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Philip Marlowe: The Hard Way Out (EP1307) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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Great Detectives dot net. Well. In general, The Adventures of Philip Marlow
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the CBS Run is a pretty fairly well collected series. In fact, with
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one exception, you won't find more than two episodes in a row missing and
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well over eighty percent or in circulation. But there is a stretch from October
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thirty first of nineteen forty eight all the way to December nineteenth of that year
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in which only one of those episodes is in circulation, and that's the episode
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we're playing today. Today's episode originally aired November twenty eighth of nineteen forty eight,
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a month after A Heart of Gold and the tunitle of This is The
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Hard Way Out. When I started, I thought one man was in trouble
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and three were trying to help him. But after I found two pounds of
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tobacco, two pieces of brass, and a boat without a pilot heading straight
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out to sea, I knew they had all been in trouble and all had
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taken the Hard Way Out. From the pan of Raymond Chandler, outstanding author
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of crime fiction, comes his most famous character. CBS presents The Adventures of
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Philip Marlowe. Now with Gerald Moore start as Philip Marlowe. We bring you
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tonight's exciting story, The Hard Way Out. I killed the shank of the
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afternoon in a Hollywood the proping Store, Trying for the fifth consecutive year to
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select something unique in a personalized Christmas card, a bright eyed sales girl finally
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suggested, in desperation, a smoking thirty eight, spelling out Noel and delicate
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wisps of white curling smoke. Well, I gave up, settled for a
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reissue of last year's unoriginal message, an hour later, I was driving out
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sorts of Pulver and my new client, August Quick, and I was glad
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to be away from the pre holiday crowds in back to work. When I
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pulled up in front of the factory building, an immodest sign told me the
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man I was to meet inside was president and co founder of Quigg and Slater,
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manufacturers of nothing but the best in construction materials. Come in, Come
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in, given you in a minute. I'm on the pall. August Pack
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does not change his policy over night later, not after twenty five years.
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You should know that you, of all people, never mind this excuseus raight,
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those you always have and they make me sick. Partnership travel, mister
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Quig, Oh no, my partner is dead now ten years. That's what
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his son, Keith Slater. But he has nothing to say here. His
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father left it that way. Well sit down at tomorrow please. Slater is
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not what I want to talk to you about, all right, mister Quig.
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Who is the man and what's his problem? My general manager Frank Emory,
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No, he hasn't puzzled sixty thousand dollars of this company's money in the
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last year. Hmmm. And isn't this a great time for you to climb
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the nearest rooftop and sclaim Kappy, no, because I want to save Frank
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Emory, not content him. Why what's so special about a general manager who
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keeps dipping itchy fingers into the tail tomorrow. Frank Emory has worked for me
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for seven years, and in that time he has climbed from shopworker to plant
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foreman the general manager. And that is something which took me fifteen years,
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which proves why that Frank can one day go right to the top here to
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my job the honest way. And that is just the party was on until
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a year ago when he got married and he started to fill his pockets with
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company letters before it even gotten rid of the rice? Is that it?
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Yes, but don't lead to any conclusions with tomorrow. Because his wife,
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Sheila is a very sweet woman. Everybody knows that, if anything, she
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should be a good influence. Mister quig, what's Frank emery salary? Ondred
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and seventy five a week? When's your last saying? This afternoon about two
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o'clock I called him in here, but I didn't say anything about the shortage.
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We just thought. I asked him if he thought he needed a vacation.
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He only sulked. He said he'd be all right in a little while.
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Then he left. But when he got back to his desk, he
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only stopped there long enough to pick up his hat. That was three hours
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ago. You call his house since twice, but I got no answer.
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He's the number, Marlow, and the address. Now we better stop talking
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start moving. I must know what Frank Emory plans to do. Yeah,
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this is my private number. Now, plan for pos in half an hour,
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but I'll be here working late. Okay, But before I get going,
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mister quake, one more question, just so all this will make some
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sense to me. Were you ever in a jam like this yourself? A
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long time ago? Maybe? And you know what it's like to be in
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Emory shoes? But the feller, mister Marlow, I don't seem to remember
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a rich man who once kept me out of a lot of trouble. But
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the details aren't very clear anymore. So good night, good luck. Hello,
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mister Frank Emory, Please, I'm sorry he's not in Is this Philip
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Marlow? Yeah, that's right. That should make you sel Emory. Yes,
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I just finished speaking to August Quick at the plant, Mistermorrow. He
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told me about you, Frank. Take it easy, missus Emory crying isn't
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going to help Frank any Yes, no, But how can I help Frank?
