Caroll John Daly The false Burton Combs
Ohio Shakespeare Festival A Quarantine Radio Program: THE FALSE BURTON COMBS: A Radio Play Written by Luke Brett Based on the Black Mask Magazine short story by Caroll John Daly "The false Burton Combs" is a crime story written by Caroll John Daly and published in the “Black mask magazine” in December 1922. The narrator, a tough guy, “kind of private eye”, is approached by a man who wants him to travel to Nantucket under his identity. Once on the island, he will be Burton Combs. And problems will start arising...With its cortege of evil mid-aged women, femmes fatales, cold-blooded killers, without forgetting a trial, and a final twist at the end, The false Burton Combs is known as the first ever “hard-boiled” story, preceding Hammett’s Continental Op, and Daly’s work the inspiration of Mickey Spillane. Original composed music and sound editing by Ethan Korvne Technical Director: Buddy Taylor Managing Director: Tess Burgler Quarantine Radio Program Theme Music by Trevor Buda THE CAST Luke Brett as The Detective DeLee Cooper as Marion St. James Jason Leupold as Burton Combs Maya Nicholson as Valarie Hymes Brian Pedaci as James Farrow
This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.
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“I’m what you might call a middleman – just a halfway house between the cops and the crooks. I do a little honest shooting once in a while–just a in the way of business, but I never bumped off a guy who didn’t need it. . . The papers are always either roasting me for shooting down some minor criminals or praising me for gunning out the big shots. But when you’re hunting the top guy, you have to kick aside—or shoot aside—the gunmen he hires. You can’t make a hamburger without grinding up a little meat.” “One thing was certain. The dead body didn’t belong in my room . . .I simply dragged the corpse to the window, looked down at the darkness some seventeen stories below and then—oh, it may be brutal and all that, but way beat around a stiff? I just lifted him up and chucked him out.” “I ain’t afraid of nothing… providing there’s enough jack in it.” “I shot him five times. Five times in the stomach before he could even squeeze the trigger. Surprised? He was amazed.”