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Philip Marlowe: Heat Wave (EP1391) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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dot net. Now it's time for today's episode of the Adventures of Philip Marlow.
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The original internate is April sixteenth and nineteen forty nine, and the title
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is heat Wave. It was hot and still and August night in the middle
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of April, but that didn't matter to the strip teas Dancer and the Golden
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Mask, because murder made her blood run cold. The night the heat Waves
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struck. From the pen of Raymond Chandler, out sending, author of crime
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fiction, comes his most famous character in the Adventures of Phillip Marlowe now with
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Gerald Moore starred as Philip Marlowe. We bring you tonight's exciting story. The
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heat Wave Ring was only three weeks old, but the sun going down on
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Los Angeles with the middle of the summer vengeance. At noon it was one
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hundred and two in the shade, and by three point thirty with doors,
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window and shirt color all open as far as they would go, I still
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swallowed in the kind of heat that whilts both your clothes and your character.
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So I tried to make sense from the crisp words of a telegram I just
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received from one Karen Driscoll Junior no Less of knob Hill, San Francisco.
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It told me to go to the Palace Theater or a burlesque house on Main
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Street, watch the performance of the featured dancer, get backstage and take a
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close look at her face. Then meet the seven o'clock plane from San Francisco
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and report what I'd seen the Miss Drisco Junior. It was a strange request
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coming from nob Hill, but the enclosed fifty dollar money order wasn't kidding,
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So I perspired my way down to the Palace Theater. There Instead of the
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usual thirty beautiful girls thirty sign over the Marquis was a fifty foot gold banner
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that screamed the heat wave, who is she? And the showcase cause that
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led to the box office were all a circle of question marks that scented a
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woman wearing a strange gold mask and little else. I bought a ticket and
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went inside in time for the tail end of the matinee. A baggy pants
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comedian was just winding up a corny South of the Border routine as I sat
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down. Sight Ah, but there was Manuel, my brother manual labor.
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He was the laziest man in old Mago. Yeah, until he got a
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job shooting polls for the government. Is sure. The eight hundred pool today
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that made even the thing is bullshooter, I comic kicked the crown out of
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an oversized sombrero in a hybrid headbance, then galloped off into the wings.
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After reminding myself that I was here on business, I sat down again as
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a personality boy and brown flannel and a yellow shirt stepped into the spotlight at
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his arms raised. Ladies and gentlemen, you now previich to witness one of
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the most unusual and fred pegen'spects ever presented on any state. For the moment,
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you will see her, the woman of Mystery, performing exotic rights to
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the Peyton Sun, god of the incas exactly as they were performed three thousand
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years ago in the Strange Temple lovely Andy. But who is she? Who
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is this woman? And who knows what secrets lie behind her mask? Of
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hole? The Palace theater resents the mass, marvelous, the beautiful, but
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dazzling, not mysterious Pete Way Oh, I had to admit it. This
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was special. She was the color of alabaster and as supple as a cat,
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and as she moved across the stage she got more convolutions out of her
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two arms than a wrestless octopust could with eight. A costume from the neck
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down was about as sheer as a new spider whip, and above that,
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and covering her face completely, was a gold mask. Grotesque and listening as
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the dance headed for a climax design to knocked the cash customers right out of
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their seats, I reminded myself again that I was here on business. So
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I walked down the side aisle to a door that led backstage. I went
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through it just as the dance ended, and while the audience saw the house
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down begging for more, the heat wave tossed a couple of kisses through a
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gold mask rando ad dressing room. I started after her and was halfway there
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when a bulging hulk and a sharkskin soup that measured six six in every direction
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blumbered casually out of the shadows and took a bulldog's stance with his back against
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the dressing room door. I started picking up fast ad libs and was hot
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for a switch, and the eagle reporter gag when the baggy pants coming slid
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up beside me. Hey, chump, all right, they're asking for low
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to mayhem if you try to get to the heat wave past Jesse there,
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Jesse he the man mountain in the sharkskin suit. Yeah, the the orders
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to break bone. No, maybe I can help you good, but how
