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UK slash Radio four. Well, now it's time for today's episode. Of
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Philip Marlowe with Van Heflin, and there are three lost episodes between last week's
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program and this week's. This is the second adaptation of Trouble is My Business
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that NBC did during this thirteen week run. So here it is from August
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now. The Adventures of Philip Marlow starring Van Heflin the moment old man Peter
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came into my office, I made up my mind not to vote for him
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if he ever ran for president. He was tall and thin, with straight,
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compressed white lips. You wore a neat pinstriped flannel suit with a small
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rosebud in a lapel. He carried an ebony kene and he wore spats.
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He looked as smart as sixty and unless he's outs had got nasty. I
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gave him another fifteen years, which was pretty big of me. He sat
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down, speared me with those barbed gray eyes, and came right down to
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business. Mister Philip Montow, I believe that's right. My name is Waldsworth.
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No, how do you do, mister Jada, you're a private detective.
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Well why not, thankfully, sir. I'd expected the Hollywood Detective's office
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to be somehow more glamorous or rather more elegant. Shall we see? Now?
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Philoh Vance has a branch office here on the fourth floor. If you're
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shopping, No, no, no, you'll do I'm sure now. My
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raid is twenty five bucks a day plus expenses. Money is no object,
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except when you don't have much egy. That seems to be the motivating philosophy
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where Miss Harriett Huntress is concerned. Who or whom is Miss Harriet Huntress a
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rather standard, rather obvious gold digger who wishes to marry Grover? You want
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to tell me who Grover is? Grover is my adopted stepson, my late
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wife's son. Next year he will inherit a million dollars left him by his
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mother, which explains Miss Huntress's interest in Grover precisely. Look, mister Jeter,
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am I being hired this mere Miss Harriet Huntress, not at all merely
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to disillusion Grover about that? Well, that's the same thing. I think
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you'd better find yourself another way way. Great there's more. Okay, let's
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say, do you know a man named Mafia stell Sure he's a big time
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gambler on sensext Why Misterssteale claims my son grobo's him fifty thousand dollars and Grover'd
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better pay up if I know Mariya Still, I suppose my son doesn't really
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always tell the money, does he? Or doesn't he? Mister Estelle,
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the supplying photostat copies of Grover's notes with Grover's signatures. I thought they might
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be forced, so without Grover's knowledge, I took them to a handwriting expert.
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Mean John Albergast, a sort of detective. Now he's not sure he
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wants more time. I'd like you to take over the case. Harriet Hunters
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and all. Miss Huntress, as you may know, is associated with mister
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stell Well at Cincinnati. I'll handle the forgery kids, and not the slander
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job. Now where does this oarbagast Heavy's office on Sunset me arriva? Okay,
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I look at that Miss Hunters. She lives at the El Milano on
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North Sycamore. I don't look her up too, Haarburgast and Huntress in the
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order named, there was no snooty secretary to bring me from walking right into
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John d Arbagat's extremely fat presence on Sunset near Eyebarn. He was an enormously
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fleshy gent with a thick neck that was in fools like a concertina. He
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wore a wrinkled dark suit that needed cleaning, some reweaving where it had some
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small holes in it. Barbagats just sat and stared at me with the whites
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of his eyes, because those three holes that needed re weaving were bullet holes,
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and John d Arbagant was dead, very recently dead. I left in
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a hurry, and as far as I could tell, nobody saw me come,
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Nobody saw me go. My next stop was the swank el Milana Hotel
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on North Sycamore. Yes, the second mister, something you want? Yeah?
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No, who are you? I'm an Arstecht. Well, I'm looking
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for a miss Harriot Hunters this hundred eighty and anyone you can tell her.
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It's Madya Stelle? Are you marya Stelle? I'm from him. That's different.
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That's none of your business, is it. Whatever you're up to,
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you're not playing it very smooth, And some days I feel like playing it
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smooth. Some days. I feel like playing it like a wolf line.
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Well, if you must know, I'm one of the boys, Philip Morlow
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private eye. Yeah, it's my card. That's another story. I'll phone
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up to miss hunter Yeah, say I'm from Martiustell, and then make it
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convincing. Huh how much convincing? Oh well, how much do those cigars
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you're smoking? Costumes? Twenty two fifty box of fifty? That much convincing.
