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Philip Marlowe: The Hairpin Turn (EP1601) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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time for today's episode of the Adventures of Philip Marlow. The original air in
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eight January twenty eighth, nineteen fifty and the toititle is the Hairpin Turn Get
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This and Get It Straight. Crime is a sucker's road, and those who
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travel it wind up in the gut of the prison of the grave, this
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time a fireball too handy with a target pistol. Let me down a rocky
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road, past a sleazy money grubb it or curly headed cops. And it
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might have gotten worse if I hadn't slowed down at the hairpin turn. It
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happened like this from the panel. Aimon transfer, outstanding author of crime fiction,
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comes his most famous character in the Adventures of Philip Marlowe. Now,
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with Gerald Moore starred as Philip Marlowe, we bring you tonight's exciting story,
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the hairpin Turn. Hey, stop it, put down that gun and listen
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to me. How do you like that? And if you could think just
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half as straight as you could shoot, I'd have nothing to worry about.
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But you can't, and it's high time you realize. Now there's the house
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buzzard. Somebody's up at the house and this is Miles. I'm all right,
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I'll answer it. I'm expecting a man from the office. But as
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soon as I finished with him, you and I are going to have a
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talk, young mad Do you understand I shait, Oh, what's the use?
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Yes, I'm Philip morlow to see mister vanamininek Vanamin, I have an
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appointment. Oh, come in, Marlow, i'man ak vianamin. Oh glad
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you're here. Step this way, will you're talking to study? Okay,
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mister vannamon I, uh I thought those those were pistol shots. Yeah,
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that's okay. My niece sounds like a squad of marines. She's a champion
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pistol shot. She's converted one of the garages into a target range. Well,
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I seem to recall a city ordinance that says I know all about that
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dance, mister Marlow, save your breath. I was just like that precisually
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sit down, please thanks. Breaking the city ordinance is a perfect example of
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all the crackpot things that headstrong young fool insists on getting mixed up in.
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You want me to get mixed up with the crackpottery. She has no more
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sense than her choice of male companions that she does in her hobbies, and
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she's a very rich girl. Now, look, if this is a bodyguarding
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a sign in, Mister vanamon Ky has been going with a man named Cliff
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Lace and unsavory type at least professional horse player, I think, And it
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was quite an affair. Was quite an affair. That's right. She threw
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Lace over for a new love recently. Hello, I've never met She's serious,
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but refuses to tell me anything about him. So Cliff Lace doesn't like
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the idea because, from his standpoint, a very good thing has slipped through
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his fingers. He's going to do something about it, and I don't know.
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Since about the time they broke up. A man's been snooping around the
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ground here, Marlow. Really, he's about forty short, greasy looking.
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He has a flatty kind of face, with fat lips and with large black
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mole on the right side of his nose. Hey, I mean know that
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character, mister Vanamon. I'll have to check to be sure. I want
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to know who he is and why he's been hanging around here. Also,
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I want to find out all there is to know about Kay's new man.
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Tell me how old is Kay, mister Vannermon. She's twenty six. That's
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her picture there, Oh blonde fireball. Look, mister Vannermon. If she's
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maybe her love life is none of your business. He is my business.
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I'm her guardian and I'm very fond of her. But she's reckless, stubborn
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and erratic. Yeah, well, money's great, but it will never replace
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the old fashioned parent man. It's also a big responsibility, you know,
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No, not first hand. I know it leaves one open to every crooked
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scheme in the book. Hey look, Marlow, I've written my personal phone
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number on this card. Who can reach me there privately at any time?
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All right, mister Vannamon, I'll see what I can find out. I
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got in my car and I crossed the two acres of tailored flora the Venamin's
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called front yard. I could see, in fact, the squat windowless brick
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building topped by a skylight that housed the target range. And a minute later
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I drove out through the big bell at gate in the sunset boulevard, just
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as Cave Vanamon streaked past me in a sleek new nash. I was sure
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I knew already who the snoopy little man who had been hanging around was the
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description of flabby faced, fat lips and mole fit tight on a guy named
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Mutt and somehow an issue of private detective's license and somehow managed to keep it.
