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Philip Marlowe: The Green Flame (EP1373) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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Well, now it's calm for us to take a listen to an episode
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of the Adventures of Philip Marlowe. The program original larity March twenty six,
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nineteen forty nine, and the title was The Green Flame. When it started,
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it was simple, just the loss suit for damages. But before it
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was over it was far from simple, and the damages were murder all because
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of a redheaded woman, a ghost writer with ambition, and a match that
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burned with a bright green flame. From the pen of Raymond Chandler, I'm
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standing author of crime fiction comes his most famous character as Cbas presents The Adventures
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of Philip Barlowe. Now with Gerald Moore starred as Philip Marlowe, we bring
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you tonight's exciting story, The Green Flame. It had been the kind of
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early start, late finish, crowded in between day that had made breakfast,
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coffee, lunch, a hand sandwich on the run, and dinner nothing.
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So by the time it finally ended, it was pushing nine o'clock and I
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was both a little tired and a lot hungry, all of which made the
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feast I could imagine spread out in front of me over an emerald green table
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flog something better than good enough to eat, blue pointe oysters on a half
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shell of caesar salad, veal scallopiniat up with mushrooms the size of silver dollars.
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Oh oh, I was ready for it. Yes, yes, well,
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the oysters once again became a blue ash trade. The scallopean notebook,
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a green cloth underneath all my desk blotter. Hello Marlow speaking Tony Whitmaar Mallow,
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Have you heard me? I have, I've also heard you own half
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a dozen screen magazines, a local radio station, and a daily published for
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the motion picture industry called the Hollywood Trades that covering not quite today. I
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acquired something else, a libel suit for one hundred thousand were just slapped against
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the Trades by a half been actor named Bradford Colby, which mollow is the
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reason I'm calling you, Uh, drop whatever you're doing, boying, get
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over here to the Whitma Building. Whitmo Building. We're on El Centro near
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Gawa and closed tomorrow Sunday. The edition figures when the night walksman lets you
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in turn left, keep walking till you get to an office number one sixteen.
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You got that, yeah, one sixteen. But if you don't mind,
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miss Whitmer, I'd like to do something I'd like to eat. First,
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make a coffee and ham sandwich at the outside and get a coffee.
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Looks I'm stopping. Hello. How much do you get a day twenty five
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and expenses? Why? I'm willing to pay one hundred and twenty five and
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you keep track of the expenses. Now what do you say, boy boy
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says, coffee in a ham sandwich and leave him stuffed. Good by,
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Miss whitmles, sit down over here, and if you smoke, the guys
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don't. I can't stand them. Drink no thanks, mallow our ay.
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One gossip calumnist Stanley McGrath had this to say in today's edition of the Trade.
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The sometimes actor Bradford Colbey won't call it quits. When refused a part
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by an independent producer who's shot on funds, Colby offered to hawk all and
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come up with twenty thousand if the producer would change his mind. The producer
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wouldn't end a quote and beginning of noise from Colby. Yes, the clamor
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that we can only silence by proving that McGrath what he said is true,
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which shouldn't be impossible because Max was a thorough man and never heard of the
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word rooms. Wait a minute, Wait a minute, what do you mean?
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Was a thorough man? He died of a stroke Marlow at five this
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morning, en route to the hospital, age sixty one. His column,
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as usual, arrived here yesterday afternoon. In the mail. He always wrote
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from his home, which is a junk filled cracker box upon North Bronton and
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now you're being sued by Colby for damages. Huh. The late mister McGrath
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isn't around approve what he said is true. Catch and being very unpopular with
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producers by myself these past thirty years, Mallow, I have no chance of
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any help from the one who actually turned Colby down for that part, whoever
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he is, all of which makes my job what precisely this fine Max source
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of information. Come in, Larry, Larry North Marlow my editor and anybody's
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Napoleon Larry meet mister Marlow. How do you do? How do you don't
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he I've just found out that old Max only lakeman, a quid duck named
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Lyndard Phipps left town sometime yesterday was San Diego, may or may not be
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back by Now where's malno gonna stack? Well? Id ol Max plays Slarry
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and I have already checked them allow eight three twelve not front and maybe you'll
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grab onto something that we overlooked. Here's the key. Thanks Mac lived alone,
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don't get wrapped up in his notes that gibberish. And remember my lawyers
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are sure that we lose this case if we can through what Max said was
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the truth. Well, yeah, as soon as you get a lead,
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and if I'm out, Larry'll be in his office next door, and Mallow
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don't waste any time. There's a lot at Steak Boy. What Dodye Whitmard
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labeled the cracker Box turned out to be a five room, slightly beat down,
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almost square house, set back some fifty carelessly landscaped feet from a high
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stuck a wall that said the late mister McGrath had lived alone and liked it.
