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Philip Marlowe: The Old Acquaintance (EP1313) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho. This
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is your host, Adam Graham. If you have a comment, email it
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Detectives, and become one of our friends on Facebook, Facebook dot com slash
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Radio Detectives. Well, I did want to explain why this particular recording's being
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done in twenty nineteen, and it's for our New Year's week where I am
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taking a break from recording, and all the other episodes being run are just
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previously a podcast episodes. The reason we're doing this one here today with me
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actually recording is I downloaded the episode and I noticed that it was only twenty
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nine minutes long, and I thought, that doesn't leave a whole lot of
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time for commentary on this series. And there wasn't any. There was like
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a little snippet of theme music and that was all. So yeah, apparently
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this went out without any commentary on it, and we know, for whatever
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reason, hadn't corrected it. Well, I particularly enjoyed this episode, so
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I decided I wanted to go ahead and reward some commentary for it. But
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I'm recording it before the vacation week, you know, so I'm not defeating
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my purpose or you know, really going to work all like extremes on this.
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So we're going to bring you an episode of the Adventures of Philip Marlowe.
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The original air date is December the twenty sixth of nineteen forty eight,
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and the title is The Old Acquaintance. When it started a girl's wedding in
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New Year's Eve, We're only six hours away, and I didn't think the
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bride to be would make out of one of them. But that was before
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I ran up against the slut machine operator, the escaped convict, and above
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all, the Old Acquaintance. From the pen of Raymond Chandler. I'm spending,
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author of crime fiction comes his most famous character as CBS presents The Adventures
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of Philip Marlowe, and now with Gerald starred as Philip Marlowe, we bring
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you tonight's exciting story, The Old Acquaintance. At six o'clock in the last
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evening of the year, I was sitting with my feet up on my office
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desk, thinking of impossible New Year's resolutions and what the girl on my Butcher's
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nineteen forty nine calendar wouldow would not be wearing. But at that pleasant point,
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there was a soft, almost apologetic knock on my office door. I
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said, come in, and saw a quiet man in quiet clothes who extended
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a quiet hand. He introduced himself as Paul Riker, a Beverly Hills insurance
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broken But the tremor in his voice said, very worried client, which I
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knew Year's Eve was something I could do without. Mister Marlowe, You've got
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to find Nancy Marshall for me, just for a springboard. Mister Riker,
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who is Nancy Marshall. She's my fiance that we were to be married at
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my place in Beverly Hills tonight a New Year's e Yes, you see,
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it was at the New Year's Eve party a year ago that we met for
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the first time. When's your last hear from her? Two hours ago she
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called and said that she was in terrible troubled that nobody, especially the police,
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could help her, that well, that the wedding was off. I
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see, you're sure it's not just a matter off. You're being left at
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the order another man. Oh no, no, I'm certain that's not it.
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Now, Please, mister Mallow, will you help me, mister Riker.
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You New Year's Eve means wedding bells, but to me it's something else,
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specifically a cozy little apartment. I will show boulevard where a very nice
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girl and a couple of chilled bottles of sham. Oh, what is it,
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miss mallow? What's wrong? Somebody outside right could get away with my
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dog quick whether through those shots through the frost to blast my office door.
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Wasn't interested in checking up on his marksmanship, because by the time I got
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to my feet, he was taking the stairs of the street. When I
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got outside, I was just in time to see him pile into a pickup
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truck and raw off. The best I could do was get a face full
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of exhaust fumes and the last three numbers on his life Easton's plate, which
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read seven to one one. When I got back to a Riker and the
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glass on my office floor, I found the potential groom whiter, shakeier,
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and less quiet than at our first meeting. Fallow, did you get a
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Do you know who it was? I don't. Now relax a minute,
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Riker and think who could possibly object to you and Nancy getting married? But
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that's just stick. This is nobody I know of mister Marlow, and I'm
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positive that the same is true of Nancy. All right, now tell me
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where does Nancy live in fourteen twenty eight North Havenhurst Drive at number twelve.
