Latest / Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas / Philip Marlowe: The Hiding Place (EP1685)
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- 2:10Speaker 1: ahead and take a listen today's episode of the Adventures
- 2:13Speaker 1: of Philip marlow The original air date May the announced
- 2:16Speaker 1: in nineteen fifty and the tunnle is the hiding place.
- 2:23Speaker 2: Get this, get it straight. Crime is a sucker's road.
- 2:27Speaker 2: Those who travel it wind up in the gut of
- 2:29Speaker 2: the prison of the grave. There's no other end. But
- 2:32Speaker 2: they never learn.
- 2:34Speaker 3: From the pen of Raymond Chandler, outstanding author of crime
- 2:37Speaker 3: fiction comes his most famous character in the Adventures.
- 2:41Speaker 2: Of Philip marlow.
- 2:51Speaker 3: Now, with Gerald Moore starred as Philip Marlowe, we bring
- 2:55Speaker 3: you tonight's exciting story The Hiding Place.
- 3:21Speaker 4: Missus Bryan's gip Shop. Oh yes, yes, mister Waltman, the
- 3:28Speaker 4: book ends. Well, let me see now that was the
- 3:31Speaker 4: little Dutch figurines, wasn't it? The boy and the girls?
- 3:35Speaker 4: All right, fine, Well, I'll have to. Oh, hold hold
- 3:43Speaker 4: the line a minute, mister Waltman, mister Marlow, you you're back, Yes,
- 3:51Speaker 4: Missus Bryant, did you find him? Mister Marlow, did you
- 3:56Speaker 4: find Chipper?
- 3:58Speaker 2: Chipper is dead, Missus Bryant. Oh, take easy, Missus Brian. Maybe,
- 4:04Speaker 2: but I sit down here.
- 4:06Speaker 4: No, I'm all right. There's a customer waiting on the phone.
- 4:11Speaker 4: I'll finish that.
- 4:13Speaker 2: Then.
- 4:13Speaker 4: I want you to tell me everything you found out
- 4:15Speaker 4: about my son. Sure, sure, I'll long be a moment.
- 4:24Speaker 2: As Martha Brian went to the telephone, I braced myself
- 4:26Speaker 2: for the story I had to tell her. I tried
- 4:29Speaker 2: to figure some last minute way of making hard facts
- 4:31Speaker 2: a little softer for a sweet, brave, gray haired lady.
- 4:35Speaker 2: I deserved a better break. I first thought about what
- 4:39Speaker 2: had happened, brought the whole ugreat business rushing back at
- 4:42Speaker 2: me again, turned my mind back like a clock to
- 4:45Speaker 2: where it had all begun yesterday morning in my office.
- 4:48Speaker 2: And that's say Martha Brian, full of hope and quiet courage.
- 4:51Speaker 2: He walked up to my desk, handed me a letter
- 4:53Speaker 2: and asked me to find her son.
- 4:55Speaker 4: His name is Chip, mister Marlowe, or rather Chip now
- 4:59Speaker 4: that he's a grown man and he's twenty two, he
- 5:02Speaker 4: laughed suddenly, without a word. Six months ago, I've heard
- 5:06Speaker 4: nothing until this morning when that letter they addressed a
- 5:08Speaker 4: Chip came in the.
- 5:09Speaker 2: Mail, post mark Saint Louis obispo Oh, sit down, won't you?
- 5:13Speaker 2: Missus Brian?
- 5:14Speaker 4: Thanks you. Maybe I shouldn't have opened it, but well,
- 5:19Speaker 4: you see, it's the first indication I've had and all
- 5:21Speaker 4: that time that he's eaten alive.
- 5:26Speaker 2: Good ship. It's been a long drag with the waiting.
- 5:28Speaker 2: Is finally over, Darling. Time is now meet me at
- 5:31Speaker 2: eleven thirty Monday night at the House with the Big wheels.
- 5:34Speaker 2: Signed Toby House with the big wheel What does that mean, missus.
- 5:38Speaker 4: Brian, I have no idea, but for some reason it
- 5:42Speaker 4: flattens me.
- 5:43Speaker 2: Oh, eleven thirty Monday night, Monday night, that must be
- 5:47Speaker 2: to night. Who is this Toby?
- 5:49Speaker 4: Toby Padler. She's a very very beautiful young woman, platinum blond,
- 5:54Speaker 4: oh Chip. I believed he was in love with her.
- 5:56Speaker 4: I'm afraid. Oh please don't miss understand me, mister Marlowe.
- 6:01Speaker 4: I'm not a possessive mother. I knew i'd give Chipper
- 6:05Speaker 4: up some day only I hoped it would be too
- 6:08Speaker 4: nice and see.
- 6:09Speaker 2: A girl Toby Packler isn't.
- 6:11Speaker 4: She's much too fast. The kind of us is too much, Masscara,
- 6:16Speaker 4: and wears things like those little anklet chains they called
- 6:19Speaker 4: slave bracelets. I tried to find her after Chip left,
- 6:23Speaker 4: but she was gone too.
