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Philip Marlowe: The Busy Body (EP1445) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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dot net. Well, now it's time for today's episode of the Adventure of
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Philip Marlowe. The original air at eighth June eighteenth, nineteen forty nine,
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and the title is the Busy Body, Get This and Get It Straight.
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Crime is the Suckers Road and knows who travel had wind up in the gut
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of the prison of the Grave. There's no other end, but they never
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learned this time. It started as a routine search for a rich girl's fiance
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and the trail led to a silent house, haunted by a face at the
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window and blood in an open seated chest. But before it was over,
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it became a search for a cop that wouldn't sit still. From the pen
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of Raymond Tranfer, up Spending, author of Mister Rake, comes his most
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famous character and crimes most deadly enemy. As we present the adventures of Philip
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Marlow, now with Gerald Moore start as Philip Marlow, we bring you tonight's
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exciting story. The busy body phone jerked me up, off my back and
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out of the sports page at nine point thirty in the evening of an already
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two long day. On the other end was a warm, feminine voice,
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aged with the kind of self assurance that means money and lots of it.
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But the words were both hurried and panicky. So after I hung up,
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I reluctantly waded through the sports section with my feet instead of my eyes,
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and headed to the coffee shop at Franklin and Bronson, where my new client
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would identify herself as Liz Stewart said she'd be waiting a pair of blue eyes
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at a table in the corner. Measured me from haircut the shoelaces. So
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I took the queue and walked over. After we introduced ourselves, I was
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waved into the chair opposite her. She leaned toward me and started with a
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rush mister motto. I've got to find a man named Dean Howard as soon
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as possible. Not exactly a new switch. He's my fiancee. We planned
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to notify my uncle Hanley of our engagement tonight. Who is Uncle Hanley?
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Uncle Hanley Stewart of Stewart Aluminum. Okay, go ahead, Dean. Dean
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Howard was to meet me at seven, but he didn't show up, and
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then about a quarter to eight he called. He started to tell me something
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about something that he referred to as a horrible mistake, but before he could
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get it out, we were cut off. Or I tried to him cofee
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coffee, no noe. I tried to call him back, but there was
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no answer. So I went to his house, but it was locked and
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dark, and yet his car was still parked outside. Well, look this,
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Stewart, why don't you save hisself fifty bucks go home and wait for
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an apologetic phone call? Huh, what do you mean? Well? This
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tacks up as me case of cold feet or a little celebration that got out
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of hand. Either way, there's nothing to worry about it. I've come
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to you for help, Marlow, not a pat on the head. Okay,
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okay, I'll assume it's my error for the moment. How long have
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you known as Dean Howard? I met him at a party about three months
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ago. Uncle Henley and I both liked him tremendously right from the first.
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I suppose you've considered the possibility of another woman. Well, of course,
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I'm not a child. I can see that Dean have been deeply troubled for
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the past week. He wouldn't tell me why, but I'm certain that this
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business tonight is tied in with it. Something's wrong, and I want you
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to find out what it is. All right, but I'm no legman for
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Cupid, so if it turns out to be nothing more than a guy's heart
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beating in double time, I drop it. Fair enough, This is fair
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enough. She gave me a short list of push joints she and Dean Howard
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sometimes visited, and his address, which was three twelve Normandy. She said
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I could reach her at home, which was twenty eight Roxbury Drive in Beverly
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Hills, Well, fifty bucks is fifty buck. So after she left,
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I spent a handful of Nichols checking the list by phone and drew a complete
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blank. So I drove out Lost Phelis to normality and found the number three
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twelve. As I walked up to the door and lean on the bell,
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I got the feeling that I was being watched. There was no answer,
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so I tried the door. It was locked. I threw a look over
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my shoulder as I walked around the side of the house and caught a glimpse
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of a face in a window next door, just before the curtain was dropped
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back into place. The back door of three twelve was locked too. I
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found out is did the face next door, which was watching me again from
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one of the real windows. There was one answer to that, so I
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went out in the street and up the steps of the house next door and
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knocked good and loud. What do you want? My name's Marlow, Lady,
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I'm a detective. You may be able to help me. I did
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keep it will come right in Tomato. It's above times. All I have
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to say. I'm Agatha Lamb Bigger. What's he been up to? Who
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are you investigating that bachelor next door? Aren't you? Yeah? How'd you
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know? Sense? The reason? I've known all along he's a suspicious character.
