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Philip Marlowe: The Long Rope (EP1343) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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now it's time for today's episode of the Adventures of Philip Morlow. The Long
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Rope. It was a man with a bad hut, a telephone number scribble,
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and a cash register receipt and the cups on the other side of town.
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But I couldn't see the connection between them until I realized that they were
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all tied together by the same long rope. Worth thirty thousand dollars from the
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pen of Raymond Chandler, outstanding author of crime fiction, comes his most famous
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character as CBS presents The Adventures of Philip Morlow and now with Gerald Moore starred
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as Philip Marlowe. We bring you tonight's exciting story, The Long Rope.
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I'd finally wound up a cur case in which I'd been kicked around, disillusioned
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and short changed. And in my book, a routine like that calls for
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relaxation. So I'd spent the morning sleeping, in the afternoon in a Turkish
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bath, being worked over on the table by Nick Tagalakas, a non talking
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messur who untied knots and more muscles than I thought I had. He was
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trying to tear loose my achilles tendon. When the phone rang, it was
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for me. Nick wouldn't let me up, so I took it lying down.
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Yeah, marlow speaking, my name is, shouldn't Evanita, mister Marlowe.
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I've tried all afternoon to reach you. Oh Nick, what can I
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do for you? Mister Vanette. I've already made your reservation with American Airlines.
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You're leaving on the ten o'clock plane tonight, and you're taking with you
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or shut up pearls for a certain buyer in Chicago. Wait a minute,
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mister Vannetta, Maybe I can, oh maybe, marlow I've checked early on
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you and find you entirely qualified, which is important because the pearls are perfectly
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matched set in a rope value that about thirty thousand dollars. The buyer wants
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them, and I made up my mind just this morning to sell. The
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proceeds will go to my niece. Lucky girl. Indeed she is, particularly
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since I have no respect for her as a woman. She presumes to be
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a sculptress of all things, but she's lonely there. I'm selling the pearl
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simply because I know she would and I can get more for him. Yeah,
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ooh, hey, Nick, wait a minute, while the hurry,
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mister Vannette. First, the buyer is leaving Chicago tomorrow. Second, my
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heart may fail me at any moment. That's a hurry, mister Marlall I
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see. Well, I'll take the job conditionally. But suppose I come out
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and talk with you. Telephones are deceptive. Hey, well, come to
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seventy two forty one atoms just below Western. I'll expect you in an hour.
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That's it. Shot. Side door will be open, so let yourself
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in. Sounds like you're alone out there. I am. I just fired
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my nurse, A misdrew and a stupid a woman as the earth whatever hurts
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back were I shouldn't get excited about it. I've engaged in new one.
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Do here at five point thirty. But who will, no doubt be late?
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So as I say, Marlow, when you get here, just let
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yourself in. Goodbye bye. I'll make you better. Hurry it up.
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I got to see a man about a rope worth thirty grand Yeah, yeah,
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that's right, a rope worth thirty thousand dollars. Banetta's place on Adams
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was a big, fancy and dirty gray place. Forty years ago. It
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had been a proud, expensive house, but now it's squatted at the back
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end of a rundown yard like a bitter old man too tired to move.
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I found the side door unlocked, and one in the hallway was dusky and
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had the odor of moldy wool. I called Vanetta's name, but got no
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answer, so I poked on him until I heard the snapping of an open
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fire. It came from the library. A big chair was drawn up in
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front of the fireplace, and there Vanetta sat, his chin sunk deep in
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his chest and his eyes closed. I coughed, but he didn't hear me,
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so I stepped close and shook him gently by the shoulder. All it
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took was a gentle shake. He sagged forward and poured out of the chair
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like stiff syrup. Mister Vanetta was dead. I started for the phone to
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report the body, but then I heard gravel crunch in the driveway. Someone
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else was coming in that side door, so I stepped out into the hall
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and waited. Mister Vannetta, it's oh, who are you, Philip Mallow?
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Who are you? Steve Temple? I'm mister Vanetta's business agent. You're
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on business now, Yes, I am. It's all the same to you.
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I came to see mister Vanetta regarding some pearls, so if you're excuse
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him. Yeah, the pearls can wait. Their own is dead, so
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it final. He happened. You're taking the news very well, Temple.