- 6:24Speaker 2: Oh tell me, did you and your son argue about Toby, Missus.
- 6:27Speaker 4: Bryant, No, no, I only saw her once. He knew
- 6:32Speaker 4: I didn't think much of her. But that didn't drive
- 6:35Speaker 4: him away. Mister Marlow, what did I've never been able
- 6:40Speaker 4: to understand. After his father died, Chip became irresponsible and
- 6:46Speaker 4: a little while, perhaps especially since I had to spend
- 6:50Speaker 4: all my time running our gift shop on Ivar. But
- 6:53Speaker 4: but he was a good boy.
- 6:55Speaker 2: Really.
- 6:56Speaker 4: I've tried to convince myself that he left just to
- 6:59Speaker 4: prove his independence, to taste his wings, you know.
- 7:05Speaker 2: But now now what, Missus Brian, Now.
- 7:08Speaker 4: I'm worried. That letter puzzles me. I don't like it.
- 7:13Speaker 2: Well, it may mean nothing more than you're getting a
- 7:15Speaker 2: daughter in law. Uses too much, mass car.
- 7:17Speaker 4: I hope you're right. I want you to be happy,
- 7:21Speaker 4: to settle down. I want to turn my business over
- 7:24Speaker 4: to him, and will you try to locate him for me? Here?
- 7:31Speaker 4: I have this picture here in my wallet.
- 7:34Speaker 2: See the chip looks a lot like his mother, doesn't it.
- 7:42Speaker 4: Please find out if my son is all right.
- 7:44Speaker 2: Sure, I'll do my best. My office window I watched
- 7:54Speaker 2: to leave the building. So I stopped politely and answer
- 7:57Speaker 2: a question for an oily sidewalk passive and a black
- 8:00Speaker 2: pinstriped suit, and moved quietly on down the street toward
- 8:04Speaker 2: a shop. And I've a neat gentle, very lonely woman.
- 8:11Speaker 2: I hoped I'd find a happy story for her in
- 8:13Speaker 2: San Luis Obispo. She had one coming. I was still
- 8:17Speaker 2: hoping five hours later when I pulled into a mobile
- 8:19Speaker 2: gas station in the little town at the foot of
- 8:21Speaker 2: the Santa Lucia Mountains, two hundred miles up the coast.
- 8:25Speaker 2: I filled up, asked a few questions, and found out
- 8:27Speaker 2: that there were only four good hotels, five not so good,
- 8:30Speaker 2: and two or three dozen motor corts, and that ran
- 8:33Speaker 2: the gamut. So even with nothing but the name Toby
- 8:36Speaker 2: to go on, the job wasn't completely impossible. By the
- 8:47Speaker 2: time I'd worked my way down into the motor courts,
- 8:49Speaker 2: the sun was sneaking off between the rocky hills toward
- 8:51Speaker 2: the ocean, and I was still collecting negative answers until
- 8:56Speaker 2: I tried to mirror neon combination bar, restaurant and motel
- 8:59Speaker 2: called Pinkies on the north edge of tom Sorry, mister,
- 9:03Speaker 2: not Tooby Packler registered here. I wait a minute, You
- 9:05Speaker 2: sure she's a lovely platinum blonde about me? About what? Huh?
- 9:11Speaker 2: I never mind skipped pinky Maybe this is better. When
- 9:18Speaker 2: I glanced across the lobby at the bar, i'd caught
- 9:20Speaker 2: a man watching me. It was the same Oily character
- 9:23Speaker 2: in a black pinstriped suit that I'd seen stop missus
- 9:25Speaker 2: Bryant on the street outside my office back in la.
- 9:28Speaker 2: He ducked away and I beat it into a bar,
- 9:31Speaker 2: just in time to see him slip out of side door.
- 9:34Speaker 2: So I followed him outside a gravel path, where him,
- 9:38Speaker 2: through a groove of dejected pepper trees, wound up in
- 9:40Speaker 2: a lonely walled patio. And when I got there, Oily
- 9:44Speaker 2: was out of sight. The reason was simple. The nose
- 9:47Speaker 2: of his gun in my back said he was behind me.
- 9:49Speaker 5: I don't move my low well, well name and all,
- 9:53Speaker 5: sure I've been telling you every inch of the way
- 9:56Speaker 5: since old Lady Bryant went to see you this morning.
- 9:58Speaker 2: That's connection oily.
- 9:59Speaker 5: Exactly six long months of watching him waiting for what
- 10:02Speaker 5: for a move, I knew two skunks that'd have to
- 10:04Speaker 5: make some time. From the way you've been working. You
- 10:06Speaker 5: don't know enough to do yourself, and you go to
- 10:08Speaker 5: me any harm. So take some advice, go back to
- 10:11Speaker 5: leave it alone, Leave what alone. That's none of your business.
- 10:13Speaker 2: People. I'll take over from the here.
