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Philip Marlowe: The Feminine Touch (EP1409) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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more. Well, now it's time for today's episode of the Adventures of Philip
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Marlowe. The original air date is May the seventh of nineteen forty nine,
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and the title is The Feminine Touch and Iron Skull was that trademark. That
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business was climbing walls, and it was all done on wheels at seventy miles
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an hour. But that was a cinch for the death Cheetahs until they felt
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murder. And a Feminine Touch. From the pen of Raymond Chandler, upstanding
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author of crime fiction, comes his most famous character in the Adventures of Philip
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Marlowe now with Gerald Moore starred as Philip Marlowe. We bring you tonight's s
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exciting story have a Don't Touch. It was five minutes to five when I
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turned off Sunset Boulevard and drove between the two wrought iron gates set in a
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stone wall that hinted none too subtly at the exclusiveness of the bel Air estates.
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I followed a gently curving street bordered by dignified rows of meticulously manicured palm
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trees as far as number forty four twelve. There I turned out to a
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white driveway, motored over an acre of rigidly disciplined landscape to a house that
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could have doubled for Buckingham Palace, where I ground to a soft stop and
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got out. Bell Air was the soul of peace and serenity until I started
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across the drive to the front door. A motorcycle jet propelled by a black
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haired lunatic in a leather jacket with a blonde beauty riding behind him, missed,
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goring me by inches. I picked myself up, mumbled a few choice
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words, and went out of the door. I followed a butler through the
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house to an aviary in the rear, where my client, mister bald and
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Granville put it with a flock of exotic birds in a big wire cage.
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He looks right at home. A penguin in sport clothes with the yellow stearing
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eyes of an owl. Come in, Marlowe, but we'll watch the gates
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the first all upset? Did you hear that mechanical outburst? A moment ago
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heard? I was almost run over by it. A jerk and a batty
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blonde dame on a motorcycle. Who are they? And the driver was,
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no doubt one Pepper Rigs, which is all I know about him. However,
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the batsy blonde, as you put it, is my daughter, Adrian,
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how your daughter? Yes, it's twenty three and already out of school
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two years, and the best schools, of course, and still it's been
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one crazy scrape after another. Now it's motorcycles and something even worse. I'm
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afraid that's why I called you. Now, look, mister Grenville, I
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no truant officer, have you? And her mother tried simply talking it over
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with it? We lost her mother in thirty three, and Adrian refuses flatly
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to discuss things with me. I've tried everything from bribery to threats. How
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about trying to be a father. I'm twenty years late for that. Always
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been too busy making money. Now I'm worried. I think she's infatuated with
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this pepper Rigs. Well, there isn't much I can do about that.
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She wants to break her neck on a motorcycle. I can't do much about
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that either. You can do something about this. It came to me in
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this morning's may Adrian hasn't seen the kid. Oh keep your daughter out of
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our hair. Make her layoff, pepper Rigs. If you know what's good
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for her, I mean it. Lou Brian. Who's lou Brian? I
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have no idea, but Adrian's in danger. Marlowe, Well, I'll do
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what I can. Had anything else to go on beside two names the motorcycle
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crowd. No, now, that's all. But marlow listen, it may
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sound strange to you, but everything I've worked for all my life means nothing
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to me. Now. I finally realized that Adrian is all that really matters.
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Don't let me down. Something close to grief glistening in the old man's
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yellow eyes, But he hardened up again while we settled the matter of my
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feet one hundred bucks, and then he hurried me on my way. I
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think it Pepper Rigs was a wild man, so my first step was a
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check off of the La dirt track circuit, a wild man's game if there
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was one. The full stop I made paid off. A track manager told
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me that Pepper was a used to be bike racer all right, but that
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he quit and was while working at the Redondo Amusement Pier as a wall climber.