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But I've already been there and she's gone. Were you inside? No?
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No, the door was locked. But mister Mollow, I thought you had
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specific plans for this evening. I do. But the way things stack up
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right now, they've got a better chance of keeping the Nancy Marshall. Now
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look, go back to your place in Beverly Hill, stay away from frosted
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glass windows, and will you hear from me? We're real lucky, mister
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Riker. It's still might turn out to be a happy New Year. When
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Ryker left the office, I call lieutenanty Barrow at police headquarters. After being
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told that it would take at least a half hour to get my kind of
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lead out of the seven eleven I had on a pickup truck's license, I
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headed for Nancy's villa, North Havenhurst, where it took me ten minutes to
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outsmart the catch on the back door inside except for a carelessly overturned box of
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old snapshots, which meant nothing to me. With a lot of half open
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drawers and closets. I was no place, and in the kitchen, where
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there was a full cup of cold coffee next to an open newspaper, a
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setup was almost the same. Not quite, because on the front page of
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the paper there was a banner story complete with pictures that shouted the news of
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three men who had broken out of the state penitentiary that morning, and one
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of them, a man named Steve Doyle, had a face that I'd seen
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only minutes ago, and one of the snapshots in the overturned box. I
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grabbed the paper and started back to check with the snapshot once again for good
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measure. But the second I stepped into the living room, I stopped.
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Hello, I don't believe I know you. Oh. The voice matched the
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lady perfectly. She was tall, beautiful, and at about thirty, wearing
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a beige metallic wool jersey that covered more curves than a ride on a roller
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coaster. But the large monogram day on a purse meant that this was not
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the woman who would plan to marry Paul Rocker. I said, I don't
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believe I know you. The name is Arthur Murray. You're late for your
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rumble, lesson, Oh, never mind. The joke's bright boy, it's
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a waste of your time, aunt mine. All right, then we'll play
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it very straight. The name is Philip Marlow. I'm a private detective and
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I'm working for a very worried man. Now you what's your connection with Nancy
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Marshall. I've just, shall we say, an old acquaintance. That's all
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not enough, I'll prime the pump some more. I was hired to find
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Nancy, who seems to be in a lot of trouble, and coincidentally in
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trouble on the same day that Steve Doyle breaks out of stir Now once more,
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exactly where do you fit in? I don't think i'll tell you,
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mister Marlow, if you don't mind, well, I oh, pearl handled
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eh a very sheep but deadly. I'll get in that closet there, Marlo.
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Go on, all right, all right, just so we don't go
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through the same routine when we meet again, and we will. Who are
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you? You don't listen very carefully, Marlo. I've already told you that
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I'm an old acquaintance. It's the season for them, remember, Now,
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get in there and shut up. Nancy Marshall's villow was postwar construction at its
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worst, closets included. So I didn't stay tucked away with the mothballs any
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longer than it takes to say old acquaintance. In the minute i'd kicked my
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way out, I went right for the telephone and my only one hundred percent
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bona fide lead the number seven eleven. This Lieutenant ybar malloy Barra anything for
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me on that license number? Oh yeah, if you're sure it was a
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pickup tracking, the chances are pretty good at it either belongs to a party
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name Maurice J Called at four O nine South Maine or one Jerome Grafts thirty
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two twenty one and a half Melrose Avenue. Jack, what's up Phil?
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Anything I might be interested in? It depends. Have you here of a
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guy named Steve Doyle, one of that gang that broke out this morning the
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very same matter of fact, he's probably driving that pickup truck right now,
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But look he borret. I think I know what I'm doing, So how
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about letting me run this end of it until I get stuck. Well,
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there's a girl named Nancy Marshall mixed up in this and a delay at this
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time I cost her life. All right, I'll stay clear at Phil for
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a while. Good. We just saw you don't get too Carelet's remember Doyle
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got out of jail this morning the hard way. He killed two guards.
