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Philip Marlowe: Easy Mark (EP1337) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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Detectives dot net. Now it's time for today's episode of the Adventures of Philip
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Marlow the Easy Mark. I was hired to find a blackmailer and I did,
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but first I found it badly beating a Dunnis Jezebel with an accent and
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a man who had been an easy mark for murder from the pen of Raymond
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Chandler, outstanding author of crime fiction, comes his most famous character as CBS
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presents The Adventures of Philip Marlowe and now with Gerald Moore starred as Philip Marlowe,
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we bring you tonight's exciting story, The Easy Mark. I'd spent a
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dull day on adella subject which was don't get caught with your income tax returned
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down at midnight March fifteenth, after calling time for a thick steake designated the
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boast of the stamina of a private detective, but nevertheless non deductible, I
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reluctantly headed back to my office, where I found both my conscience and the
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long form ten forty still witting, which meant there was no way out.
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But dull day was going to stretch on into the night. But then I
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got a break because my telephone rang and the call was from one Missus Corey
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Gilbert, respective client who wanted action in a hurry, Mallow, You've got
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to move fast. I just found out that my husband Ross will be at
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thirty eight h six Melrose Avenue in twenty minutes, and I know that means
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trouble. Just besides Missus Gilbert how do you spell trouble with a capital B?
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Is in blackmail? There's no time for details. Now just get to
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that of dress and find out who Ross is meeting with. Only hurry,
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Mallow, please, hurry after what, missus Gilbert, I've never met your
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husband? Remember? Oh? Oh, yes, Well he's tall, dark
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eyes, dark hair, very handsome and the blackmail is short, stocky and
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repulsive. I suppose I've never seen the blackmailer. All right, missus Gilbert,
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where can I reach you? Well? I live at four three nine
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and a half Ogden Drive. The phone number is Gladstone eight one nine five
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eight nine five. All right, missus Gilbert, I'll call you. Thanks,
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Oh Mallow, yeah, hurry will you you see? I? I
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love my husband. I was a little more than twenty minutes finding the address
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hand Melrose. When I finally pulled up and parked away from the place.
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I figured being late didn't matter because number thirty eight oh six turned out to
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be an unfinished house set deep in an acre of building materials. I was
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about to head for a telephone and get an explanation from a confused lady named
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Corey Gilbert, when a lot of noise from what would someday be a living
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room change my mind, and I knew that my client had the right address
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after all, because there, in the pale light of a slice of moon,
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taking the last of an awful beating from a thin man with a thick
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beard and a lot of muscle, was Ross Gilbert. Dark eyes and dark
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hair, like she said, but no longer very handsome. Stop worrying,
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Gilbert, I'm almost crud you except for this a present from their net,
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and just one more from the net. Wow. At last, punch stacked
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Grass Gilbert into a pile of rough lumber like it was another one by twelve,
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and as he slowly scraped to the floor unconscious, thick Beard dusted himself
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off, lightly jerked it his tie, and stepped out of the opening reserve
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for a future front door. I started over to help Ross Gilbert, but
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then I remembered that my client wanted to know who her husband was meeting,
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and why not how hard or fast he could swing, So I decided for
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the time being to play it quiet. When thick Beard got into his car,
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I got into mine. I followed him all the way to Beverly Hills,
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where he pulled to a stop in front of the Camden arms Court.
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I parked lights out and watched him strut up a flagstone walk and knock on
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the door of a bungalow number four, which was dark. When he knocked
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again and it stayed dark. He took an envelope out of his pocket,
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wrote something on it and jammed it into the mailbox. Then he got back
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into his car and started away fast. I walked up to the bungalow and
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helped myself to thick Beard's empty envelope. On one side, scrawled in pencil
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and smudge was the telephone number Sunset three one six seven six. On the
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other payment delivered Ok, plumber, plumber. I shot the message into my
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pocket, struck a match and started looking for a name on the front door.
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But then I care pulled up in a moment later. I had help.
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I can be of some assistance. Yes, I was just oh,
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Nannette Nanette Lamack that I do not know you miss here, No, no,
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you don't. I think if you will stop staring and begin talking,
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we will do much better. Who are you? Philip Marlowe, a friend
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of plumbers. He asked me to deliver a message for him. Do I
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go on of course, mister Mallow, but please come inside. It is
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so much nicer the hair. Nannette was so right about it being nicer.