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He was just about his ethic. It was a stab in the back.
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I remembered he had an office in a fire trap on Bronson, So
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I made that my first stop. Climbed a flight of docks, smelly stairs
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to a tire door Mark Palmroy Private Investigations. Hell, there was no answer,
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so I tried the door. Somebody beside Mutt had been there ahead of
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me, turned the place inside out. It was a shambles. I spent
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five minutes going over his files, scattered like leaves in November, and was
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still at it when the door behind me swung shut. Something chum, Hello,
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Mutt, what's the big idea? Tang up my joint? Marlowe?
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Hey, you know better than that. I wouldn't touch the stuff you keep
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on file without rubber gloves. Real funny. If you didn't do this,
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then who did. I came in and found it just like this. One
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of your clients must have gotten a little careless. You're full of them,
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toned. I what do you want here, marlow I need little help,
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Mutt, No kidding, okay, chunce Glad to help out a brother Sleuth
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any time at all. Now, what's your problem? Why are you so
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interested in the v place? Oh? Yeah, quite a chunk of real
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estate that got there. I know. What's the fascination, A little simple
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investigation for a simple little lady. For purposes of conversation? What do we
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call it? How does the Stelle suit look? Malo? You got in?
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Free, take the scraps and be happy. Okay, as you put
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it, the Venamin zone quite a chunk of real estate we might subdivide.
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You might like to tell me how this is Stelle ties in? Yeah,
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I might. At that jum she's worried about a guy. And from what
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I've seen of that jet propelled blonde named Kay Vannerman, she's got plenty of
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reason to worry. Guy's name wouldn't be Cliff Lace, wouldn't Griff Flames.
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I don't remember Morrow, Okay, Matt, how much is it going to
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take? Well, now that's hard to say. I'll have to let you
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know. You see, I've got an angle on my end too, my
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little clients, who is up and down? There's no other woman involved,
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but you know, the Estelles are always the last. You're beginning to smell
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Pomroy And just how do you fit Morrow, I'm helping a guy worry about
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a girl. Well, that's really nice. And when your clients were the
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wrinkles make dollar sign. So you're always right? Is that it? Thanks
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for everything? I'll see around. Well, don't go away mad, Oh,
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of course not. That's why I'm leaving now. It took a friend
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at the phone company all of ten minutes to locate Cliff Lace's address for me,
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which turned out to be a snug bachelor's nest bungalow style at the foot
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of the Hollywood Hills, numbered forty three hundred Cherimoya. I parked, started
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for the front door, and on the way it's an open window where the
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silhouette of a man at the telephone was cut into neat slices by a Venetian
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blind. But his voice came through in one piece and you couldn't miss it.
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You see. Still I know almost all about you. Oh yeah,
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yeah, I got your name earlier tonight from a mutual friend, mister Mutt
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Palmroy. Yeah. I think it's about time we got together full of a
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business conference. Huh. All right there at the plaza and say two hours,
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you'll still be registered as Ruth Bridges. Good goodbye? Still well he
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hung up. He moved over to a bottle of Johnny Walker's Scotch. I
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waited until he helped himself, and then I went to the door. Yeah,
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my name's Marlow. Mister Lace like to talk to you. What about
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whatever it was you were looking for when you ransacked Mutt palm Roy's office.
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Tonight? Do I come in? Yeah? Yeah, of course, but
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I'm afraid I don't know what you talk about it O, come on,
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we both know that Solia. Let's forget it and go on from there just
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a minute. Oh but I'll call him at the drop of her head.
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Make it easy on yourself. Sh what's mud Pummela? You bag of worms?
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I want to know who he's working for. The fact that you had
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to break into his place to get information should let you out. So who
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is it? What makes you think good now because you found what you were
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looking for? What's the tales? Last name? Cliff? Do get around?
