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Philip Marlowe: The Key Man (EP1451) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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Stortock Great Detectives dot net. All right, well, now it's time for
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today's episode of the Adventures of Philip Marlow. The original airn eight June twenty
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fifth, nineteen forty nine and the title The Key Man, Get This and
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Get It straight. Crime is a sucker's road, and those who travel had
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wind up in the gut of the prison of the Grave. There's no other
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end, but they never learned. This one began at the threat of a
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beating that turned in a murder with a brown eyed blonde, a jovial hippopotamus,
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and a tough ex soldier of fortune, all complicating the problem until I
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got next to the key Man. From the pen of Raymond Trendler, outstanding
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author of mystery, comes his most famous character and crime's most deadly enemy.
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As we present, they had been us of Philip Marlowe. Now with Gerald
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Moore start as Philip Marlowe, we bring you tonight's exciting story The key Man.
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Along about dusk, Hollywood Boulevard is some desolate place between the end of
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work and the start of play, and about as boisterous as taps so except
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for a sello faced masher leaning against a nearby storefront warming up his evening lear.
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I was alone on a lot of fancy pavement when I walked up to
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the box office of a newsheal bit at near Kowinga, paid my forty cents
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admission tax included, and started inside. Where of all places I was to
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meet my new client one come. He'd called my office at six thirty five,
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and, in a tight voice, fringed with fear, urged me to
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find him in the last row, last seat, far left of the boulevard
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cinema at once, if I could use a fifty dollar bill. It was
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exactly a quarter to seven when I crossed the length of lobby too while four
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and entered the theater proper, which was almost empty. It was two minutes
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after that before I could see well enough to tell that the man, all
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alone in the aforementioned seat, who wore white French cups protruding out of gray
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flannel, a pleated frown, and not paying any attention to the bathing beauties
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on the screen who were water skiing through Florida's cypress gardens, had to be
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my client. I eased in and sat down next to him. I could
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see he was watching me out of the corner of his eye. Marlo,
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Yeah, my plane leaves for New York. Can happ an hour? What
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the ought to see? That I am on it and in good health?
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Who once it otherwise? Bonnie Kovat an next sholdier Reportune who thinks with his
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fists. He works boss in the garage, but they parked cars. He's
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threatened to kill me with his bare head. Why would you do nothing wrong?
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Nothing wrong? It was perfectly legitimate. He had a chance to get
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out of Hippo Place, Get out of woose Place. Hippo the Kuvec had
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a chance to buy a location of his zoo, but you got there first,
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look, mister huma Wan. And we'll continue this in the lounge.
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It's quieter out there. Yes, yeah, yeah, come on, ah,
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this is better. Come on, we can talk over here. So
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you beat Kovec out of the property. He wanted. Then what happened?
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And when he found out he went crazy. He swore I bribed the Riversted
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broker, high pressure the owner, all that kind of wild hog. You
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know now I'm out of the place I bought from under him. Is a
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good investment? Oh yeah, but chicken feed compared to the deal I'm going
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to close in New York tomorrow if I get there, so for fifty bucks,
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I'm to see that you do just that. Huh he is, But
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I've already it made your work easier. I told Hippolink, all three hundred
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pounds of him. I told him in a loud voice this afternoon that I
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was going out of town by train at seven tonight, figuring, of course
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that Kovac, who's nearby but wouldn't do anything with people around, would over
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hear me, and your connection with Hippo is what I parked my car in
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his garage period. Anyhow, at five thirty to night, I drove down
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power to the Union station. I left my car and a lot there and
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went, after which you doubled back, got outside into a cab and headed
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for here and a comfortable wait until play time, which you're afraid might not
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fool anybody, including the toughness the Covac since you've hired me, right,
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Yes, that's right. I never caught sight of him trading me manon and
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frankly, when i'm I'm afraid of him. Can you understand them? Sure?
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Here is always understandable. Well, what's the itinerary, mister Hummel?
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Here to the airport? No, no, no, no, no,
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First to my house. I still have a bag to pack. I'll take
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a cab. You follow in your car, then wait outside my place.
