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Philip Marlowe: The Sea Horse Jockey (EP1679) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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  Speaker 1: monthly basis. But now it's time for today's episode of
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  Speaker 1: the Adventures of Philip Morlow. The original air date May
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  Speaker 1: the second, nineteen fifty and the tititle is the Seahorse Jockey.
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  Speaker 2: Get this and get it straight. Crime is a sucker's road.
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  Speaker 2: Those who travel it wind up in the gut of
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  Speaker 2: the prave. This time it was a fishy horse play
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  Speaker 2: for my redheaded beauty. That's the black bearded sailor to
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  Speaker 2: a neck and neck finish over a wandering sea horse
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  Speaker 2: worth fifty thousand bucks. That was the jockey. Happened like this.
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  Speaker 3: From the pen of Raymond Trendler, outstanding author of crime fiction,
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  Speaker 3: comes his most famous character in the Adventures of Philip
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  Speaker 3: morlow Now, with Gerald Moore starred as Philip Marlowe. We
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  Speaker 3: bring you tonight's exciting story, the Seahorse Jockie.
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  Speaker 4: You know it's tomorrow.
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  Speaker 5: When you came in today, I said to myself, I said,
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  Speaker 5: it's a funny thing.
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  Speaker 4: You've been getting your hair cuts here and off for
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  Speaker 4: six seven years, but I never found out how you
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  Speaker 4: vote Republican or Democrats.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I like to think that's my thing.
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  Speaker 6: And another thing, never did you tell me if you're
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  Speaker 6: for the Marshall Plan or against the Marshall Plan.
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  Speaker 2: Well, the Marshall Plan and for the California's governor next fall, Well,
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  Speaker 2: there's no doubt in my mind.
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  Speaker 3: Any income taxt sit back now now the income tax
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  Speaker 3: is fair or.
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  Speaker 2: It's not fair? Well, eminently out.
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  Speaker 4: Come, How come all the stuff? I don't know what
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  Speaker 4: is your opinion?
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  Speaker 2: I can't imagine, of course my opinion.
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  Speaker 4: I tell people I say political party is a manner
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  Speaker 4: of getting to.
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  Speaker 2: Excuse me, saved by the bell oh.
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  Speaker 4: Alwin's Barbershop Alban speaking Paul Millow. He's right here for
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  Speaker 4: hold on place.
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  Speaker 7: It's for you, mister Mollow always interruptions.
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  Speaker 2: It's all right, six never mind. Thanks hello, mister Mallow.
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  Speaker 8: This is missus Lolla Demra speaking. Oh goodness, that's finally located.
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  Speaker 8: You now to come out to my place at once
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  Speaker 8: specific Palisades one pre one two oh Tower Road, and your.
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  Speaker 2: Plane leaves into my Now, wait a minute, what plane,
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  Speaker 2: missus demarest, Why what's this all about?
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  Speaker 8: The sea hawt I'm going to sell it, mister Morlow.
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  Speaker 8: My mind's made up the sea witch and sea horse,
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  Speaker 8: mister Marlow. It's approached six inches high and set with
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  Speaker 8: precious stones, which is San Francisco. Dealer is anxious to
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  Speaker 8: pay five.
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  Speaker 2: Thousand dollars for well. Look, missus DeMars, you're flying.
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  Speaker 8: To New York tomorrow, mister Marlow. And also my doctors
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  Speaker 8: say I'm living by sheer will power alone.
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  Speaker 2: Here, guys, your kisions must.
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  Speaker 8: Be made quickly now. The terms of the deal are cash,
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  Speaker 8: so please be sure that you're armed, and the money
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  Speaker 8: will be returned here to my stepdaughter Jillian Demrous.
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  Speaker 2: Unfortunately, oh you don't approve No.
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  Speaker 4: No, however, Alibi.
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  Speaker 8: By my late husband's wishes, Jillian needs to be provided
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  Speaker 8: for now. No more questions, sir, Just hurry. You'll be
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  Speaker 8: paid handsomely. And when you get here, mister morlow use
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  Speaker 8: the back porch. I'll be in my bedroom the other
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  Speaker 8: doors alive.
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  Speaker 2: You're alone, Missus Demros, No servants.
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  Speaker 8: I'm really sick, mister Marlowe, not dead. And since I've
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  Speaker 8: just fired Elmer Paris, who was called a lawyer, but
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  Speaker 8: it was actually more of a baboon, we'll be able
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  Speaker 8: to talk.
