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A collection of cosy crime dramas adapted from Colin Watson's Flaxborough Chronicles, set in a small Lincolnshire market town in the 1960s and '70s.  Inspector Purbright is a thoroughly English policeman: affable, polite, dogged and decent. Created by award-winning crime writer Colin Watson, he appeared in 12 Flaxborough mysteries, four of which were adapted for BBC TV under the title Murder Most English. These five radio dramatisations star Peter Jeffrey, John Pullen and John Rowe as Purbright.  Coffin, Scarcely Used - When newspaper proprietor Marcus Gwill is found dead under an electricity pylon, shortly after the death of his neighbour, Harold Carobleat, Inspector Purbright investigates. He soon discovers that something very odd is going on in the seemingly respectable town of Flaxborough.    Do you enjoy the variety on Oldtuberadio? Like, Share and Subscribe to be notified of our new shows #radio #crime #thriller #drama To Support this channel please visit https://www.buymeacoffee.com/oldtuberadio https://ko-fi.com/oldtuberadio98 https://www.patreon.com/oldtuberadio https://locals.com/Oldtuberadio

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00:00:00Coffin Scarcely Used by Colin Watson

00:00:09Dramatized for radio by Brian Wright

00:00:12With Peter Jeffrey as Detective Inspector Purbright

00:00:16For as much as it both pleased almighty God

00:00:26Of his great mercy to take unto himself

00:00:29The soul of our dear brother Harold Arthur

00:00:33Here departed

00:00:34We therefore commit his body to the ground

00:00:38I'm sorry now

00:00:42I'm sorry now

00:00:48Whose heart is aching for breaking

00:00:56Each guard

00:00:59Sir, I'm convinced we can turn up evidence of fraud

00:01:03At Carableet and Spade Limited

00:01:05I hesitate to overrule you Purbright, I really do

00:01:08But now Harold Carableet is dead and buried

00:01:11I think we ought to drop this investigation

00:01:14Yes, with the owner dead

00:01:16His widow pleading complete ignorance

00:01:18And the firm's book's gone missing

00:01:19It's not promising, I admit

00:01:21What I do know is

00:01:22You could stir up a lot of unpleasantness

00:01:24And still get nowhere

00:01:25Carableet was a councillor

00:01:27JP

00:01:27Sponsor of good causes

00:01:29Fine war work in the docks

00:01:31All that

00:01:31But this is 1956, not 46

00:01:34V.E. Day

00:01:34It was 11 years ago, sir

00:01:36I'm sorry

00:01:36My mind is made up

00:01:37It's your decision, sir, of course

00:01:39Excuse me

00:01:41Inspector Purbright

00:01:46Yes, Sergeant?

00:01:47Seen the Flaxborough Citizen

00:01:48They've given Holy Harry a great send-off

00:01:50Holy Harry?

00:01:51Harold Carableet

00:01:52That's his nickname down the docks

00:01:53On account of his purge of the red light district

00:01:56You know, listen to what it says here

00:01:57Sergeant Love

00:01:58As of now, the Carableet case is closed

00:02:00By order of Chief Constable Chubb

00:02:02Oh

00:02:03Sorry to hear that, sir

00:02:05Yeah

00:02:05This will be Holy Harry's epitaph, then

00:02:08Respected citizen

00:02:10Successful director of ship's brokers, Blam Blatch

00:02:14Passionate concern for moral welfare

00:02:17Who writes this stuff?

00:02:19The proprietor of the citizen, I expect

00:02:21Marcus Gwilf

00:02:22Who just happens to be Carableet's next-door neighbour and chum

00:02:26Oh, like that, eh?

00:02:28Carableet and Gwilf

00:02:29All boys together

00:02:36There he is, Constable

00:02:37That's exactly where I found him

00:02:39Right under the pylon

00:02:40Stone cold dead

00:02:42What time was that?

00:02:45On my way back to the farm

00:02:47About twenty minutes ago

00:02:48It's Mr. Gwilf

00:02:50Mr. Gwilf

00:02:52He lives down at the Aspens

00:02:54Big house down on Heston Lane

00:02:55Poor old Mr. Gwilf

00:02:58Blow me a kiss

00:03:02From across the room

00:03:05Say I look nice

00:03:09When I'm not

00:03:12Touch my hair

00:03:16As has my tail

00:03:19Oh, yes?

00:03:23Good day

00:03:24I'm P.C. Wilkinson

00:03:25May I come in for a moment?

00:03:27Oh, Mr. Gwilf

00:03:28Ain't here, I'm afraid

00:03:29I know, Mrs. Paul

00:03:31It's him I've come about

00:03:32I'm sorry

00:03:33He's had an accident

00:03:35Accident?

00:03:37Oh, come in

00:03:38Come in

00:03:39I knew something was wrong

00:03:42The door wasn't locked

00:03:44When I came back this morning

00:03:46I've been over to my sister's

00:03:47For the night, you see

00:03:48And his bed

00:03:49Weren't slept in neither

00:03:51I knew I shouldn't have

00:03:53Left him alone last night

00:03:54Oh, excuse me

00:03:56I'll just turn this off

00:03:58What's happened?

00:04:01I'm afraid

00:04:02Mr. Gwilf

00:04:04Is dead

00:04:04Oh

00:04:06Oh, I shouldn't have left him

00:04:10I shouldn't

00:04:11Now, don't upset yourself, Mrs. Paul

00:04:12Would you happen to know

00:04:14The name of your employer's next of kin?

00:04:17I need to make a phone call

00:04:18I'm sorry to bother you

00:04:22At your place of work, Mr. Linz

00:04:23But I have to inform you

00:04:24That we'll require

00:04:25A formal identification

00:04:26Of your uncle's body

00:04:27Later today

00:04:28Oh, yes, yes

00:04:29Of course, Inspector

00:04:30As editor of the Citizen

00:04:32I suppose you saw

00:04:33Quite a lot of each other

00:04:34Every day, usually

00:04:35You see, what I'm looking for, Mr. Linz

00:04:37Is an explanation

00:04:38Of why your uncle

00:04:39Mr. Marcus Gwilf

00:04:40Went out last night

00:04:41He fancied a little walk

00:04:43Across the fields

00:04:44Do you imagine?

00:04:45In his slippers

00:04:46In December?

00:04:47Yes

00:04:48That is curious, isn't it?

00:04:50In here, Inspector

00:04:51Please, take a seat

00:04:58Yes, thank you

00:04:59If I had occasion

00:05:00To walk down the drive

00:05:02Of the Aspens

00:05:02And cross Heston Lane

00:05:03And then climb a railing

00:05:05And go twenty yards

00:05:06Over a field

00:05:06Before apparently

00:05:07Clambering up

00:05:08An electricity pylon

00:05:09I really believe

00:05:10I put my boots on first

00:05:12Still, gentlemen

00:05:13Can do rather eccentric things

00:05:15When the mood takes them

00:05:16My uncle was not

00:05:17An eccentric

00:05:18He managed to make

00:05:19Too much money for that

00:05:20I imagine

00:05:21You'll have no cause

00:05:23To regret

00:05:23His good business sense

00:05:24Ah, I suppose

00:05:25I am his heir

00:05:26I really haven't

00:05:27Thought about the will

00:05:28Of course not

00:05:29When was it you last

00:05:31Saw your uncle alive

00:05:32Mr. Lince?

00:05:33About six o'clock

00:05:34I drove him back

00:05:35To Heston Lane

00:05:36How did he strike you then?

00:05:37Same as usual

00:05:38I didn't notice anything wrong

00:05:39Had he been depressed

00:05:40Or worried?

00:05:41If he had

00:05:42He didn't confide in me

00:05:43Well, things run

00:05:44Pretty smoothly here

00:05:45No bereavements

00:05:46Of any kind

00:05:47Relatives or friends

00:05:48Not that I know of

00:05:49His neighbour

00:05:51Mr. Carableat

00:05:52Died about six months ago

00:05:53Were they at all friendly?

00:05:55They were neighbourly

00:05:56I believe

00:05:56Nothing beyond that?

00:05:58I really don't know

00:06:00Inspector

00:06:00Mr. Carableat's widow

00:06:02Still lives next door

00:06:04You could ask her

00:06:04Yes

00:06:05Do you think

00:06:06Your Uncle Marcus's

00:06:07Housekeeper

00:06:08Might be of some help?

00:06:09I doubt it

00:06:10She's not very bright

00:06:12And she dabbles

00:06:13In spiritualism

00:06:14She's convinced

00:06:15That the house

00:06:15Is haunted

00:06:16Spooky place

00:06:21Aren't you

00:06:22Got to admit

00:06:22I'm bloody cold too

00:06:24Anything else?

00:06:28We ought to measure

00:06:28The height of that cable arm

00:06:30Climb up like old Gwyl

00:06:32Let's call it 25 feet

00:06:35Shall we?

00:06:35No

00:06:3627

00:06:37That'll sound as if

00:06:38We really know

00:06:39Oh, afternoon sir

00:06:42Afternoon, Sid

00:06:43Nothing doing round here?

00:06:47What had you in mind, sir?

00:06:49Cloth fibres

00:06:50Nail pairings

00:06:51You know

00:06:51Detective Constable Harper

00:06:53Here found a couple of

00:06:54Marshmallows

00:06:56Marshmallows?

00:06:59Mr. Gwyl had a bag of them

00:07:00In his pocket, sir

00:07:01Oh, we're about finished

00:07:02Oh, fine

00:07:03I'm on my way down to the house

00:07:06Doesn't look too inviting

00:07:08A place, does it?

00:07:09Probably explains its reputation

00:07:10Harpy's just been telling me

00:07:12Funny old Gwyl

00:07:13Believe in it, though

00:07:14How do you mean?

00:07:16Oh, country gossip, sir

00:07:18Some of the locals

00:07:20Have had the notion

00:07:20For a while now

00:07:21That there was a

00:07:22Ghost

00:07:23Lurking about

00:07:25Outside Gwyl's house

00:07:26Oh, sounds daft

00:07:27And I wouldn't repeat it

00:07:28But

00:07:28A cousin of mine

00:07:30Happened to be cycling

00:07:31Back from town

00:07:31Just before 12 last night

00:07:32And he saw Mr. Gwyl

00:07:34Splashing water about

00:07:35On the ground

00:07:35From a big can

00:07:36Or something

00:07:37Just inside those

00:07:39Big raw iron gates

00:07:40Oh, it was dark

00:07:41Mind you

00:07:41But he was pretty sure

00:07:42That's what he was doing

00:07:43And what did your cousin

00:07:44Make of that?

00:07:45Well, it sounds silly

00:07:47But

00:07:47Holy water

00:07:49Some sort of ritual

00:07:51He thought

00:07:51Poor Mr. Gwyl

00:07:54Was being

00:07:55Pestered, sir

00:07:56And that's the top

00:07:58And bottom of it

00:07:59Pestered?

00:07:59By whom, Mrs. Poole?

00:08:01Well, no one

00:08:02You could lay your hands on, sir

00:08:03But there are such things

00:08:06Although they take

00:08:07A bit of understanding

00:08:08Well, how did this

00:08:09Pestering affect Mr. Gwyl?

00:08:11It was very unsettled, sir

00:08:13And he'd always been

00:08:14A quiet sort

00:08:15Dignified, you know

00:08:16Yes

00:08:17So, it showed

00:08:18When did you first

00:08:19Notice this influence?

00:08:21Oh, I can tell you

00:08:22To the day

00:08:23It all started

00:08:25A month after

00:08:26Mr. Carable

00:08:26Next door

00:08:27Was put in his grave

00:08:28I understand

00:08:30They were friends

00:08:30Oh, please, sir

00:08:32I don't want to talk

00:08:33About it anymore

00:08:34What is it you're

00:08:36Frightened of, Mrs. Poole?

00:08:38Well, nothing

00:08:39Not now

00:08:41I think it's over

00:08:43But I don't want

00:08:44To talk about it

00:08:45Tell me

00:08:47Did Mr. Gwyl have

00:08:48Any regular visitors

00:08:49Of an evening?

00:08:50Well

00:08:51Only the people

00:08:52You'd expect

00:08:53Mr. Lintz

00:08:54Sometimes

00:08:55But not for meals

00:08:56Dr. Iliard

00:08:58His doctor came

00:08:59Was Mr. Gwyl

00:09:00Having treatment?