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He live there a here now comes and goes at all hours, drive
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that fancy car out there, wears fine clothes, but nobody seems to know
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what he does or where he gets all his money. Well look, missus
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lamb girl, Oh, believe you me. They don't come to clean His
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house never gets cleaned, but they come just the same my Only tonight there
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was one, some blonde and a white dress. I tell you, I's
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Lambregger. That the girl go inside? Well no, but she tried to
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the door was locked, and it's miss Lambriger, Oh stupid of me.
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Well tell me, did you notice mister Howard come home tonight? Well?
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I didn't exactly see him come home, but he was over there all right,
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And not at all either? Is that another girl? No, there
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was only some man. But it still bears out what I've been saying,
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because I just happened to glance out of my window at this one here cross
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and that one of his you see, Yes, Well a light was on
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over there and I could look straight down the hallway and do you know what
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those two grown men were rough housing like a pair of hooglims in that hall,
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wrestling. They were like ordinary ruffians. I tell you, I never
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saw the like. I got a good look at him, and i'd certainly
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know him if I saw him again. Well, how'd the fight come out?
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Right? Yeah? But oh the fight, Well, I can't say
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about that. My phone rang. It was Leonora Prowley. She simply talked
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it ear off when she got it. So when I finally got back to
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the window, when I happened to look out again, it was dark over
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there, So I never did sign off what actually happened? Yes, well,
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thanks very much for your help. I really must rude. Oh one
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another thing, the noise and the drinking that's gone on in that house.
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Why you wouldn't believe it. Oh you're leaving as soon as possible. Yeah,
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but you still haven't told me what he's up to. Well, I'm
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not at liberty to do that. I Oh, that's a shame. Well,
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I'll be here all the time, you know, and I'll certainly keep
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an eye on that house. Oh, I can't tell you how much I
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appreciate you're going to all this trouble just for me, Bo soir, Miss
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slam Brigade. I backed out of that wind tunnel, got in my car
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and drove noisily around the corner. Then I cut my lights, turned quietly
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into an alley behind the house and stuffed slipped through Howard's back gate and up
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the side of the house, found a window that could be persuaded, and
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went in. Howard was a lousy housekeeper, and everything that didn't get brushed
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off and normal traffic was covered with dust. I found my way to the
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room opposite Ageta Lambriger's observation window and ran smack into a first line where she
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said there was a hallway. There was a solid wall papered with purple roses
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and hung with four dingy pictures in bronze frames, two on each side of
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a big, ugly mirror. There were two hallways, but no angle at
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which either could be seen from her window. Furthermore, there was outside of
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a struggle. One hall led the study the out of the bedroom, and
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I checked both, but still there was no indication of a fight. My
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way out of my shin on the nose of a lion caught on the corner
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of an oversize seated chest, just as the abrupt sound of someone at the
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door brought me to a rigid halt. Whatever it was at the patience of
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an eight year old on Circus Day. So I set myself up as a
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typele might live in a joint like this. An entered, Eh, what's
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the matter with the lights out? Blow a few? How could this be
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some new economy measure? I like it this way. I don't think I
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know you. You should, Howard? You should? I called you yesterday
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about a certain money matter. The name is Leah. Don't go for your
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gun, howid well? Since yours is pointed at my third rib, why
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should I, Like I told you on the phone, my boss is anxious,
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you're way over do How would I want that fifty grand? The boss
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lonely three months ago, have it for me the day after the minle all
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of it without fail. He knows I'm good for my debts. Why all
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the pressure? Maybe figures your investments are so smile like? Maybe you've been
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blowing too much on that second rate canary. Carol. Oh, oh yeah,
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Carol, I remember she's your girl. Well, that's none of my
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business. See you day after tomorrow about the same time. And if you
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got a headache from worrying about paying off, just think of the one you'll
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have if you don't pay. It'll be like ten times now, good night.
