this is the house in the country which i rented for the summer as an author i write tales of mystery and many of the things that happened in this house were more tested than any story i've ever had published didn't think it was that barry and because they've been hearing things about the killer that the police call the back and the murders that he committed here these past winter people are saying that he's back again but how can they be sure magazine this is a report from the state health department and it says some of them that is rabbit where and that ain't old now there's a rumor going around that it was that himself the killer i mean they'd release them out of their good jobs it's their loss not mine c'mon lizzie i got to get to the bank and you were in trouble when the heinz came in to pick up three hundred fifty thousand dollars worth of bonds that we were holding as collateral for a loan they were kept in our special report as to plumbing and i have the only officers of the bank who have access to that  she could talk to me unfortunately he can talk to wells are deep in the woods they can't be reached by phone i thought i heard someone on the path coming from the lake had an idea it might be that god of ours sammo show up until morning it's a twenty mile canoe trip from here to civilization i will get you ten sam has a message for me i just got him at the bank not to bother you i did but they don't bother me doctor what would you do for half a million anything short of murder why not murder two missy great irish half a million yes i pinched a million from the bank i'm not kidding i am battled it not that i think you wouldn't do it if you thought you could get away with it i got away with i'm not talking about currency i took can go shipping securities that could be converted into cash i have the cash in tens twenties and hundreds and i'm your doctor not your gave miss first chance he is a lovely little wyatt charming girl was the best man where's the million in my family's tomb and seen it in the crypt with my father's casket i don't buy that chair now you forget that i had you in charge when you were a very sick man when you raved in delirium and i heard you talk about  doubt it if you wired the bank directors at my heart to say i had fallen from a great height here in the woods that i was badly smashed up you could ship a body back for burial and instruct them not to open the casket due to the condition of its contents when you realize of course that we have to have a body to put in that casket which means that we have to deal with an undertaker at this a course where do we get a b couldn't we provide one of our own about sam sam our guy sam weighs about as much as i do practically arm it wouldn't be missed for a long time local undertaker would know him not if we made him look as if he'd been in a serious accident but if baby's going to take the blame why do you have to do this during my to quit him in that case i'd be a logical suspect i c disappear of course but it's safer if they think i'm dead for this deal in that case it would be too bad you mean you'd kill me what else could i do now that i've told you about the million i'd say you were shot in the hunting accident i look doctor if you can find another body instead assam's it's all right with me fire mr fleming will be laid to rest in his family's tomb on friday and i hope peace stage there why should any releases his house and ever since he die some funny things have happened here instance the housekeeper the cook and the butler said that they heard strange noises that night and the up stairs and made sure that she'd met a man without a face coming up to the  so that's why they quit and left me to run this place without a they didn't tell you miss corny but the truth is they were scared to stay still and evans using anything no no and even they keep talkin about lind paper right i guess he'd be different i don't think you would have the same effect on him drive people away from this part of the country what does it say about the bad specialty seems to be killing women my goodness two of them in one night hold his victims died the same way like their throats had been ripped open with steel claws that's a charming little cake i have to try at some time honest miss corny i think that woman must have been exaggerat was the nearest physician i'll try to find for you and if i can't tell that to another doctor oh well thank you very much oh you've got on a case it's not to deliver a baby i mean they can be terribly complicated it never bothered me no must have been terrifying so many unexplainable trainings happened here there's something about the place your servants must have sensed it when they walked out on you and actor ancient of dis looks quite normal doesn't seem to be sick at all ain't that nice i've been worried about him where you should be from his appearance and i'd say that he doesn't have any infection in which try my way out the door i know you can be do let me help you oh don't forget that once i'm gone you'll have to climb those stairs alone oh i'm all right time can you shoot one of those things without shutting your eye means your uncle wouldn't take a million now there is a character how long did you say that he worked for you a show for three months when i hope he doesn't have a police record ready a day oh it may interest you to know that the last night of his eyes she's not permitted to say what it was my dear girl i wouldn't think of asking here but let's assume for a moment that flaming did steal the million now what would he do about it where is it hidden someplace where he could la if mr fleming had the nerve to steal a million he'd make his plans well in advance i'd say you prepare a place to hide it possibly when this house is being built are other plans you somewhere in the house it's so wait a minute there is a place record johnny mother kept those blueprints but players i heard him talk about it a good many years ago i can't be sure of the exact location anyway i don't think the old boy had the guts to steal a million but if i find those plans i'll let you know indy hello dale look at me i haven't seen those plans since i was a kid but i'll come over dinner with us tonight oh no thank you i couldn't i still have a few calls to make you know if judy's testimony is going to clear a big balian implicate john fleming others may get the idea that there's buried treasure in this house don't even wonderful me a told me lovely piece of silver it's an original isn't it in the door wasn't quite closed house it's possible why should he be because he's looking for something and like you he believes it's here and he's a persistent killer i would advise you to get out of this house as quickly as possible notwithstanding our expert police protection  part but i'm julie but i was smart about six thirty i had dinner at wylie's roadhouse me can you prove where you spent the rest of the evening i can try try hard i'm going to leave the house or get you later very have you any idea march so you are well dr do you agree it was the back in my report i should say the death was caused by the same technique used in the other killings paralyzing blow to the throat followed live i don't think i can sleep tonight neither will i can see these poor mark fleming staring at us i thought that when people die their eyes closed is in sleep noise i don't know i kind of feel half asleep for a minute i thought it was something from a dream it's somewhere in the house yes on the floor above not directly over us probably a room overlooking the driveway there lieutenant anderson said if we stay behind our locked doors would be safe because in safe locked up in the jail and i suppose that stolen money is in this house marked living seem to think it was maybe that's what somebody is looking for name's not want i've got a circular in my office with your picture on it the chicago police not so long ago hunting for you in connection with the robbery you're right again and they found me and they tried me and i prove my innocence and i was acquitted that could have been a lucky break where were you when the child was killed i told you before so outside were you doing that i was following you i saw you leaving the house and seemed to do one hunting someone i thought you might need some help oh yes i have followed your flashlight down through the trees and it disappeared and then suddenly as i was staring out of the darkness i was struck by something on the back of the head and next thing i knew i was lying on the ground i realized i'd been knocked out we should have been knocked out but then we'd have found you with your masks turn on your face you would get here in this house with this poker as you were rushing down those stairs after that child i don't know so you can pin this on me i'm not a bat i've never killed i could kill i won't take the rap for this accident about a mile down the road the right rear wheel of my car came up and i plunged into the ditch this was the nearest house so i came here to call for help i thought i'd find you around physician heal thyself you must of been hit by something on the back of your head i told you i had an accident so you did  guard in the house the police and the reporters left us alone and on one of those nights without telling lizzie or anyone else i could suit a secret investigation  bright idea to kill me in my own lab and let people think that i'm the bad but you had to kill me for with to be ambush clever as you are you're not smart enough to do that now are you smart enough to find the money that you ca are you all right now i'll be all right a min i remember now i took a drink a wine from that decanter there was fan going to tell me to help myself she wouldn't put nothing then it was somebody did somebody who knew i was on duty here and it was somebody that room next to his garage murdered dr where there's something queer about the killing the wells but headquarters won't talk about it is a one it isn't in his room there's no kind of him anywhere and i was supposed to keep an eye on that guy  that's what i want to know wait a minute didn't you say that the chain on the boat were off of the front door i certainly did well maybe miss van gogh went outside she never would we better look he discovered the secret of the hidden room and was waiting to get into it open to say we found the money in a little over a million in ten thousand twenty