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  Speaker 4: Now.
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  Speaker 8: Hurry, mister Marlowe, please be punctual. My new lawyer is
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  Speaker 8: two year at four point thirty. I'll finished up and
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  Speaker 8: be ready for you in exactly five.
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  Speaker 4: Is that clear?
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  Speaker 2: I've got one question? Were you ever a barber?
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  Speaker 4: Good guy?
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  Speaker 2: Sir, hell Alvin, it looks like we'll have to skip
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  Speaker 2: that shape.
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  Speaker 4: I'm interoused to get your opinions. Opinion's remportant important?
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  Speaker 2: Oh sure?
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  Speaker 7: Else, I mean the way I look at us tomorrow.
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  Speaker 2: Alfin, Yes, wipe the lather off your chin, not mine.
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  Speaker 2: Pacific Palisades and my new client's home at one three
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  Speaker 2: one two Old Town Road was forty minutes from Melee.
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  Speaker 2: The house was Victorian styles, solid made of wood, two
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  Speaker 2: stories high and squatted close to the edge of a
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  Speaker 2: sunbake clip two hundred feet above the ocean. I parked
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  Speaker 2: behind what must have been the first pierce arrow ever made,
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  Speaker 2: and started slowly along a gravel path that led to
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  Speaker 2: the rear until I heard it. Inside I found an
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  Speaker 2: old woman, and I figured to be my client, leaning
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  Speaker 2: against the half open kitchen door, sobbing and crunching at
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  Speaker 2: the gag a maprins wall like it would keep her
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  Speaker 2: from screaming again. Missus Damerist, get hold of yourself. What happened?
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  Speaker 9: I'm not.
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  Speaker 4: On the board, darlint.
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  Speaker 2: She's dead.
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  Speaker 4: But who are you?
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  Speaker 2: My name's Philip Marlow. Missus Damers hired me an hour ago.
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  Speaker 2: An hour ago. She was a handsome woman.
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  Speaker 4: A beautiful woman and a good woman.
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  Speaker 9: You you're the detective, an't you about the brooch?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? How this happened? Missus Lockfield?
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  Speaker 9: Miss Bertie Lockfield.
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  Speaker 2: Miss Lockfield, were you with her?
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  Speaker 4: No?
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  Speaker 9: I came over a bit ago. I'm not his best friend,
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  Speaker 9: you know, her only friend. I came over in my
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  Speaker 9: car to cook her some dinner, like I do all
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  Speaker 9: the time. I lived right by.
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  Speaker 10: The little cottage at the foot of Old Tower Road,
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  Speaker 10: the one with the tall dinner. Miss Lockfield, you were saying, oh, yes, well,
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  Speaker 10: mister Marlow, can we go back to the living sure.
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  Speaker 2: Now, Miss Lockfield, you came over to cook dinner? Then what?
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  Speaker 4: Well?
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  Speaker 9: I look in on her first black I do all
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  Speaker 9: the time, And since she was sleep, I went to
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  Speaker 9: the kitchen and set things going.
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  Speaker 2: And then oh, here you better sit down. Huh, thank you.
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  Speaker 9: Then I went back to my place, passed around for ten,
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  Speaker 9: maybe twenty minutes. Then I came here again and found
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  Speaker 9: what we just saw?
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  Speaker 4: That pillow cleansed in one hand, luctured.
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  Speaker 2: Or I take it easy, Miss Lockfield, try to hold on. Huh. Now,
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  Speaker 2: tell me you didn't happen to see anything of the
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  Speaker 2: new lawyer around, did you?
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  Speaker 4: No lawyer? I Lola didn't mention a new lawyer. He
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  Speaker 4: was due here today, Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: A half hour ago. Might help if we knew his name.
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  Speaker 9: Why, mister Marla, mister Mala, surely you don't think there
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  Speaker 9: was well power play.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, Miss Lockfield. For one thing, the position
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  Speaker 2: of the pillow seems kind of cock eyed to me.
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  Speaker 9: Yes, but who on earth would want to Oh no,
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  Speaker 9: not Jelly, and it couldn't be.
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  Speaker 2: Missus Demors was quite clear about you.
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  Speaker 9: Gillian hated Lorla, mister Marlow. But Jillian isn't how killer.
