Latest / Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas / Philip Marlowe: The Anniversary Gift (EP1661)
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- 1:49Speaker 1: support dot Great Detectives dot net. Well today, the Philip
- 1:54Speaker 1: marlow is going to be a little bit different, with
- 1:56Speaker 1: William Conrad filling in for Gerald Moore. The original air
- 2:00Speaker 1: Nate April the eleventh of nineteen fifty and the Tittle
- 2:04Speaker 1: is the anniversary gift.
- 2:08Speaker 2: Get this and get it straight. Crime as a sucker's road,
- 2:12Speaker 2: and those who travel it wind up in the gutter,
- 2:14Speaker 2: the prison of the grave, this time a platinum wristwatch,
- 2:18Speaker 2: a body on a lonely strip of beach, in a
- 2:21Speaker 2: case of heart failure in a Beverly Hills garage, all
- 2:23Speaker 2: added up to blackmail twenty five years old, and a
- 2:27Speaker 2: killer who would never be caught.
- 2:30Speaker 3: It happened like this.
- 2:33Speaker 4: From the pan of Raymond Trandler, outstanding author of crime fiction,
- 2:36Speaker 4: comes his most famous character in the Adventures of Philip Marlowe.
- 2:49Speaker 4: In just a moment, tonight's story. But first, a message
- 2:52Speaker 4: from the four Dealers of America.
- 2:55Speaker 5: The whole country's talking about the great nineteen fifty Ford.
- 2:59Speaker 5: Listen to what mister Karl Moore of Kingston, Pennsylvania, one
- 3:02Speaker 5: of more than four hundred and twenty thousand delighted owners,
- 3:04Speaker 5: says about his new Ford.
- 3:06Speaker 6: I leave my car out on the street a lot
- 3:08Speaker 6: in winter, but you'd never know it. To look at
- 3:10Speaker 6: my fifty Ford's paint job. It's still as new looking
- 3:13Speaker 6: as when I bought it. I'll never stop wondering how
- 3:15Speaker 6: Ford can sell a car that stands up so well
- 3:18Speaker 6: for so little money. And speaking of getting a lot
- 3:20Speaker 6: for little money, my Ford gives me up to twenty
- 3:23Speaker 6: two miles to a gallon of gas.
- 3:25Speaker 5: Yes, it's hard for Ford owners to keep the good
- 3:27Speaker 5: news to themselves, the news about the economy of the
- 3:30Speaker 5: big new Ford, from its low initial price to its
- 3:34Speaker 5: high resale value, from its low cost of maintenance to
- 3:37Speaker 5: its thrift on gas and oil. Ford is a real
- 3:40Speaker 5: economy by but prove it for yourself. Your neighborhood Ford
- 3:44Speaker 5: dealer has the facts on Ford economy, and he'll be
- 3:47Speaker 5: glad to have you test drive the big nineteen fifty
- 3:50Speaker 5: Ford in your own way.
- 3:51Speaker 4: And now we bring you tonight's exciting story, the anniversary gift.
- 4:13Speaker 7: We turned left at the next corner.
- 4:15Speaker 8: Cabby Okay, why is Beverly Hills in the sunding afternoon?
- 4:19Speaker 7: It is really something in it?
- 4:20Speaker 8: Yeah, wide streets, classy homes. Boy, these joke has got
- 4:24Speaker 8: it made some life. Nothing ever gainst them to bother
- 4:27Speaker 8: them except the income tact. Maybe earnest mister eighty eight
- 4:33Speaker 8: thirty four Beverly Road, what a joint?
- 4:36Speaker 2: Yeah, wait for me, I'm sure show mister. The door
- 4:46Speaker 2: was answered by a girl of about sixteen, a tall,
- 4:49Speaker 2: slender girl with dark eyes too deep for her years.
- 4:53Speaker 9: Oh, come in, won't you.
- 4:56Speaker 10: I believe Dad's expecting you.
- 4:58Speaker 2: She led me across a living room as dignified is
- 5:00Speaker 2: the lobby of a bank, to adore that she open.
- 5:03Speaker 11: If you're right here in the library, I tell you.
- 5:05Speaker 9: Edge, you've come.
- 5:06Speaker 2: The library of Stanley Tana, my new client, was as
- 5:09Speaker 2: somber as his living room, except.
- 5:11Speaker 3: For one thing.
- 5:12Speaker 2: Over a fireplace that half filled one wall was a
- 5:15Speaker 2: life sized portrait.
- 5:16Speaker 3: Of a woman, a most beautiful woman.
- 5:19Speaker 2: Could have been a painting of what the girl who
- 5:20Speaker 2: had just left would look like in another twenty five years.
- 5:23Speaker 2: I was still staring at the picture when Stanley Tana
- 5:26Speaker 2: came in. That's a portrait of Margaret, my wife.
- 5:32Speaker 12: We lost her one week ago to day.
- 5:34Speaker 3: I'm sorry, mister Tanner.
- 5:35Speaker 12: Well, we'd been expecting it for over a year. The
- 5:38Speaker 12: doctors had warned us.
- 5:39Speaker 3: But even when your braced for a blow like that,
- 5:42Speaker 3: it yes, I know what you mean. It was her
- 5:45Speaker 3: heart model.
- 5:46Speaker 12: She was coming home from a shopping trip in Westward
- 5:48Speaker 12: last Tuesday evening when it happened.
- 5:50Speaker 3: She had her own car and.
- 5:52Speaker 12: Was just pulling into the garage here when the attack
- 5:54Speaker 12: seized her. Catherine, my daughter, and I both heard her
- 5:58Speaker 12: car hit the garage wall. We ran out and found her.