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When I edited and went to his study, where I turned on a
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desk lamp, I saw what my client had meant by junk. There were
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the odds and ends that a man collects in a lifetime on his desk autonished
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Loving Cup for Excellence in Reporting, dated nineteen twenty seven. Beyond that on
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the mantelind autograph picture of Teddy Roosevella. Next to it a paperweight from Niagara
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Falls. And then then a nightem I hadn't expected. In the shadowed corner
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of the room, there was somebody else, a tall, gaunt somebody else
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wearing horn rim glasses and papers sticking out of every pocket. It was slowly
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an inch at a time backing off me into the circle of light in which
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I stood. I took one casual step towards the desk and then get your
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off. Why take a start running with the line at trips? How do
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you know I'm psychic? I also know you just got back from San Diego,
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and I don't know is what you're doing here? Now come on talk,
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Let don't leave me alone. I'll talk. Got nothing to hide from
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the right party. Who are you, Philip Marlow, private detective was working
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for Doty with my lady. Impatient to know which producer McGrath was talking about
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in that article on Colby this morning. How do I qualify? Yes,
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yes, yes, of course we're both after the same piece of information,
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mister Morrow. Oh I want to find that answer to and then whispered into
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doughies just to save her one hundred thousand bucks, No, just to get
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a chance to film a graf's shoes and don't glass because I've been ghosting that
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column for the past month now. Didn't my grass right this morning's column himself?
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No he didn't. I did, But the piece on cold he was
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not mine. Mc grath must have added that himself. The fool you don't
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sound like you're happy in your work, Phipps, I wasked, Mac was
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up tired. I put up with him because he promised sooner or later let
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Dody Hutmar know that I was doing his work. Don't be too bit oft,
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Phipps. Make couldn't have known exactly when he was going to die.
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But to get back to the subject, have you any idea where we can
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get a hold of something real to go on? Yes, yes I do.
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Out there in the living room, follow me, Marlow if you can
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in the door. I'm not there. By the time I got to my
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feet, Phipps was gone. I found another lamp and the dog turned it
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on and started for the telephone. But then I stopped. The center of
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the floor, where it must have fallen when the leg man made his wild
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break, was a wrinkled piece of paper, and I picked it up and
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turned it over. I was suddenly glad that mister Phips had gotten away,
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because in his hurry to leave, he ha dropped his check off list for
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Operation Bradford Colby. There were a half a dozen producers crossed off above the
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notation max Place. But below that, and not yet discounted, was a
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name I'd never heard before Sherry Sheldon. At that I called Dody Whitman,
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gave her a quick rundown on what had happened with Phips, and then tossed
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the name Sherry Sheldon in. She talked it over with Larry North before she
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answered, but when she did, I knew that finally we were all getting
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someplace. Oh, oh, this is good. Larry tells me that Sherry
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Sheldon is the ex Missus Bradford Covid. Oh better than that. A redhead
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was temperament to match that kind of tough m any idea where this item lives?
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Yes, a bungalow on sharrym Oyer. Larry says it's a quiet,
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dead end street. But not to let that throw you, because from what
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he's heard about the lady herself, she's very much alive. You'll play a
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smart boy, You probably is a big time now. Good luck of prolongs
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the bungalow on Cherym mo Oya. So when I pulled up and parked away
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from number fifty eight hundred, I was still wondering exactly what play it smart
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boy meant. And the lady in question was known far and wide as a
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shock of red hair. Capping so much dynamite. But a minute later,
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as I walked toward the house, I labeled that thought introspection, dismissed it,
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and concentrated instead on an acre of tweed jacket that was unfolding out of
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a long honeycolored sedan parked a little ahead of me. When it straightened up
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to something over six and a half feet, slammed his car door shut and
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stumped inch thick soled brogannes Off and a king sized up. I knew that
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this was an angry man, and in the next second I knew that it
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and the thespian Bradford Colby were one and the same. When Colby got the
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Sherry's doorbell and jad added impatiently for attention, I ducked below a hedge nearby.
