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Philip Marlowe: The Lady Killer (EP1487) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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a Great Detectives dot net. Well, now it's time for today's episode of
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the Adventures of Philip Marlowe. The original air date August twentieth, nineteen forty
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nine and the title The Lady Killer Get this and get it straight. Crime
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is a sucker's road, and those who travel had wind up in the gut
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of the prison of the grave, this time inside of two hours. A
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lavish mansion seeds with suspicion, a sealed cabin filled with gas, and an
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artist retreat had a copse on the floor, all because one man was too
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good looking to be true to anyone. From the pen of Raymond Chandler,
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outstanding author of mister A, comes his most famous character and crime's most deadly
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animated. As we present the Adventures of Philip Marlowe now with Gerald Moore starred
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as Philip Marlowe, we bring you tonight's exciting story, The Lady Killer.
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Longer I sat in my office with my feet up on the desk and thought
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about it, the more convinced I became. Paul Niles was unquestionably the handsomest
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man I'd ever seen. He had faced it belonged than a Greek god,
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only his features were better and more finely chiseled. They looked as though they
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had been molded out of alabaster from a blueprint by some inspired genius. On
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the classic side view we presented made the great profile show up like a bowl
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full of shredded wheat. In fact, the guy was much too good to
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be true in more ways than one, which had been my original impression of
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Niles when I'd first met him just two hours ago at the corner of Sunset
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and Coenga, and at his insistence, had driven him around the quietest streets
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of Hollywood in my car while he tried to hire me. He was scared
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stiff, that was all he would admit to, And as he talked,
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I wondered what it would be like to have a face like that. Must
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become quite a problem women cluttering up your life, Marlo. You're not listening
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to me unless you help me. I'm going to be killed soon, tomorrow,
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tonight, maybe in the next ten minutes. I must have protection from
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what. Who's after a girl? Her name is Norah Kirby. She's threatened
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my life and now she's here in town. She actually intends to go through
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with it if I'm not where she's staying. I went there to talk to
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her, but she was out. Why is killing you so important to her?
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Well, I don't even know for sure. It's something ridiculous. Norah
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Kirby obviously doesn't think so let's have it, Niles. Why I can't tell
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you that I see? Also, I suppose you know to take this to
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the police where it belongs, and you can't give me the reason for that
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either. Yes, I came to you because I need private health and I'm
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willing to pay well for it. Now, you don't have to concern yourself
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for the reasons. Simply see that, Nora doesn't get to me now here
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as a starter. Here, it's two hundred dollars for just that. Keep
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it. I only accept money from the people I work for. You mean
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you won't help me. I just want to know where I'm going before I
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start. No, wait, you don't do it off here. Don't you
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understand my life's in danger. I'm scared, not enough to listen to your
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tongue any Hey, this is as far as I go. But tell me
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one thing first, just for laughs, what business are you in? Why?
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I'm a composer. I write music. The way you said it,
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it's either a front or a hobby. How do you get your dough?
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I have friends, wealthy ones who have faith in me, and that's more
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than I can say for Marlow. So along, mister Niles, go on
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out all right, but here at least take my card and please call if
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you change your mind. I'm desperate, Marlow. I'll pay you even more
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if you'll only eat. Good bye, mister Niles. That was the way
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I'd left it two hours ago at eight, and I spent the time in
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between trying to referee a tug of warre in progress with the feeling I had
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that I'd been stuffy on one end and I under nourished bank account on the
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other, and was slowly but surely getting no place. So when the break
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came, I grabbed at it. Hello Marlo speaking Milo, This is Paul
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Niles again. Oh, I've thought it over. I'll tell you everything if
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that's the only way, because I've got to have help before it's too late.
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That's better. Where I am in my studio thirty eight ninety three.
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I'venito del Saul thirty eight ninety feet. That's off col Whatater Canyon isn't YT's
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not get over here right away? Where do you want to wait a minute?
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Follow? There's someone here. Somebody just came in. Now what Niles?
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Who's there? Who is it? Laurah? There? O Niles Miles.