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What can I do? I'm not sure? But look, can you
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meet me right away? I'm at the Golden cry It's a cocktail lounge and
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Santa Monica Boulevard in the brightly Yes, of course, mister Morrow. I'll
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be there as soon as possible. Exactly thirty four minutes later, a two
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tones sleek convertible about the size of a Pullman car, glided to a stop
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in front of the Golden Crown. The loveliness behind the wheel was wearing a
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hundred dollar handknit dress that just wouldn't let go. I knew it couldn't be
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Sheila Hemry, but it was. She was a tall, luscious blonde with
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blue gray eyes that were set wide apart and a face that any angel would
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have gladly traded his wings for. Five minutes later, we were seated inside
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of the Quiet Corner Booth. But only two weeks ago, everything was perfect,
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mister Morlow. Frank didn't seem to have a care in the world.
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Then, all of a sudden, he changed, He became quiet, almost
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morals. He never suspected that he was dealing him Quick, of course not.
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And I still think there's some explanation, something we don't know about.
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Maybe, but from where I said, it looks like YouTube and keeping up
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with the Vanderbilts instead of the Joneses. It always Dan's the bank account.
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Just what do you mean by that, mister Morrow? Exhibit A, that
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knit one pearl two number you're worring? What exhibit B? That splash of
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automobile you drove it in? But Frank said we could afford those things.
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I know because I was worried when we bought the boat? What boat?
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Year? Fore it's a thirty foot sailboat. We darted near our college,
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just beyond Santa Monica. Hey wait a minute, a sailboat, a cottage
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at the beach, that car. Just how far do you think one hundred
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and seventy five bucks will stretch these days? What do you mean Frank makes
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twice that plus bonuses? Not unless he has a very fancy paper route on
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the side. Because our hundred and seventy five period is the figure that Quick
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quoted to me an hour ago. No, I can't believe that Frank wouldn't
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let him be that with. Yeah, some guys do funny things when they're
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too much in love. Low tears. Take time, Honey, about holding
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him back long enough to give me some dope. It'll put me on Frank's
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trail. I mean names and numbers, is clubs his friends? Anything will
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give me a line, yes, of course, But all that information is
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in his address book at home. All right, homes are next up,
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just between us, Sheila, What are the chances that Frank has an extracurricular
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interest on a back street somewhere another woman. Oh no, I'm sure that's
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not the way things are. Frank loves me very much. Yeah, yeah,
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I guess, so believe me. If he doesn't, we're not looking
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for him. Bezzler after a miniac. Come on, let's get out of
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here. When we left the Golden Crown, Sheila was still crying in had
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no shape to drive, so after parking my coop in a nearby lot,
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we floated out to the Emily Place and I would in a two tone neck
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which did everything at the push of a button except dryer girl's tears. At
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her house, Sheila pulled herself together long enough to give me a handful of
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addresses that might possibly lead to frank emery. But just as I was about
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to leave, I noticed a single phone number scribbled in pencil on the edge
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of a desk blutter. It was crunched or two two one three one.
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Since Sheila couldn't explain it, I wrote it down on a slip of paper
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and filed it in my pocket and lit. Once outside, I remember that
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my car was still on Santa Monica Boulevard at the Golden Crown, so I
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started back to the house to call a cab. I stopped suddenly at the
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sound of somebody in the shadows alongside the house. When I moved toward the
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noise, a man dotted out between two trees, and I went after him.
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Get your hands off ly so we can play another round of hide now,
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dice, brother, I'm getting too old for it. Now, who
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are you? What are you doing around the memory place? Come on,
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let's have it. Say. Wait a minute, aren't you aren't you Marlow?
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The man August Quig hired. That's right. You still haven't answered my
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question. Oh no, but I will now that I know who you are.
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I'm quick. Keith Slater surely, dear Quick must have told you of
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me, the waistrel son of his late partner. He did, which is
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still parrying Slater. Why are we hiding behind those trees? Correction, Malo,
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I wasn't hiding. I was waiting for Frank Emery, all right.