00:09:01No, not as far

00:09:02As I know

00:09:02The doctor

00:09:04Came to dinner

00:09:05Usually

00:09:05And Mr. Gloss

00:09:07Occasionally

00:09:08The solicitor gentleman

00:09:09Sometimes

00:09:10I'd serve for him

00:09:12The doctor

00:09:12And

00:09:13Yes

00:09:14Mr. Bradlaugh

00:09:15The builder

00:09:16And

00:09:16You know

00:09:17Undertaker

00:09:18Yes, I know

00:09:19So those three gentlemen

00:09:20Were personal

00:09:21As well as professional

00:09:22Friends

00:09:22Mr. Bradlaugh

00:09:23Dr. Hilyard

00:09:24And

00:09:25Mr. Gloss

00:09:26Yes, sir

00:09:27Yes

00:09:27I wonder if you mind

00:09:29Very much

00:09:29By taking a quick look

00:09:30Round the house

00:09:31You're the police

00:09:32You're welcome

00:09:34To see what

00:09:34You've a mind to

00:09:35Mr. Gloss

00:09:38I'm astounded

00:09:39I really am

00:09:40If you have reason

00:09:42To suspect

00:09:42That a crime

00:09:43Has been committed

00:09:44Your duty

00:09:45Is to help

00:09:46The police

00:09:46In whatever way

00:09:47You can

00:09:48My dear

00:09:48Chief Constable

00:09:49That is just

00:09:50The point

00:09:51The situation

00:09:52Is such

00:09:53That I can give

00:09:53Precious little information

00:09:55That is why

00:09:56I've taken the liberty

00:09:57Of calling on you

00:09:57Privately at your home

00:09:59As a solicitor

00:10:00I am perfectly

00:10:01Well aware

00:10:02Of what citizens

00:10:02Are supposed to do

00:10:04And how seldom

00:10:05They do it

00:10:06And how little

00:10:07The police can do

00:10:08To make them

00:10:09Look here, sir

00:10:09Let's not beat about

00:10:10The bush

00:10:11My lunch is waiting

00:10:12You suppose

00:10:14Marcus Gwill

00:10:15To have been murdered

00:10:16Is that it?

00:10:17It is

00:10:17Oh, but that's absurd

00:10:19I am Mr. Gwill's solicitor

00:10:21Surely it carries

00:10:22Some weight

00:10:23I tell you

00:10:24That he was not

00:10:25Without enemies

00:10:26Few of us are

00:10:27I might also add

00:10:29My motives

00:10:31For approaching you

00:10:31Are not entirely

00:10:32Altruistic

00:10:33You see

00:10:34I am not confident

00:10:36That my own safety

00:10:37Is henceforth assured

00:10:38Look now, Mr. Gloss

00:10:41Why don't you tell me

00:10:42What this is all about?

00:10:44Who exactly

00:10:45Is threatening you?

00:10:47Please believe me

00:10:48When I say

00:10:49It is no one

00:10:50Against whom

00:10:51You could possibly

00:10:53Take direct action

00:10:54Mr. Gwill's study

00:11:03Yes

00:11:05Not what you might call

00:11:06A cosy room

00:11:07Her next door

00:11:09Seemed to think so

00:11:10Ah

00:11:11Mrs. Carable

00:11:12It was also a friend

00:11:14I can't say

00:11:14She visited

00:11:16Once a week

00:11:17And not for dinner

00:11:18Well, if she came in here

00:11:20Perhaps it was partly

00:11:21For business reasons

00:11:21I don't know

00:11:22Why she came

00:11:23I kept out of the way

00:11:24Yes, well

00:11:25I'll ask her myself

00:11:26You won't find her in

00:11:28She went off in a taxi

00:11:29Yesterday morning

00:11:30Yes, thank you

00:11:33Mrs. Poole

00:11:33Well, that's mostly

00:11:37Newspaper stuff there

00:11:38Yes

00:11:39What

00:11:39Why aren't these?

00:11:41They look like

00:11:42Adverts

00:11:43From the Citizen

00:11:44Yes, I know

00:11:45Was Mr. Gwill interested

00:11:46In buying and selling

00:11:47Antique furniture?

00:11:48Not specially

00:11:49That's very odd

00:11:51Will they be bringing him home, sir?

00:11:55Not if you don't want that

00:11:57And certainly not today

00:11:58A post-mortem examination

00:12:00Has to be made

00:12:00Here's the post-mortem report, Sarge

00:12:04Thanks, Wilkes

00:12:05Here, you're good on the local knobs

00:12:08What do you know about old Gwill?

00:12:10Gave very much to himself

00:12:11Nobody liked him much

00:12:12Time of death

00:12:1412.10

00:12:16Just after midnight

00:12:17It's got to be ghosts

00:12:19Dear old Lord

00:12:22What?

00:12:23Left palm

00:12:24Exhibited a transverse burn

00:12:26Three quarters of an inch wide

00:12:28And three inches long

00:12:29On palm of right hand

00:12:32And a burn mark

00:12:33Star or flower shape

00:12:35Clearly defined

00:12:37Approximately two and a half

00:12:38Inches in diameter

00:12:39What have you got there, Sergeant?

00:12:43Autopsy results, sir

00:12:44Any news on the

00:12:46Heston Lane ghostie?

00:12:48I wouldn't write him off yet

00:12:50Now don't go, Wilkes

00:12:51Let me see that report

00:12:53Sir

00:12:54P.C. Wilkinson was just saying

00:12:56Nobody liked Gwill

00:12:57Hmm

00:12:58I do like a big field of suspects

00:13:01You're not saying he's murder

00:13:04Well, if I had any doubt

00:13:05This bit here about the marshmallows

00:13:06Would convince me

00:13:07Teeth caked for the stuff, apparently

00:13:09Sir

00:13:10The report confirms

00:13:11He was electrocuted

00:13:12Yes, he was

00:13:13But I've never encountered

00:13:14A suicide who's been in the mood

00:13:15For confectionery

00:13:16At the last moment

00:13:17And I've yet to find

00:13:19A man of Gwill's age

00:13:20Who can clamber up pylons

00:13:21In the middle of the night

00:13:22With his mouth full

00:13:23Of sticky marshmallows

00:13:24No injury or mark

00:13:27On body apart from Burns

00:13:29Well, how the hell

00:13:30Could he have fallen there?

00:13:31But he had to be up there

00:13:32Or he couldn't have been electrocuted

00:13:34I wonder

00:13:35Tell me

00:13:37Do the electricity board

00:13:38Decorate their pylons

00:13:40With ornamental stars

00:13:41Or flowers these days?

00:13:44Not that I know

00:13:44Oh

00:13:45See what you mean

00:13:46The burn mark

00:13:47On the right pound

00:13:48Yeah

00:13:49But where

00:13:50If not at the pylon?

00:13:52Well, first find your star

00:13:53Or flower-shaped electrode

00:13:54You'd better ask Forensic

00:13:55For a photograph of those burns

00:13:57Can't have been far

00:13:58From Gwill's house

00:13:59He was in his slippers

00:13:59And he was seen alive

00:14:00Just before twelve

00:14:01By Harper's cousin

00:14:02Baptising his driveway

00:14:04Against spirits

00:14:05Do what?

00:14:06Never mind the eccentricities

00:14:07For the moment, Sid

00:14:08Let's start from the sound assumption

00:14:09That people seldom get themselves

00:14:11Murdered by complete strangers

00:14:12Wilkes, I want you and Harper

00:14:14On the knocker down

00:14:15Heston Lane this afternoon

00:14:16Right, sir

00:14:17And gently, does it

00:14:18This is Flaxborough

00:14:19Not Chicago, Illinois

00:14:20Flaxborough isn't designed

00:14:26To cope with murder

00:14:27Any more than that

00:14:29Municipal building

00:14:29Is designed to cope

00:14:30With earthquakes

00:14:31This crime is out of context

00:14:33For one thing

00:14:34It's cleverness

00:14:35Gwill wasn't forced

00:14:37To grasp

00:14:38Whatever electrocuted him

00:14:39He suspected nothing

00:14:40Was his murderer

00:14:42A friend

00:14:43Or a relative

00:14:44He seems to have had

00:14:46An almost Edwardian penchant

00:14:48For entertaining professionals

00:14:49He was the client

00:14:51Of one guest

00:14:52The patient of another

00:14:53The potential customer

00:14:54Of the third

00:14:55No, there need be nothing

00:14:57Sinister in the association

00:14:59Of course

00:14:59Three well-to-do friends

00:15:01Four, presumably

00:15:02Until Harold Carableet died

00:15:03Oh, talk of the devil

00:15:06Good afternoon, Mrs. Carableet

00:15:08Oh, hello, Inspector

00:15:09I was hoping to have a word

00:15:11You've been away

00:15:12Yes

00:15:12I've just got back from Shropshire

00:15:14Did you want to speak

00:15:15To me particularly?

00:15:17Oh, it's not that business

00:15:19About my husband's firm again

00:15:20No, no, not that

00:15:22Where did you spend last night

00:15:24Mrs. Carableet?

00:15:25Oh

00:15:26This is something new

00:15:28May I ask why you want to know?

00:15:31Your next-door neighbour

00:15:31Was murdered last night

00:15:33Not Marcus

00:15:35Murdered?

00:15:37Marcus?

00:15:38Mr. Gwill, yes

00:15:39But that's

00:15:41That's extraordinary

00:15:43Are you sure?

00:15:44If I weren't sure

00:15:45I'd scarcely be running around

00:15:47Asking questions

00:15:47Oh, no, of course not

00:15:48That was silly of me

00:15:49But it came as such a surprise

00:15:52I fancy Mr. Gwill was surprised too

00:15:54It's dreadful, isn't it?

00:15:57Dreadful

00:15:57I was wondering

00:15:58If you might have anything

00:15:59Helpful to tell me

00:16:01I really can't see

00:16:02What you think

00:16:03I might know about it

00:16:04Where did you spend last night?

00:16:07At the brink of discovery

00:16:08I beg your pardon?

00:16:10I'm sorry

00:16:11It's a geographical joke

00:16:13The brink of discovery

00:16:14Is a pub

00:16:15A small hotel, rather

00:16:16On the far side of Shrewsbury

00:16:18Would you happen to have the bill?

00:16:20Really, Inspector?

00:16:21I...

00:16:22Well

00:16:22Here

00:16:24Any particular reason

00:16:27For the visit?

00:16:28I often go down there

00:16:29The West Country

00:16:30Used to be my home

00:16:31I need a change occasionally

00:16:33From this marsh of a place

00:16:34Thank you

00:16:36Rather expensive

00:16:38My husband left me

00:16:40Adequately provided

00:16:41Hmm, I suppose he did

00:16:43What...

00:16:44What was the purpose

00:16:45Of your weekly visits

00:16:46To Mr. Gwill?

00:16:48Well, who says I...

00:16:49Oh, you've been talking

00:16:51To Prowler Poo

00:16:52Well, I...

00:16:54I did pop in occasionally

00:16:56To keep him company

00:16:57The two of you

00:16:58Didn't happen to share

00:16:59An interest in antique furniture

00:17:00What?

00:17:02Never mind

00:17:03Ah

00:17:04Good afternoon to you

00:17:06Mrs. Carribleat

00:17:07Oh, hello, Rupert

00:17:08Uh, Inspector

00:17:09This is Dr. Hilliard

00:17:11Inspector Purbright

00:17:12But you possibly

00:17:14Know each other already

00:17:15Only by reputation

00:17:16Yes, shocking

00:17:17D, Inspector

00:17:17Shocking

00:17:18You are being kept busy

00:17:20And out of mischief

00:17:21Lady, I trust?

00:17:22I am at present

00:17:23Being tactfully helpful

00:17:24To the police

00:17:25Excellent

00:17:26Though tact

00:17:27Is not always

00:17:28What helps policemen

00:17:29Surely

00:17:29Discretion can be

00:17:31Pursued too far

00:17:32Yes, Inspector?

00:17:34I'm sure your patient

00:17:35Would not take anything

00:17:36Too far

00:17:37My patient

00:17:38Oh, forgive me

00:17:39It was the late

00:17:40Mr. Carribleat

00:17:41You attended

00:17:41Not his wife

00:17:42Wasn't it?

00:17:43Aye, God rest his soul

00:17:44It's God rest

00:17:45Marcus Gwills' soul

00:17:46Now, Doctor

00:17:47Well, as to that, lady

00:17:48If this sentiment

00:17:49Does you credit

00:17:49It does indeed

00:17:51I gather you were

00:17:52A friend of Mr. Gwills'

00:17:53He was a patient of mine

00:17:54And a very careful man

00:17:56He'd need to be

00:17:58Oh, you hear that

00:18:01For the wee buddy

00:18:02Oh, for heaven's sake

00:18:03Drop that phony

00:18:04Scottishry, Rupert

00:18:05Well, I must be

00:18:06Getting along

00:18:06I'll come and see you

00:18:07Sometime if I may

00:18:08Mrs. Carribleat

00:18:08Of course

00:18:09Bye for now, Doctor

00:18:10You've got the devil

00:18:13Of a nerve

00:18:13Showing your face

00:18:14Here today

00:18:14I don't follow you

00:18:16Oh, no

00:18:16You'll not get away

00:18:18With this, my lovely

00:18:19Tell that

00:18:21To who it may concern

00:18:22You can

00:18:24I don't know

00:18:27What Flaxborough's

00:18:28Coming to, Purbride

00:18:29I blame it on the television

00:18:31The murder on our hands

00:18:33That's bad enough

00:18:34But a professional man

00:18:36A member of the country club

00:18:38Sitting in my own drawing room

00:18:40And begging me

00:18:40For police protection

00:18:41Police protection?

