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Philip Marlowe: The Tale of the Mermaid (EP1523) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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And now though it's time for today's episode of the Adventures of Philip Marlow.
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The original aired aid on Today's Philip Morrow program is October one of nineteen
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forty nine, and the title is the Tale of the Mermaid Get This and
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Get It straight. Crime is a sucker's road and those who travel had wind
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up in the gut of the Prison of the Graves. This started with a
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wreck and went from there to double murder over seventy five thousand bucks worth of
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glitter that nobody got in the end, because I found out just in time
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what was fishy about the Tale of the mermaid From the pen of Raymond Chandler,
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out sending, author of crime shouldn't come to his most famous character in
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the Adventures of Philip Marlowe, all with Gerald Moore starred as Philip Marlowe.
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We bring you tonight's exciting story, The Tale of the Mermaids. Nine thirty.
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I was still in my office, sucking in the loose ends on a
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report, while I listened with half an ear to the fabric of city sounds
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rising from the street below, fabric ripped suddenly by tires crawing concrete. The
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shattering crash that callow brought me to my feet. With a traffic accident,
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and a bad one. I ran to the window, but it had happened
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around the corner, out of sight from my office. I watched others run
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for it, and remembered grimly that every thirty second and somewhere in the country,
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a thing like that happened, and one out of every sixteen minutes was
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fating. I wondered it would been shoot up in a Chromeia meat grinder.
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This time, as I listened to first of Parias and the emergency ambulance and
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finally with scavenger truck cleaned the wreck off the street. After that, I
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went back to my report again and tried to forget about it. But an
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hour later, that same accident came back into my office. Mister Morrow,
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Yeah, this is Corey Riggs. Uh, yes, miss Riggs. I'm
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a nurse at the Warwick Emergency Hospital. About an hour ago a man named
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Sanley Ott was brought in and he's been calling for you for me. He
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was badly injured in an automobile accident on Kowing on his way to your office.
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Wait a minute, who did you say this one. I'm the nurse
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assigned to mister ottopha hospital. I just got off to it and I had
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to wait until I was relieved before I could call you. I see.
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Well, look, miss Riggs, I'd like to help in any way I
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can, but it's nine thoullo. Mister Ott gave me two hundred and fifty
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dollars and told me to court you. Yeah, I know, but and
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he said that I should give you two hundred feet of fifty for myself.
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Oh fine, now I get clients by proxy. I beg your pardon nothing,
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I'll be right over. It's Riggs. I didn't know anyone named Stanley
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out, and I felt a little like an ambulance chaser. But I was
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only fifteen minutes and getting the emergency hospitals. As I walked up the ambulance
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ramp, a smart looking brunette came toward me. I'm Corey Riggs, the
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nurse who called hello? Can I see him? Though? It wouldn't do
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any good. You see, he went into a coma a few minutes after
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I called. Oh, two ladies, edide, let's move away from the
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door, shall we? Sure you see mister Molow? Before he went into
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the coma, art wasn't rational. He was raving about what sort of thing
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about you and a girl? Oh, as near as I could make out,
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she's supposed to meet someone tonight at two o'clock and collect seventy five thousand
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dollars. It's quite an ass, simon, who's the girl? I don't
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know. All I said was something about a plaid code is identification? Right?
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Coad uh? Any idea? What he wanted me to do? Chaperone.
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Maybe no, he kept pleading, stoppers, stopper, she can't do
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it. So I am sure that he wanted you to prevent this girl from
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keeping that appointment. For some reason. It seems absolutely imperative to him.
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Well, was this two o'clock meeting is supposed to take place? I have
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no idea. Oh fine, it boils down to this girl we don't know
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in a plaid code is meeting someone we don't know what, a place we
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don't know. It's a way. I am a man who wants me to
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prevent it is in a coma and can't talk. He say anything else?
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That's ring. He just kept saying, you've got to help me, Marlow.
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It's life and death. You know we can stir up an awful hornets
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match, poking our noses into seventy five thousand bucks worth of business we know
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nothing about. I doubt that we can do any good anyway, because we
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don't have enough to go on. He said anything else to even points Marlow.
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Oh wait a minute. He mumbles something once about a constantine. Constantine.