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I've been expecting it every day for five years. You found him, I
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suppose, m hm. We had an appointment at six. He wanted me
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to fly his pearls to Chicago. Hey, what are you staring at him?
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Ahry, there's a bottle of medicine here? What about it? For
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years, he's kept this stuff beside him in case of an attack. Yet
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when he actually needed it, it was over here on the sideboard, out
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of his reach. Ironic, isn't it very He fired miss drew his old
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nurse today and didn't expect the new until five point thirty? Said he happen
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to know her name? No one? You mean he's engaged a new nurse.
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That's right, she's now late already. Yeah, well for once that
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doesn't matter to mister Vanetta. Say Temple, are you acquainted with his niece
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Vivian Russell. Of course, she's a sculptress. There's a studio out on
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Fountain near Bronson. I believe she was to get the proceeds from the pearls.
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I assume that nothing was ever said. She's his only heir. Why
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would those pearls be now? He kept them in the wall safe behind that
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picture there, consistently against my advice. Yeah, sure, opens with a
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key. What would that be? And he carried it with him on he's
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watch chain. Why what are you going to do and take a look at
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the pearls and then have him impounded? Yeah, this must be the key.
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Let's open it up. He's there. That velvet case as big as
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an overnight bag. Must be some string of beads. It is Marlowe.
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He here, let me open it there right, it's nothing but tissie paper.
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Yeah, it's not too surprising. While Temple called the police and tried
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to keep the details straight on a natural death and an unnatural theft, I
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went over the room again with a new viewpoint. All it turned up without
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an easy explanation, was one a cash register receipt for a dollar thirty four
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with the phone number Republic two eight oh nine penciled on the back, and
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to the peculiar position of mister Vannetta's medicine bottle, which Temple had already noticed.
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I dropped the receipt in my pocket and told Temple to wait for the
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law. He gave me his home address and phone numb and I promised to
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check in with him later and left. The first stop was a phone booth,
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where I dug into the nurses registries and hit pay dirt on the fourth
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call Miss Drew. Yes, we have a Miss Drew. Is she the
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one to work for mister Sidney Vnetta? But it was fired this afternoon,
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that's his opinion, actually, Miss Drew, quick, all right, have
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it your way. Where can I get in touch with her. She's right
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here where she's been since three o'clock this afternoon. What is the nature of
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your business, sir? Never mind, you've already answered my question. But
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look, mister Vannetta hired another nurse to replace Miss Drew. Is the new
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girl one of yours? Absolutely not, Mister Vannetta will never get another nurse
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from this registry or from any other that I know of. It's all right.
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He's utterly impossible to please in any way, and we're through trying.
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Goodbye. Miss Drew was in the clear. Vnetta began to focus as a
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pretty odd Johnny. But I was still trying to figure why the new nurse
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hadn't shown up. When I reached for a cigarette and brought out the cash
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Rogers to receipt with the phone number on the back, so I tried it
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Republic two eight oh nine. It rang, but nothing happened. I got
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in my car then and drove up the Hollywood and Now Fountain the Bronson where
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the only Vanetta Air, Miss Vivian Russell, had a studio. It was
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a converted double garage with a lot of north windows, so her new close
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to the ground. Hudson sat outside in the driveway, the adjoining four room
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apartment looked cozy enough if you liked wading through chunks of marble and eating off
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of last week's newspaper. Yeah, I was braced for a dowdy Amazon with
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broken fingernails as I rang the bell. That's why the dainty one hundred and
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eighteen pounds of taboo scent it Bland, who was clad in ten chartreuse yards
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of whispering silk cut like lounging pajamas, caught me as flat footed as a
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duck when she opened the door. Hi, did you want something? Eh?
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Yes, yeah, My name is Marlow. I'd like to speak to
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miss Vivian Russell. You are so go ahead and enjoy yourself, Marla,
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May I come and sign? I have some bad news, Miss Russell?