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  Speaker 2: Well, maybe nobody's been killed. But tell me, miss Lockfield,
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  Speaker 2: this stepdaughter, this Jillian know that she was getting the
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  Speaker 2: money from the brooch.
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  Speaker 9: Oh no, I doubted very much. Although she did know
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  Speaker 9: that LORDA had it, of course, and what and that
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  Speaker 9: Lorda's money was dwindling, mister Marlowe, and that she was
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  Speaker 9: selling her possessions one by one.
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  Speaker 2: Therefore, Jillian might think that the seahorse bruch was hers
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  Speaker 2: by right of inheritance. Yes, tell me, miss Lockfield. Do
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  Speaker 2: you know where Missus Demros kept the brooch? Oh?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, in the bedroom.
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  Speaker 9: I'll show you exactly where. It's behind the portrait of
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  Speaker 9: mister Demerist enough.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, oh, take it easy, honey. Huh did you say
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  Speaker 2: behind the portress that one?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, there's a panel in the wall that slides.
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  Speaker 9: Move the picture to your right, mister Marlow and pull
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  Speaker 9: out on the panel edge.
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  Speaker 4: You'd better use the chair.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, to the right and out on the panel, edgic, Huh,
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  Speaker 2: that's it, that's it, this velvet case.
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  Speaker 4: No, No, those are innrings. The brooch is much bigger.
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  Speaker 4: It's in a hilt bag.
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  Speaker 9: Mister Marlow, mister Marlow, don't.
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  Speaker 4: You see it?
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  Speaker 2: No, and I don't think I will this Lockfield, the
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  Speaker 2: velvet case is all there is. The sea horse is gone.
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  Speaker 2: I called the law and reported both the thefts of
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  Speaker 2: the brutes and the death of Missus Demorest, while Bertie
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  Speaker 2: Lockfield prompted over my shoulders. After that, I started through
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  Speaker 2: the place looking for anything that could possibly give me
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  Speaker 2: a lead on the wandering sea horse. Fifteen minutes later,
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  Speaker 2: on like a show for my effort, was a telephone
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  Speaker 2: number surf side one O two two nine, and nothing
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  Speaker 2: to me except it was written on a sheet of
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  Speaker 2: brown roll your own cigarette paper. And I dialed the
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  Speaker 2: number and got no answer. I dropped the paper into
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  Speaker 2: my pocket. I told miss Lockfield to wait for the
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  Speaker 2: police and hit it for town on the first public
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  Speaker 2: phone book. I started through the local classified directory looking
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  Speaker 2: for a lawyer named Elma Paris. I didn't find in
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  Speaker 2: my figure he could be somebody's junior partner, so I
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  Speaker 2: began at the top I scored on my seventh Nickel
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  Speaker 2: Calder Kramer and McDuff was the anchor man who answered.
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  Speaker 11: Elma Paris, Yes, we employ a lawyer for that name.
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  Speaker 2: One. I was fired by missus Lola Demeris early today,
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  Speaker 2: Miss macduff, who.
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  Speaker 11: Ceased working from missus Lama Demors early today.
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  Speaker 2: All right, objections sustain? Tell me where can I get
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  Speaker 2: in touch with mister Paris at.
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  Speaker 11: His desk here in the office where he's been all day?
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  Speaker 11: Your reason for asking, sir.
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  Speaker 2: The answer you just gave me. Now one last item,
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  Speaker 2: mister mcdufth did your firm supply a new lawyer for
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  Speaker 2: missus DeMars late today?
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  Speaker 11: We did not answer.
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  Speaker 2: We never will.
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  Speaker 11: Oh each lay in the offices, first, the gentlemen, second
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  Speaker 11: the competent barrister during Missus Demris has used fun either what.
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  Speaker 2: Glad I checked on my Paris off my list and
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  Speaker 2: went back to the phone book. Gillian Demorest, my late
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  Speaker 2: client's stepdaughter, was listed at number one eleven Los a
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  Speaker 2: Egos Terrace, which a map on the back of the
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  Speaker 2: book showed to be just off Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood.
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  Speaker 2: Come in the girl herself, repeatd with old fashioned. The
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  Speaker 2: only thing that was was redheaded maybe thirty and meat
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  Speaker 2: and potato curves in either direction from a waistline that
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  Speaker 2: was strictly rye crisp over lettus leaves.