- 6:04Speaker 12: The doctor did everything possible. Wednesday morning she was dead.
- 6:10Speaker 12: I'm sorry, s all right, And mister Tanner, I must
- 6:13Speaker 12: tell you all this because the the reason I called
- 6:16Speaker 12: you here has to do with Margaret's death. I don't
- 6:19Speaker 12: understand I I I've got to get Margaret's watch back
- 6:23Speaker 12: of what a watch? Yes, a wristwatch. It's well, I'll
- 6:29Speaker 12: try to explain. I loved my wife very deeply, Marlowe.
- 6:33Speaker 3: Now that I've.
- 6:34Speaker 12: Lost her, the most important thing in the world to
- 6:36Speaker 12: me is the preservation of her memory. Can you understand that.
- 6:40Speaker 2: It's natural that you'd cling the things that remind you
- 6:42Speaker 2: of a mister tana Er.
- 6:45Speaker 3: Now what about the watch.
- 6:46Speaker 12: It's lost somewhere in Camino Beach.
- 6:48Speaker 3: You know where that is, Yes, a few miles below Rodando. Yes,
- 6:51Speaker 3: that's right.
- 6:52Speaker 12: The day Margaret died, I had taken her watch with
- 6:54Speaker 12: me to have it repaired. I went down the coast
- 6:57Speaker 12: on some business and on the way back I stopped
- 6:59Speaker 12: at Camino Beach for lunch, a place called the Trade Winds.
- 7:02Speaker 2: You had the watch with you when you went in, Yes,
- 7:04Speaker 2: in my overcoat pocket. I came out and got in
- 7:06Speaker 2: my car and was halfway back to my office before
- 7:08Speaker 2: I realized it was gone.
- 7:09Speaker 12: I've got to get.
- 7:11Speaker 3: It back, Marlone.
- 7:11Speaker 7: How much is it worth in cash?
- 7:13Speaker 12: About five hundred dollars, But to me now, it's worth.
- 7:18Speaker 3: Twenty times that.
- 7:20Speaker 2: What's the watch like. It's Abnerus platinum and set with Emeralds.
- 7:25Speaker 2: I gave it to Margaret on our twentieth wedding anniversary.
- 7:29Speaker 2: There's an inscription on the back to Margaret from Stanley
- 7:33Speaker 2: with eternal love. I know that watch is somewhere in
- 7:36Speaker 2: Camino Beach. Can you find it and bring it back
- 7:38Speaker 2: here to me? There's nothing more you can tell me, fortunately,
- 7:42Speaker 2: that's all there is. I'll do my best, but I
- 7:47Speaker 2: can't guarantee a thing. The cabbe waiting outside drove me
- 7:56Speaker 2: back to the gas station on Wiltshire, where I picked
- 7:58Speaker 2: up my own car, fresh off grease wreck, and headed
- 8:01Speaker 2: for the ocean and the sunset.
- 8:04Speaker 7: It was getting dark by the.
- 8:05Speaker 2: Time I reached Camino Beach, a rickety salt cake little
- 8:09Speaker 2: town jumbled in between the highway and the surf now.
- 8:13Speaker 2: My first stop was the Trade Wind's Cafe, waterfront shack
- 8:16Speaker 2: on spindly leg. Standing knee deep in the smelly backwash,
- 8:20Speaker 2: it only took ten minutes to find that there was
- 8:21Speaker 2: nothing there for me. After that, I drew a blank
- 8:25Speaker 2: at each of the three hawk shops in town, wound
- 8:28Speaker 2: up an hour and a half later, no further than
- 8:29Speaker 2: the sidewalk curb or I watched a traffic cop ran
- 8:33Speaker 2: my tire with his parking marker, plant a heavy foot
- 8:36Speaker 2: on my bumper to steady his bike and light a cigarette.
- 8:38Speaker 9: I am, is your calm?
- 8:40Speaker 7: Yeah? What is it?
- 8:41Speaker 1: Am?
- 8:42Speaker 7: I overparked?
- 8:42Speaker 13: Oh not yet, just borring your bumper a minute mine.
- 8:46Speaker 2: Of course, not got a lot of scratches already. Say
- 8:50Speaker 2: that's a fancy chalk label you put on the side
- 8:52Speaker 2: of that tire.
- 8:52Speaker 7: There Zee the mark of Zoro. The mark is Ziegler.
- 8:58Speaker 13: That's me, this little thing I worked out at a
- 9:01Speaker 13: personal touch to my business.
- 9:04Speaker 5: And you're a stranger on here, aren't you?
- 9:06Speaker 3: Yeah? From lah So?
- 9:08Speaker 9: Are you coming out of the pawn shop there?
- 9:10Speaker 7: You don't look like the type.
- 9:11Speaker 2: Well I'm not as long as my luck holds. Actually,
- 9:14Speaker 2: a friend of mine lost a wristwatch here in town.
- 9:16Speaker 3: I'm trying to locate it.
- 9:17Speaker 7: Pretty good watches, Yeah, good enough.
- 9:20Speaker 2: The really tough part is that it has a very
- 9:22Speaker 2: big sentimental value. I've tried all three of the pawn
- 9:25Speaker 2: shops in town, but uh no dies.
- 9:28Speaker 13: You know, if I had a friend who had lost
- 9:29Speaker 13: a good watch, I think i'd check in at Sean's
- 9:33Speaker 13: bicycle shop on Third Street.
- 9:35Speaker 7: Oh, thanks a lot, secret.