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Don't you break them? Yeah? Yeah I do, only sometimes not
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fast enough. Look Buster, I want a chance at the door. Somebody's
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got his finger caught in a buzzer. Yeah, okay, I told you
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I stopped by to deliver something. I'm telling you for the last time.
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I don't care what I have to say to you. All shot from the
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rooftops. We're through washed up now, get out of my life and stay
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out cheap good evening, Miss Vanamon. I don't know, but keep out
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of this now you listen. I'm in love with boys, Neelie, really
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in love this time, and I tend to marry him and I won't have
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married boys me. Don't be ridiculous, Cliff. I'm warning you, if
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you'll get this, you'll never marry boys nearly. That's one thing I'm sure
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of. I know a lot more about him, you dude, darling.
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Believe me, when the time is just right, you're gonna hear from me
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again. But love, why you filthy? If you try to do anything
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to hurt boys on me, Cliff, play so help me, I'll kill
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you. I mean it. Sometimes she's gonna throw that temper at me just
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once too often? Oh your kidding? Lace? Ever see her use a
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target pistol? Ah, she's too smart, that trumperone sound kind of I'm
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not worried. H Well, will we, mamma? We were looking for
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some answers, which I just got. Good night, Lace, keep your
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head downe the way things were breaking, I was sure if I didn't get
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to the woman named the Stell before laced it, I wasn't going to get
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anywhere, so I spent the next hour folded up on a phone booth,
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running down the list of respectable and semiso hotels with the word Plaza out of
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four or raft. Finally, a flute voiced night clerk and Amid Victoria number
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called the Royce Plaza confessed that they had a Ruth Bridges, which was the
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name that I'd heard Lace mention she was registered from Santa Monica, but at
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the moment out I was convinced that she was really a steale my Palmroy's plan.
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So I drove over to the hotel and invested five bucks for the night.
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Clerk picked up a newspaper and waited. Half way down the sports page.
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A prim brunette came in. It would have been pretty without the overload
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of nervous strains snapped on her face and she crossed the deserted lobby. The
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clerk gave me a nod, so I called a name, caught up with
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her at the foot of the stairs. You called me, Yeah, if
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you could spare me a minute, miss Bridges, I'd like to talk to
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you. What do you want? My name is Marlow, I'm a private
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detective, a private detective. Yeah, look, honey, let's move over
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into the corner. You know that boy on the desk is going to sprain
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his neck if we don't. What do you want with me? Well,
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I suppose we start off with your real name is still what's the rest of
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it? Neely? Maybe? Huh? How did you know that? It's
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taking me early evening to get it. That's the only way it figures.
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That's right, isn't it. You're married to Boyce Kneeling. Yes, I'm
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missus Boyce Kneeley. But what business is that of yours? That's why I'm
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trying to find out. You hired MTT Palmroy to check on your husband because
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you're worried about him. Right? Why Boys is in trouble? He well,
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he's in a jam, that's all. Is it? Money? No,
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Boys does very well. He's in real estate in Santa Monica. Oh
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maybe with a law Yes, yes, I'm afraid. So. He's been
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acting so strange. He wouldn't talk to me or anything. I just had
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to find out what was wrong. I see. Well, look, what's
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your connection with Cliff Lace. I don't know any Cliff Lace. Oh come
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on, baby, take you a little easy to try again, Cliff Lace.
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I know you call him tonight, and he called you all right.
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He wanted to talk to me about about boys and some girl named Kay Vanermon.
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But it's crazy, I know it is. Voice is not mixed up
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with another woman. It couldn't be. I hope I meet your husband soon,
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missus. Neelie had like to punch him in the nose. What do
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you mean? Palmroy was right? These tales are always the last to know.