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  Speaker 12: Sit down. What's your problem?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I got some bad news, miss Demeris.
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  Speaker 5: Don't tell me it's my income text. I've been caught.
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  Speaker 2: Lie, it's your stepmother. She's dead, Jill.
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  Speaker 5: Oh that's too bad.
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  Speaker 2: Well, try not to go to pieces kid.
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  Speaker 5: Look, I didn't particularly like Lola Demris, she didn't particularly
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  Speaker 5: like me, so why make a thing of it.
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  Speaker 2: Because the seahorse brooch has been stolen, don't try brushing
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  Speaker 2: that off because it was supposed to be sold today
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  Speaker 2: with the proceeds to go to us.
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  Speaker 4: You're a lie.
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  Speaker 2: Uh. Private detective hired Jill to fly the brouches to
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  Speaker 2: a San Francisco dealer, and I found out it's really
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  Speaker 2: worth fifty thousand dollars, a lot of though you didn't expect.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, mister private detective, that last crack, it means exactly
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  Speaker 5: what you could.
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  Speaker 2: Have taken the bruche yourself. Surf side one O two
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  Speaker 2: two nine.
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  Speaker 5: Stop pushing and start listening. If Lolan intended to sell
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  Speaker 5: the brooch and give me the money. It was for
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  Speaker 5: one reason only. My father wanted it.
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  Speaker 2: That way, so so do I.
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  Speaker 5: And now that you're without a client, maybe you'll work
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  Speaker 5: for me. I doubt it all right, and get paid
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  Speaker 5: well five thousand words a month for a Pope magazine
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  Speaker 5: Torrid story.
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  Speaker 2: It figures he's off nicely.
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  Speaker 5: It worth your What do you want to help me?
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  Speaker 2: Suppose you're lying and actually stole the brute yourself?
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  Speaker 5: What then then you handcuff me to the nearest cough
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  Speaker 5: and run for mayor on the let's clean up local
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  Speaker 5: crime ticket?
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  Speaker 12: Now?
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  Speaker 5: Is it a deal for say fifty thousand if I
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  Speaker 5: get it zero if I don't?
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  Speaker 2: Five of fun man? Okay, Jill, it's a deal good
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  Speaker 2: and for a starter? Do you happen to know who
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  Speaker 2: missus demris new lawyer was lawyer?
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  Speaker 5: I didn't know the old one had been fired. I
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  Speaker 5: didn't say head could have quit you Now, nobody ever
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  Speaker 5: quit working for Lola Demrist.
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  Speaker 12: It wasn't her nature.
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  Speaker 5: Will you please stop barking at me and go out
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  Speaker 5: and bite the guy.
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  Speaker 12: With the brooch?
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  Speaker 5: You will look like you could do a good job
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  Speaker 5: of it. For five hundred bucks.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but just think of the oppositions you it's snapping
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  Speaker 2: at fifty grand I drove back to the foot of
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  Speaker 2: Old Tower Road and the smothered navy cottage labeled Miss
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  Speaker 2: Bertie Lockfield. I started for the front door, but only
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  Speaker 2: got halfway right where you are?
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  Speaker 12: Oh fine, you're a friend of Bertie Lockfield or a relative.
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  Speaker 2: Which her nephew.
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  Speaker 12: Why because nephew, Aunt Bertie's not home and I want
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  Speaker 12: someone responsible to leave a message with.
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  Speaker 2: So you go looking farm with a gun, eh, and I.
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  Speaker 12: Listen and try to remember this. Tell your aunt that
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  Speaker 12: the new lawyer, missus dem retired, will be in touch
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  Speaker 12: with her. Does that make any sense to you?
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  Speaker 13: No?
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  Speaker 2: Maybe if I knew his name it would I doubted.
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  Speaker 12: Now, nephew, without any fuss, let me have your car.
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  Speaker 2: Now wait a minute, where com on.
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  Speaker 12: You'll find your car a block away from here where
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  Speaker 12: I left mine.
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  Speaker 2: You no happy motoring.
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  Speaker 12: Thank your nephew, and don't forget the message.
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  Speaker 2: She backed away, got into my car and started it
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  Speaker 2: without once taking a dead fish, cold gray eyes off me.
