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Philip Marlowe: Friend from Detroit (EP1355) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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Suite. Well, now it's time for today's episode of the Adventures of Philip
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Marlowe. There were a couple of lost episodes between last week's showing this week,
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so today's program original air date was March the fifth of nineteen forty nine,
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and the title is The Friend from Detroit. When my telephone rang,
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it checked me out of one nightmare and right into the middle of another,
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where a woman with a secret, worried man and a shadow out of the
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past met with fear and fury in the stead of Night. From the pan
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of Raymond Chandler, outstanding author of crime fiction, comes his most famous character
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as CBS presents the Adventures of Philip Marlowe and now with Gerald Moore starred as
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Philip Marlowe, we bring you tonight's exciting story, The Friend from Detroit.
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There was a wood nymph dressed in nothing but a veil of dewdrops. She
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was pirouetting from one huge bluebell to another, and gussm of wings with ever
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return. She smiled and came closer. Just as I reached her for a
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hand. Something happened. The bluebells changed in old tomato cans and started to
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ring. A bandy legged little man with a jackham I went to work on
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my head. I fell over a cliff and just before I landed on a
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red hot pile of brook and Scotch bottles. Oh. I woke up,
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but the jack cammra didn't stop. I switched down the light and looked at
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my watch. It was one in the am and the phone on my bed
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table was screaming for an answer. Hello, Mallow, this is Dave.
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Betty's gone. She's in trouble. You gotta help me, Mallow, You
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got to come over to my apartment, right, Who is this, Dave?
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Dave? I run the Coffee Join in the corner, you know,
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Yeah, yeah, sure, Dave. I don't know what's the matter.
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My wife, Betty, she's gone. You gotta help me. Hey,
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if it's one o'clock in the morning, I'm in bed, becaides. You
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know, I don't monkey with family quarrel. It's not like that, Phil,
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Believe me. I'm scared for Phil. Please come over to the apartment.
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Two thousand feet would ride away. It's a matter of like, Okay,
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I'll be there in ten minutes. Mallow, I thought you never get
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here. Look, somebody fired the shot through the door, and when I
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got back with the asprom, Betty was gone it. Dave, hold it,
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I'm not even awake yet. Look, sit down, take it on
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the top slow. Yeah, okay. Maybe it'd started this morning at the
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Coffee Join when a fancy guy came in and talked to Betty. She waits
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on the tape. Yeah, yeah, I know, what do you mean,
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fancy? Well, a slick dresser, cuffling stickpin all that I did
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know him and Betty toss him off to me as a mash it. Maybe
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he was, but she seemed upset far Oh yeah, sure. Well tonight,
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about nine, another guy came in, a chunky bird with a deep
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voice. Betty had just got back from shopping, and I was in the
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kitchen, see when I heard a tray of dishes fall, and Betty came
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back white as a sheet. She was scared, Phil, scared. Stay,
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Oh, I'm sorry, all right, go ahead. I looked out
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and that chunky guy was leaving. Betty insisted he had nothing to do with
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it, that she was just nervous. Was somebody else in the place at
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the time, Let's see, Yeah, some tribune reporter that comes in every
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night was up at the counter. He was the only one. And Betty
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stayed on the job to be closed, yeah, till midnight. But Phil,
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she was in a bad sheet. After we got home here, she
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sent me out with some ass. butN I was only out for fifteen minutes.
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But when I came back, she was gone. And look look this
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bullet hole in the glass doors of the backyard. Somebody out there shot at
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her. Maybe Dave's teady not take it easy. You wouldn't Betty have a
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gun? No, why and in the first place, the bullet went out
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through this glass. It didn't come in another thing, Dave, who did
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you call tonight after you phone me? Why nobody phone directly on the address?
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Here's opening the bees boomed the wardrobe mean anything to you? I didn't
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even realize it was over there. I looked you up on the classified.
