Barry Craig Investigator - Mid-Summer Lunacy
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Barry Craig Investigator - Mid-Summer Lunacy

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 8, 202628 min
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Sudden loss of weight might be cause for anxiety, but one good thing at least.

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Bargan stars as Barry Craig, confidential investigator. Sudden loss of weight might be cause for anxiety, but one good thing at least. It makes the pallbearers job a whole lot lighter. A national broadcasting company presents William Gargan in another transcribed drama

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of mystery and adventure with America's number one detective, Barry Craig, confidential investigator. Craig speaking, once every year an epidemic of lunacy sweeps across the nation. Some call it Midsummer Madness. You get sunstroke by day and moonstruck by night. I got my dose of it in a resort hotel. Jubilee Villa, the big neon sign across the roof said, Jubilee

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Villa where days were given to Pienacal and Gulf, the nights were given to lawn dancers under big sheltering pines. Like everybody else, I was dancing. Unlike everybody else, I had a genuine, non-dyed, natural blonde bae in my arm. Oh, you dance divinely, Barry.

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