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Oh, oh sure, come on in now. Shall I sit down or
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just hang on to something suit yourself. Your uncle, mister Vannetta died this
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afternoon. Oh, his heart finally gave up to it. Yeah, but
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you shouldn't go all the pieces like that, Vivian. No way. He
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meant nothing to me, but I'm glad his suffering is over. The pearls
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are missing too well. Really what happened to them? They was stolen?
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And don't tell me that means nothing to you because you're getting the money thirty
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thousand bucks worth? What Uncle Sidney intended to give me the money from those
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pearls? How do you know that? I'm a private detective. He told
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me he was my client. Oh then you're out of a job. So
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how would you like to work for me? Marlo? Serious? Now I
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want those pearls back, you know, for twenty five a day in expenses.
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It's a deal. Now you tell me something. Who did your uncle
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hire today to replace miss Drew the nurse? Why? I didn't even know
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Miss Drew had been fired? How did you know she didn't quit with Uncle
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Sidney? Try me again, Republic two eight h nine. That doesn't mean
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a thing, you know, Marlow, you've got an awfully good head.
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Are you speaking as a sculptress or just an ordinary chislow? And what is
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that crack supposed to mean? You didn't know you were getting the money legally
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you might have taken the pros yourself. Oh stop it, Marlow, Okay,
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client, Well I'll run along. I've got work to do, all
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right, But don't forget that all work and no play makes for a dull
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companion. Yes, and it also makes twenty five bucks a day. I'll
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be seeing you all the way down Sunset to Vine Street. I kept telling
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myself a bucks a buck regardless, but the idea that I'd been grabbed at
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stayed with me. Lavian and Russell had plenty of motive. Is a dry
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Land pearl diver, and if that's true, she'd need a patsy just to
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keep her abreast of the situation. I turned north on Vine and twisted up
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Beach would drive the two thousand and number Steve Temple had given me. He
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had had two hours of playing twenty questions policeman style, and I figured it
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was time to check his score. Also, Temple was the man to fill
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in a few blanks and my new client for me. His place was dark,
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but I got out anyway and started up the walk to his door.
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I'd gone about a dozen steps into a tunnel of overhanging shrubs when I heard
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it, hey you. I turned as a man stepped out on the walk
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and came toward me slowly. He was tall, wiry, with a thin,
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arrogant face that sneered out from under an expanse of forehead big enough for
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three sets of eyebrows, all shaggy. We're gonna have a talk, mister.
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Hey, you're not Temple. Now, we both know that I'm a
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friend of his. What do you want with Temple. We've got a message
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for him, but it's personal. Oh from like I say, it's personal,
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mister, I'll be back later. Tell here I said I'm a friend
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of Temples. If you got a message for him, I'll see that he
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gets it. Okay, Then tell him that some of his friends are too
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blasted nose. The guy with the forehead had a great left jab and a
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pair of hurdless legs, and by the time I untangled myself from the brush
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and got out on a walk again, he was gone. I know it
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was a waste of time, but I tried Temple's dog bell twice before I
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went back to my car. Nothing made sense except that somebody who knew was
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way around its tolen a long rope of pearls, and somewhere in the city
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was a nurse who hadn't shown up on a new job. Beyond that,
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it was all question marks. I drove down to the filling station on the
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corner and went inside of the phone. I started to call police headquarters,
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but instead dropped the nickelin and dialed Republic two eight oh nine. Again just
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on a hunch, Tourny Barr speaking Ebara. I didn't die, Lui Barra,
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this is Malow. Well you got me anyway. I listen, Phill,
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I hear you're on that of another case. Yeah, if it'll help,
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be any of the car and it says definitely out of a heart attack,
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no homicide involved. Thanks so, Sennant. Hey, but look where
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are you now? And a flat on the corner of the Union of fifty
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ninth Street, Why well is that phone number there Republic to wait on nin
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That's a great piece of deduction. You just called it. Hey, Bora,
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listen, I found that number Vanette's place this afternoon. What's going on
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down there? Girl here named Betty Larson. Yeah, she's a nurse,
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right, No wrong, phil she's a corpse. Before that, she was
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a waitress, just a waitress. Somebody came to a door and killed if
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an no apparent reason whatsoever. In just a moment, we will return to
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the second act of the Adventures of Philip Marlow. But first Jack Benny will
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be along on CBS tomorrow night with one of his funniest shows ever, in
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addition to his regular hecklers Dennis Don, Phil Mary and Rochester, Claudette,
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Colbert and Vincent Price will pay a call on Jack, And with Don Wilson
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still wanting to raise and pay, and with Jack still trying to starve him
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and the talk terms, you're sure to find the situations full of the hilarity
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and fast moving fun that have made CBS's Jack Benny Show the top rating comedy
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of all Yes, remember CBS also means Catch Benny Sundays. Now, with
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our star Gerald Moore, we returned to the second act of Philip Marlowe and
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Tonight's story, The Long Rope. It was forty minutes of fixed stop and
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go traffic from the time I quit talking to we Bora until I pulled up
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near the four stories of faded Sagging tenement on the corner of Union in fifty
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ninth. But even then, the crazy question that had been weaving in and
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out of my mind like a two am drunk looking for the way to go
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home was still with me. Why was the telephone number Republic two eight oh
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nine bracketed by a couple of dead people who, as far as I coulde,
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should have had nothing to do with each other in the first place.