- 10:15Speaker 5: But just in case you're running the Chip Bryant or
- 10:17Speaker 5: tob me on your way out of town, tell them
- 10:19Speaker 5: from me. They're not cutting Lou Race out of his
- 10:21Speaker 5: share of one hundred and ten grand. I'm gonna get
- 10:23Speaker 5: it one way or another. And Soldier won't forget your
- 10:28Speaker 5: rest for a right mind.
- 10:40Speaker 2: When the brick floor of the patio finally stopped pushing,
- 10:44Speaker 2: I was alone except for my ugly thoughts. I knew
- 10:49Speaker 2: I was on the right track, but from the sound
- 10:50Speaker 2: of things, Chip O'Brian was much less a mama's boy
- 10:52Speaker 2: than his mama believed, and made sure Lou Race was
- 10:56Speaker 2: nowhere around the motel, and I went into the bar
- 10:59Speaker 2: again to see what a double Scotch would do for
- 11:02Speaker 2: my headache. The bar tender, obviously was the type of
- 11:05Speaker 2: got around, so I took a chance and asked him
- 11:07Speaker 2: about Toby Packby. It was no good when I described
- 11:12Speaker 2: Toby as a beautiful platinum blonde. A girl sitting alone
- 11:15Speaker 2: two stools down, a girl with a short, ragged mouse
- 11:19Speaker 2: brown hair and extremely flat, misformed face, dropped her eyes
- 11:23Speaker 2: and looked away. I suddenly felt very cheap. I flipped
- 11:28Speaker 2: the silver buck on the bar and got up. You know,
- 11:30Speaker 2: it was a kind of dumb stunch. You can't apologize for.
- 11:33Speaker 2: You just leave. I was halfway to my cop before
- 11:36Speaker 2: I realized that the girl had followed me out. Are you?
- 11:42Speaker 2: I turned and watched to come toward me. The garish
- 11:46Speaker 2: neon light her face was jarringly unreal, the color and
- 11:48Speaker 2: texture of hard putty.
- 11:51Speaker 4: I heard you inside when you asked about Toby.
- 11:55Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought you had. Do you know her, miss, Yeah?
- 12:01Speaker 6: I know her.
- 12:01Speaker 4: She's one of my few friends. What do you want
- 12:04Speaker 4: with Toby?
- 12:05Speaker 2: Well, my name is Marlow and I'm from LA. I
- 12:07Speaker 2: want to talk to her about a fellow named Chip Bryan.
- 12:08Speaker 2: She's my only lead.
- 12:10Speaker 7: Chip Bryant. Yeah, she never mentioned that name of lead. Anyway,
- 12:14Speaker 7: you're too late, mister Marlow. What do you mean Toby
- 12:18Speaker 7: left town this morning. No, she's going up north to Seattle.
- 12:22Speaker 4: I think on some kind of personal business.
- 12:24Speaker 2: I listen. Did she ever say anything new about a
- 12:27Speaker 2: house with a big wheel where it was what it means.
- 12:30Speaker 4: House with a big wheel? Yeah, no, I'm afraid not.
- 12:34Speaker 4: I'm sorry, mister Mordow. I guess I'm not much help.
- 12:37Speaker 4: I oh, good.
- 12:41Speaker 2: Night, thanks anyway, and good night miss miss Yeah, yeah, Palmer,
- 12:49Speaker 2: good night. As the girl walked back to the bar,
- 12:54Speaker 2: the little gold chain I'd spotted around her ankle glinted
- 12:56Speaker 2: in the brittle light. It was like an echo of
- 12:59Speaker 2: her memory. A slave bracelet on her was as out
- 13:02Speaker 2: of place as a morning glory and a bit of toadstools.
- 13:05Speaker 2: But that gave me a crazy hunch, a hunch that somehow,
- 13:08Speaker 2: in the last six months, a gorgeous blond named Toby
- 13:11Speaker 2: Packer had become a drab brown head with a flat,
- 13:13Speaker 2: stiff face. So I didn't chase wild geese to see
- 13:16Speaker 2: atl Instead, I got in my car and I waited.
- 13:19Speaker 2: Now all went by, and it was almost dark before
- 13:21Speaker 2: she finally came out again, stepped down into a sleek
- 13:23Speaker 2: new convertible and drove north out of town. I followed
- 13:26Speaker 2: that she turned off a neglected side road and for
- 13:29Speaker 2: eight miles twisted through jagged rocky hills toward the mountains.
- 13:32Speaker 2: Then suddenly, from the crest of a small rise, I
- 13:34Speaker 2: saw what she'd been heading for, an old stone house
- 13:37Speaker 2: squatting in a grove of eucalyptus trees. The girl, I
- 13:40Speaker 2: figured to be Toby Packler, had slowed almost to a stop.
- 13:44Speaker 2: I watched the creep along until she was out of sight.