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  Speaker 2: When she jerked away from the curb, it was too
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  Speaker 2: late for me to do anything but swear and start
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  Speaker 2: walking to my car was where she said it would be,
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  Speaker 2: So I got an insult. As far as the first
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  Speaker 2: public telephone, it was time to try surf side one
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  Speaker 2: O two two nine again. Hello, Hello, I'd like to
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  Speaker 2: I'd like to talk to Oh wait a minute, is
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  Speaker 2: that you, Lieutenant Matthews? Yeah, Marno, Yeah, that's right.
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  Speaker 11: Oh that demerist case.
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  Speaker 7: Huh. Well filled the car and he thinks it was murdered,
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  Speaker 7: all right, suffocated her worth a pillow.
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  Speaker 11: But they won't be sure until the autompsey report.
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  Speaker 7: Is it.
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  Speaker 2: Wait a minute, Matthews, Hey, wait a minute. You're at
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  Speaker 2: surf side one O two two nine. Right, Yeah?
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  Speaker 7: You got this number from homicide, didn't you?
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  Speaker 2: No? I didn't. I got it from a brown cigarette paper.
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  Speaker 2: I found it missus damros he Look, tell me, Matthews,
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  Speaker 2: what have you gotten? Where are you?
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  Speaker 11: Fifty one South Monroe Play dead one Phil a guy
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  Speaker 11: who sported a bit. The name was Paul.
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  Speaker 2: Krater, occupation lawyer right, No.
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  Speaker 11: Phil wrong? The occupation was able bodied seamen.
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  Speaker 3: In just a moment the second act of Philip Marlowe,
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  Speaker 3: but first Doctor Christian's latest patient comes up with a
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  Speaker 3: new problem for the kindly small town physician this Wednesday,
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  Speaker 3: and it's the case of a man who's about to
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  Speaker 3: be evicted from the place to which he's come home
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  Speaker 3: to die. Add to this, the patient is an exceedingly
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  Speaker 3: lively rip roaring centurion, and you have the makings of
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  Speaker 3: a highly dramatic, amusing yarn. Doctor Christian starring Jean Herscheldt
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  Speaker 3: is Hurt Every Wednesday and most of the same CBS
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  Speaker 3: station now with our star Gerald Moore. The second act
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  Speaker 3: of Philip Marlowe and Tonight's story The Seahorse Jockey.
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  Speaker 2: I was thirty minutes getting out to the address Matthews
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  Speaker 2: had given me. Neighborhood around Surfside looked like it had
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  Speaker 2: been pushed together from scraps and washed in from the sea,
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  Speaker 2: and number fifty one Monroe Place was no improvement. There
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  Speaker 2: was a corroda little frame house surrounded by a picket fence,
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  Speaker 2: most of its front seat missing. I parked in the
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  Speaker 2: red glare from the squad cars spotlight, and as I
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  Speaker 2: walked past the sagging gate, I could hear Matthews inside.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, hello, Malon, come on in, but don't fall over
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  Speaker 7: the late mister.
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  Speaker 2: Paul Crater there, that's him. Huh, doesn't look much like
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  Speaker 2: a sailor to me, Matthews, in spite of his whiskeys, And.
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  Speaker 7: What do you expect bell bottom browsing? All right, all right,
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  Speaker 7: those guys wear suits when they're short, like anyone else.
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  Speaker 7: He was shot twice, Phil, once in the stomach, once
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  Speaker 7: in the.
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  Speaker 2: Chest, dropped right here in front of the door.
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  Speaker 11: Huh.
• 17:46
  Speaker 7: Yeah, the way it looked. Somebody came up and knocked,
• 17:49
  Speaker 7: and one crater opened the door and they let him
• 17:50
  Speaker 7: have it. Got a line on him. Oh he was
• 17:52
  Speaker 7: a nice, quiet guy. Apparently lived there with his sister Helen.
• 17:55
  Speaker 7: As far as we know, they got a long fine.
• 17:57
  Speaker 7: We're still trying to locate her. He worked around here someplace,
• 18:01
  Speaker 7: but we don't know where yet. But what about that
• 18:03
  Speaker 7: demors business? Oh that well wait a minute, Oh okay Matthews. Yeah, Mooney,
• 18:11
  Speaker 7: I see jug Nolan as in Jau James. Yeah, uh
• 18:18
  Speaker 7: huh he is no you come on back. I'll check
• 18:21
  Speaker 7: him later personally. Well, Phil, that answers one question. Anyway.