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Yes, it's some here. What is it about? I don't know,
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but at least it's a lead, isn't it anything else? No,
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Okay, where can I reach you? I'll be at my quarters. Press
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you five seven, five seven eight one, and keep track of stan Leyout's
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condition with him he comes out of it, talk to him. Only got
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three short hours. I'll call you, Corey. I felt a little weird
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as I left the hospital because I was traveling on strictly secondhand information as to
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what had gone on in a delirious mind. But in spite of that,
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there was still enough coherence in what Corey Riggs told me to make a case.
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I first stopped with a phone booth and a call to the police,
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but I found out in the accident report that stan Leyout was thirty, unmarried,
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small time lawyers, an LA resident with a clean police record. My
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next call was the Harbourmaster's office, San Pedro. Don't remember no vissel for
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that names mister mann Oliver up in the registry let she Constanta Constant Constantine only
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one listed is a foremasted schooner sunk off Pirates Point near Monterey in eighteen seventy,
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a little before my time. Not the one, eh, not the
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one. Oh. I tried the coast Guard. No fishing boat called Constantine
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on this coast Master's, followed by a check of yack Harbard Long Beach negative
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and a call of the pleasure boat anchorage is Pantamonica. No Constantine registered here,
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sir. After that along pupil reconnaissance of the waterfronts and went into the
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other left me one solid arm uttering, almost defendant, wearing in blind frustration
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at the black seating ocean below. I was licked. He ain't sinking and
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jumping in are you? You look like you lost your best friend? I
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did, but then me I was sunk with a Constantine in eighteen seven eight.
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Constantine's you know him too? Him? You mean Constantine's a guy chop.
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There's a shock there. Wait till the beacon light comes around again.
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Yeah, see that we'll be Prince Konstantine Chevnov alco chis promise and medium personal
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consultant by appointment only. Yeah, but that's face. He knows everybody around
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he even if they me for one bucket, and that's something. But he's
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a genuine Russian princess. Hey, hey, where are you going? I
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have a look. Prince Konstantine Chevnov could be my boy. He wouldn't want
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you losing around here. That's too glad Does he live here? Yeah,
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in the back he runs his pitch in the front where on in the blue
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curtains on? Huh? I suppose he always leaves the door unlocked? Hu
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would woopy? Is that? It's kind of funny? Yeah? Yeah,
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but it'd be a light switch here somebody. Oh yeah, now, let's
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see what? Oh ho catch good as a little wharf right darted through the
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door and scampered away into the darkness. I went over the body, faced
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up on the cheap, gaudy carpet of the sounds room. He was about
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thirty five in a substantial gray business suit, stayed red in front where the
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bullets had gone in. As Wallack was missing, there was no other identification
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on him. The gray's snap brim hat was spilled a few feet away,
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so I picked it up to look for initials and found and sent a small
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file card. Stuck into the sweatband tight to the top was beheading the mermaid
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owner Otis Vano and only relative Evelyn Vano and niece my maid's still November twelve,
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nineteen forty eight. Insurance paid in fool in ink. Vano and died
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August nineteen forty nine and under that in pencil. Constantine Chevna Venice, Pierre
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and Louis, Paradise, nine thirteen Seacrest Road, Pacific, Califaes. It's
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twenty minutes to find nine thirteen Seacress. And when I stopped and got close
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enough of what I saw through an open window made the Constantine chap I just
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left because what alabel is a post office by comparison with the miniature Egyptian temple,
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exotic and daities seckending lushness of red velvet and yellow silk, and at
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the center of the room with a bloated little man balancing a long cigarette holder
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in one hand, really simple than the one honey colored French hone in the
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other. I moved up quietly until I could hear him a sentimental agreement.
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Yeah it's right, Evan, Your uncle Otis and I were the best still
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friends for years. Wait to thank you, child? Where are you now?
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Oh? Deserve good good. I advise you to stay there until a
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few minutes before two. And aha, you will not forget to wear a
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plaid coat, just to be sure I won't make it the hike. Yeah.