00:18:44You couldn't give it to him

00:18:45Of course

00:18:45Of course not

00:18:46That sort of thing

00:18:47Isn't available on demand

00:18:48Just like that

00:18:48I've seen Gloss in court

00:18:50He wouldn't frighten easily

00:18:51I'll have a word

00:18:53With him later on, sir

00:18:54If he really is nervous

00:18:56He'll probably be

00:18:57More forthcoming

00:18:57After a night or two

00:18:58Listening to creaking floorboards

00:19:00Damn it all

00:19:01Old Gwill wasn't

00:19:01The sort of fellow

00:19:02You expect to get murdered

00:19:03Why?

00:19:05Well, his nephew

00:19:05George Lintz

00:19:06Has something to gain

00:19:07And then there's

00:19:09A rather curious relationship

00:19:10Between Gwill

00:19:11And the Carribleat woman

00:19:12Good Lord

00:19:13Old Gwill

00:19:14The world's gone mad

00:19:16You remember

00:19:17The Carribleat affair, sir

00:19:18Why, you're not

00:19:19Dragging that old case up

00:19:20It's rather

00:19:21Dragged itself up

00:19:22Carribleat and Gwill

00:19:24Two friends and neighbours

00:19:25Local dignitaries

00:19:27One dead

00:19:28While still under investigation

00:19:29The other murdered

00:19:31In mysterious circumstances

00:19:32And now they'll lie

00:19:34Side by side

00:19:35In Heston Cemetery

00:19:36Just as they lived

00:19:38Side by side

00:19:39In Heston Lane

00:19:40Shut the gate then, lad

00:19:45All right

00:19:46Mag, mag

00:19:47What was it like in there?

00:19:50Brother

00:19:50Got a cup of tea there

00:19:51Lucky devil

00:19:52Got anything else?

00:19:54A list of people

00:19:54Who might have been

00:19:55At Gwill's place

00:19:55After midnight

00:19:56Oh, don't talk wet

00:19:57These people all

00:19:58Sink into a coma

00:19:59Round eight

00:20:00Oh, no, Hoppy

00:20:01The nice lady

00:20:02Just told me her daughter

00:20:02Was out at a dance

00:20:03Or something

00:20:04And she was so scared

00:20:05She'd come back ruined

00:20:06Every time she heard

00:20:06Anyone coming from town

00:20:07She popped down to the gate

00:20:08To see if it was the daughter

00:20:09Who exactly did she say?

00:20:11Um

00:20:12Morris Hoylake

00:20:14On bicycle

00:20:14No, that's my cousin

00:20:15Poor bright nose already

00:20:16Girl in hurry

00:20:17Wearing fur-trimmed coat

00:20:19Dr. Hilliard

00:20:20Well-off man in Trilby hat

00:20:22Who visited Mr. Gwill regular

00:20:23Lady with...

00:20:24All right, all right

00:20:25I've got one old insomniac

00:20:28Who remembers a black van driving by

00:20:30Nearly ran over a pussycat

00:20:32Or so she says

00:20:32Round about midnight

00:20:34She thinks it came back towards town later

00:20:36Oh, to finish off the cat

00:20:37Obviously

00:20:37How many more hires is to do?

00:20:41A dozen or so

00:20:41Sexton Blake never did it like this

00:20:44I love to go a-wandering

00:20:49Along the mountain track

00:20:52And as I go

00:20:54I love to sing

00:20:56My knapsack on my deck

00:21:00Still here, sir?

00:21:03Oh, what's that?

00:21:04You tell me

00:21:05It belonged to old Marcus

00:21:07An album

00:21:09Funny sort of hobby

00:21:12It's all furniture adverts

00:21:13Why?

00:21:15Well, ask our friend the editor

00:21:17How'd you get on with Lintz's wife, by the way?

00:21:23I, Gladys Lintz

00:21:24I'm a married woman

00:21:26And 41 years of age

00:21:27I reside with my husband George

00:21:30In a nice house

00:21:30And already have a cocktail cabinet

00:21:32A free pass to the Odeon

00:21:34Two beautiful children

00:21:35And the telly

00:21:36What?

00:21:37Kill old Uncle Marcus

00:21:38Why should I?

00:21:40I was a land girl in the war

00:21:41Quite

00:21:42Now tell me what she said

00:21:43Without meaning to

00:21:44One

00:21:45She thinks the undertaker

00:21:47Jonas Bradlaugh

00:21:48Did it

00:21:49Two

00:21:50She suspected Gwil

00:21:51Of making money on the side

00:21:53How?

00:21:53Buying and selling antiques

00:21:55She hadn't a clue

00:21:56Any reason why she didn't like old Nab Bradlaugh?

00:21:59Well, she said it was Gwil who didn't like him

00:22:01Uncle once said something about

00:22:04Fixing Nab Bradlaugh if he'd a mind to

00:22:08Sounded like a threat

00:22:10And when was this threat made?

00:22:12Oh, several months ago

00:22:13But the remark stuck in her mind

00:22:16It's a very narrow mind

00:22:18A murdering undertaker

00:22:20Sounds too good to be true

00:22:22Ah, Mr Bradlaugh

00:22:26Come in

00:22:26Sorry to keep you waiting

00:22:28Good evening, Doctor

00:22:29You're not ill, I take it

00:22:32No

00:22:33I had to see you

00:22:35Well

00:22:35Will you take a dram?

00:22:40No

00:22:40This whole damn thing will have to be dropped

00:22:43For the time being, Doc

00:22:44It cannot

00:22:45And needn't be

00:22:46Get that into your head, Bradlaugh

00:22:48We can build it up later

00:22:50When the fuss has died down

00:22:51What's running smoothly now

00:22:52Will have to be kept running

00:22:53Or abandoned altogether

00:22:54And I'll not see that happen

00:22:56After what we've put into it

00:22:57But the police

00:22:59The police

00:23:00And what will they do?

00:23:03Run round in ever-decreasing circles

00:23:05Until they become their own colonic stoppages

00:23:07Provided that you and I

00:23:10And Roddy Gloss

00:23:10Remain helpfully obscure

00:23:12And unproductively cooperative

00:23:13The police can do nothing

00:23:15Roddy Gloss

00:23:16Is just a shade too clever sometimes

00:23:18Keeping up with him can be dodgy

00:23:20Ah, stop frightening yourself, Bradlaugh

00:23:22Marcus asked for what he got

00:23:24By God he did

00:23:25But it can't be left at that

00:23:26The police aren't the problem

00:23:29Eh?

00:23:30There's a certain person

00:23:32We need to find

00:23:32And quickly

00:23:33Look

00:23:35There's only one way to do it

00:23:37A patient of mine

00:23:38One of the more grateful ones

00:23:40She works at the telephone exchange

00:23:43And is in the right place

00:23:44Flaxper 241

00:23:53Oh darling

00:23:55I'm glad you rang

00:23:56Something terrible's happened here

00:23:58Though it may have its

00:23:58You know?

00:24:01How?

00:24:02It's not in the national papers yet

00:24:03Is it?

00:24:04What?

00:24:05Yes

00:24:06That Inspector Purbright

00:24:08Has spoken to me

00:24:09He's seeing me again sometime

00:24:10Oh no, of course not

00:24:13I'll act like a cat

00:24:14Though the very idea

00:24:15Makes me

00:24:16Oh yes, I miss you too

00:24:19But we'd better not visit for a while

00:24:21It's not safe

00:24:22Hmm

00:24:23Shall I get in touch with them?

00:24:28Hilliard's been making innuendos

00:24:29No

00:24:31All right

00:24:31They are innuendos, darling

00:24:34Aren't they?

00:24:36Darling?

00:24:38Darling?

00:24:44Here

00:24:45This statement should save time

00:24:47For both of us, Inspector

00:24:47Very thoughtful of you, Mr Lynch

00:24:50Yes, this is all rather terrible

00:24:51I felt sure it was suicide

00:24:53You will find that I managed

00:24:55To spend all last night

00:24:56In the company of witnesses

00:24:57I'm glad to say

00:24:58Yeah, so I see

00:24:59I can't imagine

00:25:00Any more respectable

00:25:01Midnight occupation

00:25:02Than playing chess

00:25:04With an undertaker

00:25:05Perhaps if you just sign this, sir

00:25:08Hmm

00:25:08Now

00:25:10It's press day tomorrow

00:25:12And I'm very busy, as you can see

00:25:13There are no more questions, I presume

00:25:15Only this, sir

00:25:16This?

00:25:18It's my uncle's, isn't it?

00:25:19Yes, an album

00:25:20Small ads

00:25:21Doesn't make much sense to us

00:25:23No

00:25:24Matter of fact

00:25:25I've been rather puzzled

00:25:26About these myself

00:25:27I came across them

00:25:28Some months ago

00:25:29Is there anything peculiar

00:25:30About the adverts themselves?

00:25:32Not exactly common

00:25:33A garden offers

00:25:34Antiques aren't in my line

00:25:36Were they in Mr Gwills?

00:25:38Not to my knowledge

00:25:39That's what puzzled me

00:25:40Look, we'd better have

00:25:41Young House up here

00:25:42He handles the advertising

00:25:43Incidentally

00:25:47This week's edition

00:25:49Can my reporter include

00:25:50An official police statement

00:25:52In his account of uncle's death?

00:25:54Oh, House

00:25:54Can you spare a moment?

00:25:56Your paper can use all the facts

00:25:57As you know them, Mr Lynch

00:25:58But I'd like you to add this, though

00:26:00Say the police are anxious

00:26:01To hear from anyone

00:26:01Who was out in the Heston Lane area

00:26:03On Monday night

00:26:04After 11.30

00:26:04We'd also like a word

00:26:06With the driver of a black van

00:26:07Went up from town

00:26:09Just before twelve

00:26:09Returned about half an hour later

00:26:11Right

00:26:12I'll make a note of that

00:26:13Ah, House

00:26:16This is Inspector Furbride

00:26:18Evening, sir

00:26:19It's to do with Mr Gwills

00:26:21Sir?

00:26:22Can you identify

00:26:23The small ads in this album?

00:26:26These?

00:26:27They're all for sales

00:26:28That Mr Gwills brought in himself

00:26:30None of the ordinary ads

00:26:31Have letters

00:26:32As well as figures

00:26:32In the box references

00:26:33We used to sort out the replies

00:26:35And put them directly

00:26:36Through to the boss

00:26:36Were those his instructions?

00:26:38They were

00:26:38There's four new ones

00:26:40For this edition

00:26:40He gave them in

00:26:42Before

00:26:43Yes, quite

00:26:44Similar sorts of antique items?

00:26:47Identical, now you've come to mention it

00:26:49Antique lampstands

00:26:51Of tankard

00:26:51Sideboard

00:26:52Why do you suppose

00:26:53Mr Gwills was putting these adverts

00:26:55In the paper?

00:26:55Did you never wonder?

00:26:57Well, I thought perhaps

00:26:57He had a friend

00:26:58In the second hand trade

00:26:59Hmm

00:27:00You've no idea

00:27:00Who this other person

00:27:01Might have been?

00:27:02No

00:27:02And I presume

00:27:03You never saw the replies?

00:27:05Me?

00:27:05No

00:27:05Mr Gwills never left them lying about

00:27:07Oh

00:27:08I'd be obliged

00:27:09If you and Mr Lintz

00:27:10Would make certain

00:27:11All the replies from the new adverts

00:27:12Are given direct to me

00:27:13Sir

00:27:13As you wish

00:27:14Don't allow them out of your hands

00:27:15I think that may be important

00:27:17Telephone me as soon as anything arrives

00:27:19And now I'll let you

00:27:21Put your paper to bed

00:27:22And away to mine

00:27:23Thank you, gentlemen

00:27:24The inquest has been postponed

00:27:26I take it

00:27:27Yes, but you can go ahead

00:27:28With the funeral arrangements now

00:27:29I've already spoken to Mr Bradlaugh

00:27:31Yes, I expect you have

00:27:34How's the missus, Ben?

00:27:49Hey

00:27:49Oh

00:27:50Better thanks, Mr Bradlaugh

00:27:51Nice board, this Ben

00:27:54Take the bead in over the knot

00:27:56This is a five-star job

00:27:58It's for Mr Gwill

00:27:59Oh

00:27:59Oh, a couple of blokes waiting in the office, boss

00:28:01Oh, right

00:28:02Oh, I've been expecting them

00:28:05So now

00:28:12You were definitely with George Lintz

00:28:13All Monday night

00:28:15Say, nine till two

00:28:16First at the country club

00:28:17And then back here

00:28:18Oh, yes

00:28:19Except when he was out in the yard, of course

00:28:22In the yard?

00:28:24He wanted some air, he said

00:28:25He went out and I just fell fast asleep

00:28:29And he had to wake me up to get in again

00:28:31Oh, it's bloody tiring, you know, playing chess

00:28:35Yeah

00:28:35So you don't know how long he was out?

00:28:38Not really

00:28:38Well, it can't have been long, too cold

00:28:41Was his car outside?

