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Philip Marlowe: The Long Arm (EP1607) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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addresses at support doc Greatdetactives dot net. Well, now it's time for today's
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episode of the Adventures of Philip Marlow. The original air date February seventh of
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nineteen fifty and the title is The Long Arm, Get This and Get It
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Straight. Crime is a sucker's road and those who travel it wind up in
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the gut of the prison of the Grave. Happened in a place called Bay
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City, whereas unwelcome to a fat fry cook with a secret at at depa
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gambler, but to the long Arm of the Law, I was poisoned.
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It happened like this on the pen of Raymond Chandler. I'm standing author of
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crime. Pick comes his most famous character in the Adventures of Philip Marlowe.
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Now with Gerald Moore starred as Philip Marlowe. We bring you tonight's exciting story
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The Long Arm. I got my Sunday best time go and strutting with It's
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Laura Belle. Oh fine, every time I take a shower. Noticin it?
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All right? Okay, hello speaking one moment City is calling. I
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have your party. Go ahead, Oh that you Mordow. Yeah, this
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is Ernie partch phil at Bay City Part Yeah. You remember me, don't
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you? No, I can't see Oh yeah yeah, Ernie Pott, you're
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the guy who saved my life when the Bay City Law left me beat up
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and bleeding all over the city dump right, yeah, yeah, yeah,
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that's it. Oh yeah, Marllow. Please listen what I'm in an awful
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jam, like what I just got out of jail yesterday. You were in
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a day jail, Ernie, Yes, yeah, a very neat spring Silver.
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Oh not half as neat as the one that's trying to hang on me.
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Now, this one's worse. You remember my wife, don't you,
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Grace Paul? Yeah, yeah, what about it? She's dead model,
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she was murdered. I'm gonna try to pin it on me. You'll come
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right away. Look, Ernie, I'm poisoned in Bay City, you know,
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man, Please, Rake's Terman would give a year's page just to watch
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me break an on five if I drowned to Marlow. You don't know which
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terminal had your messed up from sticking your nose in the Bay City politics.
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No, no, but I can show a second guess that it was tough
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cop tactics all the way. You mean you won't help me? Yeah,
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well, Ernie, really, I'm sorry, kid, but you better get
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yourself an honest lawyer. And you know better than that phil who have the
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guts to knock heads with a police in this town, especially when they got
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a custom Taylor's pigeon like me standing by with one wing already clipped. I
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feel like, kind of it looks like I'm murdered. Grace. Now,
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look, kid, I saved your life once Okay, what's your right?
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Resident thirty eight four Land of Life A City was a snug seacoast town some
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twenty miles southwest of la In about twice that distance from being on the up
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and up. The string of gambling houses were politely winked at by some elements
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of the law and it's gamblers and turned politely winked back while the pulling money
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passed from sucker to slick at a crooked cup. But Bay City also was
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home to a lot of honest fishermen retired real estate brokers. Had another element
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of the law, good cops. Which side the technical Lieutenant Rake's terman was
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on. I'd never been able to figure it. He only added one way
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all cop, morning, noon and night. I kind of made any private
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detective feel a little less welcome than a leopard. Ell. An hour after
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Doc, I pulled up and parked well away from thirty eight Orlando Street.
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Five minutes later, I was watching a nervous ernie parts where out the cop
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in a chabby living room. It was at art Manelli's place, Phil about
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a year ago. The little casino. It's out north on the edge of
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town. I've had a few drinks with some of the guys who worked at
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my gas station. One thing led to another, and so finally we were
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out there trying a pyramid fifty bucks into fifty thousand. That's when the cops
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came in. Huh yeah, yeah, you know, one of those pre
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election raids that looked good in the papers. Do you want to drink?
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No? No, look, that raid couldn't have gotten you a year and
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a day, Ernie. Oh no, but the gun they found on my
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top coat pocket could have Yeah, thirty eight I'd never seen before in my
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life. Plant. Huh yeah, plant that. I could only figure two
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ways, Philip. Either someone at Art Mavanelli's place just happened to choose my
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pocket to drop his gun and tour someone just happened to drop it in on
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purpose. Someone who was sweet on Grace and wanted me out of the way.