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When I found out what that was, it made the dirt track routine
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sound about as dangerous as an old lady's culling bee. It was nine thirty
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when I got out to the Redondo Pier. Wandered through the concessions until I
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found one with a corny label, a wall of Death. It looked like
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a barrel thirty feet in diameter and twenty feet high, with a grand stand
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over it and a picture poster in front listing hair raising shows eight ten and
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twelve PM featuring Pepper Riggs, the depth Cheater, the lovely Mickey North,
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and smiling Lou Bryant, the one who had written a letter to my client.
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Whatever Adrian Granville was mixed up and the answer was here. I walked
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around the big barrel. It was shed in the rear. A light was
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on, so I went to work. Hi looking for somebody. Yeah,
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yeah, you're Pepper Rigs, aren't you. My name is Malo of High
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Spot Magazine. I've got a feature lined up on your act, spare man.
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Sure we can talk while I finished shaving. Shoot, how fast do
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your traveler on that wall flip on the sixty in your drop? It's no
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life for sissies, buddy, And a little thing goes wrong up there on
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the wall and it's curtains figures. Is your bike here? Yeah, the
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one with my name played on it? There? Uh huh? I see
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you carry a little iron skull tide of the handle buzz kind of grim,
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isn't it my trade? My buddy knocked off the wall seven times in the
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last three years and beat OL's skull face every time. No kidding. It
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makes for a nice quiet future for your fiance. Yeah yeah, miss Grenville,
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I'm going to take her into the act with you. Could be,
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buddy, could be? What do your partners think of that? The girl?
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Mickey North and Lou Bryan I mean, is it gonna be room for
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everybody? You know something, Pale. I don't think there is a magazine
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called high Spot. Really, I better make a note of it. Yeah,
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Adrian warned me a role man be sending a private eye around. So
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now that I've cut your act and it's corny, I've got a message for
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you. Lay off because Adrian's old enough to know what she wants. Okay,
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And I've got one for you, Screwball, say that she lives long
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enough to enjoy it. When you shove me out the door. My first
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impulse was to shove back in again, but then I heard the spiel till
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the ten o'clock shows starting out in front, so I decided Tepa Riggs would
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keep. I walked around the drone to where a red faced Balka lashed the
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pot with every known similar for dangerousy whipped up excitement for the act. I
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stepped up close to listen, and absolutely better go ball. Just Hardley's Wallad.
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Don't quit, said folks. Show starts in fifteen minutes. Come in
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and watch them. Gret Hey, Sam, they go for me. Clar
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Robert, you weren't filled when the red face boxer stopped. His eyes had
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been fixed on the little man and grimy Overalls hurrying across the midway. He
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jumped down from the platform and ran after the little guy. So I pushed
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back through the crowd and followed him. A red face caught up with the
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grimy overalls at a hot dog stand, grabbed him by one shoulder and spun
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him around. Hey what do you and I want to talk to you.
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Oh you're a motorcycle mechanical, a Promenada. Why are you been I slept
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in, I guess, mister Hadley. Yeah, you must have been real
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tired after last night. Last night, What what do you mean? Don't
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start with in the moon. I saw you coming out of the bike shed
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at two thirty in the morning. Oh you're doing it there at that hour,
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calling over the bikes. I'm sick and tired of taking a blank for
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a little Brian. He's holding back. He says it's because his bike ate
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right, But that's not true. He's turned yellow. That's what I'll promat.
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He'd kind of talk to yourself. Oh but it's true. Pepper told
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the same thing. Lou Bryant's lost his nerve and he's holding back those bikes
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are identical, same making, same model. They're both in tip top shape.
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And I'm through taking a blame for a guy that's turned yellow. What
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do you have, man, want something jezz Yeah, a couple of coffees?
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But you, mister, yeah a hot dog? Nothing on it?
