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Philip Marlowe: The Fatted Calf (EP1517) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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support dot Greatdetectives dot net. Well, now it's time for today's episode of
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the Adventures of Philip Marlowe the original air date September the twenty fourth of nineteen
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fifty and the Tittle the Fat at KF get this and get it straight.
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Crime is a Sucker's road. Those are traveling wind up in the gut of
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the prison of the grave. This time rains slashing a glass roof, an
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old man's curiosity, and an imaginary imp out of place. They all became
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important when two people died violently so a third could make a killing. From
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the pen of Raymond Chandler, outstanding author of crime fiction, comes his most
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famous character in the Adventures of Philip marlow All, with Gerald Moore starred as
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Philip Marlowe. We bring you tonight's exciting story, The Battered Calf, the
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first film of the season, came as a surprise. It always does in
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la where somehow other people are never ready for it. It's funny in a
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town where people are ready for anything for every year. The opening slash of
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lightning stands nerves on age and cracks composure like it was so much drenched in
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China, and by five o'clock in an afternoon of driving rain and thick gray
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sky, I was no exception. There wasn't helped anybody. The arrival of
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a special delivery letter, one hundred dollars bill in clothes, which dragged me
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out of my suddenly cozy office, hit in my car and over to Studio
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City in the San Fernando Valley, where, according to the letter, Junior's
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Poppy, the veteran cartoonist and creator of the Impish Peter Pageant comic strip,
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wanted to see me at once. But as I wound up the spiral of
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McAdam call sun swept drive to at number thirty eight forty, I forgot about
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the storm around me and wondered the instate, about the man I was going
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to meet. Wonder just how many pots Pixie, the originator of a half
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leprechaun, half very funny human being, will tickle the nation slateric funny boom
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daily from coast to coast, was going to be. And when I was
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parked in front of the place, which was a few million rain drops,
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bouncing off a roof that was all glass, out of my car and going
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to the front door, I had made up my mind. Junior's Poppy had
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to be small, slight, delicate, and maybe self effacing, but certainly
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pleasant. Mister my alarm, How wrong can I bees? Oh uh,
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mister poppy, it's of hers. Come in, Come in, you're getting
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rich hot an don't touch anything, you're shoked. Junior's Poppy was tall,
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heavy set, gruff, and a crab. I dripped little puddles of water
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behind him and threw a long hall into a studio, which was a half
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a dozen heals under twice as many fluorescent lights and a litter of Peter Pageant
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drawings everywhere. Then, while mister Poppy did not offer me drink, cigarette
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or even chair, I became resourceful. I took off my own coat,
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drop in the corner where it sloshed into it a scrundled heap, and I
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defiantly lit a cigarette and started to please I spies tobacco. Excuse me now,
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first, mister manor a few facts. I've been drawing Peter Padgen for
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twenty seven years, but unlike most of the syndicated cartoonist, I employed those
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staff reuse no material, allow nothing to be published that I haven't created personally,
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down to the last strugg of the pen. However, I do have
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an assistant who serves two purposes. One he inks in the balloon what the
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circles where the words go? And two and more important, he watches me
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work daily so that when I'm gone, even cartoonist done Peter Paget will continue
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uninterrupted. My assistant is named Sid Kagan, and he uh how to be
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more exactly, He's wife, Louise, is the reason I'm hiring you.
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Twice mouth to ask a question, but twice he waved a question aside liking
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him, let's by the minute I listened to him tell me what. For
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the past week, Kagan had been first preoccupied, and then upset, and
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finally revellious Poppy of Bachelor. Didn't want to lose a good man because of
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anything as trivial as a marital problem. I had investigated and learned that Louise
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Kagan had spent a week in San Francisco recently, but he hadn't learned anymore
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because an appointment he had made with her to talk it all over. Since
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the slooping was not subtle, it was quite pros today, manaw, we
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were to meet at a cocktail lounge. I was early until I saw her
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come in in saddan. She's the type of tor brunette you don't miss.