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The door opened and then slam shut again. I left the hedge in
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favor of an on the bias palm tree. The bowed toward my lady's chamber,
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where I could both see and hear what had to be an exciting reunion.
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That you knew something, it couldn't fail to intrigue me on this of
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all days. So now that I'm here, start intriguing Sherry does all right,
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how's this for a starter? I want to the penny exactly one half
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of the money you are going to get from Doddy Witmark. Oh, Sherry,
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how now, why in the name of the great American dollar do you
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think I'd give you so much as a sly glance at that delightful little fun
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For two reasons. The first, I deserve it from putting up with both
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you and You're abominable. Can see for exactly one year, Darling. Go
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on keep laughing, mister Caleb. They keep laughing while I like my cigarette
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was one of these matches, these cute ones that burn with a green flame.
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Where did you get those? Aha? In a little known lodge out
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beyond malib we call the green flame. Don't you remember, Darling? I
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ran into you there one day last week when you were having lunch with a
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mysterious stranger whom you tried to keep me from seeing, you nasty little sneak,
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Sherry, when you were so engrossed in keeping yourself between me and your
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guest that you left the souvenir book of matches at the bar after you great
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lit my cigarette for me. What of it? They give those matches out
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by the foul that they do. But Bread, dear, they all don't
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have numbers pentled on the inside. Numbers. Ah, what numbers are talking
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about? Now? Who's being dron What are you getting at, Sherry?
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This? I had a call a minute before I got in touch with you
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from a delightful gentleman who's very interested in what I'm getting at. So here,
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take your stupid book of matches and get out. No, I don't
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need them anymore. No, wait, Sherry, not Bread. I am
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going to have exactly one half of that easy money that's coming your way.
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And after the gentlemen I mentioned and I get together, I may want more,
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but don't say anything. You'll be sorry for later on. Just get
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out now, don't come back until I send for you, dear Bread.
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It was the better part of a minute before Kobe the act to quit running
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the gamut of theatrical expressions index town, they hate and Kolbe the man stop
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biting down hard on his lower lip, And without another word, he slammed
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out of his apartment, ran to his car and start off. He waited
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long enough for steam in the room to condense, and then I walked to
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the front door and rang the bell delicately, the way I imagined a delightful
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gentleman like mister Leonard Phipps. Mike, Yes, can I help you?
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I think so, Micheldon. It's only a matter of a simple question.
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Did you give that Brad Colby's story to McGrath yesterday? Wait a minute,
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who are you why? Leonard Phipps? Of course I talked to you on
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the phone, remember, oh oh yeah, it was only half an hour
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ago, mister Phipps. And yet in those thirteen minutes, it's surprising how
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your voice has gone from keena right down to bass. Good night, Not
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so fast, baby, it's hot on my shoe. Shine all right,
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come in, I'll tell you what you want to know. I did give
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that story to McGrath. I did it for revenge. I hate cold and
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when your revenge boomerang and the ex came out one hundred thousand ahead of you,
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decided to cut back in. Is that it? Yeah, minute,
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you've been listening. How else would you know all this about Brad and me?
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Same way? I know you're a liar about giving mc grath that story.
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You're in, honey, is strictly something different, like a book of
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matches that burn with a green flame and accidental meeting at the lodge of the
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same name. Let's take it from there. Yes, why don't you right
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outside? We're both you and it fall on. Good night, mister Marlow,
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Marlow, Philip Marlow, Sherry, But tell me why the hurry anxious
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to party? You knows before mister Phips arrived. Frankly, Philip, I'm
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anxious to do just about anything that doesn't involve talking. Come on a curb
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and that scream sounded pretty good, pretty bad? Yes, yeah, that
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can mean only one thing to you, baby, to me, why who
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is it? You're late day? Sherry one, mister Leonard Phipps in just
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a moment, the second act of the Adventures of Philip Marlowe. But first
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on a special program One Great Hour Later tonight on CBS, President Harry S.
