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Philip Marlowe: The Heart of Gold (EP1301) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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into today's episode of the Adventures of Philip Marlow Heart of Gold. When I
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got the Chris fifty dollar bill in advance, I figured my client had a
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heart of gold. But after I was beat up, double crossed, and
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shut up, I realized just how a heart of gold can be. On
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the pen of Raymond Sandler, outstanding author of crime fiction, comes his most
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famous character as CBS presents The Adventures of Philip Barlo. Now with General Moore
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starred as Philip Barlow, we bring you Tonight's on you usual story, The
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Heart of Gold. I had spent the day trying to decide how to spend
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the day, and finally convinced myself Sunday afternoon was a good time to catch
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up in neglected bookkeeping. I only got as far as the office door because
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a special delivery letter was stuck in the mail slot. I ripped it open
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and watched a crisp fifty dollar bill flood out of the floor, bending it
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down with my toe. I turned to the letter, which was dated Saturday.
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Dear mister Morlow, kindly investigate the party who lives at nineteen oh three
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North Odden Street to find out if his name is really Elliot Purdue what his
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occupation is. Then please come to my residence at five tomorrow Sunday. I
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live at the home of a friend, Office Stuart thirty three Lemonwood Drive in
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bel Air. I sincerely hope that fifteen hours will be a sufficient retainer.
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Who the is Helen Asher? Judging from the tone of her letter, it
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was obvious that Helen Asher didn't hire private detectives very often. Nevertheless, I
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glanced at my watch, which said I had to work very fast and I
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headed for nineteen oh three North Ogden turned out to be a small house near
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Selmer Street. He got out of my car and walked up to the door.
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Good afternoon, sir. You're the resident here, that's right. What
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do you want? I represent the doctor Potter paula public opinion. I'd like
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to ask you a few questions. For God, David, I don't have
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any opinions. Oh, even the opinions of a man with no opinions are
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important to us. Now it's just let me step inside here, got out
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my note book. There we are all right, but make it fast.
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Right now? What is your occupation? I'm an investment broken with which firm?
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I'm an independent? I see? And what is your name, sir?
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What do you need my name for? Well, for my personal records
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in case I have to come back, Elliott Perdue. And do you have
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any hobbies other than horse racing? What do you mean those dope sheets and
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racing farms there on your desk. I'm quite admire of horse flash myself quite
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a character too. Aren't you working on Sunday? And all? Well?
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You know how public opinion is, It goes right on rain shine or Sunday
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excuse me a moment. By the way, what's your name? Marlow?
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Philip Marlow? Hey, mister Marlow, stand still, because I'm not kidding
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about this gun. I'll beat it back to whoever hired you and tell them
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they're being very clumsy about a very delicate situation. One more move like this
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and they won't get another chance. I knew Purdumn business, so I left
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without an argument, and at least I had a repeat on the name Eliot
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Perdue and the occupation of Bookie across at Helen Asher when I met her at
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five o'clock in bel Air, I eventually found thirty three lemon Wood Drive,
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two hundred yards of palm tree stood at rigid attention while I drove through the
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gate after the house, and the butler opened the door. He stead at
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me like my hat was on fire? Yes, sir, or did you
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wish something see? I'd like to see missus Asher, Please, missus Asher.
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Oh, good heavens, mister Stewart, I'm Philip Marlow, mister Stewart,
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a private detective. I have an appointment with missus Asher. She at
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home. Oh, mister Marlow, perhaps you can help. I don't know
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what to do it's such a terrible thing. What's happened upstairs? Not five
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minutes ago? Missus Asher shot herself. Shut herself. Please, if you'd
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come up with me. Sure, I'm certainly grateful for your help. Mister
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Marlowe, this is her room. She's been here there. He's better all
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right. Shot herself in the left temple. Who's Glenn's at mister Stewart,
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it's mine. I kept it in the desk downstairs. You find it,
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no, Roberts did. I was out in the hothouse working with my orchids.
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You see, I've been out of town. I just came in this
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morning on the Super Chief from Chicago, and I wasn't expected back until bench.
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Yeah. If I look, mister Stewart, do you mind telling me
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how well you knew Missus Asher? Oh? Very well. Indeed, ever
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since the accident three years ago, she lived in my house under my care.
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Yes, that's how she got those scars on her cheek and neck.