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I was about to start toward her when she suddenly leaped from her table and
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hurried out of the place for no reason. Me, don't interrupt me,
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Mana, of course you had a reason. She was frightened at the sight
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of a man approaching her. He was very ugly, pat and another here
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solah complexion, eyes that belong on a hawk. He followed her out,
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but she got away from him and then he disappeared too. Louise hasn't called
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your sense to explain until late last night. Now and then she apologized and
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lied about why she didn't show up forgot she said, actual like overally cares
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your likeness to man. I please don't touch those runnings. Sorry. We
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made another appointment for six thirty to night at a different place, an artists
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hang out called the Talisman on a Lancashim. This time, Arrow, I
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want you to go in my place. Perhaps my approach is to mechanical.
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There's just a chance, now, mister Poppy, a few questions first to
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Kagan's home address seven one seven Magnolia below US seven one seven. And Kagan
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himself is still working for you regularly. Shallow he called this morning. He
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said he was sick. Now, please ask your questions quickly. I must
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return to my work. Peter Pageant's schedule four frames a day hasn't been interrupted
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in twenty seven years. Ah here this might interests you. Here, take
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a look at this. The last frame has a lot of d sail.
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Yeah, it has Peter addressing the US Senator. It's cute. He always
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working pencil and ink in later, yes, yes, now anything else yeah,
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there is, mister Poppy, the whole business Kegan's problem. I mean,
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if it's only a case of a gal not being true to a guy,
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I quit and you get your dough back graduated from me over the truck,
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hadsome class the reach changing is not the kind of girl who plays around.
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I know what makes you so sure? For one thing? An example,
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Meniard Rope who minior drove pet he's an agent for Empire. Features that
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seem to get that handles my work and no extremely handsome and what the ladies
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would call smooth. He got no place being Should I say a tinion to
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Louise, I could tell I observed now satisfying in the moment, I can
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still play that Rope just wasn't her type. I'll call you later, mister
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Poppy. Goodbye, and that don't bother showing me out and I can find
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the way myself. Impulse number one said, nuts to the funny on paper
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only, mister Poppy. But Impulse number two said, quiet model, it's
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a storm that's making you jump in. There's one hundred dollars bill in your
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pocket. So I got into my car and drove the mile and a half
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of seven seventeen Magnolia Boulevard, where I figured i'd look over the cake and
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home ground before it was time for me to show the tells one. As
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I drove past the place, I saw there was a light in the big
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room and a woman little nette and attractive, who was no doubt the lady
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of the house, paging to a magazine. And things stayed like that each
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time I came around the block. But twenty minutes later, when I parked
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in front of a nearby corner drug store to get cigarettes, I forgot the
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lady of the house because getting out of a park car in front of me
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was a man with sallow complexion and eyes borrowed from a hawk, easily seen
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by the rain splash light from the display windows. And when he hurried inside
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into a phone booth, I saw the patent leather hair mister Poppy had already
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described. And he got his call through and turned his back to the street.
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I moved quickly to his car, opened the front door, struck a
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match, and read the name and address on the owner's card strapped around the
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steering wheel. It was Bert's Slack. Two hundred Central Avenue, San Francisco,
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California, the city in which Louise kingand recently chosen to spend a week.
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A clock on the dashboard reminded me it was six fifteen, in time
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to head my rendezvous with the talisman. But the little boys deep inside,
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said mister Burt Slack shouldn't, so it was worth I reached under the bashboard
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and yanked the ignition wire, and I got back into my car, hoping
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to gain ten minutes, and headed to out the club. I'm like Shian
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Boulevard. The scotch and soda soon keep the rain from choking all the way
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through, you know. Hey, yeah, all right, another scotch and
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soda. Hey, wait a minute, Wait a minute. That lady there,
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the one of the blue Caper, just came in. I ask her
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to come over to mister Poppy's table, will do a lot of it.
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Drew in a keep the rain from soaking all the way through. Isn't that
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awesome? I'm awfully sorry, I'm late Junior's Oh excuse me, waiter,
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you made a minute, missus Kegan. The mistake was mine on purpose.
