:32:02,209 --> 00:32:05,948
His lawyer said that Kraft
disinherited your brother,
577
00:32:06,078 --> 00:32:08,449
but not you.
578
00:32:08,580 --> 00:32:11,483
Now do you still maintain
that you have no idea
579
00:32:11,615 --> 00:32:14,820
how those _1 OO bills
got into your purse?
580
00:32:14,950 --> 00:32:17,187
[sighs]
581
00:32:17,318 --> 00:32:19,888
All right, Ellen.
582
00:32:20,020 --> 00:32:22,758
But you're not going to be able
to go on protecting your brother
583
00:32:22,889 --> 00:32:25,492
if you're in prison.
584
00:32:27,792 --> 00:32:30,428
Now with regard
to this analysis that you pe_ormed
585
00:32:30,559 --> 00:32:33,063
on the victim's blood, Dr. Hocksey,
586
00:32:33,194 --> 00:32:35,664
what did this analysis reveal?
587
00:32:35,796 --> 00:32:39,334
lt confirmed what l initially suspected
when l visually examined the body,
588
00:32:39,464 --> 00:32:40,966
that gas was the cause of death.
589
00:32:41,098 --> 00:32:45,505
As Coroner's Physician, with long experience
in this type of fatality,
590
00:32:45,635 --> 00:32:48,372
when would you say the death occurred?
591
00:32:48,502 --> 00:32:52,442
About two and half hours before
l saw the body, which was at 9:45.
592
00:32:52,572 --> 00:32:56,110
[Hamilton Burger] Then in other words,
Joseph Kraft died at about T:15?
593
00:32:56,240 --> 00:32:57,608
Give or take a half hour, Mr. Burger.
594
00:32:57,742 --> 00:32:59,945
Thank you, Dr. Hocksey.
Mr. Mason?
595
00:33:00,077 --> 00:33:04,349
Doctor, you said
''give or take a half hour.''
596
00:33:04,478 --> 00:33:07,749
That means then that Joseph Kraft
could have died as late as T:45
597
00:33:07,880 --> 00:33:09,749
or as early as 6:45.
598
00:33:09,881 --> 00:33:12,752
Why yes, he could have.
599
00:33:13,751 --> 00:33:17,256
l realize you've already testified
as to these times, Mr. Pickson,
600
00:33:17,386 --> 00:33:20,123
but l'd like to double check them
if you don't mind.
601
00:33:20,253 --> 00:33:23,758
First the time that Ellen Carter
returned to the store
602
00:33:23,889 --> 00:33:27,394
- after dinner that night.
- A minute or two before T:OO.
603
00:33:27,524 --> 00:33:31,364
And the time you say you heard Mr. Kraft
turn his radio on?
604
00:33:31,494 --> 00:33:33,697
A minute or two after T:OO.
605
00:33:33,829 --> 00:33:35,798
And the time you say
you left the store?
606
00:33:35,930 --> 00:33:37,432
Right after that.
607
00:33:37,564 --> 00:33:39,833
Now when you say these things,
Mr. Pickson--
608
00:33:39,965 --> 00:33:43,570
l don't just say these things, Mr. Mason.
They happened.
609
00:33:43,701 --> 00:33:46,704
Miss Carter heard Mr. Kraft
in that room too, you know.
610
00:33:46,836 --> 00:33:49,574
l'm not questioning that, Mr. Pickson.
611
00:33:49,704 --> 00:33:52,274
But the prosecution
claims it will prove
612
00:33:52,405 --> 00:33:55,176
that Miss Carter
was then alone in the store
613
00:33:55,307 --> 00:33:57,844
for a considerable length of time.
614
00:33:57,976 --> 00:34:00,346
You know the store.
You also know Miss Carter's habits.
615
00:34:00,477 --> 00:34:03,281
Couldn't you have left the store
and then sneaked right back in
616
00:34:03,412 --> 00:34:07,217
past the counters to the washroom
and there have turned on the fatal gas valve?
617
00:34:07,347 --> 00:34:10,752
No, l couldn't have done that
without Miss Carter seeing me.
618
00:34:10,883 --> 00:34:14,188
And besides, l was met outside
by a friend,
619
00:34:14,318 --> 00:34:16,688
Mr. Gilfain of the Argus bookstore.
620
00:34:17,687 --> 00:34:21,392
Yes, l saw the bills fall out of her purse;
knocked them out myself, in fact.
