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Philip Marlowe: The Lady in the Mink (EP1403) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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Box one five nine one three. That's Box one five nine thirteen, Boise,
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Idaho eight three seven one five Again pill Box one five nine one three,
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Boise, Idaho eight three seven one five. Well, now it's time
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for today's episode of the Adventures of Philip Marlow. Original air date April the
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thirtieth of nineteen forty nine, and the title is The Lady in Mink,
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The Thick FuG that clung to Los Angeles. Made searching for the girl who
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was going to kill herself slow and uneasy. But in the end I'd have
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settled for that and more, because murder happens twice before I found the Lady
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in Mink. I'm the pennant Raymond Tandler. I'm standing off of crime fiction
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comes his most famous character in the Adventures of Philip Marlowe. Now with Gerald
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Moore starred as Philip Marlowe. We bring you tonight's exciting story The Lady in
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Mink by Pacific Coast time. It was only five o'clock in the afternoon,
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but the dense, billowing pug that was heavy over everything like a huge thick
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hand said it could be midnight, and Los Angeles could be London in May
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December. So when I got out of my car and walked toward the fuzz
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of Red Nea and that marked the hotel cocktail lounge where I was to meet
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my new client, Grace Tyler, I felt all alone and a little sorry
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that I wasn't in some nice, cozy nine to five business that would leave
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me heading for home now and maybe an evening with people who like to laugh.
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But when I was inside the lounge, which was imitation hunting lodge and
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friendly. I perked up some. My client was young and almost pretty,
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with dark shingled hair, dressed in somber gray and wore not enough makeup.
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Her eyes were swollen and red from crying. When I introduced myself, she
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tried to come right to the point, mister mollaway, I have to find
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my sister. Oh take it easy, honey, that won't do it.
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Who is your sister? It's all right. Her name is June Drake,
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mister Morrow, and she's in trouble. I got this letter from her hair
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trapped, no way out take my own life, hateful people. This is
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to say goodbye. Who's this Malnick? She mentions, you know, I'm
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missus Tyler. No, I never heard of Nate mail Nick before. I'm
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miss Tyler. My sister was the married one, mister Murlow. Her husband
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was Jew Drake. He died a few years ago. I see, have
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you been to the police with this? No, because well, you see,
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mister Marlow, Junis she's different, more full of fun than I am.
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And well she gets around and sometimes the strange people are dangerous ones.
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Yeah, I think I know what you mean, Grace, what does your
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sister look like? Why? She's about my height, has long red hair,
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and she's pretty, mister Malo, very pretty beside my looks. Anything
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else. Car clothes, yes, definitely, she always dresses well. She's
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overly fond of fours. Most of the time. She wears a mink store
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stolen kind of a cape. Yes, I see. June has an apartment
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in Beverly Hills. Mister Marlow thirty three hundred Rex for driving. I went
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there, but it was not. The neighbors say she left for New York
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a week ago. And yet, yeah, she couldn't have because this letter
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was mailed here in town only yesterday. Is that it? Yes? Oh,
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please, mister Mallow, do something here. Here's fifty dollars. I'll
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pay more fully. You'll hurry. No, that'll do it. Why can
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I get in touch with you, Grace. I'm staying here at the Beverly
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Crest Hotel. I don't live in Los Angeles. I was a starter.
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I think I'll try and have a th three hundred rucks for drive. I'll
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call you lady, goodbye, Grace. Outside, the fog felt about the
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same, but there was more of it, so I was fifteen minutes getting
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the June Drake's apartment, which was a ground floor arrangement, already in about
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the size and shape of the ale bowl. I was only half that time
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outsmarting the cheap lock on the back door, drawing all the blinds shut inside,
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and turning on a single light. But then there was no place.