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You wouldn't have known me by name, which is what Philip Marlowe, I'm
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a friend of Junius's. He was tied up with his work tonight and asked
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me to keep his state for him like a drink. No thanks, I
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haven't got the time. But why didn't Junius call me or leave a message
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here? I don't know steps she forgot her? Perhaps you are alive.
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Perhaps he called my place after I left, then called here, waiter,
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Will you please check with the captain and see if anyone left a message for
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missus? Kagan pleads, And on your way back to Scotch and SODA's.
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Huh yes, Now just a minute, mister Marlow, I've already said no.
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As long as we're playing things back, you already said I was a
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liar. Why because Juniors told me that my meeting with him would be personal,
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and since he's gone far enough out of his way to even call me
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on the telephone about it, it must also be important to him. It
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is as important to him as say San Francisco is for you. So you're
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not really a friend of Junior's, Poppy, not buddy, buddy. No,
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but I am a friend of Bert Slack's, you know Slack. Yeah,
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why don't you sit down, Louise, Our drinks are coming. We
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are too scotches and sodas just the thing to keep the ring. I already
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said that one to night. Yes you did. Yeah, well do scotch
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and SODA's just like you ordered. Oh and there's no message for you,
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missus Kagan. Thank you. Mister Morlow. You know about San Francisco,
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you know about Bert Slack and somehow are you know? I was supposed to
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meet Junius Poppy here and he couldn't make it. So why don't you just
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sit here and think it out all by yourself? Huh? I'm going.
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I'm back here when I'm ready, gentle lady, which might be right now?
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Don't you think Maynor? Thank Heaven, you're here? Are you see
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him? Louise? Well, my good man, have you reached your decision?
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Got the young lady's arm? I mean, let go Maynard. Please
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see that he doesn't follow me. It will be a pleasure, Louise.
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What are we drinking, mister Marlow? Mallow, scotch and soda. I
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wonder what keeps that from soaking through? Man had rope with a handsome syndicate
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agent. Junius Poppy, at tagged very smooth, was also very snide when
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he slid into the booths next to me, and we each had a fresh
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drink. While Louise kegan put distance between us. I knew that the urge
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I had to punch him in his finally chiseled Grecian nose could not be blamed
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on the stormy weather. It would be just as much fun on a sunny
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day. A couple of minutes later, when he got up, flashed glistening
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up as and lowers at me and started to leave it the word snipe,
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bye bye boy. I had to hold on tight. Somewhere along the line,
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I slipped, hey, roper if I got something? Oh what is
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it this there? Oh? Also you didn't tight me for your drink?
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It was road of here, bye bye boy. Outside, I felt better
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as I walked around to the alley behind the club where I thought my car.
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I noticed the rain that tightened up to a drizzle. It was about
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ready to call it quits. At a corner of the sky already showed dark
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blue with a single star front and center. But I didn't notice until I
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was in line with my front friends was company on hand? I have been
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waiting for you. It was wide open eyes that flashed something close to a
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sterior the length of a long thin on that was pointed at me and trembled
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while a hand awkwardly held a gun for what had to be his first time.
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Hi am sid Kagan. I want to know why you're following my wife,
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what you had to do with her. I do know that you are
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private, detected, even that your name is Philip Marlow. That junior Poppy
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hired you that much I found down and you at to be able to put
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the rest together yourself. You're a big boy. Now. Junius is worried
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about you, Kegan, because you won't turn a worried about your wife.
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Look, he wants to help you all the way around. You don't believe
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you. I only believe that people are bothering Louis, molesting her, driving
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her out of her mind, and I want to stop them. I want
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to protect her, all right. Take a look at this picture and see
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if you can tell me whether or not this is one of those you say
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I'm a lesting her picture. Let me see I don't sure with a clip
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out here. Also, I'll give you some advice. Go on home,
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Kegan, and soakia hot head and a bucket ice Colus. The most you
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can do to help me beat it before I get mad. Gone, all
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right, I'll go, but remember Marlow, I'm still going to protect my
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wife. Yeah, remember Kagan jerk. I think it's stupid as an amateur
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with a gun, I'm no amateur. Oh fine, I wouldn't bother looking
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under the hood either. We're now even one torn ignition wire deserves another.