00:28:43Um, no

00:28:44We'd come back in my van

00:28:46You're not suggesting

00:28:49Well, now you see what nasty people policemen can be

00:28:51You visited Gwill pretty regularly, didn't you?

00:28:55Now, and again

00:28:56Yeah, he didn't play chess, I suppose

00:28:58Oh, God, you're in a gripey mood

00:29:01Anyone would think you suspected me?

00:29:03Why did you go to see him?

00:29:05Just to be sociable

00:29:06I'm a steady advertiser

00:29:07He didn't give dinner parties to all his advertisers, surely

00:29:10Who else went with you?

00:29:13Oh, Rodney Gloss was there sometimes

00:29:15Um, Doc Hilliard, too, occasionally

00:29:18Doctors and solicitors aren't allowed to advertise, though, are they?

00:29:21True

00:29:22What about Harold Carrablee?

00:29:25Well, what about him?

00:29:25He's dead

00:29:26Yeah, that's all right

00:29:27I just wanted a general picture

00:29:28Oh, anything else you wanted to know?

00:29:30Just two things

00:29:31What other business was old Gwill mixed up in

00:29:34Apart from his paper?

00:29:35I haven't the faintest idea

00:29:37Lastly, then

00:29:39Mobbisy's relationship with Mrs Carrablee

00:29:41I only know what other people say

00:29:43And that doesn't signify

00:29:44Oh, you should hear what someone minted about my housekeeper

00:29:47You need a chaperone to measure a stiff in this town

00:29:50Very trying for you, Nab

00:29:52We'll go out to the back, if you don't mind

00:29:54Don't give way like poor old Gloss

00:29:57Eh? What the hell are you getting at?

00:29:59Who the hell's getting at Gloss?

00:30:02That's the question, Nab

00:30:03There's a nice glass of coffee in there

00:30:11Oh, well, it's not every week we bury a newspaper editor

00:30:14It's photo took this one, you see

00:30:16Yeah, is that Mr Bradlaugh's van outside?

00:30:19Black one, yeah

00:30:19Oh, it's not park dangerous, is it?

00:30:22We'll check

00:30:23Come on, Sergeant

00:30:24Sir

00:30:24Coppers

00:30:27Cheers, Sid

00:30:30Didn't know you were a member of the country club, sir

00:30:34I'm not, but the doorman thinks I am

00:30:36Mr Chubb brought me here once

00:30:37So, according to the steward

00:30:40Bradlaugh is a big drinker

00:30:42Lince pukes on a pint

00:30:44He picked his way out of here on Monday night

00:30:46Like a deep-sea diver

00:30:47Nab was steering him, cold sober

00:30:49Which means it's possible Bradlaugh knew what was going to happen

00:30:53And felt in need of Nulliver

00:30:54Ananamide?

00:30:55Is that what you made of his story?

00:30:56Well, it was thin

00:30:58Yeah, it was very

00:30:59Bradlaugh and Lince could have crooked up between them

00:31:01But he was smart enough to leave a hold in his story, notice

00:31:04The stuff about Lince in the yard, about falling asleep and so on

00:31:07Sure is way to put George Lince under suspicion

00:31:10Aren't we giving Bradlaugh too much credit for cunning?

00:31:14He may not be acting alone

00:31:15Hilliard was seen in Heston Lane

00:31:18Plus another of Gwyll's regular visitors, unnamed

00:31:21Yeah, that probably means gloss

00:31:23But suppose we can prove Nab took his van down there and back

00:31:27Why should he want to murder Gwyll?

00:31:30Well, by the look of his workshop, he can't be so short of trade he has to provide it himself

00:31:34Whoever did it, we still don't know how it was done, sir

00:31:37Oh, I think we know more or less how, sir

00:31:40But not where

00:31:41Here, you and Harper take this sketch back to Gwyll's place and see what you can find

00:31:46Pretty?

00:31:47A daffodil

00:31:48Yeah

00:31:49The original snapshot from Forensic would frighten the life out of old mother pool

00:31:53This is what Gwyll grabbed the other night

00:31:56Unsuspectingly

00:31:57You want a metal object, same shape and size, that could have been connected to mains or cable

00:32:02Weird

00:32:04Could there be anything in that ghost story?

00:32:08Some kind of ritual?

00:32:10It made a ghost of Gwyll, quickly enough

00:32:12I don't know, this is such a complicated crime, Sid

00:32:15Unnecessarily complicated

00:32:17Heaving that body up to the pylon would have been too much for one person, surely

00:32:21Back to nabs, pals, Hilliard and Gloss again

00:32:24Yes, and also, incidentally, or is it incidental, friends of the late Harold Carromleet

00:32:30Is Mrs Carromleet still thick with them, you reckon?

00:32:32Have I got the impression Hilliard loves her guts?

00:32:35But there was something between her and Gwyll, something, something she doesn't want revealed

00:32:39Include her house in the daffodil hunt, sir

00:32:42Make it sound routine, rather dull, you know, Mr Policeman, toy town

00:32:46It's a sad, cold house, Mr Love, whether he's here or not

00:32:53Mr Gwyll, you mean?

00:32:55No, him, you know

00:32:59Ah, I expect he's at rest now, Mrs Paul

00:33:02No, not him

00:33:04His hair kept growing, you know

00:33:08You never think of it growing afterwards, do you?

00:33:12No, Mrs Poole

00:33:13Afterwards?

00:33:14After they've passed on, Sarge

00:33:16The next world

00:33:17Oh, aye

00:33:19Uh, Mrs Poole, uh, you see this drawing here?

00:33:25Oh, is it a flower?

00:33:27Yes

00:33:28Tell me, does it remind you of any metal object or fitment around the house?

00:33:34Well, I've seen something like it, but where? I can't think

00:33:38Outside, maybe?

00:33:40Don't think so

00:33:41By the way, Mrs Poole

00:33:43Where is your electric meter?

00:33:45In there, under the stairs

00:33:47It was only road last week

00:33:50Just checking the fuses

00:33:51Is this the light switch, is it?

00:33:55Uh, yeah

00:33:55Faraday must have installed this lot

00:34:01Right

00:34:01Bit short on power points

00:34:04A reel of wire here, Sarge

00:34:06Bellwire

00:34:07No good for the mains

00:34:08Come on, it's daffodil time

00:34:12Scream if you see the ghost

00:34:14Oh, she's been frightened by something, Sarge

00:34:18That's obvious

00:34:19She's not the only one

00:34:21Cozy office you have, Mr Gloss

00:34:24It serves

00:34:25Now, what would you like to know, Inspector?

00:34:28I'd like to know about Mr Gwill

00:34:30Marcus Gwill was not altogether of an amenable disposition, Inspector

00:34:35Tell me, are you aware of any occupation, any source of income of Mr Gwill's

00:34:40Apart from his ownership of the Flaxborough Citizen Printing and Publishing Company?

00:34:45Hmm, the answer must be no, Inspector

00:34:48Not that the bare negative is incapable of qualification

00:34:53But in the context of a police investigation, it will serve

00:34:57If I were of an uncharitable disposition

00:35:01I might take that to be a roundabout way of saying that your client's sudden departure has left some money lying around that isn't strictly accounted for

00:35:09Pardon my soul, but you're a perceptive fellow, Inspector

00:35:11Gentlemen in commerce are naturally concerned to meet the contingencies of our times

00:35:17Taxation and so forth

00:35:19Marcus often boasted of supplements to his means

00:35:22Although, as far as I have been able to check, they were not spectacular

00:35:26Well, don't misunderstand me

00:35:28They represent no part of the money that has accrued from his publishing business

00:35:32Can you tell me what they do represent?

00:35:34No, I'm afraid I cannot help you there

00:35:37Hmm

00:35:37Now, perhaps you care to provide me with the name of Mr Gwill's bankers

00:35:40I can readily ascertain this, of course

00:35:42Eastern Provinces, Flaxborough Branch

00:35:45It is my private belief that these supplements were obtained by means of questionable legality

00:35:51What they were, I do not know, and I do not wish to know

00:35:55But some months ago, I noticed a change in Marcus' manner

00:35:59He became more excited

00:36:01Yet there was an element of fear in his excitement

00:36:04I received the impression that some third person was being deprived of a share in the gains

00:36:11And my client's sense of elation came from his discomfiture

00:36:16His?

00:36:17Well, hers, of course

00:36:18Why not?

00:36:20Why not a woman?

00:36:23Well, all right, if you must

00:36:25I don't know what you expect to find in my house

00:36:28But I have no objection

00:36:29Come in

00:36:30Very kind of you, Mrs Carableek

00:36:36Thank you, ma'am

00:36:37You see, you were away on the night that, um

00:36:41Mr Gwill was murdered, yes

00:36:43Beg pardon, ma'am

00:36:44I know you were rather close to the gentleman

00:36:47What if I was?

00:36:48No offence, ma'am

00:36:49The point is, the house was empty

00:36:52Yes

00:36:53Anna, the girl who cleans for me, had three days off

00:36:56Ah, then someone else might have been here

00:36:59Someone else?

00:37:00An intruder

00:37:01No signs of a break-in, ma'am

00:37:02No, of course not

00:37:04Nobody else with a spare key, perhaps

00:37:06Anna doesn't have one, no

00:37:08Well, now, Mrs Carableek

00:37:11This is what we're interested in, mainly

00:37:14Is this a joke?

00:37:19Wish it were, ma'am

00:37:20This duffodil is deadly

00:37:22I'm convinced of it, Inspector

00:37:25For reasons best known to himself

00:37:27Marcus conveyed a false impression of his relationship with me

00:37:30His legal advisor

00:37:31He implied that I had been given custody of monies

00:37:35Marcus had deprived some third party of

00:37:37But why should Mr Gwill imply such a thing?

00:37:40To forestall any direct or violent attempt to recover the said monies, perhaps

00:37:44As it turns out, the ruse did not save him from the revenge of this unknown person

00:37:49His or hers, as the case may be

00:37:52And you?

00:37:53Do you still feel yourself under threat?

00:37:55Oh, yes

00:37:55I ask you to believe that, if nothing else

00:37:58I'll bet it's mine, Mr Gloss

00:37:59Now, I wonder if you care to tell me where you were last Monday night

00:38:03Last Monday?

00:38:05Last Monday?

00:38:06The night Gwill died

00:38:07Ah, curiously enough, Inspector

00:38:09I spent Monday evening at the home of Marcus Gwill

00:38:13And stayed until after he was dead

00:38:14I see

00:38:16Would you think me facetious if I were to ask if you killed him?

00:38:19Not at all

00:38:20A very proper question in the circumstances

00:38:22But I'm afraid my answer will not help you very much

00:38:26It is no

00:38:27I rather thought you'd say that, sir

00:38:28All the same, I really must take a statement after what you've just said

00:38:32Naturally

00:38:32In fact, I have given the matter some thought

00:38:35Naturally

00:38:36Off you go then, Mr Gloss

00:38:38Late on Monday night, it must have been approximately 11.15

00:38:41Marcus Gwill telephoned me and intimated that there was a matter of some urgency he wished to discuss

00:38:46Am I going too fast for you, Inspector?

00:38:49No, thanks

00:38:49My shorthand's been honed on talkative criminals

00:38:52Indeed

00:38:53I left home and walked along Heston Lane

00:38:56It would be about a quarter to twelve when I arrived at Gwill's house

00:38:59Another acquaintance was already there in the drawing room

00:39:02The Scotsman, Dr Hilliard, whom you probably know

00:39:04I concluded some sort of conference was intended

00:39:07Hilliard was seated by the fire, drinking a glass of whiskey

00:39:10Gwill fetched a glass for me

00:39:12He was an abstainer, you know

00:39:13But he was chewing, as usual

00:39:15Adult sweet-eaters invariably annoy me

00:39:18So furtively self-indulgent

00:39:20Is this part of the statement?

00:39:22I mentioned the chewing and my irritation

00:39:24Because it explains why I can tell you very little of something significant that occurred next

00:39:28Which was?

00:39:30The telephone rang, and Gwill took the call there in the drawing room

00:39:33However, I was so preoccupied with the appalling way his mastication moved the mouthpiece up and down

00:39:38I failed to take in the conversation

00:39:40But it was very brief

00:39:42He put the receiver down, mumbled something about being back in a few minutes

00:39:46And hastened out of the house

00:39:47He did not come back, and I never saw him again

00:39:50Hilliard and I waited for perhaps half an hour

00:39:52Then we left the house and walked to our respective homes

00:39:55There seemed nothing more practical to do

00:39:57Yes

00:40:00Now, Mr Gloss, you must be aware that either you or Dr Hilliard or both should have told us this at once

00:40:06Of course, Dr Hilliard left the matter in my hands as his legal advisor

00:40:10You will wish to see him, no doubt, but I have a signed statement from him here

00:40:13The delay was occasioned by concern for my own safety

00:40:18And a professional reluctance to reveal confidential information

00:40:21Very well, Mr Gloss

00:40:23Did you lock the door of the house when you left?