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Truman will be joined by Gregory Peck, Ila Loipino, and Quentin Reynolds
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to tell the story of what American religious groups are doing to bring relief to
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the world's war stricken people. Be sure to hear One Great Hour tonight at
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ten o'clock Eastern Standard Time over most of these same CBS Network stations. Now
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with our star Gerald Moore. We return to the second act the Philip Marlowe
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and Tonight's story The Green Flame, as the Redhead Sophisticate Knights teared down at
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what seconds ago had been Leonard Fipps, the sound of a powerful car that
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had slammed the life out of him, word into silence. Far down the
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streets. All that was left of standing the grass over ambitious leg Man was
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a twisted, broken scarecrow sprawl over the curve and half up on the sidewalk.
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It wasn't pretty, and the sight of it cracked Sherry's self assurance like
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a rock through a window pane. When she stopped pressing the knuckles at one
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hand against her mouth and looked at me. She was scared clear through this
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horrible thing. It was an accident, wasn't. Oh sure sure? But
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his accidental was if they'd use a sledgehammer on him. Oh yes, I
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only wish it was an accident because you're next in line and you know it.
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Remember he was on his way to see you when this happened to him.
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I mean, it's a high priced game, baby, and they're playing
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for keeps, so you better level with me and fast. What's so important
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about those green matches. You're a liar. You're gonna wind up looking like
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phips here before the sun comes up. It's called me because he thought I
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might have given the Grass that story I'm Bread, but I didn't. And
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why was Pip still interested? Why want to talk to you? Because I
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told him I'd seen Bred with someone at the Green Flame last weekend, and
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the Bread was very upset when he found me there. All right, who
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is he with? I don't know. That's not the impression you gave your
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ex husband, beautiful. I was swinging in the dark, Marlowe. Five
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people at the Green Flame at the same time. I couldn't tell which one
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had been with Bread, but I know them if I saw them again,
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and Tips thought that together we could figure out who it was. Go on,
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what about the numbers in that book of green matches? What were they?
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Eight one, one, eight eleven? What does that fit a hotel
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room? I don't know that is you mean it was just another swing in
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the dark. Yes, but it connected, Marlowe. It's scared him what
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I mentioned it, so it must be important. Yeah, take another look
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at Fips, baby, see how important it is. And I'll try again,
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real hard. Remember what eight eleven means, Matola, I just don't
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know. Please believe me. Maybe it just thick, Maybe you got too
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much nerve. But I'll tell you one thing, Sherry, I wouldn't be
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in your spot for ten times one hundred grand because I don't think you're going
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to live until morning. Well I didn't think that, perhapn go this far?
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What what I've told you is to do that? But I wait a
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minute, shut up, somebody's coming. It might be Bradford. Now you
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get out of here. I don't have my cars. Take mine that coop.
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Here are the keys. Go down to the office of the Hollywood Trades.
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He won't show his face around there. Find Larry North of Dody.
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All right, come on, will you beat it? I stepped into the
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shadows of the trees that bought at the walk and waited. I heard Sherry
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slam the door on my car and burn five bucks worth of rubber off my
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new fist tires getting away. Second lay to the visitor I was expecting showed
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up, But it wasn't Bred Cold. It was Larry North. He ran
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three bustling steps out into the street and watched my coop scoot out of sight.
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And then he spotted the corpse. His mouth fell open, and he
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tiptoed slowly toward it, like he was afraid he might wake it up.
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And I moved out into the light. He saw me and turned tomorrow.
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Do you know about this? Who is it? Slended? Phips Hips?
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A grass league man? Yeah, drive it in so much as look back,
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stinking break tips in a h rub accident at a time like this.
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Look, you jump to your conclusions and I'll jump to mine. Eh,
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what do you mean? Hips? Knew something fishy about that atam in mcgrat's
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column, and Sherry Sheldon knew something fishy about Colby. So from where I
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stand, Kobe couldn't afford to let him get together, no accident. That's
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a daring observation, Marlow. For one hundred thousand bucks, I know plenty
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of guys that do a thing like this every day in the week. You
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and buy a lot of distance with that kind of money. Hey, you're
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right, of course, what exactly does the Sheldon girl know? Did you
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find out only partly? Bradford's mixed up with someone else on this deal?
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Sherry doesn't know who. But if we can get the other tie and she'll
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be able to identify that person on site. Did she? Did she have
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anything else? Number eight eleven in a book of matches? Mean anything?