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That's cute. You and me are gonna get along. I'll phone Miss
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Hunters, but you go right all up room eight one four. I just
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know it will be all right. Harriet Hunters was too tall to be cute.
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It's too beautiful to be really cheap. Her green eyes were wide set,
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and there was plenty of thinking in between them. Her hair was a
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dusky ran like fire, seemed to a haze. The green eyes were that
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much green eyes. As she sized me up in the doorway, Well,
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what's the big message, sonny, I'd have to come in. I never
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could speak very well in public. Come in. Never could speak very well
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on the dry throat either. There's a scotch helped yourself, thank your own.
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So you're from Mariya's delf No, not strictly, not the moose races,
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not at all. In fact, what's your racket? No racket?
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Martia loves to know you used his name. I'm shaking in my shoes.
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You're some kind of detective Anto. Yeah, God, Phil the model.
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It's a good Scotchy. I'm glad you like it. Now, what's your
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business? All right? How much will you take to give up Grover?
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You look smart? He talks stupid? Oh man, Jeters pretty tough.
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His idea that you get nothing you get Smith. I don't see it that
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way. How much? How about fifty thousand dollars? About five hundred dollars?
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How about talking about the effect of the rain on the robot? Now,
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look, sister, suppose we skip the footwork, considering the sobering fact
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that a man named John d Abagast has already been murdered in this little case.
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Does that have anything to do with me? I don't know. He
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was hired to analyze some notes Grover gave Mariya Stelle, and he was killed
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just after I took over the case. Do you think Mariya Stelle works that
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way? You know him better than I do. Does he have you told
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the police. Yet now I thought i'd see if I could make a deal
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with you. First, I'm going to tell you something. My people were
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nice people who never got involved and murdered Old Jeter, ruined my father.
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My dad shot himself, and my mother died of the shock. I'm going
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to fix Youter for that someday, even if I have to marry his son
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to do it, and that it steps and really there's no relationship at all.
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It will hurt Peter just a heart, and it'll have a million dollars
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next year. I could do work, even if he does drink too much.
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You wouldn't want Grover to hear that, now, would you? No?
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Turn around and have a look, gum shoe. I turned fast.
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He stood about four feet from me, big blonde, powerful whiskey, and
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his brain and blood in his eyes. I can say anything I want around
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Grover. It's all right with him. Isn't a Grover? That's right,
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Harry. He's trying to break his up, Grover. What do you think
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of that? I think maybe I better break him up. That's what any
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good? She laughed and then made me mad. I turned the cowl at
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her. It was a dirty look. It was the look of the month.
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That was a mistake. The big guy hit me and went over sideways.
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It wasn't a hard punch with my head to hit a desk going down,
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and the desk got the decision. It gets dark fast in southern California,
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but seldom that fast. Yeah. When I came out of the grover,
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the lawn sucker Puncher and Harriet Hunters were gone. The bottle of Scotch
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was still there, so I took that for a souvenir and stuffed into my
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pocket and floated down the elevator into the street. It was dark by the
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time I got back to my apartment on Hobart Avenue in Hollywood. I turned
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on the light and there stood a big guy. Another big guy. This
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was National Big Guy Week. This one had a big nose the dead color
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of wax, and he had a twenty two caliber Coke. Woodsman pointed straight
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at me, close the door and reached com I turned a little bit close
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the door. I got my hand under my coat, then I turned back
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to waxnose fast. I had my liguor out. We stood there, facing
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each other wax nose. I didn't seem at all impressed with my automatic.
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I just came to tell you to be smile. You're looking at a looker.
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Mister. I know name of distinction, Harry Lucas me. I packed
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this small boy because I can shoot. If you think you can take me,
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go to it. A laquet'sa game and maybe you can take a hint
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and maybe you can't, maybe maybe not. What is it? Layoff old
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Jeeter's boy? When I wouldn't think of contradicting anyone who uses a coat with
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them twenty two with the front sight filed off must think he's pretty good.
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I am good. Yeah, and that's why I say, okay, now
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we'll see speaking at twenty two. Do you know anybody named John Abba Gast.
