That Strong Guy [AUS] xxxxxx 20 Bottle of Death

Summary

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Podcast Summary: That Strong Guy [AUS] - "20 Bottle of Death"

Podcast: Harold's Old Time Radio
Host: Harold’s Old Time Radio
Episode Date: September 24, 2025
Episode Theme:
An atmospheric detective story from the golden age of radio, this episode presents private eye Steve Strong's urgent race to find a bottle of deadly cyanide tablets mistakenly sold as aspirin—before innocent lives are lost. The episode delves into themes of responsibility, the value of human life over business reputation, and the relentless pressure of time in a crisis.

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Main Plot Overview

Steve Strong, a hard-boiled private detective, is called upon by an old war buddy, Grant Edwards. Edwards, now a drugstore owner, needs urgent help after discovering a dangerous mistake: an assistant accidentally sold cyanide tablets labeled as aspirin. The episode follows Strong and Edwards as they attempt to trace the potentially lethal tablets before anyone consumes them, unraveling a web of tense encounters and last-minute revelations.

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Key Discussion Points & Scene Breakdowns

1. A Desperate Plea for Help (01:09 – 03:30)

• Grant Edwards bursts into Steve's office, skipping pleasantries and urgently requesting help.
• He explains the crisis: his new assistant mistakenly sold a bottle of cyanide tablets as aspirin. Two tablets are enough to kill a person.
• The motivator for secrecy: Edwards fears police involvement and the resulting publicity would destroy his business.
  • Quote (Grant): "The publicity... it'd kill my business. I've worked and sweated for too long now to lose it inside two months. That's why I came to you." (02:55)
• Steve Strong insists on police notification; calls Captain Jim Daly but agrees to help with the search.

2. The Search for Lucy Tanner (03:30 – 12:48)

• Edwards provides details: the assistant only sold one bottle to a regular named Lucy, believed to live near Pitt and Elm off Daymore Road.
• Door-to-door questioning with landladies begins, culminating in a meeting with a strict but helpful landlady, Ms. Midas.
  • Quote (Ms. Midas): "Yeah, sure. I got a girl that answers that description and the name of Lucy." (07:40)
• Finding Lucy’s room locked, Strong and Edwards break in, retrieve the bottle, and discover two tablets are missing—raising the stakes.
  • Quote (Steve): "The door's locked, a bottle of death waiting inside. We got no key and no cooperation. So that's breaking in, damaging private property... You wanted your tablets my way, so you get them my way." (08:57–09:21)
• The police confirm two tablets are missing, and theorize Lucy is carrying them, unaware of the danger.

3. Chasing Down Leads (13:41 – 19:10)

• The search intensifies; Lucy's landlady discloses Lucy works at the Blue Hen nightclub.
• At the club, Strong and Edwards learn Lucy has called in with a headache—likely to take the "aspirin."
  • Memorable Banter:
    • Landlady, Blue Hen: "Can I help you two gentlemen? The Blue Hen is open to please every customer, especially men of muscle." (15:23)
    • Steve: "All right sweet child. I'm not a customer yet." (15:40)
• Lucy has left for a party at Lester Carter’s. At each location, the tension mounts as they just miss her.
• Carter confirms Lucy left for another party and reveals she keeps aspirin for hangovers—a dangerous situation if she takes the cyanide.
  • Carter (to Steve): "Lucy wouldn't kill herself, she's got too much to lose. Sure. Only a life." (16:59)

4. The Final Race and Apparent Salvation (19:10 – 21:23)

• They finally track Lucy to Turner Elliott’s apartment. Strong and Edwards rush in as Lucy is about to swallow two tablets.
  • Steve shouts a warning but is too late; Lucy swallows the pills.
  • Tense moments as they await a reaction—but it turns out these were actual aspirin, not cyanide.
  • Quote (Edwards): "If it was cyanide, she'd be dead." (21:11)

