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Philip Marlowe: The Strangle Hold (EP1535) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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a donation, their instructions and an address, and that's support dot Great Detectives
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dot net. Well, now it's time for today's episode of the Adventures of
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Philip Marlowe. The original air date October the fifteenth, nineteen forty nine,
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and the tititle the Stranglehold, Get This and Get It Straight. Crime is
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a Sucker's Road and knows who travel and wind up in the gut at the
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prison of the Grave. This time a wrestler on This Kid's a quick change
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artist in an alley, and a girl with a n eye for angles.
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All met destruction because one hundred thousand easy bucks caught him in a stranglehold which
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none of them wanted to break. From the pen of Raymond Chandler, outstanding
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author of crime fiction, comes his most famous character in the Adventures of Philip
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Morrol. Now with Gerald Moore starred as Philip Morbo, we bring you tonight's
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exciting story, the Stranglehold. Sometimes men climb all over themselves for a purpose,
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sometimes for relaxation, and most times for no reason at all. Take
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professional wrestlers. I watched on the ringside while two got ganstau and hulks and
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sorted their features in mock agony and bulged muscles at each other on a mat,
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surrounded by tears of onlookers screaming through their half chewed popcorn, while the
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fans, as usual, howl for blood, booed the decision, booted the
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departing contestants, and waited for the next comic act, laughingly called the main
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event. I went again over the letter I'd received two hours ago by messenger
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from one Manny Favor included a ring side ticket to LA Wrestling Arena, a
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check for two hundred dollars, and the request that I catch as much as
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I could stomach of the match between John bettan Honors Peachey Kings and Jules Caesar,
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the Emperor of Brooklyn, after which I was to come to Favor's house
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for instructions that involved John Keene plus one hundred thousand bucks of Manny Favors money.
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So I watched a little closer as something that looked like a Sherman tank
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and a toga and leather sandals crowned with an olive grief, lumbered into the
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ring and sneered at the cloud. And since I'd long ago given up wrestling
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as a sport, I turned to the hall next to me, wearing a
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Derby on the bridge of his nose, waved a cloud of cigar smoke aside
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and got some information. Oh season, Hey, you get your money's white
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out of him? All right? Hey, what about this John Keen?
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How does he stack out him? A pechee? You Kenny the farm stink
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or no show off off? A plank town fips a ring up from now?
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Get this? Ha? What's that flower? Yeah? You peach blossoms?
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These two peach blossoms all over his corner. Eh? What stuff?
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Two years ago to Tober's okay, but I was tired. You know what
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I mean? He won't even put on a show a little raftling. He's
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still call the champions man. Yeah, he won't need your lab for anymore.
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It's afraid of getting his pretty norlse bred. What I'm m season time
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up and not he comes fucking yet. Yeah? See what I mean with
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that profile? You want to be a rookie click instead of a raffling.
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Yeah. Hey, what's that on the back of his robe? You kutin?
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That's a big patio course, embroidered call on black silk. How do
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you like? Yeah, yeah, yea, yeah, yeah he look.
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I hear him robes coross on one thousand bucks of pace. He thinks they
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make them hot stuff with the tame Maybe they do those a brunette and there
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talking with him? Should I know? There's always something like that and I
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look quite down? Will you make get talks to him? Tonight program a
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free Paul No Limit contest of wrestling in its conor seventy eight pound the outstanding
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contenda from the Atlantic Seaboarder and Emperor Brooklyn. Here you won't cheada in this
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corner at two hundred and twenty five pounds the young disputant Tampina of the Western
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Hemisphere con begin. The match got underway and Techie started out of his corner.
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A good looking brunette shouted something out him and stopped him cold. He
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turned to Claire out him in the season, slapped a hank on him and
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foot sec flat on his back for fall number one. Three minutes later with
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his head McGilligan, Pachi was well on his way to I'm out again for
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fall number two, which was enough for me. So I got up to
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leave. The brunette I noticed was leaving too, and at the end of
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the exit tunnel we came outside by side. You got a match? Oh
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yeah, sure, thank you? The mess, isn't it? Eh?