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Okay, come on, let's take a look in the backyard. Any light
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out there? Yeah? Right, riguling up for the barbecue. Look,
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take anything. I will straighten this out, believe me. Let's see a
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line of sight seems to run somewhere between the barbecue and the gates. Not
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all hit by the tree. It's a hat. Great snap him. Initials
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v v R on the sweatban VR mean anything to you? I sure that's
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Van Remeny's hat. He's the newspaper guy I told you about. Have you
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a reporter that was in your place tonight? Why should he be dodging bullets
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in your backyard? I don't know, Dave. Where's Betty from Detroit?
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When she came out here, I gave her a job and then you both
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felt for each other and got married. Yeah two years ago next month?
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Have we been happy? Phil, we been Yeah, yeah, yeah,
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Now, look, Dave, why did you call me instead of the CPS?
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And I guess I'm afraid he's mixed up and well in something bad.
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You know, if it turns out that way, I'll have to call him
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myself. Okay, Phil, But you're on my side until you know for
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sure. Yeah yeah, all right, now you stay here across to your
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phone. Okay, I'll check with you right now. I gotta get a
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line on a bare headed reporter. He can get a start of it.
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He hasn't lost anything more than his hat when I find him. So long,
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Dave, the Reporter's had two strangers and a bullet hole somehow added up
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to the fast fate of a hard working kid named Betty, whose husband's only
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claim the fame was selling the best cup of coffee in town and made no
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sense. But as I walked up the streetsward my car, I figured that
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through van remedy I could get to the first dance. I was wrong.
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The first answer got to me. A thick heage suddenly spouted arms. One
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jerked me around while the other held the cold throat of a forty five against
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my throat. Car registration taxes your name is Philip Marlow. No kidding,
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how don't suppose that happened? But it doesn't mention your racket shamus. Maybe
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could be new. I'm a tourist. Oh sure, sure, just have
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to see the sights, I said, one in particular, twenty five thousand
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dollars that belongs to me. I don't want any interference from you. And
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that's square inside there. I mean Dave Prior, I mean Dave Pryor.
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I'll go back in then and tell the cool off. A little woman is
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all right. She's just help an old friend, you might say, Might
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I say you're the friend. Never mind as mister Jitterson there kicks up a
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fuss everything. I'll be fine. But he knows what she's doing. She's
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got a lot of talent for it, too much the way slinging hash.
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And remember what I said, Marlow, lay off, I remember more than
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that about you. Far gone, Yes, remember the count ten before your
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moves. Boy, there's no point in trying out smart of forty five and
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with three steps fargo and vanished in the night. Also gone was a big
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chunk of my respect for a doll named Betty Pryor and had taste and old
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friends, just so I wasn't jumping at conclusions. I went to my car
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and drove down to Hollywood Boulevard. At the first all night gas station,
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I stopped and put in a colt of The Tribune. A guy on the
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desk told me threw a mouthful of mangle cigar that unless remedy was at Bungalow
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twenty four Beverly Crest Hotel, covering the murder of the next Detroit hood.
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It was fired and he hung up. But the one word Detroit made the
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call a jackpipe, so I headed for the hotel on the double. It
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was pink and Spanish and squat in a grove of well behaved palm trees at
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the edge of the domesticated jungle, which gave the illusion of privacy to a
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string of bungalows that weren't. But number twenty four had all the privacy of
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a glass face cutaway bee hive. When I pulled up in the middle of
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two squad cars and an ambulance went inside. Sprawl on the floor in front
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of a desk with a very well dressed exhibit a complete with cup links and
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sticked in and presiding as usual was Detective lieutenanty Bara, but didn't see me,
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and so I walked up beside him. What are you doing here,
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Marlowe? I can smell blood clear across town. What's the story, Borrow?
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The name is Speck Willard, a gambled from Detroit, retired out here
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to California a few years back to play horses and women. We shot to
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death at about eight o'clock to night by a person or a person's on owned
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that a gang, jen Oh, I don't think so. Looks more like
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arm robbery that could out of had I saw you hind a currency wrapper from
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a local bank that read twenty five thousand dollars, an open drawer in the
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bedroom, and one of the bellhops saw a woman unidentified so far run out
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of here about the time the Carna says that Willard was shot a woman.