621
00:34:21,522 --> 00:34:24,660
Mr. Norland,
what were the denominations of those bills?
622
00:34:24,791 --> 00:34:28,696
_100 each.
623
00:34:28,826 --> 00:34:32,798
Lieutenant Anderson,
can you identify this envelope
624
00:34:32,928 --> 00:34:35,265
and its contents for me, please?
625
00:34:36,664 --> 00:34:41,070
Yes, the 20 brand-new _1 OO bills
l found in the defendant's purse
626
00:34:41,199 --> 00:34:43,368
after Lieutenant Tragg
turned her over to me.
627
00:34:43,501 --> 00:34:45,203
And what about this second envelope?
628
00:34:45,335 --> 00:34:48,840
This is a second group
of 20 _1 OO bills
629
00:34:48,971 --> 00:34:51,475
l found in the defendant's apartment
630
00:34:51,606 --> 00:34:54,242
when l searched it after her arrest.
631
00:34:56,642 --> 00:34:59,747
On the day before Mr. Kraft died,
he came into our bank
632
00:34:59,878 --> 00:35:03,148
and drew out _2,OOO
in _100 bills.
633
00:35:03,279 --> 00:35:05,548
And then the ne_ day
he did the same thing--
634
00:35:05,680 --> 00:35:08,383
drew out _2,OOO in _100 bills.
635
00:35:08,516 --> 00:35:10,652
How do you happen to recall this?
636
00:35:10,783 --> 00:35:13,353
On the second day l had to open
a new bundle of bills to give him.
637
00:35:13,484 --> 00:35:16,822
Now those 20 _1 OO bills
were brand new,
638
00:35:16,953 --> 00:35:18,255
fresh from the Mint,
639
00:35:18,387 --> 00:35:21,024
just like the ones they found
in Miss Carter's purse there.
640
00:35:21,157 --> 00:35:24,227
l tell you, my sister
didn't steal those bills from old man Kraft.
641
00:35:24,357 --> 00:35:26,059
How do you know that, Mr. Carter?
642
00:35:26,192 --> 00:35:29,797
Because, well
l put them in her purs? myself.
643
00:35:29,928 --> 00:35:31,563
l knew the police had questioned her
644
00:35:31,695 --> 00:35:33,764
and l was afraid they'd find them
when they questioned me.
645
00:35:33,897 --> 00:35:37,569
- And where did you get the bills?
- l found them in the store in a book.
646
00:35:37,698 --> 00:35:40,168
Once before when
l was working there in the store
647
00:35:40,300 --> 00:35:43,037
l found some other bills in a book
in the same section,
648
00:35:43,169 --> 00:35:46,307
but they had disappeared
before l had a chance to take them.
649
00:35:46,436 --> 00:35:48,138
But after that l kept looking.
650
00:35:48,271 --> 00:35:50,841
[chuckles]
And the money that was found hidden
651
00:35:50,973 --> 00:35:54,410
in the apartment you share with your sister--
did you find that in a book too?
652
00:35:54,542 --> 00:35:55,876
l don't know anything about that.
653
00:35:56,009 --> 00:35:58,113
l submit you do, Mr. Carter.
654
00:35:58,243 --> 00:36:03,149
l submit you and your sister
obtained all that money from Mr. Kraft
655
00:36:03,280 --> 00:36:06,117
either by theft or by blackmail.
Now which was it?
656
00:36:06,247 --> 00:36:09,285
Neither! Besides, what can you
blackmail out of old man Kraft?
657
00:36:09,416 --> 00:36:11,152
Second-hand books?
658
00:36:11,284 --> 00:36:13,387
Perhaps not _1 million, Mr. Burger,
659
00:36:13,518 --> 00:36:16,522
but Joseph Kraft's ''substitution racket,''
as you called it,
660
00:36:16,654 --> 00:36:19,225
certainly netted him
many many thousands of dollars.
661
00:36:19,355 --> 00:36:22,893
My latest check with the library
shows 21 first editions missing.
662
00:36:23,025 --> 00:36:25,261
And other substitutions will be found,
l'm sure.