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They were closed in the closets, prettier ones and the bureau draws. And
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it went on like that for forty five more minutes, everything just as it
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should be, and no lead until I was ready to lead. Then,
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on a coffee table, I saw something that stood out in that nest for
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the idle rich, like an ear to ear grin on an undertaker. Was
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a book of matches advertising Duke Gray's Billiard Academy third in Maine, where particular
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pool players congregate that in the name Melnick had to dove tailor. I was
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licked. The next hour was a lucky one. I found the Duke himself,
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both new and despised Melnick, whom he described as a hotly ever sober,
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dirty word front named Frank, who lived third floor rear at the Palace
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Arms That's tired walk up also on Main Street, so at exactly nine o'clock,
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I walked the length of a filthy car to stopped and knock the knuckles
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on my right hand almost raw before the door inched open, and a pair
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of shifty eyes and a puffy, pasty face blinked out at me. Yeah,
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what do you want? If you're Frank Melnick conversation, I'm not dressed
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for it, Honest, this isn't a social call, mister Melnicky, What
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do you think you're doing shoving away into my room? Who do you think
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you are? James Marlowe? I'm looking for June Drake. June. I
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don't know any June Drake. Honest, you don't convince me, Melnick.
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I'll shake the fuzz off your brain and start remembering, or you'll find yourself
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in trouble. Up your eyebrows. Okay, okay, I know when'd you
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last see it? Three weeks ago, maybe a month ago. He is
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an acquaintance from my hometown, that's all. Honest, you're a liar.
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June Drake would brush you off like a piece of lint, you know it.
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Listen, I'm as good as she as any day. Don't don't forget
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that. Your hands off me Melnick. Now get out of here. Go
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on, I told you wants Melnick. Let go okay, and I'll start
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talking, giving me straight the first time I get real mad. Come on,
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get up. Okay. There's a guy named Jeffy, Huge Jeffy.
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He's June's boyfriend. That's all I know, honest. All right, what's
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this stuff? These clippics and these pictures here? He used to be a
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photographer, honest, until your lens got bloodshot. Huh yeah, on the
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Selena's Herald Star. All right, Melnick, what's you Jeffy's address? It's
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two thousand and one North Beach would drive. Thanks, I'll try it,
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but if you're not telling me the truth, Melnick, I'll be back.
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Honest. Yeah, you want what Senor? I mister Hugh Jeffy he's not
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here. I and Margarita Jeffy his wife. What do you want with him?
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A few words? Missus Jeffy. Do you expect him soon since he
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does not live here anymore? No? Oh, you and here are divorced.
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Then I didn't know that, and I did not say that. Now
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what are you looking for? June Drake? What do you want to know
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about that? I want to know where that is. Can you help me?
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No, I cannot. I do not know, and I do not
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care. But when you find her, senor, I hope you find her
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dead. If I have followed the approved technique, I have lost the leg
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on the lady's threshold. And I was about to lean on a doorbell again
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to try once more for an address on mister Hugh Jeffe when I saw I
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didn't need to, because stuck over the mailbox was a letter forwarded to him
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at forty one Peacock Ley in Brentwood, California, which was a half hour
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drive due west of Hollywood. Thirty five field minutes later, Hugh Jeffy and
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I exchanged introductions, and I stated my purpose and I stumbled behind him through
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a two inch thick rug that ended in a no panel library, where he
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segart me, then settled back and waited. We looked at each other until
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it became embarrassing. Then he opened Marlow. I wish I could help you,
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but I haven't seen or heard of June Draken over three weeks. Well,
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I was under the impression that you two were on closer terms. Mister
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Jeffy, if you don't mind my mentioning it not at all I used to
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be, but all that's changed now. She was too expensive for me.
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Lovely creature, but terribly then, now that she's out of the picture,
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you're going back to your wife. No, I'm not, frankly, Marlow,
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Shall I say infatuation for June has completely destroyed everything Margarita and I ever
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had, which I suppose makes divorce the next step. Sure, I wish
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it were that easy. He refuses to give me a divorce, Marlow.
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Her way of striking back. Yeah, I know what you're getting at.
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I had a brief chat with missus Jeffy myself. Well, if you hear
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from you and get in touch with me, will you, I'll appreciate it.
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Of course. I'll be happy to help in any way I can.
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Please, Marlow, call me if you find her MM number here is Crest
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you eight nine one two too. Yeah, I'll remember it even if I
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find it dead. Did what do you mean by that? Well, where
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I stand, mister Jeffy, June Drake is dynamite. That stuff can blow
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up right in your face. Huh when you least expected. Good night.