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Oh look, you're sure you know what you're saying? Or positive three
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hundred and sixty six days in prison with only one miserable letter from her convince
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me that in the word I got at Gumbo's Place like the safternoon Gumbo's Place,
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Yeah yeah, Gumbos shabby and the chickens joint run by a fat fry
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cook named Lou Gomborski. M Grace worked there. I stopped and just before
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I ran into Lieutenant Rakesterno. Wait a minute, Wait a minute, what
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do you mean ran into termine? What happened, well, Pili, I
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was on the street getting into icy dann You see, I picked it up
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from a guy who was using it. What it was away? When Steerman
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pulled up alongside of me in a squad colony, he started to tell me
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how much he likes seeing ex cons back in Bay City. What interrupted him?
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Oh, call on a police radio. But before he left the promise
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to drop around here sometimes a night and chat awhile. And before that,
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at Gumbo's place, I found Grace. A minute, wait a minute,
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I had enough for Anie. You found Grace and what we had? A
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fight, she admitted, running around. Said I wasn't worth waiting for,
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but she wouldn't say who was. I slapped it hard, all right,
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take it easy. Grace is dead now murdered. Remember, Yeah, she's
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dead here and they're gonnattack me for it. Now, tell me what happened
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after you left Gumbos, I ran into Stirman, like I said, and
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I drove around for a couple of hours to come off, and I got
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hold of myself. I came back here and found it strangled at bit in
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that chair. Phil. It was horrible. What did you do about it?
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I'm not sure exactly. I changed my mind, Thanks Phil. No,
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I decided to get her out of here. It was just getting dark,
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so I waited a little and I carried her down the roar stairs and
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I put her in my car in the back seat, put a blanket over
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it. She's still there, Phil. I was gonna drive the car away,
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but I guess I lost my nerve. Well, I gotta do Phil,
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Sterman might be here any minute. Then you gotta help me do it.
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Sorry, all right, but key's in the car. No, what
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are you gonna do? I don't know what you get out of here?
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Do something? But what anything? Go to a movie? Actors relaxed that
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you can't do anything except come back here for the at least two hours.
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Now, go on, all right, Phil, whatever you say, I'll
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go to a movie. Yeah, right now, by the way, Thanks,
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hil I know you'll get me out of this, and he. Parcha's
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vote of confidence made comfortable listening for both of us. When he was gone,
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and I was down the rear stairs and out to his car and the
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alley, keys in hand, I realized that it stopped right there in the
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back seat. Then in the light that spilled a nearby unshaded window, I
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saw I was might have company. Sharp pointed elevated shoes, careful blue flannel,
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and patted with the hair over a pasty face, all of it no
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more than five and a half feet and held together by a hand painted tie
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that sported a dapper knot the size of a catalog. I wonder if you
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could help me. I'm looking for any park thirty six Orlando Drive. I
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couldn't find any number on this house. Yeah, but part isn't it?
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He just left? No where he went? No, no, all right,
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Patas, I only want to talk to him. My name is add
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Manela, a friend of his, and the queen the same. He went
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to a movie, mister Manila. I saw the pictures. So I'm going
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home, back to San Diego. I live there. Good San Diego means
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you as one oh one to the south, right past my next stop.
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I came in a cab or run. Those keys in your hand there said
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that you're leaving I mean I don't want to work. Oh, wait for
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a taxi or wait for it? Shall I get in? Or do you
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want to slide over to the driver's seat. I want to slide, if
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that's all right with you? Tell me, mister cruse shutters, you have
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business with personal business, you, mister Manelli, Yes, I want to
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see only about a good location. I haven't mind for a new gas station.
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You know about such things? No, no, and I don't think
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you're do either, Menelli. Less, of course, the pumps can be
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converted in the roulette wheels. Oh you know who I am. Yeah,
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I also know. It's a little strange for you to show up at Ernie's
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place the day after he gets out of the state ten for a frame that
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took place that you a little casino. What are you getting at, mister?
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An outside chance that you yourself were responsible for that frame, But you're
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anxious to see what, if anything, only intends to do about it?