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Inside there were lights, and that made it easier to see that the lady
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with a thick French accent and the gorgeous vaistline was something that could have musted
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her own foreign legion. She was narrow, green eyes and open her red
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lips, topped by a lot of close crop, soft brown curls that kept
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running into each other. And for a dress, she was wearing about a
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quarter of a mile of draped chiffon that, in the right places fitted a
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little closer than her own skin. When I told her what I claimed it
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had been a message from Plumber himself, she purred her thanks and started to
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mix me a drink. When I brought up the subject of blackmail, she
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stopped abruptly spilling a bottle of perfectly good Kentucky tapan all over the table.
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Blackmail, what do you mean? Mallow? Extortion? Honey, the malpractice
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of getting a lot for knowing a little. That's not nice. You are
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swinging wild now, Musher, maybe, but if it doesn't bother you,
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I'll stay right with it, because I'd like to know why you and Plumber,
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who have such an easy mark, insist on throwing rocks? What easy
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mark are you talking about? That tall doc and used to be a handsome
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guy I named Ross Gilbert, of course, so the now, lou Yeah,
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but don't make it too sweet, honey, I can't take it that
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Waynette will be very careful not to make it too sweet. There. Tell
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me, Monchell, when did you last see Plumber before tonight? I mean,
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I'm not sure. I think it was at the fights over at the
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Legion Stadium last week. How do I get my drink? Way? Montchell?
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You will get your drink in your face, Liar. Tell me,
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Franchie, is that pearl handle thirty two considered the very latest lama? Chancely
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you have lied to memon on me. You see, Plumber only arrived in
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Los Angeles the day before yesterday for the first time in his life. All
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Right, I made a mistake about seeing Plumber that fights last week. Why
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don't you put away the gun and we'll talk about Ross Gilbert Gilbert? And
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then I hate with all my heart a man it could kill right this minute,
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and that mellow goes for anyone connected with him. So now get out,
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Oh, without even so much as a novew I reserve for my friends
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Mallow, good night, Hello, Malo, Missus Gilbert? Is Ross?
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Alright? Ross isn't here, Marlow? What happened to him? He ran
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into an ugly beating at that address on Melrose, something nasty. If'm out
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of town named Plumber is responsible? Have you hear of him? And or
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and imported Jezebel called Nanette La Mark? No, I haven't. But what
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about Ross? What's wrong with him? Nothing that a pound of beef steak
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and enough liniment can't cure. But before we worry about Ross, Missus Gilbert,
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one more thing. It's a phone number I found on the back of
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an envelope that belong to Plumber. Number Sunset three one six seven six.
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What somebody you know? Yes, someone I know very well. It's the
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telephone number of my ex husband, Emory Marsh Emory Marsh, eh fancy dress
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designer on Wiltshire. That's right, But what's he got to do with all
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this? Emory only met Ross once in Mexico a party at Ensnata. Well,
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look, Missus Gilbert, why don't we postpone collecting Ross until I find
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out a little more. Where does your ex husband Marsh live in Santa Monica,
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But there's a good chance that he's still at his place on Wilshire.
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He does most of his work at night. Well, and Wilsha Bulevard's my
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next step. I'll try to make it a quick one. Goodbye. Emory
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Marsh's place on Wilshere was an expensive shop with a single velvet line show window
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that was home for a beautiful mannequin wearing an evening gown that would drop at
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the first sneeze. After I spent five minutes stumping on a plush, leather
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or posted portal, a light finally clicked on someplace inside, and a moment
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later Emory Marsh opened the door. He was tall, forty five, Sandy
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had and looked less like a dress designer than I did. After following his
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tweet back into an inner sanctum that was comb plywood behind Chinese modern furniture,
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I decided to play it all most straight. Well, mister Marlow, what
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can I do for you now? It's a little too early to tell.
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I'm a private detective, mister Marsh, and I'm working for your ex wife,
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Corey Gilbert. Corey m is she in trouble, mister Morrow. Oh
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no, close to it. Tell me, mister marsh, when you were
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last over to Nanette La Mark's place at Camden Arms. When was that Nanette
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La Mar Yeah, I've never heard of her, nor a man named Plumber
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nor a man named Plumber? Who are they? Well in the order?
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I tossed them out of Mademoiselle with a touchy temper and a thug who needs
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a shave. I don't understand. How do they concern me? Oh?
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Maybe they don't, but your telephone number turned up on Plumber. Both Plumber
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and Nanetta tied onto a man who at this moment is probably picking himself up
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off the floor of an unfinished house at thirty eight h six Melrose Avenue.
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His name, mister Marsh, is Ross Gilbert Gilbert. Yes, that's right.