5. A Deadly Twist: The Final Tragedy (21:23 – 24:18)

• Back at the Edwards home, thinking the crisis over, Grant laments his worries to his wife, Jenny.
• Jenny offers him a brandy and "aspirin"—the bottle she picked up from the drugstore.
• Grant collapses and dies instantly. The cyanide had been consumed—not by a stranger, but by Edwards himself.
  • Quote (Steve): "You look down at the crumpled figure on the floor. You look at the body that had been Grant Edwards... Cyanide is deadly and it's quick." (23:03)
• The narration reveals the tragic irony: if Grant and Jenny had confided in each other, the deadly mix-up could have been avoided.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On the value of a human life versus a business:
  • Steve Strong: "You ever figured just how much a human life's worth? You ever figured money? No. Because you can’t." (02:40)
• Detective banter with the landlady:
  • Steve Strong: "Look here, we haven’t got time to bandy words, woman. She's got a bottle of poison by mistake. We got to stop her from using it."
  • Ms. Midas: "All right, all right. You got your shirt and all up your back." (08:07–08:16)
• The bitter twist of fate:
  • Narration: "Some mental Neverland, some not even the hard way. Well, like I said, I'm a sentimental, a romantic guy, but I've got a lot of good friends in and out of the forest, and I like to keep them." (24:09)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Pleas for help, exposition of the crisis: 01:09–03:30
• Door-to-door search, confrontation with landlady: 07:40–10:10
• Retrieval of tainted tablets and only partial success: 09:26–12:48
• Lead: Lucy’s workplace and conversations at the Blue Hen: 15:21–16:27
• Party chase and revelation of Lucy’s whereabouts: 16:32–19:10
• Climax: Lucy swallows pills, but is unharmed: 20:09–21:23
• Resolution and final deadly twist at the Edwards home: 22:14–24:18

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Tone & Style

True to the style of the golden age of radio detective stories, the episode features clipped, hard-boiled dialogue, atmospheric narration, and brisk scene transitions. The pacing ratchets up tension with overlapping leads and last-minute saves, only to end with a poignant, sobering twist.

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Conclusion

“That Strong Guy – 20 Bottle of Death” is a suspenseful, tightly woven mystery with classic noir sensibilities. The episode builds a heart-racing search for a deadly mistake and pivots to real tragedy born not of malice, but of missed connections and communication—delivering a memorable reflection on trust, partnership, and the high cost of what’s left unsaid.

Transcript

[A]

Hey, this is Sarah. Look, I'm standing out front of AM PM right now, and, well, you're sweet and all, but I found something more fulfilling, even kind of cheesy. But I like it. Sure, you met some of my dietary needs, but they've just got it all. So farewell, oatmeal. So long, you strange soggy.

[B]

Break up with bland breakfast and taste AM PM's bacon, egg and cheese biscuit made with K tree eggs, smoked bacon and melty cheese on a buttery biscuit. AM PM Too much. Good stuff.

[C]