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That's forty one hundred Fountain and just below Lassie. And again, yeah,
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I know, yes. When I get back into the cab, you follow
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again until I'm safe aboard the plate out here. Here's your money? Anything
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else? Yeah? Do you carry a gun, mister Hummel? Oh nearly
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no. But tonight man. Ah, yes, it's a service gun forty
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five, and believe me, if I have to use it, I will.
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Now let's get out of here quickly. I was twenty minutes playing follow
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the Leader up through Hollywood the Fountain Avenue as far as the neat cube of
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stucco that was number forty one hundred, where I parked behind the taxi lights
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out, and waited until I heard a frightened screams from what had to be
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Martin Hummel. I pile out of my car and darted past the cabin.
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You said he had enough trouble in his life, and ran up the front
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steps and into the house. Wearing the light of a single overturned lamp.
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Of the bedroom, I found my client face down in a widening pool of
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his own blood. I started for the rest of the rooms, but then
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the sound of a motor roaring out of the alley behind the house told me
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I was wasting my time. When I returned to the bedroom, one glance
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at humble still form and said that the man who had been afraid for his
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life only thirty minutes ago was already very dead. Next to his body was
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the forty five he never got to use and alongside of that the miniature crystal
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ball split it with blood that killed him. There was a key which I
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found fit the front door, lying in the middle of the coppet. The
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drawers and closets were all open, as well as his half backed suitcase.
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It's a good time to call the police. I'micide, They talked Matthews.
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Malo, Lieutenant. I'm at forty one hundred Fountain and standing next to a
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man named Mark Humlo used to be a client. He's dead. Matthews murdered.
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The idea who did it? Film? And I got an idea it
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might be a lot of muscle called Bonnie Covac who works in the garage in
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Santa Monica Boulevard. He sure it wasn't a robbery killing. No, you
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know, we's had a lot of second story jobs there, but every three
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weeks in that neighborhood. I'm not sure of anything yet. But you see,
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I was, oh, company, Lieutenant, your leave, Mark,
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I oh, I beg your pardon? Is mister Hammelin? Yes? And
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no? Did he expect you? No? He didn't. Who are you,
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Philip Marlowe? Well he's Mark In or not? Yes? HEAs in
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you'll find him in here if you win, says thank you. I'm sorry
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I bit your head off, but what I have to Oh? No,
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instead shot with that? No, No, it's his own gun. It
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was beating the death of that glass ball there. Oh that key is his
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too, If it's the front door, I already tried it, and then
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I put it back when I found it. Since the police appreciate neatness on
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the scene, that doesn't make sense. Mark always carried his keys in a
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leather case. It should be right there in his right pocket. Yeah,
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hey, you're right, that's key with a bunch of others. And yeah,
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this one matches the one on the floor. How do you know about
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this? Oh, I'm an old friend of Mark's. Man, you'd have
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to be. Well, you such a heard it? Tell him? I
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don't. Maybe I can help you. Maybe it was a little message you're
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going to deliver from Bonnie Kovac. I don't know anyone by that name.
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And since that leaves us with very little and common model, I think I'll
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leave with only this forty five here for companionship. Oh fine, Now get
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over there against the wall and turn your back. We'll go on. Now
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what and don't move until you hear me drive away, or your health will
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suddenly be very, very poor. Good night, my little red riding hood
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slammed out of the place I knew I could either follow her or wait for
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Matthews the siren up to the front door and then tell all one last look
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around the room, including the key in the middle of the cop It made
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me change my mind again. If the key could be traced, it might
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be a definite link to Kovac. So I headed for Hippolynk's garage and Santa
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Monica Boulevard and the hope for further information about a hot, temperate man who
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worked there. Less than five minutes later, I was walking down a cement
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ramp that dropped in the street level into an acre of underground parking space filled
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with a crowded heavy with chromium cars belongs Detechable neighborhood nearby. Hippo himself was
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of aspiring oval, approximately five eight measured in any direction, with tiny eyes,
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tiny nose, and a dozen shins that danced when he laughed, which
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seemed to be always. He was standing next to a pickup truck marked Ace
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battery Shop talking to the driver and because of that, you want more money
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for him that I suppose is easy to get. Now, Look, hippoles,
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in't Plum. I won't pay anymore. My overhead is too high already,
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so if you can't get them for me at the same price, forget
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the whole deal. Besides, I don't like the way you do business anyhow.