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We won't argue terms. Why we are waiting because I wanted to get hold
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of Emory and help me before he goes too far. You see, Marlow,
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he came back to the office after you left. What did he talk
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to Quig? No? The place had just closed and the old man was
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out for dinner. Did you talk to Emory? Yes, and it wasn't
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much fun. That poor fella's just about out of his mind. Milo.
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He raised them for an hour and a half about how unfair Quig was.
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Said, he knew that I was the one who'd get to run Quigg and
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Slater after the old man died. I don't follow that. When did you
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become a fair head boyer on there? I'm hardly that, but I do
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own a quarter of the plant, unless, of course, Quig fires me
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one day. Those are the terms of my father's will. The Quick won't
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fight you, is that it? He wouldn't think of it. After all,
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it would keep my dear father from resting easy in his grave. Okay,
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okay, let's skip it. Exactly what did Frank Emery tell you Slater?
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He said that August Quig was a two faced liar, that he'd settle
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with him in his own way. I told Quig that when he got back
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from dinner, and I also reminded him that Frank had a key to the
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office. It didn't face quick, didn't No, He said he never worries
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twice if Emory walked in on and he'd think about what to do about it.
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Then I tell you, Marlow, we've got to get hold of Frank
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Emery and stop him before it's too late. In just a moment back to
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the Adventures of Philiballo, but first, just one hour from now, over
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most of these same CBS Network stations, Eve Arden will be midway through her
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regular Sunday Night role of our Miss Brooks, America's most charming and most highly
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unusual school teacher. You've seen Eve Arden make her hilarious way through many a
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Hollywood movie. You can hear her every Sunday Night as r Miss Brooks.
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Just a little later over most of these same CDs network stations, and now
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with our star Gerald Moore, we returned to the second act, all the
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adventures of Philip Marlowe and Tonight's story, The Hard Way Out. It was
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nearly an hour later before I was back in my office on kowinga with my
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finger in the dial of the telethon, checking the names and places that Chila
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Emory had given me. Two night clubs, three hotels, and five friends.
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Later, I'd run through the list without a single kosher lead. Sitting
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there, thinking of all the places a guy could disappear too, I reached
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into my pocket for a lifesaver and found something else, a slip of paper
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that read Crenshaw two two one three one, the number I'd seen him a
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desk blutter at Emory's place. So was nothing more to lose than the millimeter
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off the tip of my index finger. I went back to dialings from the
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back shop. So Newton's talking, Newton's what pop, what can I do
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for you? Kind of thing? All the time. I'm my mistake pipe
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and top Bacot shop Marlo speaking Sheila, Henry Marlo. I think I know
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where Frankie you do? Yes at our cottage at the beach. It's closed
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up, but I was just going through some things in my guests when I
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discovered that the keys to the place were gone, and I clearly remember seeing
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them only yesterday. What's the exact location of that cottage. It's two miles
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north of Santa Monica and down on the beach, directly behind a large white
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frame house on the Pacific Ghost Highway, number twelve twenty one. You can't
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miss twelve twenty one. Okay, I'm leaving right now and I'll call you
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as soon as I can, so try not to worry somehow or ever.
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And I made it straight out the long sunset to the beach and then north
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as far as the large white frame house without being tagged below flying by any
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of the boys in Blue. When I got down to the cottage on the
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beach, I found it deserted and bought it up like opening night at an
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unlicensed peep show in Boston. Except for a couple of stray goals who probably
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had insomnia, I was all alone with a gregarious streak, and they didn't
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suffer very long because a minute later I had an unannounced visitor. It was
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a nasty caliber forty five automatic. And the man on the other end,
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who gripped the handle like he knew what he was doing, was none of
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it than the general manager of Quick and Slater, mister Frank Emery. Am
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I telling me who you are and what you want here of a name which
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probably doesn't matter. Miss Marie's Philip Marlow. But my business with you is
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something else. I'm working for your boss, August Quigin. Believe it or
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not, he wants to help you, lie, Marlow. Nobody wants to
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help me. And you know that this is a smart trick. But he
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won't work. It can't work. Then I'll tell you why. When the
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police do get to me, Marlow, they won't find anything but a corpse.
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Is that clear? Inside? Don't be a fool? What about your
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wife, Marlow? That way, I took the sixty thousand bucks to say
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your breath, unless you're interested in joining me to exactly as I say.
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I here the gout, these keysing over that door. Kwann so kidding?