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I meet such a lot of people. Well, this one was fat
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and shot three times with a twenty two. I don't remember shooting no fat
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guys today. So long, chim. Remember what I told you, Layoff
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Glover he love Yeah, swell a shut up, yeah, mister molow oh,
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mister g there. Well, your son or your adopted son or your
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stepson or whatever he is poke me in the jaw today. He is both
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my stepson and my adopted both of them poke me in the jaw my word.
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Where in miss Hunter's apartment you spoke to her? What did she say?
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She wants fifty grand and no dies off the five hundred. This is
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a gag, just as a mister Mollow, Perhaps you underestimate the importance of
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this. Listen, listens to Jeter. There are some very unusual angles to
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this case. For example, a gunman just stuck me up in my own
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apartment and told me to stay off of this case. What and see why
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this case should get so tough heavens, Listen, mister Mollow, my chaffeur
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waldough. We'll pick you up in my limousine. I want to talk to
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you. Well, park on Hoba facing Franklin. He'll be a you mean
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good. Just give me time to drink my dinner. I sat next to
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the world. The chauffeur is the tool of Big Jeter. Limousine to Hollywood
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along the glitter of the sunset, straight out past every hills, forward bel
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Air. At Cavello Drive, we swung left for a couple of hundred yards
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and left again, aiming for a driveway flank by twelve foot wrought iron gates.
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Then something happened. Someone was standing in the glare of our headlights.
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Wall those swans slammed on the brakeshelf. Just stop it, go and get
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on the driveway. Man stepped toward us. In the next minute there was
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that same cold twenty two staring at my face again. All right, this
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is a heist. Get out of the conbos of me. Look, wax
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notes. Haven't you had enough fun for one night? Fuzz off, bumbed
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up, and get out. I have to think them more on that bust.
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I'm warning you. I'll let you have it. Don't be a goal
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you go all right, you asked for it. Hey, you shot the
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guy? Yeah, I shot him with it all in fun, Yeah,
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some fun. It did the work as Jeter's house is right ahead. You
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sound as if you just shot a nickel and a pinball machine instead of a
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man. Dollason, turn off those lights and let's get out of here but
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who appears by arrangement with Metro Golden There producers of the Romance of Rosie
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Ridge starring Van Johnson Well and I drove back to my apartment again, leaving
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wax Snows lying dead in the Jeter driveway. He went back to my place
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to start all over again over what was left of my purloined scotch. It's
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a good scotch. You've got tomorlow Bench bottom Not this sure, I'm interested
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from the apartment of Harriet Hunters Well bottoms up. Well, no, do
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you think that gunman was there to scare young Drover into realizing Marty's tell means
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business could be I always drove Rover home around that time. He just doesn't
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sound like Marty is tell to pick that short of a help for sure.
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Maybe that's why he picked him, because it didn't seem like Maria. Still,
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yeah, that's good thinking. Waldough Dartmouth thirty seven, Rah rah rah.
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That would be either the cuffs of mister Jeter. Hello, mister Mono.
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Yes, mister Jeter. And the reason we're not in your study now
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is lying outside of your front gate. You're saying somebody jumped us outside of
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your gate and Waller shot him dead. Oh Gord, now, miss and
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model come here it once? Do you hear it once? I'll send Waldow
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mister Jeters. I want to see you. You Waldo will tell you all
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about it, mister Jeter. Good night, mister Jeter. After Walda the
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chauffeur had left, I went back to the Almlana Hotel. Hawkins the house
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stick was all smiles and open palms. I placed no confidence in his smile
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and twenty dollars bill in his pond. Harriot hunters again. Just take me
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up to her apartment, that's all. Huh yeah, sure, right this
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way, fellow Hawkins took me to the eighth floor, room eight one four
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and opened the door. There was someone in the room waiting. Hey,
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here's company for you, Mistress Dell bead It Hawkins. Yeah, this is
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the guy I was telling you about, Mistress Dale come in earlier today.
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He said he was prem here. I said, oh sure, sure,
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come on and Mala. I came to see miss uh Hunt is not you
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Stelle. First of all, Harriet's not home. I came to tell her
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what happened outside of Jeter's game, So you keep informed, and I can't
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wait for any longer. Got to get back to the casino. Well then,
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what did you come back for, Mama? I'm looking for the Jeter
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boy after what happened during tonight, you need somebody to walk behind him,
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because I got play games like that. All I know is we were shot
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at. I asked you a question. I answered it to the best of
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my knowledge. What knowledge? For example? Well, for example, you
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hold fifty thousand dollars worth of Drover's notes for gambling bits. I've got fifty
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was invested in the kid. Would I be likely to bump him off?