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Lights Red, No fool, I'll tell me. Why would I want to
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frame? Or any time? I don't know, could be Menelli, that
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you did it accidentally. You know, a little gun hidden in a big
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hurry. It could be had a title reason huh like like Grace Pratt,
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very pretty girl, you're out of your mind? Yeah, sure, I
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am just plain nuts. Why don't you get out here, take up a
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nice saying taxicab. It'll be safer, all right, he will tell you
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way. Sure, we're right, and no I got stuff in that close
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that torped okay, happy like so what the crew coup? What kind of
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h from menella? I'm a bootlegger who never got the word Believe me,
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I do like Green fell Off. I went three short blocks and I got
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out of traffic and drove as far back towar Tolando Street as a vacant lot
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that was only a block away. Morning there after, I wiped the wheel
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a gearship everything else i'd touched the plain Prince. I left this stand as
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is and walk back to where it originally talked my own car behind the wheel
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of my coop. I spent the next twenty minutes finding gumbo shatty where Grace
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part wouldn't ddy long leg standing knee deep in the Pacific Ocean and circled at
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the waist by an imitation ship's deck for summer time outdoor reading a gang plank
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let up from the street level, and when I'd gone about half a length
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of it, I saw something at the door ahead, shaped like a bowling
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pin, topped by a chef hat, encompassed by a yard and a half
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a piccox belt that said it's had to be fat fry cook Lou Gumborski,
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returning the reversible sign from open the clothes. Sorry, mister, I'm closing
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early tonight. Food's talk going all right? How about a drink? I
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only want a quick shot? Gumbo Gumbo. They're stranger here. You know
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the name, it's written off ahead and four foot letters. I keep my
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eyes open, Okay, take it fast. I want to hit the Yeah
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you live here? Yeah? What do you want? Scott Any didn't word?
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Little information? Oh but what girl who works for you? Grace parts.
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I don't know anything, not even for five number it's ten, okay
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ten? And the drinks on the house huh yeah, okay, face punch
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is five foot two, eyes of blue. Also, she quld work at
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six tonight like she does every night period. Huh. Here's do yet?
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I tell me where she's been going? Where I learned he's been in stir
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Another ten? Yeah for another on one condition, no more lousy poems.
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Gambo, just do straight backs, no drink, no no, no,
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thanks for it. Well, you've been hanging around little Casito, Manelli's,
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Giant Yeah's place, were a lot of people hang around. What is it?
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What are you standing at? Gambo window? I saw someone not doing
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a tick looking in probably see guys. Forget it now. Look, I
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don't sure it is someone getting away in the car. Any idea who it
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was? I said, any? I heard you going home, mister,
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get out of here. Make it easy, big guy. You got twenty
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bucks, give it, yeah, I think you're lovesy. Twenty bucks and
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the drinks on the house and good night. After one question, guy in
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that car that just took off with it, I'll repeat myself, good night,
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mister. Okay, let it go at good night, Gambo. But
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just for now getting more out of Gumbo. So I went back to my
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car, pointed at northward the edge of town in the little casino, where
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I figured I might get lead. I'm an Elia's whereabouts. Thirty minutes later,
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when I was there out of my car, standing in front of it,
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looked like an oversized concrete blockhouse Salona and a parking lot. The sides
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of the coliseum. I think it different. A huge tign out front.
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Red clothes cooderations were reopened soon, bigger and better than ever. Gambling in
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Bay City was obviously on the QT like an artillery barade. By the time
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I got back to thirty eight around those street, nearly three hours of gone
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by since I'd last seen on it, I started up start the light in
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his living room. Wasn't happy over the lack of information I had for him,
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But when I opened the door and saw it was waiting for me,
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I didn't manage one a huge beefy freckled hand. There was the usual Police
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Department thirty eight revolvement. Hello kid, nice cool gray eye. He's gonna
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thick, broken nose, the nasty curl of the lips all belong to Bay
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City's toughest homicide detected Lieutenant Rape Hello Marlow. I've been waiting for you too
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long, kid. I would have baked a little cake if I knew I
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was going to have this much time. There's any pride coming. He's under
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arrest, kid, He's found his wife's body. He's under arrest for murder.
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You know what else, kidd? Now what else? Kid? So
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are you in just a moment the second act of Philip Marlowe, but first
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Bred Allen's crack that it's no wonder comedians can't find work when singers go comical.
