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Philip Marlowe: Kid on the Corner (EP1565) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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for Today's Adventure of Philip Marlow. The original airdate December third, of nineteen
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forty nine, and the title is The Kid on the Corner. Get this
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and get it straight. Crime is a sucker's road. Those who travel wind
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up in the gut of the prison of the grave. This time it started
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with a kid hawking papers on Hollywood Boulevard and moved from there to a house
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full of hate on a quiet street, a blonde lire on ice skates,
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and a copse in a burned out shack, and it all wound up right
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where it really began, in the heart of the Kid on the Corner.
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From the pan of Raymond Chandler, outstanding author of crime fiction, comes his
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most famous character in the Adventures of Philip Marlowe. Now with Gerald Moore starred
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as Philip Marlowe, we bring you tonight's exciting story, The Kid on the
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Corner. After a day jam full of heat waves in December, actresses who
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passed Masscara and long A's office talent and producers with glossy convertibles and holes in
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their shoes, the world looked as phony as a seven dollar bill. And
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when I finally closed my office, stepped out on a Hollywood Boulevard into the
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glare from miles of sheet iron Christmas trees on lamp post trunks, and watched
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a loud speakers sat a clause with Leon Raindeer trundle By in a cloud of
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artificial snow. I'd have gladly traded all of Hollywood, California for one quiet
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Vermont hillside and thrown my license into boot, all of which convinced me that
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what Marlow needed most was a martini in his own apartment, a good book,
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and a night's sleep, in that order. So I started home after
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them, but only got as far as the middle of the street. It
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was the kid who sold papers on the corner, Marlow, can you spare
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a minish? I've got to talk to you. Okay, Tommy, let's
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get out of the street first. Huh. I'm not so good at dodging
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fenders. Oh yeah, what's on your mind? Kid? That's about my
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uncle Burt, Burt larceny. He's gone, mister Marlow. What about your
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family, Tommy? Don't I know where he is? I don't have no
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family. I've been living with uncle Burt in a flat down and van ness.
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Hey, if you haven't had your dinner yet, maybe it'd eat with
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me in a cafeteria. Huh, it's it's real important to me, mister
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Marlow. Anything that's important to you, kid is important to meet. Let's
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go in. Well. I should have known something was wrong when I heard
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him walking around late last night. You know, he said he was after
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a drink of water. But he's got those metal plates kind of like taps
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on his shoes, so I knew he was all dressed, only I was
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too sleepy to think anything about it. Then maybe he just got an early
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stopped and he's been busy today. Huh, it's not like that, mister
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Marlow. Something's wrong. Well you have, gentlemen, the park's nice tonight.
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Stew's the best deal for the money, mister Marlow. I'll have the
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stew please. Yeah, you better make it too, miss Okay, a
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couple of stews coming out. See. When I got up this morning,
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I found this envelope on the dress. It was two hundred bucks inside and
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this was written on the front. Let's see it. Dear Tommy must leave
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town on business. I'll send more money soon. Be a good kid and
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take care of yourself, Uncle Bert. Yeah, I see what you mean.
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Yeah. I spent all day trying to find out where he went.
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I checked everything but the airport. I no, he wouldn't take a plane.
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He gets dizzy just standing on a curb. No luck, though,
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milpe, mister Marlow. Now I'll have coffee. Tell me I feel rugged,
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and there's a table over in the corner. Come on, okay,
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what really makes it fishy? Is it? Uncle Bert's got no out of
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town business. Besides, he's never been out in front more than twenty bucks
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in his life. I can't figure it, and I look tummy. If
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you're really worried, you don't want me, you ought to go to the
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police right away, cops. No, I can't. Why not? Well
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uncle Bert's been awful good to me, but well, I guess he's really
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kind of a bum. You see, he's a gambler, mister Marlow,
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a bookie, just a harmless small time is sure. But i'd get him
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in an awful jam if I call the cops. Would you try to find
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him for me? I got do. I'll pay you whatever you charge.
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Don't worry about the money, Tommy, I got one lead for you.