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Yeah? Sure, right up and listen. Moon, you're a good mechanic
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and I want to fire, but there's public cooking around my show and I
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don't like it. Here you are, Oh thanks, Oh sure, sure,
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there's going to be troubled. You're blaming me, but you ought to
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blame that dizzy blonde that taps mixed up with that Adrian Grenville. She's the
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date. How are you biggures? Ah, this is private conversation. What
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are you tuning in for? That's a musted little man, And keep your
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greasy thumb out of it. You got secrets. You're to know better than
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to broadcasting. Yeah, thanks for the advice. Yeah, go soak your
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head in it. Skip the coffee. But your place is crawling. So
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long figures. I watched Jess Headley and Moon walk away, and then I
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went back to the Wall of Death, boarded ticket and climb the stairs the
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gallery at the top of the thirty foot motordrome. Houselights were on, but
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in a half dockments. At the bottom of the big bowl, I saw
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three motorcycles in the open trap door. The gallery was nearly full. It
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only took one glance around the ring of faces at the lip of the bowl.
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The spotter. She had insolent eyes, wide, soft red mouth,
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and her hair tumbled in loose blond waves over the shoulders, a shimmering white
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silk shirt, very wide open at her throat. I moved up beside her
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and leaned on the rail. Why don't you go home? I'm sure like
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I can't use a watchdog. You flatter yourself, Adrian. I'm here only
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the case of setup that includes your broken neck. That's just another item in
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my report, is that right? M Well you're pretty so I'll make it
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really set up simply this. I like to go fast motorcycles. Do that
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corn sodas pepper? Right? That satisfy you? Not quite? You got
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the curves, baby, but somebody else has the angles. Meaning what all
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these professionals might resent an amateur moving in? What makes you think I'm an
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amateur, mister Marlowe, I'll compete with dear little Mickey North on any basis,
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curves or angle. I got Pepper didn't die, and I'll have her
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stop on the show if I want. I was always set with lou Bryan
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blows access baggage, but strictly Pepper's been carrying the whole shell for a week
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if I go to house links. So it's been nice, Sherlock. But
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that makes it time to run along, doesn't it. Oh? I think
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I'll stick around, honey. Whether you like it or not, suit yourself,
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but don't stick too close you might get run over. When a flood
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light over the center of the drone flashed on and filled the deep bowl with
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a dead white player, the Fomas climbs through the trap door and the bottom
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closed it behind them and mounted their bikes. For the first rower of the
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motors, Adrian and gripped the railing and is teared down, her eyes glistening
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with fascination upon this seventy miles an hour on a vertical wall. Sorry,
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come on, Rigg'd lovely making off and smiling little Brian. It was low.
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Brian let off, starting slowly at first, around and around the sloping
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base of the bowl. Peppa Riggs watched him for a moment and looked up,
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waved at Adrian and grin while Mickey Nord flied swayed ahead. There was
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no smile and smiling Lublian's face either, as a world passed her and past
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her around the drone. The hole began to tremble with every revolution, and
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the speeding motorcycles raced over the boards and rose higher and higher on the political
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wall, until finally it was only five feet from the ring. Then suddenly,
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from somewhere a black smith failed out on the white under the tires,
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a smooth that grew with every turn. It was oil, that's talking.
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Later what happened? The black wheel spitted, the bike swim out of blue
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lions ptole at the coping ride and on it fell overlong folks come, I
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brick up O'Brien was dead long before they got him through the trap door and
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into the ambulance. And watching him full I put a freeze on my mind
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that took twenty minutes tawing out. But when the fundamentals of a edition went
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to work again, I started looking around and just in time to see Moon
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the mechanic barreling in nineteen thirty five for all it was worth out of the
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parking light and heading for the highway lights out. I ran in my car,
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piled in the take after him with something long and yellow smashed into my
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bumper. You took the words right out of my mouth, Adrian. Yeah,
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timed it perfectly, didn't you time? What perfect good block? So
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Moon your grease monkey assistant could put a few miles behind it, Adrian,
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what happened, Marlow? Yeah, don't worry, rigs Adrian here did a
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lovely job. A bumper's abraided. But and I'm getting a little sick of
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you, Marlow'll liably get sick of Speede because I'm going to find out exactly
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why Lou Bryan died tonight. You're gonna answer some questions. He died to
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cut the oil line broke. Yeah, it happens all the time to wall
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climbers. It was a tough break, that's all. Oh sure, sure?