I need your help, Steve. I need it badly. Oh, you don't say hello, how you been? You don't get the old one two greeting like we give on the outfit when they're going with stuff. You just need help when you need it fast. I took it for granted. Yeah, don't we all? All right, so you want help. So why me? I opened my new drugstore only a month ago. The big one you always said you'd be owning. All right, so I shot my mouth a bit in the forces. But I got responsibilities now, and right now I've got them big. And they are. I had a new assistant start Monday. Yesterday, yes, and that's a problem. Today he sold a bottle of cyanide tablets for aspir. They call you that Strong guy, Steve. Strong. But right now you're sitting in your office looking through the window at the streetlight painting highlights of blue and orange on the black palette of asphalt. You look at the people crossing from highlights to shadows from heading home. You look at the dazzling displays of shop fronts. You look at their closed doors. And you feel as if you're the only one in the world who's working back. You get that feeling every time you're working at the office after five, but tonight you got that feeling strong, but you can't figure why. Then your door opens and your reason for waiting comes in. It's good of you to wait, Steve. The door shuts behind him, and you look at Grant Edwards, corpsman from your outfit in 45. The medic who bragged he'd have his own drugstore one day. And now he's got it big, shiny and spanking new. I need your help, Steve. I need it badly. So you don't say hello or how you been. You don't get the old one two greeting like we give on the outfit when the going was tough. You just need help and you need it fast. I take it all for granted. Yeah, don't we all? I'd see you want help. So why me? I opened the new drugstore only a month ago. A big one. You always said you'd be owning. All right, so I shut my mouth a bit in the horses. But I got responsibilities now. And right now I've got them. Big, they are. I had a new assistant start Monday. Yesterday? Yes. And that's a problem. Today he sold a bottle of cyanide tablets for aspirin. He whacked. I know, but it happened. We found a bottle of 25 missing in tonight's. I sell a fast action headache tablet of my own. I was bottling cyanide tablets in the 25s last night before closing, and he was filling with headache tablets nearby. They Both carry bottles of 25 tablets. He used one of the bottles labeled aspirin by mistake. That was Lars Knife. The person he sold onto could be dead by now. You only noticed the mistake tonight. I do a daily check each night on my poison stock and take it off with a list of drugs sold in the poisons registry. There were no sales of cyanide tablets today. Just how strong are these? Two can kill a man and two is the dose on the aspirin bottle. Why didn't you go to the police? Publicity. It'll kill my business. I've worked and sweated for too long now to lose it inside two months. That's why I came to you with only me looking for that bottle. It can kill the one who's got it. But the police, they'll put out a general call. Everybody in town will know. You ever figured just how much a human life's worth? You ever figured money? No. Because you can't. The same way you can't figure a human life value of a drugstore business, new or old. Oh, you don't help me. I never said that I'll help. But you got to ring Captain Jim Daly of Homicide first. I don't do it alone. 8 million people's too many for me. You watch Grant Edward's face as he rings daily. You hear daily to a vocal explosion on the other end of the phone. You watch Edward's face go pale beneath his summer. You watch and you remember the young medic who always played the big doctor act. The young high and mighty medic who doctored you up in 45 when you were busting out in fever. Then you remember the 72 hours he sat up in one stretch to pull you through. Yeah, you remember all that. But it still doesn't make the scales against another human life. A life that's hanging by a Thread of chance. A thin chance that none of those tablets have been taken. Daley said you could stay with me. You figure Daly said a lot more, but you let it ride. Maybe Edwards was a bit high and mighty in the old outfit, but right now he's been whittled down the thighs the size of a man in trouble. If you help me, Steve, I'd be grateful. You don't just know how grateful. Oh, why me? Why not the police? I'm only one, remember? You had a knack of pulling a tick out of a hat once. I'm gambling all I've got. And you're doing it again. Well, that's a big gamble. Eight million to one. Not so big. The assistant remembers serving one girl with aspirin. He bought the only bottle of my special headache tablet sold today. You tell the police that here they're going around to see the assistant now. I see. And you figure we can find that girl first, beat the police before they get to sending out the emergency radio and TV calls, and that way save your business, huh? Yeah, simple. All I got to do is find one girl and how many million? Well, that's not as tough as all that. You see, she's a. And her first name's Lucy. You figure how many Lucy's there are in the city? I don't know the house, but I think I know the street she lives in. Well, I walked her home one night. You did? I seem to remember a white someplace. Lay off, Steve. She was just walking my way at closing time, that's all. So I believe you. All right. You give me all you know and we try this street door by door. I can give you a closer bearing on that. She lives between Pit and Elm, off Daymore Road. You go to Pitnell, you start asking questions to every apartment house, janitor and landlady till you find one who's got the answer you want. And it's a big picture of relief you see, spreading over Edward's face.

[D]

Yeah, sure, I got a girl that answers that description and the name of Lucy.

[C]

You look at the towering Mother of Mansions and she plays you back like she figures your Lucky Luciano and the public enemies rolled into one.

[D]

But that don't mean you're getting in to see her room.

[C]

We'll settle for her.

[D]

What's she done?

[C]

Nothing.

[D]

And what do you want her for?

[C]

We're old friends.

[D]

You haven't been here before.

[C]

We're older friends than here.

[D]

She's only 19. She's been here two years.

[C]

Look here, we haven't Got time to bandy words, woman? She's got a bottle of poison by mistake. We've got to stop her from using it.

[D]

You mean she doesn't know about it?

[C]

Of course she doesn't know about it. You think we'd be pushing stupid questions if we.

[D]

All right, all right. You got your shirt running all up your back. You've got room 41.

[C]

41. All right, Steve, let's get up there fast.

[D]

You can't go up.

[C]

What? All right. Bright and beautiful. Why?

[D]

She's not in, that's why.

[C]

So a bottle of poison stays in the room till she comes back.

[D]

If you're not the law, you don't get in.

[C]

That my ancient one is where we dip her. Come on, Grant.

[D]

You come back. Don't stay with us as a private guest.

