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Philip Marlowe: Ladies Night (EP1619) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho.
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  Speaker 1: This is your host, Adam Graham. If you have a comment,
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  Speaker 1: So pick up your copy of Slime Incorporated, available as
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  Speaker 1: a paperback, an ebook, or an audiobook. Well, now it's
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  Speaker 1: time for today's episode of the Adventures of Philip Marlowe.
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  Speaker 1: The original air date is February the twenty first of
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  Speaker 1: nineteen fifty and the title is the Ladies Not.
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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 had wind up in the gut of
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  Speaker 2: the prison of the grave, this time a peddler of
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  Speaker 2: pulp paper love, a blackmailow with muscles south of the border.
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  Speaker 2: Chisler are simpering prude and a cups in a bedroom.
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  Speaker 2: I'll at one thing in common each was a woman.
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  Speaker 2: It happened like this.
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  Speaker 3: From the pen of Raymond Chandler, outstanding author of crime fiction,
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  Speaker 3: comes his most famous character in the Adventures of Philip Marlowe. Now,
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  Speaker 3: with Gerald Moore starred as Philip Marlowe, we bring you
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  Speaker 3: tonight's exciting story, the ladies' night.
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  Speaker 2: And the moment the sauce is boiling curiously? Which is right? Now?
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  Speaker 2: Add one full couple tomato pace gradually and stare vigorously. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: one full cup of tomato pace. Oh no, no, not now,
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  Speaker 2: I'll be a minute. Oh all right, So I add
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  Speaker 2: tomato pas cup and all okay, okay, I'm comming. I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't mean to you, kay, Vanamin.
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  Speaker 4: Darling staunch friend, k Am. I welcome me and my
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  Speaker 4: small western union.
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  Speaker 2: Joe, Oh sure, sure, come on, didn't honey? We go
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  Speaker 2: in the kitchen.
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  Speaker 4: Oh it's not marlow playing chef again? What is it?
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  Speaker 4: This time?
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  Speaker 2: Sauce a la marino what's on your poor little rich
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  Speaker 2: girl's fourteen carre at mine tonight?
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  Speaker 5: You?
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  Speaker 2: It's Tuesday, Tuesday.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, this is meeting night in my crowd, the Greens
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  Speaker 4: Committee at the country Club, the Beverly Hills Male Choir,
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  Speaker 4: the veterans of this nat so no man left.
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  Speaker 2: Uh step Stone friend Marlow, Huh. Look, kay Baby, just
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  Speaker 2: because I.
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  Speaker 4: Edited that, I know it by Heartfield, just because brave
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  Speaker 4: private detective once saved rich uncle Enox niece Kay Baby from.
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  Speaker 2: Lots of trouble, which she was well paid.
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  Speaker 4: There's no reason why they've got to go on seeing
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  Speaker 4: each other. Well, mister, you're wrong. There is a reason,
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  Speaker 4: a big fat one. I like you a lot, especially
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  Speaker 4: on Tuesday.
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  Speaker 2: I can't tell you how happy that makes me now, not.
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  Speaker 4: Being too bold, am I. I did call you no
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  Speaker 4: three times. You weren't home all day.
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  Speaker 2: It didn't discourage you.
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  Speaker 4: If I can't have you, I'll take the door stack
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  Speaker 4: Tuesdays on Tuesdays. Now about this sauce aalah McCall, what
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  Speaker 4: do we do first? Fish out the cup or wait
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  Speaker 4: for it the milk?
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  Speaker 2: Oh? It all depends if we want to Hey that
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  Speaker 2: things sticking out of your pocket real telling am or
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  Speaker 2: proper gag.
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  Speaker 4: Oh no, no proper real thing. I met the boy
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  Speaker 4: in front of your.
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  Speaker 2: Door open with my hands are greases.
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  Speaker 4: So I noticed over there, self reliant, it's called soap
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  Speaker 4: and water.
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  Speaker 2: We'll read it there straight leg huh.
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  Speaker 4: Straight like trying to read you all day. Very important
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  Speaker 4: at the tulip room. Sunset strip at eight to night
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  Speaker 4: will take it from thee dime means everything.
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  Speaker 2: Armsby you know you need it?
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  Speaker 6: I think sure.
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  Speaker 4: She's the demon editor for pastan House.
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  Speaker 2: We'll publish what.
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  Speaker 4: Magazine's torrid love, great passion? You know the shop girl's encyclopedia.