• 18:26
  Speaker 7: Creator here worked out of a boatyard on Front Street.
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: What was that Nolan? Jug?
• 18:30
  Speaker 7: About Jug Nolan, he's the bird who runs the shipyard.
• 18:33
  Speaker 7: Mooney says. He's a genuine old sea dog from roll
• 18:36
  Speaker 7: your owns to.
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Matthews, how about letting me talk to this Nolan
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: before you and the boys move in. Why I'd like
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: to check the killer of his cigarette papers and I'll
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: let you know.
• 18:47
  Speaker 7: Well, okay, Mirlo, only keep your chin in. Maybe Nolan
• 18:51
  Speaker 7: doesn't know anything about what.
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: Happened to Crater here unless he pulled the trigger. Huh.
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: I drove through the thick smell of seaweed and dead
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: fish that was front straight for ten blocks before I
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: found a batter sign at Red Nolan's dangled over the
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: door to a shanty of an office, behind which a
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: tangle of crooked mass stuck up like jack straws out
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: of a jam of crusty hawks. I pulled into the
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: curb across the street from the place and started to
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: get out. The office door opened, and a man who
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: looked something left over from Moby Dick stepped out, headed
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: across in my direction. As he passed in front of
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: my car, I got a good look at the butt
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: of the homemade cigarette drooping over a jaw as heavy
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: as the end of an anchor, was rolled with brown paper.
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: Odds on it had to be jug Nolan when he
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: swung on down the street and finally went into a bar.
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: I followed, I sweet, do it again? Huh you right
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: snapped on it.
• 19:53
  Speaker 6: I got a good Well, what do you make of it?
• 19:55
  Speaker 6: Make something biting you?
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: I exactly jugged. I was just wondering how well you're
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: a with Lolodemers. Yeah, well enough.
• 20:02
  Speaker 6: To know she's got vinegar in her veins instead of blood.
• 20:05
  Speaker 6: Fly the old crackpot. Something new?
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: Oh no, No, she was my client earlier the night.
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: I'm a private detective names Marlowe. I'll keep it you're
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: up to see her today. I'd like to know why.
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: Go ask her. That's a little tough. Now she's dead.
• 20:20
  Speaker 6: Ah, well, better late than never, mate, Make sure do
• 20:23
  Speaker 6: you I can stand the strain?
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: I wish your business were her boats? Sure it wasn't.
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: Sea horses.
• 20:29
  Speaker 6: Don't talk bills to me, mate, I said boats. Two rusty,
• 20:32
  Speaker 6: rotten scowls come up with barnacles enough to sink them
• 20:36
  Speaker 6: another week. But to hear that old gal talk, you
• 20:38
  Speaker 6: think each one was the queen Mary?
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: Hey?
• 20:40
  Speaker 11: Sweet?
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, poor me not drink?
• 20:42
  Speaker 7: Okay, okay, yead Hey.
• 20:45
  Speaker 6: What's yours?
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: Mister Scott? Shohnnie walker. Take them both out of this.
• 20:48
  Speaker 6: No, ye don't. I'll buy my own. And I'm pried
• 20:51
  Speaker 6: of your questions. Mate to haul out.
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: Here, sweet lord, suit yourself. Maybe you can bear up
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: on one more question, Nolan. For you, maybe it's easy.
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: Oh kill Paul Crater? Why was I ask? Somebody put
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: two bullets and Paul Crater in front door of his house.
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: I just came from there. Oh dead, If you were
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: lying to me made, I'll kill you to get your
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: hands off Jug. Why would I lie? The cops know
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: who did it, not cheat, but they will. I'll find
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: out about this and in a hurray, Slow down, Nolan,
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: there's no rush. It is going to be dead a
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: long time. I want to ask it out up, Nolan,
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: I said, I wanted to never mind. Okay, commodo, I
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: help yourself. Nolan's ponderous right fist was cut when I
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: changed my mind, But that wasn't what did it. Over
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: his shoulder, I'd spotted a familiar face protecting Lieutenant Matthews,
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: leaning at the end of the bar and studying his
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: thumbnail intently. As Jug stamped past him and out the door.
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: Matthews jerked the intriguing thumb in the thin sandy man
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: working a pinball machine. We suddenly lost all interest in
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: the game and left abruptly, and Matthews siddled down the
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: bar toward me.