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Well, mister slack, han't that thirty eight? Been waiting long? Long
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enough? So you're a private detective, eh, Now that's interesting. I'm
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a private eye too. Really, you find crumbs in every profession. Where
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do we go from here? No place? It's a team anyhow, I'm
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finished. I've done my little job. I'm leaving town. The personal business
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had brought me here is over and done with. All's well, you'd be
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smart to look at it that way yourself, Jack, Yeah, brilliant,
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brilliant. We'll go over a big with my client with that. What's the
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difference how it goes over with your client? Now? Why don't you read
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the papers? Meaning what the latest edition? Here? Catch and read Ni's
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puppy out loud? Marlow please found dead in the studio City home. Creator
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of Peter Pageants shot the death. Surprised huh Yeah, Well that's too bad,
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but I guess you'll get over it. Why do you walk all the
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way down this alley without turning around? Go on, move, mister Marlowe
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as directed goodbye in a moment the second act of Philip Marlowe. But first
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we returned to the second act of Philip marlow and Tonight's story the Fatted Cap,
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when the man named Slack with a code of ethics to match said walk,
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I walked. By the time I taken ten steps, I knew that
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he was already gone. So I went back to my car, cursed my
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way through a fast repair job on the wiring, and edited to my late
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client studio again. When I got there, the usual messy routine of cameras,
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tape measures, and notebooks were still in progress, and I was about
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to go inside. It changed my mind when I saw Louise keg and step
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b lithely out the door and walk almost jauntly over the flagstones that led from
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the house to the parking area. Hey Louise, wait you again? Well,
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what do you want? Just one? You had morbid reason why you're
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not making with tears of a watch inside, And I never lost any love
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in there. If I pretended I had, it wouldn't pull anybody for five
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minutes. Nobody liked Junia's poppy and I was no exception. I'd you're real
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easy with that kind of talk from now on. If I were you,
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what's that crack supposed to mean? But not later than tomorrow morning? Your
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husband said, will take over Peter Pageant completely. So you struck gold Jerry
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and you got it made. Are you implying that I had something to do
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with Junior's death? Oh? I doubt that you pulled the trigger baby personally,
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but there's a good, solid connection and I'm going to find it as
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your husband inside with the police. No, I came here looking for him.
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He must be at home. How much does the cops know so far?
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Nothing except that juniors died between two and three hours ago. Look,
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why don't you trot in and ask to me yourself? Quiz master. I
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don't think they can help me. You see, I'm still interested in a
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big, ugly question. Mark ill wrapped up with San Francisco. And before
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I turn loose of it, I'll understand it. Believe me. Going over
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to your place now to talk to sick? Can I give you a list?
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No? Thank you? Suit yourself. I'll get there ahead of you
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and find something you wouldn't want me to know about. All right, I'll
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ride with you. Let's go. Let's do that. Get in. Thanks
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so much for the ride. You know I wouldn't have enjoyed it a bit
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more than a hurt. You can drop the acid routine, Louise, I
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got a thick skin. Let's go inside now. Look, Marlos, it
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isn't home. I can see from here the lights are out. Only prove
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somebody turned a switch. Come on, open up, right, come on,
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that's better. And since you're making yourself so at home, you might
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as well make yourself a drink. Hey, it's a good idea. Nice
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little boy you got here, honey. Always easy to talk with a drink
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in your Hey, Louise, these papers on the table. I haven't seen
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him before. Contracts, I'd say, yeah, all filled out, just
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waiting for Kegan's signature. So her husband is now a full fledged big time
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cottoonis what do you know? Pretty fast work? Huh? The creator of
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Peter Pageant's been dead not more than three hours and already a success as contract
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had drawn up. I wonder Junius was bitter. Maynard Rupert had those drawn
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up beforehand, just in case, just in case somebody's patience ran out.
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Could be your husband's. I want to talk to him, all out of
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your mind. He's been here, baby, and not long ago either.