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Ah? That makes sense all right, I always makes sense, some bully
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for you. When I have fifty grand invested in the guy, I have
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to find out all about him, like about old Gita hiring a man named
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harber Gas to work for him. Ah, haarbur Gas was shot today.
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You know it. I know because I had you followed. You didn't tell
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the lower model. That could be very hard on you. Well could Does
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that make you and me friend, little blackmailer? Not much? We call
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it tattletale grail mail from now and you stop bothering Miss Hunters. Hey,
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you win mighty as well. That's all I've got to go. Well I
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just wait around for that. Okay. Well, Harriet Scott is in that
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cabinet there. Thanks, roll up my pants and go waiting in it.
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You know, marlt I like you. You're cute. Maria Stale was right.
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He wouldn't kill anybody who load him money, and was soon to come
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into a lot of it. Now I was in bed with the police for
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not reporting ourbur guest murder. Well, I looked around Harriet's apartment fagery and
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walk into the bedroom. Stopped because, mixed with a fragrance of good perfume
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and good cosmetics, it was the plain, ordinary, homespun holder of gunpowder.
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I walked across the room and yanked open the closet till stepped back.
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They're just as big as life, but as dead as they ever come,
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was young Grover Jeter, And at Grover's feet. Among the graceful shoes in
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Harryet's closet was a ninety pearl handled automatic. I felt bad about that,
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because I guess that the dainty holes bullets from that dainty gun would fifty two
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dainty holes over Grover's heart. I put the neat little pistol in my pocket.
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I am I thought old man Jeter ought to know about his son.
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I thought I didn't expect to find wall of the chauffeur and Harriet Hunters with
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old Jeter and Jeter's big study. But there they were. I missed the
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model. And if I've given up hoping to see you tonight, well I
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changed my mind about coming out again, mister ju Oh, well by tomorrow.
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I didn't expect to see you, hear, Miss Hunters, didn't you?
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Did you expect to see me here? Never mind that model? I
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want to know where my son is. What do you mean, mister j
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He's missing, That's what I mean. Oh, he's missing, and no
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one knows Hitty is? I know? Hey, what's that? Miss Huntress?
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Where did you and Grover go? After Grover took that sucker punch otne
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in your apartment? We went out together and taxi. During the ride,
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I had a change of heart. I didn't want Grover or Grover's money.
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I told Grover to find another playmate and I got out in Beverly Hilt Glover
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went on in the taxi? Where did you go? Back to my apartment?
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Later? I got out my car to come down here and tell mister
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Leider I've decided to forget the whole thing. For him to call off his
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dime novels. Dime will no longer buy a novel of any description. But
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that is decided. The point you said you knew here Grover is that's not
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beside the point, is it? Mister Mundell, he's back in Harriet's apartment.
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I didn't let him in. How on earth couldn't open your architect?
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You let him in? The last I saw Grover, he's dead. Oh
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what what's that? Dead? Dead? Shot with a small caliber gun.
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I can't believe it's I can't it's Grove. It's dead, Miss Huntress.
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This twenty five caliber pistol was on the floor at Grover's seat. You take
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it, BILLI will mine. You're murderers, you you old blood and murder
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stuff. That stop it, both of you. It could have been suicide
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oicide. Well, yes, that's a possibility, of course, I see
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you like that idea, Jeter. But it wasn't suicide, and she did
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it the murderers for scheming content. It was murder, and it's fairly obvious
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who did it, Jeter. Hey, Maria Stella is my guess? Well,
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guess again. Wardoo Estelle had fifty thousand dollars invested in Grover. He
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wouldn't kill a golden goose like that and Waxnows didn't do it because he was
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dead thanks to Waldo here that he's her, she did it. There had
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to be a motive and an opportunity. Well it was her apartment after all,
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correct Wardo. But Grover was Jeter's adopted stepside more like a real son.