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  Speaker 2: Uhh, well not tell me shopgirl? Where'd you meet? Editor
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  Speaker 2: gg Ormsby.
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  Speaker 4: At a cocktail by about a year ago. She's quite
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  Speaker 4: a character, sleek to look at.
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  Speaker 2: And listen to.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, someplace between a career woman and a marine sergeant.
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  Speaker 2: Credit good, excellent.
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  Speaker 4: Uncle Enoch once shook hands with her, and that's better
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  Speaker 4: than done and bread. Hey, where are you going?
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  Speaker 2: The dun jacket and professional demeanor both are going to
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  Speaker 2: the tulip room. But you're not.
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  Speaker 4: Still that's not there.
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  Speaker 2: This is the sauce. Alamarino needs one measuring cup. Remove
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  Speaker 2: woman's touch here on in Hie bye key, you're a
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  Speaker 2: staunch friend. Indeed, the Tulip Room was one of those
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  Speaker 2: extra chic spots, you know, curl up at the foot
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  Speaker 2: of the Hollywood Hills, where the velvet and the maitre
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  Speaker 2: D's tone of voice made you sure you had egg
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  Speaker 2: on your vests. But that, plus the crew cut glamour
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  Speaker 2: girls who lined the boots and shrill darling, no matter
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  Speaker 2: what was said, I had finding my prospective client that
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  Speaker 2: much easier. In severely tailored banker's gray flannel, she stood
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  Speaker 2: out among the neighboring naked shoulders like a war on
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  Speaker 2: a cue ball, as did her voice, which, once it
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  Speaker 2: had gone through the introductions, came right to the point mallow.
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  Speaker 7: My problem is simple. I want to find a woman
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  Speaker 7: in a hurry. Her name is Henrietta Law. She's a
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  Speaker 7: good heck writer who disappeared. I know not why health Likewise,
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  Speaker 7: now here it is one clue three. A couple of
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  Speaker 7: weeks ago, Henriette Laurence showed up in my office from
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  Speaker 7: someplace like Seattle of Port and I forget which, and
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  Speaker 7: handed me an outline for a three installment serial story
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  Speaker 7: that was excellent, according to our stand three days ago.
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  Speaker 7: She brought in the first two installments, also excellent. But
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  Speaker 7: the day before yesterday, when the third installment was due,
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  Speaker 7: I was sitting in my office window when it's happened.
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  Speaker 7: She only got as far as the front door. What happened,
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  Speaker 7: I don't know. She saw somebody going by slowly in
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  Speaker 7: the car, scared the daylights out of her, and she
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  Speaker 7: hubbled for it. Yeah, she limbs use the cane anyway,
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  Speaker 7: She piled into this cab and took off. Haven't had
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  Speaker 7: a way from her since I'm worried.
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  Speaker 8: Mallow.
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  Speaker 7: She's a nervous thing, the kind would go to pieces
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  Speaker 7: little ones fast. So I want you to, Oh, I
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  Speaker 7: live in this stale nikerovidy, Jeanette busy?
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  Speaker 6: So I see?
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  Speaker 4: And what suns and gentlemen's name arem.
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  Speaker 7: I supposed to get? It's Dracula Darling where counting of
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  Speaker 7: white throats?
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  Speaker 9: Goodbye your price, goodbye, Jeanette.
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  Speaker 7: This is business strictly Well, I was only being friendly.
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  Speaker 4: Excuse you have to visit.
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  Speaker 7: Oh what they let loose after Jock? Anyhow, Malow, I
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  Speaker 7: want you to find this girl, maybe in an awful jam. Now,
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  Speaker 7: what do you want to know?
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  Speaker 2: Well, description might help GG.
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  Speaker 8: Okay.
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  Speaker 7: Henriette is about thirty five on the drab side, no makeup,
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  Speaker 7: no jewelry. Each time I saw she was wearing the
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  Speaker 7: same thing, a plain brown coat, a plain of brown,
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  Speaker 7: had low heels, all in all the sex appeal of
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  Speaker 7: a tumbleweed.
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  Speaker 2: Last address you had on her, it's the only one.
