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Well now it is time for this week's episode of the adventures of Bill Lance, the original air date, October the 12th, 1947, and the title is Death Where's a New Dress.

The American Broadcasting Company challenges you to a startling puzzle in crime.

The adventures of Bill Lance, starring Gerald Moore, with Howard McNair as Professor Ulysses Higgins.

Hello, I'm Bill Lance. I'm primarily a composer, also a criminologist. Perhaps it's more accurate to call me a student of human nature.

You know, I believe that crime as a result of a delinquent society, that the criminal mind is a sick mind, and that the symptoms of that sickness are always apparent in the behavior of the criminal.

Therefore, if you would expose a criminal, look for fingerprints on the doorknob, but also look for imprints on a human mind.

In short, human emotions are my clues. Oh yes, I also play the piano.

Ah, you can tell a lot of things that way. Sometimes it's in a compliment to thinking, particularly when you're trying to unravel some of the tangles of human behavior, helping to bring some kind of order into the chaos which people seem to create so easily.

Why, for instance, when everybody was so curious, if not furious, about the new trend in passions, should Death choose to wear a new dress?

Never can tell how swiftly a familiar human problem can build into a tragic snarl of emotions.

No matter of fact, even my friend, Prof. E. Ulysses Higgins, seemed to be building himself up to a passionate, furious and I had all started.

And just because I felt like doing a little work on my concerto.

Perhaps if I modulate into Ed's shop in this phrase.

Uh-huh, but if Ed calls him a drug side to magnesium chloride, you precipitate the magnesium as a hydrate.

Maybe a progression of chords, ending with a diminished 7.

MZZL2 plus TA OH2 equals MZO.

Oh, you're speaking to me, Ulysses?

I'm merely trying to equate chemical compounds in my mind.

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