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Now, Look, just in case you two didn't know, Lou Bryan
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objected to you, Adrian, so much so, in fact, that he
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wrote a letter to your father threatening to rock you up if he didn't lay
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off where I said. Somebody beat him to punch yues who listen Marley,
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you're running off at the mouth. You've got something to say, Say it
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right off like a big boy. Okay, Riggs Lubryan's death was no accident.
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It was cold premeditated murder. Tie that on your handle bar's death,
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cheater in just a moment, the second act of Philip Marlowe. But first,
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Gerald Moore, we returned to the second act of Philip Marlowe and Tonight's story
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the Feminine Touch. I turned without another word and walked away slowly until I
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was out of sight, and I ran for the Drome on the off chance
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that I could find Mickey North and the lead on Moon. I found her
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alone and on a bench in an almost dark, out of the way corner
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of an amusement peer half watching a couple of hungry seagulls who didn't know when
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it was time to go to bed. Circle overhead. I introduced myself and
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got around to what was fast becoming my only point, the hunch that lou
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Bryan's crackup was no accident. I can't believe that, Marlow. Why not,
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Mickey heads lou Brian figgured Adrian was breaking up a great act. They
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gets you driven a wedge between him and Pepper, and Pepper and Nu.
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Yeah, but that's not reason enough for Adrian to Pepper to kill lou Marlow.
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Oh but it's lonesome. No, but there was more, Mickey.
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Lou Brian didn't intend to take all this lying down. For one thing,
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he sent a threatening let at Adrian's father to keep her away. And Marlow.
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You're saying that Adrian and Pepper rays scheduled an accident for lou Bryan,
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and then Mickey does Moon. You know he shoved off without so much as
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I'll be back in a minute, right after Luke cracked up. Tell me,
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Mickey, do you have any idea why Moon could have been heading he
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was pointing away from La No, I don't, except, of course,
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his own place. He has a little shack on Ocean Avenue, number forty
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one, over in the oil fields. But look, Marlow, maybe Moon's
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responsible for everything he and Lou didn't get along, you know, Yes,
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I've heard, also, Mickey, I've heard that Moon was around the bike's
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unusually late last night. What Moon, ron? Oh, it must have
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been Moon and alone? Sure? What's the matter with me? Pepper wouldn't
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do a thing like that. He's too good, too decent a night suck
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still love them? Don't you make it? No? I don't. He
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means nothing, Mama. All right, honey, let's call it a tie
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for the moment. It's Moon alone or the triumvir at Moon, Rigs and
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Adrian Grenville. Right, yeah, I guess nobody else had me reason to
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kill Lou. If you're sure that's what happened, are Yamama dead? Sure?
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Just about Ask me again, honey, after I've checked the fireside at
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number forty one Ocean Avenue. But then I may know more. When I
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got back to my car, it reads convertible was gone, and the pleading
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that had been my right fender, which said that she'd left in a hurry,
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cost me ten minutes of stress and strain before my front wheels would turn
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in either direction without chewing rubber, and I was another ten getting to the
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intersection of US one oh one at Ocean Avenue, which turned out to be
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a paved semi circle of grime twisting in between a knodding oil well pumps that
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had never heard of the eight hour day. I got out of my car
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and started to move quietly toward the second collection of scrap lumber, unpainted and
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unpleasant that was number forty one. From a sudden splash of a pair of
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headlights sweeping my way fast and me sprawling to cover without so much as a
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reason why. I was glad that I'd had because it was yellow, long
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and convertible and behind the wheel and alone, Miss Adrian Granville. I took
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that as my cue to stop slooping and start worrying about a guy named Moon.
