The Girl on the Doorstep

William Gargon stars as Barry Craig, confidential investigator. I wonder if murderers like other people worry about their income taxes. When they make a killing, for example, do they always report it, or do they just list their victims under buried assets?

The National Broadcasting Company presents William Gargon in another transcribed drama of mystery and adventure. an adventure with America's number one detective Barry Craig confidential investigator Barry Craig speaking I'd been to a movie it was about a private eye who pinned a wreath on a murderer after an hour and a half of swallowing dry

martinis wrestling amorously with youthful blondes and wearing a succession of the best-pressed suits ever seen off a tailor's dummy I decided to walk home I I wondered if there was a special license that a plane investigated like me could get that would make me like martinis and Make blondes like me It was close to one in the morning the air was raw and cold with the tang of metal in it you get in the off

The afternoon slush at hardened to ice underneath your feet And I decided you'd probably need more than a license what I saw Halfway up the block an apartment house lobby spilled some light out into the street enough light so I could see that she was young, redheaded, with that pale, almost transparent skin

redhead sometimes had. The guy with her had his back to me. It was an old scene, he was probably making a play for a nightcap up in her apartment. She shook her head and moved into the doorway.

He moved after her, maybe for a good night kiss. It was none of my business I started walking. He must have tried for more than a kiss and wound up with a slap in the face.