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Forty five in his hand caught the side of my head, and I
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went out cold. When I opened my eyes, the room had shrunk until
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there wasn't enough space left to stretch out in I'm I climbed to my feet.
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Oh, it's as easy as roller skating through a log jam. And
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it wasn't until I found a match and had a light that I knew why.
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Somebody had moved me from the front door and cramed me into a broom
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closet like a bag of wet wash. When I got out, I saw
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that my cubby hole was off the hall of the bedroom. Listen, but
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there was no sound in the house, so I started moving. Let's stop
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when I noticed something else, A big seated chest with carved lions on the
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corners that had been closed before and now was standing open. I struck another
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match. Inside on the bottom was a thick red puddle of blood. At
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the mansion was in the middle of a metal apology to the stewart. When
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it came I ran for the front door in time to see I get the
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charge out of the driveway and down the street. Start terror, twisting her
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face. Hey, let slam break a hold it. What is it?
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What happened? I saw it? He's dead, mister, follow head in
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my backyard? All right? All right? Now take it easy. What
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he dare? Not? Lying on his back close to the heads and he's
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dead. What do we do? Come on, we'll have a look.
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He can show me where he is. Alright here. I happened to look
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up my rear window and I saw something move. The dogs had been getting
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in my pens lately enough. I thought this was another, so I came
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out to chase him away. When I saw the body right back here,
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it's gone. Now look, miss Lamberger, I've got a headache. I'm
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getting a little tired of this. You saw a body here, just like
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you saw a fight in a hallway from your window. You're so anxious to
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be in the middle of thing. Should make up any kind of a story.
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I'm not. I saw that. I saw the Howard's body too.
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It was here, I did where show me exactly right right about there?
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Oh? Sure? Sure? And I suppose it? Hey, wait a
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minute. Yeah, my apologies, baby, there is something here could be
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blood. Here's two dimes and a borrow seat from the tulip room on the
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strip. What do you do now raid the place? You can use my
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phone. Thanks, But until we know with a buddy as we better play
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at KG. Now let's keep this a secret between us. That'll take a
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lot of courage, I know, but I can trust you can't. I
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I won't open my mouth to a sole mouth. Great, that's splendid.
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Now you better go inside and stay there until you hear from who knows you
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may yet be a heroine, Miss Lambrigger. The bar a sick was a
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long shot. When I was still two blocks away from a tulip room,
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I knew it had paid off because a fluorescent banner four x twelve draped over
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the front of a squat square building extole the vocal virtues of one Carol Cody.
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I popped across the street, went in and found a dressing room door
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and knocked. She distinctly said come in, But when I did, I
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thought the room was empty until a small handful of spangled satin costume hopped up
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from behind the screen in the corner. I made a sight unseen introduction.
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It was only a moment later that a tall brunette filling a white silk blouse
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and snug dark slack stepped on, tossed a few pounds of glossy black hair
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away from my face, and gestured me into a chair. Which paper did
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you say you were from? Moto? I didn't, honey, I'm a
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private detective. I can't use don't give odds on a baby, not yet
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anyway. Huh. Let's talk first presence. What's with you and Dean Howard.
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Dean Howard is a low crawling thing that's strange. How did you love
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him? I didn't till the night when I found out that he has two
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heads. That's so he can lie and keep a straight face with one while
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he laughs of his sleep with the other. Nuts to him, nuts to
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his Steward and her money, and nuts to you. I hate Dean Howard
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enough to kill him, and I might just do that. I don't think
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you will know, because somebody beats you to it. You you mean Howard's
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dead looks that way. I'm not sure, because he won't stay in one
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place long enough. You're trying to shock me. You're wasting your time.