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I moved up to his shack in a hurry when it showed no light
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and no answer to my loud knock. I closed, one hand tied around
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the thirty eight in my pocket, and the other over the knob on the
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door, which wasn't locked. Inside there was only a shabby furniture of a
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Scotland onlium in the middle of the wall. Opposite me, another door half
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open. I started forritten what I could almost feel was going to be the
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too quiet form of the elusive mechanic, and a sound behind me that was
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not the work of the wind brought me to a dead stop. Move one
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inch, mister, and I'll kill you. And to think I was worrying
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about your health. You shouldn't have bothered. I feel fine, but you
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won't. If there's any monkey business, I'll drop your gun. Come on
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past. That's better. Now what are you doing here wondering why you were
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dumb enough to let that Grandville brat talking and a murdering lou Bryan for a
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price. You're off your rock. I fell. I didn't drop Brian.
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I got no money from the baby. The only gab gab that kept me
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from packing and getting out of here. That's a lie. I've got a
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photost out of a check for ten thousand that's made out to you and signed
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by Adrian Granville. It's un on a light buster to look for yourself check
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for ten grand. Yeah, I don't figure how my name could get up.
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Hey, they say no check. Oh my mistake here it is okay,
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okay, don't get out again. I'll tell you the truth. Dollars
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huh, we'll see first verse. He didn't kill Brian while you're running because
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lou and I didn't get along, and just hardly knows that I was around
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the bikes last night. So so sometimes people start putting things together too fast.
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You gets other people in trouble. I know it's happened to me for
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four or five years, once on a losty frame. How unfortunately? What
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about Adrian Grant? But what she want with you moaning? I don't know
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unless she belongs to the lady's handkerchief I found near the bikes last night.
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Did you say it was hers? We didn't get that far she ran off.
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Well, we heard your cart turn off from the highway. That's how
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come I got to drop on you. It figures. But what doesn't figure,
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Moon is why you're still holding back. So maybe we would have found
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some mechanic around some more high What are you saying, come on, do
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we keep this happen? Please? All right, Rick, will you let
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me alone? I'll tell you. I'll tell you everything. Who was always
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beefing at me whenever pep the cole and yellow for not ride and write?
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He took it out on me, said I didn't keep his bike in shape,
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So I decided to do so. What what's the matter outside? Dare
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malho a gun? No? When Moon grabbed his chest with both hands,
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swung in a half fark, and pitched forward on his face, young the
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light cort in the middle of the room, and then through the door open.
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The only noise I heard was the starting roll of a motorcycle about fifty
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feet away. I forgot about being careful and ran out into the street and
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saw what was fast becoming an increasingly smaller silhouette. I couldn't say who.
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When I returned to the shack and found Moon bed, I ran for my
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car, piled in and kept a heavy foot on the gas until I was
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back at the amusement pier, where I figured I might find a team of
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grangvile and rigs standing around like nothing had happened. When I got there,
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I found just that. Out on the pier was Miss money Bags herself,
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walking slowly away from Pepper and Mickey and taw the hot dog stand. When
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I was next to her and about ready to grab on and start yelling,
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copy saw something else, something that didn't sink in right away. There was
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a tiny iron skull on an iron chain, swinging from the gold charm braceless
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you wore on our right wrist. If you're taking inventory mode, I'll make
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it tast will you. The next show start in a couple of minutes,
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and I'm going on a loose place and I don't mark it there on your
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wrist, Adrian, It's a miniature the one Pepper has in the handlebars of
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his bike right right his trademark about does that hang all of it? No,
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it just hangs one of us, if I'm right, goodbye. It
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was only a hunch and a screwelly one at that. But as I ran
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past Mickey and Pepper, who stared at me like my nose was on fire,
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and headed to the shop out in the back where I knew I could
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find the bike that Lu had been killed on, I gave myself a fifty