[C]

I've for now the notice has change open.

[D]

The door's locked.

[C]

If the door's locked, how do we? 38 must be the third one along. Yeah, 41. What's like she said, locked. Pity. It's a good door too. What are you going to do? What do you think? The door's locked. A bottle of debt waiting inside. We got no key and no cooperation. So that's breaking in, damaging private property. Yeah. How'd you get away from.

[D]

You brought my door after you.

[C]

Mr. Edwards. You think we should? I mean we could. Ah, you want your tablets, don't you? And the doors open. Wide open. You wanted your tablets my way, so you get them my way. All right, let's get them and go inside the bathroom. Here we are. Medicine cabinets should. And this is why you pay me. One full bottle of tablets labeled with fast action aspirin. One other bottle marked Edward's fast action aspirin. With six tablets, this could mean your luck, Fins. She brought them before she ran out. You can now thank all your lucky stars and me.

[D]

I've been looking at that door. You go to jail for this.

[C]

She wants a damage baseball, Grant. Oh, yeah. Just cover the cuffs.

[D]

Let me see. Well, it was a good door.

[C]

Not that good, Ms. Midas. Now goodbye.

[D]

No, not until you get out.

[C]

We've got what we want.

[D]

So what do I tell Ms. Tanner?

[C]

Ask her to come to Edwards drugstore tomorrow.

[D]

That all?

[C]

That's enough, Eoria. Let's go. You take Edwards back to his drug store. Ring Captain Jim Daly at homicide and tell him to stop the emergency calls going on the air. But he says you'll have to hold them till the police laboratories make a test on the tablets first. You try to argue, but you're backing a lower machine, so you do like he says and take the tablets. These are tablets. You look at Jim Daly and see the pinched lines of annoyance on his face. You watch as he counts them, careful and methodic, like he was back in trainee cop camp. And then the annoyance whips up to anger as he looks up. You take any tablets out? I prefer my cyanide in capsule form. This is no time for cracks, Steve. You come in here all bust up because you beat us for finding the bottle. Let you do the first dumb thing I'd get from an Ametus. You didn't count them? I was going to, but when you said bring them over, I. I left it. Left it till nothing. All right, so if I didn't count them, those emergency calls still go out. Two of the tablets are missing. Lucy Tanner buys a bottle of special headache tablets from Edwards drugstore. She buys the tablets before she finishes a first bot, but she takes two tablets from the pool bottle and goes out taking the tablets with her. But the tablets she's carrying aren't aspirin. Sure, they'll kill a headache, but they'll kill her right along with it, because the tablets she's carrying are cyanide. You don't figure why she takes the tablets from the new bottle, but you try to figure when, where and how soon before she'll be swallowing the two pills of death. You're thinking all this in Jim Daley's office down at police headquarters, and Daly's thoughts are running you a parallel. She could be head in some gutter for all we know. You know she must have put the tablets in her purse to use later, because if she'd taken them in a bathroom, she'd have been waiting when you broke in.

[E]

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[C]

But waiting, dead, somewhere out there in the big city is a girl with death walking beside her. Somewhere, sometime, she's going to put those tablets in her mouth. And if she does. If she does, you can thank the fact that you had me hold back the first of the emergency calls going out. The calls she'd most likely have heard the ones before the evening newscast. Look, I didn't sell the tablet. No, but you should have counted them before you rang, not left it for when you got here. Well, all right. Yes, all right. But this time, you better work in with us all the way or find her fast. Your way. And keep in touch. I got two chances. Yeah, that's right. But only one nick and one private detective license. And if you miss out this time, you're going to lose both. Jim Daly's sore and he's mad and he's got a right. Right now, it's not your neck you're worried about. It's Lucy Tanner's. And a guy who stands to lose everything if she takes the tablets before you find her. So your first call is to Edwards apartment. Oh, Steve. I was expecting you Daily rang. He tells his wife he's going out, and you notice he doesn't say where. And you notice something else. For a married couple, they're not very close. Sure, there's affection there, but it's all on one side. His wife. But you figure you've bigger problems to face. When you get Edwards into your car and go back to Lucy Tanner's apartment, you see the landlady and she tells you Lucy Tanner works in a nightclub. And for a few more bucks, she tells you the name.

[D]

Welcome to the Blue Hen, mister.