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Yeah, that fits, because he was going to be quite a nightclubber and
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general playboy. You wouldn't happen to know something about this woman, would you,
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Marlow? Me? Certainly not. Now I'm after a man alive when
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I hope mm hmm. Well, look, marlow take this nickel in case
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you should just happen to hear something I want you to spend that on a
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phone call to the police department. Now, who is it? You're looking
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for? A Tribune reporter named Van Remeni? You know, Unfortunately that's him
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over there, the sticky fingered one by the window, swiping that book of
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matches just now, the one without a hat. Oh yeah, yeah,
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I know, Thanks Littendon. I'll see it. Hey, Remedy, can
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I talk to you a minute? Sure? What's on your mind? I'm
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Philip Marlow, private detective. Don't apologize? What's up? Marlo? Oh?
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Girl named Betty Pryor Prior? Mm hmm yeah, yeah. She and
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her husband running on one arm, joined on Franklin, don't they? Thanks,
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right, Remeny? I understand Betty got no little trouble to night heard
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about it. No, I wouldn't worry though. Trouble's not knowe to Betty.
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And that's one popular school of thought. Incidentally, you seem to be
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going a long ways out of you away on this run of the mill murder
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story, Remedy. You're taking a long way around at the point, Pal,
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get with it. I'm in a hurry. Okay, Pal, I'll
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keep it under your hat, won't you a great one? I mean so
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that's out. How do you mind telling me what you saw in prize backyard?
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Tonight? Your name it? Shall I play dumb or lost? Suit
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yourself? See, my press card is just as good as your license,
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sweetheart. He gets me in and gets me out again. My diget's called
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reporting, remeny. I'll squeeze the truth out of you eventually. Sorry,
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I can't wait. You got a deadline? Anything else? Yeah? One
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thing? A match? It's sure, Marlow anytime. Thanks, and Remedy,
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Yeah, don't hang on too long, lifeless, singe your pinkies.
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The reporter blew out the match and looked at him steadily for a moment,
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and his lip shaped the word I ignore it, and he walked away.
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I had seen enough of the book of matches he'd stolen to know it was
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a Mistakis room, a glossy glass roof, dine, dance and drinking torium
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near Rotha Murray Studio and Wisha Boulevard. So I made like I was into
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the night and watched Remedy lead all the way to his car. He kept
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looking back over his shoulder as if expected to be followed. I waited till
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he was out of sight, and I hated for Wiltshire in the Starkiston,
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but when I got there it was close Remani's car wasn't in the neighborhood,
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and the only thing that kept the trip from being a total loss was a
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spotlighted picture ten feet square of a sultual spelt Chanteurs labeled Cala Bourdon. It
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was come on in smile and almost costume. Was a cinch to increase the
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accident rate at the block by twenty percent, But then I took another look.
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Had her name. He got back to business. It started with a
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bis in phone book, opened a Boone and Bordeaux. I found a directory.
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He got it open the Boone and Bordeau, and halfway down the page
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was bored in Cala twenty eight to forty north concern. It took ten minutes
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to get there and two more to find out that she had an apartment number
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seventeen. At the end of the first fall hall. The door was opened
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and I started for it, but got back close to the elevator when a
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woman came out and ran down the corridor told me it was Betty Pryor hold
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it Betty, whoa what do you never mind? Is tall Betty having in
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a long time. I don't know what you're time. Look, you left
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a pretty worried guy at home, Dave. That's right. Can't you fools
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leave me alone? Why did he have to be so stupid? Hey,
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you've got a few ideas mixed step kids. Oh sure, I'm wrong.
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I'm the one who's all mixed up. Let go until I've got a couple
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of things straight. Now, what happened at life and a Hamburger? Stand
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and get a little stale? Yes, you're two bit snooping? Okay,
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Dave thinks you're in trouble. I think you're in trouble. And I think
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somebody waved a few bills at you and you lost your grip and you're in
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some deep now you can't get out, and it's no more than you deserve.
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Come on, we're going right back down the Hall of callers apartment.
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We're gonna have a little chat just to three of us. Come on,
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standstill, Well, my two chums, the fog horn and is forty five
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caliber equalizer? Easy? Does it? You were lucky the first time?