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come, Yeah, let's go round to the side your reporter, right,
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Yeah, well, iky bonds can use a little publicly too, you know,
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holy here by the door. Now, whether it is you have to
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know, well, all I wants one look at that face. I said
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to help you out, and I will like this right out there in the
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alley and don't come back before midnight. You can see a face then once
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you take the mask off. I should have known better, but all I
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wanted at the moment was to kick the slack out of a pair of baggy
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pants. So I bounced back up the stair, jerked the door open,
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and ran head on at the three square yards of sharkskin suit. It was
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Jesse, you ain't welcome around here, bum, so stay out. Have
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you got it? Okay, Jesse, let's say I've got it? Yeah,
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Also, don't drop it as you walk away. I was glad to
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remember that I had a client made at the airport, so in spite of
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the fact that the heat waves face was still a well kept secret behind a
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gold mask, I took Jesse's good advice and left fight eleven from the door,
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riding against four. But doctor Robert Riemer pleased reported the information that when
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I playing Taxi to Do was stopped at the airlines gate at the seven o'clock
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shop because the passengers unloaded a tall, sinuous brunette with archs eyebrows an imperial
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gesture, and I had it had kept some imaginative milliner out of the red
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for several months it's had to be miss Karen Driscoll, Junior. I introduced
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myself. I shouled it to the cocktail lounge, and when a Gibson sparkled
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in front of each of us, she got down to business. Well,
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Marlow, did you see her? Eh? Yes, and no, I
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have a photograph here. Look is this the same girl? Oh? Oh,
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it's a head shot. It's pretty, but no help, miss Triscoll.
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You didn't see her face? Then? No, look, Junior,
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do I refund your money? Now I start asking questions. Don't be ridiculous.
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I must know who that girl is, and I'll tell you why.
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This picture is of my sister, Midge Drisco. Oh, I think your
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sister's the heat wive. Yes, she's doing it to humiliate me, Marlow.
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Tomorrow, I'm being married to a man whose family is distinguished and diplomatic
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circle now, and this burlesque heat wave woman is is to be revealed at
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midnight tonight. If she is my sister? Can you imagine what the papers
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will do with that story tomorrow morning? Yeah, some wedding present, But
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your own sister, I don't get it. What? Oh? No,
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old hate Marlow. Midge lost a love of her and I wonted. Though
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she's never gotten over it, and she's done things before the day I was
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elected president of the Metropolitan Club, she faked an elopement with my chauffeur.
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The night of my engagement party, she rode a horse into the Flamingo room,
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brawl started, and she spent the night in Jau last year. I
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mean, but this heat Wave's got a lot of talent for burlesque, a
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lot of experience in a line. In fact, she's a sensation. Let's
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face it. What makes you think it's me? Joh, hush, oh
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no. I found the name Tracy Leake in her apartment in San Francisco.
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He's the manager of the Palace Theater here. I learned that from a newspaper
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story in which Josh Freeman. Josh Freeman, he is the big producer.
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He's supposed to be bargaining with Lake for his heat wave discovery. Oh,
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she's done a thorough advanced publicity job. All right. What if she turns
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out to be her sister? What then? That's my business. I know
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how to make money. Talk Marlow, and I've more than enough for a
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polite but firm conversation. Your job is merely to find out for sure between
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now and midnight, if my sister actually is this heat wave, I'll take
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care of everything else. Karen Driscoll Junior gave me her local phone number,
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then got up, cursed the hot night, bid me her in some of
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the taxi all with a regal wave one hand, and I was left to
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my own devices in something less than five hours to make them work in so,
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I drove back to the Palaestato, which was talling until midnight by showing
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a triple feature movie, paid another admission, and slipped backstage again. Was
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deserted except the two electricians tied up in pinacle under the switchboard life the heat
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waves dressing room was locked. Jesse was nowhere in sight, and I was
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about to leave again when I heard a familiar voice cooling into a dark knock
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that turned out to be a phone booth. It was Hinky Bonds the bagging
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pants coming Beauty did it beautiful? You know? A listen baby? Like
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another deal to talk to her? She won't you? Sure? Yeah?