- 9:37Speaker 9: Don't mention it.
- 9:37Speaker 13: Oh I Incidentally, I wouldn't bother to tell him who
- 9:40Speaker 13: sent me down if I was you.
- 9:42Speaker 7: It's a long hello. Hello anybody there? Hello Sean?
- 10:01Speaker 11: What do you want?
- 10:02Speaker 7: I'm close for the night. I'm interested in a lady's wristwatch.
- 10:06Speaker 2: Mister Sean, Are you know just how does that bring
- 10:10Speaker 2: you to a bicycle shop. Look, we both know you're offense,
- 10:13Speaker 2: so let's not waste time on that. The watch I'm
- 10:15Speaker 2: after is platinum, set with emeralds and has an inscription
- 10:18Speaker 2: on the back to Margaret from Stanley with eternal love
- 10:21Speaker 2: a bright sentiment. I'm sure have you seen the watch?
- 10:24Speaker 6: No?
- 10:24Speaker 2: Look, Sean, either right, beat your tongue as limber as
- 10:27Speaker 2: a Saint Bernard's ears, or you'll accept this twenty dollars
- 10:30Speaker 2: in exchange for some straight information peacefully. I'll take your
- 10:34Speaker 2: choice and take it fast. Twenty dollars kind of a choice,
- 10:39Speaker 2: is that?
- 10:40Speaker 7: But I don't have the watchbookle but you have seen it? Oh?
- 10:43Speaker 2: Yes, five six days ago fellow brought that watch in here.
- 10:45Speaker 2: I wanted to know what it was worth. I said
- 10:47Speaker 2: five hundred. He laughed in my face. Who was this guy?
- 10:51Speaker 2: You mentioned something about twenty dollars?
- 10:53Speaker 3: Oh? Yes, here, all right? Not give it's better here.
- 10:59Speaker 8: His name is chip Machine. In summers, he works in
- 11:01Speaker 8: the concessions in the pier. In winters, he's nothing more
- 11:03Speaker 8: than a beach comber, leaves in a little room out
- 11:05Speaker 8: in the pier behind the shooting gallery. And that buco
- 11:08Speaker 8: as your twenty dollars worth.
- 11:09Speaker 2: It had better be Shane, or I'll be back for
- 11:11Speaker 2: my change. The amusement pier was deserted. When I finally
- 11:22Speaker 2: found the one room shack tacked on behind the shooting gallery,
- 11:25Speaker 2: it was dark and quiet. I knocked once, got no answer,
- 11:29Speaker 2: so I pushed a water of rags out of a
- 11:31Speaker 2: broken pane of glass in the door, reached inside, and
- 11:34Speaker 2: then snapped the lock and went in with a light
- 11:37Speaker 2: from the one naked overhead bulb. I started through the
- 11:40Speaker 2: room on a packing crake that passed for a dresser.
- 11:43Speaker 2: I found a week old newspaper clipping. It said the
- 11:46Speaker 2: body of one Leon Stice of Camino had been found
- 11:49Speaker 2: on an isolated beach Wednesday morning, shot in the chest,
- 11:53Speaker 2: no apparent reason.
- 11:55Speaker 7: Stye was survived by his wife.
- 11:56Speaker 2: Nancy of three twenty Front Street. I got real busy
- 12:00Speaker 2: wondering why a bomb like chip Menichet saved old newspaper
- 12:03Speaker 2: clippings of murder stories. When a noise outside turned me
- 12:06Speaker 2: toward the open door.
- 12:07Speaker 14: What are you doing?
- 12:08Speaker 2: My twice you weren't home, so I came in to wait.
- 12:12Speaker 9: You're a cop or something.
- 12:14Speaker 3: Now I'm no cop. Menische.
- 12:16Speaker 7: The name's Marlowe.
- 12:17Speaker 2: Uh, maybe we can do business, Saiddan, I don't get you.
- 12:21Speaker 2: I uh collect old watches. A mutual friend sent me menish. Yeah,
- 12:27Speaker 2: I'm interested in ladies watches, particularly maybe something in platinum
- 12:31Speaker 2: with Emeralds.
- 12:33Speaker 3: Okay, Paly, what's the proposition?
- 12:35Speaker 2: Nothing until I see the merchandise. Now, how about putting
- 12:37Speaker 2: it on display?
- 12:38Speaker 7: Uh?
- 12:39Speaker 14: I can't hear your pal.
- 12:40Speaker 7: Come on, now, where's the watch?
- 12:42Speaker 1: Don't wash me?
- 12:43Speaker 14: Lets, don't wash me? You get your no glass?
- 12:46Speaker 3: All right?
- 12:47Speaker 7: Uh?
- 12:48Speaker 2: Make me a proposition? Ten grand, ten ten thousand. Uh huh,
- 12:54Speaker 2: you must be out of your mind.
- 12:55Speaker 14: Yeah, we'll see who's out of their minds. That's a
- 12:57Speaker 14: very valuable watch. Maybe you get out of here and
- 13:01Speaker 14: add it all up again.
- 13:02Speaker 7: Yeah, maybe I'd better at that.
- 13:04Speaker 2: But minus she don't go away, because I'll be back.
- 13:10Speaker 7: I won't go away.
- 13:12Speaker 2: I know when I'm sitting on top of the pile.
- 13:20Speaker 2: As I walked away, a hunch kept whispering to me
- 13:22Speaker 2: that the body of a guy named Leon Stice, found
- 13:25Speaker 2: on a lonely beach, was somehow tied in. So I
- 13:28Speaker 2: decided to pay a call on his widow. I drove
- 13:31Speaker 2: down Front Street to Number three twenty, but there.