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Right there, for the tenth time running, I drew a complete and unabridged
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blank. But a minute later, when I climbed out of my coop and
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over the bumpers of the half dozen squad cars that were jammed into the narrow
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street like so many toyotos that a kid had forgotten about, I quit asking
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myself riddles and started looking for Detective lieutenanty Barr, a quiet man who always
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preferred fact to fancy. I found him in a cheap but clean, uniform
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crowded room on the second floor, standing a few feet away from the body
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of Betty Lawson, a girl and a bathrobe who had once been something pretty
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in her early twenties. Well Phil the car, and that says she was
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shot twice in the chest at close range. Died instantly that way she fell.
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Lieutenant there any of the door, Yeah, it looks like she'd just
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gotten home and into a robe and summoned she didn't know knocked on the door.
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Safety chain was still on when we got here, and the windows leading
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no place. Those chains led a door open just wide enough for the barrel
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of a gun, is that it? Yeah? But how does all this
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add with those missing pearls and the rest of that business over on items,
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Marlotte? Not like two and two, believe me so, Fari Bar.
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The only question is the telephone numbers. Tell me where did this Betty Lowson
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work? Well, we haven't gotten that for her yet so long. Right
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now, we only know that she was a waitress who stayed here with a
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brother who was some kind of a student. They got along pretty well together.
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She was single too, lived here since Oh wait a minute, Arney
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Barr. Oh yeah, mooney, Ryan's cafe. Eh, Ryan himself runs
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it. Okay, I'll check it personally, right hey, is that what
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she worked to borrow? Ryan's cafe? But it's funny, Phil, she
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lived here since early nineteen forty seven the moon, he tells me. She
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worked that twenty four hour hash house just as long. Yet it's way over
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on the other side of town and Western Western and Wherrybarra. The twenty three
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hundred block should be near Washington, Washington, which is only one block from
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Adams, and that starts to close the big circle. What do you mean,
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Marlo, Well, that The Vanetta Place is on Adams near Western looky
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Barra. How about letting me huddle over a cup of Ryan's coffee before the
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last steps in high I gotta hunt. You want to check Phil, Yeah,
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yeah, that in a cash register receipt? What do you say?
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But play a close fellow. Ryan probably doesn't know about this yet, unless,
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of course, he squeezed the trigger. Go buy e Bara. There
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was a half hour getting over to Ryan's cafe on Weston, which turned out
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to be a lot of steamed over plate glass spragging about a forty cent hot
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roast beef sandwich and two foot high white shark letters. And inside the moteeth
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was the same everything that mister Ryan's soul was a bargain. I slid onto
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a shaky stool opposite a cash customer who was something dirty in a torn overcoat,
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very deep in a handicap of sheet and coffee. He looked up one
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and scrinned, no teeth at me, then hollowed for Ryan in the kitchen,
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who said that he only had two hands and would be out in a
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minute. But before those sixty seconds ran out, I looked around and over
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in a corner and a collection of trash piled next to a broom, I
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saw a very welcome piece of paper. It was a brother of the cash
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register receipt that I'd found on Sidney Vnetta's desk, a one that had tied
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Betty Lawson's murder onder the rope of pearls. I turned back to the counter
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just as Ryan started toward me. He was a little bigger and a little
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better looking than the average ape, and on his right arm had the thick
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course black hair that was long enough to braid. There was a tattoo of
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a dancing girl who if Ryan ever shaved about his wrists would freeze to death.