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Oh fine, good by Marlo. I got the four owner in South Maine.
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I knew that my first choice had to be wrong because Maurice J.
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Cal It turned out to be a bankrupt junkman and his pickup truck, which
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was loaded with everything including the kitchen sink, had three flat tires and hadn't
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moved in a week. So if the numerals seven to eleven were going to
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live out to their reputation, Jerome Graf had to be my man, and
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that made the time to be careful. No. Thirty two, twenty one
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and a half. Melrose was a tired cottage set back about fifty weed covered
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feet from the sidewalk and from the rusted signs. Jerry Graff, mechanic dangling
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at a crazy angle from a weather beaten beam over the front door. I
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gathered that the place double is both mister Graff's living quarters and shop, and
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I didn't see any truck out front, so I decided to try the alley
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in the rear before I knocked down any door. It was then that I
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noticed for the first time that I was being watched by a short man with
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a long face, who was slouched against the nearby a tree like a marionette
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with no strings attached. If you're lost, missed up, maybe I can
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help you. Maybe I was looking for a pickup truck. Scene went around
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a pickup truck. Now I wonder what that could be. Well, it's
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a small dealt half a ton and oh I get it. Okay, here
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here's five. Now my question. Jerry Graf owns a pickup truck. But
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it ain't here. It's been out since dark, but Jerry's in. He's
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working late tonight, working at what came on? You got your five talk?
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Okay, it ain't no secret. Jerry's a nice maid for one armed
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bandits slot machines? Is that his ragon? Yeah, he used to be
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a big boy with him too, but times have changed. No, he
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just works on him for other guys. What of the guys, Oh,
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mister, I wouldn't answer that for even another five. I wouldn't stay in
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business very long if I did. But I'll tell you one thing for free,
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in case you're gonna visit Jerry. Watch out for him. He's a
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very nasty man. Thanks for I can take care of myself, bust In,
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What do you want information? Why's your pickup truck? Grab? Somebody
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stole it, but he didn't leave his card? Why what are you?
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A prova dick? That's right, but one that works close to the law.
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So why don't we call the boys in blue and tell him all about
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it the cops. No, and wait a minute, I don't like the
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law pattern around here. Come on in, I'll tell you what you want
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to know. Let's not skip any of the details. Huh Like, For
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example, the name's Steve Doyle and oil, I don't know. Well,
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okay, fully you win. The story goes something like this. I want
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to try again. Maybe a monkey rental condition you don't throw straight in your
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talk? Come on, say we played for the wall, Come on talk,
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come on, come on? Wait? All right enough, so far
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I know a girl named Nancy Marshall's in some kind of trouble because Steve Doyle
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broke out of the pen this morning. Now you felling a blank? Sure?
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Sure? Why not? Oh Steve Doyle he used to be crazy about
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Nancy, but she didn't go for him. Then about a year ago,
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a little or maybe Steve got picked up for knocking over a grocery store.
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He figured he was caught because Nancy tipped a lot to get him out of
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her hair. Now he's out to get Nancy for revengers. That is,
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That's it, and anyone who's close to it gets the same treatment of Shemy
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I tell me was Doyle here is either one who's driving a pickup truck.
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Yeah, but it wasn't my idea. He shoved a gun in my face,
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said we were old friends and asked for the keys. You know where
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he is now? No, but if I did, I'd keep it to
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myself. Doyle's full of hate, brother, you can count on that.
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Now, What do you say about Claire? And out of here? Just
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as soon as I find out one more thing. Now, there's another girl
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mixed up in this. She's a brunette with a lot of curves. In
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the initial, A calls herself an old acquaintance of Nancy's. Any idea who
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she are? Not? The slider? I lia graph and if I had
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time, I'd beat the truth. How do you haven't believed me? Because
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if you don't hustle, mister. When you do catch up with Nancy Marshall,
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you're going to catch up with a corpse. Nothing more. I got
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outside, two things stood out in my mind like a pair of Cleat's cornegie
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hall. First, my client's fiance was not the most innocent dame in Greater
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Los Angeles. And second, I wasn't going to get any place until I
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could locate the old acquaintance. But then, just as I started for my
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car, the slout who had sold me the dirty thumbnail sketch on Jerry Graft
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came running toward me. Hey, missed it? Did everything work out all
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right? I was called away on some other business or I'd have been here
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waiting waiting for what. Well, you know. In my game, I
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now and again give a guy a little more dope than he boggin for,
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and in that case I sometimes end up with a bonus, so to speak.
