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Philip Marlowe: The House that Jacqueline Built (EP1577) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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show at support dot Great Detectives dot net. Well, we had two lost
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episodes between last week's show in this week's which is the bad news. The
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good news is that there's only one more lost episode during the rest of the
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CBS run of Philip Marlowe at any rate. From December thirty first of nineteen
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forty nine. Here's the episode The House that Jacqueline builts Behind Me all of
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a Night's White Head, Old Lady, When the clock struck twelve. From
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the pan of Raymond Chandler, outstanding athrough of crime fiction comes his most famous
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character in the Adventures of Phillip Marlowe. Now with Gerald Moore, sorry as
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Philip Marlowe, we bring you tonight's exciting story, The House that Jacqueline built.
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They say, the end of an old year, in this part of
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a new is a good time to take stock, stand back and give yourself
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the one solder do a reissue and that tired list of resolutions. But for
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a private detective that routine only means tallying at the time. Just dirty your
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hands on someone else's murder, or dirty your brain with their scheme. So
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you let the height on your heart throw a little sick and pull a part
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of your mind that feels things a little farther back into a show, and
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maybe plan on later hunting up a cup of kindness to someplace. Not even
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that had the price tag on it these days. So there was work to
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do in a feeder collect before I could pick up the tab on an evening's
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fun It's not a fair question. Fantastic, actually crazy. But this is
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horrible. Took a feature. Does a matter? What's going on the house.
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It's gone, it's vanished. What all the papers, over the years
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of research and months of grooving work in the jungles, vidings of preciousness all
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gone. We's go away from the very heart of the tea means to be
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an entire house. Now, look, if you just sit down and tell
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me who you are, no object. I must have action. I must
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looky, who are you? Professor? Physics? Paper? What's all?
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Let's talk about jungles and research and botanical research, tropical herbs and half an
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earthy years of it all for nothing out because the house is disappeared. Book.
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You said that several times. Now look investigating, you've had experience.
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I'm going to hire you. Now I go to where a house should be
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a house? Time myself? Who stood? And where do I find a
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big lock a hole in the ground? And here, come on over with
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the couch and lie down. Take it easy, will it's all in such
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a shock seven death, the long trip to get our papers and didn't find
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the house. Car I know. Now, look, if you just lie
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there a few minutes until you feel better. We'll taught over a little closer
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to the beginning. That matter. What's happened here? The data house has
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disappeared, and the professor's collapsed trying to tell me about it, and I
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you you, Oh, who are you? I'm Professor Piper's the system.
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Whether you are system will it's definitely oh. I'm glad you got it.
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Don't worry the living. Let's not waste any more time. You've got to
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find out what happens that house. Release professive Pipe. But don't excite yourself.
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Let me explain to the detective Mallow, Philip Mallow, I'm definitely fraide
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the house. Mister Marlow, I presume I got as far as telling you
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that for over a year's been in South America in the interior of the zil
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studying tropical earth. Yeah, that got in there somewhere. I think gives
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a course? Did that's tell him about the house, Except it's time.
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I look, professor, I've got something here to do you the world of
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good me too. I think I'll try this. Take your time about it,
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Miss Tomorow, could I speak to you? Of course, I'll be
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right back. Mister Piper chist volatile, isn't it? Yes, as I
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was saying, Miss Tomorrow, we've been almost completely out of touch with the
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civilization for over a years. Really, you never know it beauty plus before
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America. Mw let me tell you what happened. Okay. Professor Piper's collaborator
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and partner, Maxicell Statusant cost fever and died three weeks ago. Where was
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this we do? Whether or not that's come from nothing? The look,
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Miss Tomorrow. They had worked together for years, and all their notes and
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papers were kept stored at Sibusant's place here at Los Angeles. We came here
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to get that material. The house was gone fantastic give me certainly, we
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all thought Nxvielle Stibusan's wife Katherine was living in it. She owned this in
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her name. Yes, Maxwell actually owned nothing. He didn't want to.
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He was gone with him. It didn't sit too well with Catherine, right.
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She wanted Stavesant to stay home, and he always promised with some day
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he would and they live a happy life together. It well, she was
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a young woman, impatient, dated. Yeah, where is she now?