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Look, do me a favor. Will you go up to your room,
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go to bed and get some sleep. You're gonna need it, all
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right, thank you? It's tomorrow. Hey, Buster is a phone right
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over there? Good book? Mm huh oh yeah, yeah great. Chandler's
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no one you know? Chandler. Chandler. M h Where have I heard
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that name before? Hello, mister k No, she's not Marlow. I
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want you to forget whatever else you're doing and find her immediately. What's the
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matter. She left her about fifteen minutes ago in a pury. Where was
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she going? I don't know for sure. She left shortly after you did
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tonight. Then she came back about an hour. I know, I know.
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I ran in well, what happened this time? She got a phone
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call from Cliff Lace. Something was said about him now being in the driver's
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seat, whatever that means. She was curious. That's not good man,
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I'm and believe me, which wors than you think. You've got to stop
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her because when she left here, Marlow, I'm quite sure she had her
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target pistol with her. I hung up the phone, ran out to my
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car and headed back to the Cliff Lace's bungalow on Cheri Moya. But Kay
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had a fifteen minute head start, and at that hour and her frame of
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mind, to drive in from bell Air was a hop, skip and a
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jump. The only hope was in Lace himself being smart enough to know that
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he'd overplayed his hand. The street was deserted when I pulled in and poked
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down the hill from the place. When I got to the front door and
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found it unlocked, I keased it open and went in. The living room
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was dark, but there was a light on in the bedroom, and I
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started for it before I saw the bulk of a figure ringing against the dark
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side of the frame. Come on in, shall make yourself at home.
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What are you doing? Him? Much? Easymorrow? There's no hurry.
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Now there's not school's out, chum, Where's Lace inside? It was nice,
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clean, accurate, and exactly dead center. He never knew what hit
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him in just a moment. The second act of Philip Marlowe. But first,
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for a moment, let's look at the headlines on CBS has entertained Tomorrow
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Night. First, East is east and west is west. So Jack Benny,
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on his way to New York, hasn't yet heard that the subway fare
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is a dime. Second, Charlie McCarthy, already in New York, rewrites
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Henry Fonda's tough talking Navy officer in Mister Roberts. And Third Andy of Amos
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and Andy released from bail jail and Abigail gets into New hot Water. Besides
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these, you'll also find headliners Eve Harden, Red Skelton, Horace Height,
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and all the other great Sunday Night shows on most of these same CBS stations.
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Tomorrow Night Now, with our star Gerald Moore, we returned to the
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second act of Philip Marlowe, and Tonight's story The Hairpin turn a small neat
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hole front and center at this for it said that Cliff Lace had been shot
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a bit and everything from jealous motive to target pistol method pointed directly to Kave
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Vanaman, but that was still a long way from proof, and there was
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Mutt pomroy on Hay, I kind of always figured only one way, the
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right of the Dulla sign. Now, let's not jump to any dumb conclusions,
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Marl, like what like to look on your kiss and that wants to
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know what I'm doing here that I can explain. I got Cliff Lacey's name
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from you, and a sawber to the right guy gave me a rundown on
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him the character analysis, so I figured he was the guy who frished my
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office to find out who I was working for. He must have tagged me
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out of the vanam and place, followed me down to my joint, then
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turned everything inside out until he ran across something that added for him, something
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like the name is tell Neely. Maybe you move fast, yeah, when
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there isn't too much crowding. I've got most of it already, Pomeroy,
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So spill, spill. I don't know what you mean, Marlow. I
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mean that Astell nearly hired you to find out why her husband was worried.
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You come up with an answer, all right. It was called other woman.
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So Estelle didn't even suspect anything about another woman, and you didn't tell
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her what you found out because it was Kay Vanam and a guy with a
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million bucks? Right or wrong? Whose You're right? Marlow? What are
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you getting at a possibility that you could have done this? Kill Lace?
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Why? Because Lace was playing the same game that you ure chum blackmail.
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Your motive was money and so was his. Plus the fact that he didn't
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like Kay giving him his walking papers, so when he wouldn't come to terms
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with me, I killed him as that is? Yeah, it could be.