- 13:47Speaker 2: When I got out of my car and I went
- 13:49Speaker 2: down for a closer look. Round, brown shingled couplers reared
- 13:53Speaker 2: proudly out of choking overgrowth, and on a huge rusty
- 13:55Speaker 2: iron gate in front was the name Escobar. Put in
- 14:00Speaker 2: the trees. Behind the house, I saw more turning slowly
- 14:04Speaker 2: in the stream. There was a giant water wheel, a
- 14:07Speaker 2: big wheel rod fast back to town and stop. It
- 14:16Speaker 2: the only place I could figure for a quick answer.
- 14:18Speaker 2: The opposite of the San Luis Obisco Daily Eagle, the
- 14:21Speaker 2: night editor was strictly old school and green ice shaded
- 14:23Speaker 2: a sleeve goddess, but still very much on the ball.
- 14:27Speaker 8: Sir, you want to see the issues of exactly six
- 14:29Speaker 8: months ago?
- 14:30Speaker 2: His head?
- 14:30Speaker 8: Yeah, and that'd be November about the eighth, nineteen ten.
- 14:36Speaker 2: Yes, thanks, thanks a lot. I'm right the sort of sentire.
- 14:41Speaker 8: In care for that rip those copies. So, by the way,
- 14:45Speaker 8: what stir? Are you looking for?
- 14:46Speaker 2: A small something on a party named Toby Packway? It's
- 14:51Speaker 2: not here. Wait a minute, maybe it'll be in Yeah, sure, sure,
- 14:55Speaker 2: this is it. On page three, a woman identified as
- 14:58Speaker 2: Toby Packer of Los Angeles suffered severe injuries they head
- 15:02Speaker 2: and face today when the car she was driving skidding
- 15:04Speaker 2: into a bridge. I bought my two miles north of here,
- 15:07Speaker 2: so that's how come to face. This packless condition was
- 15:10Speaker 2: announce as critical by Clark Emergency Hospital at ten. Yeah
- 15:14Speaker 2: is that all you want? That's enough?
- 15:16Speaker 8: If that answers your question, young man, I put these
- 15:18Speaker 8: copies away.
- 15:19Speaker 2: Had to be careful that headline, Eh, what was that?
- 15:23Speaker 2: Let's see that Santa Barbara jewelry store, rob caring thieves
- 15:27Speaker 2: escapable gems valued it AE hundred and ten thousand, one
- 15:30Speaker 2: hundred and ten grand.
- 15:32Speaker 8: I remember that two men and a woman got away
- 15:34Speaker 8: clean too. Never caught a one of them. You don't
- 15:38Speaker 8: mean there's a connection between these stories, dude.
- 15:40Speaker 2: I don't know. Ask me again after I've checked in
- 15:43Speaker 2: at the old Eskebar place, Evan Escabar's place.
- 15:46Speaker 8: Out in the hills before you are jokings And what
- 15:49Speaker 8: in the world could that crack pot possibly have to
- 15:51Speaker 8: do with the jewel robber and the car wreck six
- 15:53Speaker 8: months ago?
- 15:54Speaker 2: It beats me, But the some time you can count
- 15:56Speaker 2: on it. I think you're crazy.
- 15:58Speaker 6: But if you're going off.
- 15:59Speaker 2: There, he should be. What's that supposed to mean?
- 16:02Speaker 8: You have something in common with that? He's living his
- 16:05Speaker 8: own private dream world for so long he's forgotten what
- 16:09Speaker 8: the real world's all about. Goodbye, son, I'll see you later,
- 16:17Speaker 8: I hope.
- 16:36Speaker 3: In just a moment. The second act of Philip Marlowe.
- 16:39Speaker 3: But first, the fun is always fresh and furious. When
- 16:42Speaker 3: Graucho Marx takes over on CBS Wednesday Nights with his
- 16:45Speaker 3: wonderful quiz you bet your life, Groucho the master of
- 16:49Speaker 3: ad lib, teams up pairs of opposites and then goes
- 16:52Speaker 3: to work with his quips and questions, very very solid
- 16:55Speaker 3: with laughter. This Groucho Mark show here at this Wednesday
- 16:58Speaker 3: and every Wednesday and most of the same CBS stations,
- 17:03Speaker 3: now with our star Gerald Moore, the second actor Philip Marlowe,
- 17:06Speaker 3: and Tonight's story The Hiding Place.
- 17:18Speaker 2: From the Road. I had thought of Adam Escaba's place
- 17:20Speaker 2: as just another one hundred year entry home, you know,
- 17:22Speaker 2: the kind bigger loop frinkle, like an aging nobleman who
- 17:25Speaker 2: had retired long ago with his memories. But now that
- 17:28Speaker 2: I was there and at the rusted iron gate, it
- 17:30Speaker 2: resented my intrusion out loud. I changed my mind. I
- 17:34Speaker 2: saw now it had to be a degenerate nobleman. Also,
- 17:37Speaker 2: a nobleman had to be flat broke. I saw it everywhere.