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What do you know about him? Very little? I only met him
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once at to Revera Pacifico Revera Pacifica, the hotel at en Sonata in Mexico.
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Matter of fact, it was the same night that he met Corey,
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which didn't make you very happy. No, you've got it wrong. Corey
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and I were already divorced. The three of us meeting was nothing more than
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an accident. And when Ross and Corey parlayed that accident in the marriage,
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we are still smiling better than that, mister Marlowe. When that happened a
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month ago, I was grinning. You see, until then I had been
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paying Corey twelve hundred dollars a month alimony for two and a half years,
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and Corey gave all that up for love and Ross Gilbert. Ross Gilbert isn't
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exactly a pauper, mister Marlowe. No, I guess not. Blackmailing a
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pauper doesn't add up. What did you say, mister marlow I said,
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putting the bite on somebody who has nothing is like sucking a lollipop with a
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cellophane on it. You get action, but no results. You see,
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And tell me why does the word blackmail come home to roost, mister Marsh.
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It wouldn't happen to know who the gilly party is, would you,
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No, mister mollow. And what's more, if I did, I certainly
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wouldn't keep that sort of thing to myself. Oh no, I don't think
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you would. I. Oh. Thanks anyway, mister Marsh, you've been
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a big help. I'm glad And if I can be of any further help.
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Don't hesitate to call on me, mister Mollow, Please, I won't,
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mister marsh, you can depend on it. All the way from Wisha
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Boulevard and Missus Gilbert's place on Ogden Drive, I kept wondering who wanted,
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how much out of Ross Gilbert and why? About twenty minutes later, when
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I pulled up in front of the house, I started concentrating on my client,
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who had to meet the woman standing next to a green cope in the
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driveway and waiting in double time. Corey Gilbert was long flowing blonde hair draped
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over his shoulders that at the moment looked like they were carrying the weight to
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the world. But she was pretty a worried than most women who always keep
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it gay. Mister Mollow, Yeah, missus Gilbert, he has been shown
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up yet, No Mallow, what do you suppose take get easy? Maybe
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we better have another look at thirty eight h six Melrose Avenue. H whatever
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you say, Shall I drive if you've got a license, Yes, mister
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Mollow, I've got a license. Well, okay, let's go the way
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we took off in Corey's nash. I wasn't sure whether her license was for
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driving a car or an airplane, And while she kept at eighty three and
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a half triple A on the accelerator, she talked about her husband and why
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she was worried. By the time we were near the place, I knew
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all about the party in that Sonata, the Whirlwind Courtship, and what a
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fine guy Ross Gilbert was. When we got out of the car and started
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over the last one hundred yards toward the unfinished house, I'd learned everything Corey
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knew about the blackmail angle, which wasn't very much. It started last week
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Mallo, when we got back from our honeymoon. Ross wasn't himself at all.
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He was worried. He forgot how to laugh. He argued with me
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over any and everything. A blackmail come in, I don't know. He
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wouldn't tell me what was wrong. Then this evening, just before I called
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you, I overheard him talking on the telephone. That's when I caught the
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word blackmail and this address. Now, maybe Ross will be able to fill
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in a few of the blanks for us. Oh, he was over here
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in this room on a pile of lumber when I came PLUMBA must have done
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a lot more damage than I figured. Take it easy, Take it easy,
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baby. What is it is? He is he? I'm afraid he
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is Cary that man, that man he beat him to dead. Oh Cory.
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That round hole in Gilbert's chest wasn't made by a fist. Where I
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stand, it looks like a thirty two caliber bullet. In just a moment,
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we will return to the second act of the adventures Philip Marlowe, but
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first for some new wrinkles in the mystery field looked on the face of mister
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Jack Benny, eminent producer of the mystery comedy The Lucky Stiff, which opened
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in New York today. Although mister Benny stars are Dorothy Lamore, Claire Trevor,
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and Brian don Levy, Jack's face is covered with new wrinkles because he
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couldn't be in New York to sell the tickets himself. He's remaining in Hollywood
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to appear tomorrow night on CBS on The Jack Benny Show with Mary Livingston,
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Don Wilson, Dennis Day, Phil Harris, and Rochester, so be sure
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to listen. And now with our star Gerald Moore, we returned to the
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second act of Philip Marlowe and tonight's story the easy Mark. Corey Gilbert's face
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went sickly white and a mouth twisted on the brink of histeria. As she
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stared at the dead man. I turned her away from it to a window.