00:40:26No, we weren't sure that he had taken his key

00:40:28You felt no anxiety on his behalf, other than being worried about locking him out?

00:40:32None

00:40:32We both took it for granted he was visiting some neighbour, or relative perhaps

00:40:36You didn't happen to see Mr George Lince at or near his uncle's house last Monday night by any chance?

00:40:41No

00:40:41As you must have judged from the fact that I made no mention of him in my account of what transpired

00:40:46Quite

00:40:47Was Mr Jonas Bradlaugh at the house?

00:40:50Not while I was there

00:40:51One last question there, Mr Gloss

00:40:54Did you notice if Mr Gloss, did you notice if Mr Gloss took a bucket or can of water down the drive on Monday night?

00:40:59Water?

00:41:00No

00:41:00What on earth would he be doing with a bucket of water?

00:41:04What indeed

00:41:17Flaxborough 241

00:41:21Oh, I wasn't expecting you

00:41:24Sorry darling, I was in the kitchen

00:41:26Yes, they came this afternoon

00:41:30No, not Purbright

00:41:33Routine

00:41:35One of those PC plod types

00:41:38Something silly about daffodil designs and fuse boxes

00:41:42Look darling, if you're mixed up in this Marcus affair, I wish you'd tell me

00:41:48But will it ever be finished?

00:41:51Will it?

00:41:53Yes, I'm listening

00:41:55Come on

00:41:56Come in

00:41:58Ah, hello house

00:42:00Those replies to the box numbers have arrived

00:42:02Good, how many?

00:42:03More than usual

00:42:04Fourteen

00:42:05Right, I'm taking them over to the inspector now

00:42:08I'd like you to escort me

00:42:10Yes, Miss Lince

00:42:10Any particular reason?

00:42:13The inspector obviously intended you to keep an eye on me

00:42:15Sir?

00:42:17Didn't you know I was under suspicion of murder?

00:42:20Yes, Sergeant

00:42:20Send them straight up

00:42:21Put the kettle on, see it

00:42:23And stand by for steaming envelopes

00:42:25If Lince was involved, he'd have used his position as editor to squash the whole thing somehow

00:42:30The box numbers may have nothing to do with the murder, of course

00:42:33So that doesn't rule him out

00:42:34No, though it's in his favour that both Bradlaugh and Gloss tried to set him up, I think

00:42:38You don't believe Gloss's story?

00:42:39Up to a point

00:42:40He's too frank

00:42:41A murderer or his accomplice wouldn't have mentioned those marshmallows, for instance

00:42:45Not unless it were an essential part of his alibi or self-justification

00:42:48Why not?

00:42:49Well, because it's one of those pathetic little details about his victim a murderer prefers to forget

00:42:53But they were all there that night, I'm sure

00:42:56Gwyll, Gloss, Hilliard

00:42:57And I'd be much surprised if Bradlaugh wasn't as well

00:43:00They were in something or other together

00:43:02And on Monday night, an emergency conference became necessary

00:43:05Either that or the three of them went there by arrangement to put Gwyll out of the way

00:43:09With a Daffodil we can't find

00:43:11Seems a very uncertain way of doing someone in, doesn't it?

00:43:14Well, not really

00:43:15A shot of mains current could be just as effective as a cannonball

00:43:18A bath is the classic case

00:43:20You see, you have to make sure your victim is nicely earthed

00:43:25Something wrong, sir?

00:43:26No, nothing

00:43:27Did Operation Daffodil extend to the grounds yesterday?

00:43:31No, it didn't seem...

00:43:32Ah, Mr Lince, Mr House, take a seat

00:43:35Cattle's on, we can have tea and open those letters at the same time

00:43:39Dear sir, in response to your ad, I shall be pleased to call Tuesday at 7.45pm

00:43:46To see goods as specified, bracket, Japanese Antique Newell Ebony

00:43:50And enclose cash, entitling me to first refusal of them

00:43:54If inconvenient, kindly send card, yours faithfully HL Byrd

00:43:57I wish to inspect goods on Thursday evening at 8 sharp

00:44:01Deposit herewith, for preference, Superior Antique Lampstand

00:44:05But will consider Japanese Antique

00:44:07The Mahogany Antique Beach Sideboard

00:44:10Deposit of 8 pounds, enclosed

00:44:12Yours respectfully, Herbert Stamper

00:44:15Quite a social register

00:44:18Two counsellors, an orderman

00:44:21Retailers, estate agents

00:44:23A dealer in farm machinery

00:44:24One or two hiding behind false names apparently

00:44:28But pretty half-hearted deceptions

00:44:29And most of the addresses are real enough, it's curious

00:44:32I'd never have suspected some of them were of an interest in antiques, I must say

00:44:36The money side's a bit odd too

00:44:38Yes indeed, always 8 pounds

00:44:39Anyhow, I've tabulated the 14 replies here

00:44:43You can reseal the money and letters in the envelopes and return them to their postbox, Mr. House

00:44:48I suppose someone calls for them

00:44:49Well, ask your staff to hand them over in the usual way and make a note of whoever it was

00:44:53Well, I think that's all, gentlemen

00:44:56Well, the sooner this thing is sold, the better

00:44:59I'm very grateful to you for your cooperation, Mr. Lynch

00:45:02Thank you

00:45:03Inspector

00:45:04I think we're losing a suspect

00:45:08I'm gaining 14

00:45:10Oh, I doubt it

00:45:11No one puts deposits on things they haven't seen

00:45:15This antique business of Gwills, whatever it is, is shady

00:45:18These respectable citizens must know that

00:45:21Yet they pass cash over mostly genuine signatures and under entirely genuine addresses

00:45:26Why?

00:45:27Suggests confidence, doesn't it?

00:45:28Oh, yeah, you're right

00:45:29This means of communication, doing business or whatever, has been used for some time

00:45:34They trust it

00:45:35All the time is given are in the evening this week

00:45:38Notice, 7 till 9

00:45:40Recognised antique viewing hours, perhaps?

00:45:44What is an antique Japanese newel, for pity's sake?

00:45:49A newel is a post, something to do with the staircase

00:45:52Yeah, well, there's quite a number interested in those

00:45:54An old, flourishing Japanese industry?

00:45:58No, wait

00:45:59Here's an Egyptian newel inlaid dodecahedronic

00:46:02Dear

00:46:03A 12-sided newel

00:46:05I mean, it's ridiculous

00:46:06These boys aren't after antiques

00:46:08Bet you they couldn't tell a queen hand leg from a barmaid's elbow

00:46:11Is it a code, sir?

00:46:12A robbery split 12 ways?

00:46:15Oh, ingenious, sir

00:46:16And superior antique lampstand?

00:46:19I don't know

00:46:21I'll try other words with the same initials

00:46:24S-A-L, smash and...

00:46:27Languish

00:46:28What about swipe auntie's laundry?

00:46:31Oh, all right

00:46:32How about blackmail?

00:46:35Oh, Sid

00:46:35Well, these people are all well-off and respectable

00:46:39Two of them are on the council

00:46:41Nine are members of the country club

00:46:44But so is the chief constable

00:46:46It was blackmail, Sid

00:46:49And if Gwyll was the blackmailer

00:46:51There'd be no eight quidsies today

00:46:54If Gwyll dared, they'd all be celebrating the closing of the account

00:46:57But they might not have known who was blackmailing them

00:47:00That's the beauty of a box number

00:47:01That's true

00:47:02But why all this appointment business?

00:47:05After the money had been handed over

00:47:07Okay, then

00:47:09Only one thing to do

00:47:10Pull in a couple of these characters and drag it out of them

00:47:12Not just yet

00:47:14No, here's a better idea

00:47:15Choose one of this lot who doesn't know you

00:47:18And follow him on the day of his appointment

00:47:20You and Harper

00:47:20Follow him all day?

00:47:23In this weather?

00:47:24Well, he's not likely to call and tell you how and where he's ready to go

00:47:27New old viewing, is he?

00:47:29Just supposing he knows himself

00:47:30You can borrow the hillman

00:47:32But don't park it without lights or anything

00:47:34The police in this town are bastards

00:47:36You're telling me

00:47:38Come on, Sid, cheer up

00:47:40I think I've got a present for you

00:47:41What?

00:47:44A daffodil

00:47:44Look here, Sid

00:47:53The handle on the gate

00:47:55Daffodils

00:47:56Yeah, I see

00:47:58It's a nice bit of wrought iron work, actually

00:48:01Does this make it suicide after all, sir?

00:48:04I mean, if Gwyll was seen splashing water about down here

00:48:07Someone assumed to be Gwyll, I think

00:48:09It was dark, remember?

00:48:10Oh, an electric lead would have been clipped up here somewhere

00:48:15They'd have run it along that hedge, most like

00:48:18Couldn't have been spotted in the dark

00:48:20Probably not in daylight

00:48:21And the question is, from which house?

00:48:23I think Mrs. Canterbleach, most likely

00:48:25Yes

00:48:26Yes

00:48:26Now, um...

00:48:28Hold on

00:48:29What's that through the hedge?

00:48:31Look, something yellow

00:48:32Yeah

00:48:32Let's see

00:48:33I can just about

00:48:34Here we are

00:48:36Scrap of adhesive tape

00:48:39Some printing on it

00:48:42Something

00:48:43Well-limited

00:48:45IO and TV

00:48:48Radio shop, I suppose

00:48:49Yeah

00:48:50Something DLOW

00:48:53DLOW

00:48:54That's got to be Ludlow

00:48:55Where?

00:48:56Shropshire, see it

00:48:57Yeah, rings a bell

00:48:58Yeah, right

00:48:59The widow's rural retreat

00:49:01Hi

00:49:02Time to ask Mrs. C a few more questions, eh?

00:49:06Not quite

00:49:06We want a few more answers first

00:49:08Yes

00:49:10Oh

00:49:11That's the spot

00:49:12That's where I saw him the last time

00:49:16Good morning, Mrs. Poole

00:49:18Early on it was

00:49:19Just light

00:49:20He was standing right here

00:49:23That morning I went to my sister's

00:49:25Right here, you say?

00:49:27He was never very far away, I think

00:49:29He'd look after the window sometimes

00:49:32And there he was

00:49:33Well, what was he doing that last time?

00:49:38Fixing up his wireless

00:49:39To hear what was going on, I suppose

00:49:43Things don't stop afterwards

00:49:46No, they don't

00:49:48That's why the hair keeps growing, I expect

00:49:52The hair?

00:49:52Ah, yes, sir

00:49:53Mrs. Poole mentioned it to me yesterday

00:49:55What hair, Mrs. Poole?

00:49:58Round his face, like

00:50:00Round his face?

00:50:01A beard?

00:50:02Who was it you saw, Mrs. Poole?

00:50:03Who was it?

00:50:05I thought you knew

00:50:07I thought you understood

00:50:10Now, look, are you sure it was a man?

00:50:12Absolutely certain

00:50:13Goodbye, sir

00:50:14I'll tell Mr. Gwell you called

00:50:17Oh

00:50:17He keeps rather to himself these days

00:50:21I don't honestly think the Poole knows what she's talking about, sir

00:50:25No, Sid, but somebody does

00:50:27Are you with me?

00:50:37When?

00:50:39Day after tomorrow

00:50:40What about gloss?

00:50:43No, we don't want Roddy on a jaunt like this

00:50:45Are you sure you can find the place?

00:50:47I'm confident

00:50:48We know the number of the call box

00:50:50We can find it from there

00:50:52Wouldn't it be better to wait until she goes again and follow her?

00:50:56We can't afford to sit around waiting

00:50:58No

00:50:58No, I haven't slept for three days, you know that

00:51:01You must let me prescribe you something

00:51:03Or would you like an appointment to inspect a superior antique lampstand?

00:51:10None whatsoever

00:51:11As his bank manager, I would certainly have been aware if Mr. Gwell had any interest in the sale or purchase of antiques

00:51:17Well, that seems clear enough, Pumwright

00:51:20But he was receiving money from some unspecified source, Mr. Smith

00:51:23Without doubt

00:51:24Have you any impression what that source was?

00:51:27Unfortunately, no

00:51:28Because the money was deposited in cash?

00:51:31There are, as they say, no flies on you, Inspector

00:51:34Well, thank you for your cooperation, Percy

00:51:36We must make up a Ford Bridge sometime

00:51:39I take it you have no more questions, Pumwright

00:51:42To sum up, except for that one anomaly, there was nothing unusual about Mr. Gwell's account?

00:51:48Nothing?

00:51:49Unless you count the will, of course

00:51:52The will?

00:51:53Which will?

00:51:53Oh, another good client of ours

00:51:55The late Councillor Carrableed's bequest

00:51:58I say

00:51:59Good Lord

00:52:00But, Mr. Smith, surely Mr. Carrableed left a widow

00:52:02Ah, yes, a peculiar circumstance there

00:52:04But the will was quite explicitly in Mr. Gwell's favour

00:52:08And that of certain other beneficiaries

00:52:10The widow never made a challenge

00:52:13A matter of, oh, some eighteen thousand pounds

00:52:17Eighteen?