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I mean and what meaning that when I give you an order, Plum,
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I want it delivered to me in person, not just any flunky that's
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standing around. Okay, okay, that was a slip. It won't happen
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again, and I did. Won't go bye, Plum, I got customers.
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Can I help you? Miss Year? Maybe I'm looking for Bunny Kovac?
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Is he around? You know? Why? What do you want him?
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For? Him? Maybe? Murder? Why Bonnie? He kills someone?
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Wait a minute, pull, I said, goodbye, go on,
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beat it. Okay, okay, hippo, I'll see you around. Let's
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go in the office here, Mischian little quieter, ye sit down? You
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no private detective names? Malo, hippo Marlow, Huh never heard of you?
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Then, I never heard of a lot of people. Huh, that's
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right, hippo, people like, for instance, Mark Hummel. Why him?
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He was the one Kovic killed. Well, well, what do you
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know? Doesn't seem to break you up? Why I should have? Hummo
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was a laugh Marlow? Everybody said so. Of course, I didn't know
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him personally except a joke with him when he brought his car, And you
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know, her little laugh goes a long way with some guys. Tell me,
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vot, did you know that Hummel was going out of town? Yeah?
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He told me this afternoon. Should a gun yesterday? Huh? Shut
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up? Okay, okay, So you don't like jokes straight? What do
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you want for an open of this? The tall blonde with brown eyes and
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a pretty face and knows how to handle a forty five as well as conversation
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walked in here. Would you know her? Am? I could be Ronda
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Boom on Barney's Girls. He lives in a plush apartment over thirty eight Sweetsir
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Drive, just above the strip. How does she figure? Probably greatn Catalina
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swimsuit, But in this deal, I'm not sure. She might have put
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me on the right track by setting me straight about a key to Humbold's apartment
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that I found next to his body. Wasn't his key? Yeah? The
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design on it near the top. The round part was like a fancy figure
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eight mean anything to you, not being a locksmith? No anything else?
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Yeah, where can I find Bonnie Kovec? How would I know? We
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quit it five today? It's like he does every day, and I quit
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it nine Marlow, which happens to be right now. So go by just
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like that, Yeah, just like that. You see, if I work
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late, Marlow, I gotta pay myself over time. That hurts because I
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can't afford it. See what I mean by I was out on the street
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and behind the wheel of my car before I saw the man in the back
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seat to what a snub nose thirty eight level of my hairline? I lookd
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rugged enough to be no one else but Bonnie Kobak. Drive Marlow straight to
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the corner of Melrose and Orange Drive. I live over a store there and
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it's quiet so we can talk without being disturbed. Come on drive right ahead
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of your Marlow one with a close transom. Keep walking and when I get
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there and you'll go inside, sit down and rest while you listen to what
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to the truth? Mallow, I've been following you long enough tonight I know
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that you're off your rocket. She fella, I didn't kill Hummel. Yeah,
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I know he's double jointed. It was suicide. Slug himself from behind,
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all right, Yeah, he's a key. Open up. Okay,
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Hey, you made a mistake. Covec wrong key. What are you talking
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about? Let me see that. Sure with pleasure now that I got your
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gun, But try it yourself a my COVID close quarters make me nervous.
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You're making a mistake, mollow Yeah, yeah, sure, I am the
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guys who are off that rock I always do. Remember I get over there
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on that chair and behave while I use your phone. Don't we're all killing
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Hipple. Barney, take the gentleman's gun. It's heavy for him. Sure,
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not here, boy, here's some money. Get clear of la listenings
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all cleaned up. You're in a bad spot, I know. But I
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didn't kill Hummel. Hippo. You gotta believe me. Yeah, by all
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means, Barney, my boy, if you say it, I believe it.
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But others won't be that accommodating, I'm sure. So go on,
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and no matter what you do, don't worry about Marlowe. Nah, he
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won't be pulling. You can count on that, Barney. In just a
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moment the second act of Philip Marlowe. But first programs on a summer Sunday
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returned to the second act of Philip Marlowe and tonight's story the key Man.