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What's the mess? Way things are going inside there? Pach had to change
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his line of work. Don't you think you laugh so far? What's it
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to you? You said something to him that knocked him for a loop?
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Baby? What was it? A personal matter? Oh? How personal?
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Ooh about like that? Thank you and step down, Philip Marlowe, and
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you'd better step out too, or I'll whistle for a John dom nine night
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nod so saying she flashed a couple of daggers at me from a snapping black
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eyes, spun on four and a half inch red and pat leather heel,
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and was gone. So I drove up the Hollywood land and my house of
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two thousand Beach would drive where I was to meet my client, Manny Flavor.
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The house looked like a two room cottage from the street, but it
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ran for three stories down the back side of the hill. All I did
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was touch the bell when the door flew open. Your model, am I
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right? Come on in mordw I'm many favor head of Favorite Transcriptions Incorporated produced
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radio shows. You know, so you saw me? You saw that big
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crooked four flashing stupid matt pounding master doone that calls himself Johnny pitch Keen?
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Huh yeah, I saw him? Or have a chair? Ok, well
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what do you think he just summed it up? What's that got to do
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with you? One hundred thousand Bucksminster paper. You haven't seen the late editions,
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No, they're full of it. Peachie Keen is suing me for one
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hundred gees for slander, having your slander a guy like Peachi. It's impossible.
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I know that, and you know it. But does a court of
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law know it. No, in fact, they're going to make it stick.
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How did it happened? I'll tell you. A very sweet guy named
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Frank Gainor Yeah, I know, I'm a sports commentator, Yes, says
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he's been doing five a week on my label and going big. But three
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days ago what we've been expecting for months finally happened to rest his soul A
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week ticker and just like that, he dropped dead on the street heart failure.
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Yeah, right about it. Well, the Frank always kept five broadcasts
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ahead see made tape recordings in his own little studio, So I've been running
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his last five shows as a final tribute to him. Well, what happened
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yesterday? The whole fifteen minutes of his broadcast was devoted ripping apart John Pitchikey.
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Here listen, I've got the tape here on the machine. This is
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one part applied on the sports world. And furthermore, I have proof that
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John Page Keane has so much the highest bidder in small time gambling circles in
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his last three matches. Now I know for a fact that he has become
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so blatant in his unhanded dealings that even as dubious a business at professional wrestling
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cannot stand the strength, and officials have threatened to buy him from the rank.
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I can't know beyond the doubt that John pg Keene has falsified medical reports
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to a made tough competition, and that he eventually it goes on like that,
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Marlow. Some of its opinion, most of it fact. And it's
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the facts that my lawyers tell me. I've got to find the proof for
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or be a dead duck. That's why I asked her to come up here.
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I excuse me. This is probably Ruth, Frank's wife. I show
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people once Hello, Ruth, come in, honey, Hello man. I
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cannot imagine where Frank got his information or Ruth shake hands with mister Marlow.
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He's the detective. I've told you about that, missus Marlow. How are
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you doing right now, missus Gainer Manny, here's the key to Frank's private
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studio at sixty one twenty two sunset. It might be a good place in
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mister Morrow's start. Yes, all his fires and equipment are there. Frank
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didn't like to work at home or at my plant on the strip. Wanted
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his own private setup. We looked there, but maybe we missed something Okay,
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I'll see what I can find. Oh, by the way, do
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either of you happen to know a good looking brunette connected in some way with
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Peachy? No, but he's quite a ladies man. I understand why,
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Marrow. It's just a hunch I saw him talking to one night. A
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fireball may mean nothing. Well, I hope you'll be able to locate the
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proof of Frank's statements. Marlow, We've got to find it for Frank.