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There's his trench coat on the chair. What maybe he left again, and
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maybe he didn't. You take a look to the rest of the house.
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If you find him, telling him to come on out, there's still time
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to talk or go on. She gave me a glare that said she'd like
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to run my head for a gbage disposal unit and walk past me to the
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hole, he said held the French coat. I saw an interesting smudge on
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the elbow. The right sleeve was an imprint of the little cartoon character Peter
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Pageant, in the exact pose I'd seen earlier, Peter Pageant addressing the United
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States Senate. It can only mean one thing. The right sleeve of the
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coat I was holding had been jammed down into wedding on Junior's Poppies drawing board
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shortly after I left his studio night. I was still looking at the coat
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when Louise came back. She started to say something, but the doorbell interrupted
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and kept on interrupting him. Finally she walked over and answer it. It
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was bird slacked, a man from San Francisco. His face green and waxy,
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would have worn the same look if he'd been falling out of a tense
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story window. And knew he couldn't hold on. He gripped the door casing
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with both hands, like a slow motion fireman sliding down a pole. Suddenly,
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he jerked up one hand and pointed at Louise. He turned his eyes
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at me and tried to speak. Then he took five slidings stumbling steps into
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the room and pitched headlong to the floor, the handle of a knife ring
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by a patch of drying blood stuck out of his back between the shoulder blades.
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Thinks head did it? Why Louise, what's the reason? Oh no,
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I didn't mean That'll get away chat slack with a cheap private eye from
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San Francisco and you just got back from there. What happened at the Luise?
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Why do you think your husband had to kill this guy? Oh no,
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I won't tell you. I don't know anything. I'll leave me alone,
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all right, all right, get hold estabiosterical. Now listen to me.
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Why does rope lip come on main and roper? Is that? R's
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ninety four Edison even he's why because your husband might be there and I want
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to talk to him now more than ever. You're on your own, baby,
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Get good in a circle if you want to, I'll see you in
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ninety four. Addison Avenue was a she like pine on a rivy bungalow,
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hiding behind ten feet of manicured hedge and flanked by a small swimming pool that
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involved more chromium than water, and the door open in response to a deep
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toned gown. I saw several thousand dollars worth of Chinese modern dudad behind the
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coiled silk smoking jacket wrapped around Maine and roper. First Glad helping him,
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hated me and then changed his mind and the smile wah, hello mon.
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No you've seen how hot temple luiaze lately? Yeah? I just left her.
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She had the temper scared out of it. When a guy died on
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a living room floor, how horrible. Yeah. This one had a knife
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in his back. He'd been carrying it for some time. Made it as
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far as Kagan's because he had something important to say, but he couldn't it
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out. The name was Slack from San Francisco. Have you hear of him
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Slack? Well? No, they tell me if you've seen Sid Kagan recently?
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I mean within the last hour, Yes, twice, once when I
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took his new contracts to his place, and again when he came here to
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talk to them over He left a few minutes ago. Say where he was
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going? No, wait, he did say intended to stop at a drug
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store. He had a white drug store with the one down the street about
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a block of a look Marlow. Surely you don't really believe that Sid killed
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this man? He had a motive. You realize what you're saying. What
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have you got to go on? Actually, as slip as wife maiden and
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the Peter Pagens had turned up out of place, Luis was no doubt hysterical
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under those circumstances. I'd be too. And that's what Peter Pageant. Don't
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forget that Sid's been practicing him for six years. He probably combs Peter Pagins
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out of his hair at night. Not this one was on a trench coat
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sleeve. I found it in said Kagan's living room, was picked up from
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wed ink on Junior's Poppy's drawing board tonight. In fact, there was the
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last Peter Pagant Juniors drew before he was killed. That's what I've got to
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go on, mister Ropers. Oh thanks and good night. I got my
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car and drove fat till I found the drug store, and then pulled up
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across the street from the place and watched a can was waiting out in front.