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Now, suddenly, just like this gun going off, they find some
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interesting inside conversation about the mermaid. Probably, Oh, I'm glad to drop
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that one. But because I'd bump you for a nickel, say nothing to
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seven sad. I don't talk things over with punks. I reserve it for
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the head man. Go do something about it, okay, but I will
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go on under the dawn inside comparatis. Get some kind of kick out of
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stepping on big guys like you. The gop face shoved this automatic into a
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smaller my back and marched the inside the air respect with cheap insense, the
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bloated little king with a long cigarette holder. It stepped out, It came
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back fast, and the go for calling. He stared at me across the
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room. And it's not still flat, for instance, And he simp it
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again and sidled told me a gopher dug at my spine with his gun.
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Well, now what is this foodie snooping? Mister Paradise caught him outside picking
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in the window. Oh it is a bad night for a snooper? Who
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are you name? Smallow? And the business snooping? He knows about the
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man made miss Furders? He does, does he? How much do you
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know you got a fishtail instead of legs? You dare to joke, Dan,
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don't take a big man you ask for Make a move and I'll drop
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you. I know what you are, Marlowe, but not how much you
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have found out. Now tell me, because the next time I slapped you,
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it will carry more weight than my bare hand. I promise you.
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You have company, Paradise. No, you'll keep this babboon under control,
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Routie. I will last in the door. Oh how far do you think
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you can go with my reputation? Do you want to get me? Hang?
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What is the matter? Constantine? You are upset? Upset, I'm
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out of my mind. Oh what a shock and such a stupid thing for
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you to do. What are you raving about? You found that body on
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its front room floor, right, Constant, thine exactly precisely. And what
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is more, I did not put it there all the places in the world.
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Why did you pick this one paradise? This this stranger here? If
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you would close your mouth and open your eyes more often, prints, Constantine,
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you would not be the nervous wreck you are. These is, mister
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marlow another snoop, another one's paradise. That listened to me. It's better
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if we it's better if we don't try it tonight. It's up of hand.
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I don't like it. Now. We should get away and come back
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next year and do it. You'll jellyfish. There's nothing to worry about now.
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Insurance investigators are often working pairs. Is that not tomorrow? You're pitch
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run man. You don't need any help from me. You are so right,
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Rudy, and I caught the first of your place content. Now we
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have the second one here. That is all there are. The danger is
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over, its clear steeling. But what about that Cata. You have your
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audassiy to leave lying in my sus me constantly? That wasn't I am?
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It's going all the time. Yeah awful? And oh the Champagne came on
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to off. You can buy with the mermaids. I don't care, just
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the Briestnick. But at the same time it is seventy five thousand dollars worth
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of diamonds and Patino, okay, Pard, I trust you, no,
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we go my yes. And mister Paradise, what should I do with a
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big boy here? Yeah, you're kind of leaving a loose end around,
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aren't you. Feeding. If I had the time, Milo, I would
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beat the arrogance out of you a little chunk at a time. Ruddy.
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star Gerald Moore, we returned to the second act of Philip Marlowe and tonight's
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story The Tale of the Mermaids. When Louis Paradise, hesitated at the door,
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snarled the suggestion that this who's his imagination and disposing of me and left
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in a lockstep with the white Russian screwball. I got the point. Even
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if I'd miss it entirely, one look in the brother Rudy's eyes would have
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done the trick. There were no pupils, just slits of lethal viciousness windows
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to his warped little mind, where I could practically see the montage going on
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that ran from ancient thumb screws by candlelight up to a generous beating by street
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lamp with brass nuts. I felt a cold nut growing the pit of my
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stomach. It was Rudy with a cannon in his hand, pointed as my
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head started toward me, and from someplace outside I got a break. Two
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romantic cats. Rudy spun toward the sound. One chance, so I customer,
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Rudy, and you'll miss Here's I'll pull your head off, not to
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gentle, so give it me. I don't want you to hurt yourself until
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we've had a chance to talk. That's it, no light time. I
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know there was some reason why I like cats their voices. Okay, Rudy,
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you've had enough rest. Now let's get back to business. Come on,
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get up, We're gonna talk. Wait, Hollo, please the reason
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for him my rough stuff? I'll that's better. We did Paradise in the
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tin his head for the ganazdo? Where is it? I don't know?
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Am I? You said there was no reason for rough I remember how Yeah,
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yeah, I remember that. I never heard of unhappy coincidence. Rudy,
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it's one thing I'm interested in. Wait, let's be something else you
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want to know. And I was like, could tell you the day.