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Well? One of the neighbors, an old woman, said she thought she
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remembered hearing that Catherine went to Nebraska, Nebraska, and that's all we know.
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Professor Pipe and I are stumped. We came to you because we want
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action and wanted past. Will you help us? Well? The whole years
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been screwy. There's no reason why this should bother me. Tracking a runaway
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residence for the Metropolitan Wilds of Los Angeles didn't sound so step So after Stephanie
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gave it the address eighty eight to forty on Orange Drives and told me that
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she and the Professor could be reached at Villa three in the Worship God,
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I get in my car and drove out Orange Drives where a house numbered eighty
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eight to forty would have been. I found a seat house to be moved
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out six months ago in the middle of the knife too said where wire who
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had done the job? Nobody knew until I got around with missus Elma Lathrop,
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whose house back to Stayvesant placem across the alley. She blocked her front
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door the waistline and said she never heard of bride Crisp Gabe and I as
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warm and as sympathetic as a nice cube. Remember that, huh, I
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said, I have to tell you. I remember craziest thing I ever saw
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them men working all day and all night getting that little house up on rollers.
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Now there, I'd like to know what all the rush was about.
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So you wouldn't happen to know where they took it? Hid? No,
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wouldn't that Katherine Stuyvesant wasn't a very sociable type person. But if that's the
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way she wants to be, it's all right with me. It's good.
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Now. Look, I don't suppose you'd know who she sold it to?
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No? What company did the movie? Oh wouldn't? I though? It's
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the Gilligan Wrecking and Movement Company, And believe you me, the name fits
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them clumbs the Oxes. In such a rush they backed a big crock over
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my pomegranate tree, beautiful, full grown, free and not pink? Are
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health? Did I make them pay? I'll bet? Now? Have I
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a choice? I tracked that outfit down and made them shell up through the
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nose. For that was I burn well bully for you? Now, look
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where is the Gilligan outfit topics? Missus Lafer and Adams and Rampart Street for
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t let's see what's going on anyway? Are you asking me all these questions.
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Well, frankly, I'm a prom grand at fancy and myself missus lacer.
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Happy New Year. Yeah yeah, this is for ten rampart, isn't
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it. That's correct? Just sign outside, says Bluckman's Novelties. You want
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to taper light till the tapa. Okay, okay, look you looking for
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the Gilligan Wrecking and Moving Company. I was sold. They had this place
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six months ago night, but they're out of business now. They were being
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brookelaptains were in the hurry. How do you like that, Gillian? Oh
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everybody waited, excluding my boyfriend. He needs to that's really met that.
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They were moving out as we moved in, getting smaller. Now. Look,
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I'd like to talk to your boyfriend Mitsy. Bessy, Well that lives
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real close to here, the Tatman room. Oh thanks, Bessie. What's
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that last name? Button Slag? Oh, button slag? Anybody know that?
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You guys just calling back all right? In the killing the job alone?
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Will you? I wish I was a tender raffle. A lot of
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I wonder who wrote hurry. I wish name smallow. I want them to
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help on a job. The Gilligan company, did Bat? All right?
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How did you get to me? Bessie, by the way, said theater
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drop around? Oh yeah, dumb dame, don't I every night? Come
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on, anybody shoes the roby. I was in the shower for sure,
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and now looked Bat. Were you working for Gilligan six months ago? Yeah?
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Oh? Why you remember moving a house mediate forty orange dry? May
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he ate forty orange drying? Ye? See now? Oh yeah that one
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too. It was his screoliest deal I ever saw. Wait to move it
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to? Do you remember all the way to San Pedro, big hurry up
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job, the boss kept saying. We were racing the weather. Nobody could
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figure it racing the woman? Why that beats me? When you set the
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house off down at the end of Front Street from the Harbor Salvage Company yard
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Harbor Sealwich is San Pedro? Tell me Bat? Was the house empty?
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Well, certainly you don't think all bad? I mean the furniture. Oh
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oh, why what's all the fuss? People are interested in the location in
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that house? Oh yeah, oh that's too bad. Okay, Oh,
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I got a big hunch it didn't sit very long where we left it.