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Hey, come on, nor quit staring at him. You making yourself sick.
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Let's get out of here. Yes, I guess I better. Bradford
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Colby must be out of his mind. Maybe I'll let you know. I'm
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going to drop in on him now before the cops do, and check my
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theory over with him. Where does he live? On Willcox a bill in
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the Midcliffe Gardens? Mono, I'm going in and talk to Sherry. Maybe
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I can find out who Kobe's She's not here. I sent it down to
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the paper in my car to stay with you, Adoty until things. Doty
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isn't there. She would off for some reason right after you called. There's
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no one there now but the night watchman. Oh great, now, look
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drop me off at Kobe's place, and you get down there and find Sherry.
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She's worth a hundred thousand bucks, the Doty whitma, but only if
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she lives. Let's go. While the natty little Napoleon in elevator scurried off
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to fetch his car, I ran inside put a fast call through to the
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police and submitted the shortest report on record of a hit and run death.
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By the time I got back, North was waiting at the curb with the
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door open. I piled in beside him in ten minutes later, we glided
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to a stealthy stop on Wilcox, the ivycovered archway over the Midcliffe Garden gates.
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Meat slices of amber light poured through a big Venetian blind on the window
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of a villa at the rear of the court. The s North identified as
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Koby's, and the same breath reminded me that the actor was a strapping six
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six and a desperate man. He urged me to be careful, and I
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urged him to hurry, And as he left, I walked off the big
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window and saw Breadford inside, slump deep in the lap of a Swede easy
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chair doing a solo with a bottle of Paul my Son champagne, looking about
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it as desperate as a sleepy Saint Banana. I walked around to the front
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door, decided to try this shock treatment to blast him out of his glasnitude.
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Yes, what do you want? Get inside? Take your hands off
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me. You might have gotten away with that Clupp up suit for damages Coldby,
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But you're not gonna get away with murder. You kill Leonard Phips,
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didn't you? What are you raving about? Who's Leonard Phipps? And who
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are you? Name's Marlowe And I'll tell you something Coldby the only reason I'm
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not busy knocking your head off at this minute is because I want to hear
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a whole story right from the top. First, who wrote that item in
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McGrath's column? Point you, mad McGrath wrote it himself. A venomous little
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creature. He and Doughty whit me use that to damage my reputation and how
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they're going to pay? Stop it? Not your reputation into a cocked head
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every time you step in front of a camera. Well, your damage suits
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are phonny and you know it. Where's that book of matches with the famous
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eight eleven inside eight Lady Latin? Hm oh oh yes, those that burn
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with a green flame you've been talking with my imagine to the ex wife.
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I see she's burning with quite a green flame herself, isn't she? How
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that woman hates to see me? Get it? Never mind? Where is
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it? If you'll allow me? Marlo I'll just answer this Bradford Colby speaking.
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I see, yes, I heard. That's right. I'll do my
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best, Darling, at least ten goodbye, Helen, just an old friend,
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Marlow. You can let your eyebrow down again. Helen. You know
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you always were a lousy actor. I'm getting a little sick of you,
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Colby, and I've got a hunch I'm do for quite a star, So
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start talking. Where's that book of matches? Easy? Take it easy?
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Here it is, let's see it. Of course here. Take a good
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look. Now what character? I'd be a chin in trouble and you make
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way lousy snoop hole? That does it? Tough guy, you're not leaving,
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Molly, You're staying right here. And just to make sure I don't
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call me Saka, should have loosen your corset. I waded through the chance
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of glaze ceramics to Kobe had smashed on my head and worked hard. The
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whole bank of the wave of darts kept rising up under me until I made
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it to the kitchen. But I splashed a few quarts of cold water on
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my face, and then I went back. Kolbe was still holding down the
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hooked rug he landed on in the book of matches that had started the argument
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was on the floor beside him. I picked it up and opened it.
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The number was there inside, written in blue wax pencil. But I thought
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I had made a mistake, until I realized that maybe Sherry Sheldon made the
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mistake, and that idea hit me. It brought another one along, and
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I remember that Colby had received daughters by phone that delay me, and I
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knew i'd better hang onto my head. Didn't move but fast. I hulled
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him over and found the keys to his car. Was halfway out the door.
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When he came to I stopped. Come back. You can't leave here.
