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Philip Marlowe: The Name to Remember (EP1385) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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out of the way, it's time for us to listen to Philip Marlowe.
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The original air date was April ninth, nineteen forty nine, and the title
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is the Name to Remember the Partner from Mexico City, the Stranger Dead in
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Nevada, and the Man with a cauliflower ear all added up to a copse
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on a concrete floor. But I couldn't figure why until I found out there
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was one name above all that had to be remembered. From the pen of
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Raymond Chandler, outstanding author of crime fiction, comes his most famous character in
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the Adventures of Philip Marlowe. Now with Gerald Moore starred as Philip Marlowe.
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We bring you tonight's exciting story. The name to remember the big clock at
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the far end of the Beverly Room cocktail lunge with the opaque glass ice cubes
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where they should have been numbers said. It was twenty after five that met
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my new client, Eddie Malette, was late, so sitting at an uncomfortable
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mushroom for two, I waited and worked on a long drink and stared down
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into the mirrored top of my table. I stopped staring when the reflection on
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the tabletop changed from red ceiling to gray hamburg and pale blue eyes in an
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almost friendly face. I looked up to find easy going Eddie Malette looking about
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as he had been a year ago, dapper and draped flannel, carnation attached,
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had a thin smile on thinner lips. He sat down, took off
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his hat and shook handshole in one quick motion, and I knew he was
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either in trouble or hurry or both. Mallow business business. You got to
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find another who's been following me for the last couple of days. He speak
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what a muscle under a T shirt? And I kind of checking like the
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Dodgers were when I'm warming up, You know what I mean. I can't
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figure out what this print's after. It bothers me all the time. He's
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like hanging around and if I go from me, run, So what I
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want you to do is you get next to him and the answer to this
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thing here fifty seventy eighty one hundred bucks and I feel enough. You know,
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Eddie, the law might do this for you for free. Yeah,
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for John Doe they might. But Eddie Mullett's another story model. You know
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what I mean? Today I got a respectable business war surplus, But the
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cops they only remember me is a guy who once did time for being careless
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with other people's stove. I'm in a hurry. My two partners, Lou
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Trip and Ruth Dunn. She's also my girl. They're coming back to town
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tonight. I like to spend some time with both of them without interruptions.
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What do you mean, girl, Addin, you and that pretty wife I've
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heard about split up. Yeah, I'm soon for divorce right now. Tina
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and I never should have been Mallow. I need someone who's soft and more
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honest than understanding, you know what I mean. I'll take this here,
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Rook, Can I think you sir? Huh oh yeah, Scotch No,
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budg make it a double else this root model, she's different, good ahead
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for business. We can get it at the same time. Like President's the
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letter I got from it today. She and lou were both in Mexico City.
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It's got all the dope on the dealer working un plus the fact she's
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worrying about me. That should bring us right back to T shirt. Remember
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where do I start at? He that's the only place I know of Marlow.
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Yesterday I kind of tended tables on this guy. Trailed him down to
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the corner of Wilsham Western, but he got away in the middle of a
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lot of traffic, you know what I mean, and a car huh car,
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Oh no, we're both walking. No. I figured from his bill
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in a T shirt he could work on one of these health clubs around it.
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You find out them come of my place on Hoover before right, huh
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By the way he's got black curly hair, and one is all banged up
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cauliflower like it ripe. One anything else? No, ay, I'll see
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you. You know what I mean. Huh. Two hours after I'd left
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Eddie Molett, I checked with a half a dozen hooray for health clubs in
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the neighborhood, smelled a lot of liniment, and came away with nothing more
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than this tended nostrils. So at seven thirty I pointed my car so at
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eighty four hundred North Hoover, and I hope that my client could give me
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something else to go on. And my let home was well groomed and sat
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sedately behind fifty rolling yards of carefully clipped age, and said the gardener must
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have gone to Barba's college. So when I leaned against the front door bell,
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I expected any and at least a silk lapel smoking jacket with slippers to
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match. When the door swung open, I got a surprise because I was
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greeted instead by a lot of white T shirt. And in front of that,
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and coming straight from my head, was a fist the size of a
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musk melon. Okay, privately checkedive hire by Eddie Letting the Beverly room.
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Gear up, No, no, so much as smiled, crooked or out
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twist your arm and two what is it you want? One thing? I
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chanced to bust you in the nose? What nerve? Eh? Listen,
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stupid. If I had the time, I'd tie your arm into the square
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knot, then rip it off at the hinges and throw it away. Right
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now, I've that's what I came for. I'm in a hurry. So
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you're real lucky about Edie my let muscles. How lucky is he? Very?
