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Philip Marlowe: The Dancing Hands (EP1367) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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a email address ask your request. All right, well, now it's time
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for today's episode of the Adventures of Philip Marlow. Original air date March nineteenth,
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nineteen forty nine, and the title is The Dancing Hands. They were
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born at the same hour on the same day of the same parents, and
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they were identical in beauty and talent. Only one was deadly, but the
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other was not. And I couldn't tell which was which until I found a
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green purse, a fresh corpse, and a pair of dancing hands. From
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the pen of Raymond Chandler, outstanding author of crime fiction, comes as most
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famous character as CBS presents The Adventures of Philip marlow Now with Gerald Moore starred
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as Philip Marlowe. We bring you tonight's exciting story The Dancing Hands. The
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telegram I found stuck in the mail slot when I got back to my office
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after a long and round about day red and closed find a fifty dollar money
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order. I want you to investigate a man. A table is reserved for
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you with a saddle club where I work. Come in time for the second
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show at eleven. Important was signed Beth Tyler. So at a quarter to
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eleven, With fifty bucks worth of inspiration behind me, I drove over the
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Kowenga Freeway and Outventier to the Saddle Club, which pretended to be Old English
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by showing its beams through a flagstone facade. I went in the carefully roughewn
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oak door, and even before my eyes became adjusted to the cozy lack of
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candlepower inside, Neil Redmond, owner and operator of the Place Glide, had
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taught me sporting his genial pose smile, which tonight was even more false than
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usual. Oh, it's been a long time. Isn't this a pleasure?
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For It's always a pleasure to come to the Saddle Club, Neil. I've
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even got a reservation. You know my food better than that mother does.
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Don't let it get it off. When you come on, I'll find the
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table out front. I wanted to see this show para twins in a twin
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piano act. That's sensational. Yeah, median Beth Tiling. Oh, houses
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fine. Incidentally, Edie will be the one on the left, well,
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the twins, what's the difference? Funny? He maybe missus Redmond one of
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these days, but I wanted on the poon. Sir, I get the
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number, George and I'll call back. This gentleman said you would talk to
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him, Sir, it is mister Paula all sit Oh yeah, yeah,
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excuse me, Mollo, this is important. Redmond reacted from the name Cedar
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like a punch in the nose. But I figured that was none of my
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business, which was more than I could say for a flatty, dull faced
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character. The next table, who followed the nightclub owner all the way out
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of the room with a pair of watery red eyes, which she deliberately avoided
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turning in my direction. But at that point an MC stepped out on the
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stage, and so I stopped worrying about Flappy in favor of the first look
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at my client. The Sad Club is it sticking show a beave featuring the
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incomparable piano, stylist eat and dancing dancing hands cheering your ladies and gentlemen,
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bring them up. The curtains parted on the stage set with an oversized full
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length mirror which reflected a grand piano, a black vase of yellow flowers,
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and a tall brunette with a ry, crisp voistline, who touched up a
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piled high hairdo, put on a pair of long black gloves, checked her
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hemline, and sat down at the piano, and she ran through an involved
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arpeggio while her reflection in the mirror looked on in admiration. It was an
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old but cute routine, and the illusion was perfect because the toilet's wings were
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practically identically took a I have a look at Flabby, whose face was pushed
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up in a nasty leer. He stood out, dropped his cigarette into his
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drink, and tossed a crumpled bill down on the table. Just as the
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lights went out for the trick part of the act. On the dark stage,
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two pairs of purple hands danced over two glowing silver keyboards, which would
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have been good excepted the pair of hands on the right, which belonged to
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Bed, suddenly stopped in midair and hit blue notes like a nine year old
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at their first recital. When the lights came up again, my client's face
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was as white as middle Sea, and the flabby character, using a victorious
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smile, was on his way to the door. Well. They wrapped it
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up fast after that, and Beth ran into the wings, leaving Dye to
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take the bow along. The band took over in a hurry and brought things
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down to normal. So his couples moved down to the dance floor and George
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the way to head it to my table. I sat back and waited for
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that message for my clio. You are the compliments of the Hawks. Oh
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thanks, any message with us, no, sir, just said mister Van
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to the lead. Oh thanks, George, I said to the Devil's got
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you, and wondered if I should take the initiative and contact my client.