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The gun wrapped in the thick fat fists of Hippo, looked like a toy
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as he leveled it at my chest while Kovic got away and the fat boy
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kicked the door shut, leaned his under US three hundred pounds against it,
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and smiled, smile faded gradually and finally died, but the muzzle of the
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gun in his hand didn't so much as twitch until a bat at alarm clock
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on the dresser had clanked off a monotonous fifteen minutes. At that point,
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Hippo Link leaved his face up into another smile, waddled across the room,
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and laid the gun down on the table in front of me. Okay,
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you behaved yourself, real nice. Barnie's got all the head started you'll need,
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so you can leave now. You know something, Link, You're not
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only fat between the sleeves, you're of a wait for twenty years too.
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Helping us suspect escape doesn't sit well at headquarters. Just a minute, boy,
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you're kind of jumping to conclusions, aren't you. You were putting the
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muscle on a friend of mine and I help you out. That's all that
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happened so far. So you look a little silly running me in on that.
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But if you still want to try more guns right there on the table,
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okay, hippo, you win for now. But don't think I buy
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that silly one two three story of yours may not be pex bad boy,
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but I don't see you as a Galahad. Either, well, how do
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you put the story together? Then I don't know that that's any of your
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business, And even if I thought it were, I wouldn't tell you.
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I'll let you know this much. And I don't know for sure that Kovak
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is Gilly, But then I don't know for sure where you are Kovac's girl
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run the Beaumont fit either, I wouldn't know. You said you knew it,
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So you seem to think a good deal of that kid Kovc. So
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it couldn't it be possible she paid you to come up here and see that
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her boyfriend got away. Like you said, Marlow, I don't know that
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there's any of your own business. How much cash does it take for you
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to stick your neck out as far as you have? H h Could it
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be you've got a thing going for Covix girl would be glad to see him
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out of time. Ah, you're kidding, Look right on your loan.
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What's it to you now? My client was knocked off right under my nose?
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Remember, are you gonna let me add a solitary? Sure, pick
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up your pistol and run, And if you need me for any more help,
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be sure and let me know. I left tip I was standing in
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Kovac's flattened downstairs. I stopped the phone booth long enough to have the latest
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developments for what they were worth relay to Lieutenant Matthews, and I drove out
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to West Sweets and turned straight up into the hills and parked in front of
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number thirty eight, the Morrol Apartments, a terrace teep of pastel plaster and
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angled glass in which Ronda Beaumont had a first floor front. I took a
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look at the lodge private view of the city as I crossed the small private
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petio and knocked on the substantial private entrance. When I cracked open eye helped
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it along just enough to step inside. Fat Marmol. You will come in,
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won't you, whether you're asked or not. Yes, And it's sweet
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of you to ask me, Randa, is is he here? He hmm?
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In a city of four million, half of which are male, that
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borders on being a stupid question. But the answer is no in any case,
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because until you strong armed your way in here, I was alone.
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I can't buy it. I think of Bonnie's the kind of a boy that
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we want to take stuff like you right along with him when he leaves Bonnie
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leaving m h, what are you talking about? Running away from that mess
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over on Fountain? He's leaving town? You're lying, I've heard nothing.
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I'll take the handbag, baby, heavy enough to have that cute forty five
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caliber compact inside, right, Okay, it's in there, take it.
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I don't care. But look, Marla, is that the truth about Barney
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leaving town? As if you didn't know? Yes. And while we're on
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that subject, why did you show up at Marc Hammelo's place tonight? I
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went there to warn him about Barney. Wait a minute, Wait a minute,
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I thought you were in love with Kovac. I am. Do I
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have to draw you a picture Bonnie Kovak strong and reckless, but he was
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trying hard, awfully hard, to get started for himself. And then well,
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I used to go with Mark before I met Barney, and because of
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that, Mark deliberately beat him out of the best deal he'd ever had,
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the Loud just despite me. Well, Barnie was curious, and I knew
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something terrible would happen if they ever got together, So so I went to
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tell Mark to stay out of his way. He got there a little too
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late. Is that it? I? Don't know. Well, at least
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give me a handkerchief out of my bag. Marlo darn it. Yeah,
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sure, here I am. Hey, Hey, these keys, Randa,
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this one, the one with the figure out design. Where'd you get it?