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Also, it'll break my heart to pay one hundred grand to no good meat
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he but named pitache Keene. I promised favor, I'd keep in touch and
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left. I found Gain his little recording studio tucked into the second floor corner
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of a small office building on Sunset. Unlocked the heavy soundproof door and went
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in the room had a busy, cluttered look, as though Gainer himself were
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just step dot. A roll of filing cabinets in the desk sat along one
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wall and opposite them, but with the glass in boot of the tape recorders
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and microphone by which the solitary sportscaster at Canada's radio programs. I dug through
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the files and found a folder label John King that held only a sketchy history
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of the wrestler, some publicity pictures, and a few clippings, one of
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which waded a long second look because it was topped by a picture of the
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same brunette I'd seen at the ringside, was capturing Colin Bennett leaves for West
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Coast. I started to read the story when there was a sound at the
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door behind me and the lights went out. Don't move, mighty, he'll
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kill you on the spot if you do. Up against that window. You
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make a perfect target. You know. They don't try anything cute. What
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do you want a little more than I'm getting it to I'm a title to
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it. I am the service is randed. You might say, I can't
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help you, bustyve Kmber the wrong man, but not to the wrong place.
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So mighty, So there's things first, Like I always say, Oh
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my dear, it's not yeah, get me sleepy boy. Oh oh all
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right, all right, all rush me? Oh Morrow? Where were you?
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Something wrong? As wrong as the lima showing up here with this oh
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with the slug on me Miami, Ye, why do you slug you?
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Good questions? Fab Hey, there's the name color Bennett? Ring any bells?
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Yeah, No, No, I never heard of it, right,
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huh just a minute, model, he's rude, I remember that. I'm
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sure Frank interviewed her once. Caller Bennett used to be missus John Keene's x
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y. Yes, I'm positive. Why she mixed up in it, I
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don't know. Blimy slugged me, apparently took a newspaper clipping about her when
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he left. Least it's gone followed its blimey, But that only was off.
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He said he wanted more than he was getting. It would look paper
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made this call. What he want to tell you? That he'll be out
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checking on a few things himself. That's all. Oh, bright away,
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ruth Any idea whether this Benett dame might be found? No, I haven't
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followed. I think she was staying at some woman's hotel on Vermontavene when Frank
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interviewed her at that time. That was over a year ago. Maybe she's
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a lady of habit. I'll try it anyway, Thanks, Ruthie. There
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were three exclusively female hotels on Vermont, and the second one I called had
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a call of Bennett registered. So I went out to my car and they
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beat my aching head down Vermont of Victoria Plaza, Lady his Own Way hotel.
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The lobby was done in ivory and pink, with desk trug to match
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from the nameplate tagged as mister Seymour Prett. I started over, but stop
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when I spotted about an acre of peach colored swede coat wrapped around Jehan peache
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Keen himself lumbering up the stairs at the back of the lobby. Mister Pratt
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sawn at the same time and doted from behind the desk like an angry canary
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after her. Right, just a minute, you, this is a lady's
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hotel, So what I gotta see the one in two twelve? Not this
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way. You don't why it's f to midnight. It's Miss Bennett wishes to
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come down to the lobby. That's her affair, but no men are allowed
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upstairs after ten pm. Okay, okay, how can I get use the
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house phone? Naturally over there in that booth. I'll go right back to
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the board and put you in. I'll be with you in just a moment,
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sir ducky, I wait a call for you, Miss Bennett. Good
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listening? Huh? But now see here, you know perfectly well you're not
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supposed to come back to this. This is for employees only. What about
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eaves dropping? Is that for employees only too? I'll take you guy in
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the blue fairs, a professional wrestler if he finds out you're listening, and
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he'll tell you I'm off and beat you to death with it. Let me
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take over higging me the air, No wait and on getting me Okay,
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I sit there like a good boy. Keep the key opening your trap shut.
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No surprise worrying out? John the lovey in the phone booth. You
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better come down, carl it. I'm tired. What do you mean by
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that crack you made tonight when I was in the ring? Just what I
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said. I want a nice big slice of that one hundred thousand you're getting
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from many favors, right, You're crazy? What makes you think I'd give
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you one losy penny? Yeah you will gladly. You see, John,
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I know all about those visits you made the delight seemed sitter bartibles come back
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to La. Hasn't it done? Why shut up? After the life you
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led me for four years? Your big a time entitled all I can get
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and that'll be plenty. So I advise you to run right back now and
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tell your friend that I know all about your little scheme and talk it over.