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Did you get it? No? Something went wrong, something terrible deep out
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of the way, all right, you get in that elevator. Cham We'll
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wait right here to see you leave. God here at forty five makes you
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awful, brave chum. This way we don't a friend the lady. By
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being uncouth, you get a chance to go up in the world. Just
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put your finger on a button. Wait then, come on, all right,
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all you have to do is push. In just a moment, we
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will return to the second act of the Adventures of Philip Marlowe. But first,
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the most famous neighbors and radio the Ronald Coleman's will pay Jack Benny a
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visit again tomorrow as CBS's Great Sunday Night gets underway with another star, start
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a group of famous entertainers Amos and Andy Lemon Abner, Eve vardener Is the
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gay school mistress, Armis Brooks, and Helen Hayes as a hillbilly. These
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are only four more of the ten great entertainments It will come your way tomorrow
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night. Go visiting with the Colemans on all of these same stations on the
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Jack Benny Show, and hear the rest of CBS's Great Sunday Night ten as
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they come one by one over most of the station. And now with our
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star Gerald Moore, we returned to the second act of Philo Marlowe and Tonight's
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story The Friend from Detroit. My cage on cables was ten exasperating seconds getting
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to the next floor, and that was another ten getting free of it.
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Back down the stairs and out into the dark street, where a red splash
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of a tail light disappeared around a corner. And that was all that was
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left of fog Corn and Company. So I turned back to a Carla Borden's
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room. When I stepped across the threshold, I found it with the exception
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of a single bureau that was still intact. Prom Number seventeen looked like it.
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It just played host to the vortex of a cyclone. The better chest
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of draws, another bureau at desk, everything was inside out. In the
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middle of all that was the body of Color Bourdon, blood from a deep,
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ugly cut on her head, standing in the snow white front of her
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angora sweat. I saw something else which reminded me that this was not the
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first coughse of the night. The plush leather frame was shaped like an oversized
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life saver, and in it as the picture of a handsome man all smiles
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inscribed me with love to my very best girl, speck Willard. It was
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ten minutes before I got through the lieutenanty Borough. It was still up at
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the Beverly Crest Hotel. After I told him about Color and her connection with
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the late mister Willard and Betty Pryor and my connection with Dave, I stopped
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talking and listened Marlve. We just learned that Willard had some kind of a
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twenty five thousand dollars cape of going with one of his old mobster friends from
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Detroit named Joelazar or maybe it's something with a voice and acted below bottom the
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same film. Anyhow, it looks like they worked out a gambling deal for
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old times sake. At the last minute, Willi tried to Welsh and Lazarre
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and got killed for his trouble, and Lazarre searched the place until he found
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the twenty five thousand No, no, no, that part doesn't fitty borr.
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So I've run into Lazar twice tonight. I know he and the money
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is still strangers. Oh, after what happened here with the team of Betty
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and Lazar getting to the singer Carl, I figured they're still looking for it.
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Also, I figured Calor was somewhere near when Lazar kills Peck Willard and
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then she took her money. It cordulatory buy. We got a clumsy company
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in the whole outside. All right, Ballerina, gets your foot out of
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that bucket and come on in with your hands up. Where the man with
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a very long nose for news? What brings you around? Remedy one thing,
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the fact that you've got no corner on brains, Milo, And for
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another, who did that to her? Our mutual friend Betty Prior and her
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running mate. I believe they were looking for twenty five thousand bucks. Did
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she and Joel Azzar get the money? My luck? No? They remedy.
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How did you know the man with Betty was named Joel Azza? Haven't
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you heard? I'm a good reporter, Marlow. That kind of keeps eyes
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and ears open and mouths shut. It is until I know the whole story,
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which, as far as your concern, is precisely what that I happen
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to be. That I happened to be in Dave's restaurant early this evening,
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where I recognize the only other cash customer is Joel Azar, and out of
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work mobster from Detroit. He said something to Betty that scared it right out
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of a tray of dishes, so I figured i'd find out what was going
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on. I've been in on the show ever since, Yeah, including a
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corny black out of a two thousand beach Wood drive where you lost your hat
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running away from a bullet. That's right, just so you don't toss and
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turn when you get around to go into bed. Tonight, I'll fill in
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the rest. I followed Betty and Dave from the restaurant to their apartment.