- 17:40Speaker 2: An am escabar on the gate, and copper lettering had
- 17:42Speaker 2: turned a sickly spotted green. The scuff faded family crest
- 17:46Speaker 2: in laden tile, and the cement walk was cracked and crumbled.
- 17:50Speaker 2: The exquisite stained glass door was cracked all the way
- 17:53Speaker 2: down the middle. Only the engraved card in the slot
- 17:57Speaker 2: under the knocker that sat adamsco Bia Squire was neat
- 18:00Speaker 2: new Landed Gentry's last ditch stand. I was about to
- 18:05Speaker 2: knock one.
- 18:06Speaker 9: You need not bother knocking sirt. I saw you coming
- 18:10Speaker 9: up the walk. I am Adam Ascobald.
- 18:13Speaker 2: He was a small, slight man of maybe sixty plus,
- 18:15Speaker 2: with a large head held high in spite of the
- 18:17Speaker 2: frayed cuffs, the pattern of the slippers that were cracked
- 18:20Speaker 2: and pealing. I introduced myself and followed the meadow a
- 18:23Speaker 2: musty living room there while he apologized for no longer
- 18:27Speaker 2: having any servants and forts each some brandy mccut plastic cande,
- 18:30Speaker 2: I told them all about my search for Chip Bryan,
- 18:33Speaker 2: complete with Toby and little Race.
- 18:35Speaker 9: Frankly, mister Marlowe, I am puzzled. Your drink, sir, oh confused?
- 18:41Speaker 9: What does all this have to do with me?
- 18:43Speaker 2: Or maybe nothing, mister escobarb But the only guess around
- 18:46Speaker 2: is that the jewels were hidden here on your property,
- 18:48Speaker 2: the house for the big water wheel, and I had
- 18:50Speaker 2: the robbery six months ago.
- 18:51Speaker 6: Why for what reason, sir?
- 18:53Speaker 2: The police probably Treyo wouldn't want to be picked up
- 18:56Speaker 2: with the staff on him, salut and do yours sir
- 18:59Speaker 2: thig you.
- 19:02Speaker 9: Then, then, mister marlow soon after they did that hit
- 19:06Speaker 9: the jewels. I mean, the girl, the one with the
- 19:08Speaker 9: injured face, had that accident.
- 19:11Speaker 2: Those are the circumstances, oh more or less, and if
- 19:14Speaker 2: I've ad it right, companies coming by eleven thirty. It's
- 19:17Speaker 2: ten thirty now. It might be a good idea if
- 19:19Speaker 2: he left the home grounds for a while.
- 19:20Speaker 9: Me leave my own home because of some thieves, because
- 19:23Speaker 9: of three commons.
- 19:24Speaker 2: You get to Reska. It's that or the police. And
- 19:26Speaker 2: I'd rather not have a minute for a while. I
- 19:28Speaker 2: still owe my client a slight benefit of the doubt
- 19:30Speaker 2: that's left.
- 19:30Speaker 6: You think I am afraid that's what you are doing to.
- 19:33Speaker 2: Say, No, of course not. But I don't see why
- 19:35Speaker 2: you should stake your neck out. These people have nothing
- 19:37Speaker 2: to do with you.
- 19:38Speaker 6: You are wrong, sir.
- 19:39Speaker 9: Every onnest man has something to do with every criminal
- 19:42Speaker 9: his duty.
- 19:43Speaker 6: I know that now, mister Marlowe.
- 19:46Speaker 9: If I had known it many years ago, I might
- 19:49Speaker 9: still have both my wealth and my property intact.
- 19:53Speaker 2: Okay, who knows when I come back at my b back?
- 19:57Speaker 6: But where are you going?
- 19:58Speaker 2: So in a town it's still like to catch up
- 20:00Speaker 2: the chip Bryan before the reunion. I don't think there's
- 20:03Speaker 2: going to be the time or place for conversation.
- 20:05Speaker 6: Conversation with that Brian hoodlum about what.
- 20:08Speaker 2: Sort about a mother? Mister Escobar, A nice old lady
- 20:13Speaker 2: who doesn't deserve a kick in the teeth. Back in
- 20:23Speaker 2: San Luis Obispo, I returned to the missing person door
- 20:25Speaker 2: to door canvas for the third time that night. Only
- 20:28Speaker 2: now I can find myself to the wrong side of
- 20:30Speaker 2: the tracks exclusively, and the deeper the dive, the better.
- 20:33Speaker 2: I didn't figure the Chip Ryan would show anywhere else,
- 20:36Speaker 2: and after a half a dozen quick stops, number seven
- 20:39Speaker 2: proved lucky. It was a cramped, greasy bar with a
- 20:42Speaker 2: sawdust and cigarette butt floor and a single customer. I
- 20:45Speaker 2: hadn't found Chip, but I was close to the depth
- 20:47Speaker 2: of mister lou Race, the bar keep, a ball of
- 20:50Speaker 2: fat wearing a sweatshirt the size of a tent at
- 20:52Speaker 2: his back to me. When I ended, so did Race.