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Yeah, well, look I gotta talk to you. How about dinner?
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Can Well? I know you got things on your mind, but yeah,
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honey, I know you're tired. Well, okay, don't worry. Thing's
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going to be okay, you'll see bye bye baby. Hey, Yinky,
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Oh you're again. Yeah, that's right. That brings us up to date,
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even Stephen. I get this first, I'm not a reporter. Second,
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I represent Josh Freeman's office some third, I haven't got all night.
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You mean Josh Freeman, the big producer, any other Josh Freeman. I
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want to talk to Tracy Lake about the heat wave, but I want to
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see her before I talk. Is she here? No, she won't be
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back until the big midnight show. Where's Tracy? Then he's home at the
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top of house on a wheelshir about two blocks down from Martha Murray's. David
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Listen, tell me something is just going to make a start out of her
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with a talent like hers. What do you think ny? I left Tinky
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with his mouth hanging open in the fire of ambition, burning like an alcohol
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lamp in each eyes. I drove out to the top of house on wheelchair,
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leaning on the bell at Tracy Lake's apartment. I got ready to be
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a hard hitting, practical minded producers right hand man. Yeah, what is
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it, Tracy? My name's Marlow out of Josh Freeman's office caught the heat
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wave exactly this afternoon, willing to wrap her up and take her home right
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now, but not sight unseen. Wait a minute, huh you see it
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from Joyce Freeman malone. That's right, and I got a blank check right
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here in my pocket, authorized to fill it out unless you're completely unreasonable,
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I say, Oh, now, look, Malo, this heatwave thing is
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going over one thousand percent better than any of us expect. I know,
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I know, but you see price is high already in the bit it only
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started to come in. Oh excuse me, I just opened the bottle afar
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my saw for that. Help yourself my lobby right back, perfectly good telephone
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sat within an arm's reach of lake. But instead he went down the hall
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of an extension and closed the door behind him. It was distinctly malpractice.
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For time was running out on me, so I picked up the phone and
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listened. Is mister Richley the judor Oh yes, what is it? Richley?
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The bracelet you selected is ready now we can deliver it immediately. Go
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to miss need or close a card. Don't worry, darling, you're my
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real heat wave. Time it Tracy lovely lovely and the engagement ring at the
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sun boots. Yeah, that's what mister bar too, But deliver that to
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the theater at midnight. Got I thank you and congratulations Tracy Lake and needle
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Var. Who might she be? Alright, my little personal business now you
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were saying, yeah, yeah, I was saying, I can hand you
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a nice fact check if this mass marvelous is really okay. You're building up
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to quite a surprise, Tracy. You must have something, Yea. Indeed,
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I have old boy Lendy. I can't reveal the lady's name until midnight,
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all right, play coroy. What's her background? And she got class
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Milo, you wouldn't believe it. Not blue book stuff, society girl in
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burlesque. Anything's possible, Malo. Sure, sure she could even be from
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nob Hill. Huh eh, Like I said, anything's possible. Sure,
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okay, Tracy, that's what I wanted to find out. See after the
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unveiling, and you got a great night for it. Oh, Malo.
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I suppose big Get Peters is in on the deal as usual along with Josh.
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Yeah, it's a regular Josh Freeman deal, just as usual. See
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you later, Tracy. Hello, this is Marlow Jr. I just wound
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up an interview with Tracy Lake when I threw nob he'll let me turn green.
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It's not official yet. The odds are high that it's your sister Midjell
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right, who was knocking him dead as the heat wave. I knew it
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a horrible little triumph. What else did you find out where she is?