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Right now, we're about even. But if you can tell me anything
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about a beautiful brunette whose first name starts with an A, I'll give you
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a bonus. It'll keep you in bearing pretzels from now until the fourth of
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July. Name that begins with an A. Yeah, Hey, she visited
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with graph this morning. Maybe, yeah, it's possible. Come on,
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thank thank god. She's kind of tall, dresses like a million bucks.
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That's right now. What's her name? Yeah? Look alla bill a name?
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What is it? It's yeah, I got it? Adrian Star thirteen
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twelve, lookout Mountain Road. How do you know that? It was on
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the registration card? In Hakka? I took a peek. Why don't you
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trouble at grass? I'll take my twenty goodbye. I beat it up the
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walk the grass, and when I got inside, I found exactly what I
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expected, doubled up on the floor in the middle of a lot of oily
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machine parts, and still holding his stomach with both hands. It was your
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own grab, a very dead man. I started for a telephone to call
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lieutenanty Barrow, but then I noticed something small and gold dyeing a few feet
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away from the body. When I picked it up, I saw it was
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an ornamental buckle, the kind little lady might wear on a coat. So
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I decided to skip lieutenanty bar Up at the time, being called my client
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instead. Hello, this is Marlow Riker. Oh yes, Mallow, what
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if you found out quite a bit? First? I've got to know one
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thing. Does Nancy Marshall have a gold belt buckle? Gold belt buckle?
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Well, yes she does on her black coat. But what about it,
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marlow What does it mean? I'm not sure, mister Riker, but it
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may mean that Nancy Marshall just killed a man in just a moment. We
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will return to the second act of the Adventures of Philip Marlowe, but first,
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by this time, a week from tonight, Jack Benny will have made
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his first broadcast exclusively on the CBS Network. Starting next Sunday, you'll find
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Jack here with Mary Livingston, Phil Harris Rochester, Dennis Day, Don Wilson,
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and all the others who have made the Jack Benny Show a regular Sunday
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evening delight for millions of Americans. Just for fun, that Jack Benny of
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fun. Make a New Year's resolution to hear the Jack Benny Show every Sunday,
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starting a week from tonight, January second, over these same CBS Network
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stations, and now with our star Gerald Bohr, we returned to the second
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act of Philip Marlowe and tonight's story the Old Acquaintance. When I told Paul
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Riker that the chances were good, that is brid to be. It just
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knocked off a slot machine operator. My client reacted like I kicked him in
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the stomach. When he caught his breath again, he started telling me I
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was wrong and didn't stop until I hung up on him. Ixt thing on
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the agenda as I call the lieutenanty Bara, Lieutenant Hollow again, Lieutenant Oh,
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did you find the owner of that pickup truck? Phil? Yeah,
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I founded me, Bor, I'm calling from his shop now. I had
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a talk with the guy. It was Jerry Grab. What do you mean
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was Jerry Grab? Somebody came in here and shut him just after I left.
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He's dead. He knew Steve Doyle, all right, but I'm pretty
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sure Doyle didn't kill me. Bara, Oh, that who did? Any
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idea? Mollo Well looks very much like my client's fiance, saint Nancy Marshall.
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I still don't know where she is, how it all fits together,
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but look, I got a lead on an old acquaintance of Nancy's named Adrian
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Starr. She lives up on Lookout Martin Road. If you don't hear from
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me and saying how you might check number thirteen twelve, that's my next stop.