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She did the fastest job of pulling herself together I'd ever seen, and
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I went back to the body. On the way, I noticed a folded
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scrap of paper on the floor. It was a page torn out of a
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desk diary, but all that was written on it was the address of the
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unfinished house we were in. I looked down at what had once been ross
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killers set up didn't make any sense. A victim of blackmail had been beaten
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up by a total stranger, and then a little while later murdered. Somebody
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had killed the goose that was laying the golden eggs, and it didn't figure
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in any direction. And I just about decided to go through his pockets when
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a sound from Corey changed my mind. Wallow, Wallow, come here quick,
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What is it, Courry? Is someone out there? I saw a
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shadow more get away from the window. Wallow there running Why? It's a
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woman, yeah, and quite a woman. What do you know? She's
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crossing the street now who is it mallow? Who is she? Character as
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French as Milanie's eighteen ninety, only she's more like nitric acid than sella dressing.
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Corey, her name is naned La Mark. She's getting in that car.
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How're you going to stop her? Now, I've got a line on
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miss Lamargh. I can find her. But she was hiding here. She
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could be the one who shot Ross, couldn't she easily? In fact,
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right now she's the odds on favorite, which is also Cagy And well,
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I better look if you get her on home ground where she'll talk. Besides,
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there's a big chunk of this business. It doesn't follow. What do
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you mean? Well, look, the murder came out in reverse. Ross
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was paying off, so he should have been the killer instead of the corpse,
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which means is more than blackmail involved. I don't know what you're talking
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about. All I know is he's dead and that woman killed him. Maybe,
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come on, Corey, let's get out of here. Where are we
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going? Well, first you take me back to my car, and then
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I got a job for you to do. What kind of a job.
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Well, I found this page ripped out of a desk's diary, probably Ross's
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I want you to go through all his things and find that diary for me.
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There might be something else in it that will give us a connection.
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All right, where are you going? I got to pay a call and
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Annette, only this time I'm bringing my own welcome Matt. I think i'll
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need it after Corey dropped me off, if I call lieutenanty Burrow, a
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homicide reported the body. And then I got into my own car and drove
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out to Beverly Hills again to the Camden Arms Court, and that's bungalow had
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lights on. I parked down the street and made tracks back through the landscape
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into a side window, and that was playing pinup girl on the arm of
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a divan. She watched someone pace back and forth across the room. When
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I got close enough to hear what was being said, that someone turned out
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to be Corey Gilbert's first husband, Emory Marsh. I like chickens with their
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heads off. So Ross Gilbert was shot to death. But I've got to
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know the truth about one thing, miss La Marck. My entire life's work
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is at stay. Can't you understand right, Monsieur Marsh, do not break
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out into tears. I will tell you Blanar is merely a private investigator I
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hired to locate Ross Gilbert for me. Now are you happy? No?
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Why did such a person have my telephone number? That's what I want to
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know. I'll be ruined if I'm involved in this mess. My reputation means
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everything to my business, and well, things aren't going to well just now.
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If I'm connected with a scandal, I'll be wiped out. We'll stop
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worrying. I saw you with Ross Gilbert three or four times before he so
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I gave your name to Plama as a possible lead to was that is all?
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Why did you want to find Ralf Gilbert? That Monamie has none of
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your business? You found out what you wanted, So good night? All
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right, I'll go. What can I count on you to keep my name
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out of this? Listen? I am counting on me to keep my own
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name out of it, and I will be very busy doing that. Good
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night. I blasted myself up against the side of the house and watched Emory
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marsh leave. He looked anything but happy over the result of his interview with
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Annette. But I figured I had the benefit of experience to work with and
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less to lose than he had. So I waited until he was out of
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sight, and then I stepped up to the door and braced myself and tried
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my luck. You again. Yeah, and I want to talk to you.
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Get your put out of my day, get out of your get out,
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not until we've had a nice, quiet chat, manette, And I
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think we'll take up where Emory marsh left off. What look, just who
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exactly are you? Mallow? Your boy? Plumber and I had this in
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fraternity brothers, but there the similarity ends. Just another chief private detective.