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Sure it was double talk, but sometimes swinging wide and praying for a lucky
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punch beats waiting in your corner. Besides, that was as far as I
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could go on the book of matches. So after slowly walking your block through
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the chilling fog, I found a phone, called my client and brought her
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up to date on the Jeffy triangle and my own contention that if June Drake
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didn't try actually to kill herself, so you're a Margarita, Jeffy might that
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Grace wouldn't buy I can't believe it. Ll maybe you just don't want to.
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But either way, there's still Frank Melnick. We've already met Grace,
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and believe me, he's got all the charm of a black widow's spot.
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What does this Melnick dooms tomto? I mean, what work? Yeah,
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he's a drunk it used to be a photographer for some paper, the Selena's
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Herald Star. Yeah, why mister Mordel. June used to live in Selena
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when she was married to still drink You sure, Grace, positive Grace.
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How did June's husband die? Yeah, he was killed in a carriage,
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drove it over a cliff. June just got out in time. Nobody knew
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exactly how it happened. It was a terrible acted. Maybe what do you
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mean, Maybe Phil, you might as well face it, honey, because
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the chances are slimmer. That's the whole story. Look, Grace, suppose
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well, suppose something else happened, like like June being responsible for Stu's death.
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Oh yeah, and Melnick the photographer with a picture to prove it,
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you know, a small case of blackmail. No, feel you're wrong.
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She wouldn't kill I know this. Okay, Okay, she's your sister,
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Honey. I'll do the dirty guest work for both of us until we get
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some proof. And right now, that makes back to the hussy end of
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one Signora Jeffy my best bet, because the lady there is both jealous and
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hot, temperate daily double. It always runs in the money. It's a
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long baby. When I got back to my car and pointed to a two
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thousand and one North Beach would drive again, I was feeling pretty low because
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no matter which way I added things, June Drake always came out of minus,
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which wasn't good. Sometimes lady had a real sweet system. But then
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I told myself it was still the fog making the good look better and the
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bad worse. And to concentrate on my driving and the facts I had to
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go on. When I did just that, I took my foot off the
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accelerator and slammed it down under the brake hard. But it suddenly occurred to
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me that I was going the wrong way, because if I was right about
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Frank Melnick being a blackmailer and June Drake a killer, the Senora would keep
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a lot longer than the drinking man in the palace Arm's third floor rear.
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I was only three quarters an hour getting back down to Main Street, But
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even as I started at the foul smelling Rickety's table, there was a small
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voice inside kept telling me that I was too late. But a second later,
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as I moved quietly toward Melnick's door, two other voices, not so
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small, and coming from the room in questions said otherwise, said that Melnick
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was still around and as healthy as ever, but better than that, that
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his guest was the lady my client was paying me to find the lady named
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June Drake, all of which made this a good time for my right hand
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in the thirty eight of my pocket to get together while I listened carefully,
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then moved closer until I was next to the door. Oh, an empty
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gin bottle outside? The open up, Melick, before I blast my way
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in. Come on, okay, wise guy, Wait a minute, what
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the lady's exodus? I want you Melnick get back. Hey, Hey,
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what's the matter with you? What are you doing looking for June Drake?
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Remember? Now? Where is she? What are you talking about? I'm
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alone in here? Yeah, you always talk to yourself in a high voice,
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don't you. That window to the fire escape there is always open on
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foggy nights, too, isn't it. Listen, smart guy, I want
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to know where she. Wait a minute, this thing's stole here. Maybe
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it doesn't matter where she went. Maybe she'll be back after she thinks.
