Sweet Larceny

William Gargon stars as Barry Craig, confidential investigator. Exercise can be beneficial or it can kill you. One guy I know walked himself to death, but still it figured, saying that the walk he took was the last mile.

The National Broadcasting Company presents William Gargon in another transcribed drama of mystery and adventure with America's number one detective, Barry Craig, confidential investigator. Barry Craig speaking, in these supersonic times with the great wide world shrinking to the size of pretzel, crime, crime is global.

Chase a hood across New Jersey and you're likely to catch him in Botany Bay, or in Algeria or Madagascar. In view of all this, the cable-gram on my desk one merry morning didn't surprise me a bit.

It had been dispatched from mid-ocean, the date line read, as a shallama. The text of it said, arriving Friday 6 p.m. Please see to arrangements for armored truck at peer, for safe transfer of the priceless Barbary Tomb relics.

You were highly recommended by an official of the Cairo Police, signed Oscar Melamed. The priceless cargo of anything generally brings out the worst in people. And this one was no exception. Hello? And this is...

I am Lisa Barnum. I'd like to discuss something with you. Something extremely important. Capital letter B? Capital letter B. B for the Barbary collection. Why, you're uncanny. Yeah. I learned the art of divination from one note, Oleomyas.

One note, Oleomyas. a trombone player in the T-bone casino filament. Go ahead. Finish your joke. Oh, Leo, always knew on Friday he was going to get canned Saturday. Can we meet and talk as soon as possible?

Oh, I know. I'll come to your place. No, I'll come to your place. But I'd much rather. I prefer women in their natural habitat, dal. It, uh, helps cement a truer, understanding. He's a Barnum, lived in a building, and had a taxi dermis to the downstairs store.