00:52:18Will away your money over your wife's head?

00:52:21It simply isn't done

00:52:22Mrs. Carrableed presumably had good reason not to contest such a will

00:52:26There was a substantial sum in insurance for her, I believe

00:52:30Then there was the house and so forth

00:52:32As a matter of fact, I expected Carrableed to die in test state

00:52:37Shortly before his illness, he gave me to understand that he'd taken no steps toward making his will

00:52:43The document itself didn't come to light till sometime after his death, actually

00:52:48Really? How was that?

00:52:50I'm not sure I ought to tell you

00:52:52You might think I'd been a little remiss

00:52:54Not all firms are run as punctiliously as banks, you know

00:52:58It was mislead

00:53:00Good gracious

00:53:02By Mrs. Gloss, Posit and Gloss, solicitors?

00:53:05Strictly between ourselves

00:53:07Yes

00:53:08Do try to keep a charitable view of these people, Purbright

00:53:15Until you know the worst, of course

00:53:17These are highly respected Flaxborough citizens

00:53:20Well, you never know

00:53:21I may find the villains of the piece lurking in Shropshire

00:53:24But it's fairly clear that Carrableed, Will, Gloss and the undertaker Bradlaugh

00:53:29Were originally concerned together in some enterprise

00:53:32Which, if I'm not mistaken, was not strictly legal

00:53:35Carrableed's widow may or may not have been a party to that

00:53:39The chain of events that began with her husband's death

00:53:43Now looks, to say the least, somewhat disquieting

00:53:45A death, you remember, that passed off quickly with a respectable certificate

00:53:49A quiet funeral and not a single question asked

00:53:53Perhaps it's time to start asking, sir

00:53:55Oh, good Lord, Purbright

00:53:57Not another murder

00:53:58I don't know

00:53:59There seems to be a sudden abundance of motive

00:54:02Four problems

00:54:07A mysterious Shropshire retreat

00:54:09A ghost with a beer

00:54:12An unchallenged will worth $18,000

00:54:15And an illegal source of income worth risking four or five professional careers

00:54:20Solve one, the rest will follow

00:54:23Ah, police work isn't what it was

00:54:26Hello, Arpy

00:54:34All right for you sitting in a car

00:54:36I'm soaked

00:54:37Didn't sign of Councilor Ledbetty yet

00:54:41No

00:54:42Bloody waste of time

00:54:43Three hours I've spent outside this house today

00:54:46I'd have known a Flaxborough butcher would be leading a boring, regular, homely life

00:54:52How much you bet me, it's antiques after all

00:54:57With standard eight quid deposits

00:55:00And weird offers like Japanese newels

00:55:03Never

00:55:04What does Ledbetter's letter say he was after?

00:55:09Appointment for 7.15

00:55:11Pewter antique tankard

00:55:13You mean antique pewter tankard?

00:55:18Do I?

00:55:19Yeah

00:55:19Well, that's how it was in the advert

00:55:21The army way

00:55:22No, no, Sarge

00:55:23That would be tankard antique pewter

00:55:27You're right

00:55:29Now, there's a funny thing

00:55:32What's the time, Arpy?

00:55:44Nearly seven, Sarge

00:55:46Look, here comes Ledbetter

00:55:48Oh, I tell you

00:55:49Stand by to go after him if he doesn't take his car

00:55:51It's all right

00:55:52It's all right, he's making straight for it

00:55:53Oh, shut the heat on, Sarge

00:55:56I'm frozen

00:55:56He's going to turn right

00:56:09I've seen the terrace

00:56:12No signal, Sarge

00:56:15Shall we nick him?

00:56:16Shut

00:56:17He's stopping

00:56:21Get out and keep with him while I park this thing

00:56:25Your clerk has just taken possession of a bundle of box letters, Mr. Gloss

00:56:31May we assume the relevant adverts were placed by you or on your behalf?

00:56:35Oh, no, Inspector

00:56:36No?

00:56:37No, I merely chanced to find the counterfoil while I was sorting through some of the late Mr. Gwill's papers today

00:56:42In a professional capacity, you understand

00:56:44You have no idea what the letters are about, I suppose

00:56:47No idea at all

00:56:49Here they are, in this drawer

00:56:50They appear to be concerned with antiques

00:56:55Sizeable sums of money are involved

00:56:57Perhaps you have an explanation

00:56:59One or two conjectures, perhaps

00:57:01My apologies for disturbing you so late, Mr. Gloss

00:57:04Not at all

00:57:05I was on the point of locking up

00:57:07And I shall now have the pleasure of walking with you as far as the country club

00:57:11Poor Marcus

00:57:14He's turning out to be quite a mystery, isn't he?

00:57:16No more than the next man, Mr. Gloss

00:57:19He went in this one, Sarge

00:57:23The one with the brass plate

00:57:25R.M. Hilliard, M.D.

00:57:29Right, in we go

00:57:31Fine old houses, these

00:57:40Have a look who's in the waiting room

00:57:46A bad leg

00:57:48A pregnant lady

00:57:49And one acne sufferer

00:57:51But no lead bitter

00:57:52Stay here

00:57:53Look ill

00:57:54I'm going to explore upstairs

00:57:56Without a warrant?

00:57:58You don't need a warrant

00:57:59To look up future antique tankers

00:58:01Oh!

00:58:07Evening?

00:58:08Er, yeah

00:58:08Excuse me

00:58:10Oh, not that way, love

00:58:11That's the lady's cubicles

00:58:12Next entrance on the left

00:58:14Doesn't mess up the system, mate

00:58:16Hey

00:58:17Let's mess up the system

00:58:18Oh, hey

00:58:28Oh, beg pardon

00:58:30Is he now, ain't it?

00:58:33Er, yes

00:58:34Yes, it is

00:58:35Yeah, what cubicle number are you?

00:58:39I'm, um

00:58:39I'm not sure

00:58:41Well, look there on the notice board

00:58:43Gee, look, squire

00:58:45A bit of treatment will do you a power of good

00:58:48Oh, excuse me, miss

00:59:04Er, my mistake

00:59:05Wrong cubicle

00:59:06Find me

00:59:09Ah, the perfect end to an awful day

00:59:22Half-flexborough seems to have influenza

00:59:24Rupert, I'm trying to talk to you

00:59:26Yes, I heard you, I heard you

00:59:28The van perbright is breathing down our necks

00:59:31All right

00:59:32All right

00:59:34We'll suspend the schedules for a couple of weeks

00:59:36If it makes you feel any better

00:59:37But tomorrow's trip goes ahead as planned

00:59:40I hope you know what you're doing

00:59:42Yes, well, let's drink to that

00:59:43Same again, please, John

00:59:45Sir

00:59:46What time are you leaving?

00:59:48Nabs bringing the van round at six

00:59:50This really must be the last

00:59:52My wife is waiting

00:59:54Will you walk home with me?

00:59:56Oh, a scared Sassanac is a wonder to behold

01:00:01What was that girl wearing again?

01:00:07Or rather, er, what wasn't she wearing, eh, Saj?

01:00:10Okay, okay, joke's over

01:00:13She wasn't any antique at any rate

01:00:16Not a pewter tanker, Japanese newl

01:00:19Or mahogany and beachside boarding site

01:00:21Some sort of clinic

01:00:24Private

01:00:25Can be National Health

01:00:26No waiting

01:00:27Regular appointment times pinned up

01:00:29Oh, that's that

01:00:32I wonder what happened to Leadbitter

01:00:35If only his treatment should coincide with his antique appointment

01:00:39Mix the dates up, probably

01:00:40I wonder what his trouble is

01:00:43Looks healthy enough

01:00:44So did Mabs come to that

01:00:47Mabs?

01:00:49Oh, she was the woman you saw on the stairs

01:00:50Oh, she looked in her face when she passed me in the hall

01:00:53Poor old Mabs

01:00:56Well, you used to meet her when I was on the beat down the Arbour District

01:01:00Broad Street, you know

01:01:01Oh, I know, yeah

01:01:03Entertaining the Merchant Navy

01:01:05Roaring trade during the war

01:01:06More knocking shops and telegraph poles down there at one time

01:01:09Till Holy Harry Carableet became chairman of the watch committee

01:01:13Poor old Mabs

01:01:15Did I say a name?

01:01:18Oh, no

01:01:19Short for Margaret Abigail Beryl Shooter

01:01:23Mabs, see

01:01:24Everybody called her that

01:01:26Comes of having your name read out in court too often

01:01:28Yes

01:01:29Sergeant

01:01:33Are you thinking what I'm thinking?

01:01:37I think I am

01:01:38I don't believe it

01:01:43Good old Sid

01:01:43Bright pink he was, sir

01:01:45All right, all right

01:01:46And was your cubicle lady a superior antique lampstand or a Japanese antique mule?

01:01:51Well, she wasn't a mahogany and beach sideboard anyway

01:01:54Bloody hell, I could kick myself

01:01:56You'd be staring me in the face on that notice board

01:01:59715-EL

01:02:01Ernie Ledbetter

01:02:02And P-A-T

01:02:03Spells putt

01:02:04Alias our friend Pewter antique tankard

01:02:07What I don't understand is

01:02:10Why does it have to be so complicated?

01:02:12Yes

01:02:12Those arrangements could easily have been made over the phone or something

01:02:15Yeah, it wouldn't have been so exciting, Harper

01:02:17It's often the trimmings, you know, the peephole and password, that sort of thing

01:02:21There's half the attraction for middle-aged men who dabble in vice

01:02:24Hilliard Grill and company knew their best customers would be the respectable married tradesmen and farmers

01:02:30Providing they reassured them with stringent or even melodramatic safeguards

01:02:35You don't risk losing your reputation in a small community like this

01:02:38Is that why Gwil was murdered, you reckon?

01:02:40A bad mistake it was

01:02:41Because a whole series of reputations are at risk now

01:02:44Including Flaxborough

01:02:45Harper, would you feel like logging in other hours over time?

01:02:50Mrs. Mabel Abigail Barrel-Shooters

01:02:51Exactly

01:02:52She's probably relaxing after the evening shift

01:02:55It'd be nice to be in a position to prefer charges tomorrow

01:02:58And I'm very interested to know when and how the racket was started

01:03:02Sir

01:03:02Take the Hillman

01:03:03Right, sir

01:03:04Murder charges, is this, sir?

01:03:07No, one thing at a time, sir

01:03:08Keeping a disorderly house

01:03:10Very orderly, as a matter of fact

01:03:12Yes, those cubicle things, were they an original part of the house?

01:03:16I don't think so

01:03:17They look like conversions

01:03:18Not brand new, but recent

01:03:19Yeah, I expect that's Nab Bradlaugh's building firm on the QT

01:03:23Probably

01:03:23Nab's no better than he should be

01:03:25But a doctor

01:03:27That's what sticks in my throat

01:03:28Above his own surgery, too

01:03:30Your feelings do you credit, Sid?

01:03:32But I rather think breaking the Hippocratic oath

01:03:34Was only a beginning

01:03:36Well, here we are, Roddy

01:03:41Home sweet home

01:03:43I'm obliged to you for escorting me

01:03:45Much obliged

01:03:46Well, we can't have you frightened, Mr. Gloss

01:03:48No

01:03:49It's a hard frost tonight

01:03:52Aye

01:03:52Five to one, we'll have snow for Christmas

01:03:55Look out, Roddy

01:03:57I've been standing

01:03:58You bastard

01:03:59Drop it

01:04:02Drop it

01:04:03You

01:04:03Roddy?

01:04:11Roddy?

01:04:13You'll be better staying with friends, as you thought

01:04:16But the constable will take you

01:04:18Everything all right, Sergeant?

01:04:22Yes, sir

01:04:23Yes, she's all right, I think

01:04:25Now, Doctor, you say you saw nothing of this assailant?

01:04:29No

01:04:29Well, how big was he?

01:04:31Which way did he go?

01:04:32I tell you, I didn't see him

01:04:34It was over in seconds

01:04:35Roddy was dead by the time Mrs. Gloss and I got him into the house

01:04:38What's the matter, Doctor?

01:04:41I had something of a shock

01:04:42Well, hadn't you noticed?

01:04:44How do you account for the blood on your sleeve, sir?

01:04:46See if you can turn over a man with a heart wound and stay clean

01:04:49It would be no use asking if you'd seen this before

01:04:53Show him the knife, Sergeant

01:04:54No, of course I haven't

01:04:56Now, would you care to tell us the object of your meeting with Mr. Gloss at the country club?

01:05:01Liquor, relaxation, conversation

01:05:04In that order

01:05:05We achieved all three in moderation

01:05:07Yes, I expect you had a busy surgery this evening, Doctor

01:05:10My surgery is always busy

01:05:12Diseases like crime

01:05:14There is a constant concentration of it in society everywhere

01:05:17Both will respond to treatment, though

01:05:20Aye

01:05:20To a strictly limited degree

01:05:22Unfortunate, but true

01:05:24You were doctor in attendance on the late Mr. Carabit, were you not?