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When the message I've been waiting for came, good in loud. I jumped
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up, shut my way through the gaping dances. In the dressing room hallway
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behind the stage, a gang of club personnel was bunched in front of a
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door obviously locked. Label Edy and Beth Tyler. It's one of the twins,
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she screamed. We got to get in that doors lit right of time.
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But I have ay. It's Edie's a hole. She's all right,
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he her on, give her a chance. Come on outside, everybody beat
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It means you too, Come on out. You're all right now, come
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on, sit down and tell me what happened. I don't know for sure.
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I was worried about this. I came back and didn't see her anywhere,
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and I heard a noise in here. It was dark. I came
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in. Someone grabbed me. Man, Yes, I don't know who it
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was, I screamed. He knocked me down, then locked the door.
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Got out through the window. There. Who are you? I'm Philip Malo,
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a private detective. His sister hired me to investigate a guy. I
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was to meet her here after your number and find out about it. Any
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idea? What's up? No? I can't imagine, but gee, Beth
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has been terribly upset ever since last night? Oh what happened last night?
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Well, for one thing, my purse was stolen, But I don't see
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why that should upset her. See there was nothing in it but twelve dollars
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in my makeup stuff. Where's Beth naughty? You know? No, I
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haven't seen her since she ran off the stage. I'm not even sure she
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came in here. Now she was here, all right, she dropped one
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of her gloves. You're still wearing both of yours. Where do you girls
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live? Maybe she went home? Well, Beth has a cottage out on
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Hazel Team forty one seventy nine. They don't live together. How come?
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Well, gee, mister Marlow, he was working with Beth is hard enough.
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She's so sarcastic. Okay, wear my thick skin. And one more
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thing, Tyler, do you happen to know where Neil went? Neil's gone?
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See that's funny. He always tays, toll the place closes. Oh
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he must be coming right there. I'll take a look, and then I'm
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going out to see his sister. Sarcasm at all. I spent ten minutes
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questioning the help on the whereabouts of the boss and got nothing but double talk
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for answers. Since I was still carrying BET's glove around with me, I
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dropped it in my pocket and went outside to my car. I'd opened the
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door and slid fine enough under the wheel, so I couldn't back out before
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I realized that the dull faced flag was already there on the seat, his
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right hand wrapped around something blunt and menacing in his sloppy jacket pocket. You
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better come on in. Are you doing in my car? Blah blah?
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Boy, don't get sassy, no, mister, And the name is Sippy.
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That's no improvement, that's no answer, all right. I saw you
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inside making with a big talk, so I says to myself, he's an
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interested party. I should look him up. Maybe we can do business together.
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Stay over there. My kind of business, in particular about the gutters
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I crawl in. It has to do with the twins inside there. You
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can get in touch with me later further details. I got an angle,
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mister, you'll see when I leave. Eh. When you try to work
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that angle, you got to the wrong twin in the dressing room. Do
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you know then? I don't know what you're talking about. Okay, Sippy?
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Why can I reach you? You'll find out if you really know what's
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up. Don't try to follow me, though, I'll be seeing it.
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When Sippy slid out of the car and beat it, I made one move
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after him and then stopped cold, because lying on the seat where he'd been
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sitting was a green the handbag with the name Edie edgeton it. I snapped
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it open. It had been stripped of everything, with the set of a
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mire and a smudge slip of paper that read number nine Arrow Motel, lancash
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And Boulevard. So that was Sippy's address, and he had the stolen purse.
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But the why of all the commotion over twelve missing bucks was still the
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number one question mark. I figured the best place for an answer to it
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was it Beth Tyler's. So I drove out the Hazel team. But even
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before I stopped at number forty one seventy nine, I heard the piano.
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I walked to the door and stood there on moment listening. I eased it
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open, slipped inside soft indirect lighting accent of the figure of a girl at
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the piano. The little waves of iridescent crimson chased themselves over the smooth satin
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gown as she played glossy blue black hair fell to he shows the side of
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a burning cigarettes had a single plume of smoke into the still air. That's
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for a moment, I found it difficult to remember that she was my client.
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Oh you're you're looking better bed you're Philip Marlow. I suppose, Yeah,
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I dropped by to return your glove, among other things. Just put
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it there on the table. The other one, Where did you get it?