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  Speaker 7: The Race Hotel for Women, Room seven. It's over on
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  Speaker 7: fun Nearlsienega. But she hasn't checked back there in two
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  Speaker 7: days either. A giggling flower of the old South disc
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  Speaker 7: work I could talk to on the phone today hasn't
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  Speaker 7: a slide aside thee a way off. But I figure
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  Speaker 7: for you she might mollow you. Probably got a face
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  Speaker 7: like a wet hemp. Her name is Clarice.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we'll try it. Where can I reach you? GG?
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  Speaker 7: My home in Brentwood, Sunnyside, nine one o one one, Yeah,
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  Speaker 7: I'll stay next to the phone. Really do your best,
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  Speaker 7: William Marlow.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, GG, it will be my best star R. I
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  Speaker 2: don't worry about it. I'll call you.
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  Speaker 7: Very hotel with vallet more or what most?
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  Speaker 2: Please?
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  Speaker 10: Go ahead?
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  Speaker 6: Oh hello?
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  Speaker 9: Can I can I help you?
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  Speaker 2: Ah?
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  Speaker 6: We alone?
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  Speaker 2: Is the switchboard closed?
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  Speaker 5: Oh?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah?
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  Speaker 6: Good.
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  Speaker 2: You see, I'm a private detective named Marlow Floris.
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  Speaker 9: A private detective and you know my name.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, we find things out?
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  Speaker 9: Oh, how can fully load me help you?
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's about Henrietta Lawrence, the girl with the King.
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  Speaker 2: She's in trouble and I think it's a man.
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  Speaker 7: So do I?
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  Speaker 9: Well, I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: You sure positive?
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  Speaker 9: She was always so quiet, so mysterious, it was enough
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  Speaker 9: to make a body curing. So one night I followed her.
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  Speaker 9: She went to Annie Stringer's Hollywood health Club. That's a
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  Speaker 9: lady's Turkish bath ovin Santa Monica Boulevard and dohaney.
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  Speaker 2: Mm, well maybe she ducked in there because she knew
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  Speaker 2: you were following her.
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  Speaker 9: Oh no, I was very careful.
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  Speaker 8: Besides, she had something to say to a woman there.
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  Speaker 2: I know.
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  Speaker 9: I saw him talking in the doorway when I went by.
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  Speaker 9: Couldn't see who it was though, No man, No, But
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  Speaker 9: I keep my eyes open when she comes back.
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  Speaker 2: Oh you do, just then keep them wide open, Chlorice,
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  Speaker 2: their lovely eyes. Good night, honey. My client was wrong.
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  Speaker 2: Chlorice did not have a face like wet hamp It
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  Speaker 2: was more like a batch of biscuits. But the body
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  Speaker 2: curious had provided to leave as far as the corner
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  Speaker 2: of Santa Monica and Dolhemy and into the white, addiseeptic
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  Speaker 2: looking reception room of Annie Stringer's Hollywood health Club Women
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  Speaker 2: Only there I forgot about Clarice Hempon biscuits alike, and
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  Speaker 2: talk instead about something a whole lot tastier, like the
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  Speaker 2: girl who was leaning on the corner of her deskmok
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  Speaker 2: information while she made pencil marks on a chart. She
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  Speaker 2: looked up when I closed the door and started taught me.
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  Speaker 2: When another door in the room opened and a woman
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  Speaker 2: who was built like a sack of cement bore down
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  Speaker 2: on me, she turned back to a shark.
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  Speaker 11: Yes, sir, I help you.
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  Speaker 5: I'm Annie Stringer. We don't have a men's section here.
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  Speaker 5: If that's what you wanted. No, it was something else
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  Speaker 5: from a Stringer Annie. You'll do names my talk and
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  Speaker 5: trade something else like.
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  Speaker 2: What Henrietta Lawrence. I'm looking for her?
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  Speaker 4: Why are you? Mister?
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  Speaker 5: What's your name?
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  Speaker 2: Philip Marlow? I'm a friend of Henriette's from Portland. They
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  Speaker 2: told me over the Brace Hotel that Henriette might be
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  Speaker 2: at your place. You see, someone had seen her come
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  Speaker 2: in here once. Henrietta Lawrence.
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  Speaker 5: Well, name doesn't mean anything to me, but.
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  Speaker 4: Missus Wharton was pro while all right, he'll toll be
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  Speaker 4: right there.
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  Speaker 5: I don't recall anyone by that name, mister Marla, but
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  Speaker 5: you might check with my receptionist there. Take care of
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  Speaker 5: the gentleman William Mona, dear very well.
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  Speaker 4: I'm coming with the garden.