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He's inside resting, just like you're gonna be, mister. By the
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time I got back to my feet and had my right arm unscrewed the where
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I could reach across my chest and my shoulder holster, a T shirt was
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gone. So I started into the house, but I knew was going to
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be a slightly beat up client. When I turned on the lights and found
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nothing in the kitchen, bathroom, or bedroom, I began to worry a
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little more. I got to the den and saw that the drawers of a
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desk that were turned inside out, but I still no eddy. I opened
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a side door and started out to the patio, which went along the front
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of the house. Then at the shadow report of high heels coming up the
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flagstone path that led to the front door, I stopped and waited, and
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the lady, who was a quiet face and quiet clothes, came to a
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halt in the open doorway. He possible and called lady's name out loud.
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I figured this had to be roof done, girlfriend and partner out of Mexico
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City. So I walked back through the house in the living room. Dry
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It's room, Eddie Moletta, are you playing a game with me? Like?
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Who are you? What are you doing here? And Philip Marlon was
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done. I was hired by your boyfriend because I was worried about a bunch
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of muscles and a T shirt with curly black hair, a cauliflower ear,
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and a brain you could drop through a hole in a life. Save it
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meant anything to you? No, it doesn't. But where's Eddie? Mister
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marlone? Why are the front door opened like this? And why are all
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the lights on? In that order? I don't know where it is.
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Front doors opened because that's where a T shirt and I played Ben the private
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detective, and all the lights are on because I was looking for Eddie.
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He's not here any place, the bedroom, in the kitchen, so fine,
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No, come on in here see if his desk, and then adds
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for you. Maybe draws have been slightly re arranged by a very heavy hand.
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The incidentally, T Shirt was bragging about getting what he'd come for just
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as he collapsed me for the second time. So if you the letters gone?
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What letters? The ones I wrote to Eddie while I was on the
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road. He always kept them here in the bottom drawer. Well, business
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a pleasure business mostly, but I I did talk of other things too.
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Yeah, No, Eddie mentioned that when he told me about you and Lou
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tripping you back tonight. By the way, where is trip? Well,
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I don't know. He left me in Mexico City the day before yesterday and
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said he'd be here tonight at the latest. Surely, Marlin, you don't
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think that Lou had anything to do with it. Could be letters of part
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business and part love. So I'd say that the only person who could possibly
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be behind this is missus Mullett. Yes, And for the oldest and best
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reason in the world, Marlow jealousy Tina do anything to make Eddie and me
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unhappy. She could twist the innocent wording of those letters so that any divorced
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judge would see things her way. She's cool, mallow, isn't she Under
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that door there that leads to the garage. It's blood marks, stay over
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there, roof? Oh Eddie, Eddie, are you? Oh mollowey dear?
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Isn't he Yeah? I'm afraid he is dead, real dead. The
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right side of his head crushed him. Next two women on the edge of
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the epic pool of blood that had seeked under the door was the grease coated
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tire eye under turned Ruth away. And it wasn't until we were back in
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the living room and she'd stopped sobbing long enough to take the double shot of
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brandy that I had forced down at it. I started for the telephone and
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a call at the technical tenanty bar at Homicide, but before I could pick
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up the receiver, it went off, Hell, this is LIEUTENANTI Barr at
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Police headquot Bara A great conservace be this mollo. I was just gonna call
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you. Did I your office number? By mistake? No mistake, Lieutenant,
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I mean Eddie Mleett's have been working for him since this afternoon. What's
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up? Why they call a dead man? Aimed? Ellis Clay in a
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hotel outside of Carson City in Nevada Hill. Yeah, it looks like an
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accidental explosion of his room there and the best of shriff passed for identification other
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than his name. In the city Los Angeles, there's a blank sheet of
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letter had paper from Eddie Mallett's word surplus outfit. So I thought Milett might
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be able to help us out. Is he there? Yeah? And Daddy
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Barra murdered with a tire iron sometime in the last dog mm hmm. Any
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idea who did it? A muscleman in a T shirt maybe, but at
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the moment he borrow the motive seems to be a little mixed. Say wait
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a minute, I may be able to help you on that. Nevada guy,
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Ruth both, do you know anything about a man named Clay and Coston
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City? He had Eddi's address on him when he was killed in an accident
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in Nevada? No, No, I don't know. Hello e Barra.
