Radio and television mirror (May-Oct 1940)

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Adapftd from o script of the Adventures of Etferf Qveeir heard over CBS. IHasfration posed by members of ffte cast— Hugh Marlowe as fflery; Morion Sboekfey as Nikki. MR. HERBERT WEAVER, of Weaver & McKay, Wall Street, was an odd sort of visitor to have on the day after Christmas. He was small, with a big head on which grew a poor crop of lank white hair, he wore sombre black clothes and a necktie of a dreary seaweed pattern, and he had a cough which he always produced with an air of great apology. EUery Queen's first impulse, when Mr. Weaver explained that he had recently discovered a shortage of $25,000 in his firm's accovmts, was to tell the little man to consult the police. Embezzlement didn't in the least intrigue Ellery's mind, used as it was to more dramatic puzzles. But Mr. Weaver's pale lips pursed into an O of dismay at the suggestion. He couldn't possibly, he said with a cough, do that, because the thief could only be one of two people. "And I wouldn't want to prosecute either of them," he said. Ellery, still only mildly interested, said, "So you want me to fihd out confidentially which of the two it is— is that it?" Weaver nodded violently, "But I can't really believe it's either of them! You see, the missing money is cash which we always keep on hand in a special safe at our brokerage office. Besides myself, the only two people with access to that safe are my partner, Steve McKay, and our office manager, Dave Robinson. And Steve McKay is a millionaire!" "That would seem to put the finger on Mr. Robinson," Ellery remarked absently. His gaze strayed past Mr. Weaver to where Nikki Porter, his secretary, was demurely taking short-hand notes, and he ^/^ eUERy Q.UE£N /HYSTER/