- 20:56Speaker 2: So when I tapped the tricky man on his padded
- 20:58Speaker 2: shoulder and he turned surprised to see me. Sweet, that's
- 21:03Speaker 2: like I was an old dad. I cat got your tongue.
- 21:07Speaker 2: I'll get up, get ready to answer a few simple questions.
- 21:11Speaker 2: What do you think you're doing? Your buster much head?
- 21:13Speaker 2: I'll play you for it unless you want to be
- 21:14Speaker 2: up ther rolling chins in trouble with the Lawdsjun, you
- 21:16Speaker 2: don't try to help the client tell the cops. Okay, okay,
- 21:20Speaker 2: why didn't you say so? I don't know nothing about
- 21:22Speaker 2: this guy and I don't know enough. Now come on,
- 21:24Speaker 2: race you talk or eat sawt uSwitch. No, no, I'll
- 21:28Speaker 2: tell you.
- 21:28Speaker 6: What do you want?
- 21:29Speaker 2: One? You Chip Brian Untilby packed my stock up at
- 21:31Speaker 2: Santa Barbara jewelry store six months ago.
- 21:33Speaker 5: Right, yeah, yeah, well we did it, but they crossed
- 21:36Speaker 5: me up and it was one of the cops were
- 21:38Speaker 5: coming and we.
- 21:38Speaker 2: Split the splitter. You played hoorray filu race and ran
- 21:41Speaker 2: without worrying about the others. What's the difference? A reason
- 21:43Speaker 2: Toby and Chip Brian won't tell you where they hit
- 21:45Speaker 2: the jewels. That's a difference.
- 21:46Speaker 6: Nuts. You're standing on one of ear people.
- 21:49Speaker 5: Toby had a different reason for crossing like what ah like,
- 21:52Speaker 5: I've fallen in love with that lous Bryant.
- 21:54Speaker 6: The kit she baited and they're coming along with us,
- 21:57Speaker 6: but flapping.
- 21:57Speaker 2: The baby blues.
- 21:58Speaker 6: The kit was supposed to the car period.
- 22:01Speaker 2: That's how she crossed me. Anyone else, Yeah, that's happened.
- 22:05Speaker 2: Where's Brian now?
- 22:06Speaker 10: One of two places either with Toby Pakla with good
- 22:15Speaker 10: Knight Sweetheart.
- 22:18Speaker 2: By the time I made it to the door of
- 22:20Speaker 2: the second company, Sam Spade was across the street behind
- 22:22Speaker 2: a park car and streaking for an alley in the
- 22:24Speaker 2: middle of the block. Just as I thought I was
- 22:26Speaker 2: gonna lose, and became the breast of a dark doorway,
- 22:28Speaker 2: and I saw it, and I'm raised quickly, the grint
- 22:31Speaker 2: of a knife played, the arm dropped sharply. Whoever had
- 22:38Speaker 2: done it slid away in the dark as suddenly as
- 22:40Speaker 2: he appeared. When I was next to a race, there
- 22:42Speaker 2: was only the caller's card, the black ivory handled knife
- 22:45Speaker 2: driven to the hilt in between the dapper man's shoulders.
- 22:48Speaker 2: He was going out fast.
- 22:50Speaker 6: Holy car, How it happened?
- 22:52Speaker 2: Mantrace? Race? Do you know who got you? Yeah? Dark
- 22:59Speaker 2: black eye every handle? Yeah? Why? Why? What was it mean?
- 23:01Speaker 2: Who's belonged to race?
- 23:04Speaker 9: What?
- 23:04Speaker 2: Kid? Ryan?
- 23:09Speaker 6: He's dead? Huh?
- 23:11Speaker 2: Yeah? And so we're all the prayers of one missus
- 23:15Speaker 2: Martha Bryant. Oh she never mind, never mind. Listen, call
- 23:19Speaker 2: the cops telling. My name is Philip Marlow. I'm a
- 23:21Speaker 2: private detective, and I may be able to explain all
- 23:22Speaker 2: this later. Right now, I'm doing a house with a
- 23:24Speaker 2: water wheel and explain that later too, if I'm lucky.
- 23:42Speaker 9: Oh, mister Marlow, I'm glad you're here, sir. It is
- 23:45Speaker 9: almost eleven.
- 23:46Speaker 2: I know, have you seen anyone? Miss ask and I have.
- 23:48Speaker 6: Been watching very close. Ready nice, my father owned these pistols.
- 23:52Speaker 2: Oh, I hope it's been oil since Now look I
- 23:55Speaker 2: didn't locate chip right. Wait a minute, isn't that a car?
- 23:58Speaker 2: They're turning off a row without any lights on, Yes.
- 24:00Speaker 6: And going along the side of my property line.
- 24:03Speaker 9: But Tody, what would we could you a woman, mister Malone.