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When the door opened in the store, I started to get out,
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but he stopped again. As Sid Kigan, the collar of his trench coat
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turned up high, and both hands thrust deep in his pocket, shouldered his
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way out, gotten a cab, and drove away. I sat there for
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a few minutes until the crazy logic and the crazy pattern finally sank in,
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and I turned and drove back toward ninety four Addison, A few houses down
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the street. I parked, got out, and after dropping my gun in
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my pocket, I left my hand curl around it and walked in past the
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chromium swimming pool, up to the pine Anady house and looked in was deserted.
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I kind of started for the gate again, but that was as far
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as I got. I'm not inside, Mollow, I'm here behind you.
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Don't move automatic at all. Huh. They get nerve enough to stick here
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and wait for me. Roper, I had no choice, raised him up
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slowly, and don't turn around. I'll take your gun first, Okay,
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I'll get inside. So it was your transcode I founded Kagan's Huh if I
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gotten left it there when you took the contracts over. Yes, and when
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you told me about it, I followed you. I saw you spot Kagan
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still wearing his coat at drug store, and I knew then that you come
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back here after me. I'm still sure sure you know you might have gotten
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away with old Junius Poppy's murder because you were the only one with no motive,
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apparently, which I clutted it up by killing your partner Slack too.
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Slack was stupid and loud mouthed. Had a double cross meal at the cat
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out of the bag the first time he got drunk. Blackmailers have to keep
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their secret, so they go out of business fast. With you, It's
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obvious that I have no choice. It's you or me. Yeah, yeare
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a smart boy, roper. How'd you manage to cut in on? What's
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Slack new? He tried to find out for me whether Sid loved his wife
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enough to pay to keep her out of jail and how much you could demand
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and expect to get, and told you he was stupid. Believe me,
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Shell, the idea of getting rid of Junior so Sid could get enough money
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to make blackmailing and worthwhile. It was quite a switch, but what a
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good agent might think of Shan Still, don't try for anything on that table?
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Why not? What are you saving me for a more conversation? No,
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I just wanted to get my breath. I've had quite a day,
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remember all right, let's go now where out back to the garage? Go
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on gomorrow. Is he dead? I don't know. I don't think so.
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You sure have picked the sweet time to show up, baby, how'd
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you manage it? I was out there a long time listening when I realized
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what was happening. I came in. Saved my thick skin or kill a
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blackmailer. Once I killed a man unintentionally, I didn't want to do it
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again, even him. But tonight, when I thought Sid, it's stab
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brut fike because of it, I couldn't stand it any longer. I came
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over to find you and turn myself in question Mark on San Francisco. Oh,
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there was a brawl. I got mixed up in it. A man
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had a gun and then a struggle, it went off and killed him.
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I was scared, silly. I ran away, but Slack had seen the
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whole thing. He even got the gun with my fingerprints all over it,
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and well that's that. Let's go Model, Yeah, okay, baby,
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let's go. Two refails, please said, it's going to be a long
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night. Yes. I still can't get it through my head that this has
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happened, mad, I can't realize it. Slack saw that Titan San Francisco
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got the gun with Luis's fingerprints on it and came to to blackmail. That's
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right. He went the rope of for information on you, and Roper was
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smart enough to peck it and cut in killed Junior so you'd get more money
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by taking over the strip. And then and then he and slackly going to
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fight between themselves and may not killed him too. How can there be people
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like that? Same way they can be rattlesnakes, black widow spiders and cancers.
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Marlow, what is going to happen to Louise? I don't know,
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Sid, but she's got something now she didn't have before. What is that
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you? He loved her all the time, but she didn't know what that
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meant. She does now looks she might be finished with the police. Maybe
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better go over there, Yes, I guess i'd better. Good night,
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Phil, and thank you so long, said as he crossed the street and
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went into police headquarters. I turned back to my coffee and thought about Peter
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Pageants, the impish, whimsical little character with a sly, gnoying smile,
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half sad, half amused at the foibles of the world. And the world
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seems more and more to be made of halves like that. Old song,
28:18
How's it go? Sometimes I'm happy, sometimes I'm blue. Sudden storms and
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sudden calms. Maybe most of us are only half alive. H Take me
28:34
for instance, Half of me wants to go home and sit in front of
28:38
a roaring fire with a drink and a good book, and the other half,
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Yeah, there's always an other half. The Adventures of Philip Marlowe Bringing
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You Raymond, Chandler's most famous character and crime's most deadly enemy, star Gerald
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Robert Mitchell and Gene Levitt. Featured in the cast were Vivi Janis, Howard
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is composed and conducted by Richard Rand Be sure and be with us next week.