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Hey, Hey, what are you going to do? I mean, you
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can't tell, Rudy. All it takes is a little imagination. Rudy,
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out of the way. I started through the place looking for all important answer
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to what was the ganazo? Twenty minutes of turning draws and closets inside out
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revealed nothing more exciting than Louis Paradise's adread's book First Names Only, and a
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picture of a girl named Toodles who belonged to the Roaring twenties. And by
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this time you should have caught a death of cold. His sister, no
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dog put no lead on the gnalz doough. So, on the slim chance
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of my clients, stan Leyott might already be back in this world and able
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to help. I got outside into my car and drove to the first drug
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store we're after checking the phone books under everything from boss to bath houses for
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a Gnaldo and getting no place. I called Coley Riggs at the nurses home.
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No, Marlo stan Leott's still unconscious. I just talk at the night
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nurse on his floor. They expect him to come out of it soon.
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Why what happened? Oh? Too much to explain now, Corey. But
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that girl, the one in the plaid code. I found out that her
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name's Evelyn Van Oh. And then she's staying at the Surf Hotel. Now
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see if that much checked with out when he comes to wild Oh. Also,
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there's a diamond studded item called the Mermaid, which accounts for that seventy
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five thousand. He mentioned a constantine in the pier. Now equal a phony
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Russian prince who runs a spook palace out on the old Venice piers. You
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got all that? H good? Look, honey, listen real hat.
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Before Rod passed out, did he by any chance say the word gnado?
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Yeah? No, What does it mean? I don't know. I think
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it's the name of a place. Oh, have you checked the phone book.
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Yeah, yeah, no, dice Corey. Also, I check one,
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mister louis Paradise. So you might mention, Marl, wait a minute.
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Where there's a girl here, one of the nurses who's trying to tell
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me something. It's the canasto Marlo, Wait a minute, she knows something
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about it here, it's it's Rosemary. You talk to her. Hello.
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Oh you want to know what nas tho mean? Yeah, when it's Russian,
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not poshlea maaic No though, so well what does it mean in English?
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Rosemary? Fast? Please? Is important? Well? That means let's
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go to my place. Naso's the word for nest, sort of like cozy
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apartment, cottage, my place. Are you sure that I'm positive? I
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was an army nursing the war, and I spent two years in Germany after
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the shooting. Park was over two years a half a block away from the
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Russian zone. That's close enough. Thanks a million, Rosemary. I don't
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mention it is Krey Oh do Itmorrow? Yeah? I think so at any
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rate unless I'm way off basis where both the Mermaid and all parties concerned are
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going to Rendez. But at two am, that's less than a half off
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now the Prince's place on the piers want to be earlies, So goodbye,
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Corey. I'll call again when I know more. Yeah, and give my
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everlasting love to grow and Rosebery. She all is show a peach. And
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there was still a few parts missing the way they're always because I drove fast
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for the old Venice Pier and added as I went along it came out something
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like the theme of Paradise and Prince watch you McCall it ready willing and able
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to pay seventy five grand for a piece of jewelry that one Evelyn van Owen
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now own a mermaid, which, according to the data I had found on
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the insurance man's body, had once been stolen from Evelyn's late uncle. But
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I left it there when my rear view mirrors had a long gray sir Dan
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that has been tagging me discreetly for the last three blocks, now being indelicate
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about it and closing fast. The driver was old cal Rudy, and he
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became a breast. He hit it for me. All right, all right,
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you're rokay your rokay mac. Don't you worry about a thing. We'll
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have you out of there in a minute. And hey, can't you knock
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out that horse? Knock out the horn? He says, what do you
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think we're trying to thank? So we should get my hond passage preaching hood?
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No oh, oh that's better. Hey, hey, Cabby, what
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I hit? Well? In the order of their parents? Mac, your
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car into a telephone pole, and then you went to your nation board.
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You're sure lucky abound shout the car person, load your down plenty. Oh
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hey, here comes the ogular. Not for me. I'm all right,
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Hey, come on, kebby, help me out of this when it sure,
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that's what we're trying to do. But don't you worry. The ambulance
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things for you. But a guy that sideswiped in and then tried to get
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away. I see what happen, and I went after him and we cam.