- 13:34Speaker 3: Was nobody home.
- 13:35Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, the only sign of lack
- 13:37Speaker 2: on the entire block was a red knee on cocon
- 13:39Speaker 2: and a blue knee on Martini glass above the door
- 13:42Speaker 2: of a bar across the street. So I walked over
- 13:44Speaker 2: and went in. A couple of questions later, I found
- 13:48Speaker 2: Nancy Stice sitting alone in the back. The offer to
- 13:52Speaker 2: buy a drink was the only introduction I needed.
- 13:55Speaker 11: Sure, you can buy me a drink.
- 13:58Speaker 2: Hey, Charlie, I'm an old friend of your husband's Nancy.
- 14:05Speaker 11: I just heard that last didn't have no friends beyond Nancy.
- 14:11Speaker 7: Uh no, here keeping MADNYA, I h nah.
- 14:18Speaker 11: I got nothing against Leon Steie except twenty five years
- 14:23Speaker 11: of living with him in a Camino beach rat hole
- 14:25Speaker 11: on nothing.
- 14:27Speaker 1: That's all.
- 14:28Speaker 2: Any idea why he was killed for the role he
- 14:31Speaker 2: was caring after what.
- 14:33Speaker 7: You just said, That makes no sense.
- 14:35Speaker 11: That's the way it was, And I didn't get one
- 14:39Speaker 11: red scent of it.
- 14:41Speaker 12: It was all gone when.
- 14:42Speaker 7: I found him.
- 14:43Speaker 3: Did you tell the cops he had money on him?
- 14:46Speaker 11: No? I hate cops.
- 14:48Speaker 7: Yeah? Sure? Uh? Where did Leon get this though? It
- 14:54Speaker 7: told me ran.
- 14:55Speaker 11: Into an old acquaintance that was taken him. Some guy
- 14:59Speaker 11: named Martin used to live here in Camino Beach years ago.
- 15:03Speaker 3: Martin Vogel was taking.
- 15:04Speaker 11: Him to what Leon said him and Vogel was going
- 15:08Speaker 11: in business together. The cash was an advanced sure he
- 15:13Speaker 11: was gonna be such a big shot.
- 15:16Speaker 3: What kind of business Landcy.
- 15:19Speaker 11: Just just between you and me, the only business that
- 15:24Speaker 11: Crumby minded his would work on was black nailed.
- 15:27Speaker 8: Take it from me, m M.
- 15:30Speaker 11: And now how about another drink for his grief stricken widow.
- 15:34Speaker 1: Huh?
- 15:36Speaker 2: I leave a buck on the bar on my way.
- 15:39Speaker 4: Out in just a moment, the second act of Philip Marlowe.
- 15:56Speaker 4: But first, a brief message from the four Dealers of America.
- 16:01Speaker 5: From coast to coast, Ford honors agree, the big new
- 16:04Speaker 5: Ford brings you more for your money, more in comfort,
- 16:07Speaker 5: more in performance, and more in economy. But only through
- 16:11Speaker 5: personal experience can you appreciate the RESTful ease of Ford's
- 16:14Speaker 5: famous midship ride and the luxurious comfort of Ford's non
- 16:18Speaker 5: sag foam rubber cushion front seat. Only by driving this
- 16:22Speaker 5: great car can you enjoy its smooth power and solid rodability.
- 16:27Speaker 5: And only by getting the facts about Ford's economy can
- 16:29Speaker 5: you understand that's so powerful, so smooth riding, and so beautiful.
- 16:34Speaker 5: A car can cost so little to buy, to run,
- 16:39Speaker 5: and to maintain. But see what's the New Ford give you?
- 16:43Speaker 5: Find out how much it saves you. Yes, before you
- 16:46Speaker 5: buy any car at any price, it will pay you
- 16:49Speaker 5: to stop by your local Ford dealers. Take the wheel
- 16:52Speaker 5: of the one hundred horse power V eight or its
- 16:54Speaker 5: companion and quality, the ninety five horse power six. Once
- 16:58Speaker 5: you've driven it, you'll agree the New Ford is the
- 17:01Speaker 5: one truly fine car in the low price field.
- 17:05Speaker 4: Now we returned to the second act of Philip Marlowe
- 17:08Speaker 4: and Tonight's story, the Anniversary Gift.
- 17:20Speaker 2: I left the Pelican Club, got into my car, and
- 17:22Speaker 2: started for the local law on the chance that I
- 17:25Speaker 2: could learn something more about the new question mark I'd
- 17:27Speaker 2: picked up named Martin Vogel. Ten minutes later, I parked
- 17:31Speaker 2: my car under the crack globe that ooled sick purple
- 17:34Speaker 2: light over a weather beaten sign. Camino Beach Police, A
- 17:39Speaker 2: fat sergeant huddled over what could have been the original
- 17:41Speaker 2: teletype machine. When I presented my credentials, he jabbed a
- 17:45Speaker 2: fat finger at a dirty glass door. My Captain Elvin Bush,
- 17:48Speaker 2: chief of detectives inside, A small old man knat in
- 17:53Speaker 2: a clean white shirt, groomed silver hair and a gentle smile,
- 17:57Speaker 2: was strapping on a shoulder holster when I put my
- 17:59Speaker 2: life on his desk. When I stopped talking, he got
- 18:02Speaker 2: up and extended an almost delicate hand.
- 18:05Speaker 9: I certainly hope we can help you, mister Marlow. Martin Vogel, you.