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As you can see, my hands were burned at the same time. Do
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you mind telling me about it? Well, I was living in Canada at
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the time. One day my wife Florence, and I went to a camp
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near Quebec, and we met Helen Asher our first day there. She was
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a pathetic, lonely woman, a widow. The very night, while she
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was visiting us, the oil stove in our cabin exploding Larrence, my wife
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was killed. Missus Asher was severely burned. It scast I can imagine.
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Missus Asher had no one, so I thought the least I could do would
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be to care for her, since I knew the accident had been caused by
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share carelessness on my part. You took over a full responsibility for her.
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Yes, I did everything I could think of, but she never quite got
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over the shock of that night. And oh, this a it's horrible.
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Have you notified the police yet? No, you got to do it right
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now. Yes, I'll go right downstairs. And the dead woman on the
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floor had been beautiful ones I thought of by this was my clients, and
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a certain fifty dollar bill was burning a hole in my pocket. I wandered
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over to a writing table, and as I looked down, I noticed that
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the Sunday sheet had been thrown off the memo pad. It bothered me.
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Tomorrow should mean nothing to a suicide. Yet Missus Asher's memo pads showed Monday
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already. The sheep was blank, but on a hunch, I tore it
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off and stuck at my pocket. I was about to turn away when I
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saw a book of matches from the Conga Club, so I picked that up
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too, and then I left the drive around for some time trying to figure
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things out, and I went down to police headquarters to see one Lieutenmothy Borough.
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It's suicide as far as we're concerned, Marrow, everything checks. Missus
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Asher was desponded and she killed herself. She didn't leave the suicide letter,
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but I don't always I do get him honest, She pad me fifty bucks
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in advance. There out a small time bookie or worse named Delia per Due.
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Incidentally, what's the background on office toward Oh he's a big money fashioned
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designer, started his business on his wife's insurance. She died in an accident
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in Canada, and he did a lot from Missus Asher because he felt responsible.
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Yeah, yeah, I know all that. But was she left handed?
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Did Stuart came in on the super chief this morning? And was it
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the butler that found the body? That's right, we checked it off.
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Hey, Look, though, do you have any good reason to think this
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isn't suicide. No, no, not really, It's just that fifty dollars
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an advance. It bothers me. I guess. Oh, by the way,
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I've got a piece of papert like the boy in the labdin on a
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teston. Okay, sure a case, he will fix you up. I'm
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ald I figure suicide now, but I can always change my mind. I
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went down the hall of the police laboratory and handed the blank page of the
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memopad the casey. Ten minutes later, he explained that the impression showed a
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left handed person had written a number Bradshaw seven seven eleven with AI had point
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fountain pen, probably on the page just about the one I've given him.
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All right, I thank him, drop four bits and the Christmas fun bottle
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and found the phone. I dialed Glad, you're seven seven eleven and quitted,
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Hello, Hello, who's this the man in the moon? Come up
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and see me some other time. Wait a minute, I like your voice.
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And besides, seven seven eleven is a very lucky number. Three passes
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in a row. But don't let it pull you, jack. The answer
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is no dice goodbye. Yeah. Well, I gathered she was in no
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mood for playing, so I decided to be strictly business and dialed again.
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M There was no answer. I let it ring for some time, but
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Miss Golden voice obviously wasn't taking any more. Anonymous clothes had less only the
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long shot, the book of as I'd found on missus Ash's desk. The
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Conga Club was on the Sunset Strip, so I drove out there, found
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a parking space on the side street nearby, and went in. I didn't
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know exactly what I was looking for it, so I paid a buck ten
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for a scotch and soda worth forty cents, just to help pass the time.
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Mamb The spotlight was glistening down on instead of sequin contours that would have
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melted the ice age done to or fortnow and she was seen or wherever my
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man is? I am here where ever? I knew it was Benit her
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the Congress Secret song sist. I knew something else too. There was no
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mistaking that voice. She was the girl with a lucky phone number. I
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wrote her a note, called a waiter at the table to deliver it,
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and then tapped back to watch her as she glied it over and sidled into
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a chair opposite me. It was your penmanship, didn't take men and a
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lot. It was your voice and so forth, mostly the so forth that
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got me, Banita. Would you care to decide for the sanscrit you call
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a note? The waiter said, you wrote it. Sure, it says
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important to me. That's an idiom. If you wanted to talk to Turkey?