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The girl here who is one of Eddie's partners, never heard of him,
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all right, But that's unimportant. Now. What I am interested in is
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Mallett's death. What's he address out there? And eighty four hundred North Hoover
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nor Hoover as in vacuum cleaner. But look, if it's all the same
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to you, we bar I'd like to move, and I think if I
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do it fast enough, I've got an even chance of catching up with this
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T shirt. Okay, all right, moll, but don't forget. We've
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got a couple of thousand policemen here in LA just in case you. Yeah,
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yeah, go bye, Barra, Ruth, Ruth, honey. Why
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it will be your own place, and try to take it easy. Huh.
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When I talked to Bora again, I'll tell him where you can be
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found, all right, So, but where are you going? The only
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place today is now, Tina Malitz, you know where it is? Yeah,
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a Cameo house and Rexbert driving Beverly Hills. Also, if it helps,
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she drives a new Queen colored Nash But Marlo, be careful. Tina
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maybe the one who'll hired that man in the T shirt. Yeah, no,
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Nat, honey, is exactly what I'm banking on. I'll call you
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after I got the vital statistics and where I could reach roofs. Later on,
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I piled into my car and headed for Beverly Hills in the cameo house,
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which was six stories of white stone and glass brick. Tina Malette managed
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to scrimp five with half the top floor and a couple of minutes later,
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when I got out of the old mirror elevator, walked to her door,
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rang and waited. I was wondering what kind of a reception I'd get.
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When the door opened, I stopped wondering and started concentrating. You you want
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something in something? The texture spun smoke. It stood five feet six inches
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over the threshold and must have weighed in it close to one hundred and twenty,
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with every inch a thing of beauty, and every palm just in the
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right place. I asked you if you wanted something, do you? Yeah?
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Oh? I mean the name's Philip Marlow, Missus Milette. I'm a
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private detective your husband hired this afternoon. Why don't you let me in like
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a good little girl, because that's something I'm not I get out of here
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before I call the police, probably on my way up here right now.
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Oh, your husband's dead. Missus Maletty was murdered, Eddie murdered. Yeah,
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how do you still mind if I come in? No? Of course,
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Now I don't know what to say. Oh, that's a right line.
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What was that? I said? You're acting and doing a bum job
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of it. I ought to slap your face. I'll call your boy with
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the muscles and have him go back to work on my arm for a while.
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What are you talking about? I let in a white T shirt who
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killed Eddie and then stole a bunch of letters that were going to help you
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lie your way through a counter suit for divorce would leave Eddie both broke and
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embarrassed. Here, don't make sense, bright buy Oh, first of all,
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I don't know who you're talking about. And second, if I were
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going to file such a countersuit, why would I want my husband killed?
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First? Maybe you didn't. We all make mistakes, Missus Millett, which
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is only one man's opinion. So why don't I just pick up my coat?
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Here? And that's the perfect gentleman has called me to the nearest police
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station. All right, it's a date. I see you bowl quite a
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bit, Tina, good enough to win that cup there from the Maplewood Alley's
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on Wilshire. There western Eddie figured a health club and I went right along.
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Never thought about the bowling Alley near there, and I you, Oh,
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yes, Marlow, you were saying something. Ay, yes, I
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was, But the little gun in your hand made me lose my place.
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Marlow. I don't believe that Eddie's dead, now do I believe that you
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work for him at all? For my money, you're just a not so
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smart boy who was hired by that Hussie Ruth's Dunn. She's going to need
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an army of private detectives before I get through. And I mean that.