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With's my new door? Ky? Yeah? I know, but what'd
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you get it? I don't know. Barney had it made for me one
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day while we were having lunch. Who's the guy who made it? I
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don't know. Where are we eating that day? Hungarian place on Fairfax near
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Santa Monica. Where are you going, mad? Fairfacts near Santa Monica.
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Here's your bag, Runda, And if you've got any sense, they put
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and try real hard not to shoot anybody, at least until I calla How
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long babies? Way late Extra? The worlds is terrible shape, and some
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mess read all about it, late Extra papers. It's all over now,
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paper mister, Oh thanks, kid, Tell me something. Where's locksmith on
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this block? Locksmith? No, there ain't nothing. Come on, sure,
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there is a guy who makes keys. It's gotta be thank hard.
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It's important, think hard, he says. Look, mister, I know
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this whole neighborhood like the back of my own hand. No key maker,
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Well, how about a guy who's shopping, saws, scissors, things like
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that. Nah, nothing like that. We got filling stations, bars,
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a delicate Tessen drug store, shoemaker, dry goods store, three restaurants once
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hung that's on Fairfax, Ace battery shop there across the street, toy store
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on the corner. A lamphage joint. Wait a minute, hold it plum
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Plume. Yeah, yeah, old man Plume owns the joint. A real
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sour apple, you know what I mean. Place a dumb too, but
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he works hard. He's probably over there right now working in the back room.
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Bless you, my boy, Thanks a lot. Yeah, who is
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it? Customer, My battery is dead. You gotta help me. Look,
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mister, my place is closed up. Come back, sorry, Plume,
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but tomorrow is a long way off. This is an emergency. I
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take it easy and you'll be okay. I got a job for you,
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and it's got to be done tonight. We listen, I said, my
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place shot app I get this Plume. I'm a friend of Hippo Link San
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Bonnie Kovacs, all of which makes you perfect for my job. What kind
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of a job you're talking about? This? It's a key, duplicated a
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key, Hey, buddy, this is a battery shop. I can't make
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keys in the first place. You gotta have a line. I said this
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was an emergency, didn't I get busy with what my fingernails. I don't
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know how to cut keys. Somebody's stringing you pile and I don't keep away
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from that draw well, well, well, whole drawer full of blank keys.
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Huh at thirty eight in the drawer here must be that license you spoke
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of. Come on, you get up, wait, wait me, leave
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me alone. I didn't do anything. I listened, Plume. I want
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one straight answer out of you fast. You made a delivery to Link's garage
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sometime today and it wasn't batteries. Won't you get it? So come on.
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I looked it with Bonnie Kolbeck. He was the only one around,
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but it was nothing. An envelope. Yeah, full of keys. Thanks
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very much for your help, Plume. But I'm in a hurry, and
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just so I'll be sure to see you later. Good night. I ran
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out of my car, piled in and I did straight out Santa Monica Philocienaga,
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and when I got with inside of the dark cabinets entrance to Hippolynks underground
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storage garage. I slowed down and looked for a phone that I could use
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to call Matthews and still keep an eye on the garage. Because the way
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things stood now, I couldn't afford to miss a lick. But then I
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got a break. I decided to try a mobile gas station on the corner
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when the scream of a siren shoved me up against the curb and a squad
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cas swerved out from a side street ground to a robber burning stop in front
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of the garage and discauged Matthews himself and the driver on the devil. I
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slammed out of my coop and belt it across the street after him. Matthews,
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Hey, Matthews, we got it down inside there. You just wait
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a minute. Wait a minute, Matthews, you got to steal all wrong.
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No, we haven't. I got two Mountain back. He's trapped.
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We'll get him. Hold everything. Matthews listening to me. I'm going down
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there and talked to him. I'll be back in a minute. Kovac,
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this is Mallow, Come on out. I got all the answers now,
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Bonnie. I just had to talk with Plume, and I got a lot
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of truth out of him. Come on, Bonnie, you're not helping anything.