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When Niles phone went dead. I hung up random my car was headed
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for Colwater Canyon before I stopped to think of what I'd heard on the telephone
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could very easily have been eight for a Patsy routine, because I had nothing
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more to go on now than before except Niles promised to tell all that I
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got no further than gunshots. But I was already well on one easy way
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to find out, so I cockscrewed my way over the mountains to have a
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Nato Dell's sol and followed it to number thirty eight ninety three, which was
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a straight up driveway ande narrowly into the hill face that ended on a gravel
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shelf just big enough for the red wooden glass studio, a generous helping him
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import a jungle for landscaping in a circular parking space. As my headlights slashed
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across the tangle of overhanging trees in the center, they trapped the figure of
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a woman running. She stopped, crouched and looked back into the glare like
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a cat do's, and dotted to the darkness skin. I caught her at
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the corner of the house just a minute, maybe not so fast on the
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curt Let me go so we've been properly introduced and had a chance to talk
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a lot of things over Norah Norah, Yeah, Nora, a Kirby girl
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with murder on her mind. No, No, you got the wrong person.
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My name is not Nora, it's Lynn. I don't know anyone like
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that. Lynn. What Lynn Harten? Lyn Horton? Okay, Lynn Horton?
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What's inside that got you so panicy? Can hardly stand up? Is
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it Paul Niles? Yes? I gotta get away from here. And it
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actually happened? Eh? He was shut? Is he dead? I don't
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know, I think so how did you know about it? Who are you?
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Name's Marlow? Come on, Lynn Horton, let's take another look.
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No, no, I couldn't bear. I can see him through the window.
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It means you must have been inside. No, no, I wantn't
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look. Maybe you're too generator to try to lie. Let's have the key,
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come on, give it's better after you go on inside. Now where
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is it? Yeah? Then come over here, away from him. I
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can't believe. I can't what's your connection with him? I was just a
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friend. I tried to help him with his music. No price on them
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merchandise. You're wearing you must be one of those mentioned. What do you
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mean you got doughnut shows? We lit'll skip that. Assuming you didn't kill
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him, you must have had some reason for showing up here at night.
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What was it? Oh? I only wanted it? Did you hear that
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someone's outside theah? I get the light there on the terrace something moved down
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there. Going out to see what it is, and listen. There's no
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such thing as welcome visited, just now, baby, So you stay here,
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understand it, don't budge. I felt my way out the door,
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down the stone steps, started where we've seen the movement along the wall at
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the far end of the terrace. There was no sound, nothing moment,
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whether it made the noise had gotten away clean. So I headed back to
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the house, and that's when I heard it. I started after over,
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my shin against the first rock goten stopped me cold. Instead, I listened
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to her drive away, called myself a few unpleasant names, and concluded that
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Lynn Horton or whatever her real name was, had been quite as scared as
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she acted. After I limped inside, turned on the light and reached the
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phone, I stopped at the word and above a pretty girl's picture on a
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newspaper clipping sticking out of Paul niles pocket. He carried a New York dateline
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and said that Nora Kirby, convicted of man slaughter in a traffic accident,
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had been released after serving three years. At the bottom of the story,
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scrawled and ink was the message, three years for something I didn't do,
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to get something I couldn't have. It's not fair, Paul, I'll be
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seeing you. Who signed Nora? I picked up the phone again. In
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a few minutes later, the technical tenant, Matthews at Homicide was up to
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date. Okay, I'll be right out. And you say this girl Laura
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Kirby did tomorrow, I said. Paul Niles was expecting her too, and
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it looks like she did so. I looked as another angle though, the
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woman who just beat it away from here, I want to call herself Lynn
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Barker. Yeah, yeah, that somebody else who was snooping around outside too,
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who also got away from you. You're doing real well. No,
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wait a minute, wait, do you see this joint you'll understand. Besides,
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I'm in this for curiosity only now my paycheck got murdered, remember,
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And furthermore, I yo have matches when I want them, I said,
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I'm looking for some matches. No, there's some m the strangest matches I've
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ever seen. What about them? I got a velvet cover on him?
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So what a velvet book of matches? Hey, hey, Matthews, do
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you ever hear the name Negrotto? Yeah? Sure, able Negrato. It's
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a big name in the music publishing business, made most of his fortunate and
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records puts in Beverly Hills. You know, I got a dandy hunch.
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I'm gonna go have a talk with mister Negrotto. Lieutenant Okay, on one
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condition, be careful what you say, Marlow, and keep in touch.
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Good evening. You aren't mister Negrotto, No I'm not. I'm Garret Horton.
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Mister Negratto is busy Horton. Yes, they were along? Was that?
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No? No, it's a more common name than I suspected that.
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So, but it's all mist Negrotto. I'd like to see him for a
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few minutes at an urgent matter. Names Marlow, Perhaps you didn't understand me.