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I watched it get rid of Dave, and then when I saw Lazar come
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in, I moved up close to the window and stayed there until Aza spar
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did you and throw a bullet? Show away? You're very cleverly as I
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am. Man. But before that happened, I heard him tell Betty that
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Speck Willard had talked about a girl singer at the Star Kiss Room named Carla
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Bordon, and that since he didn't know carl On's site, she could have
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been a lady seen running out of specs apartment with a twenty five gram Oh
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that phone book of Dave's open the bees ties in. I'm so glad now,
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Marla, lest we digress too far. How come as one bureau here
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hasn't been turned upside down along with everything else. I don't know anymore than
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I know why you're holding back so much from the law. Oh maybe it's
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because I don't like cops, Marlo black Ones. Or maybe it's because I'm
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in the same kind of racket as you. Chen way out in a lot
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of fast talk, just so papers can know what's going on an hour ahead
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of the rest of the world. Well, there's no twenty five thousand in
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here. I gotta blow before Ebarra shows, Before a Barra shows. He
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always arrives with an entourage, Marlow one that includes other newshounds. So it's
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me for a fast cabin downtown in my paper with his story. It's a
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fellas right. Hey, wait a minute, Remedy, Yeah, I'll give
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you a lift. I'm going that way myself. Okay, I got a
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story too, a lovesy story. I've got to tell a nice guy named
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Dave. Come on. All the time we drove, Remedy had faced me
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and smoke one cigarette after another while I rattled on about joel Is, a
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great story he had, and a lot of other things I didn't hear because
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I was busy trying to find the right words with which to tell Dave prior
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that his wife was no good. So when we were about halfway the beach
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would drive and Remedy was pushing close to his deadline, decided to get out
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and the phone his story into my drug store. I was glad. Second
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after that, I knew I was kidding myself, because even with just silence
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for company, I was still no place with the right words. Ten minutes
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later and I stood in front of Dave, and I steps to his house
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and stam it out of the facts. Just as I had run across him,
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I forgot about words right or wrong. I thought instead about my client,
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a badly hurt guy, but one I would never say that Mallow,
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I can't believe all this. I won't tell me, buddy. Now I
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don't know Dave. Now, look, maybe we ought to head for police
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headquarters, because sooner or later we're each going to have a story to tell
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lieutenanty Barrow. I'm on my cars over here, Okay, Phil, I
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guess that's the only thing to do, all right, Yeah, I guess,
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yeah, Bet I have a cigarette day. Oh kid, We'll try
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to make this as painless as we as we were Molo, what is it?
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What are you staring at it? Front seat? But I don't see
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anything, Phil, what is it a minute? Will you? Yeah?
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Yeah, sure, come on, Dave, pile in but why Mallow?