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to fifty chance of being right. But when I was inside the place and
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next to the twisted jumble of steel that had once been a motorcycle. The
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odds jumped from there to sure thing because when I passed my fingers over the
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chrome handlebars, I found that they were not smooth all the way, And
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the next second I knewmore I was not alone. I jumped from a bike
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breach of my gun and wheeled around the wrong way. When I started back
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for this world there were only two things in it. When I shop searing
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pain the length of the right side in my face. On the other,
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crazy thought that since I was still alive, I had to get to the
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droom and stop Adrian Grenville before murder happened again. I ran outside and the
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round at the front, where I saw that the rider's trap door entrance was
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already closed, that the act was about to begin, and as I heard
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the motors raw in a voice announced that Adrian and Mickey were going to ride
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together. I spotted jess haadly at the top of the stairs. It led
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onto the spectator's barkening. I took a dozen steps up to him, two
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at a time, and as the house lights faded in the floods over the
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riders came up. I grabbed him and shouted that we had to stop the
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act while the bikes were still only getting under way, or death would get
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start feeling again. Why are you talking about my own, Hadley? Why
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don't we stop those bikes? I don't know. They can't hear a thing
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down me. Well, luckily, Tully, they could see. Get in
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the house lights Headley and turn them up. I'm gonna shoot out the oldhead
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flood coma. How are you a pile of girls? I get calling Hadley.
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I'm going to show no me, doctor Richard Reely, doctor Richard Well
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Malo before she blacked out. The police say Micky admitted wanting to get Pepper
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because she was gray jealous of Adrian. They haven't got a straight yet about
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Moon's death and exactly why Lou was killed by mistake? How'd that go?
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I went two ways, Hadley. One Mickey fixed Pepper's bike so that the
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oil line would give you get it. Then, Moon, convinced that Lou
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had gone yellow, switched the bikes to prove that Lou's constant complained about the
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bikes were simply an alibi. Here's the joker. He switched right into a
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double play Lou Bryan got killed instead of Pepper. Then after the crack up,
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Moon knew that it should have happened to Pepper. Oh yeah, sure,
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but for a lot of reasons, he didn't want to stick around and
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talk it over. When he was about to tell me the truth, make
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he shot him. Guys, if you knew the bikes are switched, you
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would look for someone with reason to kill Pepper, not Lom correct. And
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once I did know that, there was only Lou and Mickey. See,
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I picked Mickey because, for one thing, her motive was stronger, and
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for another Moon found a lady's handkerchief near the bikes. So Moro, you
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come out here, please, all right, mister Grenville, see you?
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Yeah, my loaf catch the acts some night when we play it straight.
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Still a good show. Well, I'm a lucky man, Marco, doctor
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says he'd been's going to be fine a few days. She wants to see
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you now, but it can only be for a moment, you know,
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Frankly, mister Grenville, of moments about all I can take. I don't
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exactly like your daughter now now, Marlow, none of that. Please.
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The poor child's not well. Besides, she she wants to apologize to you
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and give you my check for one hundred dollars. Now, go on,
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boy, go on, she's calling for you. Okay, Hello, Marlow,
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I want to ask you a question, and of course apologize. I'm
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sorry. What's the court question? The iron skull on my bracelet? What
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did it mean to you? Oh? Well, it was a reminder that
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Pepper had one dangling from the handlebars of his bike, and that if Moon
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had switched bikes, which was a wild thought at the time, that which
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was called loose bike would have a warn spot on the chrome handlebars where the
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iron chain had rubbed. And it did. Now my turn. You told
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Pepper in particular Mickey, that I was all excited about something, didn't you.
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Yes? Why do you ask, Phil? Because I was wondering how
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Micky knew where I was so that she could come down and play Crown the
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private detective. Oh Phil, she could have killed you, yes, yes,
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And then when she didn't, I could figure that she'd given up and
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only wanted time to crash your motorcycle into mind when we were high on the
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wall. Is that it? Yeah, that's it all the way around.