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I'm God. I don't think so. You see, mister, June Drake
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never left. She's right behind you. Stop bid in just a moment,
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we return to the second act of Philip Marlowe and Tonight's story, The
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Lady in Mink. Maybe June Drake could use the spiked deal of a shoe,
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maybe the butt of a pistol, but either way it didn't matter,
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because on the way to the floor, I'd bounced once off the shop corner
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of an end table, and this was why all the lights in the world
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had gone off for me at once. How as they blinked on again,
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one at a time, and I dragged myself hand over hand along the length
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of an iron bedpost until I was standing, I saw there was blood oozing
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from a cut on the right side of my face. But as the two
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rooms focused into one again, I forgot about the slightly battered morlow and concentrated
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instead on an open newspaper lying at my feet, because written across it with
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an eyebrow pencil and firm but feminine hand, with the words grace, call
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off your private detective, it's too late to help me. And near the
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end, but before I go, I'm going to take the two people with
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me who'll wreak my life? Goodbye. June. At that I started for
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the door in a hall phone to call a police, but then I stopped
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conscious for the first time of the half circle of hushed, gaping faces and
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bathrobes stood in the doorway. The gaping faces that Warrenant turned toward me,
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but over to a shadowed corner, were face down on a pool of his
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own blood, with the dead form of Frank Melnick in the middle of his
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back and ice pick red the hilt. Kennedy Barra's officer Mooney speaking Marlow Mooney.
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Where's he? Barre had to go out of Ton? Oh well,
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look money, I'm at a price. Call the palace arms on Maine near
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four third floor reared. There's a man named Frank Melnick with an ice pick
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in his back, very dead. Yeah, next newspaper photographer drunk and I
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think a blackmailer in reverse order. Any idea who did it? Uh?
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Huh? One June Drake, a red headed lady in mink was out to
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kill herself just as soon as she tied his upper affairs a bit which I
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think in clothes killing again so if you'll put out a call for her,
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I'll make by the ways a cape the lady young and about five six I'll
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try to get to what I think is our next stop before she does call
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you later. I got through my client and broke the news. She gasped
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and kept repeating no in a small, strained voice that kicked at the lining
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of my inside, no matter how fast I talked, So in one breath,
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I told her that I was going first for Margherita Jeffy, then her
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husband, either of whom could be next on June Drake's final agenda, and
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I gave it a Crestview phone number that Hugh Jeffie had given me sold her
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to call me there in an how I hung up and ran for my car
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in two thousand and one North Beachwood Drive, feeling punk. It was a
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minute better than midnight when I got there, and it was ten wet,
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dripping minutes more before the door finally opened. A hatchet faced housekeeper with a
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stocking on her head said that missus Jeffie had left a half hour ago,
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saying something about meeting a woman, and the housekeeper would have said more,
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but I was already back in my car heading for Brentwood, a number forty
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one Peacock Lane. There, the oriental houseboy said, the boss man was
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busy playing poker in the ben and something stronger than esperado. I made it
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clear that my business was more important. A minute later a door opened on
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the far side of the room. Excuse me, well, aren't you working
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a little lake tonight? Marlow? Murderer is always done during office, all
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is, mister, Jeffy murder? Yeah, with a nice pick at that.
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Tell me if you hurt from your wife of June Drake tonight, No,
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of course not. Why do you ask? Because June Drake just killed
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a man named Melnick. Kill a man, that's what, mister Jeffie.
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That's hard to believe. Why because it was a man? What were you
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expecting? Don't be absurd, modo. I was expecting nothing like this at
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all. It's a shock to me. Yeah, excuse me. I'll take
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myself jong in the dining room. Beg with you in a minute. Marlow.
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All right, mister Jeffy, make it fast. Will you love to
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listen? Man telephone John, listen to me. You don't know much as
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a private detective here. I think he's listening in on the extension. It
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doesn't matter anymore. Nobody can stell me. Now I'm leaving tonight. I
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only call it that you know that you don't have to worry anymore, that
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I won't be anywhere in mind, man, where are you? June?
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Tell me I'm not in Santa Monica the Ocean Way Hotel. But don't try
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to do anything you It's too late, much, too late. Goodbye?