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Okay, baby, if that tough stuff's the only language, understand, we'll
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talk that. Don't stop it leave me? Oh you you ape. I'd
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be nice to me if I were you a ninette, because I just love
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to see a roper on that lovely neck of yours. And what's more,
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I can almost put one there. You're in a mess right up to your
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accent, So start making answers beautiful and keeping straight. First, why did
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you put Plumber on ross Gilbert's trail? Because he double cost me? That
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is why double crossed your house. He ran away from me. He was
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mine, all bought and paid for. You understand, not exactly when I
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met him, he was flat broke. I bought him every decent stitch of
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clothes that he had, gave him everything he needed to be a gentleman because
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we were going to be married. And then he ran out on me and
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took everything with him that he could lay his hands on. Going. Nobody
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does that to na La Marck. Nobody. They hired that license thug Plummet
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to fine them and beat him half to death. Right exactly, Well,
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go ahead, baby, this story doesn't end there. Tell me the rest,
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the good part about how you waited until Plumber got through with him,
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and then you went down to that unfinished blueprint out of house and gardens and
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killed him. No, no, that is not true. I did not
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do that. I could not. It's no bigger lie than the rest of
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it. Why is that pearl handle thirty two of yours? Now? And
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don't reach for it. Just tell me what do you want to I want
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to see if it's been fired? Now? Where is it all is?
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Jack? Oh? Fine, Plumber, Missla Mark might not like for you
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to see her gun. Oh, I thought you would never hit you.
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There's this character, Miss slam Mark. You're another private detective Milo by name
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no kidding. Well, we got a lot in common have them with Jack?
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Yes, yes, we've each got two arms and two legs. And
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the name is Phil. Oh that's the way it is. Huh. Well,
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listen, Jack, you got no business here in the first place.
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But two cents, I'll chop you out. You're even cheaper than I figured.
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Wow, you gonna put away that big nasty gun too, because I
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got your cold an envelope you're stuck in that that's mailbox tonight had a slip
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of paper inside one of your old clients. Huh, what are you talking
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about? Can't you guess? Hey? You want to say it? Well,
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yeah, yeah, let's have a look at that. Okay, take
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a good Come on, drop the gun, Come on, drop it my
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arm all right now, fold up. There's your bug and basement detective,
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and that you didn't get your money's worth, did you. Shall we take
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a look at that pearl handled gun of yours. It is over there in
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my bag. Thanks, m clips full and that smells shoes and gun.
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Of course not. I did not cure us where I was, not even
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inside of that building where he was. Yeah, I know, but wait
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a minute, say that again, I said, I was never inside that
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unfinished house where he was found. When I drove up, you were already
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there, so I let yeah, I know, and Plumber's gun is fully
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loaded hasn't been fired either. Baby. You've just given me a great idea,
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an idea but I do not understand I have. I'll explain it to
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you later. And incidentally, you better be around right now. I've got
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to find out one more thing and then maybe i'll pop this whole ship bang
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wide open, mister Morrow. Good evening, mister Marsh. Lucky to find
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you're still working. Huh late, ours are a habit with me these days.
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Come in, thanks, mister Marsh. I've come back for that help
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you off at me earlier this evening. I see, well the offer is
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still good. Fine. I think your ex wife Corey is lying to me.
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She claims you didn't know Ross Gilbert, that you only met him once
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at that party in en Sonata. But you didn't know him, didn't you?
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Why? Yes, As a matter of fact, I did get acquainted
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with Ross slightly. We had dinner together a few times. Huh. You
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really did favor his marriage to Corey because it freed you automatically, and that
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alimony Lord you were carrying. That's correct, Mallow, but I don't.
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It's also correct, isn't it that you couldn't afford to go to co to
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have your alimony reduced because that would let your snobbish client tell know you were
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going on the rocks. Yes, that's also true. And maybe it's true
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that you actually engineered the marriage and it backfired on you. Very smart,
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mister Marlowe. Just keep your hands at your side. This might go off.
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Yeah O, yes, well I expected a reaction, but not quite
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so soon. Too bad. I'll trouble you for your gun now that you've
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got it all figured out. Yes, marlow I engineered that marriage. Corey
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was attracted to Gilbert, but he was broke. I knew that would scare
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Corey off if she found out. So you and Corey made a deal,
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particularly with Ross. He wanted to marry Corey. You supplied the cash for
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his courtship, right, Yes, only he wouldn't stop there. He kept
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demanding more. Sure it figured from the start Ross wasn't being blackmail He was
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the blackmailer himself, and that made you worse off than before. So you
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killed him. You're so right, mister Marlowe. And Remember, the price
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for two murders is the same as for one. So you've really left me
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no alternative. I'll give you an alternative, Emory, Corey, one thing
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you didn't count on. I really loved Ross Gilbert. Well, I guess
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that winds it up, Corey. Emory's in the hospital, and Nannette and
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Plummer are both in the clink. Too bad. I only hit Emory in
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the hand. I never could trust my aim. It's always been bad in
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a lot of ways. It was good enough tonight, baby. Lucky for
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me, you showed up when you did. Say what made you come to
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Marcius place? Anyway? With that page from the desk diary? Paid off
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Marlow. Only we made a mistake. Huh. It didn't come from Ross's
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diary. It came from Emory's. I finally remembered his handwriting. Now you
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tell me something, Malow. Yeah, how did you know Emory was guilty?