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Buddy, The Pacific Ocean was only six inches from the back door. I'm
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beating as mate, what's on your mind? I let you other head man
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of how the salvage company and houses on my mind? That's me, But
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I don't want any more house job. I did one this year and that's
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plenty six months ago. House delivered by Gilligan. That's it, mate,
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And I did a masterpiece produce, so myself sure wouldn't change it again.
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No, too shifty, Never mind your career. What happened to that house?
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What happened if I loaded it on that old woman's bird? What old
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woman? As I was saying, I loaded it on that old woman's barge,
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battened it down ship tape in the last two days, good sailing weather
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and center out to sea. It made that house cluck here on a barge
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that it did, mate, bound for the Golden Gate in the upper armor,
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San Francisco. Babe, there shrimp fishing town in the back water.
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They're called Wilson, I remember right. It's on San Pableau Bay, about
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fifteen miles north Bridger. Now do you mind telling me who the old woman
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was? Who owned that barge? And if not a bit kindly old sold
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she was named Jacqueline Beattie went aboard with the house and waved goodbye if in
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the front door she pulled out all smiles. Dudes, Madison, you look
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like a deckhand who lost your sea legs. But it started three short hours
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ago to check up on an la residence that evolve itself into a chased up
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the coast after our house boat, which was a project I distinctly did not
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want to jump into without first of nods for my clients. In fact,
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I was ready to scuddle a whole business. So I found a phone and
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called Villa three. It's the Wilship Gardens. Yeah, hello, Hello,
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that's you, Matthews smallow all higher Phil. What can I do for you
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but make it snappy? I'm up to my ears. Wait a minute,
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well, look you'll called up. You're expecting someone else? Fancy, didn't
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you? Who? A guy named Felix Piper? Maybe nice fit? What's
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the connection? Client? What fit? Ex client? Mollow? He's it?
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Somebody packed him Yeah, with a knife, a very fancy knife like
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some Indians in brazil Us. The boy tell me you better drop in here.
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Where are you now, Sam Pedro? What are you doing down there?
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Yeah? Well you you wouldn't believe it, Matthews, Really you wouldn't.
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I love money, you can get all that bell hump now hello,
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I am Matthew's any progress too, so an the way, I'm counting on
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you for that. Come on inside, have a look. Okay, when
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did it happen? A couple hours ago? What was his dodge? Anyway?
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We found a club membership card list him as a buttonist who has part
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as. I spent a lot of time in research in Brazil. But a
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nuts come from nothing. Oh well, there's your client fill Professor Felix Spifer,
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and somebody nailed them right between the shoulders. Hey, Matthews, something's
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awful, Hayware, what do you mean that's not the man who hired me?
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In just a moment the second act of Philip Marlow. But first,
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one fellow who made a New Year's resolution years ago not to get married certainly
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saw it blow up with a bang. A couple of weeks ago. Fellow
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by the name of Andy of Amos and Andy opened his mouth at the wrong
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moments, and there he was married to the wrong woman. Listen for Amos
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and Andy and Andy's bride on most of these same CBS stations tomorrow night Now
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with our star Gerald Moore, we returned to the second actor, Philip Marlo
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and my story the house that Jack Woolen built. When I told the secret
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Lieutenant Matthews the couple's form at our fete identified as Felix Piper and the Felix
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Piper would hired me were not one in the same, he asked a single
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eyebrows slowly, and I told him the rest of the story. Both eyebrows
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phycically leaped from his forehead. So all in all it was thirty minutes of
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steady gab might solemn word that what I had said was nothing but the truth,
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a blunt reminder that if private detective's license is revocable. Before I was
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creating, go back to my apartment on Franklin while the police went to work.
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That made it exactly four pm when key in hand, I reached my
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front door lock just as it swung in and away from me. Come in,
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well, the globe trotting Stephany had my place here to get on your
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map. Baby, Please don't Joe come in. Thank you lovely apartments you've
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got here, mister Mallow, Please, this is no time to be funny.
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Why not everything else plays funny? Your lost La house turns up floating
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on the outskirts of San Francisco. A screwball buttoners from South America is maybe
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also a killer wants a bunch of your hook at killer because what do you
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mean the Tomorlo Phoenix Piper didn't kill Cordy Corde that's his name, Eh,
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get around, don't you care? Yes, Marty Krday, he was on
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the floor of my villa when I got that. That's why I came here.