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Mmm pretty talkative. Oh you heard that, didn't you? Yeah? I
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heard it all right? You heard that too, didn't you. I didn't
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like it, Jeffie, So I don't bother this one's mine. I'm expecting
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it. Hello. Hello, I wanted did you. Yeah? Look,
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Grace, your sister just called and well it doesn't look too good. Honey,
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Grace, i'd feel where is she? You know? Is she all
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right? Oh? No, she isn't, Grace anyway, you look at
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it. Now, tell me where are you? I placed the Beverly christ
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hotail. All right, not stay there. I'll talk as soon as I
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can. Grace. Goodbye. Thanks for your cooperation, Jeffy, It's been
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a lot of help. I'll also talk to you as soon as I can.
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Believe me, when I got outside, piled into my car and took
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off. I didn't know if I was racing to keep a mixed up girl
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from committing suicide of going after a murderer was scheduled to kill again. I
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was twenty precious minutes following the wriggle at Sunset Boulevard from Brentwood to the Santa
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Monica where it hits into the US one oh one that parallels the Pacific,
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and out there with a fog even thicker, I was twenty minutes again finding
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the Ocean Way Hotel. The landlady there was a fat hennah blonde with a
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mouthful of gold and foul language. She said that she never heard of a
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June Drake until I lied that I was an La. Coup described the girl
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as a lot of red hair flowing over a minxed tool that could be using
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any name, and she told me that what I called June had just been
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a woman visitor a little while ago. At that we started down a short
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carter to a rented room. Fast Hi. I wouldn't do this for no
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one but a Coup. They believe me. We both better be talking about
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the same girl. But he's not a fuss at this hour. It's a
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room there no light on. I thought you said she had a visitor.
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Maybe the visitor went home. What do you have spicked two o'clock in the
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morning. Not a people, come on, Open it up, Open it
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up now, he tells me, ain't got my keyser over on the other
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side in my room, okay, and then we'll get in the hard way.
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Cut it out, you'll bloss my door. Blondy, you're in for
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a shock you okay, turn the lights on. Oh that's the woman that
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visited her, Yeah, Spanish woman known as Margarita Jeffy ice pick and all.
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I better get a little air over here by the window. I don't
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and I better get to a phone. And there's a cigarette over there.
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It's still smoldering. She may not be very far away, you said them,
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afful, come here and look what is it? What do you say?
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You're the pair under that street? Planer, Hain't that the one you're
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after? Well? Oh oh yeah, yeah, red hair and makes hill
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out for the end of the pair's flunny setside. I'll see you later.
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By the time I got out of the street and across the where we've seen
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her, she was already out under the pier. I caught one glimpse of
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her red hair, and then nothing but the fog that swallowed her up like
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she was made of smoke. I ran thought the spot where she had disappeared
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and tried to yell over the crash of the waves for her to come back
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when I heard it. After that, things happened fast from somewhere the cup
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on the beat, then Blondie, then a couple of scared kids have been
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nicking in a car, and then more I'm yours or hind norse, I
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throw up past me a couple of minutes ago for us two nights I should
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have stopped John. Yeah, I was to shine your light over there,
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Willie. I thought I saw something move. Okay, but in this fog
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we won't be able to see much. Besides for those waves in the undertoe
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around here. She has got a chapy night. She never can tell hey,
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hey, move the light over. A little tear left, Yeah,
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that's it there on the pilot. Why don't see not in there? Just
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to greeze report, I hear look on that cross piece near the water line
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on the piling. What's that version? Yeah? That was hers? All
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right? What is it, mister Blondie, is a very valuable fur,
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A stall made of mink. I never could figure where people came from at
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three o'clock in the morning when something nasty happened, but they always do.
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Some come to help, some just to stare, and others maybe to see
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if they can take it. An hour after I'd heard June Drake's scream,
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we'd found nothing but a stall I couldn't take any more. Maybe it was
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still the fog. Maybe maybe it was the thought that my hotel room up
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in Beverly Hills, a sweet kid named Grace Tyler was waiting to hear from
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me, and I knew that sooner or later I had the caller. I
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lit a cigarette started to walk across the ocean way in the nearest farm.
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But then, just as I was about to wait at the hotel lobby,
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I stopped and slowly turned back toward the pier and the swirling cloak of ocean
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covering fog, A crazy thought seeping into my mind, like an ever adding
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circle of ink into a white flatter, until finally there was nothing but dark.
