The Ink-Stained Corpse - Episode 71

A corpse on a pier. Is the witness really the killer? Did the truth get under his skin? Listen to find out!

The Ink-Stained Corpse, episode 71 of This Gun in My Hand, was permanently drawn under your skin by Rob Northrup. This episode and all others are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialog. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, information on how to subscribe, and to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. What points me on the path to treasure? This Gun in My Hand!

Show Notes:
1. This episode was partially inspired by a trope used in the 2020 film Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears.
2. The script said “incalculable hero by virtue of the fact that he carries a gun,” but when I fumbled the word “incalculable” half a dozen times while recording, I changed it to “unpronounceable.”

Credits:
The opening and middle transitional music clips were from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), and the closing music was from Killer Bait (1949), both films in the public domain. Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.

Sound Effect Title: Seagulls / gaviotas clean wildtrack.WAV
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/Soojay/sounds/462462/

Sound Effect Title: Tweeting birds
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/Ravetracer/sounds/515081/

Sound Effect Title: Footsteps Dress Shoes Wood Floor.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/allrealsound/sounds/161756/

The image accompanying this episode is a modified panel from the public domain comic book Captain Silver’s Log of the Sea Hound, Number 3 (July 1949). Pencils and inks by Philip Santry. 

Pillow Falk - Episode 42

Who needs that many pillows? What’s that smell? No, not the corpse, I mean the really bad smell. Why would anyone intentionally make a candle smell like that? Listen and find out!

Pillow Falk, episode 42 of This Gun in My Hand, was fluffed and molded by Rob Northrup. This episode and all others are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialog. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, information on how to subscribe, and to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. What’s warm and emits a comforting fragrance? This Gun in My Hand!

Show Notes:
1. One of the gimmicky characters from He-Man and the Masters of the Universe was a humanoid skunk named Stinkor. A horrible fragrance was added to the plastic as the figure was molded. Collectors say that even thirty years later, the dolls still smell. What did they use to achieve the timeless stench? Patchouli oil.
https://gizmodo.com/12-insane-facts-about-he-man-and-the-masters-of-the-uni-1619470015

2. Det. O’Davenport’s Irish accent is partly inspired by Mike Axford in the Green Hornet radio show. Axford seems to be comic relief, and one of those almost-vaudeville era bits where just doing an Irish or Italian or Swedish accent somehow amounted to comedy. See also Chico Marx.

Credits:
The opening and middle transitional music clips were from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), and the closing music was from Killer Bait (1949), both films in the public domain. Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.

Sound Effect Title: Footsteps Dress Shoes Wood Floor.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/allrealsound/sounds/161756/

Sound Effect Title: Shop door bell.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/775noise/sounds/494565/

Sound Effect Title:Body fall_02.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/Adam_N/sounds/346694/

The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail of a panel from the public domain comic book Dark Mysteries, No. 2 (August-September 1951). Art maybe by Bill Molno?