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The janitor, Yeah, yeah, let's not change his subject. This
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Corday who is he? Or was he? Mean? Ruthless man? When
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you in South America? Important? Wait a minute, an importer wants a
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button this paper. Come on, baby, tell me the truth around new
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paper. Well that's great. You mean that all this about the house is
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Tony making No, no, no, no, it's true. But that's
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no paper only jewels only, g oh, no real business tomorrow in a
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little pouch thirty thousand dollars worth hidden in the house where in the house the
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fireplace is behind the brick somewhere in the right hand you see those rules belong
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to Felix and that next hold statisine I mentioned now they belong to physics alone.
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It was for their old age expressions assay, so they could carry on
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their work. M you don't believe me, No, not quite No,
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No, for two very valid reasons. One, why did you lie in
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the first place and stay it with papers? Because we didn't know if we
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could trust you. And now the man Dad, you have to is that
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it now? I don't have to, but I do. It may not
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be mutual, Stephanie, what do you mean, well, if i'd buy
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all this but jewels, Piper and Statisant's unique retirement plan, Corday posing as
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Piper in some way cut in as a new hooker, which is what Kauday
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is. Murderer. It should now be you a Felix Piper. No,
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and who Corday's partner? I saw they looking as little man. I don't
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know his minima how I saw him Acauday in South America. You see,
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the original plan was that I come up here ahead of Felix. But either
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two answers. You couldn't wait. You saw it almost at once, So
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somehow or others Corday and this swarthy man found out about our plans. That's
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out of the cordations postal Phoenix and and what what I must have been a
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double cross corda, probably trying to do away with a swarthy man, but
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getting done away with himself instead. Where's Felix Piper now in the second rate
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hotel omber that you know? Yes, I have it right here. Christ
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you eight thinking he's here? Press few eight for one for four for one
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or okay here you talking on Stephanie. My nerves won't take the chatting.
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What should I tell him, mister Felix Piper? Please don't tell him for
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the time being. We're going to skip the police. But you and I
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are going up to San Francisco on the next plane and then out to a
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place called Wilson a Leboro house boats no less ruby ya, So tell him
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to meet us up there at the Crystal Auto Court. Got that it's the
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place. I'd say that, a little beyond Berkeley on the road to San
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Pablo Bay. All right, Felix, my mama, Yeah, tell him
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to take clear of swarthy man tonight, especially small ones. They're dangerous.
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It was two hours and thirty minutes later when Stephie and I drove into the
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quiet fishing village of Wilson on San Pablo Bay, that hugged the bend in
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the sloping shawline, like was afraid of crawling in how that specimens station would
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be the local guests in porium. So I drove my rented car in at
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a round shouldered one pump station, something freckled and gangling with a shock of
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flames for hair, pulled himself out of it, and arms and legs working
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independently wobbled over, braced themselves against the car. Gosh, you're just information
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folks. Don't be ashamed, everybody. If my town gets lost in Wilson,
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it's a big funny. Look. If that's the case, we'll on
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up right away. Red, we're looking for a houseboat. Yeah eh,
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then you better drive the water. This boy kills himself, doesn't look red.
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We're in a hurry. His houseboat belong to a lady named Jaqueline Beattie.
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No more. Joh yeah, don't worry. There's nothing funny about that
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screwy old with us. Believe me, she's that sad hill. About six
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months ago she took ever since she had went down to La bought a house
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and bought a bards and put them both together and come back here to do
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what to do? Nothing? All day and all night long. She never
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leave no why nope either as nobody else except that her husband was an artist
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painted sea picture, so he liked it around the water. But she's not
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to tell you. Act like the place is well, acts like it's made
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of gold. Go I look red, Tell me how do I get there?