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How was you translated? Do you know a woman named Helen Asher?
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Not that I remember? Why your phone number shut up on a memo pad?
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How do you come for that? How should I know? Maybe she
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intended to call me up. Look, you're quite a handsome man, mister
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Morrow, but you look silly with your nose. Ben. Why do you
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keep sticking it into other people's business, because besides being paid for it,
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it sometimes leads to meeting interesting and beautiful people. Present company included what do
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you want? Missus Asher killed herself tonight? Missus asad? Yeah, yeah,
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and considering you said you didn't know, you look very put out about
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it? All right? All a you when? But let's have talk about
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it here and you should drink while I get out of this costume. Then
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meet me outside by the front door in ten minutes and she headed for the
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back of the club, I hitded for the front. I got out the
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door and down in my car just in time to see her leave by the
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stage entrance. She jumps into a yellow convertible, ripped down Sunset Boulevard,
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turned down to Dolheli, and straight to a halt in front of the Region
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apartments. At the door, a tall, sunburned man popped up from somewhere,
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and then the septator. It was Elliot perdu A short but hot argument
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took place in apparently Perdew won because they went in together. I found the
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name beneath him alone, over the mailbox and number five, and got through
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her apartment door just as the second round star. No, I haven't changed
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my mind, Eliot. I've been doing a little research since you threw me
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over Banita. I've got you your precious plans right here in the palm of
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my head. What are you talking about this little hot, short blocket on
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this little golden chase. Let me see on not showing this trick if you
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feel just the right moved listen, Elliott. I don't know what's ruing in
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that slimy brain of yours, but just I said, you try to monkey
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with my life again. So help me. I'll kill you not to set
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out Banita. Would you be in pursuit if I had told you that I
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know Missus Ashley's secret? And would you be impested if I told you that
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Missus asher till the top tonight? That slows you down, doesn't it?
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Bright boys? Yes, it doesn't stop me, beautiful, I'll be seeing
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you before you know it. And a now Covi and heard Benita slam the
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door and produce coattails as he left. So now I knew that for you
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a lockett and beneath him alone added up some way or a bullet in my
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head for a scarred woman with a secret. I went back to my car
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and drove out the Stewart's house in Ballein. When you were here before,
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Marlow, I was so upset. I hardly realized you were a private detective
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and you had an appointment with Missus ashe had. She hired you, yes,
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to investigate someone, But she didn't live long enough to give me a
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the the tail. What sort of trouble could she have been into have needed
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the private detective? I don't know, but perhaps you can help me find
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out by answering a few questions anything anything at ange tomorrow. Does the name
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Elliott Predue mean anything to you, mister Stewart Elliott Produe, No, I'm
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afraid not. How about Benita Malone? Yeah, I've never heard of her.
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Do you know what I mean about a heart shaped locket on a gold
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chain lockett a gold lucket? Yeah, Missus Asher had a heart shaped gold
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lucket. Where'd you keep it? Upstairs? In her jewelry box? I
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could imagine. Come on, let's have a look. Uh yeah, right
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up these stairs here this is her room. Mallow, I know I was
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here once before. Why it's not here, It's not on her dressing table,
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her jewelry box. It's gone. Made you think that I can't understand
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this. That's a locket, like what's inside just a picture. It was
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valued by Missus Asher because it is the only run she kept to herself,
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the way she looked before the accidents. Not why would anyone else want?
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Then? I don't know. When we get that locket, we'll get a
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lot of answers along with it. Yes, now, I was more convinced
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than ever that Elliott Purdue beneath her and the late Missus Asher's secret were all
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dangling from the same chain that supported the gold locket. I said good night
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thout the Stewarts, and started back for Hollywood. A moment later, I
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changed my mind and abruptly swung onto a shadowed side road and parked lights out.
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It had suddenly occurred to me that the gallivanting mister Purdue might call on
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Stewart. It's so I wanted to be on hand. Forty minutes later,
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I was about to call off the crocon dagger routine when I heard the sound
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of a powerful motor roaring out of Stewart's striveway. I looked up just in
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time to see a long black mash whip fire would Steward at the wheel.