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Marlo? You're dressing room at the club. Your sister tangled with an
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identified man who was hiding there after you left. While we're on that,
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why'd you shove off so fast? I was scared? How do you know
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i'd find you? You're a detective, remember, Look, if you want
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to burn up your retainer playing hide and seek at your business, who's the
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guy you want me to check on, the flabby one who made you blow
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up tonight? Yeah? Yeah, that's right. Why? Because I think
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my sweet twin sister is mixed up in something a little more serious than her
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usual scatterbrain escapade, and the flabby guy is in on it because he has
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a green purse? Right? How did you know that he left it with
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me? Name? Miss Sippi lives at the Arrow Motel Number nine knows something
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worthwhile about this business, and he's anxious to sell it, all of which
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puts him my Hopskip and a jump ahead of your detective. And tell me
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why is everybody, including Neil Redman, all wound up over one stolen purse?
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What's it all about? Baby? I don't know. Baby. Suppose
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you find out and tell me would never anything to do with the fact that
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Neil loves his sister and you love Neil Marlow. I hired you to investigate
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a man, not to pry into my personal affair. You'll get more for
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your money that stopped holding out on me. It's my money. Besides,
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I'm not holding out, believe me. I'll try real hard. Ever,
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since I've got something out courting. Where are you going now? My retainer
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entitles me to know, doesn't it. Yeah? And first of the club
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defined Redmond and get his side of it, and then I'll probably dropping on
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our chum the city at the Arrow Motel on Lancashire. Good. I'll keep
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a light in the window for you, sweet. I also keep your door
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lighted from the inside. Baby. As I drove down the dog winding straight
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toward Ventura Bulevard. I caught a flash in the rear view mirror of a
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station wagon behind me. Looked like a tail, so I opened up,
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but it stayed with me. When it swung out into the left lane to
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pass, it suddenly cut in front of me. I channed on the brakes,
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and the spotlight slashed in my eyes and on my front wheel banged against
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the curb. I was already half out of the car, set up right
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with you. Off, fella, don't come on in splosure, I'll drop
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you. He switched off the spotlight. I saw I face the texture of
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a dorm at over an embroidered purple shirt and orange tie. He had hand
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tooled high heeled boots on and was tapped off by a ten quart cream colored
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stetson. But the door mat face was grim and the silver barreled cold pistol
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in his hand looked right at home. I followed you away from the shaddle
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cloud. I don't know what your game is or why you're missing around and
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what don't concern you, but I aim to find out mighty quick. Shall
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start talking. Okay, First, I resent being crowded off the road.
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Second, I res had a spotlight in my face. And third, I
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don't like pistols pointed in my stomach, So cool off, Jesse James,
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you're wasting your time, and mind you got it wrong. Their friend Paul
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see that, don't waste his time. And you're gonna find that out all
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see that? Eh, don't tell me you're all excited over a stolen purse
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with twelve bucks in it. Twelve dollars. Yeah, listen, clown,
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there's thirty grand mission somewhere between redmen and me, and I'm gonna get it
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thirty thousand. Yeah. Redmond's a high roller and that's okay with me.
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But he lost at Fans Square and I joined over Nevada and I've been holding
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his marker as much too long. So if I have to chalk that dough
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off the experience, it's going to be a pretty unpleasant experience for a certain
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party. Get me, Yeah, I get you, But you're shoving the
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wrong way, long horned. Somebody's trying to make a fool out of me,
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bright boy, and I don't stand for that, unliabler shovel lo and
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hard, So don't get on the foot. You're sure to get stipped on.
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So long, dude in just a moment, we'll return to the second
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act of the Adventures of Philip Marlowe. But first, Tomorrow marks the anniversary
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of an important event in American history, the signing of the first peace Treaty
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between the Indians and the Plymouth Colonists. In commemoration of these events, CBS's
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Sunday Night stars Amos and Andy will be found with the Kingfish bearing the hatchet
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deeper than ever in their hopes and dreams, and CBS's own Jack Benny will
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be back again tomorrow with his special guest, Van Johnson. Invite some friends
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over, sit back and enjoy the Jack Benny program. You can hear Amos
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and Andy every Sunday on most of these same CBS Network stations and Jack Benny
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over them all now with our star Gerald Moore, we returned to the second
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act of Philip Marlowe and tonight's story The Dancing Hands. When the Texan from
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Nevada galloped off and his trustees station wagon, I forgot all about Neil Redmond
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and headed instead Pissippi and his further details at the Arrow Motel on Lancashire,
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where Bungalow nine turned out to be an all alone green and white collection of
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cladwood that showed light a half open door, and nobody home to my knock.