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Yeah? Yeah, she's going under the name of Needle LeVar and staying at
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forty four edged with Terrace Nary MacArthur Park. But listen, it's not positive
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yet, so I'm going there to check right now. Where are you calling
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from the phone booth at the closed gas station out here on Wheelshire? But
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I, oh, what what is it? Marlow? I am about to
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start earning that fee of yours baby, three hundred pounds of muscle in the
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shotskin suit, just walked up. Goodbye, Hello, Sonny. Well my
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pilldown, pal. So the boss was right. You're just a cheap,
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nosy reporter. After all. It's Crampton there, ain't it. But you're
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not getting out bub Now wait a minute, Jesse, it's a hot night.
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Let's not work up a sweat. Don't you worry about that? Mister
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Lake pegged you as a phony. Nosy, and that's bad. What do
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you mean phony? You said Big Ed Peters was in on a deal with
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Josh Freeman. All right, what about it? Big Ed's been dead for
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twelve years. You know what, He's still going to look better than you
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are. A thirty second from now, in just a moment, the second
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act of Philip marlow But first tomorrow night, in order of their appearance,
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you'll hear Joseph Cotton, Ozzy and Harriet, Jack Benny and his gang,
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Amos and Andy, sam Spade, Lumon Abner, Helen Hayes, Eve Varden,
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and Hold Tight. Now a special show with Bing Crosby, Bob Hope,
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Claudette Colbert and Daymer over most of these same CBS network stations, and
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Jack Benny with Mary Phil Dennis, Donn Rochester will be heard over them all.
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Now with our star Gerald Moore, we returned to the second act of
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Philip Marlowe and tonight's story the heat Wave. When the little man in big
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iron boots were kicking at the lining of my temples finally quit and I dragged
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myself back up to the vertical. Gargantua was gone, and I was sure
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of only two things Tracy Lake did not know that I was anything other than
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a nosy reporter. And second, and more important, it was time for
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me to head for Edgewood Terrace and the lady known as Nita LeVar As.
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I started for the front door of number forty four, which was an all
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alone stucco on the tile, ill shaped that showed a single light. The
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little men in iron boots was to work again. It reminded me that it
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might be healthier if I first found out exactly what was waiting behind the mat
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mark weapon. So I made a wise circle around the back, then in
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closer passed the whispering huddle of palms through a flagstone patio that led to a
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short flight of also flagstone steps. But there, when I was only a
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few feet from an uncurtained window, I stopped at the sight of something I
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hadn't expected, with the body of a woman lying in a twisted heap at
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the bottom of the stairs. When I moved closer, I saw that the
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ugly cut on the side of a head that had killed her had come from
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the jacket edge at the last step. I also saw that the woman was
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Midge Driscoll. Next to the body, there was an overturned crushed sprinkling can,
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which meant that she could have fallen to her death accidentally. Also,
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it could have meant that I murdered a killer had overturned and crushed the sprinkling
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can as well. I was somewhere between the two thoughts when I heard a
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car break to a stop in front of the house. Then high heels on
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a cement walk, it quietly moved around to where I could see something tall
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and blonde, who, in a better light would have been better looking.
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Good evening names, Philip Marlow mean anything and try this. I'm a friend
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of Midge Driscoll's. I never heard of anyone by that name. I bet
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step up a little closer, honey. Now wait a minute, mister high
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Midge. Yeah yeah, Midge in driscol name you never heard of? Remember?
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Now what do you say? Do we play it straight? Yeah?
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Yeah, I'm Needa LeVar, mister Marlow, maybe you're getting in deeper by
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the minute. And by that I specifically mean that Midge Driscoll here and Needle
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LeVar are one and the same. Oh you're crazy. I know my own
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name. It isn't always husband, Nita LeVar, that's Midge Driscoll. All
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right, since you've grown so cooperative, maybe you can tell me why she's
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dead. Could be that she fell down the stairs an hour before her unmasking?
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Is the heat wave heap? You know? An awful atmoshi? How
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come it's strictly business. I'm a private detective with clients. We'll talk about
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that later. Right now, it's time to go in and call the police.
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Don't tell me you can't find your key. Don't worry, private detective.