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Coffee, Yeah, and a little information. You know Sidney Vanetta?
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Ryan at scooboard with a bump tickle over on Adams. Yeah, I know
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him. Why it's time on earth for one thing? He's dead, too
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bad. Should have taken it easier. No pearls. What'd you say?
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Nothing? Ryan? Who brought that tray after the Vanetta place this afternoon?
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I did sure it wasn't Betty Lawson. I'm positive now of the girls that
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go near that place, but that it was hard to get along with.
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Now you tell me something, what are you mister news hound collection man of
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cop getting warmer. I'm a private detective named Marlow. I'm thrilled. Good
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night before I finish my coffee, before I throw you out. I don't
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like too many questions, not even easy ones, Huh like who murdered Betty
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Larson? Bet Betty's dead? Yeah, over in a flat on fifty ninth
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Street, shot twice with the thirty two when'd you last year? Ryan?
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A couple of hours ago? When she quit for the night? Marlo the
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CoP's got any idea? Who did it? I don't know right now.
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They're looking for a boyfriend. Crazy. Betty didn't have a boy outside of
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you, outside of me, So I'm going over to straighten them out.
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Now, Mitchie, Mitchie, get out here and take over. I gotta
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move fast now. You don't Ryan, Betty's dead, remember, Yeah,
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but whoever did it? Ain't. I don't try to stop me, Mallow,
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You'll get hurt. Look, Ryan, why don't you play smarten?
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Uh? What's he use? Go on and start running. You won't get
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very far. For the first time that night, I felt sure of what
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I was saying, because even as Ryan had squared himself away to play bounce,
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the private detective. I suddenly noticed a friendly face working hard over a
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stale doughnut. At the far end of the counter was lieutenanty Barrow, and
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when Ryan tossed his apron aside, grabbed his coat and slammed out the front
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door, Ibarra turned and nodded at the short man nearby, who was idly
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picking his teeth for the end of a book of matches. At that the
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man dropped the matches into his pocket and left. Then he Borro moved over
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to me. Didn't mean to cry to hear, Phil, but after you
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left, we found out that Ryan and Betty Larson needed to see quite a
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bit of each other. Unapologize, he Borrow probably would have cost me a
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couple of front teeth if I had noticed you. Yeah, please here we
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barn. I don't fel I got to move now, you see. I
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don't think Ryan did this and went toll Mooney to follow him, but not
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to pick him up. The chancells are good that Ryan's heating straight for Betty's
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apartment. The demand of the police find out who killed his girl. So
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I'm going the other way to Ryan's house and maybe another woman, this jealous
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one. But no rope of pearls. Oh, Marloe, I don't think
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so. Good night, now night, lieutenant, Well mitsy, how long
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have you worked here? A couple of days? But I don't know nothing
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about mister Ryan. I'm a married woman. And what do you think you're
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staring at? Mister? Maybe something wonderful? Mitzy tell me, baby,
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do you always wear that kind of a uniform when you're working here? Sure?
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Ryan says this girl should look neat and clean. It helps business.
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Anything wrong with that? Oh no, no, matter of fact, it
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might be just the lead. I'm after, what are you talking about?
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And if I'm right, baby, the rest of this case will be a
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cinch. So good night and thanks, You've been a big help, sweetheart.
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When I got back to the corner of Union in fifty ninth, I
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took the stairs up to Betty Larson's flat two at a time, crossed the
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fingers on both hands, and prayed that he borrowed was right about Ryan returning
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to his girl's place. When I stepped into the room a second later,
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I knew that I'd never doubt the good lieutenant again, because next to an
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open window and staring at it, nothing was Ryan himself. Numbed and red
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eyed. I asked him one question, and although his answer was only a
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couple of words mumbled between trembling lips, it was all I had to know.