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29:45
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for Gangbusters, which follows immediately over most of these same CBS stations. This
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is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System. Welcome back. I have to say
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this is probably one of the most short sighted murder plots. The existing artist
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had taught a lot of his tricks to his assistant, but to assume that
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the assistant's going to be able to carry on is a big gamble, and
30:59
the agent could lose years of commissions. So I don't know. Maybe the
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title this one ought to have been The Golden Goose, though there were quite
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a few twists in this and another chance to hear Howard mcnuir in a different
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role. I actually found it pretty easy to buy Howard McNear as a cartoonist.
31:19
It was difficult to buy into the descriptions of the character's overall behavior and
31:26
motivations. As mcneer's voice is probably about perfect for what we would imagine the
31:32
cartoonist as being. Well. Now we turn to listener comments and feedback,
31:37
and Kevin emails in, Hi, Adam, I wanted to drop you a
31:41
quick note to let you know how much I enjoy your program. I get
31:45
the podcast on iTunes. I haven't been listening all the long, but I'm
31:48
hooked and still a loyal supporter. I have a real problem trying to pick
31:53
a favorite. I like most all of the programs. I also really enjoy
31:59
your commentary. They're very informative. Well, thanks so much, Kevin.
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We also have an email from Joe, who writes great stuff. Thanks.
32:10
Stumbled on this app for my kindle. I'm a huge fan of noir,
32:15
collecting the all good ones. Not surprisingly, those of Raymond Chandler rate the
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highest. The guy that does Philip Marlow on your show, well he's Philip
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Marlow. Couldn't find a better act to portray fiction's most popular detective, with
32:30
the possible exception of Sherlock Holmes. And I think that as well. And
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it's probably that case when you look at everyone who has portrayed Marlow in film
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and on television. I think Gerald Moore has close to the best identification with
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the character, and that's just through the power of voice and characterization, as
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well as just the solid production here that makes this series so good week in
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and week out. And then we have a few comments regarding our fifteen hundred
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and eight episodes. Special are Candy Mattson played again? Adam Laurie says,
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thanks Adam for replaying that. I don't remember hearing it the first time through,
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but it definitely has made me decide to try to sift back through this
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app to the Candy Mattson shows and listen to them again, or do I
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need to go to the website and download them from there. Well, you
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can actually do either one. If you have the app, you can go
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to the top and search for Candy Matson. If you don't have the app,
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you can just go to archives dot Great Detectives dot net and download all
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the shows. Brian comments are regarding the photo we have for Candy Mattson says
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I would have never pictured Candy looking like that. Love the show. Well,
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thanks so much, Brian, And if you've looked at the picture we
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have on a web say for Candy Matson, it doesn't look like I think
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any of us would imagine Candy Matson. It is, however, the best
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picture I can find for Natalie Masters. Unfortunately, it's taken from an episode
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of The Lone Ranger, so it doesn't quite go yeah but yeah. It
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doesn't match my imagination either, but it's the best we have until we find
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something different. Appreciate you sharing. And then a couple comments. Bobby Lee
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says first time listening to her, love it, and Phoenix says, Candy
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Matson is one of my all time favorite detectives. Well, thanks so much,
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and we definitely enjoy Candy Matson. It's too bad only fourteen episodes survived.
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All of these. You can listen to archives dot Great Detectives dott just
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click on the Candy Matson length. But that will actually do it for today,
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we will. We'll be back tomorrow with Nick Carter and then join us
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again next Wednesday for another episode of the Adventures of Philip Marlowe. In the
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