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I'll back up through those doors and get out on the fire escape while you
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do what. Well, I find out exactly what's going on. I got
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out there. It's six long floors to the ground, Marlow, and I
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hope for the first step you'd take that your trip, fall all the way
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and break your neck. Goodbye, Private Detective. In just a moment,
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we will return to the second act of the Adventures of Philip Marlowe. But
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first, just a little later on CBS tonight, you'll hear sing it Again's
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Master of Ceremonies, Dan Seymour, giving a perfect characterization of a man going
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crazy. The reason well, Dan's got the biggest hottest news in the history
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hundred dollars Phantom Boys mystery. So be sure to hear sing it again tonight
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when it comes to you at ten o'clock Eastern Time on most of these same
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CBS stations. And now with our star Gerald Moore, we returned to the
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second act of Philip Marlowe and Tonight's story The Name to Remember. When Tina
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Millett prodded me out under the fire escape through a pair of French doors,
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slammed them shut and snapped the lock. There was a cold look in her
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smoky eyes, and then wavering potential about the snubnosed gun clenched in her hand
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and pointed straight to my belt buckle. It melted all the gambler out of
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meat fast, So I watched quietly as she backed across the room the hall
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door and out. I knew my chances of climbing down six flights of iron
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fire escape in time to head her off was an idiot's dream, So I
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just kicked a panel out of one of the doors, reached through and finally
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got it down locked, and I went back inside of the phone. Vixen
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was on the prowl with a gun in her fist. I figured the least
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I could do was passed the word along Ruth. This is small old Oh
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Phil, have you found the letter? Not? Che had? But never
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mind that. Now you got something more important to worry about, because your
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guests on Eddie's ex wife Tina was right on the button. You mean she's
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the one who's really after the letter. Yeah? Yeah. That muscle man
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in a T shirt is just doing a heavy work for her, and I've
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got a good idea that he's connected with a maplewood bowling alley on Wilshire where
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you know, Phil and Tina's apartment alone. I just lost a small debate
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with her, and get this root, she hates you, and she's the
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type who hates hard. When she left here, she had a gun and
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the chances of at least fifty to fifty that she's coming your way, So
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keep your doors locked and stay away from windows, savvy. Yeah, oh,
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oh, one more thing before I she have off? Has my lett's
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partner a little trip shown yet? No least she hasn't called. But where
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are you going? Fill that bowling alley on Wilshire? Only this time I'm
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swinging first. Maplewood was a small and dusky combination six lane bowling alley,
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restaurant, bar, in magazine stand and cigar str all, slightly down at
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the heel and more than hungry for the business. Only two alleys were in
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use. In A lanky postgraduate delinquent with a mouthful of gum and a complexion
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one tone greener than his eye shade was the only houseman in sight. He
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looked up and watched me as I moved over to the bulletin board, where
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a bank of photographs were tacked up picturing the champions of the local league.
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Sure enough, they are in the top row and holding a bowling ball.
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That had more expression than his face was the pile of muscles and a T
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shirt which the caption tagged as one Sid Sawyer. So I walked over to
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the counter where the houseman sat and made like a one man fan club.
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What's your problem? Mac? I see Sid's up there with the champs.
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Is he around tonight? I wouldn't know. Why can I get in touch
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with him? I wouldn't have the faintest idea Mac he works here, doesn't
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he? Yeah? Off and on, but you don't know where he lives
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or what his phone number is. Eh, well, you're just beginning to
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get the id to take your hands off. You get the idea and get
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it fast, unless you want your teeth crammed down your throat. But that's
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how I live. And I'll wait a minute, mister, take it easy.
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I'll tell you he's got a room over on Shadow Street sixty three forty
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upstairs. You don't have no phone? All right? That's better? Is
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he? Then? Huh? I think so? But gee, I don't
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know why everybody is so interested in Sid Sawyer all of a sudden, who
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else is interested? Some babe called a couple of minutes ago an old friend.
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She said, that's the reason I give you the stall. Honest.
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You see, Sid don't like to be interrupted when he's entertaining an old friend.
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Is that so? Well, this is one party that's going to get
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crowded, whether he likes it or not. Sixty three forty Shadow Street was
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a top heavy tail gingerbread house left over from the days when Los Angeles was
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a stopover between Spanish missions. I got out of my car and started across
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the street toward the door. When I saw a Tinamalet's cream colored sedan sticking
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out through a tangle of overgrown brush in the driveway, which meant I was
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still in time for the big renion. So I went inside and up the
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steps of Sawyer's door. There's a light on and movement from no voices.
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I stuck my gun out of its holster, knocked lightly and stepped back,
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and the knob turned slowly and the dog cracked open. I kicked time.
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I don't move muscles. I'm returning your visit. Where's Tina? Oh,
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Tina? Look cars outside in the driveway. She's here after the letters,
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isn't she? What letters here? Nuts? I don't know what you're talking
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about it in these suitcases, you wouldn't be skipping town, would you listen?
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Shy miss? Your backing up the wrong tree. I don't know anything.
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Get me eh okay, Sawyer. If you insist, we'll do it
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the hard way. That squareses for that arm twisting job you gave me.
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Now I was taught all over again. Even get up, Come on,
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hud gun, I don't enjoy doing it. So the fast you talk the
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center, I'll stop. Where's Tina? I don't know what you do?
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And make it straight. I haven't got all night right, all right?