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This name here in the back of the envelope. See yeah, Leicester Carney
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and the number three thousand and four and a half. Does that mean anything
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to your kid? No, I'd have looked that guy at myself on you
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know how far a kid could get? Sure, she mister Marlow, I'm
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sure my uncle didn't leave town and something else. It's gotta be he's in
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some kind of trouble now, Tommy, you know that he might be on
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the wrong end of it, don't you. Yeah. Well, if that's
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right, I want to find it out fast. Mister marlw here's a picture
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of him. M m scared son, me scared? Nah, not for
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myself anyway. Yeah, yeah, I guess I am kind of ill.
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Okay, tell me eat your dinner and then get back to work. I'll
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see what I can find out. Huh. I've patted my new client on
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the shoulder and left the cafeteria. But I was sure of one thing.
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The dry rut that gets to most people in Hollywood wouldn't touch a hard working
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kid named Temmy Lawson was already smarter at fifteen, and a lot of citizens
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get it fifty. I stopped in a phone book and found the name Lester
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Connie listed in the book at eighty one to ten Cherokee Street. That turned
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out to be an oversized California Spanish model lid taking lots of old fashioned wealth
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to do. Halfway up the curving walk to the already open front door,
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I heard the voice. That's the way you feel. I don't want to
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join this house another night. Oh I'm sorry, ma'am, but I don't
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think that's frying and telon liser a part of the maid's duties. So I'm
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leaving, but I would like to know about my Backshelly. First, you
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can't get your bets selling my girl. Don't worry about that. Now get
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out. Excuse me, sir? Oh yeah, sure, Well what do
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you want? I'm looking for mister Lester Connie? Is he in? He
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is not? Oh? Would you mind telling me where I can locate him?
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I don't know and I don't care. Just a minute, just a
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minute? Is he with Bert Lawson? Maybe? I don't know what you're
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talking about. Now get out of here, and good night to you too,
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missus Connie. Hey, hey, Susan, just a minute, baby,
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I call anybody baby when they're as cute as you were. You're not
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so bad yourself. Well, now that that's established, let's get friendly.
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I'm always friendly, but they're not huh oh, there's going to be trouble
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in that house. Good night. Wait a minute, Wait a minute,
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wait a Minute'll give you a lift in the car. Let me have your
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bag, all right? Thank you? Say what about that trouble you spoke
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of, Susan? What did you mean, Julie? She isn't just pretty
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as she used to be. She's turned around, seen, she's liven That
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poor husband of hers out of his mind. He almost never comes home nowadays,
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practically lives in his studio. Studio, and what kind photography? It's
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way up in the Hollywood Hills someplace, Susan. Did you ever hear either
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of mentioned a Bert Lawson? No? Why who's he? Gambler? I
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gather from Julia that Connie is blowing the family fortune man, Sure he is.
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And that's not all she's driven in too? What else? What do
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you think? Another woman? Of course? An ice skater named Carol King
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at the Igloo, that's that nightclub with the skating show. Yeah, I've
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been there. Does missus Connie know? Oh? She suspects That's why she
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wanted me to spy on him. But I wouldn't because I don't blame him
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one bit, not with Julia being like she is. Yeah, maybe I
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write Susan, but then again, maybe you've got your cause and effect backward.
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Yes, I don't know anything about that, but that poor man's been
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driven so crazy he's threatened to kill her. Well, here's what I get
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out and stay out. I dropped Susan off at the car stop and headed
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out Sunset Boulevard for Westwood in the club called the Igloo, which looked more
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like a down at the heel taj Mahal in an Eskimo's bedroom. Inside a
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line of fast moving ostrich plumes with right crisp waistlines and imitation saving zipped over
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a short sheet of tindered ice taught the climax of chorus numbers while I bluffed
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my way backstage and intimidated the collboy in descending over one Carol King. She
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turned out to be left end in the lineup out front, So I sat
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down on a cold trunk and waited until the curtain fell, and I got
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up the greed and athletic blonde with more than healthy face, whose sidel dubiously
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taught me I skates and all, and I introduced myself and told her I
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was looking for Burt Lawson. Why you're looking for Bert Lawson? Mala oh,
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because people says disappeared. Now I know he's a bookie. You don't
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have to protect him on that score, and I'm no cop. Just want
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to know where he's gone. Okay, here, he made a real killing
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yesterday, the first one in his life. I understand he's leaving town to
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retire. Who's going to make book for you from now on? Nobody?