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Mister Negrotto and I are in the middle of a business conference. We
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can't be disturbed. No, you can't be desturbed. Well, look,
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mister Horton, a man was murdered to night, and one trail leads from
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the corps straight to this front door. The Negrotto talks to me here now
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or later at police headquarters you decide, well, that's where you feel come
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in. You're an officer, not exactly, I'm a private detective. I
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see, well, follow me, tell me. He led the way through
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what looked like the outer lobby of the taj mahavel and down a silk patted
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car to do a set of cob doors that would have fit any round house
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in the country. When we walked in, a man glanced up on a
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stack of papers and with a pair of eyes that belonged on a shock.
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It is best to look a hole from me, Horton introduced us. This
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is mister Marlow, private detective, mister Negrotto. I'm looking for a girl
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named Norah cur Be in connection with the murder of one Paul Niles tonight.
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She either committed the murderer knows who did, because she was nan saw it.
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And what exactly brings you to my house? Well, I found this
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book of matches near the door of the dead man's studio. I think it's
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yours. It is. Go on, any idea how it got there?
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None? Whatever? And until you mention their names, I'd never heard of
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either Nora Kirby or Paul Niles. How about you, mister Horton. No,
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I'm afraid not. Oh there's my wife now, I'm sure you want
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to give her the third degree too. Just a moment, Lynn, Lynn
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Darling, I'm in here, Please, Lynn, This is mister Marlow.
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How do you do, mister Marlow, I'm glad to know you. I'm
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sure thanks, I'm pleased to meet you. Missus Negrotto, your brother,
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and I have been trying to convince Marlow here that we didn't commit murder tonight,
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but he thinks we did because he found this book of our matches near
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the corpse. Can you explain it, my dear? Why? No,
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I can't remember a man's name? Was Niles? Lynn? Paul Niles?
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Mean anything? No? Nothing? How about Nora Kirby. I don't think
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i've ever heard the name before. Well, Marlow, that would seem to
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take care of the book of matches, not completely. It was found at
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the house of the dead man. Remember, we've had hundreds of these made
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up passed them out freely. I think you've taken up quite enough of our
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time with this absurd business model. So now I'll ask you to leave.
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I'll show you up. Don't bother. Now listen to Grotto and listen closely.
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I've been taking it easy so far. But somebody in this room is
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absolutely certain how those matches got out there. I know that for a fact,
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and I'm a private detective. Don't forget. So if you suddenly remember
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something that needs talking over, it'll be in my office for one hour,
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but not one single minute longer. Good night. Oh in just a moment,
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the second act of Philip Marlow. But first, every Sunday afternoon,
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CBS brings you two outstanding programs of music. Gems from the great composers played
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by the sympinet, and the sweet memorable songs of the outstanding modern composers and
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semi classicists sung by the coroliers. Each program is designed especially for fine Sunday
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afternoon listening. Here both the sympinet and coroliers this Sunday afternoon on most of
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these same CBS stations. Now, with our star Gerald Moore, we returned
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to the second act of Philo Marlowe and Tonight's story The Lady Killer. When
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I started back from my office on Cowinga, I figured that there was an
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even chance that the double talk I'd left in my weight might stack up in
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the center of the ne grotto living room floor like so much dynamite, which,
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if touched off by the book of matches, could cause an explosion that
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would jah loose a few facts about the lives and loves of the late Paul
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Niles, facts that would make finding Nora Kirby and clearly understanding her motives something
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less than possible. And twenty minutes later, when I was slunched behind my
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desk and listening to the sta cuttle report of a pair of high heels clicking
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shop and toward my door, I had a hunch that my theory of violent
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detonation was not just pushable thinking. When the door opened without the formality of
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the knock, that hunch turned a sure thing because the visitor was the not
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quite lady call Lynn Tomorrow, and before she could speak a police the phone
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rang. I'm sure thing graduated the cinch. It was another Negrotto, the
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one named Abel Mallow. I suppose it's stupid w do you make this club,
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but frankly your visit here has left me curious. There you have a
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minute, Yeah, I think so, hol A WHI when I need a
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light with me in a second, missus Vangrana. All right, but what
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I have to say is important, Mala, so make it fast, just
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as fast as I can. I don't think your husband as much to say
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to me what people you're talking? Yeah, I didn't mind handing me those
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matches names. Thanks hello, Sorry to have kept you waiting, mister Negrotto.
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I never seemed to be able to hang out matches. That's odd.