- 18:09Speaker 2: Say, yes, it might have been a long time ago, Captain,
- 18:11Speaker 2: maybe even twenty five years, if he was mixed up
- 18:14Speaker 2: with the police at all, Do.
- 18:15Speaker 7: Your records go back that far?
- 18:16Speaker 6: Oh?
- 18:17Speaker 10: Yes, by the apple crate load. And I mean that literally,
- 18:20Speaker 10: mister Marlow. You see in communa beach, police piles, fixtures
- 18:24Speaker 10: and furniture are somewhat lacking city appropriations. Only go where
- 18:29Speaker 10: they show public bird baths, statues of the mayor. Oh,
- 18:34Speaker 10: here this bottom crate here, Mark, let's see.
- 18:39Speaker 2: In nineteen twenty one to nineteen thirty figure.
- 18:43Speaker 9: He was arrested along in there this Vogel.
- 18:45Speaker 2: Yeah, if he was arrested dust, isn't it.
- 18:49Speaker 9: Well?
- 18:50Speaker 2: The cards are alphabetical, yes, and let's see Riker Rooney stimple.
- 18:55Speaker 9: By the way, mister Marlow, what's your angle?
- 18:58Speaker 2: I'm not sure Captain spencon under, I don't.
- 19:01Speaker 3: Know Vogel, Martin got it?
- 19:04Speaker 9: Eh?
- 19:04Speaker 2: Yeah, picture and all bring it over here in the light.
- 19:07Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 19:08Speaker 2: Martin Vogel arrested Camino Beach Hotel May twenty eight, nineteen
- 19:11Speaker 2: twenty three, on Warren from Chicago, Illinois Police. Returned to
- 19:14Speaker 2: Chicago sentence to five years in state penitentiary for embeztlement.
- 19:18Speaker 2: Arresting officer Patrolman Elvin Bush.
- 19:22Speaker 10: Picked him up my shop, did I Well, I've locked
- 19:24Speaker 10: up a lot of people in the last thirty five years.
- 19:26Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess you have it. Holy smokes, Eh, what
- 19:32Speaker 3: that can't be?
- 19:33Speaker 9: What is mister Marlowe? You are kind of pale?
- 19:37Speaker 2: There was no mistaking it. The time yellowed picture of
- 19:39Speaker 2: Martin Vogel made it. Plane Vogel and my client, that
- 19:43Speaker 2: distinguished mister Stanley Towner, were one and the same. It
- 19:47Speaker 2: meant that Tanner had lied to me and more important,
- 19:49Speaker 2: had no doubt killed Leon Stice, who was blackmailing him
- 19:51Speaker 2: because he knew he was Vogel. I left Captain Bush
- 20:00Speaker 2: spiled into my car and pointed it back for the
- 20:02Speaker 2: amusement here. Well, one way or another, I was going
- 20:04Speaker 2: to get Chip menasheed to fill in a few remaining
- 20:06Speaker 2: blanks for me.
- 20:18Speaker 7: What is it, Marlow? Men she, I want to talk business?
- 20:22Speaker 14: Okay, Marlow, looks like I doked it, right, I thought
- 20:25Speaker 14: you'd come back.
- 20:29Speaker 7: All right?
- 20:30Speaker 2: Now, get up and listened hard. I want the watch
- 20:34Speaker 2: and the story that comes with it.
- 20:36Speaker 14: I told you my price. It's still ten grand.
- 20:38Speaker 2: You're bluffing men She. You know the watch means money,
- 20:41Speaker 2: but you don't know why.
- 20:41Speaker 3: Yeah, Muster, all right, now come on talk okay.
- 20:48Speaker 14: Okay, quit, I'll tell you what you want. I took
- 20:51Speaker 14: the watch from play on Stice from found him down
- 20:54Speaker 14: on the beach.
- 20:55Speaker 2: It was crunched in his face, and the door you're
- 20:57Speaker 2: spending was in his wh Let me up?
- 21:00Speaker 7: All right?
- 21:01Speaker 2: Come on, I sit over there, hands in your lap.
- 21:05Speaker 2: School isn't not yet?
- 21:07Speaker 9: What Morty?
- 21:08Speaker 2: I want? Mar How do you get tired to watch
- 21:10Speaker 2: in with Stanley Tawner?
- 21:11Speaker 14: What makes you think I did?
- 21:13Speaker 2: The fact that I was sent here to Camino Beach
- 21:15Speaker 2: and the fact that you were ready and waiting for somebody.
- 21:17Speaker 14: Well, okay, okay, I was lucky when I read about
- 21:23Speaker 14: Stice in the papers. I also just happened to read
- 21:25Speaker 14: another article on oddity you might say. But a woman
- 21:28Speaker 14: in Bebbly Hills, a rich man's wife, got a heart
- 21:30Speaker 14: attack in her card just she pulled into her garage.
- 21:33Speaker 14: Woman called Tana Front named Margaret wife a big shot
- 21:37Speaker 14: broker also called Tana Front named Stanley.
- 21:41Speaker 9: I went from there.
- 21:42Speaker 2: I was true, Yeah, genius, Okay, now give me the watch.
- 21:45Speaker 14: Come on, let's have it all right, get your mitso here.
- 21:49Speaker 14: Now you're real happy, muscles, happy.
- 21:51Speaker 7: That you cops. Hey medicine, Wait a minute.
- 22:00Speaker 3: Time I got to the door.
- 22:00Speaker 2: He was halfway across the boardwalk to his car, but
- 22:03Speaker 2: Captain Bush and his sergeant were ready and waiting. When
- 22:06Speaker 2: menashe was next to the gun he kept in this
- 22:07Speaker 2: glove compartment.