[C]

She's blonde, soft and warm, and showing more than a smile.

[D]

Can I help you two gentlemen?

[C]

The Blue Hen is open to please.

[D]

Every customer, especially men of muscles. Just feel that muscle.

[C]

All right, sweet child. I'm not a customer yet.

[D]

Oh, and I'll make you one.

[C]

Oh, I want Lucy.

[D]

What she got that I hadn't more.

[C]

Of, I wouldn't know, but from where I stand, I couldn't imagine.

[D]

And you don't want her.

[C]

Look here, do we have to hang around? Sure, sure.

[D]

Grant, you didn't Answer my question.

[C]

Sure, I want her. But it's strictly business. And if you tell me nicely, I'll give you a big present for later. Oh, what?

[D]

The present.

[C]

Me.

[D]

I knock off at 2.

[C]

Where do we find Lucy Tanner?

[D]

She should be on the floor show tonight, but she's got a sick headache.

[C]

A headache? No, no, she can't. Hold it, Grant. Go on, kid. Yeah, a sick headache. The pig's ear she has.

[D]

She's gone to Lester Carter's party.

[C]

Where do we find Lester Carter?

[D]

You'll take me there later?

[C]

Sure.

[D]

Aptitude, 33, 50,000.

[C]

You and Edwards beat it fast down to 50 seconds. You find the address and you find Lester Carter. You say you want Lucy Tanner. I say she isn't here. What then? He's big, he's fancy, but he's tough. So you figure it'll be quicker to play it gentle. I asked the question and catch the answer. Mr. Cotter. I'm her brother and I want her urgent. You think you can take it away, huh? Back to her hometown? No. No, I don't, and I don't want to. I just want to see her before she swallows high on her. Listen, Crumble. Now, don't play it tough, Carter. You may be big, but I've taken bigger. You must be playing it straight. Yeah, you'd be calling disaster if you weren't. All right, so where do I find her first, who's that guy in the car out there? He's my bosom pal. Another small town here, gang. I'll. We haven't got time to make. Are you tired of kidding me? Lucy's gonna commit suicide. Well, let me tell you something. You can tell me nothing I don't want to hear. Now, talk quickly and quietly. Where is Lucy Tanner? And if I don't tell? Lucy Tanner dies. And you get life for manslaughter for withholding evidence. Lucy wouldn't kill herself. She's got too much to lose. Sure. Only a life. How do I know you're not a cop? You don't. But you can listen. He bought some aspirin, but they weren't aspirin, they were cyanide. She bought a mist and she's carrying two with her. And she thinks they're aspirin. She takes two aspirants to snap a hangover and orders of the last drink. You better get to her fast. To where? Four bloods down. De Broglie Manson. She went for a private party with Turner Elliott. He's a boyfriend. Right. And you better hurry. She was ready for the last drink when she left here 20 minutes ago. You leave the Leicester party and head for your car. You bounce into the seat cushion and look across at Grant Edwards. You see by the look on his face he knows you're reaching the point of conflict, the climax that can mean life or death for a girl called Lucy. His face is a moving of emotions as you drive the four blocks and pull up at the De Broglie Mansions, and inside a minute you're beating your knuckles against Turner Elliott's door. No light coming from under the door, but that doesn't mean they're out. So you knock again and the door opens, but not the one you're facing. It's the door behind you across the corridor. And the woman you're looking at is weary anger written in every wrinkle.

[D]

If you two are expecting an answer from that apartment, you won't be getting any. The apartment's empty.

[C]

Empty? You mean tenor Elliott.

[D]

Doesn't you wake me up and have the nerve to speak to me like.

[C]

This time of the night? It's urgent. If he doesn't live here, where does he live?

[D]

Anybody's got a right to be annoyed. It's me waking a body up at this time of the night.

[C]

Listen, lady, it's a matter of life and death. Where is Elliot living now?

[D]

New Brewing Mansions was extended to two blocks of apartment. New block's only just been finished.

[C]

So where does that lead us?

[D]

Mr. Elliot moved into the new block only last week.

[C]

Next door?

[D]

Yes. There's a big stretch of lawn divides the two blocks. The idea is to keep the kids off the species. All right.

[C]

What's this apartment on there?

[D]

Oh, even if it is urgent, you can still use a civil tank.