- 24:06Speaker 2: No doubt, named Tony Peckler. Now look, you stay here,
- 24:09Speaker 2: mister Escobar, and keep that blunder bus ready. Don't forget
- 24:11Speaker 2: ship Bryan's due out here, Tony, he said, killer, keep
- 24:13Speaker 2: your eyes open. We'll stand a better chance meeting him
- 24:16Speaker 2: one at a time. I went around to the side
- 24:24Speaker 2: of the house quickly, then kept close into a long
- 24:26Speaker 2: line of eucalyptus trees that ended at a crumbling building
- 24:28Speaker 2: that had once been servants quarters. After that, it was
- 24:31Speaker 2: only twenty yards the water wheel, twenty open yards the
- 24:34Speaker 2: huge ancient circle of hand hewn wood that complained against
- 24:38Speaker 2: the side of a dreary squad stone mill that had
- 24:40Speaker 2: long ago died of old age. There in the faint
- 24:43Speaker 2: half light of a hazy moon, I saw Toby Packler
- 24:46Speaker 2: kneeling at the corner of the building with both hands
- 24:49Speaker 2: working curiously to loosen a stone the size and shape
- 24:51Speaker 2: of a football. There was a gun on the ground
- 24:53Speaker 2: next to her. I moved close to my hand, tight
- 24:56Speaker 2: on the thirty eighth of my pocket. Then I waited
- 24:58Speaker 2: till she had the stone out, and that baby hands
- 25:01Speaker 2: a six months old secret. It wasn't bad, Aim, just
- 25:05Speaker 2: a warning, Toby.
- 25:07Speaker 4: How do you know my name?
- 25:08Speaker 2: I read your mail. I get back over to your
- 25:10Speaker 2: homespun safety deposit box there and take the jewels out.
- 25:13Speaker 1: Go on, all right?
- 25:15Speaker 4: Why shouldn't I soldier?
- 25:17Speaker 7: You won't go any place with them. Chip will see
- 25:19Speaker 7: to that.
- 25:19Speaker 2: Hell they're God, get back, they're up here.
- 25:22Speaker 4: I'll tell you.
- 25:23Speaker 2: You understand the God God. I'll tell me. Is this
- 25:28Speaker 2: why you hit them? Nobody else knew? Raise the chip, Bryan.
- 25:31Speaker 4: Race didn't even know about this place?
- 25:34Speaker 6: And a d up your gun?
- 25:40Speaker 2: Do it? Miss Peckler? Mister Adam esca bar es quiet, quiet,
- 25:47Speaker 2: so cheap?
- 25:47Speaker 6: Brian? How's the jewels all the time? What do you
- 25:52Speaker 6: know about jewels.
- 25:54Speaker 9: You'll see the Speckler that night six months ago when
- 25:57Speaker 9: you stood over there on the other side of the
- 25:58Speaker 9: water wheel and told Bryan that you had hiden the
- 26:00Speaker 9: jewels and would tell him where later on.
- 26:03Speaker 2: I was listening, you know they were here. I don't
- 26:06Speaker 2: tell anything to anybody.
- 26:07Speaker 9: It was, of course, quite by chance that I overheard you.
- 26:10Speaker 9: But after you had that accident with your car, I
- 26:12Speaker 9: searched as diligently as though a partner, searched Miss Peckler
- 26:15Speaker 9: for money.
- 26:17Speaker 6: That could mean so so much to me that I
- 26:20Speaker 6: found naughty.
- 26:21Speaker 4: Where are they?
- 26:22Speaker 2: You really tell me?
- 26:24Speaker 4: Well, do you know.
- 26:25Speaker 6: That I see this?
- 26:26Speaker 9: I think place is it was where Chip Bryan stood
- 26:31Speaker 9: there for the jewels and not not buried.
- 26:35Speaker 4: What do you mean?
- 26:37Speaker 2: I think, Toby, that he killed Chip Bryan almost six
- 26:40Speaker 2: months ago, and that he buried him here on these grounds,
- 26:42Speaker 2: without knowing that Shep had already found the jewels.
- 26:44Speaker 6: Why ship then quite there? I killed him two days
- 26:52Speaker 6: after your accident. I found him searching for the jewel.
- 26:55Speaker 3: Now, no, you're lying.
- 26:58Speaker 4: She was supposed to go back a lost Andrews.
- 27:00Speaker 9: Wait until I was.
- 27:01Speaker 7: Well, wait for my leadder.
- 27:03Speaker 2: Didn't Toby come out here, found the jewels and was
- 27:05Speaker 2: killed by our host.
- 27:08Speaker 9: No one that I couldn't find them these months type
- 27:10Speaker 9: search daydn't day.
- 27:11Speaker 6: I'll scratch them dog and Corning and Rain.
- 27:15Speaker 2: I buried him, but you didn't burry his knife? Did you? That?
- 27:18Speaker 2: You captain news down a little race tonight? Why so
- 27:23Speaker 2: you can shoot me then him? Or so that if
- 27:25Speaker 2: I'd very lucky, I can run away to live some more?