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I want here cat got it. Now, let's get inside. But
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let's not I call the police. Huh? Why not? Are you afraid
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that they'll I see what you and that pretty little gun mean. I'm glad.
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I'd hate to have to shoot you. Why I want to night you
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quota? Don't fay funny? I didn't kill Mitch, don't why no police
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for a very good reason. Until tonight, mollow, I've been the heat
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wave, the substitute heat wave for the lady there who didn't have the time
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or the talent for the build up to the great joke she was gonna pull
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on a system. You mean you were the one I saw today, the
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one everybody saw every day, and like like so much. The business boomed,
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and all the heads in the front row weren't bald, which has what
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to do with me calling the police in general, everything, in particular my
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career. I tried to get that crazy kid there to back off and let
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me go on with the act that she'd kill after one performance, but no,
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miss Bunny money Banks wouldn't hear of it. Now that she's dead,
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you're in, is that it silent? And that's also the reason why I
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don't want to spend the next two hours talking to cops. So go on,
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put the key in the lock, turn it, open the door,
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and walk in. What happens then, then, mister Marlow, we call
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Tracy Lake and arrange for a playmate for you. I made named Jesse.
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Maybe a playmate named Jesse and no maybe. When we got inside needle a
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vow, handled a prisoner with a finessa marine god detachment, took my gun
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through it across the room, put me into a far away straight back chair,
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and got through the Tracy Lake without once taking a baby blue eyes off
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me. And when she told the man she called Darling all about Midge's death,
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which could have been my benefit, she placed a rush order for the
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monster. After that, she hung up, sat down with a cigarette and
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waited. But a second lady, she was back on her feet when I
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said that friend Jesse was fast, she said, I should shut up and
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more it model. You do exactly as I say, hell me, I
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stay right where you are and don't so much as open your mouth. Who
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is it? Oh? Good? Come on in, hippy, Hi,
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since I knew it, Never mind what you're talking. Just come in and
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listen. It isn't midges night, hinky, it's mine, And don't ask
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questions now here? Oh what's a good for nea? What's the matter?
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A private detective, but public nuisance named Marlow? Marlow a detective. He
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told me it was from Josh Freeman's office. Ah, he was lying.
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Now get this hanky, Midge Driskell is out and back dead for what.
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I don't know why, and I care less. But Marlow here is crazy
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for calling the cock, which would leave me at midnight doing my big number
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for the desk. Tageant great, So use that guncy and hold him here
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until Jesse shows up, which should be any minute. Now, go bye
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and be careful, hanky hell on bright bye, gentle soul. Have Bonds.
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Never mind, Malow save the gap for Jesse. He's a great listener.
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I doubt if for give me the time, considering that, I know
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it's an odds on bet, it'll be a couple of slugs in my belt
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buckle before he's even in the room. Jesse kill you? Why would he
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do that? Because he works for Tracy Lake, and Tracy Lake has to
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kill me, Bonds. I know he's a murderer. Midge Drisco was murdered.
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You sure of that? Just about? It doesn't figure any other way.
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Nita herself told me how much this chance means to her and how hard
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she tried to get Midge to back off. Eh. But Tracy, how
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does he die? In two ways? The money you'll get out of the
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show continuing indefinitely, and better than that, the fact that he and Nita
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are going to be married? Those two get married? You're not smiler?
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No, No, that's straight, Bonds. I know because I overheard Tracy
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talking to a jeweler about the ring he ordered. You mind if I have
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a cigarette? Hey, Bonds, can I reach for a cigarette? Oh?
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Yeah? Okay, Hey Mallow, you sure this everything you just said?
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I mean about them getting married now sure I am. Why are a
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little disgusted with your buddies? Yeah, so as of right now you can
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do as you want. I'm believing Jesse. Hey, Jesse, don't shoot.
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I won't mister Bonds. Less, of course you buster try to get
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out of here. Yeah, you were gonna let Marlow go, mister Bonds.