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You apparently did all right on that score tonight. Model the reason for the
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call more or less, Mono, You know as well as I do that
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servants, guests, anyone who's ever been in my home could have left those
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matches near the body of that Paul Niles. That's right, mister Negrotto.
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Anybody, which also includes you and your wife, your brother in law and
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others in the family are still the meat. What's your point please, I'm
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in a hurry. Very well, Mono. I call to find out if
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you're holding anything back from me. If this murder concerns that the grotto is
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beyond the appearance of those matches. I can't say because there is something,
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because I don't know anything else. No, there is bad, yes,
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Mono, there is to be honest. I admire them. Where you handle
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the situation? What's your address? I may have worked for you soon tonight,
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thanks mister Nogrado, but I don't think I'll be available, at least
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not till I get throw the job I'm on, which is what handling dynamite
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while I play with books at matches. Good night, sir. What did
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he want la mine? Other things? An expressed desire to hire me to
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do what report on you? I suppose he didn't say. What makes you
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think that's what he wanted? Addition, missus Negrato, a rich old husband,
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a beautiful but bored young wife and unemployed Donnis always had up the same
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way. Also, you were here in my office just about clinches things.
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Not to mention your presence near the corpse the key. You're you and I've
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heard enough. Marlow. Look, I didn't want to get mixed up with
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Paul. I couldn't help myself. I swear I couldn't. He was different,
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Marlow, handsome, more charm than i'd ever known in anyone. Yeah,
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real, lady killer, I know what are you getting at? Just
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this? I'll pay you any price your name only. Don't tell Able that
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I had anything to do with Niles. He's a jealous man, Marlow,
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insanely jealous. If he knew about it, he'd kill Missus Negrato. I
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don't know, Marlow, what do you want right now? Everything you know
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about Nora Kirby, but I've never heard of her before to night. No,
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I'm not, it's the truth. Now, what do you want?
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Nothing? Good night? You mean you won't say anything? Oh my,
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I don't know how to thank you. Don't try. Also, don't get
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mixed up about me, baby. The fact that I won't blackmail you doesn't
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mean I don't like you. And the door, Missus Negrado, leave it
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open on your way out, will you. I'm expecting another visitor. No,
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my husband, No, just another man. He ain't commn and a
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triumphant I once left some dynamite with I won't bother explaining that. Goodbye,
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Missus Decrado. Mm hmm you a great, big, beautiful time. Oh
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my name mister Harton, I've been waiting for you. Why mister Morrow,
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something I said or didn't say at the house. Not exactly. It's more
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a matter of intuition, high explosives, and the fact that both your brother
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in law and sister have already paid their respects. What can I do for
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you? I'm not at all sure the first time. I'm only here I
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noticed something very strange about the way my sister looked at you when you spoke
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of the murder of this Paul Niles. When she left the house shortly after
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you did, I followed her here. All of which makes the next question,
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why, mister Horton, Because I don't trust her, and more important,
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every penny I own is tied up in a business venture of mine that
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her husband is backing. She originally met Abel through me, and if she
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should in some way be in trouble, the kind of trouble that her husband
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wouldn't put up with, I might suffer for it in the long run,
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right along with her. Ah huh. And by the trouble, mister Horton,
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you're referring to something specific. I am, Lynn has had a very
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well, very mixed up background, bellow, So it's entirely feasible that in
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some way she's connected with this Nora you spoke of who killed Paul Niles.
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You mean as an accomplice or even as accessory before or after the fact.
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Pretty thoughts about your own system, which I can't help. I doubt that
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you have anything to worry about, mister Horton. However, I will say
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this that if Nora Kirby hadn't gotten a Paul Niles sooner or lady would have
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had plenty to worry about. You mean, I mean that now is a
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great time you had to go home and sit on your investment. All is
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well, mister Houghton, at the time being a moment after Houghton left the
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office, I came to the hollow conclusion that although my little bombshell had exploded
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on schedule, damages had been light and a jot loosen, neither fact nor
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fancy about the late Paul Niles, and much less about the allusive miss Norah
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Kirby. So my next move had to be a second trip to Haven't need
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it, del sall in a report the detective Lieutenant Matthews, which is what
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I was about to do when it came from someplace outside Long and Love.
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I ran the length of the cart outside my door and fellow down the single
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fighter stats to the street, where, in the half light of a distant
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lamppost, saw the shadowed figure of a girl slipped behind my cot and tore
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the store front nearby. I started after her and stopped at a noise behind
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me, which was a mistake. Oh oh, honey, for yourself together.