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I never played the horses my friends did, Oh, friends like Lester Conney.
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Well, now we get down to business. It smell like you're working
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for a wife Shamus. Yes again, sugar, I'm after break lass and
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nothing else. That's why I want to talk to your friend. Where is
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he? Mister Carney is no friend of mine. You know you should be
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smart enough to know you're just wasting your time with that pace. Look,
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but he was my friend, sure, but that's all off as of an
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hour ago, they're all through washed up. I gave him the boot.
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Why do you run out of blank checks? I ought to bust your shin
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skip the cracks. I threw him out because I got sick and tired of
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waiting, and he just kept me on the string. For months with nothing
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but promises said he hated his wife. But when it comes down, the
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case is to refuse to leave it. I don't know. He's got some
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hold over me. He has nerve enough to break. So I wrapped him
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up in a neat little bundle and sent him home. It was a mess,
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No bet between you and Julia. He must be in a great frame
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of mine tonight. That's his problem now, brother, not mine. What
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is yours? How to keep your life on ice? No wise guy,
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for your information. I'm quitting this show, and it makes a clean break
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all around happy landings. But look, what's the connection, if any,
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between Lawson and Connie? Why, mister Marlow? I had no idear,
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no wonderful Okay, sugar, that's where we'll leave it for now. But
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in making that clean break, be sure it's not your neck. I'll see
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you around. I had nothing tangible to base it on, But as I
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left the igloo and drove back to Hollywood, for some reason, I kept
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thinking that Tommy Lawson was right, that his uncle was still in town and
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in some kind of trouble. And I was sure that at least half of
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Carol King's story had been lies. But why I couldn't forget, and another
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idea hit me, and hit me hard. I turned on to Cherokee again
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and drove up to Connie's house at eighty one to ten, parked, and
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went in there. The vague hunch began to shape up like grim fact because
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the front door was wide open and spilling a pale glow from the one light
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in the house, the hall lamp. I saw the note popped under the
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lamp even before I went in. I left it where it was. It
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said, to whom it may concern, I have paid all my just debts,
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My affairs are in order, and since life has been made intolerable for
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me, I have destroyed that which made it so, my wife Julia.
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There's nothing left that she'll dispose of myself, Nor am I sorry, Lester.
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Connie and I looked up beyond the note and saw her lying at the
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edge of the circle of light from the lamp. Julia had been strangled by
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a silk cord that was still embedded in a swollen throat. I turned and
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started for the phone. You are, oh, so I got here a
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little too late? Huh? Or is it too soon? My wife's dead?
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To what's the difference. Let her stand still, because I'll shoot fast.
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Who are you and what are you doing here? Names Marlowe, and
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I assume you're Connie all right. I'm a private detective trying to find Bert
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Lawson. In the process, I got mixed up in your little fiasco from
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one end of the other. Bert Larcense just a cheap book maker, one
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of the very few people who ever gave me a fair break. Where is
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he? Connie? Do you know? No? Does it matter? You
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bad? Your bonnet in here? Just now? The man's going to do
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what I've decided to do. It's the most personal, private affair. It's
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your party. Maybe you better think it all over again. I've already thought
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it over thoroughly. Turn around and walk through that door of the kitchen.
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Go on, sure, sure, all right, stop there now, open
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that door and you're right this one. Yes years ago, that cellar was
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filled with the best wines the world had to off. What happens you pulled
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too many cocks? Find out for yourself in just a moment but the second
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act of Philip Marlowe. But first we'll tyrone power. Listen to Jack Benny's
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on all of these CBS stations. Now with our star Gerald Moore, we
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returned to the second act of Philip Marlowe and Tonight's story. The Kid down
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the corner, mister Connie bouncing, the private detective down the cellus. Tiz
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had been rough on both the in and out of man, and my Joe
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was bleeding where his heavy signat ring had connected. I was back on my
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feet through the dusty jumble of barrels and boxes, over to a grimy side
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window, and finally out onto the street. I found neither confessed killer nor
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car any place in sight, which made my next step a return trip into
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the house and a call to Lieutenant Matthews. All right, made from your
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client to Julia Conny, to that ice skater, and back to Julia Connie
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now dead. I follow, but the why I don't. Where's the connection
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between the news boy's uncle and this guy who say is on the way out,
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this lester Connie Matthews. I don't know. You don't know. You're
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not saying which field. Well maybe it's a little of each. Now,
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look, lieutenant, I just a second. What is it? Mala all
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the why William Matthews? Okay, but make it snappy, will you?