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We report it's Melow doing a story on her place. Oh, paper
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people, the reporter is usually our boy. Well that's different. If one
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block straight ahead, then right and down to the bay. Thanks for red,
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happy yeah, yeah, and the gun went ahead and play writing with
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down a whether time of the bay trickle left to meet one another. We
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saw it, a white, three room cottage of floats, surrounded by fishing
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boats and a thought pot. The front door opened it. I'm not that
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tugboat any or the scraggly pioneer woman rifle cradled and bonnie arms. Just anybody's
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grandmother under a white lace shawl at that. Yes, sit, Can I
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help you? Well? Yeah, I believe so you're missus dy huh this
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right? This is Jeudi he oh, and I'm Philip Marlow, Missus b
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D. This is the Stephanie Fraser, how do you do? We're reported
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to my good We were going through Wilson here when we heard about your houseboat
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and how you brought it all the way up from Los Angeles. You had
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a particular reason for wanting this house, missus D. Oh my, yes,
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what was that? A long, long story? My boy? I
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see we're telling me Miss Viddy. The house is exactly as it was in
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Los Angeles. I don't do it to Marlow, would you like? Oh?
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Yes, we'd have to fine. Then should we see lunch tomorrow?
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Well, missus b D, we're on our way back to Los Angeles now
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the night. Oh yes, yeah. But when you see the eyes,
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the hair, the tidy up the company every time. Well, uh,
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I think lunch tomorrow will be splendid, mister Peedy. Course, good again
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until mid day tomorrow, we have the say, but it's sun to the
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fire place. Good night, Miss Brady, good night, good night,
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mister p Well is it just a sweet old lady? I don't know,
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But when will we learn about mid day tomorrow? Man, let's get back
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to the crystal water. Catting your boss Alix Piper out and alone is a
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combination that worries me plenty. No, mister Morrow, mister Piper hasn't shown
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you that he shouldn't a min up. Now. He called a half hour
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ago from someplace in Berkeley and said he was coming out here in a taxi.
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And well, now let's see a single cabin from missus Fraser here for
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six and the double number eleven for you and mister Piper. Right, mister
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Morrow, Yes, that's right, mister Crystal. Okay, now, miss
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Fraser, if he'll come along with me, I'll show you the way the
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back. In the minute, mister Morrow, I'll just tidy up till i'll
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come back here and wait with you for feed. I'm still worried. Yeah,
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I know he'll be all right once he's read, I hope. So,
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Oh, mister Crystal, can I call LA on this phone here?
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Oh sure, mister Morrow, Long distances one one oh, operating. I
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want to call a Los Angeles person, the prisoner party. I wanted detective
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lieutenant what delay? Oh yeah, new is he? Well? Look,
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I'd like to put the call through anyway, my mind. You're a wait
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what do you look like? Take it easy? Fellow hold on type?
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Did just see him? Was he small? Swarthy. I don't think what
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he looked like. He was kind of short, and maybe he's maybe swathy.
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It was also fine. I couldn't tell you. All right, all
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right, come on, come on away from it. We'll go back to
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your office. Listen to me carefully. You phone the police. I'm going
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to a houseboat on the Santabelo Bay, where I think we'll find a small
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swarthy man push a nice old lady around without batting an eye about thirty thousand
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bucks worth of rubies. After I met Felix Piper and told him wouldn't happen
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to Stephanie and brought him up to date on everything else, I slammed my
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right foot down hard on the accelerator and kept it that way. And so
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we were back at Santa Babe, out of the car and running toward Jaqueline
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Beatty's house book where I figured the sporting man who seems to know every move
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might show there. I was wrong, because Jacqueline was all alone, safe
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and sound and surprised. Why why mister Bardo's room and that girl she won't
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be with the time afraid this is, by the way, we're not reporters.
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This beauty the lady in question is dead because it's not a man all
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because of thirty thousand bucks worth of rubies and a pouse that's behind one of
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the bricks in that firefighter. Yes, yes, and I'm going to find
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them right away. It got to be here. This poker should found them
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out her. Yes, catch yours beaty isn't too long and news of these
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rubies doesn't seem to surprise you, right? What did it beat out of
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the lane? Yeah? For a man named Corday? What is it not
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a what did you say? Corday? As in Martin Corday? And it
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looks like I was right? Ye mean not? Do you any goo?
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Is he going to die until the state gets his hands on him? You
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see, missus Betty, he's killed twice tonight, right, card A you
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on if you want an ambulance talk. They had it going on. Of
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them who's double crossed by Piper and different is one of the rubers to go
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to his wife Kevin for missus card The real Piper was a crook decided to
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get the jewels himself. But that is he was also Dom Stephanie, your
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secretary crossed you for a pretty deal with me. He was her idea,
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I'm going to you for help with me posing this piper go on on carda.