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You're the one who screamed, screamed, honey, you have got it.
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Dad, listen, this is just silly. Hello, relax, honey,
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you're look your cop didn't come along first. Being drunk is one thing,
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The DTS is something else. I know last year I was in the
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same shape and it took me three much. Wait a minute, Look,
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I was slug and I slipped a Mickey su honest, slug honest. If
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you don't mind giving me a hand, I'll get up. Oh easy money.
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Sorry, I figured you're all wrong. You never thought you were slugged.
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Any idea who's done it? I'll tell me. Didn't you see anything
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before you found me? Honey? Then every girl screams here, nothing at
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all. Honey. You must have been out longer and you thought, maybe,
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hey, hey, look this this card here on the cap. What's
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your name, honey, I'll tell you why. I'll tell you more than
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that. You know who slugged your honey. A polite guy, a very
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polite guy who left his card you're engraved in all Paul Niles. Now it
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I used to a work squize. Niles gave me that card earlier the night,
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must have dropped it just now. Also, Niles is dead, and
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that you and what back of that card there in princ will give me that
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Woody Gray's Motel ten hundred ten. I mincha of Boulevard Bungalow nine, sweetheart.
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I may have something good here about who's loved you better than that,
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about who killed Niles and where she could be found. If I love,
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Here's five for your trouble and bless you. As I piled into my car,
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I knew that putting niles conversation piece about having just come from Nora's place
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when he first met me, together with the address on the back of his
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card, was taking a lot for granted, I sold myself to playing a
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long shot was better than not betting on anything at all, and I kept
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driving fast. When I came to a stop away from the place, which
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was run down, spread out in quiet I had a feeling that what I
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had ere marked long shot was quickly moving up to even money. And when
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I was standing next to the motel Bungalow mark nine, that feeling became fact
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because was inside and piled in an awkward heap on the floor. There was
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a still phone of the girl, the newspaper clipping it later Nora Kirby.
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It was another full second before I realized something even more important. On a
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hot night in August, there wasn't a single window open, and Nora Kirby
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was headdled close to a guess either that was on but showed no flame.
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I picked up a stone at my feet, took one deep breath, and
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then crashed the pane of glass, unlocked the window, and got inside.
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Over the girl. Why, I figured it was taking a hasty way out
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of a murder that she no doubt had a very personal reason to commit.
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I stopped figuring. When I was kneeling next to her. I knew that
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she was still alive and that a man gripping a forty five in his hand
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it just opened the front door. Go make another movement lower, I'll kill
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you well, comes the switch. Brother in law, Garrett Haughton, I
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never would have guessed. You wouldn't have had to try if you kept your
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nose clean. No, get away from her. Why so she can die
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as a suicide, which the police will chalk off is logical since she's already
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wanted for murder. It, you know, doubt committed exactly murder I committed
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because there is anything worse one can do to a blackmail So that's it,
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Niles, Lady killer was blackmailing your sister. You found out and killed him
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before it could cause too much trouble, family trouble. It would end up
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hurting the good thing you've got with husband, Abel. Huh, No,
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shut up and get away from it. We're going outside. You're kidding,
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Marlow, Marlow, I'll shoot you if you don't start walking. You're still
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kidding, But you can't kill me without killing yourself. This room is jammed
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tight with a gash you turned on after you brought her in here unconscious.
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Happy, I satter outside of my place because she was on her way to
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see me and tell me that you would murdered Niles. The flash from that
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gun in your hand, Horton, will blow us all the bits they said,
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brother, for you it's all or nothing at all. Go on,
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shoot, go on, try it, Try it, Doctor Gorson, Please
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report to what you've been seeing Miss Kirby. Now, mister marlow She's going
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to be all right, but hold it down to a few minutes, all
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right, doctor, just a few minutes. Hello, Nora, it's been
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a long time getting together. Huh yeah, but not through any fall of
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mine. Mister Marlow. I followed you from the moment you left Paul's place,
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but I wanted to see you alone, so I kept waiting for my
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chance, which was canceled out when Horton spotted you after he left my office.