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Now everything, Betty Larson's murder, the death of Anette, the guy
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with the forehead, and the missing pearls. The whole shebang was starting to
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fall together. Oh, come on, baby, be home. Please Hello
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Mallow, Vivian, Look, honey, I want you to do me a
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favor. Get hold of Steve Temple and meet me over at cheruncle's place on
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Adams as soon as possible. I need your help. Goodbye. Well,
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what took you so long? I understood you needed our help, and in
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a hurry at that I had quite a way to come. Temple. Is
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Vivian here? Yes, Mallo, Vivian's here, And that means that we
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can stop counting noses. Now. You need our help catch someone who stole
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once and murdered twice. Murdered twice, that's right now. It's my guest.
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Who ever stole that rope of pearls? Also move Vannetta's medicine out of
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reach when his heart started skipping beats? Can you prove that? No?
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No, I can't. But it doesn't matter really, because the guilty one
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also killed a party named Lawson. When you paid for one, Vivin,
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you paid for them all. I don't follow your Marlo. Who are you
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talking about? I'm not sure, but this much is certain. Vanetta called
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me at five. When I got here at six, he was already dead
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and the pearls were gone. I figured that whoever took the marged with him
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first, which makes that person one somebody who knew Vanetta, and two responsible
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for the old man's death. Then the new nurse couldn't possibly have been the
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one who stole the pearls. No, but the new nurse could have been
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the one who overheard everything while standing right here. Haven't you been able to
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find this nurseh Not yet, But sooner or later, Honey, I'm sure
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we'll catch up to him. Yep, nice temple, I said him.
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Nurse Lawson is a male with a lot of forehead and few ethics. The
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person you killed was a sister, Betty. It was a no mold temple.
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I'll be glad that I was forced to put holes in you temple,
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the one he's dole the rope of pearl. Yeah, but this nurse loss
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and I saw him do it, got in touch with him, right,
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Temple. It was filthy black man, but you were gonna stop by a
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filthy and murder and you almost did because somehow or other you got the right
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room in the right house on Union in fifty ninth, But the wrong party.
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Isn't that about it? Temple? Yes, Marlow, that's about it
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now, Marlow, you don't shoot me without going through Vivian. First.
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Dear Vivian, Sydney's precious niece was going to have the pearls all to herself.
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Marlow. It'll cost Via in her life if you do without that very
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much, Temple. Larsa, that's right, Joe lars forehead and all.
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Are you Temple step away from that girl or I'll tear you to pieces.
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Larsa, No, no, Now, we can still do business like you
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said in that note you sent me, I'll split shut up. You forget
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two things, Temple. First you tried to kill me, and second you
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did kill my sister. Now why didn't you run? Or are you afraid?
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Which is it? Come on, Temple talk, Hi, I'm afraid,
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well, I'm allo that just about warins things up, yep, Joe
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Lawson sent up for attempted extortion and Temple sent up for good. Say,
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Marlowe, when you called a while ago and said that you wanted Temple and
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me to help you, did you know then the Temple was the murderer?
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No, I didn't, Vivian. Then I only knew that whoever had killed
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Betty Lawson had mistaken her for the new nurse, and that the actual nurse
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was Betty's brother. Joe, where'd you get a hold of that film?
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But it started in Ryan's cafe Borah just after you left. I had nurses
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on the brain, I guess, And when I took a good look at
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the waitress there, I suddenly realized that her white uniform, white shoes,
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and white cap could easily confuse a guy like Temple who also had nurses on
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the brain. Well, I can see a killer making a mistake about it.
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Appearance is all right, But I still don't understand how it is that
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the telephone number of my uncle's nurse turned out to be Betty's apartment because a
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nurse did live there, Honey, Betty's brother was a medical student, part
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time male nurse, and full time bum. You see Ryan who brought food
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to Uncle Sidney knew that he needed a new nurse, and he sold him
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on the idea of Joe Lawson because he wanted his girlfriend's brother to have a
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job. Oh I get it, say, I know what I'm going to
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do with those pearls. Sold one to the highest bidding. Oh no,
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I'm going to break up that set. Break up the set. Yeah,
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I'd like very much to get a pair of earrings out of them, and
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for each of you a set of cufflinks. Good night, gentlemen. When
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Vivian got into a car aimed at toward a collection of chip rocks on Fountain
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near Bronson and waved goodbye, it was nearly three o'clock in the morning.