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He has had a fast reply from Bing Crosby. Bing has invited Fred
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to be his guest on the CBS Show this Wednesday Night. You can get
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right into the very middle of the argument on most of these Sames CBS stations
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where Bing Crosby shows. Hey Wednesday Night, be sure to hear Fred Allen's
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visit The Bing Show this Wednesday. Following Groucho Marx and You Bet Your Life
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Now with our star Gerald Moore, we returned to the second act of Philip
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Marlowe and tonight's story The Long Arm Lieutenant's terman moved, taught me curl the
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thick fingers of his left handed to a fist. Braced myself with the blow
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never came stead. He shut his face up close to mine, and his
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mouth twisted into a one sided grin that was as full of fun as a
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set of thumbscrews. Well, you finally came true from me, didn't you,
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kid? I don't know what you're talking about. I've been waiting a
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long long time for you to put something in my town, mallow where you
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can't run back across the line and hide behind the skirt your cup friend over
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in La having yourself a pipe dreams. M don't forget it real, sorry,
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I sir, do you might explaining what this is all about. It's
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one of my rights as a citizen. You know, even in Bay City
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or as I'm concerned, killers ain't got any rights. How Come you had
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nothing to do with grass murders? So I can tell you why you're a
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stinking liar private detective. I suppose private detectives have no rights either, huh
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none. We found the girl's body in a car parked a vacant lot,
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and somebody overlooked a couple of fingerprints which I'm gonna match up with your tomorrow.
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How come you're so sure because we pulled any punch out of the movies
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five minutes after we found his wife jailbirds singing Bay City model. We don't
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harsh around with him. Let's go wait a minute. Oh, you pushed
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too far on the wrong track. That's an angle here, you want to
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know about it? There is always an angle with you. Ain't the right
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boy. Yeah, but you're gonna like this one first, and that Kay
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is so proud of. You're gonna find prints from one, not Manella.
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That's right. One of those days in operation when everybody else in Bay City
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is closed up, you better find out who told you're stepping on down the
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city hall before you got out. You've got problems, and that's not one
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of them. You got some intelligence office philling without wise cracks, all right.
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I think Patch was framed a year ago and Minnelli's joint, No god
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on Minelly's orders. Why Because Grace Potch was a pretty girl with the end
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for gamblers. That's why. All the time Ernie was in the cooler,
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she was running down a Mannelly's place, and I got a witness to prove
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it. Also makes it the kind of little cheap tramp that gets out of
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hand. Ally should have me tonight. No satisfactory reasons for him. What's
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more, you warned Ernie Potch just this afternoon that you were keeping an eye
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on him if you wanted to kill his wife. He's not stupid old not
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to have done it tonight. Menelly's standpoint, it was a perfect time,
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you see, because you guys would go for it just exactly as you have.
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I know you got no use from this time. Sure a cop,
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after all, as long as somebody's got to take a rap, it might
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as well be the right guy. You know what, sweetheart, what your
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fairy story makes the average just air, which not the mass. Now get
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down too tired to take what I know it'd be given once for exterman got
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me inside the Bay City headquarters. I made my decision fast. There were
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three steps in the front watch of the wall, and he was right behind
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me. I took the first two, then turn and grabbed sailed over my
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shoulder, and I heard him land, flying on his back on the sidewalk.
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As I rounded the corner of the house, I crossed the backyard,
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bolted the fence, and put one hundred yards the valley between us. Before
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I even stopped to think, and I went back to my car, drove
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down to the water again. In Gomboski's chicken shanty place was dark and locked
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up tight. Went around at the back was his living quarters were, and
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listened. Crocodile slithering over the floor inside would have made the same sound.
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I pushed the door open and went in. Wasnmbowski all right, but you
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couldn't tell it from his face that had been worked over long and had by
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an expert. He didn't know I was there until I touched the good one.
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Oh girl, I gave you the beating gumbo. Please already alight,
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I get up. I love gumbo. You told me one thing about at
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Manelly, The great part went was joined a lot, and you spotted somebody
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outside the window, and you're clammed up. I come back now, and
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I find you like this isn't the obvious. You're wasting your time trying to
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protect them. Shut off and get out of Listen to me, your poor
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sap, And just so you're gonna be living with this from now on.