- 27:29Speaker 2: A smashed face.
- 27:32Speaker 4: To face, one.
- 27:42Speaker 2: Escabar turn around point that gun at me? Missed them
- 27:47Speaker 2: my lord, now it's self defense. Toby.
- 27:56Speaker 4: Toby is bad, real bad. I had so much once
- 28:06Speaker 4: wet face, a guy name.
- 28:10Speaker 11: Chip, jewels, everything, I was a big wheel.
- 28:24Speaker 2: It was nice.
- 28:27Speaker 4: Uh yes, yes, mister workman. The book ends will be
- 28:43Speaker 4: sent out to you this afternoon at the lady. Thank
- 28:47Speaker 4: you for calling. Goodbye. I'm sorry to have kept you.
- 28:53Speaker 4: Mister Marlow. Well, it may be hard for you to believe.
- 29:03Speaker 4: In the minute I was on the phone, and even
- 29:07Speaker 4: while I talked, I think I saw Chipper's whole life
- 29:11Speaker 4: before me.
- 29:12Speaker 2: I know what you mean. Well, missus, Bryan, I found
- 29:17Speaker 2: out that.
- 29:19Speaker 4: Your son Chip, Yes, you found out what mister Marlow?
- 29:26Speaker 4: What are you staring at.
- 29:28Speaker 2: Oh I had showcase there.
- 29:32Speaker 4: Oh, our mother's stayed displayed. It's attractive, isn't it.
- 29:42Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, very missus. Bryan Chip was killed in a
- 29:49Speaker 2: storm at sea a week a week after you saw him.
- 29:53Speaker 2: It was off San Francisco. His body was never recovered.
- 29:57Speaker 2: I was told that he was on his way to
- 29:59Speaker 2: a new job Canada at the time. And incidentally, that
- 30:03Speaker 2: letter from San Luis Obispo that that was all a mistake.
- 30:06Speaker 2: That girl never saw a chipping outside. I left my
- 30:21Speaker 2: car where i'd pocket and walked through the busy city street.
- 30:25Speaker 2: You know, it's a funny thing. Lies can cause more
- 30:29Speaker 2: trouble in this world than almost anything else they say,
- 30:32Speaker 2: and at the same time can sometimes bring them most happiness.
- 30:59Speaker 3: The Adventures Philip Marlowe Bringing You Raymond Chandler's most famous characters,
- 31:03Speaker 3: star Gerald Moore, are produced and written by Norman McDonald
- 31:07Speaker 3: and written for radio by Robert Mitchell and Gene Levitt.
- 31:10Speaker 3: Featured in the cast, where Virginia Gregg, Joan Banks, Herb Butterfield,
- 31:14Speaker 3: Louis Gene Height, Bob Griffin, Howard mcneer, and Lee Malar.
- 31:18Speaker 3: The special music is composed and conducted by Richard urunt,
- 31:25Speaker 3: be sure and be with us again next week when
- 31:27Speaker 3: Philip Marlowe say.
- 31:29Speaker 2: It started at down in the Los Angeles taxi and
- 31:32Speaker 2: wound up that night on a cliff in the middle
- 31:33Speaker 2: of the Pacific, all because of a Dutchman with five
- 31:36Speaker 2: three thousand dollars, a corpse in a lily pond, and
- 31:38Speaker 2: an Oriental with a chow fore who wanted a cloak
- 31:40Speaker 2: may have nothing but feathers.
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- 32:52Speaker 1: Welcome back.
- 32:54Speaker 2: Well.
- 32:54Speaker 1: Obviously, in the episode itself, the his referencing Sam Spade
- 33:01Speaker 1: was because the thug had told him good night, sweetheart,
- 33:04Speaker 1: which was one of Sam Spade's key catchphrases from the
- 33:09Speaker 1: nineteen forties and fifties radio. This was a really well
- 33:15Speaker 1: done episode. There are few radio programs that really when
- 33:21Speaker 1: they are written with that intent. A detective show that
- 33:26Speaker 1: can really break your heart is Philip Marlowe. It's definitely
- 33:30Speaker 1: a very well done, but downbeat ending that ends with
- 33:33Speaker 1: marlow a very out of character not telling the client
- 33:38Speaker 1: the full story. But it's hard to blame him too
- 33:41Speaker 1: much in this particular instance. Well, we turned out a
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- 33:47Speaker 1: on iTunes from Lewis from Miami, who rots thank you
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- 33:57Speaker 1: listen to this podcast every day. I go to sleep
- 34:00Speaker 1: to this podcast each night. I give it ten out
- 34:03Speaker 1: of ten. Well, thanks so much, Lewis, and I appreciate
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- 34:11Speaker 1: little bit younger than that when I started podcasting, so
- 34:15Speaker 1: I can definitely relate, and thanks so much for listening.
- 34:19Speaker 1: All right, Well tomorrow, Nick Carter. Next Wednesday, another episode
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