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After I said, so long do we borrow and started back to my apartment
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on Franklin. An idea hit me for the first time. A pearl is
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the result of the irritation of an oyster, a disease, and when you
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string a lot of diseases together, the result is frequently a plague. But
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it's from plays like that that I make a living. That's what I get
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for reading books. I wonder if I'll ever go any place where I can
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wear Pearl cuf Links. The Adventures of Philip Marlowe, created by Raymond Chandler,
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stars Gerald Moore and is produced and directed by Norman McDonald. Script is
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by Meldon La Robert Mitchell and Gene Levitt. Featured in the cast were Junius
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Matthews, Louis van Ruten, Fay Baker, David ellas In Biath and Ed
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Begley. Lieutenant Detective of Bara is played by Jeff Corey. The special music
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is by Richard o'urant. Be sure and be with us again next week,
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when Philip marlow says a corpse that wouldn't stay, did a pistol with a
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silencer on it and a fortune in a black satchel spelled death for the big
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city boys when they finally got together in Lonesome Arizona. Population eight oh two
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stars, Light Stars, Bride and That's no Optical Illusion. The brilliant cleaning
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list of Stars on CBS Tomorrow night. Van Johnson's the Star on the Prudential
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Hour drama Spike Jones will positively appear in a sketch getting the War Paid Off.
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Bob Hope's latest movie, Jack Benny, will have Clott Colbert and Vincent
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Price as his special guests. Amos and Andy At Sam Spade and Lamon Abner
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are the next bright stars in line. Then Helen Hayes, first Lady of
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the Stage, starring on her Sunday Night Electric Theater, followed by Hollywood's own
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Eve Arden in the Wonderfully Comic Series are Miss Brooks in the next to closing
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another bright comedy life with the Luigi and the whole star lineup, topped off
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by the world's most brilliant Addle Pates the experts on it pays to be ignorant.
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Jack Benny's program will come to you over all of these same stations,
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and the others in this vast array of stars will be heard over most of
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them. Top writers, top directors, and top stars of American show business
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come to you on CBS now Stay tuned for Gangbusters, which follows immediately.
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This is Roy Rowan speaking for CBS the Columbia Broadcasting System him back, Well,
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that was a great commercial for the Jack Benny Show. Definitely, seriously,
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it definitely did seem to dominate a lot of the breaks. It does
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give you an idea about how important Jack Benny was in the world of entertainment.
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In the late forties and early fifties. Basically, his decision to go
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to CBS keyed several other programs to come over to that network and really define
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the strategy of the networks. CBS was building its lineup around Jack Benny and
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NBC was trying to build up a lineup to counter Jack Benny. As to
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the story itself, it was actually pretty solid on the mystery part. There
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was one thing that seemed slightly in congruous with the way that I've seen Philip
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Marlowe portrayed, was him getting that massage. Nothing against either massage therapist or
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people who get massages, It's just not something I'd imagine Philip Marlowe doing.
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Johnny Dallar, Yeah, but I don't know, It's just not something i'd
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picture him do it. Maybe it's because of the idea of him as a
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poor and hard boiled guy making barely enough to keep body and soul together.
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So then again, the level of police cooperation that Marlowe manages is also amazing,
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with Lieutenant Debara basically apologizing for interfering in Marlowe's investigation, though maybe that
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was a little bit of sarcasm. Before we concluded for today, I did
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want to mention the passing of Lauren Becall. Most of our audience probably hurt
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about it, but this is the first episode of been able to record it.
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Certainly, she was a great, great actress. I did receive a
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question as to what her role in old time radio was, and she did
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a lux radio theater. She also did another series that's kind of rare,
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but her big program was Bold Venture, which she started in with Humphrey Bogart,
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and thankfully over the years there have been more episodes of that series emerging,
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and she really does provide a fascinating performance as Sailor to Ball. Regardless,
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she was a class act great performer, will definitely be massed. All
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right, Well, that will do it for today. We'll be back tomorrow
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with Nick Carter. Join us back here next Wednesday for another episode of the
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