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He turned into a dead end, though less trying to shake me.
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Is he a mess? But I guess he'll live, all right? Hey,
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what you got against you? Anyhow? Mac? That's my life,
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let's and your CAB's still all right? Sure, at some place you gotta
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go. There is the old Venice concessions here, my friend, And the
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sooner the better come on. Leaving my head against the dashboard was exactly what
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I needed, because right then and there the method of Rudy's handy work made
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me think of an angle that I neglected almost completely. My unconscious client had
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not wanted me to get the Mermaid or the cheventy five thousand bucks. Had
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to stop Evelyn from keeping harondevoom, which at this point I figured to mean
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but one thing. It exactly two o'clock from the cap slammed to stop near
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the pier. I piled out and ran out of the empty fox damp and
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flanking that led to Prince constantly and checked nothing but mist moved over the pier.
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No unusual sound broke the pattern of water front noises, but I thought
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momentarily that I was still in time to prevent what Stanley out somehow knew was
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going to happen. But lowis Paradise and his eccentric side kick intended to get
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the Mermaid from Evelyn pay off, and only one one way. I ran
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to the rear of the shack on skilts and got close to the half open
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door where I could see him here and found out just what I'd expected.
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The storeroom spread out and very still on the oil so planks, that were
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a makeshift floor with a life of pawn a girl well according to the plaid
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Kochy War, with the late Epil and van Oen kneeling close to a gun
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in one hand, the sparkling mermaid and the other her executioner Louis Paradise.
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I stay him. His number one boy, Prince Konstantine Chevnov's very happy.
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He was stupid, yees, even five grands stupid. How would you have
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preferred that I paim Is van in Cash. I had to kill her,
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yes, yes, yes, but a dice. But the gun so much
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noise. We can't afford to attract that. Then there's two cops is on
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hand. I should say not. They don't try the mermaid his face between
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the boards, Oh in the water. You have no shame? Yeah,
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you see, it's a shame. We did so much, worked so hard,
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Yeah, killed so often, and I run for it, your highness
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run No, No dice is dead there without bad dice. I am not
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so brave. I would just seep quiet, don't make a sound. You
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know we got company. H pardon me? Can you please tell me where
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Louis Paradise can be? And Chloe Paradise there who are you then on,
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then on the woman who was supposed to tell the mermaid to paradise. That's
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right. But on my way over here, just after I left my hotel,
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somebody struck me, knocked me out, sut my my coach there and
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my person rans with a mermaid, no doubt. Yes, and that miss
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fan Owen makes this angle shooter here? Yeah, very dead, Nurse Cory
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Riggs, let's get out of here. There's nothing to worry about, Miss
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Lena. Stanley's going to be all right. I'm so happy. Why don't
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women always cry when they're so happy? I don't know, but it's well.
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I'll run along now, goodbye bye. Do you know, mister Marlowe,
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when I was in the Stanley's room with the doctor, stand said he
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didn't lose control of his car at all when he had that accident in front
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of your place. He was run off the road, Dan, I know
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because I had the same treatment one of Louis Paradixes henchman Rudy, Honey,
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I'll walk, yes, just outside the front door. Tell me. Did
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I tell you why Rudy rushed him up? Yes? In a way,
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you see, I told Stanley about the deal with the mermaids, and he
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thought it all sounded a little phony. I can't understand why. He's a
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lawyer, you know, legal type mind. He said meeting anyone at two
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in the morning was ridiculous. So he investigated as much as he could because
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he was worried about me. We're engaged here. I never would engage.
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And he found out that mister Paradise was a fence and Stam said that probably
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he never intended to give me the seventy five thousand dollars for the mermaid at
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all, but they intended to kill me. Here we are. Tell me
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why did you get in touch with Paradise in the first place? Just following
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Uncle Otis's instructions. He gave me the mermaids when he was dying, and
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he told me if I wanted money, to sell it only to a mister
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Paradise, but not to mention it to anyone. Your uncle fake the robbery,
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collected the insurance money and then let you sell the mermaid to offense.