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  Speaker 2: I'm I'm sorry, mister Marlow Mona, dear Philip Marlow.
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  Speaker 12: Marlo, but I don't recall any hen Meeta Lawrence ever
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  Speaker 12: having been with us. But why don't we check the
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  Speaker 12: registration cards at my desk?
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  Speaker 8: Can be sure? I might be mistaken?
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  Speaker 2: All right, she's a woman about thirty five. She wears
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  Speaker 2: no makeup. R I know. Just listen.
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  Speaker 12: You see, mister Marlow, the cards here everyone who ever
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  Speaker 12: visits the club.
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  Speaker 8: Why do you really want Hemmeda Laurence.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'm a private detective with an interested client who
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  Speaker 2: has money, Amigo. It could be what's your connection here?
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  Speaker 12: Receptionist and a good friend to Annie. Confident you might say,
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  Speaker 12: all right, I say it. Meet me nearly behind the
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  Speaker 12: hardware store across the street now half far were closed there. Well,
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  Speaker 12: I'm sorry, mister Marlow, but we don't seem to have
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  Speaker 12: any listing of a Henrietta Lawrence.
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  Speaker 2: But perhaps you no never mind, thanks just the same,
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  Speaker 2: You're quite welcome.
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  Speaker 8: Don't keep me waiting a mego.
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  Speaker 2: I killed most of the thirty minute waited an all
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  Speaker 2: night beanery a block away, where I drank bad coffee
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  Speaker 2: and listened to a special monologue my waitress, which was worse.
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  Speaker 2: And at exactly ten thirty, I stepped into the street
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  Speaker 2: and walked to the alley behind the hardware store well
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  Speaker 2: cautiously taw the dark shadow of the building until I
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  Speaker 2: hand that gripped like a bed trap, snap shut on
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  Speaker 2: my upper arm, while another locked my wrist high on
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  Speaker 2: my back.
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  Speaker 7: One inches to morrow, and I'll take it off and
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  Speaker 7: hand it tick.
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  Speaker 4: I was a lady receiver, understand, Oh.
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  Speaker 2: Do I still call you Annie?
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  Speaker 4: Never mind? Nor wise?
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  Speaker 2: Cracks in a long day, and I haven't got patience.
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  Speaker 4: Now, what's your angle?
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  Speaker 2: Slip? Baby? In more ways than one? Start talking?
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  Speaker 4: All right, all.
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  Speaker 5: Right, Henrietta came from Seattle, not Portland.
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  Speaker 4: Sometime some advice forget Henrietta Lawrence, Shamus.
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  Speaker 2: You can't do her any good, a liar any and
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  Speaker 2: you know it.
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  Speaker 4: Wasting your breath Shamus.
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  Speaker 2: That's bluff any hot air.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I suppose that goes for the letter too.
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  Speaker 2: I said, you slipped again, kid, what about it?
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  Speaker 5: You don't know what letter I'm talking about, mister Marlowe,
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  Speaker 5: Henrietta Lawrence does, So tell her to call off the
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  Speaker 5: bloodhound or that letter.
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  Speaker 4: Will go right to the cops. They'll know exactly what
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  Speaker 4: to do with.
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  Speaker 7: But you can still walk go all right.
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  Speaker 5: But I'll be around Marlowe, So don't forget the message
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  Speaker 5: I gave you for miss Lawrence.
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  Speaker 3: In just a moment, the second act of Philip Marlowe,
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  Speaker 3: but first the kindly position of rivers End. Doctor Christian
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  Speaker 3: will meet the spirit of George Washington in the most
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  Speaker 3: unusual way this Wednesday Night, when Doctor Christian tells his
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  Speaker 3: story on most of these same CBS stations. An elderly
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  Speaker 3: patient who claims to have a personal message from George
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  Speaker 3: Washington comes to doctor Christian's office and presents him with
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  Speaker 3: one of his most perplexing cases. Doctor Christian, starring Geene Herscheldt,
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  Speaker 3: is a regular Wednesday Night feature. Now with our star
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  Speaker 3: Gerald Moore, we return to the second actor, Philip Marlowe,
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  Speaker 3: and Tonight's story the ladies night.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, watch Danny Stringer lumber out of sight down the alley,
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  Speaker 2: and she turned tossed me and I told you so,
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  Speaker 2: smile and lit a cigarette for me.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I guess it's a good thing I chucked that scullery,
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  Speaker 4: made routine and follows you acting all.