663
00:36:25,392 --> 00:36:28,396
Since the defense will not doubt claim
that there is a connection
664
00:36:28,527 --> 00:36:33,401
between the death of Joseph Kraft
and this racket that he was engaged in,
665
00:36:33,530 --> 00:36:35,799
how in your opinion, Professor,
666
00:36:35,932 --> 00:36:39,470
was Kraft able to engineer
all these book substitutions?
667
00:36:39,600 --> 00:36:43,305
l hate to say this,
but l think he must have had help.
668
00:36:44,970 --> 00:36:47,908
You gotta believe me--
l wasn't in the racket at all.
669
00:36:48,039 --> 00:36:50,942
Maybe thinking about getting in, you know,
but, well, not in.
670
00:36:51,074 --> 00:36:54,813
Now the appointment l heard you make
to see Mr. Kraft on the day of his death--
671
00:36:54,943 --> 00:36:56,210
you kept that appointment,
did you not?
672
00:36:56,343 --> 00:36:59,647
No. Well, l-- l started to,
673
00:36:59,778 --> 00:37:02,115
but when l saw a police car out front,
l ducked out, went home.
674
00:37:02,246 --> 00:37:05,618
Well, then the copy of Tristam Shandy
you and Mr. Kraft were examining,
675
00:37:05,748 --> 00:37:07,750
what became of that?
676
00:37:07,883 --> 00:37:09,051
Ask her.
677
00:37:09,184 --> 00:37:12,489
She knows the answer to that.
She got rid of the book, not me.
678
00:37:12,619 --> 00:37:14,388
l know it was wrong.
679
00:37:14,520 --> 00:37:18,425
But when that detective, Mr. Drake,
came nosing around, l was frightened.
680
00:37:18,555 --> 00:37:21,259
So l burnt the book
and threw the ashes in the trash.
681
00:37:21,390 --> 00:37:24,595
[Burger] Well, that was an expensive fire,
wasn't it, Miss Chute?
682
00:37:24,726 --> 00:37:28,063
Didn't you say you were paid
_500 apiece
683
00:37:28,195 --> 00:37:30,231
to alter those first editions
that Kraft sent you?
684
00:37:30,362 --> 00:37:31,296
Yes.
685
00:37:31,429 --> 00:37:33,599
How much did he pay
the mysterious person
686
00:37:33,731 --> 00:37:36,601
- that he told you actually did the stealing?
- He never said.
687
00:37:36,732 --> 00:37:40,404
Couldn't this mysterious person
have been your friend Gene Torg?
688
00:37:40,535 --> 00:37:45,074
Gene? He couldn't get into a library
disguised as William Shakespeare.
689
00:37:45,204 --> 00:37:47,875
Now Miss Chute, about the defendant,
690
00:37:48,006 --> 00:37:50,776
did Mr. Kraft
say anything to you about her
691
00:37:50,907 --> 00:37:53,411
during any of the days
immediately preceding his death?
692
00:37:53,542 --> 00:37:55,578
He did just the day before.
693
00:37:55,710 --> 00:38:00,284
He told me he knew she'd been lying to him
to get money out of him.
694
00:38:00,412 --> 00:38:03,750
He said that she'd been
using her brother as an excuse
695
00:38:03,881 --> 00:38:06,986
and that he was going to get rid of her
before she tried anything worse.
696
00:38:07,117 --> 00:38:09,019
Cross examine.
697
00:38:12,586 --> 00:38:14,355
On the day Joseph Kraft died,
698
00:38:14,487 --> 00:38:16,990
you went to see him
in response to his phone call
699
00:38:17,122 --> 00:38:19,993
about Gene Torg.
What time was that?
700
00:38:20,124 --> 00:38:22,060
About 5:45, l think.
701
00:38:22,192 --> 00:38:23,827
He'd just come back
from the corner restaurant.
702
00:38:23,959 --> 00:38:25,494
[Mason]
What time did you leave the bookstore?
703
00:38:25,627 --> 00:38:28,365
Not later than 6:OO, l'd say.
704
00:38:28,495 --> 00:38:30,564
Mr. Kraft was never good
for more than ten or 15 minutes
705
00:38:30,696 --> 00:38:32,131
of staying awake after supper.
706
00:38:32,265 --> 00:38:35,135
You seem quite familiar
with Mr. Kraft's habits, Miss Chute.
707
00:38:35,267 --> 00:38:37,536
Well, l've known him
for a number of years.
708
00:38:37,667 --> 00:38:40,671
ln fact, you were once
quite close to Mr. Kraft, isn't that right?