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I'm not sorry. What I think we've got company? Keep talking, I'll
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get him. Oh as you say, my friend, the music business is
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just as lousy as any other dodge and I can prove it. Come you're
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a good listener, but so join the party. Why why are you listening
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out there? Come on? Not just just a minute. I wasn't listening.
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I was looking for you, Mollow. I'm more older, mister Hanley
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Stewart's assistant. You're doing fine. Don't stop now. Since I learned that
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missus Stewart hired ju Marlow, I've been trying to talk to you. I
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followed you here from that place on Normandy because I must know what you found
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out so far. Why what business is it of yours? Because, mister
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Mallow, I doubt very much that you even know of the robbery? Robbery?
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What robbery? More than forty thousand dollars worth of negotiable securities was stolen
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from mister Stewart's safe this evening. You get all your information at key holes,
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and I have reason to believe that the man you're looking for took them.
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Of course, I don't dare accuse him without proof of his relationship with
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Liz, mister Stewart's niece. If I were wrong it, he would cost
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me my job. Did Liz know about the robbery when she hired me?
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Why? Of course, Oh, brother, looks see this. Her name
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is Carrol. She's involved right up to her mass Kara and the whole mess.
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I'll let her ready aside till I get back. Why shot that app
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and it's for being cheap. I'll take care of you when I get back
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in just a moment. The second act of Philip Marlowe, but first three
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gentlemen with highly varying but equally effective approaches to dealing with crime, entertaining you
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with their deeds of daring on CBS every Sunday. Jethro Dumont alias the Green
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Lama Police Commissioner, Bill Grant of Called the Police, and Dashal Hammet Sam
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Spade. These three sterling gentlemen all make their appearances tomorrow on most of these
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same CBS network stations. And now with our star Gerald Moore, we returned
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to the second act of Phila Marlowe and tonight's story The Busy Body. After
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convincing ward Odom that his greatest contribution to the cause would be staying close,
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but not too close to the violent lady in slacks. I piled into my
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car and start at the Beverly Hills in a beautiful liar named Liz. I
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didn't stop until I was at number twenty eight Roxbury Drive. Out of my
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car and walking fast up the semicircle of gravel driveway led to the carefully antique
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front door. But then, for two good reasons, I stopped again.
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First, the squad car parked ahead of me. That said everybody except Marlowe
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knew all about the bonds. Mister Hanley Stewart could no longer call his own.
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The second reason, and more important, was my client, Liz Stewart,
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sneaking out of his side door and hurrying toward a gray coop. I
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stepped back into the shadow of squat Palm and waited for it to come abreast
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of me. Late date, Miss Stewart, man, no, why you
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started considering everything? It's the least I can do. What do you mean?
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I don't like clients who lie to me, so if you don't mind,
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I just stroll along with you. While you were assure me you could
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explain everything, but I can. Don't. Just give me a chance,
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please, all right, why didn't you tell me that forty grand went from
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negotiable bonds disappeared? Tom, your uncle's safe at the same time as hard,
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because I didn't want you to be prejudiced to be looking for a thief
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from the start. If Dean did take ose body had to read like being
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fond of money, No, like being forced to do what he did.
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All right, let's say it was forced. What then? Well, then
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I wanted to help him to get to him before the police. They'd arrest
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him in a minute. And you, on the other hand, would get
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the bonds back to your uncle, convinced him it was all a mistake,
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and talk him out of telling the law. Huh, And with your own
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dough you would help Howard out of his spotty was in? Is that it?