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  Speaker 2: I've already said, thanks, So go ahead, get real corny
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  Speaker 2: rub it in marlow pinned by a woman that was.
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  Speaker 4: No woman's fill. It was as a lake garganguous cousin.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I was also out of numbered and surrounded by the way,
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  Speaker 2: where's your gun? Kay?
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  Speaker 4: I don't have any gun, just a lot of bluff
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  Speaker 4: and curiosity about what you were doing out here in
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  Speaker 4: the alley with a creature like that. I was taking
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  Speaker 4: a judo lesson by correspondence. Maybe what was all that about?
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  Speaker 6: A letter?
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  Speaker 2: Well, for my money, the way things stack up gg
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  Speaker 2: ormsby it's top writer one Henrietta Lawrence. It's being blackmailed
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  Speaker 2: by any Stringer and that letter is Anny's protection goes
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  Speaker 2: to the cops of anything. Can't get out of side quick?
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  Speaker 4: What's Marlowe not another?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, my day, duck, Well you're the one.
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  Speaker 4: It's important, all right, But don't forget. You're a sucker
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  Speaker 4: for a hammerlock. So watch it.
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  Speaker 2: Over here, mona.
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  Speaker 3: See here are here alone?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, we're alone?
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  Speaker 8: Good? It is worth my life what I'm going to
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  Speaker 8: tell you? And we like me alive?
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  Speaker 2: You know? Look what is it? Money and knows something
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  Speaker 2: about Henriette Lawrence see.
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  Speaker 8: More than enough. There's a certain letter.
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  Speaker 2: Oh you know about that? Sure?
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  Speaker 8: I know where it is and what it says.
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  Speaker 2: Plus you, baby, where is it? I want that letter bad?
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  Speaker 2: It's nice nice.
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  Speaker 8: See and I would love to give it to you
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  Speaker 8: for nothing. But but what But my poor mother she
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  Speaker 8: needs an operation. My father the mortgage on her und.
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  Speaker 2: You lit insist and wants music lessons? Come on, kid,
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  Speaker 2: how much?
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  Speaker 12: How much is the life of Henry Lawrence worth? Feel
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  Speaker 12: dear to me? To you too, Henry Lawrence.
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  Speaker 2: Her life, and I'll see what I can do.
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  Speaker 8: You better do real good, amigo. It's a very serious thing.
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  Speaker 7: I take a great risk.
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  Speaker 12: Any stringer is stupid, but she's also strong like a bull.
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  Speaker 12: Come to my apartment. It is Threete and north Ardmore,
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  Speaker 12: number D one, hor dear, okay, I'll be there, good.
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  Speaker 8: And please, amigo. You don't know how feelings against me,
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  Speaker 8: not for this.
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  Speaker 12: No business is business pleasures pleasure.
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  Speaker 8: Maybe we can mix them in an hour. I'll be
• 18:12
  Speaker 8: waiting for you, honey.
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: You like that.
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: It was as touching a little scene as I've ever witched.
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: Gip. Okay, this deal is able to get rough before
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: it so, and I've got a call to make. Let's go.
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: And I was dumb enough to warn you against the
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: hot hammer lock. The kid's The hammer lock that that
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: kid holds is like a battle. Can I go with
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: you just for last.
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we're gonna call on my clients. You're scramming. Come on,
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: Hell fallow Gg got a line on Henriette, but you're
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: not gonna like it much. Trouble is, she's got blackmail.
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: I don't know what the hook is, but I have
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: word of one of the bargain as it's plenty serious.
• 18:59
  Speaker 11: Who's doing?
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: A female master don named Danny Stringer? Is the big
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: wheel I got onto it? Throw a letter a letter, Yeah,
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: Annie wrote her protection letter. It's got all a dirt
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: in it and goes to the cops if anything happens Danny.
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: It's a standard routine.
• 19:11
  Speaker 11: Where is it letter?
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: Who happened? Is it double crossing little Spanish number named
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: Mona was supposed to meet her again in an hour
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: at her place.
• 19:19
  Speaker 11: Phil, we must get that letter.
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: It's no sense, Gge. Mona is not bright, but she's sly.
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: It's liable to be expensive.
• 19:24
  Speaker 7: That doesn't matter.
• 19:25
  Speaker 11: Okay, anything I can do to help Henriette I want
• 19:27
  Speaker 11: to do now more than ever.