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He was to me a real yeah yeah yeah, But did you lovely
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people know that in the state of California, a man can inherit from an
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adopted son who has money and who gets dead. Did you know that,
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mister Jeter? Why what do you mean you're inheriting Grover's million dollars? Would
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be a motive for killing him, wouldn't it, Miss Tom. That was
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the motive, Jeter, And it was Waldo's job to find and the opportunity
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to murder Grover for you, all right, model, that'll be all for
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you. Well, Waldo, the dartmouth gunfanner, not that gun. Waldo
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shut up, said, hey, that's nice shooting Harry. Is my hand
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my hand to get a little band aid on for you? Waldo, Waldo,
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you could have gotten into my pop and wearing that Schofer's uniform off.
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You could have gone into the garage entrance and up to back way. Sure
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when Grover led him in, he backed Grove landers a room with his gun,
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but he shot him with yours. How much was Jeter going to pay
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you for this job? Don't talk all, Oh he's puffing. You're telling
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me he's bluffing. Nice kids, these college boys? Tell me? Was
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it Dartmouth or Dana Mora? Waldo? Shut up, Copper. You killed
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John abagaest to throw suspicion on Martya Stell, and you hired wax Nose to
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fake a hold up on Grover? Why again, to throw suspicion on Martya
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Stelle to make it look as though Estelle was trying to stay scared Grover into
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paying his gambling debts. If I hired wax Nose, why would I have
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shot him tonight? Because you like to kill people, Waldo. When I
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was brought out here to night, waxnos thought I was Drover in the car.
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He began to fake his hold up, but you just couldn't resist taking
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one of your snappy snapshots at Waxnose. Could you Walder shot out? Could
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you next? Mister? What's worth? Jeter? Look him? Malo?
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You consecuse me of doctor, he said, call it doctor. It's his
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heart. If you'd have dies at your fourth model, okay, Walder,
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and what I'll do, Waldough If Jedah dies, he doesn't have to pay
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me my fee or even okay, Waldo, Harriet Angel, listen, go
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call it doctor, and while you're there, call the law Peter. His
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heart was as good as mine. If you want to make anything out of
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that, the law had Jeter and Waldo cold and I mean cold me Well,
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I went out a couple of times with Harriet, as I sat home
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with her a couple of times, drinking your scotch. Nice all right,
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but I didn't have the money or the clothes for the manners. Still I
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was sorry. When she went to New York to live, she had absolutely
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Life story was adapted by Milton Geiger from the story Trouble Is My Business by
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Raymond Chandler, creator of Philip Marlow, the screen's most famous private affection.
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The original music was composed and conducted by Lynn Murray. This is Wendell Niles
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inviting you to listen again next week at the same time to another exciting mystery
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This is NBC, the National Broadcasting Company. Welcome back. This was a
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story where once you got to a certain point, who done it became somewhat
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predictable. A very simple process. However, it doesn't really dampen my enjoyment
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of this story. Just so much dialogue and just that all of these really
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well done, hard boiled twists. Plus I absolutely love the title. As
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a writer, I don't know what I would give to people to think of
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titles like that. Trouble is My Business tells you everything you need to know
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about Philip Marlow, just in a simple title. Trouble Is My Business was
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written in nineteen thirty nine. Originally which is the same year that The Big
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Sleep came out. Like Red Wind, the original protagonist was named John Dalmas.
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However, this would officially become a Philip Marlowe story in nineteen fifty with
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the publication of Trouble Is My Business, a Philip Marlow short story collection.
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And I don't know how to I have no insight in comparing it of the
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radio play to the book, just because I haven't gotten to that book yet.
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In my reading of Raymond Chandler, I'm up to Lady in the Lake,
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which, speaking of that for not next week, we won't be quite
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getting into the CBS version of Philip Marlow There was another Philip marlow movie that
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was adapted to radio, So we'll be bringing you the Lux Radio Theater presentation
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of a Lady in the Lake. All right, So quickly on to some
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listener comments and feedback, and just a very simple review by Samuel on iTunes
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of the app, who writes that it's very easy to use. Well,
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I'm glad you found it to be so, and I appreciate you taking the
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time to review the app. Well, that will do it for today.
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Coming up tomorrow is Nick Carter Monday. Be sure and listen for The Hunters,
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the start of our look at CBS's Great Scotland Yard Detective series Pursuit,
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and we'll be back next Wednesday with The Lady in the Lake. In the
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your host, Adam Graham signing off.