Blackstone Detective - The Ghost That Trapped A Killer

The magic detective, starring the world's greatest magician, Blackstone.

Tonight he comes in the inside story of the ghost that trapped the killer.

And right after tonight's story, Blackstone will explain fixed it to yourself and perform.

He will reveal the guarded secrets of the world's greatest magician.

Now to Blackstone's magical studio.

What a thing in a place it is. For a great moment, I like it to meet Blackstone himself.

Good evening. I see that you're admiring my new cabinet.

Yes, that's right, Blackstone. I was just going to mention those unusual bottles on that shelf.

I think I think because the two go together.

I'll tell you about them in a moment.

But first, let me introduce my leading lady.

Ms. Froodair Brant.

How do you do?

I'll get in, Ms. Brant.

Do you discuss my cabinet?

Oh, no. That's a ghost cabinet.

Do you mean there's a ghost in it?

There will be.

There's a way he has to go.

How does those bottles over there on that shelf?

That's right. Would you like me to manufacture a ghost right now?

Well, what if it's going to be a world ghost?

Parker Harley thought it was real when he saw it.

Parker Harley?

Yes, the first man who ever saw the ghost trick.

It was one of my strangest adventures as a magic detector.

We were playing a town in New England.

I was in my dressing room after the final show when somebody knocked at the door.

Who is it?

The door is going to be in Blackstone.

Oh, show him in, Dota.

Mr. Blackstone's dead.

I'm sure it's him.

How do you do?

I want you to solve the murder.

A murder?

But I'm a magician not a detective.

I was going to take a magician to cut this case.

Who?

How's that, Sheriff?

Because you know who the murder is and why he killed his victim.

And you know how he committed the crime?

Yes, ma'am.

You know what, too.

Oh, we think we do.

And we can't prove anything.

So that's why you need a magician more than a detective.

That's why it was the Blackstone.

It's a literature.

It killed me the tale.

Oh, that's it.

It begins with all the harm solos who died last week.

Well, I read about that in a local newspaper.

You know, I saw a picture of the queer old house with all the doblers who I need to find a girl.

Yes, I'm going to die, too, miss.

I'm talking too much of the letters from a Dr. Talbot gave them.

And it wasn't Dr. Talbot's fault.

Then who's fault was it, Sheriff?

Well, I'm running Parker Hall with a caretaker.

We couldn't give him Mr. Sornies and overdose that medicine.

It was easy as you make people vanish, Mr. Blackstone.

Thanks for the compliment, Sheriff.

But with Parker, it was the murder.

What was his motive?

Money.

That's one.

Like I said, it used to sound as bad as hell.

Well, that's what we thought, miss.

Until the old man had made up his bedroom.

Inside, he found a tin cache box with $5,000.

But if Parker does that for the money, why didn't he steal it?

Because he didn't need to.

Came out to the old gentleman and left everything in his world to Parker Halle.

Well, then all Parker has to do is go to the house and find the money.

That's right, miss.

Perhaps he already has taken it.

Now, I have your Mr. Blackstone.

Right now, Parker is at the lawyer's office.

Came in Sornies, sold his personal belongings.

And it's the key to the cabinet among me?

That's right, miss.

Parker won't waste no time using the needed money.

Then we'd better start the old house right now.

Good.

I got the car outside so we can get there and have the Parker.

Yeah.

Now lies the house, folks.

Why, what a tricky place.

You know, you may be right, Robert.

That's what I'm going in to see about.

Wait.

I almost forgot something.

Hand me that packet.

Will you lower it when I got a blackstone?

Here it is.

Thanks.

Now you go here to share it.

Oh, well.

If I'm not back in ten minutes, come in naturally.

Here you are.

What about Mr. Blackstone?

So he was going to see about?

Quite.

Why, ghosts, I guess.

You didn't say enough about ghosts?

Yes, in a way you did.

When I said the place was spooky, he said that maybe I was right.

Yes.

Well, that would really be hot in the house with him.

Oh, standard ghost, Sheriff.

Oh, he was murdered, wasn't he?

Yes, he was.

And if there are ghosts, then usually those have murdered people, aren't they?

Sure, yes, that's right.

And they often guard money, so I've heard.

Well, Sheriff, there you are.

Hey, don't do that.

What is it?

That light.

Yeah.

In the room, there's a room upstairs.

Let's, let's go in this room.

The room where we died.

Oh, what?

It's only a flashlight.

Oh, right up there, let's park it.

He got here ahead of us.

No, no, it's black, Sheriff.

Nothing's up in the room now.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I see you now.

He's back into us.

Come on, let's go up.

Oh, give me the shovel.

The shovel?

Oh, I should call this chiller out here.

Come on in, let's throw him in the house.

Come in, Sheriff.

I set the trap for Parker.

The trap?

I don't see any trap.

You're not supposed to see it.

