But our hero overlooked just one item: The telegrams, wires and telephones were all very well - but no one had seen Wynant.
10 seconds sound clip from the The Thin Man (1936) classic radio play.
You can hear this line at 00:50:03 in the radio play.
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- Is that true? I don't know. Why are you saying it? It's the only way it makes sense.
- His plan was still working beautifully.
- The only hitch was a man named Nunheim who had found out something.
- Our hero bumped him off too.
- So the murderer picked on poor Mimi here to strengthen his case.
- Mimi is the only one at the table who can tell us who the real murderer is.
- Mimi, who was it that told you to say you'd seen Wynant?
- Nobody told me. I did see him!
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