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Yes? But you haven't proved the Dean took the bond? No,
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I haven't. Could have been anyone in knew the combination of the library,
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say, which includes how many aside from Uncle Hannah and myself, just the
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family lawyer and mister Odom. Yeah, what about Odem? Could he have
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done it? Liz? No, I don't think so. As much as
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I dislike him, you see, Marlo for years, Odam's been very close
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to Uncle Hann He's had a thousand opportunities to steal if he wanted to,
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or like this afternoon, for instance, he had ten thousand dollars worth of
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the bonds with him today. What was he doing with all that dough paying
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gas bills? He was going to sell them for my uncle, but the
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transaction fell through, so he brought them back to the house and put them
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back in a safe Anyway, Marlowe, I don't think he'd have the courage
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to steal. I know what you mean. I've already met mister Otimo when
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about a half hour ago in a nightclub called the Tulip Room. Odam thinks
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Dean is guilty, Liz, but he's afraid to mention it publicly till he
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knows a little more what the nightclub got to do with Dean. Carol Cody
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who she's Dean's girlfriend, marlow you're creepy. I talked to her, honey,
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she's a singer there. Told me that she and Howard were more than
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chummy, but that she gave him the air to night when she found out
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about you. And you believe that, mm hmm. Now that I've had
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little time. I believe even more the tales that she never bothered to mension,
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the tales like Dean Howard and Carol Cody playing you for a sucker,
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he gains your confidence and the combination of the safe and then goodbye. But
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you see, the end was a switch, Liz, Dean didn't. Dean
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didn't. What what is it? Madam? What are you staring at back
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of my car? There? It's not guess stripping on the driveway. The
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color's too red. Let's stay back. Oh mallow, I don't want you.
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I want it's Dean. He's dead, Marlo. That is the switch
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I was talking about. I think being Howard not only crossed you, but
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Carol Cody as well. She did it. You got it, you got
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it? Because all right, all right, I listen, get inside,
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tell the police about this. Do you hear me? But first give me
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a five minute lead. I'll take your car. I want to get the
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Carrol Cody before the law does. Without saying another word, Liz Stewart,
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her face drawn and streak with tears, handed me the keys to a car
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and turned and walked slowly back to the house. I took one long look
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at the blood soaked shirt front on the body and had been a step behind
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all night. Then got into Lizz's car and pointed it back toward the tulip
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room. Twenty minutes later, when my knocking the lock dressing room door brought
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no answer, I had kicked my way in alone and half conscious in the
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middle of the floor was ward owed him the man I designed to stand sentry
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over the brunette. She tripped me, asked for a cigarette, and I
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went to light. She swung and adds owed him, And you're lucky she
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let it go. At that was more permanent in Howard's case than you found
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his body mak in the trunk of my car. Oh, oh, how
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awful. And she did all that, this Carol Cody. Yes and no,
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she must have had help odum, because first of all, it takes
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something stronger than the chanteurs to keep shifting her coughs from see the chest to
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garden the car the rate that Howard was being moved in the second, an
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old crow named Agatha Lamberger saw a man rough housing with Howard over his own
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place, not a woman. You mean there was a witness to the murder
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marrow more or less, and you have no idea who the murder is.
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No, that odem is all the more reason why I want to catch up
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with Carol Cody happen. I know where she lives, well, yes,
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yes, just at the gray Field Apartment hotel on North Haven, hers Striving.
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It's a room room and I think that, by the way, my
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cot coady is got what Yes, and she was wearing slacks, remember Malo.
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Maybe she's leaving town disguised as a man. It's a point, Odin.
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I still think I'll try the Apoptment hotel first. In the doors open
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the boys? Did you get the test? Fallow? What are you doing
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here doubling for a bell hop? So get over there, sit down and
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keep your hands in your laugh because if I have to, I'll shoot.
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I'll make it real. Plane. I think you murdered Dean Howard because he
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double crossed you after he emptied handleys tow it's safe and I think you're out
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of your mind, which brings us to a position calls tailmate, and that
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in turn makes us a good time to call a cop. I didn't kill
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Dean. I swear I didn't listen to me what you said about Dean double
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crossing me after he stole the bonds. It is true, but not the
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way you think it is. Second verse. He didn't want to just cut
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me out of my share, Marlow, He wanted to return all the bonds.