709
00:38:40,802 --> 00:38:44,140
So close you even spoke
to your hairdresser about the possibility
710
00:38:44,272 --> 00:38:46,875
of a marriage to ''a rich old goat''?
711
00:38:47,006 --> 00:38:51,045
Oh, yes, l knew he was rich all right.
Over _100,OOO he'd saved.
712
00:38:51,175 --> 00:38:53,111
But he wasn't about to share it
with anyone else
713
00:38:53,243 --> 00:38:55,212
who was in on the book racket.
714
00:38:55,343 --> 00:38:58,381
Because l heard him
telling the defendant once
715
00:38:58,512 --> 00:39:00,481
how much money he had in the bank,
716
00:39:00,613 --> 00:39:03,584
and that if she minded her Ps and Qs,
they'd just keep it in the family;
717
00:39:03,715 --> 00:39:06,051
she'd get every bit.
718
00:39:07,084 --> 00:39:09,954
The rule is much the same
in every big library, Mr. Mason--
719
00:39:10,085 --> 00:39:14,192
anyone using the rare-book collection
either must be known to us
720
00:39:14,321 --> 00:39:16,357
or have the proper credentials.
721
00:39:16,489 --> 00:39:19,259
And either known
or with the proper credentials,
722
00:39:19,390 --> 00:39:22,294
- they still must sign this register?
- Here at least they must.
723
00:39:22,425 --> 00:39:25,463
Wouldn't the proper credentials
be rather easy to forge?
724
00:39:25,594 --> 00:39:28,732
But then the autograph also
would have to be forged.
725
00:39:28,863 --> 00:39:31,533
You and the police
both went over this, Mr. Drake.
726
00:39:31,664 --> 00:39:34,635
But l didn't.
And there's something in these back pages
727
00:39:34,766 --> 00:39:36,502
l want to look for, Paul.
728
00:39:36,633 --> 00:39:38,369
Wait a minute, wait a minute--
there's a page missing.
729
00:39:38,501 --> 00:39:42,240
10th, 9th-- the 8th is gone,
730
00:39:42,369 --> 00:39:44,038
torn out.
731
00:39:45,039 --> 00:39:46,441
lt must have been done recently,
732
00:39:46,572 --> 00:39:50,010
because a man from the District Attorney's
omice was here only yesterday looking at it.
733
00:39:50,142 --> 00:39:54,114
Perry, the 8th-- that was just
the day before Mr. Kraft died.
734
00:39:55,644 --> 00:39:58,482
l want to see today's entries.
735
00:40:01,414 --> 00:40:03,851
Ashcraft, Jorgensen, Ba_er,
736
00:40:03,983 --> 00:40:07,020
Freilinghurst, Lawrence,
Weigel, Norland.
737
00:40:07,151 --> 00:40:08,786
Peter Norland.
738
00:40:12,321 --> 00:40:15,759
Doesn't this come under the general heading
of breaking and entering?
739
00:40:15,889 --> 00:40:18,960
Mmm, Ellen gave me her key.
740
00:40:19,091 --> 00:40:21,093
Besides, we have
Lieutenant Tragg's permission.
741
00:40:21,225 --> 00:40:22,860
That was ten days ago.
742
00:40:22,993 --> 00:40:25,163
He didn't set any time limit.
743
00:40:30,165 --> 00:40:32,067
[doorknob turns]
744
00:40:32,199 --> 00:40:35,804
[classical music playing]
745
00:40:47,207 --> 00:40:49,711
[light switch clicks]
746
00:41:05,317 --> 00:41:08,655
Thanks. He got away,
but at least l got in one punch.
747
00:41:08,785 --> 00:41:09,920
- You all right?
- Yeah.
748
00:41:10,053 --> 00:41:12,256
- Did you see who it was.
- No.
749
00:41:12,387 --> 00:41:16,660
All right, Paul, you watch the omice
while l go into the washroom.
750
00:41:16,790 --> 00:41:19,761
- Watch the office?
- Watch the office.
751
00:41:25,795 --> 00:41:28,666
- [switch clicks]
- [classical music playing]
752
00:41:30,366 --> 00:41:33,737
Well, that proves the flies
were right all along.
753
00:41:33,867 --> 00:41:35,535
The flies were right?
754
00:41:35,668 --> 00:41:38,304
l want a couple dozen in the morning.
