Join Potato Plus

Transcripts › Crime and Peter Chambers

And Peter Chambers54-08-3120Clair Connely-The Hot Spot

Crime and Peter Chambers · 25 min · 3,630 words

The transcript of “And Peter Chambers54-08-3120Clair Connely-The Hot Spot”, an episode of Crime and Peter Chambers. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Gumshoe plays Crime and Peter Chambers free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

Machine transcript (may contain errors).

Transcript

Peter Chambers, aided by Henry Kane, transcribed and starring as Peter Chambers, Dane Pluck. You're a private eye. That's your business. Anything else? That's for laughs.

You're not an early go to better, but this night for change you've hit the sack fairly early. You've turned, you've twisted, you've beaten it to pillow, Finally, you're firmly entwined with the first of your usual tortured nightmares when...

There's a piece of tapered. Oh, yeah, yeah. Uh... Oh, yeah. Ready, what is it? A mustang. Okay, I'll be there. Yeah, I'll get dressed and I'll be there as quickly as possible.

Goodbye. Your midnight telephone caller is Miss Claire Connolly. agent for a nightclub with the unusual name of the hot spot. She worried about a small event that took place there maybe a half hour ago, a little thing called murder. Seems that the main attraction at the club, the band leader by name Johnny Silver, probably

the most fabulously successful band leader in America, caught up with a slight but deadly dose of lead poisoning. You throw on some clothes and you hot foot into the hot spot. Sarah Connolly is waiting for you outside.

First thing I want you to do, Peter, I want you to look to join over. Just so you know what the setup is. It should have been looked over plenty by now, don't you have cops?

Cops! The place is stinking with cops. She leads you in and you do what she asks you to do. You look. The hot spot on 54th and 5th, the joint that's really jumping, owned by an ex gangster named George Black.

who doesn't have to gangster anymore for a living. This hot spot is doing better legitimately than he can ever do illegitimately. Seems the excitement is over and the suckers are back eating and drinking and having good time.

Read the full transcript with Potato Plus

75 more paragraphs, about 23 more minutes of the episode. Potato Plus is every episode on demand from any moment, every transcript in full and unlimited transcript search, for $5 a month.

Potato Plus opens soon: join the list

All Crime and Peter Chambers transcripts · Search every transcript · The archive

The weekly note

New channels, the best find from the archive, and what is coming up. One email a week.

LIVE
Open