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New Adventures of Nero Wolfe · January 5, 1951 · 29 min · 4,452 words
The transcript of “Deadly Sell-Out”, an episode of New Adventures of Nero Wolfe first broadcast January 5, 1951. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). New Adventures of Nero Wolfe plays New Adventures of Nero Wolfe free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.
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Ladies and gentlemen, the ringing of that phone bell means mystery, adventure. They're a wolf's office, aren't you good when speaking? You're up. And you've lost your... Oh, oh. Ah, Keith, the answer is no. Hold on a second.
The answer to what is no, Mr. Wolf. I should not attempt to find a blind for anyone. He's got the man on the phone a little wrong, Mr. Wolf. He's not looking for a blind, he's looking for a prize fighter.
Hm, hm, hm, indeed. Have him come here. Okay, Mr. Wolf will see you at eight. So long. I was all set to argue with you about taking the case. You gave in too fast. Nonsense. I am fascinated by the thought of anyone misbresing a price fighter.
They're usually quite large, aren't they? They are. But what this guy is worried about is not only finding his boy, but finding him alive. Ladies and gentlemen, it's the bulkiest, bulkiest, smartest, and most unpredictable detective in the world.
That chairborn genius, Nero Wolf, created by Rex Stav, and brought to you in a new series of adventures over this NBC network, in the person of Mr. Sidney Green Street. The case of the deadly sellout, that's what my boss Nero Wolf called it, and it almost meant curtains for the firm of Wolf and Goodwin.
But let me give it to you straight right in the beginning, although you ought to know that it wasn't until it was all over that I knew the very beginning of it myself. of it myself. It all started in the New York flat of one Brock Rainey.
Yes? My name is Jerry Faye. I'm supposed to know you. Being a very good friend of Papagatos, it's time you got to know me. May I come in? Sure. You've got a problem Miss Faye?
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