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No more, it's better. She came and picked up the letters, and
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she left again. I minute before you got here, five minutes you're lyon.
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Take a look out that window and tell me why your car is still
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outside. I don't know what where in the driveway next door? Holy smoke,
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it's gone all right, Sawyer. That means I can spare thirty seconds
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for the rest of the story, So make it fast. She told you
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little Letty Malett is dead. That's why you're blowing town, isn't. I'll
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wait a minute, Morrow kill him. I'll just knock him down, sure,
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on a concrete floor with a tire iron. No, I got it.
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It was Ladys. You got were written by Ruth? Done? Was
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Tina heading for Ruth once she left here? I don't know. Come on,
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sorry, I'm running out of time. Won't do any good to try
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to protect Tina. Now we'll see about that model. Why you op Tina
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was worth a broken jaw. Good night, muscles. It's a very close
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look at Sawyer to be sure he was down for the long count. And
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I stepped out the door and into a whispering circle of white eyed neighbors.
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Would hurt the fight, and I'd already called the police. I flashed my
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identification it should have battle order the three Huskies ones, and then ran down
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the stairs to my car. I made it from Shadow Street to roots Bonglow
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on Normaldy in something under five minutes, but still not fast enough, because
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when my ground was stop in front of the place, I saw that same
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clean colored sedan already there, close to a side door. I built up
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the walk and was half way to the house when I heard her lady's sick.
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Went up to a front window where the only light was burning, and
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looked in a room had been torn up. In the middle of it all
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face down on the tangled cappet was Tina Malette, and it was Ruth who
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was slumped in a chair, her face buried in her arms and sobbing hysterically.
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And still dangling from my hand was Tina snubnosed revolver. She looked up
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as I walked in. I killed her. I know, I know,
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come on, baby, take it easy, It's gonna be all right.
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She had this gun, she was crazy, was gonna killed me. I
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don't know what happened. I struggled with her and then I I realized I
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had to gut in my head. I shot her. I didn't even think.
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I just pulled it through, Honey, she did. Phil. Yeah,
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come on, Ruth, leave it alone, so I try to get
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hold of yourself. She brought the letters back there on the desk. She
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said that they didn't matter anymore, that she was mixed up in Eddie's murder
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and there was nothing left for her but to run. That she took the
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gun out of her person, said I drew in her whole life. Believe
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she was going to be sure I got what was coming to me before she
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left. That's when it happened. I was so scared, I went out
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of my head. I guess we better call it Bara. Honey. I
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think we can explain it all now, except except one thing. Ruth.
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Do you remember that guy Bara called us about the one I was killed in
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Nevada? Ellis Clay. Yeah, Yeah, that's it, Clay. I
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had the feeling all night that some way his death is tied up with all
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this. It's only a but something seems to be missing. What is it
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to what's missing? I don't know yet. Look, Honey, I want
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to take a look at these letters. You go call the police. We
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did. It was a long shot. While Ruth went down the hall to
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phone the police, I flipped through the bundle of arvelopes that had caused all
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the trouble, and a long shot began to pay off. I could hear
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Ruth talking to a desk sodynt as I picked Cap teena's revolver. I broke
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it open with Then a pair of headlights in a red spot of a police
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car flashed in the driveway, and I knew that he Borrow had figured out
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a few things for himself. I put the gun down on the table again,
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told Ruth to forget a call, and when the lieutenant came in,
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Ruth and I together explained everything that had happened right up to TENA Millett's body
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on the floor. Well, it's quite a mess, isn't it. Anyway,
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this part of it looks like a clear case of self defense, right,
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Marlon, exactly righty Borrow, It looks like self defense, Only there's
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something missing, something missing? What do you mean, Marla? At least
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three letters and that packet there, I think they're the last ones you wrote
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to Ddy. Ruth had gone, oh that's stranger. I don't understand.
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And another missing at him is Lou Trip, Eddie's partner. He didn't show
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up tonight because I think he's Nevada dead under the name of Clay. Marlow,
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you mean that Lou and that that Clay were really the same man.