Like, I just heard something.

Don't die.

Sounded like the front door.

I don't know if that flashlight's hurt.

Listen.

Yeah.

Somebody coming up the stairs.

I was weird and all this dark room.

Hey, it's Parker.

No, no.

We don't want him to find us.

You won't find us.

Move back to the alcove shelf.

Yeah.

It's Parker.

I saw his face when the match flared.

But he isn't going to the cabinet.

You will after he lights those candles on the table.

See?

He's stopping at the cabinet.

Now watch him.

Here, he's found the tin box.

Fuck.

He's putting it on the table.

Fuck.

Look at the cabinet.

What the door is calling?

Shucks, that's not the miss.

Just the kind of the damn stay open, that's all.

But they don't come out of the room.

You don't want to disturb Parker or the ghost.

Yeah.

What ghost?

Saunders ghost here.

Don't you see a chance coming on the cabinet.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It is a ghost.

Creep it out like a great big hand.

Because in a hand, sure.

It's big as a pair of arms.

I didn't close it apart.

Now, it's as big as he is.

Even bigger.

You can see right through us.

Like a ghost.

Like a ghost.

Quiet now.

They's Parker, talking around, door to cabinet.

No, no, no, no.

They're going away.

Go there.

I'll use them, I can't see.

I don't want it anymore.

I don't want it.

The ghost is coming.

It's spread in all around him.

Like it was a fog.

I think we need your box.

There's nothing else to go over.

Wants to turn the grand park.

Oh, the Atlantic.

Because the dust is already hardened.

Yeah, you hear that?

He's going to confess.

I'm going to take part in the house, I'll show it to you.

Come along, partner.

You killed all soldiers.

I killed him.

I killed a soldier.

And the ghost came back.

You better stick to your attention, partner.

Unless you want the ghost to follow you.

I will kill you.

I'll kill you.

I'll kill you.

I'll kill you.

I've got a nice jail, so for you, without ghosts.

Well, so that was the first performance of your famous ghost act.

Yes, it was.

A simple chemical experiment, blood-free imagination of those who witnessed it.

But there aren't such things as real ghosts.

There are no real, there are no people imaginable to be.

I manufacture the ghost from two of those buckles on the field.

They were buckles in the parking.

Two simple things that can be dotted any drugstore.

Watch while I make the ghost.

First, there are a few dots from this bubble.

They went into an empty ink well in the thunderstorms cabinet.

And from this bubble, a few dots on a blocker that I tucked in the cabinet door.

And for me, smoke.

More and more of it.

It's creeping out just like a ghost.

Just like a ghost.

Going to go into the air.

Like the fear of a good part of Hollywood when it turned around and saw it.

First, it's most amazing.

The fact that a ghost could be produced so simply and so easily.

Not at all.

I show you something quite wonderful that could be done anywhere.

While we're trying it, our listening audience can try it too.

First, I need a nickel.

Well, they are by stone.

And next, they'll drink again.

I'll get one.

Now, they'll pick a match.

By the way, I light it.

And the glue is out.

I want you to balance the nickel on the table.

I've balanced the nickel.

That's it.

It's nice, pretty difficult.

So now, that's easy.

Jay, I understand it.

Now, bone the match a little and place it on the balanced nickel.

So it's carefully.

Ah, that's right.

But that match is resting on the balanced nickel.

And what comes next?

This guy's a drinking guy.

Thanks, Rhoda.

Set it upside down over the nickel and the match carefully.

Like this?

Good.

And now, do you think you could remove the match from the nickel without lifting the glass?

I think, guys, if I could, it would be magic.

If I'd ghost, yes.

It doesn't look as though only a stick could manage it.

But the tip's very easy.

You need just one thing more.

A magic wand?

No.

Something much more simple.

Something you have in your pocket right now.

And by the back of the moment, I'll tell you part of it.

And now, by stone.

That's tricky, Royce.

All right.

Now, remember, I said there was something else that would help.

Yes, and what is it?

That comb of yours there in your coat pocket.

I mean, in this little comb I was carrying.

Yes, and that's Royce.

Give it to Blackstone and he'll show you how the trick is done.

All right, and here's the comb, Blackstone.

And good.

Now, wait a moment.

First, run it through our head to accumulate some electricity.

All right.

That's good.

Now, move the comb slowly around the glass.

And go now.

That's the way.

So look, the match is turning.

Like the needle of a compass.

That's right.

And very good as the match.

Right off the neck of it.

It just tells how it's very good.

Those are the magic you and all your sons will enjoy.

Just try it and find out.

Until we meet again, this is Blackstone saying good magic.

And goodbye.

Being with us the next time, when Blackstone, the world's greatest magician tells us the story

of the reluctant buzzsaw and explains more tricks that you yourself can perform.

Listen again to the magic detective with Blackstone, the world's greatest magician.

Blackstone.