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From the speed of the car, I was certainly wasn't going out for the
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morning papers. Decided to go back to the house and question the butler while
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I could have him to myself. Oh why no, mister Marlowe. I
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haven't any idea where mister Stuart went. I only know that he had a
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telephone call, after which he dashed out of the house highly upset. Well,
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maybe some sick friend Aid is sitting up with huh, But tell me,
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Roberts, did you ever hear of a man named Elliott Perdue. Oh,
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yes, sir, he called on missus Asher here once or twice while
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Missus Stewart was a wayn doesn't it? When did you I see this,
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mister purduell Robinson? Yesterday morning, sir, about ten o'clock. M The
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one thing more? Did you ever see missus Asher wearing a gold locke at
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a heart shaped one? Oh? Quite often, sir. As a matter
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of fact, she asked me about it just yesterday morning, shortly after mister
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Purdue left, and she couldn't locate at any place this singular coincidence? Huh.
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Oh. By the way, what do you know about a singer named
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beneath her Anita? I've never heard of her. Are you sure she's never
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been out Here's mister Stewart's guest. Why I'm positive, sir, mister Jorwartan
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never has any ladys out here of any kind. Oh, doesn't strike you
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as being strange, rabbit. That's why all. Mister Stewart's a very eligible
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widow widower. Yes, mister Marlowe, but the landerer no, good night,
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sir. As I drove back to Hollywood, I tried to figure out
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where off the Stewart is gone, but had about as much to work with
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as Gypsy rose Lee. After a third encore, after discounting Benita's place in
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the conger, there was only Elliott Purdue's house on North I've been fifteen minutes
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later, I walked up to it, but the place was as dark and
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as quiet as the inside of a coffin. I turned back to my car,
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and suddenly I caught the reflection of a sliver of light bouncing off the
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glass. Mister Prode was living alone. I found it back to a lot
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easy to bluff. A moment later, I stepped into the living lofe.
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How did you know I was here? Mister Stewart told me you're a liar.
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Arthur wouldn't often I, well, you see mister Stewart. Now,
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oh no, it's mister Stewart. Huh wait a minute. Someone outside who
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said, how many finds? You keep talking? Saying anything? I'll be
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behind the doorge here you Well, what a waste of time, my dear,
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Why you've been here rearranging my socks? I have been talking to your
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boyfriend with a lock of safely tucked away right here in my breast pocket.
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How clever of you, How absolutely ingenious. It's a bit late for nasty
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words between us, Benita, because possession of you was part of the bark
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and I struck with mister Stewart. Do you see me? What are you
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staring at my big blue eyes? Patuone, I'm over our flash. Don't
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do nothing here, outfits, you will fight them all now the gentleman's frest
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pocket here. It is Benita Satan's sound, which is just the way I
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want to kill my own gun. Why are you beautiful? Come on?
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I get nervous as one of these things in my hands, thought, here,
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thanks. Now, when I meet Phil, don't come after me because
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I'd hate to. So you pull a little hole. N Benita stepped out
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of that house. I solemnly swore I wouldn't trust another woman for the next
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hundred years. I groan from the body on the floor. Brought him back
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to nineteen forty eight and Elliot Perdue. I knew that he had seen the
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picture in the locket, so I went to work on him. Come on,
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produce stamp out, come on, oh you model. I would you
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expect sank toeto? What was't a locket? Perdue? I don't remember.
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I'd be a call on little Hennity borrow or refresh your memory. Hi John,
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and we better start playing games again. We'll start with one called slap
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Slap Perdue. No, no, let me alone. Now look at your
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hands off? Are you ready to start singing? Huh? All we need
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now is the right lyrics show come on for you talk stop it shopping on
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the talk? Good? How why did missus Ashauld kill herself? Because she
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had a good reason? Like what, that's a long story? I get
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shot? Okay, my little here goes speaking hollowly bar and there's a five
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minute old corpse lying in his living room at nineteen oh three North Ogden name
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miss Elliot Perdue. Free shots for a closed window. I was lucky.
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I ain't description to kill him. No, no, now, lucky bor
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Right now, I'm going after a songbird named benitam alone at the Region apartments
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on doheiny? Will you cover me there? Without sirens? Him person?
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It was only a healthy center fielders take from produced house to Vanitas. When
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I got there, the place was dark and the car wasn't in sight.