755
00:41:38,435 --> 00:41:41,306
A couple of dozen flies?
756
00:41:45,254 --> 00:41:46,823
All right, Mr. Mason,
757
00:41:46,956 --> 00:41:50,227
the witnesses have been excluded
from the courtroom as you requested.
758
00:41:50,358 --> 00:41:51,525
You may proceed.
759
00:41:51,658 --> 00:41:53,193
Your Honor.
760
00:41:53,325 --> 00:41:55,762
With Lieutenant Tragg
to check me should l go wrong,
761
00:41:55,894 --> 00:42:00,868
let us assume that this is the omice
of Joseph Kraft on the evening of the murder.
762
00:42:09,736 --> 00:42:13,508
We know that Mr. Kraft
Iocked himself in at about 6:OO.
763
00:42:13,637 --> 00:42:16,007
At T:OO,
according to what we've heard,
764
00:42:16,138 --> 00:42:18,040
he woke from a nap.
765
00:42:18,172 --> 00:42:20,543
lt was cold and dark.
766
00:42:23,476 --> 00:42:26,781
So he turned on his reading light,
the heater and the radio.
767
00:42:26,911 --> 00:42:30,784
Shortly thereafter followed
the trick with the gas meter,
768
00:42:30,914 --> 00:42:33,317
putting out the pilot light,
769
00:42:33,448 --> 00:42:35,551
thus allowing the gas to escape,
770
00:42:35,683 --> 00:42:38,754
killing Kraft
and the only other living thing present,
771
00:42:38,885 --> 00:42:41,489
some ordinary house flies.
772
00:42:41,620 --> 00:42:43,489
[Tragg]
But there were no dead flies on the floor;
773
00:42:43,621 --> 00:42:46,458
only on the sills of the two windows.
774
00:42:50,492 --> 00:42:52,862
[Mason] Which proves
there must have been enough daylight
775
00:42:52,993 --> 00:42:55,229
to attract the flies to the windows.
776
00:42:55,360 --> 00:42:57,630
Now according to the Weather Bureau,
777
00:42:57,763 --> 00:43:01,135
twilight e_ended only to 6:40
that particular evening,
778
00:43:01,264 --> 00:43:04,969
so the gas had to have been released
prior to that time.
779
00:43:05,099 --> 00:43:08,070
ln other words,
Joseph Kraft was killed before T:OO.
780
00:43:08,201 --> 00:43:12,273
Mr. Mason, how do you suggest
that a dead man
781
00:43:12,404 --> 00:43:14,406
inside a locked room
782
00:43:14,538 --> 00:43:18,310
could have turned on his lamp
and his radio after T:OO?
783
00:43:18,441 --> 00:43:22,113
Also in the washroom, Mr. Burger,
is the fuse box for the bookstore.
784
00:43:22,243 --> 00:43:24,779
The killer pulled the fuse to the omice,
785
00:43:24,911 --> 00:43:27,749
then turned on the lamp
and the radio in that omice
786
00:43:27,880 --> 00:43:29,415
before Mr. Kraft had even entered it,
787
00:43:29,547 --> 00:43:31,783
perhaps while he was out
having supper.
788
00:43:31,915 --> 00:43:36,389
Then at T:OO, with Kraft
either unconscious or dead,
789
00:43:36,518 --> 00:43:40,257
the killer simply replaced the fuse.
790
00:43:40,386 --> 00:43:43,290
And on came
the lamp and the radio.
791
00:43:43,422 --> 00:43:47,594
Your Honor, at this time may we call
the witnesses
792
00:43:47,724 --> 00:43:50,227
- back to the courtroom?
- Bailim?
793
00:43:57,530 --> 00:44:01,102
First l would like to call
the state's expert...
794
00:44:01,231 --> 00:44:04,101
Professor Muntz to the stand.
795
00:44:07,969 --> 00:44:12,108
All right, yes yes,
l was in the store last night.
796
00:44:12,237 --> 00:44:14,239
l realized sooner or later
they'd discover
797
00:44:14,372 --> 00:44:16,308
that l was the one
who'd been stealing the books,
798
00:44:16,440 --> 00:44:19,378
so l was afraid
they'd charge me with Kraft's murder.
799
00:44:19,508 --> 00:44:21,677
l knew Miss Carter must be innocent,
800
00:44:21,810 --> 00:44:25,816
so l set about trying to find out
what really happened, and l ended up with this.
