The dangerous inheritance
 (orig. Alfred Hitchcock and the three investigators in The mystery of the dead man's riddle ) |
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| Radio play from Germany | |
| publication | 1980 |
| genre | Youth series / crime thriller |
| Duration | 40 min |
| Publisher / label | Europe |
| Contributors | |
| author | Robert Arthur |
| Machining | HG Francis |
| Director | Heikedine Körting |
| music | u. a. Carsten Bohn , Manfred Rürup (originally) |
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The three ??? and the dangerous inheritance from 1974 is in the American original the 22nd episode of the book series The Three ??? and therein the sixth by William Arden alias Dennis Lynds . In Germany it is the 20th episode of the book series (1978) and the 17th episode of the radio play series (1980).
action
The weird millionaire Marcus Towne, called Dingo , has died and leaves a will , according to which the person who is able to find his hidden fortune by solving the puzzles should be entitled to inherit . His son is no longer alive; On behalf of his daughter-in-law Nelly and her fiancé, the lawyer Roger Callow, the three detectives go on a search. Little Billy, Nelly's son and Dingo's grandson turned out to be annoying at first, later helpful. But they are not the only ones on the hunt; the nephew and niece of the deceased from England, Skinny Norris and two men in a blue car make the investigation difficult for the three, which finally ends on a large museum steamer in the port of Rocky Beach .
resolution
mystery
Dingo's father was from the East End of London ; Dingo was born in Australia in 1895. In the English-language original, the puzzles are a mixture of Cockney and Australian rhyming slang (→ below). Since there is no equivalent for it in German, other paraphrases and symbols were chosen.
| English | German | meaning |
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| Where the wild dog lives the bottle and stopper [→ cop (per)] shows the way to the billabong. |
Where the wild dog lives, the shielded eye on the right: to the Billabong ! [✩] |
Dingos House Policeman Lopez River Bed at Ynez Creek |
| Above the apples and pears [→ stairs] all alone the lady from Bristol [→ pistol] rides from a friend. |
Over wood over wood over stone - [⬈?] above bang & [?] fall, and the departure from the friend. |
Stairs to the statue gun of the statue Jack Dillon |
| At the tenth ball of twine [→ sign] , you and me [→ cup of tea] see our handsome mug [→ face] ahead. |
Count and read to ten, and stop at T. [?] As in, so out. (Ha, that's how you look!) |
Traffic signs tea room mirror |
| One man's victim is another's darlin '[→ briny marlin] , follow the nose to the place. |
The armor flashes, but where is the sword? Nevertheless: always follow his nose. |
Swordfish Town Hall |
| Where men buy their trouble and strife [→ wife] get out if you can. |
From here on, the better half is in charge. Get out if you can! |
Spanish registry office : Salsipuedes (street) |
| In the posh Queen's old Ned [→ bed] , be bright and natural [→ Seven Eleven ] and the prize is yours. |
Lured into the trap [?] ... The queen commands over five hundred. Well then good night! The blessing comes from above. |
Bed in the steamer "Queen" reference to 7th riddle |
| Who'd have thought the old man had so much money in him? Roll the dice and the swag is yours! |
Who would have thought that the old man still had so much money in him? The dice must roll, six up, one down, and it's all yours! |
Macbeth Room Reference to 7th riddle |
opponent
The two men in the blue car are Callow believers. He has gambling debts, which he wants to pay off by embezzling the legacy of precious stones . In the book, he actually wants to marry Nelly, also to get her basic fortune (see below: # Previous will ); in the radio play it's all about the gems.
Illustrations
Jack Hearne's illustrations in the American edition show:
- Treasure hunters on Dingo's estate
- Crash of the houseboat
- A dispute between Aunt Mathilda and Dingo's nephew Cecil Percival
- the three detectives and Dillon's boomerang
- Skinny Norris walking to the town hall parking lot
- the exhibition director on the "Queen of the South"
- Callow and Peter fall
Legal background
"Crazy" will
With the "crazy" testament ( crazy will ), Dingo turns to someone whose identity has not yet been established (finder), under a condition precedent (find), as it were, his wealth in precious stones. At the same time, he gives four people, including his legal heirs, one dollar each. He does not make any determination about who should legally be entitled to his assets until the conditions are met.