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When I tried knuckles on wood again and still got only a faint echo
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for reply, I stepped inside. There, in the center of an ivory
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white throw rug and clamoring for attention like an only child at a family reunion.
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Was a wide and wet circle of red. From there, the ugly
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spotches that narrowed as they got farther away, trailed off until finally, in
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the next room, the path ended where I expected it to, the quiet
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form of skipping, sprawled over an upset chair and holding his hands tight against
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the red on his left side. When I got to him, he was
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going fast, thirty grand lot of dough. I didn't know I was shooting
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that high. And the twins one wat sippy, one of them. Did
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one of them do this? Oh he's dead. His name Mamo, Yeah,
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yeah, Redmond, he's very dead, all o, Mollo. I
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only fought him a few seconds before you did. And the rest of that
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run I heard someone coming. You didn't want to be seen, so he
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ducked back out of sight. Huh. I don't buy it, Redmond,
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because for one thing, it's too pat for another. How do you explain
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being here in the first place. Come on fast, Okay, I'm here
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because I'm in a nasty jet like what like thirty thousand dollars I've got to
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pay in the next hour to a guy named Paul Sedo was running out of
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patients in a hurry. Believe me, but that I do. I've already
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met the gentleman right now, Redman, we're talking about Sippy. Okay,
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last night I had things to do, so I gave ead Tiler the money
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for the payoff the seater. A couple of minutes after she stepped out of
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the club, somebody roughed her up and got away with a purse and the
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thirty grand ar el liar, Redmond to yourself told me that personally had twelve
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bucks in it. How come simple? Like model in my business, you
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have a yell copper too soon or too love? It doesn't pay now.
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Look for the third time, Redmond, you and Sippy? How do you
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figure? I don't know he was at the club tonight, acting funny.
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He left. I got a glimpse of des green purse sticking out of his
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top coat pocket. Later on, I saw him run away from the carney
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of the club, so I followed. I ended up here a couple of
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minutes behind him, and that model was a truth, I sweat. Would
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you do at the drop of it? He wait a minute, look,
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if you're telling the truth. I began to get a different picture. By
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that, I specifically mean the very talent is a very sly name named Beth
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Tyler. Oh no, why not? Because you love Beth's too, they
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said, Redmond. It doesn't add up any other way. Sippy here couldn't
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have stolen that person meeting. He did it. I taken his down blow
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and not spent his time putting out feelers. But on the other hand,
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if Sippy happened to see Beth take it for me, he empty it and
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toss it away, We've got another story, right, because he wouldn't make
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a move until he knew how much he had gotten away with exactly. But
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there he ran into trouble because he was trying to get close to Beth,
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and then doing that he got mixed up and went for reedy instead, Like
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tonight at the club. Sure not dying man's words. Just now about one
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twig which you can add the unpleasant fact that I personally ran off at the
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mouth when I was up at Beths an hour ago, so she knew where
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to come for sippy. Look, Redmond, it's got to run that way.
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I'm sure of it. Well maybe you're right, Phil, but right
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or wrong, I'm still in a jam. So if you don't have any
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objections, I'm going back to my club now for a last try at raising
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that money again before Ceda shows. You mean you're going to face the meal
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with it without? I've got a model, you see. I own a
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fast club, all right, and I gamble a lot too, But I
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don't well tum my markers no more than I knock over flappy little guys.
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You know what I mean? Phil, I think so. But don't fold
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now, Neil, because I might still be lucky enough to catch up to
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Beth Tyler and you have money both before your time runs out and right now.
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That means fast to a phone and call Luidi, who might know which
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way a runaway twin Wood head. I'll see you, Neil. The nearest
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phone was an all night mobile gas station a block away. It's like no
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a Ledy's number, I thought, hit me. Maybe Beth wouldn't head anywhere.
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Maybe she'd just stick around. Hello, Edie, this is Marlow.