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Okay, just be sure it's not your last stop. I drove up
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Laura Canyon to look out mountain. The only sign of life was a young
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couple park where they could look down in the city lights if they wanted to.
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I backed into a bushy driveway across Adrian Star's bungalow and stopped. Was
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small, modern and looked deserted, except for one dim light upstairs. I
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was about to get out and verify that when a pair of headlights flashed down
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the road. The yellow convertible swept to a halt in front of the place.
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It was Adrian Star who got out. She started up the wall toward
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our front door, stopped suddenly, and then ran back to a car and
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drove off again. I kept the yellow convertible in sight when it turned on
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Havenhurst and stopped in front of Nancy Marshall's villa. I pulled up in time
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to see Adrian step inside and close the door, so I followed her,
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Marlow, what do you want? I want to know what Jerry Graft means
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to you, Adrian. I don't know any Jerry Grafts or what it means.
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No, come on, stop it. You went down away shop to
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see him this morning. I thought you might like to know that he's dead.
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M m. My cops are hungry for anybody who so much as knew
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his name. Maybe I better come inside and talk it over, don't you
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think? Yeah? Maybe better just a minute? Thanks, Hey, it's
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dark. Why don't you turn on more life? This is I like it
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this way, okay, But honey, if you've still got that pearl handled
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pop gun of yours, let's leave it out of the conversation and let's make
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it straight. Why did you drop in on graphs this morning? Because I
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knew the sooner or later Steve Doyle would hit there. I had to know
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if Stephen tended to leave town or was still determined to get us crazy revenge
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and all. Fnancy Marshall, huh, you know you're sticking your neck out
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quite a ways, just for old time's sake, Baby, Steve Doyle is
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a pretty tricky guy to mixed with at this point. Oh, Steve Steve
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Doyle, that's right, Marlow, Private detective, sit down over there,
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Private detective, keep your hands out of your pockets. I don't like you
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because you're half cop, but play it smart. You will get hurt.
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Well, Adan like hold home week h it's been a long time, Steve.
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Yeah, yeah, it sure has. Where's she, Adriana, Where's
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Nancy? I don't know, Steve, you're lying to me. This is
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her place. You got him with a key, even on a sea graph.
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You know where she is? All right, So till me and tell
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me, Dee listen, forget it, forget about Nancy. This revenge will
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only get you in the guest chamber. Please let's get away. We can
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still make it across the border. Please take me with you. I love
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you, Steve, just like I always have, even when you throw me
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over. Just tell me what Nancy is. Come on, Adrian, stop
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it, all right? So I told you to behave. I've been through
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a lot, and I'm tired and I'm running out of time. You're getting
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in my hair, and that's bad. I won't shoot him. I can't
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afford the noise. I can give him something justice, good cool girl,
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Now, Adrian, try again? Where's Nance? I couldn't remember where I
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was, how long I've been lying there? But gradually I got the crazy
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idea that I was being rubbed by a very unhappy crook. Because I was
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sure that somebody was crying and going through my pockets at the same time.
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Oh, I tried to open my eyes. All I could see was a
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little gold buckle dance back and forth in front of me, But it finally
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disappeared all together. I rolled over and to hold myself up onto my knees,
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and then it all came rushing back to me. I had been a
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Nancy Marshall's fellow with Steve Doyle and Adan Star, and they were gone now,
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and I was like arm. I heard a car start outside, so
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I got on my feet and made it along the wall of the door.
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It was Adrian and she was behind the wheel of my Cooper away from Where's
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Doyle? My car is going off to Nancy. I've got to stop the
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marbles to get out of the way. Somehow I managed to jump back just
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in time and keep them getting a press job with the tread of my own
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fist tires. And it took ten minutes of steady concentration to get it through
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my throbbing head that Adrian had actually stolen my car and it was gone.