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Intact, he really fell in love with Liz Stewart and decided to play
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all American boy. I mean he decided to call it all off after he'd
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stolen the bonds. Yes, that was the reason, we argued. Tone.
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That's a stronger reason the one I already had for you, your committing
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murder. Baby, you wanted that money bag. I'm back here. Why
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did you belt out him and run? I don't bother denying that you did,
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because I just left him and he's minus good health in that top coat
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of there. So if you think that you that I was scared that a
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confession out of Dean would get me into hot water. And when you showed
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and then odin just a minute we're here, I think I've got the answer.
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It's dust, Carol. Dust, what an old gossip sweat she saw
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of from my window. Right now, I've got to get over to her
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place before she ends up looking like the late mister Howard. Can you believe
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me, mar about not killing Dean. I don't know since you've been in
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and this cheap swindle from the start was just talking one on an old fashioned
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wardrobe just for safe keeping baby outside, and was his car. I slammed
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my foot down hard against the accelerator and didn't needs up until I switched to
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a stop away from three to ten north, normally where I knew murder was
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scheduled to happen again, and I was next to a pair of half open
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French doors, to which I could see Agatha Lambricker sitting erect in a straight
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back chair. I was happy that I hadn't taken any longer than getting there.
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I was also happy that the man standing opposite her gun in hand,
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the man who would murder Dean Howard at his back to me a firm grip
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on a thirty eighth in my hand, and so nosy, miss Lambrigger.
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But it's too bad that Marlow had to let me know you've been a witness
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when I killed Dean Howard. A roughhouse I think you called it a rough
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house, is what I thought at the time. But when I saw Dean
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Howard's body out in the alleyway, I knew, you know my children.
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Everything would have been simple if you hadn't had your nose out a mile.
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I was going to run over him and it would have looked like an accident,
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but I had to move the body. After you saw it. Marlow's
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car looked good until could dispose of it. But there's no point telling you
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all this. You won't be able to guess up about it. Miss Lambriger.
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I'm sorry, sorry, but that's the way it has to be.
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You or me. I vote for you. Ortum brought your gun before I
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closed the poles for good, real noise. You're like, come on,
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drive it, well, don't shoot. I dropped it. I dropped it,
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Okay, I'm moved to the middle of the room, hands high.
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Well, I didn't want to do it. I had to tell best Dean
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Howard was going to return the bonds he took. And they would have left
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you in a spot, wouldn't it, because Howard only stole thirty grand out
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of that. Say, if you were taking ten grand legitimately selfia boss,
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and when you went through a and then you saw that beneffect and you decided
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to make the most of it and let somebody else take the rap for the
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whole forty grand don't worry. A man who shoots another man in the back
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has no guts. You won't try anything while I'm looking at him. No,
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no, Mama, I don't have any more guts. It takes the
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jumping out a woman's skirt. Olidia chumps that down. Did you take one
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more stuff? No? Loja gonna listen? All right? Let I got
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him? Sure, sure, let it go, just as long as you
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cooperate, Mama. Hollo mio, don't shut up, shout you're killed me
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anyway? Shoot? No shot, shut down. Hm, you were right,
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Marlow, no guts. It was an ambulance, a half a dozen
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squad cars and a police captain included in three long hours of questions and answers
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in triplicate. Later before a three ten North, Normandy and environ settled back
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to being just another quiet house on just another quiet street, with of course,
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the exception of Miss Agatha Lamberger, who now would never return to normalcy.
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And as we stepped hot tea together in a clock someplace seeper the other
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rooms struck twice. She was still going strong. Howard owed money, so
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he and that Worthis Singer decided that he should get friendly with your well played
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client and end at a propitious moment, Robert Uncle, Correct. Correct,
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But what I don't understand is how you knew it with that awful man Oedem.