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I don't think mister Lake would like that. I'm sure he wouldn't,
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Jesse, So why don't you just save everyone a lot of time and start
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pulling that trigger. You can still see what you're doing. Get going,
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Barnes, you you dirty lost. I'll till let me get out of here
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alive. Where are you? Come on? Talk? Why? Why?
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And to me? To me, it's pleasure, stink and slim. I'll
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tell you apart if I get my hands on you. It's Jesse boy,
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there's the trick. And after I'm meeting in a phone, both powers you
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pick eight pas at all. After I got some lights on and found my
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gun when Nita had tossed it when we first came in, I checked Jesse
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over once to make sure that he was neither dead nor too alive, and
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I started for the door. But there even as my hand closed over the
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knob, I stopped, a crazy thought from I don't know where wedging its
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way into my mind. I turned back toward the room and stared at the
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flower and bars strewn the form of the ape that covered half the coppet.
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Then slowly the wage broke through and there was light, lots of it,
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the kind in which I could see why Miss Drisco had been murdered, and
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more important, why I had to get to the Palace Theater a needle above
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before murder happened again. I lurched in the curb in front of Nitas.
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Of twenty minutes to twelve. When I screeched to a stop downtown at the
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Palace without somehow hitting or being hit along the way, those twenty minutes were
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gone, and I was worried because midnight meant that Nita would already be on
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stage for the unmasking. I raced past the general at the door and then
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acrossed the lobby and into the theater, where I figured I could get down
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a side aisle of the wings. That was figuring wrong, because fire laws
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notwithstanding, the place was strictly sro and packed tighter. In the seventh game
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World Series between the backs of aspiring. Next I could see that Nita,
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who was a FROs stage, and Tracy Lake himself and in the center of
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a single spotlight that could have opened a supermarket was still mass. So while
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I prayed that Laker was winding up the speel would think of bigger and better
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adjectives, I ran back to the lobby and ronde a fighter stairs that led
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to the first balcony, where over on one side and near the railing,
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I found an old man who was daddy to a trio of baby spots and
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the one giant that was on me there I shoved him aside just as Lake
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finishing. The maestro took over, and with one hand I got a good
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grip on the thirty eighth my pocket and with the other the handle on the
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big spot. Hey, what are you doing? Open? I'm wrong,
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dad, But if not hoping the gunna expect doesn't come from the wings.
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But hey, there in that side balcony near the curtain, see it,
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yeah gun all right, Hey, that chinky bar right, Let's give the
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funny man a big audience and lots of light. You're on fine, watch
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out, he's gonna shoot the USh and us at him, You got him,
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You got him. It was twenty minutes of bedlam, police music,
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and two quick numbers by Needle LeVar, all of who's shaking was not routine
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before the Palace got back to the quiet business of being a burlesque hous and
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the show went on. It was another hour and twenty minutes before it was
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all over, and the theater was empty and dark, except for a worklight
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on the stage where Nita, Tracy Lake, and I were sitting in the
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middle of a paper machet inca civilization. Well, Milo, the police say
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that Hinky's going to live for a while. I can't figure the guy.
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I never know. We felt that way about Nita here, Nidad. I
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was always okay to him, and I knew he could some But that's as
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fy as it went with you, Nita. Yeah. But with Hinky it
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was something else, something strong enough to make him kill Mitch Bisco so that
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Nita would get a big chance. He malo, mm hmm. And when
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he found out through me that you two were going to be married, he
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he realized that the murder he had committed was for nothing, and now he
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was going to make one count. So he turned on you Nita. How
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did you find out some time to get to him before he could make a
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try for Nita? And the way the guy sagged when I said you were
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going to be mar told me all I had to know. But it was
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cinched by the American beauties draped around Jesse American beauties flower. Yeah. See,
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I remember the phone call, Hinky Maide. You needed been the lady
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to talk to and loved Naron Outo was a little better than the shot in
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the dark. Two shots in the dark, Marlo, good ones that are
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responsible for Nita still being here with it. Thanks yeah, Mada, thanks
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a lot. I'll mention it. After all, I was paid for my
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work, and besides that dance you do needed along as to posterity a good
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night. It was still hot in the city. I had no enthusiasm for
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further conversation, the very sticky feeling from head to foot, so I took
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care of Karen Driscoll Junior in a fast telephone call and then pointed my cough
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my part. I couldn't help thinking of poor little Hinky Bonds brought laughter to
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everyone else. I could find no happiness for himself. He was like the
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man who went to see a doctor one day and said, doctor, I
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can't laugh anymore. And the doctor said, go and see Grock, the
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greatest clown of them all. If he can't make your laugh, there's no
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help for you. The man smiled and said, thank you, doctor.