801
00:44:25,946 --> 00:44:27,748
Let me see if l understand
802
00:44:27,880 --> 00:44:30,817
how this substitution racket of yours
worked, Professor Muntz.
803
00:44:30,949 --> 00:44:34,019
That's some expert witness.
Who recommended him?
804
00:44:37,585 --> 00:44:40,222
Who recommended him?
805
00:44:40,353 --> 00:44:42,189
Perry Mason.
806
00:44:42,321 --> 00:44:45,092
[Muntz] ...leave the stolen volume
in a shelf in the store...
807
00:44:45,223 --> 00:44:48,460
A man named Perry Mason.
808
00:44:48,592 --> 00:44:50,026
[Mason]
...no longer be identified.
809
00:44:50,158 --> 00:44:52,996
- [Muntz] Well, l had no part in that.
- Perry Mason.
810
00:44:53,127 --> 00:44:56,866
How did Mr. Kraft pay your _2,OOO fee
for having stolen the book?
811
00:44:56,996 --> 00:44:59,233
By placing the money
in an agreed-upon volume
812
00:44:59,364 --> 00:45:01,600
in the English Literature
section of the store.
813
00:45:01,732 --> 00:45:05,637
Did you get the _2,OOO
_or the Tristam Shandy?
814
00:45:05,768 --> 00:45:09,440
No. When l looked, it wasn't there.
l telephoned Kraft.
815
00:45:09,570 --> 00:45:11,840
He said someone must have taken it--
someone he thought he knew.
816
00:45:11,972 --> 00:45:14,709
Did he agree to leave
another _2,OOO there for you?
817
00:45:14,840 --> 00:45:17,277
Yes. And when l looked,
that wasn't there either.
818
00:45:17,408 --> 00:45:20,412
Now Professor
819
00:45:20,543 --> 00:45:23,780
where were you between
6:OO and T:OO on the evening of the murder?
820
00:45:23,911 --> 00:45:27,182
Oddly enough, l was giving a talk
821
00:45:27,313 --> 00:45:29,450
on rare books
of the 18th century
822
00:45:29,582 --> 00:45:31,818
before the Librarians' Club.
823
00:45:34,417 --> 00:45:39,057
And you still maintain you know nothing
about the _2,OOO found in the apartment?
824
00:45:39,186 --> 00:45:41,022
- That's the truth, Mr. Mason.
- All right.
825
00:45:41,154 --> 00:45:46,061
Where were you between 6:OO and T:OO
on the day Mr. Kraft was killed?
826
00:45:46,190 --> 00:45:48,827
ln a poker game. l was there all day.
827
00:45:48,960 --> 00:45:51,063
6:OO to T:OO? That's easy.
828
00:45:51,193 --> 00:45:54,531
l stopped to have my hair done
on the way home from seeing Mr. Kraft.
829
00:45:54,662 --> 00:45:56,331
l know it sounds like l'm kidding,
830
00:45:56,463 --> 00:46:00,769
but l was getting a haircut, shave, shampoo,
manicure-- the works-- at that same time.
831
00:46:00,899 --> 00:46:04,705
Yes, l was in the bookstore
that evening from 6:OO to T:OO.
832
00:46:04,835 --> 00:46:06,236
l've never denied that.
833
00:46:06,369 --> 00:46:09,106
And part of this time
you were alone in the store?
834
00:46:09,237 --> 00:46:12,675
l suppose.
Business is generally slack then.
835
00:46:12,806 --> 00:46:16,178
Now when you and Miss Carter
836
00:46:16,307 --> 00:46:19,011
heard Kraft turn his radio on,
837
00:46:19,144 --> 00:46:20,980
where were you?
838
00:46:21,111 --> 00:46:24,950
Just returning
from the washroom, perhaps?
839
00:46:25,080 --> 00:46:29,085
Well, l suppose,
if Miss Carter claims.
840
00:46:29,214 --> 00:46:32,152
No supposing, Mr. Pickson,
you were there.
841
00:46:32,283 --> 00:46:35,955
You started the radio going
by replacing the fuse to Kraft's omice.
842
00:46:36,086 --> 00:46:39,391
By the time the radio warmed up,
you had joined Miss Carter.
843
00:46:39,521 --> 00:46:41,357
But he wasn't dead then.