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Well, he made the oldest slip in the book. But he was
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talking to Nanette. I overheard him say that Ross had been shot. Emory
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had no way of knowing that Gilbert was dead or how he had been killed,
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unless Nanette told him. For a while, I thought she had,
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But then I found out that she couldn't have because she'd never been inside the
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house where we found Ross, so it had to be memory. Sure,
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I see, well, mollow, What does a girl say at the end
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of the night like this? Thanks or something? Just thanks will be enough.
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I got to do my income text. Can I give you a lift?
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No? No, I'll walk awhile. I've got some thinking to do
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about marksmanship, but call me some time later on. Will you just to
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see if I'm shooting in the right direction? You can count on a curry.
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Thanks, Good night, Phil. I watched her for a moment as
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she walked down the street all by herself, deep in her own thoughts,
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and it looked to me like she was playing it strictly square. I almost
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wanted to follow him. The first time in a long time, I felt
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like I wanted to get to know a client better. But March fifteenth can
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slip up awfully fast, and that long form ten forty was still unfinished and
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waiting for me in my office. So I decided to go back and work
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on my income text and play it strictly square too. After all, that's
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really the easiest way in a long run. Yeah, I keep telling myself.
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The Adventures of Philip Marlowe, created by Raymond Chandler, stars Gerald Moore
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and is produced by Norman McDonald. The script by Meldon La Robert Mitchell and
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Gene Levitt, was directed by Ralph Rose. Featured in the cast where Sylvia
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sims Lorette, Phil Brandt, Ken Harvey, and Paul Duball. The special
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music was by Richard o'uran. He assured me with us again next week when
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Philip Marlowe says there was a man with a bad hut, a telephone number
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scribbled on a cash register receipt, and a copse on the other side of
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Welcome back. A nice twist mystery here. I think this one definitely
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was very engaging when you're dealing with what looks like Marlow said, looks like
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things happened backwards, though Marlow works it out so that it does make sense
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in the end. All right, and now we do turn to some listener
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comments and feedback. Jackie the listener who emailed yesterday about their old time radio
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collection, there was an additional question that I neglected to read. It didn't
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realize I hadn't till i'd finished a recording. Jackie said, would you ever
31:30
consider adding tales of the Texas Rangers program to your show. It does classified
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as a Western or adventure, but it really is a wonderful detective show that
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starred Joel McCrae. Well, thanks so much for the question, Jackie and
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I do intend to add it. However, it will be on Saturday in
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place of Dragnets, so we're about six years away from playing it. Plus
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I think we do. We would do tea Man in between, but that's
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only We've only have two episodes of that show in existence as of now.
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I'd recommend checking out Old Time Radio Westerns Andrew RYANSOTR Westerns dot Com. Six
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years can be a little ways to wait, but yeah, that is on
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my list to eventually do. Christina emails in from Arizona, says hi,
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mister Graham, I hope you're great detect I love your Great Detectors of Old
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Time Radio podcast, Johnny Dowler and Rogues Gallery are among my favorites. Your
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commentaries at the beginning and the end of each show are truly informative. I
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was wondering if you ever considered adding the complete Richard Diamond Private Detective. You're
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awesome podcast. Thank you for your time and fantastic shows. Well, Christina,
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I have and I do plan on it, and it will be a
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little bit sooner than we get to Tales of the Texas Rangers. I actually
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have Richard Diamond penciled in to replace the Adventures of Philip Marlow once that's done.
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But since we just started Philip Marlow, you've still got a little less
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than two years to go and then we'll be over to Richard Diamond. So
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thanks so much for the question. And you can't take a look at a
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list of all the shows we do intend to do at biglist dot Great Detectives
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dot net, and that'll give you an idea of what we've got planned.
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Quite a few shows don't know tomframes on all or even most of them,
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but we definitely want to get to most of the really interesting programs out there
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at any right. That'll do it for today. We'll be back tomorrow with
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Nick Carter. Next Wednesday, another episode of Philip Marlow and the Meantime.
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