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: What does that mean?
• 19:29
  Speaker 11: I've heard from Mamalo. She called me just a few
• 19:31
  Speaker 11: minutes ago.
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: Where was she?
• 19:32
  Speaker 11: That's a tough part. She was crying, said, with the
• 19:35
  Speaker 11: end of everything. She tried to tell me about the
• 19:37
  Speaker 11: last installments of the story. Then she was interrupted. She
• 19:40
  Speaker 11: gasped out something that sounded like American Airlines ticket office.
• 19:44
  Speaker 11: Then the line went dead. There are three of those
• 19:46
  Speaker 11: offices in town.
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well we better check them. Look, can you take
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: the one out in Beverly Hills. I'll get the others
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: all right.
• 19:52
  Speaker 11: And Mallow, where does the Spanish thing live?
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: North odd More eighty three, ten, Apartment D.
• 19:57
  Speaker 11: I'll meet you there in an hour.
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: When Gigi hung up, I sent Kay to check the airline.
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: I was in Hollywood for a woman carrying a cane
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: and a big load of trouble, telling her to call
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: me at the Downtown agency within half an hour, and
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: I headed south for the office on Sixth Street. Halfway down,
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: it began to rain, you know, the kind of dismal,
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: misty drizzle. It makes your clothes smell like blankets at
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: a fire sail. I spent a fruitless half hour picking
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: at the corners and trading descriptions, and finally, when Kay
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: called in a negative report from the Hollywood office, it
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: was high time to beat it out to my appointment
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: with Mona. The rain had put enough dazzling sheene on
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: the pavement to make the going slow and slick, but
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: I got out eighty three to ten hours more, not
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: over a minute late. The apartment B was the last
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: time the right and completely dark. As I walked toward it,
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: I found myself following a set of feminine footprints rapidly
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: filling with water. Besides each left print was a little
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: round hole. By the time that registered on there, I
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: was already at the door. I could hear her crying inside.
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: I didn't wait to knock. It's me, Molo keeps sick.
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: What happens for you?
• 21:04
  Speaker 6: Phil?
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: Woman?
• 21:04
  Speaker 9: What's here waiting for me in the dark? Get a
• 21:06
  Speaker 9: big club?
• 21:07
  Speaker 7: When a Kinny should grab me and beat me with it.
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: It was a king, not that it makes any difference. Now, hey,
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: you're a province. Rush. She got the letter, Hune, she
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: got it loose. Look at this later later, right now,
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: I want to know what that letter said. You can
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: forget about me paying the Mexican National Debt for it.
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: I want it free and fast. Come on on'ce Andy
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: got on Henriette Lawrence, right right, she knows it. What.
• 21:31
  Speaker 7: Somebody's outside there?
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: Oh it's Gig. My name is Gig.
• 21:35
  Speaker 7: Oh Bill, who was justly you told me about some minute?
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: You you get all right? Hold it, hold it, take.
• 21:40
  Speaker 7: It easy, mody housekeeper sister, what happened your hat dance?
• 21:43
  Speaker 7: Get out of control?
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: Wait a minute, Wait a minute. Henriette scooped this gig.
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: She was here and got the letter herself. What Yes,
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: we're just talking about the letter when you came in.
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: Let's get on with it, Mona, what's big Annie's pitch?
• 21:54
  Speaker 7: Supposing I won't tell you now and I'll.
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: Have you in a pokey for attempted extortion before you
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: can say, Pancho Robins and beautiful Come on when okay,
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: that's better?
• 22:05
  Speaker 12: Well, you and me going, Dan, I don't know what
• 22:08
  Speaker 12: Henrietta Lawrence means to this.
• 22:10
  Speaker 7: Dragon here, But she's a murderer. Are you lying a
• 22:13
  Speaker 7: little to Molly talk that that's impossible? Henriette is a
• 22:16
  Speaker 7: fine girl.
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: I know what you're saying, Mona, Sure I do?
• 22:19
  Speaker 8: I read the letter, didn't I?
• 22:20
  Speaker 7: Henrietta Lawrence killed a woman in Seattle four years ago?
• 22:23
  Speaker 7: Any thaw r do it?
• 22:24
  Speaker 8: She had named, date, placed everything.