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What are you getting out with all his theory, Marlo? You'll see bora
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Lou Trip was double crossing Eddie Mallette. Lou went to Mexico with Ruth here
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only he left early and flew in Nevada to close a big deal under the
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name of Clay. Meanwhile, some letters were written from Mexico to preserve the
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illusion that Lou Trip was still there. Understand what I mean, Ruth,
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Yes, I I think so. And then the unexpected happened. Lou,
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identified as Clay died accidentally in Nevada. That meant that sooner or later those
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letters would be exposed as lies, right rue, Marlow. That come of
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the tape of Watch too late, Lieutenant, I don't Moven't got a chance,
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Baby, Stay back, please, Bill. I don't want to kill
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you, but I will if you come one step closer. Stay back,
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Marlo. She means it, love Baby, It licked. Marlow was a
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good try you lost, stay back? Why not go out? Oh what
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difference doesn't make? No wow Malla when she cracks. She really went to
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pieces and told the whole story. Eh, and she and a little trip
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were working together all right when he died in the bottle of the light.
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She told him those letters put her in a tight jam with Eddie. See,
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so when she found Eddie unconscious in his garage, she finished him.
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But when she went for the letters, sid Sawyer scatter off is that it
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incidentally the state is going to give Sawyer a long vacation and one of that
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better institutions. What happened down at Sawyer's placy bar and her roof had a
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lot of nerve model. Yeah, she found Tina Milett's card Sawyer's, so
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she waited in the back seat until Tina came out with the letters. Then
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she sapped and drove the car to a house and fake that slick self defense
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setup. And she still doesn't know where she made the mistake that caught her.
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Where was it? Phil? Well? She was being real kg Bora.
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She decided it was too dangerous to write the name Clay down any place,
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so she made it a name to remember and she did that, so
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well, what do you mean, phil When I asked her for it,
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the first name Ellis popped out too. There was no legitimate way for her
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to know that. You gave me the full name over the phone, but
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I only gave her Clay. That was an opening, But I needed proof,
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so you needled her until she made a break. Then you walked into
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the gun she'd grabbed. You take some long chances, phil Oh, I'll
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do anything to see justice. Prevailely Bara, I smell a rat. You
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should I emptied the gun when she was phony. Good night till good morning,
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Evara. When I left police headquarters and walked my car, first gray
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streaks of a new day were breaking in the east. Should have given me
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a lift, but it didn't. And now it was time for me to
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go home and go to bed. But instead I sat in my car with
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the door open and smoked a cigarette while I watched the don come up.
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I couldn't help thinking what an odd trick nature plays on some of the most
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beautiful creatures, how most deadly. For instance, Ruth, how soft and
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sweet and lovely she was, Now hard she could swing a tire iron Adventures
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of Philip Marlowe created by Raymond Chandler, star Gerald Moore, and are produced
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and directed by Norman MacDonald. Script is by Meldon La Robert Mitchell, and
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Gene Levitt. Featured in the cast were Gene Bates, Paul Freese Yvonne Pati,
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Jack Moyles, and Jerry Hausner. Detectively Tenant the Bar is played by
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Jeff Corey. The special music is by Richard o'roon. Be shure and be
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with us again next week. When Philip Marlowe say it was hot and still
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and August night in the middle of April, but that didn't matter to the
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strips. He's dancer in the Golden Mask because murder made her blood run cold
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the night the heat waves struck me. There'll be more dramatic excitement of the
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chase tomorrow on CBS's two Sunday shows, Broadway Is My Beat and The Adventures
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of Sam Space. Broadway Is My Beat brings you the adventures of Danny Clover,
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whose beat is the Great White Way and whose cases involve a vast,
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strange assortment of Broadway characters. Later, Nashal Hammett's Great Detective Sam Spade cuts
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another caper surrounded by Mystery and Mayhem in the grand style. The Adventures of
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Sam Spade and Broadway is My Beat are regular Sunday features on most of these
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same CBS stations. This is Roy Rowan speaking. Now stay tuned for Gangbusters,
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which follows immediately on most of these stations. This is CBS the Columbia
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Broadcasting Systems Welcome back. I love the tontles of the Philip Marlow. They're
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so uh They just have such a way of grabbing your attention. You listen
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to a show like the Old Acquaintance or a Friend from Detroit, or a
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Name the Name to Remember, and it's just really has you anticipating a good
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story. We also, once again in this episode, do the Philip Marlow
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taking his hard boiled revenge on those who would go after him, And as
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we've talked about, that's one of the signatures of the hard boiled private eye.
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You don't get to just knock him silly without him settling the score.
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I also appreciated Lieutenant Ebara giving a little bit of pushback to Marlow's taking over
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police business, which is a good change compared to where Ebara seemed to be
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actively encouraging it. Leader earlier in the season. Well, that will do
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it for now. We will be back tomorrow with Nick Carter and coming back
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next Wednesday with another episode of the Adventures of Philip Marlow. In the meantime,
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