- 22:08Speaker 7: The spotlight on the.
- 22:09Speaker 2: Squad car slashed through the dock, found him and froze
- 22:11Speaker 2: him in a position.
- 22:13Speaker 9: Better you hear me? Do you listen?
- 22:16Speaker 3: Papa him it Becker.
- 22:21Speaker 2: The windshield sprang in the little pieces. I waited until
- 22:26Speaker 2: Captain and Becker were next to the body and had
- 22:28Speaker 2: lifted it off the steering wheel, and then I moved
- 22:30Speaker 2: quietly along the side of the buildings as far as
- 22:32Speaker 2: the squad car. There, I turned and started back toward them.
- 22:37Speaker 7: Hey, Hey, what happened? Oh it's you, Captain.
- 22:39Speaker 9: I'll bring you around. Here's Tomorlow.
- 22:41Speaker 2: A guy in town told me that somebody named Chip
- 22:43Speaker 2: Menishi might give me a lead on Martin Vogel.
- 22:45Speaker 10: Won't be able to Now that's Menis well. We wanted
- 22:48Speaker 10: him for a week old stick up murder.
- 22:50Speaker 3: Stick up murder.
- 22:52Speaker 15: Uh.
- 22:53Speaker 7: That guy on the beach.
- 22:54Speaker 9: The same, hey, Becker.
- 22:56Speaker 10: Find the money on him right, some three hundred bucks,
- 22:59Speaker 10: Captain good, he's a.
- 23:00Speaker 9: Better call for the wagon now, Jack, funny thing, mister Morlow.
- 23:04Speaker 9: One fingerprint did it?
- 23:06Speaker 7: Oh? How's that?
- 23:07Speaker 10: And that guy on the beach, Leon Stice, he found
- 23:09Speaker 10: his empty wallet and the sand next to him. It
- 23:12Speaker 10: had an eye and glass front over his driver's license
- 23:15Speaker 10: with a thumb print.
- 23:16Speaker 7: It wasn't his, but it was Chip Minish's.
- 23:17Speaker 10: And we got on Diminish because he was spreading a
- 23:20Speaker 10: lot of door around today. Becker got down here and
- 23:22Speaker 10: lifted one of his prints. That'd sense to yes, that
- 23:25Speaker 10: and the shot he just threw at me.
- 23:26Speaker 2: H strictly a stick up killer who got caught.
- 23:29Speaker 10: Marlow bought this, Martin Bogel, you still want to let
- 23:34Speaker 10: it go that the Beverly Hills police are going to
- 23:36Speaker 10: get in touch.
- 23:38Speaker 7: I think so.
- 23:41Speaker 3: Good night, Captain Bush.
- 23:48Speaker 2: The ride back to Beverly Hills was an uncomfortable hour
- 23:51Speaker 2: and a half, cold and empty. I was glad that
- 23:54Speaker 2: I had things to do, like stop and start and
- 23:56Speaker 2: shift gears had kept me from thinking too much about
- 23:58Speaker 2: a lot of things and a lot of people.
- 23:59Speaker 7: I wish had I heard of, people.
- 24:01Speaker 2: Like Stanley Tanner, who I had every reason to be against,
- 24:04Speaker 2: but who I was starting to pull for. Stanley Tanner,
- 24:08Speaker 2: a man who had started all over again after a
- 24:10Speaker 2: single mistake made twenty five years ago, a man who
- 24:13Speaker 2: had fought to build good things like a comfortable home,
- 24:17Speaker 2: a marriage too, to a woman on the painting, a
- 24:20Speaker 2: sixteen year old likeness named Catherine. But Stanley Tanner, who
- 24:25Speaker 2: was also a killer on a lonely stretch of beach,
- 24:27Speaker 2: far from home, destroying something rotten, who would destroy him?
- 24:32Speaker 2: A killer that nobody knew.
- 24:33Speaker 7: About except me.
- 24:36Speaker 9: Well.
- 24:36Speaker 2: I pulled into the driveway and parked behind the car
- 24:38Speaker 2: that had been Margaret's. As I got out, the light
- 24:41Speaker 2: of the garage went on and the side door of
- 24:43Speaker 2: the house opened. I felt almost wrong, dropping my hand
- 24:46Speaker 2: around the thirty eight in my side pocket.
- 24:48Speaker 12: Good evening, mister Mollow.
- 24:50Speaker 3: You have to watch.
- 24:51Speaker 7: Yeah, I had quite a tussle getting hold of it.
- 24:54Speaker 12: I imagined you would.
- 24:56Speaker 7: Minis, she's dead, mister Tanner.
- 24:57Speaker 3: Minish who who is Minish?
- 25:00Speaker 11: You?
- 25:00Speaker 2: Mister Marlow, the reason you hired me, the man who
- 25:04Speaker 2: called you and dangled this bait. Yeah, you were right.
- 25:07Speaker 2: It's a beautiful watch. Mister Bogol bog you you.
- 25:13Speaker 3: Know about it.
- 25:13Speaker 2: Yeah, they keep police files a long time. I know
- 25:15Speaker 2: about everything except why you didn't go after the watch yourself.
- 25:19Speaker 7: I I I was afraid, afraid.
- 25:20Speaker 2: To show yourself in the town where somebody might remember you. Huh,
- 25:23Speaker 2: the town in which you had committed a murder?
- 25:25Speaker 3: Is that it? Yes?
- 25:26Speaker 7: Yes, that's it exactly.