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Seen anything of Beth? No? I haven't. But why what is it?
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Marlow? Often? Where I stand? Two things? First, your
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sister has the thirty twelve dollars. It was in your purse last night.
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Oh and second, she's just about it. For a sloppy around the edge
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is murder? Now? Look, have you any idea where Beth Wood head
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if she had to get out of town to hurry? No, I don't,
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Marlow. Oh well maybe somebody up around her place does. I'll call
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you later, Marl A way, are you sold on this? I mean
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about the things you said Beth did just about Edie. But for your sake,
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let's hope I'm wrong all the way, honey, goodbye. Driving fast
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back to our bethplace on Hazeltine still left me enough time to think about it.
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Not too small a tail that I completely overlooked. Thanks to me,
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the entire Los Angeles police to pop and knew nothing about what was going on
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in and around the Saddle Club. Five minutes later, when I'd parked away
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from the dock and obviously deserted number forty one seventy nine I'd walked back and
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around to a pair of uncurtained French doors at the side. I knew that
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oversight is what is generally called a blunder, but the next second I knew
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it was nothing compared to the one I was making. Currently. If you
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so much as turn your head again, Marlow, I'll kill you, not
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like it did Sippy. Please, if i'd hate to go that way,
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Sippy was a mistake, Malo. Believe me. I was rush so you're
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shot, and ran, yes, but I didn't run too far because from
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where I stood, I could hear and see both you and Redmond and talking
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the whole thing over. When you knew that we caught ont of HERAQ,
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you decided to follow me and see where I was going before you made your
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next move, said it exactly. Now get inside, go on. The
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door is unlocked, all right, Now get over there. Hear that closet,
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and don't turn around. Why not ready to look on my face when
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you shoot? Shut up, Malow, and stop being brave, because unless
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I have to, I'm not gonna kill you. After all, You've already
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served your purpose, which I presume was getting mixed up in this mess,
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just long enough to find out about sippy for you you presume correctly. Also,
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you talk too much. I'll open that closet and get inside, all
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right, go on as you say, first, baby, one question?
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Did you do all this for the thirty grand alone? But is a tie
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in with Neil Redman in the way he feels about your sister RIDI it's a
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little bit of each Marlow. But as I said, you talk too much,
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so get in there and shut up. Getting out of beth Tailor's half
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inch thickoed closet was like arguing with an umpire. It couldn't be subtle.
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So twenty tiring minutes went by, and the heels on both my feet were
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numb before the paneling finally gave in and I was out and over to the
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telephone to put in a call to the police I should have been made a
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long time ago. But then, even as I was halfway through dialing the
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numbers, I saw something on an end table nearby that made me slowly change
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my mind. It was the two black gloves at Beth wore in the Dancing
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Hands act, And while I stared at him like they were alive in Beckoning,
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I thought hot, for it must have been a full minute, and
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then suddenly I knew that my next stop had to be the Saddle Club.
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As I parked at the Saddle Club, I saw a light drifting out of
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Neil's office, which was something I'd expected. Inside, I moved along a
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dark hall, but what I knew would be the trio of Neil Redmond and
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Nevada Texan and Eddie Tayler. Raucous voice of Paul Citar was anything but happy.
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How stupid do you think I am? Cedar? I'm telling the truth.
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Edie had the thirty crowd, but somebody got it from her when she
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was on a way to you. That's a sticking line, you know it.
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Redmond, You never had the money. This whole thing's been a frame
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to stall me, and one way or another, I'm gonna get you to
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admit that I not see there. If you don't drop that gun now,
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you're never gonna do anything ever. Come on, let it go, all
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right? I sat down and shut up and listen hard, because Redman's telling
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you the truth. Paulo, you know where the money is, that's right.
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I also know who took it. Less than an hour ago, a
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little after I called you, Edie, Beth caught up to me and confessed
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the whole she bang exactly as we figured it, Neil. I mean she
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admitted getting the money from media and using you to locate Sippy. That's right,
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but there's only one drawback to everything she admitted. None of it's true.