[C]

What apartment?

[D]

And when you see Mr. Elliot, don't.

[C]

You understand this is urgent?

[D]

Tell him I'm getting tired of being woken up by his friends in the middle of the night.

[C]

The number of the apartment. I told you.

[D]

All right, all right. I only wanted to know, that's all. It's on the first floor, apartment four.

[C]

Beads of sweater standing on your forehead as you leave. The woman run down the stairs and across the stretch of lawn between the old and a new apartment. You look up and see a lighted window that could be apartment four. You see a man and a girl against the window shade. Then you do a quick one, two, up the stairs and Edwards is running with you neck and neck. You run and you run fast because the girl you saw was taping something from her handbag and the man is holding out a drink. To the left. That's it. Apartment four. Hey, what the heck. You don't knock, but you go in fast. You see the girl with a hand up to her mouth and in the hand two round tablets. Don't take them, those tablets. No, don't. The shout came too late. The girl has already dropped them on her tongue. What the devil's the media charge? Getting shot him like that. She's just taking cyanide. Well, don't just stand there, Edwards, do something. You're the only medic around here. Just give her a glass of water. Water with cyanide? You crazy? No, but it's not cyanide. Not cyanide? Here, Lucy, drink this. Steve, if it was cyanide, she'd be dead. Hey, what's. What's all this about the coffee come in like that. We frightened her. She swallowed and caught her breath, that's all. Then those two tablets she took were aspirin. What?

[D]

I was above.

[C]

Mr. Edwards, those tablets you took, were they from the bottle you bought at Edwards drugstore today?

[D]

Yes. So I come in here.

[C]

I'll have you thrown out. Don't bother, Elliot. We're leaving.

[D]

Put down a tablet.

[C]

Just forget we ever came in, honey, if you ever can. So her tablets were only after. Yeah. And that means someone else has the bottle of Flyer night. Who? Steve who? You ring daily at Homicide, but they say he's out. So you leave a message that Lucy's tablets were aspirin and you tell them you're going back to Edwards apartment to start all over again. Jenny Edwards lets you in, since he doesn't have have to be psychic to see the worried lines on her husband's face.

[D]

Grant. Grant, what's wrong?

[C]

Oh, nothing. Just business worries.

[D]

I wish you'd tell me some trouble sometime, dear. It does help, you know.

[C]

Don't be ridiculous, Jenny. There's nothing you can do.

[D]

But you look sick. Very sick.

[C]

I am sick with worry. And a headache to boot.

[D]

I'll get you a brandy and an apple. Do you want something, Mr. Strong?

[C]

Make it a scotch. Double and straight.

[D]

All right.

[C]

So what do we do now? Daily rings or calls? Rounds. But that may be ours. Not if I know daily. We can't just sit here. You think of anything we can do? No. You'll feel better after your brandy.

[D]

Is your drink, Mr. Strong?

[C]

All right, thanks.

[D]

You might work with the last thing.

[C]

No. Cheers. Yeah, Cheers. You look down at the crumpled figure on the floor. You look at the body that had been Grant Edwards. You caught a doctor, ambulance, the police. But you know there's nothing you can do. Cyanide is deadly, and it's quick. You get Jenny Edwards to a chair, dazed and broken. She tells you the answer to a question, and shortly after, the door bursts open and Daly explodes into the room. Wrong. What's all this I hear about what happened? You tell him how Jenny Edwards called into her husband's drugstore on the way home from a shopping trip last night after Edwards had made out the daily report on poison stock. So any poison bought before closing would really be on the next day's sale. And her husband was busy, so she didn't disturb him. When the assistant came out, she got him to wrap up the list of things she wanted. And on that list was a bottle of aspirin. Yeah. Pity Edwards forgot marriage as a 5050 partnership. No matter what, if he let his wife hear some of his business worries and listened to some of hers, he'd have known what was going on in his house. And she'd have known about the missing cyanides. And the first things she'd have done, the first things he'd have done, would be to check on her own aspirin bottle. And some men will never learn, not even the hard. Well, like I said, I'm a sentimental, a romantic guy, but I've got a lot of good friends in and out of the forest, and I like to keep them. I also like to help keep law and order in the community. I'll be with you again, but for now, this is Steve Strong, or as I am more often referred to that Strong guy, signing off.