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Now, if you please my check and goodbye. Hmhmm check, yeah,
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oh oh yes, here, here it is. And for all that you've
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done for me, hey, cut it up. It's supposed to be sick.
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We didn't get back in bed. Oh, Marlowe, I'm not any
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sicker than you are. That's just to keep Daddy from blowing his top.
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Now, come, they're silly. I'm all right, you sure, I'm
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positive that's all I wanted to know. No across my knee. Your daddy
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should have gotten around of it along time ago. I kept sweating aware.
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I figured it would do the most good until daddy, two doctors and a
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nurse came in, and then I recommended that my client can sell the child
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psychologist for his daughter and a full grown one for himself, and I left.
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But by the time I was outside, i'd cool off something, and
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it was then that I remembered I had carelessly shoved one hundred dollars check which
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belonged to my wallet, into a side pocket. When I took it out
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and unfolded it, I saw that it was all in order, names and
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numbers correct. But then as I started to put it away, I saw
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something else on the beck and scribbled in pencil ps working with a private detective.
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Sounds like much more fun than more recycles. I'll be it your office
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first thing Monday morning, signed Adrian. I turned around and started back to
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the hospital. This was not going to be The Adventures of Philip Marlowe created
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by Raymond Chandler, star Gerald Moore and are produced and directed by Norman McDonald.
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Script is by Meldon la Robert Mitchell and Gene Levitt featured in the cast,
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where Barbara Eiler, Ted Von Elks, David Ellis, Virginia Gregg Wilms,
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Herbert, Paul Dubov and Peter Prousse. The special music is by Richard
28:56
Urant. He shorting be with us again next week. When Philip Marlowe say
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it was only a gambler's marker, a promise to pay worth a thousand bucks,
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and I was hired to find it. Ah, that sounded easy until
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I realized that it meant the whole future to two men, freedom to a
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third, and death to the girl in the cottage. Sunday will be Mother's
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Day, and the boy with the neighbor's prize rose in his lapel and a
29:45
box of cigars under his arm will be missus Benny's little boy Jack ready for
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his idea of a proper Mother's Day celebration for an unusually hilarious Mother's Day session
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with America's only thirty nine year old child prodigy. Here the Jack Benny Show
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Someday on all of these same CBS network stations. This is Roy Rowan speaking.
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Now stay tuned for Gangbusters, which follows immediately over most of these stations.
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This is CBS the Columbia Broadcasting System. Welcome back. I have to
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tip my hat to the show. I love the whole idea of this particular
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setup and mystery. There are certain motifs that we see a lot or hear
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a lot in Golden age radio drama. One is the circus as a location
30:48
for crime. Another is a train, and these can be entertaining and that's
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why they're so often reused. But it's it's really nice to see something different.
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And this whole setup of motorcycles stunt riding is it one that is as
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typical of a Golden age radio drama. The end, I have to admit,
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did have some issues without getting into whether the whole banking motif was used
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in so many other radio dramas as well as movies. It really fails out
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of place here even for the time. In fact, the times we've heard
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it have been on shows with much more of a comedic edge like The Thin
31:38
Man and the very early comedy detective stories of Let George Do It. And
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a hard boiled drama that relies on action doesn't really even fit for its time.
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So that was a bit discordant. But other than that, I thought
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it was a solid episode and I hope you enjoyed it, and I do
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have one fun as we go ahead and sign off. If you've emailed the
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show or you've sent in a question I have in the recent times, I've
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not gone back to you because my wife and I were traveling. I do
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the recent death in the family, and I announced this in advance on Facebook,
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but I know not everyone follow us follows us over on Facebook. I
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just want to let you know why that is, and day's date when this
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should air will actually be the day we'll be returning, and hopefully you should
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be receiving any responses that are due to emails. But again, now you
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know why there was not received. Okay, well, that will do it
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for today. We will be back tomorrow with Nick Carter and next Wednesday,
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join us for another episode of the Adventures of Philip Marlowe. In the meantime,
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