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Please Emory, listen to me. Oh there's too many people already now it
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might hurt to talk. Well, I'm gonna say goodbye in my own way.
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I don't know what you're doing, Emory's top. I'm inte think.
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This isn't a time to think, Marlow, this is a type to act.
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Nah, get in. Hemory backne into the cottage, stepped outside and
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clolled the door shut. I waited a moment until I heard his car start,
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and I tried the door and knew I was wasting my time. Hemory
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had run a piece of pipe through the handle, and God Gansu himself couldn't
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have opened it from the inside to pay ten minutes to kick enough boards off
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one of the windows to wiggle out another five to get to a phone,
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and I told Sheila that her husband was on her way home. In a
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very desperate frame of mind. She promised the whole them at all costs until
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I could get there. Twenty minutes later. I wouldn shear his house on
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Bundy Drive. Mallow, what's your husband? I don't know. He hasn't
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been here. No, fine, After you called me, I waited,
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but he didn't come back. Mallow, What did you mean when you said
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Frank was desperate? I'm afraid Frank intends to kill himself. Kill himself.
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Oh no, we can. We still may be able to stop him.
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When he left the beach house. He was heading someplace to say goodbye.
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I think it for sure that meant you. But wherever he was going,
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he didn't want to be followed. He locked me in and the gun Holy
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smoke. Wh's your phone right over there? Oh? Oh, what about
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a gun? Does Frank heavily? Yeah? Yeah, forty five. He
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didn't come here to make his last goodbyes. I only read all this,
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queen. Do you know what you're saying? Come on, answer that phone?
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No answer on Quick's private wire. You're a killing Frank's murder. He
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hates mister quig. Yes, but I know he couldn't kill him. He
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couldn't. You listen to me. Your husband's caught it, and he's decided
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to blast his way out of a hopeless situation. I'm going to Quick's office.
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If Frank comes back, try to keep him here. Don't try too
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hard, because it might be dangerous now, even for you. I drove
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down to Corvid that the black cooking planet of Quick and Slater, pulled over
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park and walked up the alley toward the side entrance. Through a barred window.
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I saw the feeble night light glowed in the outer office. Otherwise the
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place was dark. When I got to the door, I stopped A diamond
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shaped key stuck out of the lock, and the heavy door was ajar.
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I eased it open and listened nothing. I pulled the key out of the
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lock and dropped into my pocket, and I went inside and switched down the
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lights. I found him on the floor next to the desk in his private
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office. He'd been shopping a chest point blank with a forty five, which
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meant that even before he fell, August Quigg was dead. The room was
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untouched. Quick's key case, laying the pencil tray on his desk. I
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stapped it open and saw what I expected, his diamond shaped key. I
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switched off the lights and started out when I heard heels clicking up the hallway,
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and backed up against the wall and waited. It was Keith Slater.
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He hesitated in the open door, started look on his face. Good look,
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hello Slater, Wizard marlow I wouldn't touch anything if I were you.
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The police, we want to see it just as it is, Marlowe.
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He's been murdered. I had no idea Frank would go this far. Yeah,
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he's full of surprises tonight. Are you sure he's not carrying any grudges
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against you. Frank and I are old friends. That old man in there
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was different. He wasn't human. He was a machine, a rock crusher
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with a concrete heart. Only sawry it with Frank, who did that to
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him? Because he'll never be able to get away with it. He doesn't
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intend to plans to commit suicide any minute now, Now he's on the straight
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slater. How does he feel about his wife? Is he jealous? Jealous?
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Why? Marlow, you don't think that he might kill Sheila? I'm
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going to call her right away. Wait a minute, if Frank is there?
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A phone call and on? Hurry things, come on, let's go.
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I't like the looks of it, Milo, neither do I Sheila?
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Rank anybody home. They're not here, either one of them. Now.
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If they are, they're not talking. You've got a m carve a sense
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of human and nobody's laughing. Brother. Look you check upstairs. I'll see
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what I can find out here for once. I hope it's nothing. I
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gave the ground floor a fast runs through. It was neat and tidy.
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From copper potted ivy on the dining room wall of the sunbeam toast snats are
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on the breakfast tray. The only thing out of place was a bottle of
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scotch near the kitchen sink and lipstick on the glass beside. It said Sheila.