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Well, there were two things, honey of his anxiety to get me
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to Carol, together with a streak of dust the length of Otem's topcoat sleeve,
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all added up to a hunch back, Philip, I don't understand.
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Well, you got to take him in a reverse order. I saw a
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dust on Otem's topcoat sleeve when I was in Carroll Cody's apartment that reminded me
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of the dust all over Howard's place. Oh, I messed that house luckily,
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And the dust was the length of the sleeve, as though somebody had
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brushed against the wall, coated thick with it. One. We're in searching
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for something there. That's right, that's right. Now, there's another thing.
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You saw Howard and another man rough housing in a hall by looking out
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of that window where Miss Lamberg and no hall is visible, but where there
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is a mirror. Oh, then you mean I actually saw a reflection,
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He's darling, you did, Dean Howard hid the bonds behind the mirror,
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which tilted so that I saw the reflection of a side hall. That's right
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now, feel one last question, why did Odin move the body? Well,
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if it's the last, I'll answer it. Because he didn't want Howard's
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death to appear a murder on the night the bonds was stolen. It was
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better if he died accidentally. It wasn't connected with the theft. Oh I
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see, yeah, well now look miss Yeah, but miss Lamberg, yeah,
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Miss Lambrigger, really, Miss Slamberger, I have a long minute,
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I'm sure. Goodbye girl. When I got outside, the silence was deafening.
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Then I remember that I still had a client up on Roxbury Drive who
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I had to see, and that they were automobiles to be exchanged, and
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maybe if I could find them some right words to say to a girl had
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a very rough night. So when I started driving that way slowly, But
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ten minutes later, when I was halfway there, I stopped, turned around
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and headed back to three to ten, No Normaldy and my thirty eighth that
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I'd forgotten after a handful of policemen had finished. Example, it wasn't until
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I was at Agatha Lambriga's front door again that I realized something more important well
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than did odem. This killer grabbed me the shield Judith and told Marrow he
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had guff enough. Yes, well I could get my gun another day.
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The Adventures of Philip Marlowe, bringing You Raymond, Chandler's most famous character,
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and Chris Star Gerald Moore and are produced and directed by Norman McDonald. Script
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is by Meldonelli, Robert Mitchell and Gene Levitt. Featured in the cast were
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Lois Carbett, lorettehil Brandt, Lynn Allen, Peter Leeds, and John Stephenson.
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The special music is by Richard o'rant Hessuring me with us again next week
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when Philip Marlowe says, it began as the threat of a beating the journy
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the murder with a brown eyed blonde, a jovial hippopotamus, and a tough
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ext soldier of fortune, all complicating the problem until I got next to the
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key man. Will you be listening when fifty one thousand dollars go on the
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block during Singing Again Tonight? Twenty six thousand in fabulous prizes for solving the
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mystery of the fatom Voice, and additional twenty five thousand in cold hard cash
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for answering only one more question about the fatom. There's many another prize too
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for unriddling the smart, tuneful little riddle songs that keep singing again, moving
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at a terrific clip for the hour that it's on the air. It'll be
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here a little later on most of these same CBS network stations. This is
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Roy Rowan speaking Stay tuned now for Gangbusters, which follows immediately over most of
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these same CBS stations. This is CBS the Columbia Broadcasting System. Welcome back.
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Well, this was a really fun episode. There's a lot that I
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really liked about it. The whole title, of course, has a double
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meaning. Busy body could be seen to refer to Agnes. It could also
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be a reference to the body keep getting moved around. I love the concept
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of Agnes taking a role in this case and being the one who asked the
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final questions of the episode, which is an interesting change from always being the
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client or a beautiful lawn. And I thought the way the intro line was
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read was perfect and really just a very well done episode overall, with a
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nice twist on Philip Marlow. All right, well that will do it for
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today. We will be back tomorrow with Nick Carter, and then next Wednesday
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