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Huh. It's lucky for you that Nurse Corey Riggs was clever. She put
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together just enough of others. Is gibberish to know that there was something good
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to be had, and then got me to unravel it for her. She
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got killed when she tried to collect your seventy five thousand bucks. Yeah,
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oh, here's my car, my love. Then a little while you were
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a rich woman. Now it's all God, how do you feel it?
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I'm alive and his mom. Yes, well that answers my question. Good
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night, baby, and good luck. When I left the hospital, I
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wanted back to the old Venice Pea and Prince Constantine Nozo. But five in
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the morning and the police had finished clinging the place up, but the word
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had gotten out. Crowded gathered they always do, curious, restless sort of
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cloud, equipped with everything from grappling hooks to homemade diving helmets, all climbing
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over each other for a chance to fish for the mermaids. She who had
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brought death to three people injuryed to others in the course of one night.
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I suppose they found them. What then? A lot of glittering pieces of
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white coal set in a metal frame we call precious Look at the Sucker's grand
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That's all marlow Home and the Dead. The Adventures of Philip Marlowe bringing you
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Raymond Chandler's most famous character, star Gerald Moore and are produced and directed by
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Norman McDonald. Stripped is by Meldon la Robert Mitchell and Gene Levitt. Featured
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in the cast were Rita Lynn, John Dayner, Michael Ann, Barrett Wilms,
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Herbert Junius, Matthews, Herb Bigron, and Mark Laurence. The special
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music is composed and conducted by Richard Rand. Be sure and be with us
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next week. When Thomas Marlowe says, it started with a terrified woman lost
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in amaze of memory. She couldn't explain waiting for outside and open windows was
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dead. Another show is joined the CBS Sunday Night Parade. It's the Contented
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Hour, starring Buddy Clark and featuring the finest and popular and semi classical music.
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It comes to you on most of these CBS stations for the first time
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Tomorrow night, making its debut on CBS the same night as Red Skelton and
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Edgar Bergan and Charles McCarthy. This fall. You hear them all on CBS.
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This is Paul Masterson speaking, I'll stay tuned for Gangbusters, which follows
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immediately over most of these same CBS stations. This is CBS the Columbia Bloodcasting
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System. Welcome back. Well I love this episode. Nice little mystery with
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Marlow not even knowing who his client is or what the case is all about
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because of the car accident, and an interesting plug for traffic safety statistics as
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well as a solid twist ending with the nurse being the one to get killed.
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All right, Well, on to some listener comments and feedback. All
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right, so I really enjoy your podcast, Lisa says, once again,
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thank you for hosting the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio podcast. It's my
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absolute favorite podcast. I enjoy the variety of shows in your commentary as well.
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Keep up the great work. Well, thanks so much, Lisa.
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And then I also have a note from Gene who says, really enjoy your
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show, well, thanks so much. And then we also have a review
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on iTunes of a somewhat different tenor. The shows are really good and Adam
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does a good job finding them and putting them out there for us, but
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his ideas and thoughts of each show is rather boring and tedious. It shows
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though, just skip the host. Okay, well, thanks for leaving your
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comment, and fair enough, the commentary is not compulsatory. Oh and one
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thing I did forget to mention on the show, and since we're actually pretty
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brief here, you also saw her a little bit of evidence in this program
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of what the big talent rate of the late forties continuing as the premiere of
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The Red Skelton Show was announced over CBS, and Skelton had been a big
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star over at NBC. CBS was grabbing a lot of the talent, particularly
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the musical and comedy talent. NBC still had some things going on here in
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nineteen forty nine. They still had Faber McGee and Molly, Bob Hope and
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the Great Gilder Sleeve as well as the Life of Riley, but CBS was
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taking a lot of talent and a lot of very well known stars over to
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CBS. And all of this followed the move of Jack Benny over to CBS.
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So Skelton, of course, very well beloved comedian, actually played a
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radio detective in a series of movies, and we'll get to one of those
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eventually, the screen Gold Theater adaptation. But Skelton, even though his radio
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show was on CBS, would start his television career on MBA before that too
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went to CBS. But any rate, that's all for the on the commercials.
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We'll see you back here tomorrow for Nick Carter, and next Wednesday it'll
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be Philip Marlow. In the meantime, send your comments to Box thirteen at
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