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I decided to try the Conger Club. As soon as I walked in,
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I began to worry because if Banita had wanted to get rid of that locket,
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she'd have had enough time to bury the forest lawn. But I didn't
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know Banita, because missus um herself was singing in the amber spotlight and dangling
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from a soft white neck was the hot shaped gold locket. Because wonderful,
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because he mind. When she caught my eyes, she smiled like I made
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a d In the moment she was through with her songs, she headed back
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in my direction. She got to me. I saw her get the high
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signed to an apron a tuxedo. He looked at her and then across to
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my table and left the room. I watched Nita glide across the floor in
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my direction. She was distinctly and guilty. Well, Phil, what do
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you think of mine? See, I'm just crazy about it that in your
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jewelry, especially that Lockett family, it was more or less handed down to
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me generations of generations. That's an old Spanish customer. Yeah, yes and
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so, and I imagine tradition prohibit your parting with it her. That's right,
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unless across someone, someone with oodles of money, offers me a lot
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of it and exchange. So naturally I did blige. I don't think you'd
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feel oblige to your mother on the second Frinday in May. Besides, I
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don't have oodles of money. You should have told me that earlier. Good
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Bye, good looking. Hey, wait a minute, we couldn't do any
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business in a minute, and don't follow me if you want to stay pretty.
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She pivoted on a slic heel and took off for a dressing room.
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And I knew that if I followed, I was scheduled for a nasty tiled
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tape with an apron a tuxedo. When I made the lower floor and saw
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that the long corridor to a room was empty, I knew the setup.
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The ape would be on the other side of the door, waiting. Banita
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still had my gun, so I got to near the substitute for a blackshack
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a full bottle of Paul my Son champagne. Then I walked noisily down the
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carridor as far as her door and knock turned a knot, slowly kicked the
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door open and stood clear. It worked. The ape. Harry Hen was
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wrapped around my gun and it came down in a knot that was never interrupted,
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and that left him off follot the ap hit the floor, and before
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Banita had a chance to close the mouth, I ripped the locket from my
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neck, picked my gun up and ran. I didn't stop until I collapsed
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against the store window and I opened up the locket. Two minutes and I
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knew before I realized what was wrong with the picture, and I knew Arthur
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Stewart's home in bel Air with my next stop. Thirty minutes later, I
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pulled up away from the place and part and keeping in the shadows. I
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approached the house were only the library and an upstairs bedroom short any light.
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The library had French windows. When I moved up place, I was taught
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by the decided a figure going through Stewar's desk. I stepped into the room
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and found it was my little friend Benita. I've got my own gun again,
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Banita. I was doing a little dusting. Honey, I'm not trying
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to How was it you're not upstairs helping Stewart pack because I've already finished packing
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to morrow. And don't turn around, O fine sucked in by a little
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decoy sprinkled with sequences. Just toss your gun on the couch over there.
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Now, that's you know, model. I can't say that. I I'm
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very sorry for you and only expect condolences from the character murdered a woman this
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afternoon and a man this evening. You killed Missus Asher. Yes, that
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black naming scum for you as well, but necessarily even as mardows here will
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be come over here and you done behind bed hurry, so let's get out
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of here, Burry, And now mister Morrow, it's time for you.
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Well, thanks, Bernita, you swing a beautiful bookend. You know I
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had you figured all on. I don't mention it, dear, I heard
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the cops coming anyway, you sweet child. Well then Harry Potter all of
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it. Oh, I figured you'd be out here when he didn't show up
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with that Songbird's place. Well, what's this? A little man on the
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floor. The large bump on his head is office to it. A man
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who killed Elliot Purdue to keep him from telling me the truth about Missus Asher
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and the man who killed her this afternoon. So Missus Asher didn't commit suicide
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after all. No, but she wasn't murdered either. She died now accident
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in Canada three years ago. What are you talking about? The woman that
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Stuart killed here? This afternoon. Wasn't Missus Asher. It was his wife,
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Missus Sparnce Stewart. You see, there must have been a mix up
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and identifying the body that the two women. At the time of the accident.
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Stuart and his wife had Missus Asher buried is Missus Stewart and they collected
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the insurance. Neat, Yeah, but what happened, That's simple. Stewart
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got bored with his scard and unattractive wife and he started running around with choice
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little numbers like Benita here. Still honest, I didn't know a thing about
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this. Stewart told me that Missus Asher depended on him so heavily that she'd
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be crushed at his seeing another woman. But I didn't know she was his
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wife. Mollow, How do you figure this all out? I'm a locket
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that belongs to the woman we knew with Missus Asher. It had a picture
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of Stuart and Missus Asher taken in dress clothes before she was scarred. Yes,
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Stewart claimed that he and his wife had only met Missus Asher the day
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of the accident, and on a camping trip at that But Phil I saw
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the picture too him. I didn't figure that out. It's because you were
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too busy trying to fit just how much the lucket was worth up the Steward
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or to anybody in cold cash. You were blinded by all the dalla signs
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in front of your eyes leading still, how can he say such things?