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Can you prove otherwise? I know I can't, But other things can
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Marlow? Things? Yeah, like that lipsticks cigarette and the ash straight behind
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you. It's my brand and I don't drop hairpins on the cop. But
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when I killed, do I go on? Or you just trying it for
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size because you hate to think of a gorgeous item like young money bags?
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Could be it? Right or wrong? Marlow? You know leveling with you.
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Pomeroy takes a kind of talent and can cash a seven dollar bill at
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a bank. Oh you're calling the cops. It's the customer. Wait,
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wait, look, don't be a sap. What will that get you a
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killer? Maybe? Yeah, I'm from there on A pat on the head.
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A well done from the law gets smart, chum. Shielding a murderer
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is a lot healthier for the bank account the naily one every time, get
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your hand off the phone. Okay, go on, louse it up,
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boy scout. Who knows, maybe some bright day you might even run for
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all of them and Marrow without your votes. I'm sure homicide Chargerbacker Sides is
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a da waiting for you. Forty three hundred Cherimoyer name's cliff lace occupation questionably
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was shot the idea? Who did it? Marrow? Yeah, poor little
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rich girl named kay Vanaman or her sweetheart one mister Boyce Neelie who lives in
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Santa Monica. Yeah, where's the fit? I don't know how long ago
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was this lace killed? Thirty forty minutes wine Neely's clear we picked him up
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his own home by than two hours ago. He's in a pokey Now what
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did you get him on? Hit and run a month ago? It's a
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legacity knocks an old lady out of a cross walking into a hospital without even
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starting to watch your bounce. Some anonymous tips to phone the dope in around
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six tonight, said the repaint job on Neeli's car would prove it. It
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did. So that just leaves this Venoman by bo Yeah. I guess so.
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But you know, Becka, come here quick on the backyard there.
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I'll call you later. Backer, we got company. Keep the lights,
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Palm Ryan, stay down, don't worry. Ride way along time. The
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house is the only way out, all right, watch it from the front.
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I'll go through the kitchen and out the back door. I play it
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close, but remember, Palmroy, nobody gets triggered. Happy, Okay,
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come on, baby, your corner back there. Talk up. Who's that
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Philip Marlow, the guy you saw here with Cliff Lace earlier at night.
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I'm also a private detective who's working for your uncle and trying to keep you
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out of trouble. Now, let's have the target pistol, Baby, come
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on, throw it in. I don't have one, Uncle, Lenox says
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different. He told me you left the house with it, told you I
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don't have one. All right, come on, but slowly, hands high,
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No jokes. I always lose my sense of humor right after murder,
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after Hey Lace was shot to death. Never mind the Cathley arched eyebrows.
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You're in too deep, honey. You don't think I had anything to do
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with Cliff Lace getting killed, are you? Oh no, No, it's
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all one great big coin incidents. Huh, I said, why don't you
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leave? Well, how about it, mister Morton. Go ahead, I
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won't try to stop you. If you're guilty, you won't get very far.
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All right, all right, potm Roy. What's on your mind?
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A partnership, chum? Based on what? Chum? Based on the fact
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that I saw you kill Cliff Lace? Fat you what? Yeah? I
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saw you standing over the body with a smoking gun. Come on, come
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on. You don't think you can really make that stick to you? No,
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but it would keep you busy explaining for a while, long enough for
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me to wind up my business. Uh m hmm. Well, Marlow,
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what'll it be you and me as partners doing business with old Enig vannermon On
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behalf of the niece. I'm sure you'll want to protect or me in business
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for myself. Well, which it'll be partner's okay, chum, Let's get
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inside and clean up. The lady was kind of careless around the edge.
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Hey, hey, they split. How far does it go fifty to fifty.
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Fair enough, fair enough after you film, Now get that cigarette button
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a hairpin on the copper there. Then tell Sergeant Becker that you were jumping
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the gun about the Vandamin girl because you just found out that she was at
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home all night. I'll check the rest of it. Okay much, where's
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the cigarette butt? Then the hairpiny? What is it? Marlow? Watch
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with the hairpin? Why'd you say, Marlow? Quick? Get the lights?