• 22:27
  Speaker 7: I can't believe it. I just can't. She's such a
• 22:31
  Speaker 7: swelled person. Look, she even left this the final installment
• 22:35
  Speaker 7: of the story for me and that wilshod ticket office.
• 22:38
  Speaker 7: What do we do?
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: Phil?
• 22:39
  Speaker 7: We got to help her?
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: Okay, it's neither she nor Annie counted on Mona here
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: reading the letter. The best way to help her is
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: to try to keep her from committing another murder?
• 22:47
  Speaker 7: Are you crazy? What are you talking about?
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: Come on, gig, get with it. The letter was worthless
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: except as Annie Stringer's protection. Yet Henrietta went to all
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: the trouble of getting it. Why she could shut Annie up?
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: And there's only one way.
• 22:57
  Speaker 7: To do that, killer only Machael. I didn't even think
• 23:01
  Speaker 7: you shoot Senora. You got nothing else to work.
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: We dropped. Stop it better stay clear of it from
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: here on. Gig, you go home and wait for me.
• 23:10
  Speaker 7: Okay, soil, whatever you say, call me as soon as
• 23:12
  Speaker 7: you can.
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: Sure, sure, all right, come on, MoMA, let's go me.
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: Yes, oh no, migo.
• 23:18
  Speaker 8: The letter's gone and so is Mona's interest.
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: I'm listen you. You cut yourself in on this right
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: at the Ismbrero. You know any so you may be
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: able to help me. It's that I spend the night
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: Nicola added up sweetheart on the lay.
• 23:32
  Speaker 8: All right, it's so forceful, a migo, Come on, let's go.
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: Land. He's not in her apartment, she's not around the
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: health club. What's next? Moment? What else would she be?
• 23:51
  Speaker 8: Touch me?
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: And migo think? Will you? She had any appointments slightly
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: that didn't fit with a regular routine.
• 23:56
  Speaker 12: Well, she went out on Fountain Avenue in a big hurry, a.
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: Couple of about Avenue. That's why Henriette has been staying
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: in a hotel out there.
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: The break hooker.
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: That's it on the nose. Is any dumb enough to
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: go there?
• 24:07
  Speaker 12: I'm sure she's stupid and her strength makes her wreck.
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: That's it. Let's go, Come on, moment's here on the
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: first floor.
• 24:28
  Speaker 10: It's you again, mister man, it's me again, Clarissa, miss
• 24:32
  Speaker 10: loans number seven. Well, you're sure and luck mister Maloh,
• 24:35
  Speaker 10: she's in now. She came back about a half hour
• 24:38
  Speaker 10: ago with a friend, the biggest woman I ever saw
• 24:41
  Speaker 10: any it's true.
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: Member, you are right, yeah, come on, let's get back there.
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: Mister Marl. You can't go back there.
• 24:46
  Speaker 9: Your man in this hotel phone.
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: You've got a past there aperture. Come on. This entire night,
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: from start to finished, has been for women only getting
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: a second tired of a present company included a number seven.
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: Listen right here, Henrietta, unlock at Chlorie's fast, get back.
• 25:11
  Speaker 9: Honey, big a knife.
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, go ahead, and screamed Clarice, get it over with.
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: We have missus Laurence, you know, doubt left by the
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: window here and it's still open, only five feet to
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: the ground, and a clear set of footprints in the
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: wet dirt, cane marks and all.
• 25:32
  Speaker 8: Just like just like what mister morlow I.
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: Started to say, like the ones I saw earlier. Sure,
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: the lasting to him on the story the let her
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: at Mona's the airline ticket. Now she's out of a
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: slick as a whistle. Clorie's call the cops here, give
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: him my cart. I'll get in touch where you go,
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: miss Morlow, to break the unpleasant news as gently as
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: possible of my client.
• 25:53
  Speaker 7: What about me?
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: What will I do?
• 25:54
  Speaker 9: Now?
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: Just keep looking at any beautiful chiseling double crossing jerk.
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: Maybe I learned something, but I'm not going to count
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: on it. Gigi had a lot of lights on in
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: a glossy Brentwood house, and as I walked up the wet,
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: curving flagstones to a door, I could see her inside,
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: pacing slowly back and forth, an impatient cigarette in one hand,
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: a stiff brace of brandy in the other. Whatever gg
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: Armsby really thought of felt about Henriette Lawrence lenn I
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: couldn't tell, but I was sure that before I left
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: she was going to despise it.