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Now? Mallow, Just so I don't toss and turn on, I tell
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me just why you were hired in the first place. Lather Barrett goes something
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like this. When Puju knew that he was losing Benita to Steward, he
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decided to check up on the opposition, and he not only found out what
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he wanted to know, but he found out a lot of things too that
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he didn't want to know. Missus Stewart, the late Missus Asher, became
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suspicious of his questioning, incidentally, of her husband, so she sent for
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me. Well, mallo'd Stewards certainly had meat fooled. I doped him out
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to be a very generous guy, a great benefactor who was doing the right
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thing for a lonely, unfortunate woman. Yeah, it looked like he had
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a heart of girl, all right. But the funny thing he bought it
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at the end. It was this heart of gold, this locket here that
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got him. Mind, if I keep it. You had a tough enough
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time getting hold of it. Good night felt well. By the time I
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got back to my apartment on Franklin, the sky was beginning to fill with
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a soft gray morning, and I pulled the blinds down in my bedroom and
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sat down for a last cigarette. I had mixed with a lot of funny
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people that day. For some cock had reason, I kept thinking of beneath
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him alone, a girl who was no better than she had to hear.
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Finally I put her out of my mind, and I was about to turn
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off the desk lamp when I noticed my memo pad still Guys Sunday, which
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was understandable. A square across the top sheet was a telephone number. They
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couldn't figure out how it got there. Was written in Crimson Lipstick Brad Shure
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seventh, seven eleven. The Adventures of Philip Marlowe, created by Raymond Chandler,
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stars Gerald Moore and is produced and directed by Norman McDonald's featured in tonight's
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cast where Gloria Blondelle, John Zayner, Jack Moyles, and then Wright.
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Detective Lieutenant Evara was played by Jeff Corey. The special music was conceived and
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conducted by Richard o'lance be sure to be with us again next week. When
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Philip Marlowe says they were all after it, an importer, a beautiful woman,
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a nuts and a guy I couldn't figure out. But before we withdrew,
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one was in the hospital, two in the morgue, and the fourth
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was waiting for the hangman. All that because of a blue Burgonette, something
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I'd never even heard of before. Doctor Fabian, the Ship's Doctor and Cabin
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B thirteen tells a new story of danger in far Ports tonight over most of
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the CBS Network stations. Tonight's story, The Island of Coffins, is another
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original drama by John Dixon Carr, famed mystery writer. You can hear it
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when the ship's whistles sound outside Cabin B thirteen. This is Royal Rowin speaking.
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This is CDAs for Columbia. Of all guy things that welcome back,
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you know. The one thing that's somewhat atypical about this episode is the amount
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of a cooperation that marlow gets from the police. You know, this week
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they were giving him the Nick Carter treatment, you know, letting him use
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their labs, providing him back up, which is somewhat of an atypical writing.
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Well, you know, if you've read the books, which I know
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not everyone has, Marlow definitely did not rate that sort of treatment. In
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fact, his relationship with the police was usual, somewhat antagonistic. But at
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any rate, I did think it was a nice twist on the identity of
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the murdered woman. All right, Well, listener comments and Scott commented on
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my extensive Panama Hat commentary on episode twelve eighty nine and says, didn't Green
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Street wear a bowler in a Maltese falcon? Yeah? Actually, I didn't
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make that miss mistake. He did wear the Panama hat and other movies,
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and it's kind of hard to make a bowler into a symbol of villainy,
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I guess. But at any rate, you are correct that he did wear
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the bowler and Maltese falcon. So I stand corrected. Thanks so much.
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I do appreciate it. All right, Well, I guess that will do
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it for now. Be sure and listen on Sunday we'll be having our thirteenth,
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thirteen hundredth episode special and it will be a Raymond Chandler story, but
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a very different sort of story. So you want to listen to that.
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Join us tomorrow for Nick Carter, and we'll be back again next Wednesday with
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