01:05:28I was

01:05:28Is this germane to your present inquiries, Inspector?

01:05:34Perhaps, I'm not sure

01:05:36You signed his death certificate in respect of pneumonia and heart failure

01:05:39That is so, Doctor?

01:05:41To the best of my recollection

01:05:42And you have no reason looking back now to doubt the accuracy of your findings?

01:05:47None whatever

01:05:47Now, are there any more questions?

01:05:50I'd quite like to get home

01:05:51Yes, of course, sir

01:05:52But first, may I ask you

01:05:54Do you think Mr. Gloss had any enemies, sir?

01:05:57He was a solicitor

01:05:58The profession does not attract draughts of the milk of human kindness

01:06:01Do you know of anyone specifically who wished him harm?

01:06:05I can think of no one in particular

01:06:06Well, good night, Dr. Hilliard

01:06:09And thank you

01:06:10You'll find transport waiting outside to take you home

01:06:12You've got a job to do, I suppose

01:06:15Good night, Inspector

01:06:17Oh, what a night, Sid

01:06:20A brothel and a fatal stabbing all in two hours

01:06:23The chief constable will never speak to me again

01:06:25Well, you've got someone to charge for both of them, at any rate

01:06:28No one's going to tell me he wouldn't know what the assailant looked like

01:06:31If there really was an assailant

01:06:33There's street lamps all along the road

01:06:35The bloke's a villain, stands out a mile

01:06:37You're probably right

01:06:38But that doesn't mean he murdered Gloss

01:06:40His sleeve was wet with blood

01:06:42I'll bet you anything you'll like

01:06:44He did Gloss Anguil

01:06:45Yeah, well

01:06:46In that case, we might not be very far wrong in wondering

01:06:50If he had a hand in another little matter earlier on

01:06:52How terribly

01:06:54Huh, I wondered what you were getting at just now

01:06:58Stroll on, I'll never trust another doctor again

01:07:01But wait a minute, though

01:07:03If he's responsible for that

01:07:05The Merry Widow could be involved, too

01:07:08Flaxper 241

01:07:10Yes, all right, I'll accept the charge

01:07:13Darling

01:07:16What are you doing so close to Flaxborough?

01:07:20Why, I don't understand

01:07:21I thought we'd agreed that

01:07:22What?

01:07:25But why shouldn't it be safe for me here?

01:07:30Darling, what's happened?

01:07:33I trust you

01:07:34Yes, of course I trust you

01:07:35Yes, all right

01:07:38Maybe we could meet somewhere by accident

01:07:41Like strangers, I mean

01:07:43No, not now

01:07:45It would look terribly suspicious

01:07:46Tomorrow

01:07:49Yes, let's sleep on it

01:07:51Phone me tomorrow

01:07:53Yes

01:07:55I love you, too

01:07:58Oh, God

01:08:01All right, get in

01:08:15What kept you, Bradlaw?

01:08:17It's only five minutes past six

01:08:18Nearly didn't come at all after you rang last night

01:08:21You've got no choice now, you fool

01:08:23Will you take a swig?

01:08:28No, not for me

01:08:29Got all your gear

01:08:34Yes

01:08:34Got yours

01:08:35Yes

01:08:35Let's get to work

01:08:38My God, Purbright

01:08:49I'm glad my retirement's coming up

01:08:51To think that my wife was on the watch committee with Carableat

01:08:54When he was supposed to be clearing up those

01:08:56You know, those places

01:08:58And the time

01:09:00No doubt about it, I suppose

01:09:02Oh, Mrs. Mabel Shooter's made a very full and convincing statement, sir

01:09:05Which a number of her colleagues will support

01:09:07The watch committee was a cover

01:09:09Councillor Carableat merely tidied up Flaxborough's vice trade

01:09:12For his own profit inconvenience

01:09:14Damnable, damnable

01:09:15And I'm not sure this scoundrel Hilliard isn't worse

01:09:19Shouldn't they have arrested him by now?

01:09:22He'll be here any minute, sir

01:09:23Mrs. Popplewell, the magistrate

01:09:25She's getting rather restless in there

01:09:28Yes, I'm sorry to ask for a special quarter this early hour

01:09:31But I'm due in Shropshire at one

01:09:32Ah, here we are

01:09:34Well, where's Hilliard?

01:09:36He wasn't at home, sir

01:09:37What?

01:09:38What?

01:09:38Yeah, he won't be far away, Mr. Chubb

01:09:40He went out before his cleaning woman arrived

01:09:42Well, didn't you search at all?

01:09:43I went round to Bradlaugh's place, sir

01:09:45He's gone off somewhere, too

01:09:46His housekeeper, or whatever she is

01:09:49She told us Nub went out early in the van

01:09:51Didn't say where or why

01:09:53God, that's worrying

01:09:54I should just think it is

01:09:55I've got Mrs. Popplewell waiting in there

01:09:58Especially

01:09:59I hope Hilliard hasn't come to any harm

01:10:00Harm? Dammit, what am I going to tell Mrs. Popplewell?

01:10:04I don't get you, sir

01:10:05Well, thinking about it last night

01:10:06That blood on his sleeve came from a wound in his own arm

01:10:09The knife was meant for him as well

01:10:11He might have gashed himself to give that impression, sir

01:10:13Well, in which case he would have made no secret about it

01:10:15That means Bradlaugh must be our man

01:10:18On the face of it, yes

01:10:19But dammit, you say he's missing, too

01:10:22What shall I say to Mrs. Popplewell?

01:10:25She'll think Flaksborough is falling apart

01:10:27No, Bradlaugh's not a footpath assassin

01:10:29Whoever it was must have been exceptionally confident and tough

01:10:32Doesn't sound like old Nub

01:10:34And it kind of rules out Mrs. Carableet

01:10:36Yeah, which reminds me, I have a train to catch

01:10:38Excuse me, sir

01:10:39My apologies to Mrs. Popplewell

01:10:40I'll be back late tonight or early tomorrow, Sergeant

01:10:42Put out a call for Hilliard and Nub

01:10:44And Nub's van

01:10:45One moment, Inspector Purbright

01:10:49Sir

01:10:50I'm sure you know what you're doing

01:10:53But with two related murders

01:10:55And now possibly three

01:10:57Or even four

01:10:58You see how I'm placed

01:11:00I must ask you

01:11:02Arrest your murderer

01:11:03Or murderers

01:11:05Within the next 36 hours

01:11:07Or I shall ask Scotland Yard

01:11:10To give me assistance

01:11:11Oh, how anyone could live in a bloody wilderness like this

01:11:18It has its advantages

01:11:19That cottage

01:11:22That's it

01:11:23And very nicely set up

01:11:26Very nicely

01:11:27Here

01:11:34The last we drop is for you

01:11:36How can you be sure that's the place?

01:11:42Because we found the call box

01:11:43And eliminated all the other possibilities

01:11:45Garage door's open

01:11:48Looks like there's no one in

01:11:49Pull over into those trees up there

01:11:52And keep an eye on the road

01:11:53Sound your horn if anyone comes

01:11:54You can't just walk straight up to it

01:11:55You might not be safe

01:11:56I'll take care

01:11:57If no one's in

01:11:58What's the point?

01:12:00I've come prepared for all eventualities

01:12:02The time has passed for pretense

01:12:04I'll take a chance and snoop around

01:12:07Inspector Purbright

01:12:33That's me

01:12:34Inspector Gibbons

01:12:35Shropshire County Police

01:12:36Very grateful for your help, Inspector

01:12:38We've got a car to take you straight up to the Brink of Discovery Hotel

01:12:41And good news

01:12:43We've located your electrical shop in Ludlow

01:12:45Marvellous

01:12:46Do they remember selling any flecks?

01:12:48Yes

01:12:48Last Saturday

01:12:49A long length of heavy-duty lead is an unusual sale, apparently

01:12:53But I'm afraid the customer was a complete stranger

01:12:56Description?

01:12:57Vague

01:12:58Big fellow with a beard

01:12:59Any use?

01:13:01Maybe

01:13:01What's this Brink of Discovery place like?

01:13:04Oh, not for the locals

01:13:06Owner's ex-showbiz from north

01:13:08Wife's a former beauty queen

01:13:10Does either of them have a beard?

01:13:14A pair of smoothies in every sense

01:13:16Well, it's what we call a gimmick in show business

01:13:23Like echo chambers and crimpy hair and walloping great fat chests and that

01:13:27Well, the first thing you know is change the name

01:13:29The bow this used to be

01:13:30I'll give them bow, I thought

01:13:32You want something classy and half slush-like

01:13:34That'll go down with the intelligentsia

01:13:36Out with one another's mississies

01:13:38A cut above the Mr. and Mrs. Smith lark

01:13:40I mean, something that

01:13:41Well, talking of that lark

01:13:42We're interested in a roundabout way

01:13:45And a lady called Mrs. Joan Carableat

01:13:47She stayed here last Monday night, I believe

01:13:50Oh, yes, Mr. C

01:13:51She comes to us quite often

01:13:52She was actually here last Monday night

01:13:54Sat here in the bar to have gone one

01:13:56Why, what's she done here?

01:13:57She's not been a

01:13:58No, no, no

01:14:00How often did she stay?

01:14:01Oh, once or twice a month

01:14:02Since last summer

01:14:04And always on her own?

01:14:07Well?

01:14:07Put it this way

01:14:08I mean, she was on her own when she was actually here

01:14:10But she generally push off early in the evening

01:14:12And turn up again for breakfast

01:14:14We were just a blind, I reckon

01:14:16Still, no skin off my nose, you know

01:14:18And where did she go?

01:14:19Oh, I never found out exactly

01:14:20Used to take a taxi to, what's it called?

01:14:23Something to do with woods

01:14:24Woodside

01:14:26Avery Woodside

01:14:27Ah, I know the sub-postmistress there

01:14:30Anything like a bit of scandal, she'll know about it

01:14:33She's a real vocation

01:14:34To the woods then

01:14:36To the woods

01:14:37Almost back in civilization

01:14:44Be home in time for a late dram at the club with luck

01:14:47Oh, come on man

01:14:50We're in the clear now, once and for all

01:14:52The boys in blue will be busying around for weeks to go, you see

01:14:56So will we keep our heads down

01:14:58Have you squared everything for tomorrow?

01:15:01Yes

01:15:01And this is the last time

01:15:03Third time unlucky with Inspector Bloody Perb right here

01:15:06Car's still in the garage

01:15:11There should be someone around

01:15:12Do you want to see this John Barnaby character on your own?

01:15:15No, you come on in

01:15:16I'm not at all sure what I'm going to say to him anyway

01:15:18Are you the John Barnaby who's been receiving regular visits from Mrs. Joan Cadablete of Flaxborough?

01:15:24I mean, amongst others

01:15:25Quite a fella

01:15:26And I've never known local gossip to be wrong about that sort of thing

01:15:29Hello

01:15:30Door's open

01:15:31Anyone at home?

01:15:36Hello there

01:15:36May we come in?

01:15:38See if there's any sign of bearded Barnaby around the garage or garden

01:15:42I'll just take a little peep inside

01:15:43Hello?

01:15:46Anyone at home?

01:15:49Hello?

01:15:53Any sign of life outside?

01:15:55No

01:15:56Place seems empty

01:15:57Now this side window here has been forced recently

01:16:01There's a great tangle of heavy-duty flecks in the garage

01:16:06Yards and yards of it

01:16:07Yeah, we're getting warmer

01:16:08I suggest having reason to suspect and all that

01:16:11We now take a closer look at things

01:16:13Starting with the bedroom

01:16:15Right

01:16:15Looks like he had a bath or shower in a hurry

01:16:22Everything chucked on the bed

01:16:23What's that on the floor?

01:16:25Oh, it's a glass top or something

01:16:28Go through these clothes, will you?

01:16:31I'll try the kitchen

01:16:32You'll find anything?

01:16:36Nothing much in the clothes

01:16:37Well, plenty of money and odds and ends

01:16:39No papers or letters

01:16:40No driving licence or name tags?

01:16:42No

01:16:42Well, he had his cornflakes and coffee this morning, by the looks of it

01:16:46Rinse the dishes

01:16:47All tidy

01:16:48What made him strip down to his birthday suit so suddenly?

01:16:53Hello

01:16:53What's he got there?

01:16:55It's a lot of those little glass things

01:16:57Oh, it's a stopper

01:16:59From a little glass container

01:17:00You know, like those medical things

01:17:02Files

01:17:02Oh, yeah

01:17:03I'm beginning to wish we had a sample of that breakfast

01:17:07Yes

01:17:08Wait a minute

01:17:09This spoon will do

01:17:10What for?

01:17:12See if I can unscrew this waste pipe

01:17:13Oh, yeah

01:17:14See if you can find something I can hold underneath it

01:17:17Right

01:17:18Um

01:17:19There's a jar

01:17:22Right

01:17:22That's it

01:17:25Now then

01:17:26Coming

01:17:30Now then

01:17:36What do you reckon that funny white gunge is?