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Someone out front showed it. Maybe the law in skirts. Look getting
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that car over there. It's a babe in five will get your tender,
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she answers the name. Okay, Oh that jerk's going to be a lulu
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to protect. Yeah, well we better go aay the hairpin you're dropped into
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your pocket? Marrow, what's so special about it? Oh? Nothing,
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It was just a hunch. I had to forget it morrow. I want
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to see it. Okay, here, get a good look part. It
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was a fast twenty minute drive back out the bell Air and the Vannomin place.
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All the way I worried hard that the hunch I was playing was right,
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and I was going to be too late to do anything about it.
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When I was there, parked halfway up the Pebbal driveway, out of my
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car and running tow the fluorescent light in the sound of a woman's voice that
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filtered through the heavy iron mesh over an airvent the windowless target range. I
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slowed to a walk, switched to forty five from park at the right hand,
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and then I moved up to where I could both see and hear.
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Kay Vanaman was huddled in the far corner, her eyes crowded with fear and
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riveted on the dainty but lethal twenty two automatic that Cliff places murderer pointed straight
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at her head. Estelle Neely had her back to me, but with the
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grill it was designed to stop bullets between us. There was nothing I could
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do. You got to listen to me. Please listen before you do anything
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crazy. I swear I never knew that boys was married. I'd never have
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gone with him if i'd know. You're a liar. No, it's the
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truth, I tell you. It started like the other's fun and no questions
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asked. But then I fell in love and it never occurred to me that
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he might have been married. I don't want to hear anymore. I've already
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killed once for boys, the guy I turned into the police for something he
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did a month ago. You turned your own husband over. I did that
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so they'd put him away out of your reach. You'd never wait for him,
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You'd go your own marry merry way a week after he wasn't jay.
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Boys would be glad to come back to me after five years of living in
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a cage like an animal id. He'd never suspect that I was the one
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boy before I hired a private detective come and made sure that he knew.
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I never even suspected that boys could have anything to do with another woman.
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Then boys would never realize it was you who turned him in because you had
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no mo pal would be a witness to them. I killed Cliff Lace because
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he traced me from palm Lad and then found out that I was the one
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who told the police about boys. He would have blackmailed me forever. And
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I'm not sorry, or will I be when I kill you. Now,
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sit down this van and listen carefully. Couldn't shoot. I knew that it
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would be disastrous to yell, but I had to do something in a hurry.
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I moved up quietly to the door. It was locked. I'd only
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left one chance. The skylight on the roof the building was low, and
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a lawn chair nearby was all the help I needed. When I was up
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and over to the skylight, there was glass and no mesh underneath. I
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still hadn't made it because from that angle I could see ky but only here
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as now you know just what kind of a woman is gonna kill you?
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But why may I told you what you told me? It was you,
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young and beautiful, that started all this, All this that's almost over now
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because the other detected that model knows that I killed Lace. Not a hairpin
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there. I saw him from a window. I saw it pick up the
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hairpin, a black hair pin that couldn't possibly belong to a blond like you.