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I made my call to Grace and told her to get downstairs into a
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taxian over the police headquarters, where we had a long story to tell.
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An hour later, we were sitting in the Barra's office, and Sergeant Mooney
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knew what had happened from the time I had first met Grace at five o'clock
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that afternoon. Well, all looks like June Drake meant what she said in
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that note. She took care of Melick, Missus Jeffy, and than herself.
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Did they recover the body before you left? No, Sergeant, they
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didn't, And I don't think they will mean the undertoe. No, I
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don't. I mean something a little more treacherous. What are you saying?
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This whole thing was a frame, Grace, the interested parties, Hugh Jeffy
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and your sister June the object get rid of the difficult Missus Jeffy. The
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memes have June Drake killer without keeping her intentions m to the secret, and
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then have June Drake pretend to kill herself. The result the police never bothered
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looking for June Drake, and when all is forgotten, June and Hugh Jeffy
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get together in some other city under some other name. No, no,
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feel I don't believe. I don't believe any of this. I can't,
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I won't. I don't call it, please, Miss Tyler, I'm sorry.
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Go on, Phil, Well, this part's a guess at the moment,
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but I think it'll hang together. Missus Jeffey wouldn't give you a divorce
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jealousy. Yeah, that and one idiosyncrasy. The Senora was crazy about money,
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and since he was doing the running around, a divorce would cost him
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much more than he was willing to pay, which means that all almost Tyler
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here hired you, you fell into the stellar roll of the Patsy star witness
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would always be close enough to later tell a story they wanted told, but
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never close enough to actually catch June Drake, who has already murdered twice tonight
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right then a big question where is June Drake? Now? That is something
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I worked on all night and I almost had the answer once almost caught June
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at Melanick's flat in the Palace Arms because I surprised it. She thought I
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was going to Missus Jeffie's house at the time, but I changed my mind.
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Remember Grace, what oh you must remember? Baby? You were there,
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You're June Drake. Well, Phil, now that we've picked up huge
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jeff Here, it's all over. I still don't see how you actually knew
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that Grace Tyler and June and Drake were one of the same. I was
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lucky moone when Grace called me at Hugh Jeffy's house. Right after she called
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as June, I heard a bell boy in the background over the phone,
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but I didn't think much about it at the time. Yet Grace claimed to
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be at her hotel in Beverly Hills. It wasn't until I began to think
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of the whole thing as a frame that everything fell into place. The clues
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planted so I couldn't miss them all the way down the line. The book
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of matches, the mink, the red hair was a fall another thing Monty.
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Hugh Jeffy was much too surprised when I told him that June Drake had
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killed Melnick, a man he expected the murder of his wife, Margherita.
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Why did June kill Frank Melick because he was blackmailinger. You see, Melnick
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knew that June had murdered her first husband. June was stuck. She couldn't
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let her future husband know what had happened to her past one, so she
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included him in as victim number two. Besides, that's the only final payment
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she can ever make to a blackmailer. Then Marlow June Drake is the real
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person that never actually was a sister named Grace Tyler was no, no,
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I guess there never was a Grace Tyler ever night sage outside. It was
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that strange time between the end of one night and the beginning of the day
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that follows. When I looked up, I could see that the thick,
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heavy fog that had been with me ever since I first met the woman called
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Grace Tyler was lifting, breaking apart, so that here and there it was
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only thin, spiraling wisps, above which there was the pale, great promise
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of a nice tomorrow. As I walked along, it seemed to me that
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there was less and less fog, until by the time I got on a
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few blocks, I was sure that I could feel fresh air, cold against
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my face and clean. I figured I might walk until the sun came.
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The Adventures of Philip Marlowe created by Raymond Chandler, star Gerald Moore and are
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produced and directed by Norman McDonald. Script is by Meldon L. A.