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I was back in the living room before I found out why she had
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needed that bracelet dropped against the bowl of violets on the coffee table with who
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No, it's pinned together. The top one was for me from Sheila,
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It said Marlow. I just found this note from Frank. I'm sure he
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means that he's going out and now both the carefree. I've got to stop
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him, shielder. I turned to Frank's Notean was waiting, and a slayer
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came down the stairs and you love there, Malo. Did you what's up
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Frank's suicide note? Yes, Sheila to forgive him and forget him. Yeah,
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rid yourself. I'm going to call the police. Sure means and I'm
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going strong. I thought you were going to call the police. I was,
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but I noticed this phone number here on the desk blotter again. It's
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a tobacco dealer. Slater. I've got a very wucky idea. I'm going
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to give it a try. Oh Newton tobacco shop. Yes, from this
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side. You know, yeah, I know. This is the police.
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Mister Newton. We want some information. Why take it easy? Do you
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have a customer named Emory? Frank Emery? Yes, she was in Wait
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what he buy? Special? Come far? I see how much of it
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did he get? Oh my, let me thick now, I'm sure of
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it. Man could lay quite a smoke screen with two pounds in the baco,
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couldn't he. Thanks mister Newton, you've been a big help. It's
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a matter. Lady. You looks trouble. Are you thinking the same thing
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I am? I don't know what you're thinking. Malo. This mighty weird
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for a guy who was planning suicide to go buy himself two pounds in the
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back of a few hours before he blows his brains out. But it's succinctly
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Pal, I'm thinking that Frank Emory's suicide is a big fat phony. This
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is what Mallo Ybarra catching you with this hour is the best breakup had all
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night. Oh, so what's up, Marlo. Guy's been murdered. This
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killer one Frank Emory is getting away by boat. Can you sell a hob
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of patrol on running him down for me? It's his own assailboat called the
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catfre a thirty four, an auxiliar remoter. He'll be out ways off to
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Panga Canyon arranged, but where I find you on each some particulars. I'm
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going to his beach place. It's in a little cold two miles above Santa
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Monica. There's a peer in a boathouse a couple of hundred yards beyond.
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Okay, well we'll find it. I listen, don't defeat. When when
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will we get there? Henry Beach House was deserted in dark, so Slater
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and I went out of the boathouse, which was dark too. That's where
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we found Sheila lying on the plank, sobbing at the end of a long
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hard cry. Slader ran to her and lifted her to her feet. Sheila
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chilaps. I was too late. I saw him leave. He waved to
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me and called Gobyte. I thanked him to come back. No, I
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never will. I'll be too sure that honey. What do you mean?
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Mom? Oh wait a minute, wait a minute. That boat coming and
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it's public barrow. Oh yeah, Garry Barrack. I got another boat out
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waiting for the Caffre Malloside came directly here. Who's this, missus Emery,
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miss the slayer, lieutenanty Barro, how do you do? Well? Malo?
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What's it all about? And then Bezzla killed his boss, set up
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a strong case of suicide and at the moment is pulling a very fast switch.
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I mean he's not really checking out. How do you figure it?
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He bought two pounds of his table at Pizebacco today. That's interesting, Bill,
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But suicides are the guity of people. Okay, but I'll bet you
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might sea scout insigny against a dead jellyfish that he's got a small boat board
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and then he's gonna get off the Cafri and rode ashore. How about it,
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missus Emory? Is there a small boat? This is a rubber life
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rest in one of the lacks. I don't do it. It totally needs
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borrough. Yes, mooney, what is it? Who's gonna call him?
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The radio near the boat in front of the cafre, running without light west
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about two and a half miles off shore. He's hold a steady course,
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but there's nobody at the wheel. Facts seems to be abandoned. I'm telling
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us stand by believer alone will be right out. Well. Marlow will know
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in a minute. Let's go, folks, get aboard and a pot of
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patrol kind of sliced through the black swells with the easy grace of a head
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waiter after a ten dollar tip, and all the way out it looked as
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though Mallow was going to be the bright boy of the evening. When we
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pulled alongside the cab for he made a fast and borderary, it still looked
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that way. It looked great right up to the point when he Borrow appeared
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through the porthole in the closed cabin, jerked the door open and went inside.