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Good John. I'll be waiting to hear from you, all right,
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I'll do it just that. And you're you're gonna be sorry you stuck your
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note into this one. Carla, really interesting. Are you quite quite finished
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now? Yes? And you were a big, big help, mister Pratt.
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There he goes Peechee, sweet oat and all so wrong, Seymour in
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just a moment the second act of Philip Marlowe, but first Horace heightened his
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famous youth opportunity program of joined Charlie McCarthy and Edgar Bergan, Red Skelton,
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Jack Benny and the other top ranking entertainers who make CBS Sunday Nights a most
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Sunday Night, This fall to me, tune in this fall for the show
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that you love best of all, here's the address Insane. Now with our
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star Gerald Moore, we returned to the second actor of Philip Marlowe and tonight's
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story The strangle Hold. When Pee Chee Keene slammed out of the phone booth
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he was burned to a crisp. He stomped out of the Woman's hotel via
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the back door that opened out of the parking lot, and when I got
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there was already out of sight. By stopped in the shadows to figure out
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which way he's gone, but skip that as the back door opened again.
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This time it was Carla Bennett. She ran across the lot hopped into a
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new green convertible. We got as far as switching on the lights before still
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another character pranced into their head right beams like a veteran ham making for upstage
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center A way I gotta talk to you. I couldn't tell where the first
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one came from. I only heard it brought the little man up on his
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toes and notched him like a drawn bowl. I saw the flash of the
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second one. It came from the alley incumbled them into a pile. A
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moment later or more in the world, and I ran the way I could
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see with a pair of tear lights, switching onto the side street. It's
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all the good it did me. I went back to the body of the
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little man as Color then climbed out of her car. She was white and
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shocking, and the headlights and make up was garish along then a clong a
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back alley halloquannade was suddenly very grim. He was shot, mister, right
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in front of me. He's a little guy, Colin. I don't know
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what it was t before. You know my name? Yeah, I met
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at the wrestling arena earlier at night. You remember Marlow, a private detective.
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Now, come on, Colin, let's happen. What's his name?
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I don't know you? Okay, we better find out fast. Let's take
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a look at his wallet. No, it's none of my business. I'm
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getting out. He Wait a minute. He wanted to talk to you pretty
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badly, baby, very likely about one hundred grand by were you'd stick around,
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he got awfully big ears, mister Marlow. Yeah, better to hear
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phone conversations. What these guys and actors got me with a card? Name
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is seth cameo mean anything not to me? Unless what unless he happens to
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work at the Lyceum theater. As you said, color Wood was back in
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town. And that brings up another point. You better out here anyway,
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I thought you did, Pratt. I came from the alley so witch you
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again. I might have that man. That man there on the ground,
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good heavens which he dead? Yeah, he's murdered. Oh no, sir,
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I'm getting out of don't loan you, No, I'm going with you.
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Listen, figures I can take care of myself. Will you beat it?
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That's not the point, sister. I still want to talk to you.
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Get in. I go out that way to the street, and not
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too fast, all right, and you're running things where we're going Lyceum Theater
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on the way. You can tell me why your ex husband Peachey's been hanging
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around there. I don't know what a friend he's been seeing was a cameo?
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I don't know that either. I look, for Pete's sake, Do
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I have patroya picture a man was shot down right in front of you.
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Doesn't not convince you? Fucking the same opposition, baby, And believe me,
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this is no time to hold out, not in miss league. I'm
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not all right. Well, that stuff you're heard on the phone was pure
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bluff. I accidentally ran into John a couple of days ago near the stage
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door of the Lyceum. He he acted funny, like he was waiting for
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somebody, and very nervous about it. You didn't see who it was oh.