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Robert Mitchell, and Gene Levitt. Featured in the cast were Lynn Allen,
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Lillian Bayeff, Edgar Barrier, Whitfield, Cunner and Morrison, Lou Krugman,
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and Jimmy Eagles. The special music is by Richard o'rnt. He shortened be
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with Us Again next week when Philip Marlowe says an iron skull was their trademark,
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That business was climbing walls, and it was all done on wheels at
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seventy miles an hour. But that was a cinch for the death cheaters until
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they felt murder with a feminine touch. Sunday is a day when CBS brings
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you the tops and comedy, but it's also a day when you'll find big
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hearted Danny Clover patrolling the Great White Way. Broad Wigh is my beat,
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says Danny Clover, and every Sunday he brings you a new adventure along the
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Main Stem. On CBS Sundays, you'll also find DASHL. Hammet's one and
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only Sam Spade cutting another of his famous capers. Broadway is My Beat,
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and the Adventures of Sam Spade are regular Sunday features on most of these same
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CBS Network stations. This is Roy Rowan speaking. Now. Stay tuned for
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Gangbusters, which follows immediately over most of these same stations. This is CBS,
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the Columbia Broadcasting System, Welcome back. Certainly, we have seen the
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idea of a woman trying to impersonate another. That was the big plot beyond
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the dancing hands. But in this case we have a woman impersonating someone who
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doesn't exist, which was definitely a bit of a switch and even more audation.
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You also do have this thing, and it's a somewhat interesting feature of
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most Golden age detectives or many, And if something I write about in the
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upcoming ebook. All I needed to know I learned from Dragnet and discussing the
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Johnny Doller in that chapter is this tendency to not let a very deep biting
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betrayal to find the rest of their lives. I mean, you definitely felt
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for Marlowe just because of the degree he invested himself in the case and in
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this solution, and how much he was just totally the night in tornished armor
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here only to find out that he was being used the whole time. But
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during the Golden Age of radio, even when dealing with the hard boiled detectives,
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care I think given that these experiences would not change who they were at
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least over radio. Of course, books and maybe some movies a little bit
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different, but over radio, most of the actors didn't let these sort of
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things change them. Now on to some listener comments and feedbacks, and we
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start with an ie to a review from Doctor who expressed one of my very
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favorite podcasts, so I can't say I always loves the detectives. He is
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broadcasting. Adam Graham is really blossomed as a host. I'm going through some
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older Sherlock Home stories and he's really gotten a hang of the podcast presenter thing.
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Not a huge fan of the Saint, but I absolutely adore Philip Marlowe.
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All know to me, so I'll take it. Well, thanks so
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much. I appreciate your comment, and I definitely strive to have a variety
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on the series because not everybody's gonna like every show, and I've got pretty
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broad taste in terms of the Golden Age of radio. There's a few shows
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I don't really care for when we won't play, but I can go all
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the way from mister Keene Tracer of Lost Person to Broadway is my beat and
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everything in between. So I've got to have a balance of those type of
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shows. Going at all time. I think we do a good job and
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I appreciate your remarks over on Facebook, Beverly comments regarding the opening line of
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heat Waves, this sounds like an entry in the Lytton Contest, which is
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a reference to a contest held for writers to compose a sentence for the worst
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possible novel. And this was something that was parodied in Peanuts, and it
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was named after Edward George Lytton, who began It was a dark and storming.
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The rain fell in Torrens accept at occasional intervals when it was checked by
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a violent gust of wind which swept the streets. For it is in London
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that are scene lies rattling along the housetops and fiercely agitating the skindy flame of
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the lamps that struggled against the darkness. Compared to that, I don't think
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the Philip Marlowe opening lines he was talking about it was all that bad.
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But it was hot and still and August night in the middle of April.
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But that didn't matter to the strip keys dancer in the Golden Mask, because
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murder made her blood run cold the night the heat Waves struck. That's a
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little bit more compact, i'd think, and the big advantage of the Philip
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Marlowe openings and I love them so much. It's very dramatic and followed by
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that gongs. But to each their own. Melissa comments regarding episode thirteen nine
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and one, the heat Wave. This episode reminded me of Robin Williams.
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I can dafine see that. Particularly Marlow's last line in his post show narration.
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It does call to mine the unfortunate facts that not everyone who makes us
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happy is happy themselves. All right, Well, that will do it for
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today. We'll be back tomorrow with Nick Carter. Join us back here next
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