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Asura. Well now it is time for this week's episode of Follow Vance. The original air date

March the 21st of 1950, and the title is The Jackpot Murder Case.

What a night, Markham, you're just the words right out of my thought. What a night,

vaguely decided to come along with me then. Thanks for asking me,

isn't every private investigator who was taken out on a case by the district attorney?

You aren't every private investigator then. Oh well, thank you, Markham. Right now I wish I were an Indian guy.

I think this is the spot where I'm supposed to meet Wicked Willie, but I'd like to get out and make sure.

We've been Willie. Gangster nicknames are very descriptive aren't they?

Definitely, only Willie isn't the gangster. He's what the highly literate newspapers refer to

as an informer, and the police call a stupid. He insisted to me on the phone this afternoon that he

knows who killed Al Laporte yesterday and would tell me if I met him here alone. You're not very

complimentary. We met I wasn't to bring Sergeant Heath or any policeman for that matter.

I can't tell you why because I don't know. I do know. I don't really showing up in this ring.

There's supposed to be a shack of some kind out here. No Willie said. I used the spotlight on this

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