- 25:28Speaker 8: Yeah.
- 25:29Speaker 11: Daddy's let you down.
- 25:30Speaker 7: Here, Yes, dear me, mister Marlow.
- 25:32Speaker 14: Well, why don't you come into the house.
- 25:34Speaker 9: It's still waiting.
- 25:35Speaker 11: It's chilly, your catch you.
- 25:36Speaker 4: Getting cold out there?
- 25:38Speaker 7: Yes, you know, while, dear, I'll go back.
- 25:40Speaker 11: To bed, all right, good night, dad, good.
- 25:43Speaker 3: Night, dear, good night, mister Marlow.
- 25:45Speaker 9: And please make you do.
- 25:46Speaker 4: As I say, will you?
- 25:48Speaker 9: Uh?
- 25:49Speaker 2: Yes, I will. Catherine, good night.
- 25:54Speaker 12: Do you mind if we go along to the police
- 25:55Speaker 12: at once, mister marlow I'd rather she didn't know right now.
- 25:58Speaker 3: Tomorrow is soon enough. And can we take your car? Yeah?
- 26:02Speaker 7: The lights go off out here. Yes, the switches on
- 26:05Speaker 7: the garage wall were there.
- 26:07Speaker 2: Okay, get in all right, you know, mister Taner. I'm
- 26:11Speaker 2: sorry about Catherine in the way. She's going to be hit,
- 26:13Speaker 2: but hit by this thing.
- 26:17Speaker 7: The switch is there on your right, on your right,
- 26:20Speaker 7: mister Mallowe.
- 26:20Speaker 15: Uh yeah, it was a.
- 26:31Speaker 12: Very nice house.
- 26:32Speaker 3: Mm hmm.
- 26:35Speaker 2: Mister Tanner, you certainly loved Margaret a lot, didn't you, completely,
- 26:41Speaker 2: mister Marlowe, and.
- 26:42Speaker 3: Her memory too. Why do you ask something?
- 26:46Speaker 2: It makes me awfully happy, mister Taner. You didn't kill
- 26:50Speaker 2: Leon Stych Hollow. What are you saying that you never
- 26:52Speaker 2: lost your wife's watch at Camino Beach?
- 26:54Speaker 7: You never had it.
- 26:54Speaker 2: She lost at herself, lost it when she struggled with
- 26:57Speaker 2: Leon Stye just before she killed him. For your sake,
- 27:00Speaker 2: for you and Catherine and everything you've worked. No, marlow No,
- 27:02Speaker 2: you Margaret had a bad heart. She knew she didn't
- 27:04Speaker 2: have long to live. Also, she knew that Steie was
- 27:07Speaker 2: blackmailing you.
- 27:08Speaker 7: It figures, Tanner.
- 27:09Speaker 2: And what also figures is that you'd rather pay for
- 27:11Speaker 2: a murder that you didn't commit, and I have Margaret's
- 27:14Speaker 2: name soiled.
- 27:15Speaker 9: Yes, I would, and I will.
- 27:17Speaker 7: Because you can't prove any of.
- 27:18Speaker 2: This correction, mister Tanner, I can with your wife's car
- 27:22Speaker 2: there in the garage, the car in which she died
- 27:24Speaker 2: on what you said was her return from Westwood, which
- 27:26Speaker 2: it was, no, not according to a funny little chalk
- 27:29Speaker 2: mark I just saw on one tire, it wasn't a
- 27:31Speaker 2: little white z that a policeman named Zigler in Camino
- 27:34Speaker 2: Beach makes the check on parking time. And we can
- 27:37Speaker 2: go on from there. Your confession won't mean a thing.
- 27:40Speaker 7: But Marlow, it will it? Will it? No?
- 27:45Speaker 12: Oh, I guess it won't. I guess you can't hide
- 27:48Speaker 12: the truth very often, can you?
- 27:50Speaker 7: Now?
- 27:52Speaker 2: Only once in a great while, and then, strangely enough,
- 27:55Speaker 2: only when it seems like the right thing to do.
- 27:57Speaker 3: What do you mean, why did you stop the motor?
- 28:02Speaker 2: There's one thing I haven't told you yet. The way
- 28:05Speaker 2: things worked out in Camino Beach, mister Tanner, the police
- 28:08Speaker 2: there think that mena she killed leon Stice.
- 28:11Speaker 7: And they're happy that way.
- 28:13Speaker 2: They never heard of you, uh, your wife, And I
- 28:16Speaker 2: don't see why they should now. I mean that nobody
- 28:20Speaker 2: really knows the whole story.
- 28:23Speaker 3: Nobody except you, Marlow.
- 28:26Speaker 7: Nobody, mister Tanner, good night.
- 28:33Speaker 12: Thank you, mister Marlow. Good night.
- 29:08Speaker 4: Philip Marlowe will be back in just a moment. But first,
- 29:11Speaker 4: a word from the Ford Dealers of America.
- 29:14Speaker 3: Tonight.
- 29:15Speaker 5: There are more than four hundred and twenty thousand enthusiastic
- 29:18Speaker 5: nineteen fifty Ford donors, and it seems as though most
- 29:21Speaker 5: of them are talking about this car. Listen to what
- 29:24Speaker 5: Judge Richmond big Keach of Washington, d C. Has to
- 29:26Speaker 5: say about his new Ford.