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Where are we going? Podcast room to play a long shot. Slapped my
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foot down hard on the accelerator and kept it that way right through a string
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of I didn't care what color traffic lights until five minutes later, when we
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screeched to a stop away from the side entrance the stocks room. I left
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it in the front seat, pile up fast, and ran a dozen yards
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on abrupt halls with the sight of something that turned along shot I was playing
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into a it's a not sound favorite. It was the stage entrance door opened
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a couple of inches, and in front of that, unconscious on the hid
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sidewalk where it'd fallen, was the clad and blue form of a private patrolmum,
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his pistol holster conspicuously empty. Inside. I slowly picked my way along
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an L shaped card until I saw a shaft of bright yellow from a flashlight
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that was moving away from my door mark collar Borden. It brought me up
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short and flat against the wall, but then as the man on the other
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end of the beam of light moved away from me. I got a very
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steady grip on the thirty eight of my pocket started after him. A minute
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later he entered the main room with the club, and it was there as
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he started across the glass ceiling dance floor. But I recognized the very self
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confident gave of a very self confident guy, and that made the next move
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mine bars closed, ring, don't move, buster up, blow your head
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off. Looks like you're making news this time, good reporter. Or isn't
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that package in your hand? That twenty five grand you just found in colin
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board in the dressing room. Huh, the same color board and you're murdered
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not an hour ago, and in apartment on loose certain well you first thought
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the money was where Betty Pryor surprised you before you could finish searching. Well,
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you later returning the role of an all American news boy so you could
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get to that last bureau. All right, all right, I've heard enough,
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Marlow, but I'm not going to stick around for more details. You
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make a break and I'll shoot remedy try it, Eagles, stop remedy,
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Star Harlow. I shooting, Marlow, don't turn around because where I'm standing
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it's dark, and where you're standing it's like I'll throw your gun away,
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fellow. Come on, taught it. That's better, all right, Betty,
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get up to that dead newspaper guy and get the money. I'll take
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care of the private detective here, you mean take care of Joe. I
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can't go along with murder, expect Willis Debat didn't seem to bother you any
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Marlow. So you killed Yes, I killed spect that wheelchair eight o'clock night,
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and I had to stay on the cover, but still get my hands
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and the money, so came to you for help. I didn't tell you
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about the killing because I didn't think it playful. If you know about it,
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oh that's history now. And I'll still go to your deer husband Dave
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and talk lots about the kind of cheap kid you used to be in Detroit.
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If you don't get moving now, what do you say, Betty?
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Say no, Joe. I also say I made a mistake in the first
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place, letting you use me to run your filthy errand just so the guy
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I love wouldn't have to know about the kind of people I once ran around
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with before I had any brain. All right, that's the dumb way you
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want it. That's the dumb way. It'll be taking care of two years
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and much harder than taking care of one. About three day. Stay back,
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No, No, I stayed back too long already I stayed back while
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Betty has been risking her life to protect what we've got. If you take
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another step out, shoot kid, I'm warning you for the last time.
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Stay back. No, that's all. I won't gone with that. Yeah,
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yeah, but that'll be all right. I'll be your no, biddy,
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doctor Rees, Doctor Rees, please report to surgery well, missus Pryor,
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doctor Marlowe. Doctor says Stave's going to be trying in a couple of
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days. Man caught one on the shoulder and the other on the hip.
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He certainly had courage, didn't he. Yeah, and you did all right
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too, Biddy, mixing in this whole miss just to keep the home fires,
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Bernie, tell me whatever they did think that a guy like Dave wouldn't
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understand that you turned over a new leave. I don't know, Phil.
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I guess I wasn't very smart. No, you weren't, Missus Bryor.
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But you're lucky because Marlow here was, And that brings me around to a
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loose end. Phil, How did you know that Remedy was your man?
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All right? Because of something I saw in the upholstery at the front seat
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of my carry bar, tufts of snow white angora, which was the kind
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of sweat of the cola board and had on when he was murdered after they
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struggled. And since you didn't touch the body yourself, they couldn't have come
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from your suit, No, And Remedy was the only other one who had
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been in my car, So I figured that the angora fuzz had gone from
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Carla's sweated or Remeny's suit to Maya upholstery, all of which means that Remedy
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must have been in Carla's room before I got there, as well as after.