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Oh the cold air must have helped me, because one thought led to another,
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and I finally began to separate the facts from the Fancis I hadn't dreamed
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all I thought I had. And when I realized that the whole idea hit
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me and hit me hard, I knew that i'd better get out to look
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Out Mountain in a hurry. I made it the sunset, hailed a cab
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and collapsed night. What I got Mountain road? Make it fast? Two
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years agen? Huh it's ten bucks? Does that help? It's important?
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Oh? It helps? Play. I know a great shortcut. No road
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that's not yet finished. How are bumps? You all won't matter, pal
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Let's go. When it was over, I felt like I'd crossed the country
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on a pogo stick. But the cab driver was a genius, and with
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a shortcut, we made the distance to look Out Mout in less than ten
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minutes. When we got near the place, I sent the cab back down
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the hill out of danger. Went the rest of the way on foot.
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As I got within sight of Adrian's bungalow, I saw Steve Doyle getting out
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of the yellow convertible. I ran up to the house, tried the door
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was locked. I know you're to take this join a part business. Oh
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wait toil drop that gun stans fail? Okay, you won't need that gun
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anymore. Toyle, just kick it over there out of the way. Tell
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y'all get you for this fellow. I doubt it's Steve. You're all finished,
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which you're too thick headed to see it. And I guess it's time
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to relax and wait for Adrian and we call the cops and we just arrived.
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Marlow. Don't turn around, oh kid, Adrian, we are Marlow.
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Touch your gun back here to me. Come on now, Steve,
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Steve, you heard bad, darling. Can you make it to the car.
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I'll try it. He got me in the side. It's bad,
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Steve. Sorry, Darling. Hurry, I'll be with you in a minute.
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I'll make it. Okay, Well Marlow, Yeah, okay, Adrian,
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tell me one thing first, Barlow, just stick get to Nancy.
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No, you kill graffing Time to shut him up too. So Steve will
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never know the truth, Willy, Adrian could be it was you who crossed
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him in said of the prison. You'll find out, not now, and
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you'll never realize how much I love him either. That's why I did it,
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Marlow, the only way I could hold him for myself. And I
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was willing to wait. Can you understand that? Yeah, I guess I
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can too bad. Love like yours has to be wasted on a guy like
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Steve can never get away, Honey, up with him. You'll never make
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it, maybe not, but if he goes out, at least I'll be
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with the Marlow. And that's the way I wander. If you're gonna do
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anything, Adrian, you better get it over with fast. And Siren's a
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friend of mine. He's coming here, coming, Steve. You're good guy,
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Marlow and a smart one. Just don't follow us. That's all along,
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Marlow, Happy New Year? Whoa follow that Colors plot here? Who
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isn't it Dave Doyle and Adrian Storry Bora. That road makes a horseshoe turn.
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That'll bring them out down below us there at that junction. I've got
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one of those streets blocked, but the other one's wide open. Bucky Barra.
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There she's stopping at the crossroad. Yeah, they've spotted my men down
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there. She's turning around. They're heading out the other way. She must
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be crazy, Marlow. They'll never make that curve at that speed. And
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that's slowing down, he Barra. She's heading straight for that stone wall.
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Wel speed, that's it it's all over both Jad when the boys got them
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killed instantly. By the way, how's your head feeling now any better?
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I'm okay, Burr. Did you take care on Nancy marshallaway? She locked
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herself upstairs, sent her home to Paul Ryker on the squad car. The
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driver hurries they can still be married at New Year's Eve? Ye? How
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the peg does Jerry Grafs kill earlier the night? Marlo? What made you
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change your mind? When I found a gold buckle near Grafts Buddy bar,
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I figured it was a fancy little belt buckle and Nancy had dropped. I
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saw exactly the same buckle when I was coming to after Doyle hit me on
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the head, and it was not a belt. It was on a shoe.