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I waited until three girls and two men had come out, one after
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another, but they were cagy. I couldn't tell which one John was waiting
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for. And then I heard about this slander suit of his, and I
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figured something was squowy. So he took a swing in the dark tonight and
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connected and good and solid. When I told him on the phone to go
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back to his friend, I knew he'd be just stupid enough to do it,
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And that's why I came out so fast. I wanted to follow him
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and find out who else is involved before I got in too far. You're
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already into far, baby. You got more nerve and good sense even for
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one hundred grand. You don't believe me, asked Cameo as a fitter park
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here, will walk over? Look, tell me something big here. Suppose
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Seth Cameo did work here? What's it gonna prove? All depends on what
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we're trying to go with it. He was killed to keep him from upsetting
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the apple Pie. One way he could have done that would be to have
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proof of what Frank Gaine has said in his broadcast about Peachy Sure, but
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fitting a bottle. The actor at the light him into that slot doesn't make
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sense. Oh yeah, there it is Cameo's pracket. We were right,
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Yeah, Seth Cameo, the one man all star cast see Lionel Barrymore,
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Betty Davis, Hory Drugger, Humphrey Boogod, James Kagmu, and many others
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in East Ben played in a split second changes by the world's most versatile one
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man cast. Sure he was a mimic guy like that would have dial like
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slots of them. So maybe Seth Cameo is the boy who slugged me and
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gain his studio was capitaler turned out the light first, then he threw that
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liney give that made it touss me off the track. And what's more,
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he oh we got company a little over there, Yes, po, last
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show has been all hard. I know you're the night watchman. That's right
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now you better move along, kids, No lighter than around here. Just
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a minute pop this Seth Cameo. Does he have a lining number in his
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act? Why you come back tomorrow and ask him? Well, that's suffered
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and you think, mister how about it? Does he do a liney?
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Well, she taught me English don't control. Might have one time though,
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been in the business for years. Good man too, best quick changer I
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ever seen. M he got a scrap book or something in his dressing room
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you know where. Yeah, yeah, he has got a boxer whatever bill
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he's ever played on in it most actors. But say there's all closed off.
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Well you got a key, haven't you look? Prop? It's important,
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we gotta find out right away, But I'm sorry, I can't do
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it. It's really important. Take a good look, really important. Buck
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Uh huh. I guess it wouldn't do any harm if you just want to
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hook. The old man slid the ten into his pocket like he wouldn't admit
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it even to him. Slow and let us in the stage door, down
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the stairs, and with his flashlight along the dark hole where the set cameos
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dressing room. He unlocked it, reach the in and turn on a tired
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little lamp and pointed out a box on a trunk near the back. We
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picked our way over there, through a jumble of costumes that have been period
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pieces of the turn of the century, was lined with sentimental posters, and
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inside was a man's life, the stacks of programs and play buildings, again
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with a crisp kind of appearance and then ran back to the world of Seth
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Cameo's Dusty. Yesterday's didn't take long, maybe five minutes. Here this is
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it, Mallow, exactly what you appen to see that Propidentata, Kansas City,
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September nineteen forty Seth Cameo of London in Piccadilly Circus Magage the Navy.
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Lymehusband, sure, this is it, baby, Seth Cameo and Limey were
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one and the same. And where does that get you? It gives me
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an idea. It gives me one too. You found what you wanted.
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Now let's put everything back like it was and get out here in a minute.
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Pop, I want to check something else. Yeah, no, honey,
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this is dead against all rules. I'm getting call it. I heard
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something upstairs, so like the outside doing, I'll come now. As for
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that's an old stunt to for work. That door's got a snap last I
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heard it through that time. There is somebody up there. Eh, you're
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right here, can name or topers, a prey or something like it?
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Now? Now look you too, you stay right here and don't touch nothing
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to like it. Back here, I'll go see where one better switch off
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the lights. Callar, the breaks are going against us. What do you
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mean all this after hours theater business can't be coincidence. Weather came upstairs.
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There's trouble on his mind. You ask for a payoff, baby, and
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that's what you're gonna get. Only the bank one hand. Look at the
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mob, will yeah. You what you're doing here? You're the night watchman
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around here's John get yeah, but you can no pun intended. I want
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to see it here now you go on, get out. Don't lie to
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me Grand car parking. I'm worried you. Come on, I mean business,
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it is near. Don't you give me none of your sass. Son,
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You just clear out. You you got the watchman. You better play
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it out. Car every down here in another minute. Look go up that
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way and across the stage. Go to two thousand Beachwood. It's the one
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place, Peach. You won't call many favorites. And stay there till I
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call you. Understand my mind? Beat it well? Here, go on
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careful, big ears. Collum moved off into the darkness. I saw at
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the other end of the hall the inquisitive beam from the flashlight poking me in
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the dark corners. As Keen eased down the stairs, I got my gun
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into my hand, plastered my shoulders against the wall beside the open door,
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and with it. I didn't have long to wait. I heard him stop
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in the hall outside, and then the beam of the flashlight crept over the
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floor and up to the wall and slowly, carefully circled the door frame color.