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The hairpiner said, Marlo knows that I killed Lace. So I throw
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and I know it before they get me. But my hand hard she did
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no just out well, fireball any appropriate wise cracks wise crack Oh not for
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quite a while, marlel, I'm too scared. Well. It was the
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usual hour and a half of questions and answers with client, followed by the
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same questions and answers with police, before I finally closed the door on Enoch
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Vanamin's marble halls and started down past the manicured shrubbery too, where I'd left
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my car outside. The night was cold and clear. As I walked,
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I looked up at the vastness overhead and wondered, wondered why I had the
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kind of job that made me no more than a houseboy with gun for a
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rich guy with a badly spoiled niece. I stopped wondering when I was at
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my car and no longer alone. I just wanted to say thanks before you
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left, Philip. I would do my best to stay out of trouble from
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here on out. You know why? No, why because I want to
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be good enough for the right guy who may him along Sunday, guy like
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you. Honey. Oh, thanks Phil, I'm very grateful. Yes,
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well, my job's all right nine times out of ten. The Adventures of
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Philip Marlowe Bringing You Raymond, Chandler's most famous character star Gerald Moore, are
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produced and directed by Norman McDonald, and are written for radio by Robert Mitchell
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and Gene Levitt. Featured in the cast where GB Hunter, Janeavello, Olive
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Dearing, Ralph Moody, Tony Barrett, and Charles Russell. The special music
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is composed and conducted by Richard urant Hes shurted me with us again next week
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when Philip Marlowe say, it happened in a place called Bay City, where
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I was unwelcome to a fat fry cook with a secret and a Deppa gambler
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smoked oversized cigarettes. But where to the long arm of the law I was
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poison? Philip Marlowe has a new night, Ladies and Gentlemen, Tuesdays.
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Yes, starting February seventh, the Adventures of Philip Marlowe will be heard every
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Tuesday night at nine thirty Eastern Standard time. Be sure and listen. Remember
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Tuesday Night, marlow Night. And one week from tonight, at this time
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you'll find one of your favorite radio families, the Goldbergs. Yes, Molly,
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Jake, Sammy, Rosie and all their friends are moving from Friday nights
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on CBS to Saturdays. Starting next Saturday. This is Roy Rowan speaking.
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Stay tuned now for Gangbusters, which follows on most of these same CBS stations.
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This is CBS where the Goldbergs and Arthur Godfrey's Digest will now be heard
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every Saturday night. The Columbia Broadcasting System This is Andrew J. Graham,
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author of the web surface series Oh and a Man of His Wife. You're
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listening to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio, Welcome Back. This was
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a memorable episode. In fact, so memorable because I actually thought that we
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had that this was a script that was being redone when I saw the title
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and when I heard a bunch of elements. But then I remember that this
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was not that sort of script at all, that this was the first time
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they'd done it. But I had heard this before, and I remember back
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when when I heard when I heard a few of the cues in there.
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I listened to this way back when Charles Russell was Johnny Dollar. I think
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it was an early two thousand and ten, and Charles Russell appeared in this
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episode. This episode aired two weeks after his final turn as Johnny Dollar,
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and when I listened to this back in twenty ten, I couldn't find the
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role that he had played. But listening to it this time, it's obvious.
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Charles Russell played the sergeant, not the usual character played by Larry Dopkin,
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but this sergeant so just a fill in role. But there were some
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nice touches in this one. I liked Marlow running into the crooked private investigator.
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I also love the Chandler. Chandler, Where have I heard that name?
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That was just so cute. The mystery was good, although I thought
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it was kind of obvious listening to it again as to who the murderer was,
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if only for the fact that Marvelplate paid her so little attention. But
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overall a great episode, and that so many points of this episode stuck with
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me even more than five years after I first listened to it, I think
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indicates how good it was now. The Goldbergs advertised after the show is a
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pretty interesting series. It first began broadcasting over radio in nineteen twenty nine,
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and it was a slightly comedic soap opera covering the life of a typical poor
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Jewish family living in the Bronx end up going to There was a play version
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made, There was a movie in nineteen fifty and it also appeared in television
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starting in nineteen forty nine until nineteen fifty six, so it was a very
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key key program. There are a few episodes of it. As with any
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radio self, there's always a bit of a challenge in getting into it.
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There can be hundreds of episodes out there, and it can still be hard
34:36
to follow storyline. It's not quite one of my favorites. I listened to
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an episode, wasn't quite able to get into it, but certainly it was
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a milestone in American radio history and yet another sign of what I was mentioning
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going on at CBS, with so many great comedy powerhouses coming over to that
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network at this time in radio history. All right, well, listener comments
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and feedback, and this one just a very simple one from Michael who just
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says Gerald Moore is the ace, indeed is all right. Well, be
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