- 29:28Speaker 14: I was so satisfied with my forty nine Ford that
- 29:30Speaker 14: I decided to get a fifty as soon as they
- 29:32Speaker 14: became available. I've been more than pleased with the fifty. Truthfully,
- 29:36Speaker 14: I see no cause to pay more when a Ford
- 29:39Speaker 14: gives me all the performance, quiet and comfort a man
- 29:41Speaker 14: can ask for at such a reasonable price. The Ford
- 29:44Speaker 14: is wonderfully easy to handle, particularly in traffic.
- 29:47Speaker 5: Yes, ask any Ford donor how he feels about his
- 29:50Speaker 5: big new Ford, and he'll tell you it's tops for
- 29:53Speaker 5: performance and for comfort.
- 29:55Speaker 3: But prove it for yourself.
- 29:56Speaker 5: Drop into your neighborhood Ford dealers and Test drive this
- 29:59Speaker 5: truly great car. You'll be amazed when you discover how
- 30:03Speaker 5: little it costs to buy, to run, and to maintain.
- 30:06Speaker 5: Do it tomorrow, test drive the big new nineteen fifty Ford.
- 30:14Speaker 4: Be sure and be with us again next week.
- 30:16Speaker 2: When Philip Marlowe say, this time I was in the
- 30:20Speaker 2: country where the knight should have been nothing but peace
- 30:23Speaker 2: and quiet. But a pair of angry eagles changed all that.
- 30:26Speaker 2: One was solid gold and too close to a battered corpse.
- 30:30Speaker 2: The other weigh one hundred and sixty pounds and was
- 30:32Speaker 2: too quick with his fists in or out of the ring.
- 30:46Speaker 4: The Adventures of Philip Marlowe, bringing you Raymond Chandler's most
- 30:49Speaker 4: famous character Tonight starred Bill Conrad, are produced and directed
- 30:52Speaker 4: by Norman McDonell and are written for radio by Robert
- 30:55Speaker 4: Mitchell and Jean Levitt. Featured in the cast were Sammy Hill,
- 30:58Speaker 4: John Daaneer, Jean Bates Moody, Larry Dobkin, Harry Bartel, and
- 31:02Speaker 4: Edgar Barrier. The special music is composed and conducted by
- 31:05Speaker 4: Richard o'rant. This is Roy Rowan speaking for CBAS the
- 31:08Speaker 4: Columbia Broadcasting System. This is Andrew J.
- 31:30Speaker 1: Graham, author of the web surface series, Oh and a
- 31:33Speaker 1: Man of his Wife.
- 31:34Speaker 4: You're listening to the great detectives of old time.
- 31:37Speaker 1: Radio, Welcome back. The only thing I didn't like about
- 31:47Speaker 1: Conrad's performance was his reading of the opening narration. I
- 31:53Speaker 1: think that what this brings home is just how that
- 31:57Speaker 1: particular aspect of the show was suited to Gerald Moore.
- 32:02Speaker 1: Of course this could have been tweaked to really fit Conrad,
- 32:05Speaker 1: but here he's just filling in for a week, so
- 32:08Speaker 1: it's basically like you're wearing another guy's clothes. So with
- 32:11Speaker 1: Larry Dopkin playing a Cabby, can't help but wonder if
- 32:15Speaker 1: this is some sort of world where Louis ended up
- 32:19Speaker 1: chauffeuring Philip Marlow paid by William Conrad. Overall, I thought
- 32:24Speaker 1: Conrad did a great job. I'm a huge fan of Cannon,
- 32:29Speaker 1: and this really just in so many ways of his mannerisms.
- 32:34Speaker 1: It's very different from the heavies he traditionally played over radio,
- 32:39Speaker 1: and it really did have that strong reminder of Cannon
- 32:44Speaker 1: in terms of his style and just this particular brand
- 32:48Speaker 1: of the mix of easy going and hard boil. So
- 32:53Speaker 1: this was a treat just to hear him doing this
- 32:56Speaker 1: particular role, and I wish he had had a long
- 33:00Speaker 1: term detective series over the radio really would have been great.
- 33:04Speaker 1: Of course, his big series is of course one of
- 33:07Speaker 1: radio's most beloved gun Smoke, so I can't say he
- 33:11Speaker 1: was cheated over the radio, but this was an intriguing
- 33:14Speaker 1: look at what might have been the ending. Of course,
- 33:17Speaker 1: you know when you have a guess Marlowe, you get
- 33:21Speaker 1: a piece that's very unusual where marlow doesn't reveal the
- 33:25Speaker 1: killer to the police, and I think that his reasons
- 33:29Speaker 1: for doing so are completely understandable and really does add
- 33:34Speaker 1: some depth. This was an interesting experiment, and again, while
- 33:39Speaker 1: I don't wish Gerald Moore had left Marlowe, I wish
- 33:43Speaker 1: there were some other radio detective show with Conrad in
- 33:47Speaker 1: the lead. It make for fascinating Internet listening. Though we
- 33:51Speaker 1: do at least have one detective special starring now William
- 33:55Speaker 1: Conrad will get to We'll see when we get to it.
- 33:58Speaker 1: So we've only got one. I don't want to waste it. Well,
- 34:02Speaker 1: now we turn to announcing something we have hinted at unofficially,
- 34:09Speaker 1: but I'll now say officially we have got, first of all,
- 34:13Speaker 1: quite a bit of Philip marlow left to go eight
- 34:16Speaker 1: and a half month's worth, but once that eight and
- 34:19Speaker 1: a half months is over, we'll be bringing you Richard Diamond,
- 34:23Speaker 1: Private Detective starring Dick Powell coming in to you in
- 34:26Speaker 1: about eight and a half months time. All right, Well,
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- 35:33Speaker 1: But that will do it for today. Join us back
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