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I heard him moving closer, and the barrel of a snub nose revolved
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inched into the room. I know you're in here, Carla. I waited
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until I could see the big fist walk around the gun, and I brought
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my thirty eight down hat his gun through to the floor, and I swung
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again, Chris Head, that's the only drinking lunch from me. Your problem,
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big man, All down, gold down, stay down. Oh,
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you got to check that got down like a tree. It had been short
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but vicious, and the one punch he'd landed had shaken me to my shoelaces.
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The wreckage of costumes props in a lifetime of old theater programs were scattered
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over the room like big moldy snowflakes and the crazy ankle high glare in the
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still burning flashlight. As I sat down on the which wanted to catch my
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breath, I saw something that brought me right back to my feet again.
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An illustrated program from the King's Theater and Buffalo that gave me a new slant
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on a whole mess. It builds. Seth cameo as the man with a
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Thousand Voices, the perfect mimic the act that had followed him for a thirty
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week run. Was a girl his face I knew well. I ran out
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of the theater in the nearest cab stand, where I said one driver to
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get the police over to the theater, and with another I headed for many
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favorites place on Beechwood and what I was positive would be another murder. When
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I got the the front door, I knew those no need to hurry.
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It was all over money and Mala, I've got news for you. It
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was colored with a gun in her hand and the flow in the corner,
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her face tight with pain, with missus Ruth Kane a glaring hate up at
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me like a wounded panther. There she is model. I recognized her as
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soon as I saw her. She's the one Peachy was waiting for outside the
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Lyceum Theater. They've been working together all this time to frame that slander suit
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against favor. Yeah, yeah, I know, but I didn't expect to
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find you like this. What happened? She knew I recognized her and pulled
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this gun on me. Once she used on seth cameo, no doubt.
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Huh huh. She was gonna use it on me too, but I was
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way ahead of her. She's only in love with John Peachey Keane, but
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I was married to him for four years. And you don't live with a
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professional wrestler that long without picking up a few tricks. They call you the
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weaker sex. What is it, Ruthie? Your elbow is it broken?
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Let me alone, your two bit flat foot. I'll call her doctor and
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get you fixed up. For one reason only. I don't even like to
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see a black widow spider suffer more coffee, Miss Barnett. No, I
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don't blame you. I've got no reppetite either, you know, Marlow.
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I always liked Ruth and I thought she liked me as long as you represented
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a buck. She did, and I've got to admit that she and the
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wrestler were clever. Though that stunt almost worked. She was clever. John
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Keen is two hundred and twenty five pounds of solid jerky. Yeah, it
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was all her idea. She was in love with Peach, and when Frank
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died, she saw a great opportunity, especially with that mimic being in town.
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Sure, Seth Cameo is an old friend of hers. She and Peache
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wrote a highly slander of script. She got Cameo or recorded on Frank's machine,
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imitating Frank's delivery. Yes, and I broadcasted and stabbed myself in the
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back exactly. And we've never found out any of this if a couple of
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other characters hadn't tried to cut in. First Cameo, who felt he'd been
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cheated when he learned the job he'd done was worth one hundred grand. Who've
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had to shoot him to keep him quiet? Second little caller here, model,
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please with me. It was just good healthy spight Spider, what stronger
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baby Spike or Doe? Well, see what I mean? And night,
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mister Faban, come on, Color, let's go. We didn't go home
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directly. We went on our Beechwood drive high into the Hollywood Hills Park where
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we could look out over the sparkling, sprawling city. And then we talked
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about color, the life, relative values the city below us, and the
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dark hills above. And then as we watched the first faint glimmer of dawn
28:52
and rise in the east, we both realized something I read you very complex
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and certainly not sophisticated, but very gratified. The phil analysis the best things
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in life. We both agreed, that's still free, you know what I
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mean. The Adventures of Philip Marlowe Bringing You Raymond, Chandler's most famous character,
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star Gerald Moore and are produced and directed by Norman MacDonald. Script is
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by Robert Mitchell and gene Leavitt. Featured in the cast were viv Janis,
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Ted Bonelts Charlotte, Lawrence, Barney Phillips, Tony Barrett, Peter Leeds,
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and Julius Matthews. The special music is composed and conducted by Richard o'rond.