• 21:52
  Speaker 7: Sorry to step on your heels there, Bill, but we
• 21:55
  Speaker 7: found out that Nordland has two judgments against him for assault.
• 21:58
  Speaker 7: Got a very dangerous temperary.
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: Things you save me a split lip.
• 22:02
  Speaker 7: See you hear all of it enough to convince me
• 22:04
  Speaker 7: that Jock Nolan didn't do it. But we'll tag him
• 22:06
  Speaker 7: just the place safe. Chances are he's heading for Crator's
• 22:09
  Speaker 7: house now, which should just give me a good chance
• 22:11
  Speaker 7: to go to his place and look around. I'll see
• 22:13
  Speaker 7: him a life.
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah, song on, Matthew, got something else for you, mister,
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: Oh thanks Swede. Unless you can tell me why so
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: many surfside sailors grow Van Dyke's.
• 22:21
  Speaker 7: I wondered myself.
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: Maybe it's to hide those dirty collars.
• 22:25
  Speaker 11: I don't know.
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: Sweet couldn't stand the city.
• 22:28
  Speaker 7: His one would have been venomous. They want to jacks him.
• 22:31
  Speaker 11: Oh it's not better, come on, let's go seek all right,
• 22:35
  Speaker 11: say too, sick, there's follow He wants to know why
• 22:37
  Speaker 11: you sailors go those chin whiskers?
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah skip around to you.
• 22:42
  Speaker 6: I say, there's gotta have something to do while he's
• 22:44
  Speaker 6: a way of spare time.
• 22:45
  Speaker 11: And see that dude don't take up too much space.
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: Well, I guess it beats bike racing. I'll see you
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: do sick. Tell you I went to.
• 22:52
  Speaker 6: Town today looking for nothing but a change of scene
• 22:54
  Speaker 6: in a chubby blondie shirt.
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: See and what happened?
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, let's fine.
• 22:58
  Speaker 6: Takes a look at my bed and think I'm a
• 23:00
  Speaker 6: college professor doing research.
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: I couldn't turn out with a blowtalk.
• 23:03
  Speaker 7: Yes, one runs for a life because she takes me
• 23:06
  Speaker 7: for a judge.
• 23:07
  Speaker 11: And after that, just getting around here.
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: Wait a minute, hold it, you say, Judge Skipp, are
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: you losing your just the opposite? You'll get me an
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: idea that'll work. And what TI murders a beautiful sneer
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: and a missing seahorts wild But it's beginning to make
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: some sense, so long, said I. I checked Nolan's boatyard
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: at first, but his offer shack was doug So I
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: drove hard back to fifty one Monroe Place in the
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: hope that Matthews had been right about JUG's destination. My
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: grounded was stop. I once again gave thanks for smart cops.
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: Juck Nolan was there. All the fight gone out of
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: him as he stared, without seeing it, at the blood
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: spot on the floor where Paul Craterle had died. I
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: asked him one simple question. The answered grunted in three words,
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: without so much as looking at him. But it made
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: everything fit. As I got to the phone, I knew
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: that whatever else he was, the old seed Dog was
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: no liar. He smallow Jill.
• 24:13
  Speaker 5: What is it?
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: All depends? Now? Listen close. I've got to have some
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: help right away.
• 24:18
  Speaker 11: Where are you feeling?
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: It doesn't matter what this does. Get hold of that
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: friend of your stepmother's what's the name of Bertie Lockfield?
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: And both of you meet me at your stepmother's house
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: as soon as you can make it. It's important, baby,
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: don't fail me.
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: Well you so long? Yes, I understand you wandered out
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: help in a big hurry. We rest madly over.
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry it took longer to get here, and I figured,
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: what do he want us to do?
• 24:49
  Speaker 12: Phil?
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: Catch a thief and a killer? You see, I'm positive
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: now that it Weaver got away with that jewel. Seahorse
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: also held that pillar over Missus Demro's face until she
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: died and went on to kill Paul Crater in Surfside.
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: Two murders.
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: Bill us have that advantage, Baby, For one murderer a dozen,
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: the price is the same.
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: I don't understand, Marlow.
• 25:07
  Speaker 5: Does the second murderer have something to do with my
• 25:09
  Speaker 5: stepmother's death?