29:30
You see I am Grok. The Adventures of Philip Marlowe created by Raymond Chandler,
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star Gerald Moore and are produced and directed by Norman McDonald. Script is
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by Meldon la Robert Mitchell and Gene Levitt. Featured in the cast were of
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Heavy, Janice Wilms, Herbert ed Begley, Elsie Holmes, Barney Phillips,
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and Byron Kin. The special music is by Richard o'reon hessuring't be with us
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again next week when Philip Marlowe says, it started it down in Los Angeles
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taxi and wound up that night on a cliff in the middle of the Pacific,
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all because of a Dutchman with fifty thousand bucks of cops in a lily
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pond and an Oriental with a show for who wanted a cloak made of nothing
30:30
but feathers In just about an hour from now fifty thousand dollars the biggest jackpot
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and radio History will be waiting CBS listeners from coast to coast on the Singing
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Again program over most of these same CBS network stations. This is Roy Rowan
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speaking Now stay tuned for Gangbusters, which follows them over most of these stations.
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This is cd AS to Columbia Broadcasting System Welcome back. Well, this
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wasn't one of my favorite episodes. It's kind of hard for me to put
31:19
a finger on as to why. Certainly it wasn't a bad one. I'm
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not going to go all Emily Braddock matter on it. I have to say
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my favorite part of this one was actually the end with Philip Marlow telling that
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story. It was actually pretty profound and it went very well with the solution.
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All right, Well, we have a couple housekeeping items now. First
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of all, this is I do want to say regarding the new headset,
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it really is appreciated having this support that allows us to make sure we're giving
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folks the best listening experience possible. We just got a lot of issues regarding
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the Snowball, and I don't think it's because Snowball's a bad mic. It
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may just be my particular setup and configuration of systems. If you've got more
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space or better sound equipment other than the snowball might work better. But even
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just playing back some of the of my own audio as I'm recording, it
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sounds so much better. So unless there's major objection to the new headset,
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we'll keep with it. But we got a good number of complaints with the
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snowball, so the snowball will go into mothballs for now, though I'm going
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to keep it around because when you're podcasting, stuff happens, Mike's break and
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you need to have a spare around so that, as they say in the
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stage, the show can go on. Now. I want to talk about
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video feed for a moment. Coming up on Sunday, We're going to bring
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you a television episode of the Adventures of Philip Marlow, and I'm discussing it
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here because it's a somewhat obscure chapter in the character's history. Philip Marlow did
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come to television as a regular television show from nineteen fifty nine to sixty with
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Phil Carrey in the title role of Philip Marlowe. Carrie in the last nineteen
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or twenty years of his life was probably best known for his role on One
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Life to Live the long running soap opera. The series is essentially a somewhat
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typical late fifties early sixties detective show, and I have to say that's not
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a bad thing. I love late fifties early sixties detective shows. Peter Gunn
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and Johnny Staccato and all those guys a certain field of the show, and
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Marlow has it. Probably the most uniquely Marlow thing was the special gun storage,
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and it also has a great opening, and I hope you enjoy it.
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There are only two of the twenty six episodes, all of which are
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public domain, but only two are in public in circulation, and we'll play
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one of those for you this month, and another one of those further down
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the line. All right, well, that will do it for today.
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We will be back tomorrow with Nick Cartermaster Detective, and then join us next
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Wednesday for the adventures of Philip Marlow. In the meantime, send your comments
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