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See, And then once I thought back about his getting out of my
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car a phony story, and I and I realized that when I dropped him
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near a drug store, he had also been near the stock estory. Yes,
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that's exactly where he'd had it. You see. So Joe and I
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followed both of you from Carla Borton's place because well after Joe put you in
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that elevator, and we ran. Joe said we had to return and wait
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for remedy. Were sure to come back and finish his search the whole business
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because Lazar, after he had murdered Speck will It, was afraid to publicly
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go after Carla Borton and the money he felt was his. Yes, he
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knew about me and day because Beck Willard accidentally dropped into our place this morning,
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yesterday morning. It's now nine am, oh, and a good time
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to call quits. Uh, good night kids. By the time I got
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back to my apartment on Franklin, it was half past ten in the two
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bright morning. I was sporting sandpaper eyelids and a knot in the small of
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my back that felt like a wet dish rag. Oh. But once I
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had all the shades down, was undressed and in bed. I forgot about
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that, and I thought, instead of the wood nwe dressed in nothing with
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a veil of dud drops. But then suddenly I stopped the telephone. I
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got out of bed, I picked it up with both hands, opened the
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dresser drawer and jamped it deep under all the socks I owned. And then
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I got back to bed and the wooden nim in her veil dewdraps. She
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was pirouetting from one huge blue belt. Who oh boy eh An Gussimer means
29:34
The Adventures of Philip Marlowe created by Raymond Chandler, stars Gerald Moore and is
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produced and directed by Norman MacDonald. Script is by Meldonelli, Robert Mitchell and
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gene Leavitt. Featured in the cast were Virginia Gregg as Betty Pryor, Peter
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Leeds as Dave Pryor, Harry Bartel as Van Remoni, and Ed Begley as
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Joe Lazar. Lieutenant Detective Obara was played by Jeff Corey. The special music
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was by Richard o'roon. He shown't be with us again next week, when
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Philip marlow says, it was a hunt through a jungle of city streets,
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with danger waiting at every intersection until halfway through, when the hunters became the
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hunter and death brought an end to the game. The Coleman's visiting Jack Benny
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plus Amos and Andy eve Arden and Helen Hayes as a Hillbilly. He has
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that earlier announcement about CBS programs tomorrow night sounded great, didn't it? Except
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you Philip Marlow fans may have been wondering, isn't there a mystery show among
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that great Sunday Night Tan On CBS. Of course, there is one of
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the great detectives in the Three World Dashall Hammett's one and only Sam Spade.
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Sam will be here, hard hitting, fast moving as always Tomorrow Night.
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On most of these same CBS network stations. This is Roy Rowan speaking.
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Now stay tuned for Gangbusters, which follows immediately over most of these same CBS
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stations. This is CBS the Columbia Broadcasting System Welcome back. Well. A
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nice role for uh uh, for the uh great Harry Bartel as a bit
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of a villain in this pace, which wasn't his typical role, but overall
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just a very believable job. I like the end with the idea of the
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husband being the one to save the day, and to me, it's kind
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of a picture of how The Adventures of Philip Marlow really managed to have this
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sort of grittiness and occasional grimness but also a little bit of hope on the
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end, which to me makes it just such a compelling and great show to
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listen to. I have to admit that when it comes to lost episodes.
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Lost episodes of Gerald Moore's Adventures of Philip Marlow are probably those that I find
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the saddest, next to Dragnet, of course, and I should mention the
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two lost episodes we had there, the Flying Trap Peez and The Big Mistake.
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The good news is that we won't have to deal with lost episodes for
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quite some time. The next eighteen episodes are all available, and then after
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that there's a run of another another seventeens. So so these are few and
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far between, though I definitely wish there were less of them overall. So
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we turn now to an email from Kim, who says, I just wanted
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to let you know how much I enjoy your program. I stumbled upon it
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in Stitcher when I was looking for that other great detective show. I've listened
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to that one for years and knew you existed. He has even mentioned you.
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I thought I would give you a try, and I really enjoy your
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show. You might have similar names, but you take different approaches. You
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had a listener who wanted to know about sci fi podcast. There's one.
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It's not quite yours. They do not go in death like you, but
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we'll get an idea of all the different programs they do, the old time
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sci fi shows and the individual one suspense they are not in order. It
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might not be exactly what she's looking for, but it's a really good place
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to card. It's called Relic Radio. At the moment, they have over
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three hundred episodes in the sci fi section. Love the diverse detects you have
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right now, but Johnny Doler is my favorite. Again, thanks for the
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enjoyment. And she does share the link of Relic radio dot com slash otr
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slash show slash sci Fi. Well, thanks so much, Kim for sharing,
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and just go to Relic radio dot com and find out if that's something
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that you're liking. It would be hard to do a show like Great Detectives
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of Old Time Radio just because you did not really have the continuing shows and
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the science fiction genre with the same characters, unless you were dealing with the
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juveniles shows like Flash Gordon. But I hope that will at least what listeners
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appetites on that point, I'm going to go hit in wrap it up for
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today. We'll be back tomorrow with Nick Carter and next week with another episode
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