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: A fellow like links in a change you. Lola Demors
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: called me at four she was expecting a new lawyer
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: at four point thirty. When I got here at five,
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: she was dead and the jewel seahorse was gone. However,
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: the circumstances indicated that somebody who knew or had done
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: the work.
• 25:25
  Speaker 4: Then you don't think the new lawyer was doing.
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: But I do think the new lawyer came in just
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: as I did later, through the open back door, stood
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: right over there and overheard the entire business.
• 25:34
  Speaker 9: And you approve all this, Marlow, not yet, But if
• 25:37
  Speaker 9: you found that new lawyer, you cool right.
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: That new lawyer's going to turn up sooner. When she does,
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: we'll have something more. Yeah, she she Bertie, Lola Demors.
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: New lawyer is a woman, a distinguished man in suit.
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: And Van Dyke that you shot and killed in surf
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: Side was the lady lawyer's brother a seeman. Yes, you
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: the new lawyer who witnessed the whole thing decided to
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: move in on it, right, Bertie, But it was blackmail.
• 26:00
  Speaker 9: I got a note in my mailbox from a lawyer
• 26:02
  Speaker 9: named Crater accusing me in demanding manch.
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: Since you were already in so deep, you figured another
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: murder wouldn't matter. You got the lawyer's side address, Someway
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: and went there. That's why you stumbled, Bertie over a
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: suit of clothes and a beard.
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: You will always best friend. You'll never understand, you fool.
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: I don't try to try to morrow. Make a move
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: for your gun and offered a bullet in her back.
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: A demorous best friend. I despised and hated her.
• 26:28
  Speaker 14: Here I worked and slaved for that woman, hampering her,
• 26:31
  Speaker 14: putting up with his thickness, and her tampered in her
• 26:33
  Speaker 14: high handed waist. She owed me plenty for those years.
• 26:36
  Speaker 14: When it came time to pay, the money went to you,
• 26:39
  Speaker 14: your cheap little snip. You done nothing for her, You
• 26:42
  Speaker 14: were getting everything. Stand still, Marlow. I came prepare remember.
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: Food, did I missus?
• 26:47
  Speaker 12: Sophia? Better drop it, Bertie, you're in the middle.
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: We can still do business like you're said in the no.
• 26:54
  Speaker 12: Not no, sister, you forget three things. First, you tried
• 26:57
  Speaker 12: to kill me, Second, you did kill my brother.
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: You don't what you're doing.
• 27:00
  Speaker 12: And third, the female.
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: Of the species is always deadlier than the male.
• 27:04
  Speaker 13: Yeah, oh, Matthews, that's about it.
• 27:18
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: What do you think will happen to Ellen Crater?
• 27:22
  Speaker 7: That's one I don't have to figure out.
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: Well, she's a lawyer, you know.
• 27:26
  Speaker 7: By the wayfair, how did you find out.
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: She was the lawyer? Oh? Man? You see the fact
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: that the new lawyer was nowhere around bothered me. And
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: when I was in that bar in surfside, one sailor
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: with a beard, so me'd been mistaken for a judge.
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: So I figured maybe another sailor, also with a beard,
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: could have been mistaken for a lawyer.
• 27:43
  Speaker 7: And he worked back from them.
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: Ah, paul Created's sister Helen. I finally asked Nolan what
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: Helen Cretor did for a living. He told me, You see,
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: he was the guy who had recommended Helen in the
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: first place. He'd come to see Lolo about the boats
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: and found out that she needed a lawyer, right, that's right.
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: So we tossed some business to Paul create his sister.
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: That's how the phone number came on brown cigarette paper.
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: You know, I found it on the sun porch. Oh
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: that's it.
• 28:09
  Speaker 7: Yeah, Well you didn't get some coffee?
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: No, no thanks, Matthews. Okay, tired, No, I think I'll
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: go home. There was almost three in the morning, silent,
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: sterill hour, at the short end of a long, long night.
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: Everything that happened had been because of a jeweled sea horse,
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: an ugly little replica of an ugly little fish. But
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: then as I thought about it, I realized that the
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: trouble wasn't because of the sea horse. It was because
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: of the people. Bertie Luckfield, Helen Crater, Lolo Demrist. That's
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: always the trouble people. Yeah, it's a coin of cliche.
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: It takes all kinds of people that will louse up
• 29:15
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• 29:31
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• 30:01
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• 31:40
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• 31:45
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• 31:50
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• 31:58
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