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What do you mean, mam. I mean Cedar that Beth Tyler didn't
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ste your money from me to hear anymore than she killed Sippy. I also
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mean that, as far as I can tell, Beth Tyler was anything more
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than that girl who played the piano and got upset when a stranger named Sippy
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started to bother and I never saw the real Beth Tyler after she ran away
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from a piano in the club tonight. That she's dead and that you we'd
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even posing his Beth all night because one you yourself stole Neil's money until you
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murdered your sister as well. Yeah, Cdie, come on, admit it
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as true. It isn't, I guess it isn't that Marlow and BET's buddy
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in our dressing room in the closet. I didn't want to kill her,
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but she found out that I had only pretended to be robbed when there was
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no one around that Sippy had seen me scream and get rid of the purse
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myself, Sippy, who was only trying to muscle in on a deal and
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went to her by mistake. Huh. Yes, that's how she knew what
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I'd done when she confronted me in the dressing room just before you came in
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and said that she wouldn't stand by and let me do a thing like that.
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To Neil, I lost my temper, Yes I didn't. And when
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Marlow showed up after her scream, I said that someone had attacked me,
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and then I pretended to be both Beth and myself from there on to get
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out of the whole thing. And I almost did. No, I'm so
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sorry. A couple of bad hours went by before the police had everybody's story
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in. Paul Cedar in the thirty thousand was gone for Nevada and Edie was
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gone for good. That left just Neil Redmond and me alone and standing near
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the main bar in the club. It was doing his best to stay all
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in one piece. It's been a tough night for you, hasn't it.
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Yeah, but a tough one for you. Neil out with Cedar and the
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money and the girls allow. Yeah, they used to came out right before
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the cowboy got too tough. Thanks to you, They tell me, Phil,
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how'd you know that Beth was dead and that Edie was both people all
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along? It was a couple of gloves, neil the ones they wore in
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their dancing hands. Act. You see. When I first met Eddie in
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the dressing room, she was wearing hers, and one of Beth's was on
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the floor. They palled me one will you Yeah? Okay, I took
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it, and later, when I met what I thought was best, I
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returned it and she put it with what we both thought was it's made.
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Yeah. Thanks. But a little while ago, when I got close to
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the gloves again, I saw that that couldn't be that they were both for
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the left hand, neil Ah. Then when Adie went to best Place to
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pass herself off as her sister, who she had already killed, she was
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smart enough to know that she should have only one glove, aroun Yeah,
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but not smart enough to think about which glover it should be. Mayor,
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I worked backwards until you got to the three of us at the club and
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tried what you knew might be the right answer. Well, you were right
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Phill all the way. Yeah, but I was still gambling if I had
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been wrong, Neil, I was giving the real Beth a long head style.
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It's always that way when you gamble, fell I know, sometimes you
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pick right, sometimes wrong, and God's dice, even with twins. And
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I thought, when I finally got to my car and started out of the
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valley and back toward Hollywood, it was better than eight o'clock in the morning.
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And here and there as I drove, I saw people who I had
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never heard of and who had never heard of me, stumbling outside after their
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morning papers. And I got to wondering what they were going to think when
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they read about a girl who had killed both a twin sister and a nightclub
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and a flabby guy in a motel who wasn't much good. Oh well,
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it was hard to say, And for myself, I was desired to think.
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Well, we have a recurring save in this story with or in the series,
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at least over the last couple of days of people being somewhat casual about
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the death or turning out to be a crook of their fiances. And I
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guess in both cases you might be able to chalk it up a bit to
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you know, not being particularly a motivor and other people you know, particularly
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those you don't know well, and also some relief had not actually being implicated
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in the crime that could have had a severe consequence, but still a little
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I've been nice to see some writing the reactions. But other than that,
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this is the solid episode. And I've found the love clue not particularly believable,
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just because you know, it's one of those little details that you might
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tend to overlook but not fill tomorrow, clever private eye. That is all
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right. Well, on to listener comments and feedback really quickly here and I
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have this from Andrew who says, Adam, I really enjoy your podcast and
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appreciate the time and effort you put into them. I started listening when driving.
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That was the only crime mystery you did. Don't think I would have
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heard the others if it weren't for you, Andy from Richmond, Virginia.
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Well, thanks a lot, Randy, and I'm glad to explain and expand
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Folks's old time radio detective horizons, and hopefully we'll continue today to that in
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the weeks and months ahead. Well tomorrow it's going to be an episode of
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Nick Carter. And then be sure and listen to us again next Wednesday for
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