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Help kill it you all right, that's my shoulder. Matthews. Oh,
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I know this should happened sometime. No, don't shoot, don't come
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my arm. Listen, Matthews, Kobak didn't do it. The shot that
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got me came from back there on the other side. Yeah, that's it,
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Pete for the back there there he is, Matthews. That's the boy,
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right. Yeah, Hippo Link, second, Lieutenant, is your killing
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toplank stop? I got him, Phil, he's done. Yeah. Yeah,
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that's that's one nice thing about Hippo. You can't you can't miss him.
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Thanks. I think I bettersten down a minute. Oh hello mall oh
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great great. Yeah. You can't beat these hospital beds for comfort, Lieutenant.
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I'm getting one from my apartment. You can crank it into thy different
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positions, you know. Then. Yeah, yeah, I know. The
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doc says you got off with a flesh wold. You're pretty lucky. Phil,
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and I just stopped by to tell you they saved Hippo Link. So
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he'll have to be tried. There won't be much though he's already admitted everything.
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What about Plume? Do you get anything so Groggy Odin knew his own
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name when we picked him up. Yeah, it was quite a racket.
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They had Matthews Smooth Smooth. Every rich customer come into Hippo's garage left his
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house key with his cock keys was a cent to be burglarized. So yeah,
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Plume cuts a duplicate key. They find out when the people are away,
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and that's all they need. And some said up the chill backfired On
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the tonight, Hammo went to a lot of trouble to tell Hippo that he
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was leaving town at seven, just to throw Bonnie off his trail, but
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Hippo took it is a great opening for his racket. So Hommo came home
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right in the middle of the burglary, and Hippo had to kill him to
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get our way. That's it. Oh, by the way, it's a
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friend of yours. Oh yeah, I'll get him money. And Bonnie he's
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feeling fine. Oh swell, Hi, mister Molow. I guess Ronda and
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I owe you quite a vote of thanks. You don't mean nothing but an
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explanation, Kovec, why'd you run? Well, I don't know. That's
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the way I shot my mouth off about Hamel. I figured I was hooked
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for sure when he turned up dead. Once I started running, I couldn't
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stop kept getting worse. Yeah, it's exactly what Hippo figured. That's when
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I don't get Modo. Why did he help me in the first place?
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He had to brother, Hippo knew that my best clue was an extra door
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key. They also knew that Plume Hat left a bunch of keys with you
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to give to him. He was sure that if we ever got together and
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talked about keys, he'd be stuck. But as it turned out, I
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got the same lead anyway from the key Plume made for Ronde. Hey,
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Matthews cracked me up in the middle like this, Philter, Oh yeah,
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yeah, that's perfect. Bonnie turned off that reading, lad, we believe?
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Sure? Yeah? Anything else? Yeah? You see that no visitor
27:53
sign there? Yeah, well just hang it on the door on your way
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out. I'm here for three days, fellas the best of them. Good
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night or when I left, I nestled down with the solid comfort of clean
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sheets and quiet darkness, and my eyes were almost closed when it happened.
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The lights snapped on. A pair of efficient hands grabbed me, stabbed an
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inch of hypodermic needle into my right arm, jammed a cold hard thermometer under
28:30
my tongue, and splashed a half a pint of icy alcohol on my back.
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Oh it was awful. But when it was over, she looked back
28:38
from the door and smiled before she went out, a red headed nurse and
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very pretty. Only then did I notice the set of keys she'd forgotten on
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my medicine table. One was thick with the figure eight design. It was
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a darky. Just a moment, I wondered, foolishly I could get a
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hold of mister plume again some way. Just a few minutes, I cut
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it out. Marlow Go to Sleep. The Adventures of Philip Marlowe, Bringing
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You Raymond, Chandler's most famous character and crime's most deadly enemy, star Gerald
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Moore and are produced and directed by Norman McDonald. Script is by Meldonelli,
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I enjoyed this episode and the result was a nice twist and a bit
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of a pun in the title, so very smartly written. I did think
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at the end of the episode that Marlow just really didn't need to go to
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bed. Go to slate. Stop thinking about the random nurse. All right,
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Well, on to some listener comments and feedback, and we have this
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Well, thank you so much for your email. Randy Over on the Facebook
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So it's some interesting history. I appreciate Francis sharing the link and also Randy
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