01:17:40Something of which I fear Mr John Barnaby has caught his death

01:17:43Questions

01:17:53Re-Shropshire

01:17:55Who is John Barnaby?

01:17:58Was he part of the Carabit Empire at Flaksboro?

01:18:01Did he and Mrs Carabit conspire to murder both Gwyll and Gloss?

01:18:05And her husband too, perhaps?

01:18:07Has she now poisoned her lover?

01:18:11Answer

01:18:11Bring in Mrs Carabit for questioning

01:18:13Questions read

01:18:15Flaksboro

01:18:16If Gloss, Hilliard and Bradlaugh are working together

01:18:20Why is Bradlaugh the only one to need an alibi for the night of Will's death?

01:18:25What's so special about Nab the Undertaker?

01:18:29Answer

01:18:29He's an undertaker with a van

01:18:31He does the donkey work

01:18:33From fixing up cubicles to boxing up coffins

01:18:36He undertakes

01:18:39Oh, good morning

01:18:52Morning Ben

01:18:53Morning Ben

01:18:54Mr Bradlaugh about?

01:18:56No, he's down at the crematorium

01:18:57I tried to get in touch with him several times yesterday

01:19:00Don't I know it?

01:19:01He was out all day in a van

01:19:03Here, Mr Perbright

01:19:04Is it true Doc Hilliard has been arrested?

01:19:06You'll read all about it in the Flaxboro Citizen, Ben

01:19:09Who told you?

01:19:10The missus was at the surgery this morning

01:19:12Look

01:19:13It's the truth

01:19:13Will Nab be back soon?

01:19:15I reckon so

01:19:16He won't be in a mood for visitors, though

01:19:18It's a family do

01:19:19Family?

01:19:19Sort of

01:19:20His housekeeper's uncle

01:19:22Died very unexpected

01:19:23Local man?

01:19:24Anyone we know?

01:19:26I never met him

01:19:26Not while he was alive, anyway

01:19:28Big, healthy-looking bloke with a beard

01:19:30Makes you wonder

01:19:32Name her Barnaby

01:19:34Barnaby?

01:19:35Come on, Sergeant

01:19:36Here, what's up?

01:19:38Here, what's up?

01:19:40We give thee hearty thanks

01:19:43For that it hath pleased thee to deliver this our brother, John

01:19:47Out of the miseries of this sinful world

01:19:49Beseeching thee that it may please thee

01:19:52Stop!

01:19:53Stop!

01:19:54I am a police officer!

01:19:55Stop!

01:19:56Really?

01:19:56Officer?

01:19:57This is disgraceful

01:19:57Excuse me, sir

01:19:58Excuse me

01:19:59The coroner has authorised the post-mortem

01:20:01You must stop everything

01:20:02Eh?

01:20:03I didn't know the coroner

01:20:04Shut up, Sid

01:20:06Oh, it's a very anthrax

01:20:07Go on, nub

01:20:21Take a good look

01:20:22It's your trade

01:20:24Who is he?

01:20:29Him?

01:20:32He's John Barnaby

01:20:33John carrily took up with him

01:20:37After her old man died

01:20:38The bastard was...

01:20:40Ah, just a moment

01:20:41Caution him, Sergeant

01:20:42Well, you're in the morgue

01:20:43Have a heart

01:20:44You're not obliged to say anything

01:20:45In reply to questions

01:20:46But what you do say

01:20:47May be taken down

01:20:47And given in evidence

01:20:48Right, you were saying

01:20:49The bastard

01:20:51Or would you prefer to wait

01:20:52For your solicitor?

01:20:54Brody Gloss has been here already

01:20:56Or had you forgotten?

01:21:00Listen

01:21:00Joan carrily was her husband's secretary

01:21:03She was in on our little sideline

01:21:05The stupid bitch only goes and tells

01:21:06That bastard Barnaby everything

01:21:08Names the lot

01:21:08He was blackmailing the four of us

01:21:10Bleeding the whole thing

01:21:11White, we were off our rockers

01:21:12With the worry of it

01:21:13Yes, you would be

01:21:13That, that must have been

01:21:15Why poor old Will did away with himself

01:21:17He was driven to it

01:21:18Oh, and was Gloss driven to it as well?

01:21:20No

01:21:21No

01:21:22Roddy was killed by that devil Barnaby

01:21:25In cold blood

01:21:26Blackmailers don't usually kill their victims

01:21:28But that's the sort he was

01:21:29I tell you

01:21:30Go on

01:21:31Look

01:21:34As Iliad

01:21:35The doctor's a sick man, you know

01:21:37I couldn't do nothing with him

01:21:38Once he got started

01:21:39Listen

01:21:41I didn't realise

01:21:42What I was letting myself in for

01:21:44After Barnaby had been back

01:21:47At the cottage for a while

01:21:48Iliad forced his way in again

01:21:51I went with him

01:21:53Barnaby was lying fast asleep

01:21:55Half under the kitchen table

01:21:56God knows what the doc

01:21:58Had spiked his grub with

01:21:59Well

01:22:00We got him into the bedroom somehow

01:22:02He was a hell of a weight

01:22:03Look

01:22:05I thought we'd gone down there

01:22:08To frighten Barnaby off

01:22:09That's all

01:22:10Then before I knew what was happening

01:22:12Iliad sticks a needle into him

01:22:13What could I do?

01:22:13That was it

01:22:14Finished

01:22:14Who signed the certificate?

01:22:17Iliad, of course

01:22:18Referees?

01:22:19Scott, I think

01:22:20And that other chap

01:22:21In Duke Street

01:22:22The usual dotted line stuff

01:22:24I wouldn't know about that

01:22:25Sergeant Love

01:22:27Would you see if they're ready

01:22:27For us outside?

01:22:28Sure

01:22:29Tell me now

01:22:30Why was it necessary

01:22:31For John Barnaby's body

01:22:33To be stripped

01:22:33Before you brought him

01:22:34Back in the van?

01:22:37Who

01:22:37Who said he was?

01:22:39I say

01:22:40And I'll tell you why

01:22:41Because he travelled back

01:22:42In style

01:22:43In a coffin you'd taken with you

01:22:45For that specific purpose

01:22:46You knew damn well

01:22:47He was going to be murdered

01:22:47Nab, didn't you?

01:22:48No, no

01:22:49A little party, Inspector

01:22:53What's this in there, you know?

01:22:54I took the liberty

01:22:55Of bringing Mrs. Carribleed here

01:22:57In the hope she'd be able

01:22:58To help us

01:22:58In a formal matter

01:22:59Of identification

01:23:00A trifle closer

01:23:01If you please, madam

01:23:02These things

01:23:04Are always a little disturbing

01:23:05But I promise you

01:23:05There's nothing to frighten

01:23:06Or revolt you

01:23:07Just a little nearer

01:23:10Oh, my God

01:23:15Harold

01:23:16Oh, my God

01:23:20I

01:23:21Oh, madam

01:23:23Oh, God

01:23:24She's fainted

01:23:25Don't just stand there

01:23:27She's heavy

01:23:28Thirty years on the fourth

01:23:37And this is my first exhumation

01:23:39The Flaxborough citizens

01:23:41Are going to have

01:23:41A field day next week

01:23:43Hardly a real exhumation, sir

01:23:45No

01:23:45The late Harold Carribleed

01:23:48Was later than we thought, eh?

01:23:50Oh, a very astute gentleman

01:23:51He organised his own

01:23:53Timely death

01:23:54With a little assistance

01:23:55From Hilliard and Bradlaugh

01:23:56And then went down to Shropshire

01:23:58And simply grew a beard

01:23:59He must have fancied

01:24:01His position to be

01:24:02Extremely strong

01:24:03He'd avoided

01:24:04A likely spell

01:24:05Of imprisonment

01:24:05He had a firm hold

01:24:07Or so he thought

01:24:08On his associates

01:24:09None of whom

01:24:10Would be likely

01:24:10To risk exposure

01:24:11And his dear wife

01:24:13Collected the insurance

01:24:14The continuing proceeds

01:24:15From his posthumous rackets

01:24:16And spent long weekends

01:24:18With him into the bargain

01:24:19Top him just about

01:24:20Cleared for lifting, sir

01:24:21And then the associates

01:24:22Became greedy

01:24:23Gloss forged that will

01:24:25In Gwil's favour

01:24:26And they cleaned out Barnaby

01:24:28Or to give him

01:24:29His real name

01:24:30Caravleet

01:24:30And neither he

01:24:31Nor his wife

01:24:32Were in a position

01:24:33To do a thing about it

01:24:34Of course

01:24:34Damnably unethical

01:24:35Business, you know

01:24:36Abominable

01:24:37Quite

01:24:38Now our conspirators

01:24:40Underestimated Caravleet

01:24:41Hopelessly

01:24:42I mean

01:24:42He had the nerve

01:24:43To come back to Flaxborough

01:24:44And harass them in person

01:24:46Which accounts for

01:24:47Poor old Mrs. Poole's

01:24:48Obsessions

01:24:49She even saw him

01:24:50That Monday

01:24:50Fixing up the cable

01:24:51And someone else

01:24:52Saw him sluicing

01:24:53The front drive

01:24:53With water

01:24:54I'm interested to know

01:24:55How Gwil was

01:24:56Lured out there

01:24:58Oh, they were all

01:24:59Lured out, sir

01:24:59Caravleet arranged

01:25:01A meeting at Gwil's

01:25:02To discuss a settlement

01:25:03Then phoned

01:25:04To say he'd hurt his leg

01:25:05And would be obliged

01:25:06If they'd come round to him

01:25:07Well, Gwil was just

01:25:09Unlucky enough

01:25:09To reach the gate first

01:25:10And the others were lucky

01:25:12Because the discharge

01:25:13Blew the fuses

01:25:14At Caravleet's house

01:25:15Upon this soul

01:25:16Two lads with screwdrivers

01:25:17On this side

01:25:18I suppose his friends

01:25:20If I may call them that

01:25:21I suppose they placed

01:25:23Gwil's body under that pylon

01:25:24Oh, yes

01:25:25With the help of

01:25:25Bradlaugh's van

01:25:26Would have looked bad

01:25:27For them otherwise

01:25:28And while they were

01:25:29Up in the field

01:25:30Caravleet

01:25:31Alias Barnaby

01:25:32Shot away back to

01:25:34Shropshire

01:25:34And in his car

01:25:35His wife knew

01:25:36Nothing about it

01:25:37But he'd provided her

01:25:38With a precautionary

01:25:39Alibi

01:25:39Just in case

01:25:40Not as perfect

01:25:42As his own, of course

01:25:43He was officially dead

01:25:44Now, let's inspect

01:25:48The grisly remains

01:25:49Filled with sandbags, sir

01:25:51And these

01:25:53What?

01:25:54Oh, the ledgers

01:25:56Of Caravleet and Spade

01:25:57Ship's brokers

01:25:59Heavens above

01:26:00Turned out a good

01:26:01Solid coffin

01:26:02Old nab

01:26:03I'll give him that

01:26:04Six feet under

01:26:05For six months

01:26:06And it still looks

01:26:08Scarcely used

01:26:09In Coffins Scarcely Used

01:26:34By Colin Watson

01:26:35The cast was

01:26:37Detective Inspector

01:26:38Purbright

01:26:38Peter Jeffrey

01:26:39Chief Constable Chubb

01:26:42William Fox

01:26:43Detective Sergeant Love

01:26:45Sean Barrett

01:26:46Detective Constable Harper

01:26:48Michael Jenner

01:26:49P.C. Wilkinson

01:26:51And House

01:26:52Mark Straker

01:26:53Rodney Glass

01:26:56Danny Schiller

01:26:57Dr. Hilliard

01:26:58Crawford Logan

01:26:59Jonas Bradlaugh

01:27:01Mark Jones

01:27:02Mrs. Carrableet

01:27:04Monica Gray

01:27:05George Lintz

01:27:07David Peart

01:27:08Detective Inspector

01:27:10Gibbons

01:27:10And Vicar

01:27:11John Strickland

01:27:12Mrs. Poole

01:27:14Hilda Schroeder

01:27:15Mr. Smith

01:27:17James Carey

01:27:19Ben

01:27:20And Hotel Owner

01:27:21Carrie Francis

01:27:22The play was directed

01:27:25by Jerry Jones

01:27:26I'm glad that you're

01:27:31starting now

01:27:33I'm glad that you're starting now

01:27:34I'm glad that you're starting now

01:27:35I'm glad that you're starting now

01:27:36I'm glad that you're starting now

01:27:37I'm glad that you're starting now

01:27:38I'm glad that you're starting now

01:27:39I'm glad that you're starting now

01:27:40I'm glad that you're starting now

01:27:41I'm glad that you're starting now

01:27:42I'm glad that you're starting now

01:27:43I'm glad that you're starting now

01:27:44I'm glad that you're starting now

01:27:45I'm glad that you're starting now

01:27:46I'm glad that you're starting now

01:27:47I'm glad that you're starting now

Inspector Purbright Mysteries - Coffin, Scarcely Used

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