If German law to succession , the regulation than would remaindermen the Finder understand. In the absence of an express provision, previous inheritance would be the legal heir (§ 2105 BGB ), i.e. Billy. Billy could (if he does not find it himself) because of the burden of the subsequent inheritance, refuse the prior inheritance and demand his compulsory portion (§ 2306 BGB); The Percivals would then be pre-inherited (without the right to a compulsory portion). The question remains whether the subsequent heir would be sufficiently determined by the condition (cf. § 2065, Paragraph 2 BGB) and, if so, who ultimately fulfilled the condition (Callow? Justus?). Dingo's possible testamentary inability (§ 2229 Paragraph 4) would first have to be proven by the person who asserts it (difficult, since dingo's puzzles ultimately lead to inheritance).
California law in the tradition of common law knows no after-inheritance. It would be conceivable to set up a trust with the finder as beneficiary ; however, the trustee would not be named and there would be some uncertainties (see also Three certainties ). In the original, the book is obviously based on the ineffectiveness or contestability of the will ("sure to be broken"). There is a translation error in German at the end; the will was not "declared legally binding", but only "submitted for examination" (" filed for probate").
Earlier testament
The former Testament ( Earlier wants ) plays radio plays almost no role, but rather in the book. Dingo originally considered Billy and Nelly. But because he did not approve of the connection between Nelly and Callow and did not trust Callow, he stole his original will from Callow's office and burned it and then drew up the "crazy" will.
Callow forges the earlier will and places it with the false gemstones for the purpose of finding it in order to get the basic assets of his previous fiancé after the marriage, allegedly "because in California a husband automatically owns half of his wife's assets" (Justus). That is not true, but it has a coherent core. California is one of the US states that the marital property regime after the Spanish legal tradition from the statutory property regime of the Community property ( community property out). This also means that what is acquired before marriage remains separate; likewise what is later acquired due to death. The coherent core, however, is based on the fact that in California in 1969, with the abolition of the principle of fault in divorce , a no-fault division of the divorce became the rule for its financial consequences. If he divorced Nelly, Callow could have counted on part of the fortune, which would not have been possible if Billy had inherited alone.
Trivia
- There really is a Santa Ynez River with reservoirs in Santa Barbara . Lynds has the fictional Rocky Beach located more in the area of Santa Barbara and Ventura ; the ??? - inventor Robert Arthur more at Malibu ( Topanga Beach ).
- There is also a Salsipuedes Street in Santa Barbara and a Salsipuedes Road in the Hitchcock Canyon of Carmel Valley ( Monterey County ) .
Individual evidence
- ↑ The radio play researchers: The three ??? (17) and the dangerous inheritance - music
- ↑ The radio play researchers: The three ??? (17) and the dangerous inheritance - word
- ↑ 3investigators.homestead.com
- ↑ to the requirements for example ECLI : DE: OLGK : 2016: 1114.2WX536.16.00
- ↑ California Probate Code , originally from 1931 ( Stat. 1931, ch. 281, p. 587 et seq. )
- ↑ on the relationship between common law trust and German successor, see also AG Freiburg, decision of April 3, 2013, 3 NG 246/10
- ↑ now California Family Code Section 770
- ^ California Civil Code, § 4800 ( Stats. 1969, ch. 1608, p. 3333 ); see. previously Section 146 ; Aidan R. Gough, Community property and family law: the Family Law Act of 1969 , Cal Law 1970, 273 , 292 f.
- ↑ felsenstrand.de: Where is Rocky Beach? (2013)
- ↑ Google Maps ; Santa Barbara Independent: The history behind street names (November 21, 2014)
- ↑ Google Maps