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Every time you guess that it is, he'll get you another going over to
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match this one. It really gets jumpy buster, and then it'll do worse
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than that, don't you get it? And I know what will happen if
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I open my up again. I'm just not gonna take that chant. I
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don't realize we'll never lick Manelly if we don't fight a little. I'm not
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saying nothing. You understand nothing, not one word I get out, all
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right. I am miserable second through talking to you. Don't think the other
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guy gave you a light massage by the time I'm through with you here,
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not stay where you are. I don't what to kid you missed it,
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but I will unless you beat it. I'd rather face that than talk getting
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into deep marching gumbo. There's nothing else I can do. Nothing to me.
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I know which side my friends butt it on. Yeah, but it
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made one big mistake already. But what do you mean let yourself wide open
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for this coffee? I'm sorry that much time, prob Come on better.
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Just tell me one thing and I'll leave you alone. All I want to
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know is where I can locate up in Lly right now. This club,
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but the little casina Lion I was down there as closed as being remarked.
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Not I'm not lying, all right, you need some more rubbing, Okay,
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okay, he got a sweeter room, dance stairs under the club.
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They're not being done over. That's where he lives. I gotta be there
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now, but you gotta protect me. He's storm in the mononia. I'll
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kill me. That's all I want to know. It's all on gumbo.
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The first phone booth I came to, I stopped, looked up a base
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city number and made a call, which took five minutes. I went onto
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the little casino. I parked on a side straight and went down the ramp
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to the underground garage. No rear. There was a door between two or
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eight bronzeer and Sally Barba size and I started talking and Hunt. I stopped
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and studied the decoration on one of the herons, a small hole in the
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side. I took my handkerchief knot and stuffed into the hole. Somewhere inside
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the apartment. I heard a chime ring, Oh my God, out and
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tried the door and opened to a long, lush haul way baked the far
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end with a heavy gold kit. I waited through a green carpet deep enough
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to more after the curtain and pulled it aside. And Ellie sat at a
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wide, glossy desk, fletatically climbing his names, his eyes staring straight at
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me. You got this far? About it? Don't tell me you're all
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alone here, Melly? No, I got five hundred? What do you
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act like you were expecting me? I knew somebody was coming, wasn't elect
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the guy and those bass jugs out of the door. Anybody passes it rings
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that chime, they're satisfying. I w's with a gun. Put it away
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in a minute. Maybe Saint Lieutenant's terming tonight. Good, I you've been
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rubbing elbows with homicide. I didn't kill anybody. No, I guess you
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didn't. I've got a good idea. Who didn't earny parts of course?
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No chance. It's your business partner, Lieutenant Reike's terming himself and five will
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get your tennis. Got big news for you. Hey, right, steam,
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don't move well, look what crawl out of the woodwork. I'll get
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his gun, ray Manelli, I'll take it myself. I don't budget,
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don't want to wait a minute. What is it? Shut up? If
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you killed Gray's park you were in love with her, but used to meet
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her right here in this room. That was before she found out a couple
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of things and began to put the pressure on me. I got in imprieved.
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Then I lost my head and I shut up. Let's and Bosky took
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a beating and night just because he mentioned Manella here a little more pressure he
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mentioned someone else. You. Why would you shut Bosky up about Monella unless
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you and Mennelle were connected. That connection was all I needed right on the
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pleasant sweetheart. We're all the good it'll do, and I don't get it.
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I don't understand anymore. You're through what you're saying. Ray, you
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know too much about me, you know what all? You can't do this?
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Yes, I can back Marlow. He gave me the idea, even
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worked out all the motives, so it's easy. I'm here to arrest you
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for Grace Parcher's murder. You resisted. I had to shoot you, ashame.
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But about this turning part, I intended to hang it on him,
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Manelli. But he's nothing to me. I don't care if he lives or
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dies. But you, you're you're getting too big for your bridges anyway,
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So this is better, and I get three birds with one stone. Grace
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Manelli, you mollow before you start pulling the triggers there, Man, you
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better ask your boy A couple of my waiting for you behind a gold curtain
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there. How, you're a liar, Mallow. The elected guy would have
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kept this off if anybody else came in. I blinded that eye with my
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handkerchief on my way in. Right. How long you've been there? Long
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enough, Lieutenant, I don't take all this from you, shad to do
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tonight himself. Yeah, I took the liberty of going over your head,
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lieutenant, just before I came in. Under the circumstances, you'll understand.