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Adrian shoe was the mate of the one i'd found. Once you know
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Adrian Starr killed Graff. You put the rest of it together? Is that
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it? Uh huh? See? For a price, Graft helped Adrian doublecross
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Steve. She had to kill him to keep him from talking. She hit
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Nancy out for the same reason. If she knew that if Steve ever got
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the Nancy, he'd learn the truth. I wonder why she didn't kill Nancy
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too. I think she intended to heborrow, and she did it all really
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because she loved a guy too much. Strange deal. Well right to the
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end. You know, she didn't have a chance to make that curve down
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the other way she was driving, not even if she wanted to make any
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borrow. Yeah. Well, it's five minutes to midnight, philm Happy New
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Year, Phella. I want to see a lot of you in nineteen forty
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nine. Same to you, Lieutenant. Good night. After Heborrow and the
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others left, I stayed up on Lookout Martin watched the new year come to
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Los Angeles, and New Year didn't seem to change things much, at least
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on the surface. Somewhere down the road, a gang's truck up o lang
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Zygne. I thought again of Adrian's starr. A girl who loved not wisely
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would call herself an old acquaintance. Yeah, I'll never forget. As I
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walked back to my car, the city was ringing out the old and ringing
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in the mule. And I wish then that some place on everybody's list of
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resolutions they'd make room for that cup of kindness. They were singing a lot,
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and then a guy could say Happy New Year, I mean it.
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The Adventures of Philip Marlowe created by Raymond Chandler, star Gerald Moore and is
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produced and directed by Norman McDonald. Script is by Meldon la Robert Mitchell and
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Gene Levitt. Featured in the cast were Gloria Blondell, Edgar Barrier, David
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Ellis, Lou Krugman, and Stan Waxman. Lieutenant Dbarrow was played by Jeff
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Corey. The special music was by Richard Durant. He sure and be with
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us again next week. When Philip Barlow says, they all knew he was
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aboard the yacht when it exploded and sank, and everybody called his death an
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accident. Yeah, that is everybody except the coughs himself. He said it
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was murder. An hour of wonderful, delirious comedy is still to come to
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you tonight on CBS. You'll soon hear Hollywood's Eve Arden, starring as the
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unusual school mistress our Miss Brooks. Later, Lamona Abner will open the doors
31:08
of the Jotam Down Store in Pine Ridge, Arkansas, and let you stock
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up on the last from their never failing supply of Wisdom and good humor our
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Miss Brooks starring Eve Arden, is heard at nine point thirty and Lamit Abner
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at ten o'clock, both Eastern Standard Time over most of these same CBS network
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stations. This is Roy Rawn speaking for CBS the Columbia Broadcasting System. Welcome
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back. Well, just a fantastic episode. And you know, listening to
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this because at this point it's in where I'm recording this episode, It's been
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years since we finished up The Adventures of Philip Marlowe, and it just reminds
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me how much I really appreciate, you know, the pacing of the show,
32:13
the writing, you know, the acting. It just moves, you
32:16
know, in such a great way, you know, with all of these
32:21
you know, fantastic scenes. And to be honest, this particular episode was
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one that I did think about, you know, doing when we were doing
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the Listener's Choice countdown where listeners voted for their favorite episodes, but I opted
32:37
not to just because you know, it's a holiday episode and you know it
32:44
wasn't at the at the holiday. But the thing with the Adventures of Philip
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marlow is that they didn't have, you know, a situation where eighty percent
32:54
of the episodes were, you know, a typical formula, there were so
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many variations and when they broke away from that sort of typical Marlowe you know,
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has somebody walk into the office you know in Los Angeles, a sort
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of case and you get something you know different, you know, a New
33:20
Year's theme case, or you had that there was a case where there was
33:24
a reconconstituted castle in California. So there really was some creativity with a lot
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of the ideas. And I also do appreciate the endings. And I think
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the ending of this episode too, really does have a nice, you know,
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not overdone, but a really good, thought provoking conclusion as people you
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know, in nineteen forty eight looking forward towards the new year, and some
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pretty solid thoughts well delivered, buy more and well written. So I absolutely
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enjoyed this episode and was really glad to be able to. I do want
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