And Peter Chambers54-06-2210Cafe Tropical-Bruce Eldridge

Crime and Peter Chambers Created by Henry Kane transcribed and starring Dane Clark Private investigator duly licensed and duly sworn Peter Chambers You're a private eye. That's your business anything else That's for laughs It's mid-afternoon and you're in a nightclub on business

There's nothing more ghastly than a nightclub in the daytime. Reminds you of the whitewash inside of an unfinished coffin. Anyway, this one's called a cafe-tropical, and in the nighttime, when its tinsel isn't showing, it's considered quite swanky.

Mr. Chambers? Yes, I'm Bruce Eldridge. I'm delighted that you could come. Bruce Eldridge, perspective client. He's one of the owners of the cafe-tropical, about 35, well-dressed, and quite good-looking. and quite composed except his eyes are nervous.

I take it, uh, did you know what happened here last night? Well, you're a partner, Paul Maxwell. He caught up with a slight case of lead poisoning. He was shot to death right here in the club.

So I've read in the newspapers. Observe the architecture of a little nightclub here. Now there's this narrow little room where the bar is. Yeah. And off there, there's the archway which leads into the club proper.

That's where we have our entertainment. And, uh, this stairway right here? way right here now that leads upstairs where mr mrs maks will have their apartment all the guy that was killed yes he and his wife Claire this was well sort of their town apartment very cozy last night our entertainment was in full

blast Paul this Paul Maxwell was seated out here at the bar alone he was shot and killed he slumps over nobody's the wiser to buy us the bartender thinks Paul has grabbed a little catnip and it's definitely established by the police that he was shot from the main room through the archway.