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My exit, not yours, hand borne, good night. It took
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all of five minutes to get from Wilcox to our central and Kobe's long honeycolored
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span and a hunch, I drove down the alley to the back door of
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the Whitman building. A hunch paid off because I had stopped and turned on
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the parking lights when the door opened and I saw exactly what I'd expected.
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The watchman was on the floor, out cold, and the little Napoleon in
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elevated shoes were staging a big exodus for his arms. Full of a very
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limp redhead named Sherry Sheldon. As soon as he saw the honeycolored car,
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he started talking, idiot, I told you to stay hold to do it.
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No, she's only unconscious. There wasn't time. We'd have to finish
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it someplace house. Put her in the backseat right now, let's get out,
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Marble. Don't move, little man. I'm too tired for any more
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trouble. I'll shoot first. So you're the boy on the inside with all
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the brains. Huh. You cook this whole thing up with Colby. He
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gets libel and sues Dordy Whitman for damages, and then you two split the
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settlement between you. Correct me if I'm wrong. Now, if you got
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your chance when McGrath died after turning in his copy, all you had to
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do is write that one libel asside him included McGrath's column, and nobody could
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ever explain where the story had come back. Stupid fool Bradford. I could
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never trust him to do anything right. Is that why you killed Phipps?
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Yes, Brad, Colby had held on to you for another five minutes,
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I would have had time to get out of here, Yes and tell Cherry,
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are you all right? No? Y, Well, he and Brad
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are going Marlow, I'd never get another chance to even the score. Oh,
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baby, you handle a spiked heel like Babe Ruth handled a bat.
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He's out. Yeah, but Phil, you should see where what he hit
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me with. Oh, come on, beautiful, it's time to turn out
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the lights. Get in touch with Doughty and call the law. Let's go,
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well, let's go, Yes, thank you, good night, good
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night. I'm glad those cops and the cigars are gone. Here kids,
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help yourself. You both look like you needed this. You can say again,
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oh I need it. Marlow, you could have slid me through the
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whole in the life saver when you said my own editor, Lara and off
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was it gave me a Joe too, Doti. Yeah, me the hard
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way. But Phila, I am sorry about that mistake I made. I
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could have saved us some trouble. What mistake is this wall? To see?
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Honey? We knew that whoever was working with Kobe had written down a
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number for him in a book of matches. Sherry here thought it was eight
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eleven. When I saw it, it was upside down from that, so
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it came out one eighteen one eighteen. Why that's Larry's office number and phone
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extension check. Yours is one sixteen and his was right next door. I
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remember, so when eighteen? Was it? That? Couple with the fact
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that it was written in blue pencil, which is standard equipment for all editors,
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gave me the tip? Honest, now, sil did you figure that
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out? Or was that? Luck? Well, it's a trade secret.
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You know something I missed dinner to night? You know I'm starving. Well,
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I know a wonderful place. They have matches like this, see it
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burns with a green flame. Will you join us, Dodi? Yes,
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yes, we would love to have you. You'd rather have hooping colls.
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Go on, you get out of here and good night, good night Doty
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all end. It will be from here on in. I guarantee it.
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A wonderful supper was waiting for us at the Green Flame restaurant. It was
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all arranged by a call from Dodie, and it waited until it got cold
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because we didn't show up to eat it. There was something about the moonlight
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glinting on the ocean, a certain stillness in the morning air that made food
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seem somehow unimportant. So when I finally dropped Sherry off at her place on
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Chery Moyer went home to my Apopa, not Franklin. It was either very
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late or very early, depending on the viewpoint. There was just one lonely
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sardine and a cold baked potato and the refrigerator. So I ate and I
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sat down on my bed to light my last cigarette. That wasn't disappointed when
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the match fled into an ordinary yellow flame. Good Night, sim Happy Marlow.
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Well, quite an end for one of the conspirator's ex wife, particularly since
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she was willing to join in the conspiracy against the magazine publisher in exchange for
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a cut. She wouldn't have brought forward her evidence. But I guess it's
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in Marlowe's contract that no matter what happens, he has to have at least
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two other people with which he can explain how he solved the mystery at the
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end of the case. And I guess to be out of the lawsuit just
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happy enough. Beyond the imparts and the parts of a little repetitive eye,
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did find this a pretty just a pretty enjoyable episode. It may not have
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