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Stephane decided he used to have the real piper because he got up to
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l A and your villa soon as them expected. Yes, but she couldn't
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cross me. I was I was following all the time. She didn't phone
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you from my place. No no, no, no no no. I
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was outside your door with him and she was talking to her number. She
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made up, you know, luck and you handed her the phone. If
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you hadn't, she would have shot you. It was all lives. It
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was the swore. The man included the risen one to mister he was unconscious.
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Missus Batty, I'll get an ambulance. I assure you where the phone
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is. Yeah, after you tell me about the jewels, huh the Rube's
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Missus Beady, you'll lack of surprise about them being hidden the fireplace. I
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mean, how come? Well I phoned those six months ago when I bought
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this house from Catherine Study to sit in Los Angeles. By the way,
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mister Mono, how did you move that man? Was good day fireplace,
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honey. He went to the wrong side. It was worth the shot in
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my dog just phone over there. You know, I noticed the loose bits
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on the right hand side of the fireplace the moment I walked in. Did
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you see I built this house with my own hand. Really, why'd you
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move it up here? Honey? Because my husband and I spent our honeymoon
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in this house. We found our happiness year it stan popular. You also
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found the rubies and sent them back to Catherine Seiders. Yes, Wit,
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happy still here, mister, Happy new year, Jacqueline. By the time
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I said goodbye to Jacqueline and walked outside, the first son nineteen fifty was
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blinting across the waters. Today, nineteen fifty another chance for Molow and for
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the world. I hope we both do better with us this year. The
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Adventures of Philip Marlowe Bringing You Raymond Chandler's most famous character, Star Gerald Moore,
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are produced and directed by Norman McDonald and are written for radio by Robert
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Mitchell and gene Leavitt feature in the cast where Lois Corbett, Howard mcneer,
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Georgia Ellis, John Dayner, and Parley Bear. Detective Lieutenant Matthews is played
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by Larry Dobkin. The special music is composed and conducted by Richard rant Be
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shuring me with us again next week when Philip Marlowe says, this time each
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carried a torch and each was burned by it. The heel, the hero
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worshiper, and the hard bitten blonde, and all because of a woman already
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two days dead. Welcome back. I absolutely love the setup for this story.
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The missing house definitely draws you in, and then, of course it
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still managed to conclude the story with that little bit of hopeful philosophical note.
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And in the midst of this whole story of reading lies we get the lovely
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little nugget about Jacqueline and her husband. The one thing I will say about
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this story is that Marlowe was playing it a little too cute with the police.
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Whether he would do that or not, I guess as a matter of
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debate, but it's certainly not a very wise. Also, I will say
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that I did notice a party bear before the credits. Usually I, for
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some reason overlook his voice, but this one I recognized because his voice sounded
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just like it does in the Harold Perry Show, which I listened to all
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the way through, And you do see just the talent that Norm MacDonald continued
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to bring to the show with just incredible guest performances. All right, well,
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now we turn to some listener comments and feedback. Laurie said regarding episode
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fifteen sixty five Kid on the Corner, this was kind of a sad one,
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Wasn't it too bad for the kid? And another comment says, in
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my opinion, Philip Marlowe is the best war detective of all time, and
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there's definitely a good argument for that. Can we have a comment from Wes
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who says, a local TV station here in Dallas is playing the old black
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and white episodes of The Lone Ranger every morning. It still surprises me to
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turn it on and hear the show narrated by Philip Marlowe. Gerald Moore really
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was everywhere in the sixties. And that's definitely the case with not only Gerald
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Moore, but with a lot of very professional, talented character actors who did
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voice work, people like Paul Freese, Mail Blank, so many others.
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You just listen to them working you don't even realize it, but they played
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such a key part in creating the atmosphere and the style of so much great
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entertainment, even if they weren't center stage. Well, that will do it
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for today. We'll be back tomorrow with Nick, and then join us again
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next Wednesday for another episode of the Adventures of Philip Marlow. In the meantime,
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send your comments to Box thirteen at Great Detectives dot net, follow us
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Adam Graham signing off.