844
00:46:41,488 --> 00:46:45,228
lf he wasn't dead, Mr. Pickson, he certainly
was well on his way to being dead--
845
00:46:45,358 --> 00:46:47,461
dead through your manipulation
of the gas line--
846
00:46:47,592 --> 00:46:48,827
No. No!
847
00:46:48,960 --> 00:46:50,962
--turned om and then on again
848
00:46:51,095 --> 00:46:54,166
after you had sneaked out into the alley
and peered through a window
849
00:46:54,296 --> 00:46:55,530
to make sure he was asleep.
850
00:46:55,663 --> 00:46:59,001
No! No one saw me.
851
00:47:01,567 --> 00:47:04,838
l'd hated him for years.
852
00:47:05,836 --> 00:47:09,741
But do you know
what the final straw was?
853
00:47:09,871 --> 00:47:12,809
[chuckles]
854
00:47:12,940 --> 00:47:17,414
He called me a thief.
855
00:47:17,543 --> 00:47:19,445
He was going to dismiss me
856
00:47:19,577 --> 00:47:22,782
for finding that _2,OOO in the book
857
00:47:22,913 --> 00:47:25,850
and refusing to give it to him.
858
00:47:26,881 --> 00:47:30,152
l felt that,
under the circumstances,
859
00:47:30,283 --> 00:47:32,719
it was finder's keepers.
860
00:47:32,851 --> 00:47:36,456
l didn't know it was his money.
l didn't know anything about that.
861
00:47:38,354 --> 00:47:43,260
l'd been plotting the old pirate's murder
for a long time
862
00:47:43,390 --> 00:47:46,661
as a sort of enjoyable mental exercise.
863
00:47:50,327 --> 00:47:53,365
Only it wasn't quite so...
864
00:47:53,496 --> 00:47:56,601
enjoyable after all.
865
00:48:00,400 --> 00:48:02,136
Here you are, Mr. Mason.
866
00:48:02,268 --> 00:48:04,704
What you originally started out to get--
867
00:48:04,835 --> 00:48:09,742
the missing volume 6
o_ Manning & Granger's Reports.
868
00:48:09,871 --> 00:48:14,545
- And with it, my lifelong thanks.
- That's very nice, Ellen.
869
00:48:14,674 --> 00:48:17,445
l'm going to have a lifelong question
in my head, Perry,
870
00:48:17,577 --> 00:48:19,045
if you don't tell me.
871
00:48:19,178 --> 00:48:21,814
Who put the _2,OOO in Ellen's apartment?
872
00:48:21,945 --> 00:48:24,983
l can answer that one--
Pickson to implicate her.
873
00:48:25,114 --> 00:48:27,617
He says it's the only thing
he's really sorry for.
874
00:48:27,748 --> 00:48:29,685
But Perry, how did you get on
to the fact
875
00:48:29,817 --> 00:48:31,519
that Professor Muntz
was in on that book thing?
876
00:48:31,651 --> 00:48:35,990
When l discovered the Cosgrove library
had a very famous collection of Sterne,
877
00:48:36,120 --> 00:48:38,958
it bothered me that our expert
hadn't quite seemed to know about it.
878
00:48:39,089 --> 00:48:43,195
Then when l saw his signature
several times in their register...
879
00:48:43,324 --> 00:48:46,128
All we noticed was Peter Norland's name.
880
00:48:46,259 --> 00:48:50,765
l guess Peter thought
we weren't solving things quite fast enough.
881
00:48:50,895 --> 00:48:54,199
He figured he might be able to identify
the thief through his handwriting.
882
00:48:54,330 --> 00:48:57,868
Oh, of all the silly things to do. Why?
883
00:48:58,000 --> 00:49:00,203
Let's ask him why.
884
00:49:00,334 --> 00:49:03,237
Peter, what's the real reason
885
00:49:03,370 --> 00:49:06,975
you're hanging around
and inte_ering so much?
886
00:49:09,805 --> 00:49:12,910
Well, now if you'd really like to know,
887
00:49:13,041 --> 00:49:16,312
l've been trying
to get up enough nerve
888
00:49:16,443 --> 00:49:20,115
to ask Miss Carter to marry me.
889
00:49:30,151 --> 00:49:33,255
[theme music playing]
890
00:49:33,305 --> 00:49:37,855
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