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I got to learned to run fast, honey. He had to take
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time to knock me out, and still he caught up with you, So
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did you. I'm very glad to say, even though you probably weren't trying
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to save me at the time, were you? Frankly, honey? Until
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Horton stepped back into that bungalow to keep me interfering with things, I figured
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you were, dy Marlowe. If Paul hadn't been killed just before I got
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to it, at least added hitting with something hard. I had motive,
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you know, Yeah, I read all about it. Three years in prison
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for something he didn't do. But tell me, if Niles fraened you and
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knew it, why didn't you go to the police. It couldn't have been
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that irresistible. But he was Marna and more. As a matter of fact,
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he didn't frame me in the first place. Oh my own idea.
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You see, Paul was driving the car when we we had that accident three
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years ago, not me, yes, which places or whatever? Why he
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already had his license revoked for reckless driving. They just sent him away for
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ten years at least, as against my three belly thatt or not. At
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the time, I couldn't think of waiting that long for him. No,
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no, mana, hello Matthews. We checked their story. It's sure enough,
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even if it's the kind of thing we're not supposed to be able to
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understand. Paul was strictly a lady killer, remember, Yes, so he
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was. Well, I guess that size everything in huh, I cried Phil.
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I just finished taking a staper from Horton. There's one more question.
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I never made you so sure that in a room half filled with a gas,
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a gun exploding would blow everything up. Oh well, let's simple.
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I I you what well, I figured you see, I thought that,
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yes, well, good night miss Kirby, good night mister Mars. So
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long lieutenants, a long lucky. By the time I got back to the
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quiet of my apartment on Franklin was a little better than two in the am.
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As I sunk into an easy chair without bothering to turn on the lights,
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I realized that at the moment, I was tired, tired of people,
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their troubles, the petty little jealousies, lady killer that makes one man
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a lady killer in another. Oh well, I little last cigarette, and
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I thought about the Martin of Trouble, a classic Grecian profile that built for
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Paul Niles. Stopped thinking when the player of the match in my hands showed
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a mirror opposite me, the mirror that also reflected the face of the guy
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holding the match. It was a long way from being in Adonis. In
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fact, he was slightly on the mud fence side, and at the moment
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glad of it. The Adventures of Philip Marlowe Bringing You Raymond, Chandler's most
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famous character and crime's most deadly enemy, starred Gerald Moore and are produced and
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directed by Norman McDonald. Script is by Meldon La Robert Mitchell and Gene Levitt.
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Feature in the cast were Gene Bates, Paul Dubob, Ted Von Elks
28:56
and Morrison, Don Randolph and Edmund Donald. The special music is by Richard
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rand He shorn't be with us again next week, when Philip Barlow says,
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it started with a man on trial for his life and an a one citizen
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eager to testify. But there it was interrupted. And it wasn't until I
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found a copse in a bubbling bath, gun play in the woods, and
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lots of blackmail that the real ego witness had a chance to talk. It
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will be New Orleans, City of Romance and Drama, which sends its detectives
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into action on Gangbusters. Tonight, the Superintendent of the New Orleans Police Department
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himself will narrate Gangbuster's amazing story, the Case of the Sledgehammer. Side,
29:53
you'll also find Basil Rathbone engaged in another of his exciting exotic mysteries, so
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be sure to hear them on most of these same CBS stations. Gangbusters and
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Basil Rathbone's newest mystery adventure. In fact, stay tuned right now for the
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Gangbusters program. Yes, it follows immediately on most of these same stations.
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This is Roy Rowan speaking. There's the CBS to Columbia Broadcasting System, welcome
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back. I love the story, there were several It really felt, first
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of all, very authentically Marlowe from the books, with him turning down that
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client who wouldn't tell him everything. And I love the ending and how they
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brought them being in this gas field room to life. I always like it
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when the actors put the additional strain in, and they definitely made it seem
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real. Even the end. I have to admit that, just like the
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murderer, I would have been by Marlowe's warning about what would happen if the
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forty five were actually fired. Not only was Marlowe just so passionate that you
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had to believe him, but there seems to me to be a simple logic.
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If it's not a good idea the light of matching a room with a
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gas leak, how could it would it also not be a bad idea to
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discharge a forty five in a room that was filling up with gas. Now
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my logic could be wrong, and according to the story it is. But
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what marlow said did seem to make sense. If any of our experts out
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there have information on the effects of firing a forty five under the circumstances described
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in the story, I would love to hear from you, because I thought
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it was a fascinating and really sort of unique. Again, but to end
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the show on, I hope you enjoyed this episode as much as I did.
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We'll be back tomorrow with Nick Harter, and then join us back here
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next Wednesday for another episode of the Adventures of Philip Marlow. In the meantime,
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