Michael Shayne (TV Series)
Final Settlement (1961)
William Kendis: Hughes
Quotes
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[Trina, a best-selling mystery novelist, claims her husband was killed by falling on an ice pick - but the man's body has disappeared before the police arrived]
Trina De Witt : He was right there... and he was dead! The ice pick was right here.
Police Lt. Gentry : Ice pick, Miss DeWitt?
Trina De Witt : Yes, an ice pick. He slapped me. I grabbed it just to scare him away Well, he took it from me. I ran for the door, then I heard this crash...
Hughes : Bathroom's empty; so's the bedroom.
Police Lt. Gentry : No reporters, no photographers... no press agents?
Hughes : No corpse, either.
Police Lt. Gentry : No sign of a struggle, no blood on the floor ¬ and no ice pick.