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After that, it didn't look so good. Mallow, Come here is
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this Frank Emery? Yeah, yeah, that's Henley Barr. He's been shot
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over the hard from up close with a forty five, undoubtedly the one he
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still has gripped in his hand. There. Yeah, you better not come
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in, missus Emory, your husband has killed himself. He walked back to
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the turn and sat down. He Borrow was going through his grim routine inside,
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and I thought lousy. I stared down vacantly at my feet and only
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gradually became aware of the little brass cylinder that danced across the deck with every
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roll of the boat. I picked it up. It was an ejected Cottridge
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from a forty five. I'd found an empty forty five Cottridge. All at
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once things began to take shape for me. Bar keep, barrow hole everything
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I was right. Emory didn't commit suicide after all. Oh the man spot
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he's right here the gun and is high. No I know, but he
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was murdered. Now. Look I found this out on deck and the door
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of this cabin was closed. You remember when a man is shot with a
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forty five, he drops, he doesn't walk in, close the door and
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then fall over left. Did Emory have any keys? Nine? Yes,
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these are his. They're on the ignition by the wheel. Sure, sure,
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look look it's diamond shaped. One. It matches when I've got in
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my pocket. Come on out on decky bar and he clear? Clear?
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Can I see your key to the side door of the factory. But certainly
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my litt's right here in my pocket. It's not in your pocket because it's
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here in my hands. Slater, you were so excited when you shot Quiger,
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ran off and left this sticking in the lock. And here's one for
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you, missus. Emery. While the Carefree was still tied up with the
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doc. You stood right here, surprised your husband and the cabin door and
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shine him. This little Cottridge was ejected back to the stern. But you
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forgot about that because after you shut him inside and put the gun in his
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hand, you closed the door. Then you started the motor, locked the
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wheel and cut the book loose. Don't know what you took your gun?
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That was nicely bar right. Oh, I wouldn't have believed this. Don't
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lose your place because you'll have to go over it all again. Don't worry
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I wound. You see, it's sort of like an equation two pounds of
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tobacco and two pieces of brass added up to two bodies and two murderers.
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Well, wall, it beats me that missus memory seemed to be nothing but
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sweet soft and stay home nights. Yeah yeh. She pulled one of the
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richest devil crousses on the record, Ibara. She let her husband steal a
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portune for her and even helped them plan a fake suicide to get away.
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Then she turned around and used this plan only no fake this time, to
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kill him so she'd be free to marry Slater. But she didn't want Slater
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without the money. Right right. As long as August Quick lived, Slater
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could never be sure of his income. So Slater killed him, and they
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hung that out on Frank Emery too, and they worked a fast routine and
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passed the detective right through the middle of it all while Slater killed Quick.
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I was with Shila, and Slater took me over. Well, she killed
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Frank, and make a great team in a shell game. Wall. Yeah,
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but you did all right? Well, see you tomorrow the report,
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you know. Then I felt I sat alone in Appier for a long time.
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I watched the waves come in, and gradually my mind got untangled in
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the treachery and violence that had been wrapped up in all night. And the
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lady turned out to be the tiger. And then as my thoughts plopped back
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through the whole mess of the afternoon, when I've been shopping for Christmas cards,
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I made up my mind to cancel my own. I have an entirely
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new set for up. I say it pays to advertisement, if that's true,
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right across the top of my new cards and big block letters. But
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I have the words goodwill toward men. Who knows. Maybe it'll help anyway,
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I hope. So the Adventures of Philip barlow created by Raymond Chandler,
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stars Gerald Moore, and is produced and directed by Norman McDonald, script by
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Meldonelli, Robert Mitchell and Gene Levin. Featured in tonight's cast were Barbara Fuller,
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Louis Van Ruten, Bill Ally, and Edgar Barrier Lieutenative Barr was played
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by Jeff Corey. The special music was conceived and conducted by Richard Uran.
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Heassured me with us again next week. When Philip marlow says, I walked
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into it smiling because it had all the coney elements, the weird doctor,
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the beautiful girl, the gloomy house on the windswept cliff, even the hulking
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menace. Only one thing was missing, the body. And that's when I
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stopped smiling, because I turned out to be the cops myself, almost welcome
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back. The story definitely took quite a few turns from what Marlowe I expected,
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but I did like the hopeful in It's one of those things that's really
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fascinating about the radio version of Philip Marlowe is that usually they go ahead and
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they work that sort of thing into the show. Well we turn now.
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