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Why are you better drop it? Lieutenant? Okay, Now come on,
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these two guys, come along quiet. Sure, Sure, I always glad
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to ride with old Rake's term at anytime at all, just as long as
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there's a couple of policemen in the same car. Cora was all over in
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the Bay City Police headquarters. Everybody from the mayor of the dog catcher put
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his two cents in, and I'd given the same answers to the same questions
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at least fifty times, all about crooked cops and Rakes sermon in particular.
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But finally, hours later I was freeting it all. As I drove through
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the quiet streets, I was still thinking about the cops this time the other
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car, the underpaid, over work cups. How on the city sidewalks day
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and night. You know, the guys who do everything from telling kids the
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way to the grocery store to untangling the rush hour traffic. Yeah, I
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thought about each one of the cops who someday chases a hopped up gunman down
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a blind alley and doesn't get home that night or any night ever again.
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Then I forgot all about Rakestown, because after all, he was just one
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bad one in a multitude of goodness, an insignificant sore on a long arm.
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The Adventures of Philip Marlowe Bringing You Raymond Chandler's most famous characters, star
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Jerald Moore, are produced and directed by Norman McDonald's and are written for radio
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by Robert Mitchell and Gene Levits. Featured in the cast where Barney Phillips ed
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Osbourne, Sidney Miller, Tom Tully and Britt Holland. Special music is composed
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and conducted by Richard Urunt. Bessured me with us again next week when Philip
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Marlowe says it could have been perfect snowbound in a mountain lodge with a girl
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was falling in love, but also present were a widow sick with rage,
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a bitter old woman, a jealous man, all with reason. They hate
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me more than anyone else in the world. Two all star bouts are promised
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on seb as This Wednesday Night, Bing Cross faces Fred Allen across the CBS
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mike to battle it out on Who's funnier singers or comedians, and in the
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second attraction, Gracy Allen and a smashed fender team up against not so gorgeous
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George Burns and a guilty conscience. This Wednesday also brings you Braucho Marx,
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his Dad Lives and his teams of opposites on You Bet Your Life And to
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Doctor Christian story about two redheads in love fun action variety. They're all Yours
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with Doctor Christian Brautcho, Mark Bing, Crosby and Fred Allen and George and
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Gracie on most of the same CBS stations This Wednesday Night, this is Roy
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Rowan speaking. Now stay tuned for pursuit, which follows immediately. On most
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of these same CBS stations. This is CBS where Wednesday Night is Bing Crosby
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Night Columbia Broadcastings that this is Andrew J. Graham, author of the web
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surface series Oh and a Man and His Wife. You're listening to the Great
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Detectives of Old Time Radio. Welcome back. Well, this is an interesting
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episode, if for no reason, then it takes us to one of the
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fictional cities that Raymond Chandler invented. There were many places outside of Los Angeles
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that Chandler is careful, for what reason, not to reference directly, instead
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giving alternative names. The last book which he started but didn't finish, was
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called Poodle Springs, which was, of course his take on Palm Springs.
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Bay City was actually a fictional version of Santa Monica, and I did find
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a website where they researched why he might have done this, and they found
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a city directory from the nineteen thirties where it referenced Santa Monica, among some
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other places as the Bay Cities. Bay City was the pivotal location for The
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Lady in the Lake, and in terms of corrupt cops, it was the
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worst in a Chandler story, and Lady in the Lake is actually my favorite
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of the Philip Marlowe novel so it's fitting that we do get a return to
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Bay City when we're dealing with a corrupt cop. The closing monologue, I
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think is very socially responsible, it's very fair, and it certainly does reflect
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the feelings of the times. And I would say that it's probably not something
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that the book version of Philip marlow would agree with, and certainly not Chandler
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himself, just based on the overall tenor of his works, particularly when you
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get into the long Goodbye a few years later. But then again, that
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is also one of the charms and advantages of the radio version, as played
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by Gerald Moore. At any rate, that will do it for today.
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We'll be back tomorrow with Nick Carter, and join us again next Wednesday for
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another episode of the Adventures of Philip Marlowe. In the meantime, sender comments
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