• 26:33
  Speaker 7: Phil, I've been waiting for you to phone me. I
• 26:37
  Speaker 7: something bad, isn't that? I can see it in your face.
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: We found any Stringer's body gig in Henriette's hotel room.
• 26:44
  Speaker 8: Ah, what a dirty, dirty shame.
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: And Henriette gone. But she won't get far, not this time.
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: The circle gets smaller every time. She can't keep on killing.
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: It's got to stop someplace.
• 26:55
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I suppose so, But I'm sorry for her. Phil.
• 27:00
  Speaker 7: I hope she got a plane ticket tonight and is
• 27:01
  Speaker 7: miles away by morning. I hope she gets a break
• 27:04
  Speaker 7: this time.
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: She didn't buy a ticket. She's not even running and
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: she won't get that break.
• 27:10
  Speaker 7: You talk as if you know where she is.
• 27:11
  Speaker 6: Do you?
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: You've been to Seattle, haven't you?
• 27:14
  Speaker 7: Gig of course, but not for years.
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: You lived there. You were a writer before you became
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: a publisher. Why what is this You knew Annie Stringer
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: along before the night too? Gg huh?
• 27:25
  Speaker 7: What are you driving at Marlow?
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: But your real name is Henriette Lawrence, that you killed
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: a woman in Seattle once changed your name and got away.
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: But there was a witness and a couple of weeks ago,
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: purely buy a chance that witness, Andy Stringer ran Andy,
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: you recognized you was Henriette and granted the chance for blackmail.
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: So you had to bring Henriette Lawrence back to life
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: just long enough to get rid of the witness. At first,
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: you had to get a letter she written, and also
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: have someone who tell a straight story to the cops,
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: say you hired me planet the right leads along the way.
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: You can wait my desk. I'll try it. Gg. You
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: can't win, so at least lose gracefully with you.
• 28:00
  Speaker 7: This was in one of my books. No one wanted
• 28:02
  Speaker 7: to believe it. You're right, I can't win. It's all true, Phil,
• 28:10
  Speaker 7: Where was a loophole?
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: It started only as a hunch, but everything fit. I
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: got it from the cane you use, Gigi at Mona's place.
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: The cane marks were on the left side of your tracks.
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: Outside the hotel window they were on the right. Anybody
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: who really has to use a cane couldn't do.
• 28:26
  Speaker 7: That, such a little thing.
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, it was.
• 28:31
  Speaker 7: Look, Mallow, you're the only person between me and that break.
• 28:35
  Speaker 7: I got more money than I know what to do with.
• 28:38
  Speaker 7: I can bid high, really high. You wouldn't be for sale, would.
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: You, No, baby, just for hire? Get you coaches. You
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: were going down a headquarters, getting the whole business down
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: on police stationary, one orderly step at a time, because
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: the process is full of well as full as the
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: fiscal report of the First National Bank for twice as
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: long a whip up. But finally it was all over,
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: and I was on my way home to my bachelor apartment,
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: and then I remembered some.
• 29:27
  Speaker 4: Mad explaining what took you so long?
• 29:29
  Speaker 6: Darling?
• 29:30
  Speaker 4: You're here now. Dinner is ready and waiting. The martinis
• 29:34
  Speaker 4: are ice cold. Just come on in and close the door.
• 29:39
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: The Adventures of Philip Marlowe bringing You Raymond Chandler's most
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: famous character, star Gerald Moore, are produced and directed by
• 30:12
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• 30:15
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• 30:23
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• 30:36
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• 31:00
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• 31:46
  Speaker 1: Welcome back. Well. A very unusual, albeit very enjoyable story.
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: This is a very rare story with the all female
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: guest cast. It's something you'd see on occasion, but very rare.
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: The only other time I remember hearing something like this
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: was an episode of suspense from the early days, early
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: nineteen forties. But here you have a cast all women,
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: and some with a few roles that they typically wouldn't play,
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: at least not all in the same piece. So a
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: very interesting story the way it plays out. Also, I
• 32:27
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• 32:33
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• 32:37
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• 32:41
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• 32:46
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• 32:55
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• 32:59
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• 33:03
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• 33:11
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• 33:17
  Speaker 1: Gerald Morris Marlow. This story is a good one with
• 33:21
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• 33:25
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• 33:29
  Speaker 1: the quality of the cast, particularly you know, in this
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: episode you have an all female cast, and I think
• 33:35
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• 33:39
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