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Be sure and be with this next week. When Philip Marlowe says, I
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didn't know it, but I was caught in a smokeout that led from a
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search for a lady in black. I asked murder at a highway, in
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the gunfire, in a crumbling warehouse, and all for a girl already dead
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in the morgue. This fall. You hear them all on CBS. Red
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Skelton and Charlie McCarthy and Edgar Bergen have joined the parade to CBS on Sunday
30:41
evenings, and be sure to hear the Contented Hour with Dinah Shore tomorrow and
30:48
every Sunday over most of these same CBS stations this fall. You hear them
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all on CBS. This is Paul Masterson speaking, I'll stay tuned for Gangs,
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which follows immediately over most of these same CBS stations. This is CBS,
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the Columbia Broadcasting System. Welcome back. If that plot sounded a little
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bit familiar, then you've been listening to the show a while. There was
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an episode we played back in September. Original air date was March twenty sixth
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of nineteen forty nine, so about six and a half months before this one,
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and the plot of that story involved a newspaper publisher, excuse me,
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magazine publisher who hired Marlowe because a column published by a recently deceased calumnist was
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about to get the magazine sued. It should be sounding really familiar now if
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you heard it. That was episode thirteen seventy three, The Green Flame,
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and this episode is very similar. There's of course some changes, particularly with
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the wrestling inserted, but to me feels very much the same story. Of
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course, in defense of the repeat, it's worth noting that during this run
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of the Adventures of Philip Marlowe, the program was on the air for one
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hundred and three straight weeks without a break, you know, no summer break,
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and there may have been one week off in there, because it seems
32:45
by calculation should be about one hundred and four. But other than that,
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a lot of programs and stories, though you might have one recycled in the
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midst of that, just trying to keep up with that mass for scripts.
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I did like how they made the wrestling match feel real, did a good
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job on that, and I think Tony Barrett really helped, as the very
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loud wrestling fan, even a greater sense of realism. Now we turn to
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listener comments and feedbacks for some thoughts on The Adventures of Philip marlow Gordon says
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regarding episode fifteen twenty three, Tale of the Mermaid, a good episode.
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Sharon Williams says, isn't it funny that what an enormous amount of money it
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was back then? Referring to the seventy five thousand dollars necklace. And indeed,
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that is one of those things when you listen to radio where it can
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be kind of humorous when you think about it, when people are acting like
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what we would consider a small amount of money is a big deal. I
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mean, you consider this line from It's a Wonderful Line when mister Potter is
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trying to buy off George Bailey. I'm offering you a three year contract starting
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at twenty thousand dollars per year, which is not a big deal these days,
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but these old films and radio shows are testament to how much value there
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used to be in money and sort of the effects of inflation on it all.
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And then we have a comment from Twitter with aug King of Bation asking,
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I love your programming, A big fan of Johnny Doller, wondering if
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Rocky Jordan or Sherlock Holmes will make the lineup. Well, an answer to
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your question, Rocky Jordan will certainly eventually be on the program, probably a
34:49
couple three years down the line. It's one of the more requested programs.
34:54
And right now I'm thinking after Richard Diamond, which has been one that people
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have been asking us about since we started the show. Sherlock Holmes. We've
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already done. That was in our lineup for the first nearly four years.
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I don't think quite but close to four years. And you can listen to
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all the Sherlock Holmes episodes archives dot Great Detectives dot net. All right,
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well, that will do it for today. If you do have a comment,
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