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Phil Ki might decide to take somebody else along the four and a half north
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last morning. I can't hear you, phil What Oh a piece of paper
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Matthews in a dead woman's hand. Oh, no, you're fine. Got
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an address on it, the same address that was on the back of the
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envelope. Tell me he's not left for him. Well, this address could
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be the connection I asked you about it. Yeah, yeah, the hook
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between Uncle Bert and the Connie's. Well, we'll get right over there with
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Matthews. Wait a minute, let me I had a loan first. Well,
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I think it'll play better that way and keep the kids junkle out of
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the police lineup. Yeah, I'm on a like cat and I wait a
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minute, Matthews, please, I'm thinking of the kid. Yeah. Well,
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I'm okay, got a boy, Just don't make it too long un
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till I hear from you again, goodbye. I knew that the three thousand
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block on North Rossmo. Wasn't even close to the Hollywood Hills, which meant
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that the address couldn't be the Dileton photographer's studio that the Connies X made it
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described, And twenty minutes later, when I was out of my car and
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standing next to the doorbell mark three thousand and four and a half, I
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knew something else because the name underneath was Carol King. A light showed from
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someplace deep inside, and my leaning on the doorbell only proved that it worked.
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There was no answer at three thousand and four and a half, but
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three thousand and four, the other twin of the duplex was different. It
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featured a sweet old lady who shatted the illusion the second she opened her mouth.
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I suppose you're just another one of that King girl's friends. Eh,
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why do I look the type, granny? It is no miss Carroll King
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entertained all sorts, which might include a recent someone who's great at the temples
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shot and maybe talks a lot about the ponies. Would I know what a
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guess to talk about? Oh, you've gotta be kidding. Look how your
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woman's been murdered tonight? Now I knew it. I knew it. You
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had to come to a bad yesterday. I told him, Grannie, Carol
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is not the one who's dead. Oh yeah, well, I'm glad it
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sticks out all over you. Now look what about that man? Well he
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was here about thirty minutes ago, just the two of them, drinking that
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hard liquor like it was water and making enough noise to raise the devil itself.
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A farewell party, they called it. Oh you seem no. No,
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Henry made me come in there, and what I mean? I know
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what you mean? You missed it? Okay, Granny, Now look how
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do we get in here without kicking the door down? Come on, sweetheart,
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it's important. That may be a body inside baldy. Oh well,
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how awful? Here? Yeah? Oh here behind this ledge always kept a
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spare key. Yeah, yeah it is. You do it? I am
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too shaky. It shouldn't be. Just thinking tomorrow, Granny and the news
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you will have for one and all the light switches is on your right.
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There see anything how many rooms here? Bedroom, kitchen, bath? Aside
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from this? Anything in there? No? You suspect foul player right,
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don't you the foulest. Don't let it worry you, because hey, those
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photos there on the wall they're taking for Mulholland Drive, aren't they one by
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day, one by night, both in the same spot the Hollywood Hill.
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Sure? Sure that's where he has a studio, that Leicester fella. Yeah,
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that fellow, granny. Do you know where it is? I mean
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Mulhalland Drive and where you know that street runs for miles along the top of
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the mountain. Of course I do. Was born and raised here ready where
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Mulholland and where Mulholland La Canyon Boulevard. Just stop the intersection, Thank you,
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sweetheart, and goodbye. Wait one moment, now, you please,
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what's your name? Off? I know my rights, your name and your
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division. Grannie, dear, I'm no cop, I said, I'm no
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cop. Oh not please offer? Well? Then who are you just to
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pass it by a stranger in the night? Good night, Granny. All
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the way from Rossmore to Sunset, then West Laurel Canyon Boulevard, I kept
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worrying about Tommy lawson and the uncle who from where I stood he needed at
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least worrying about the matter which way things played but when I was on the
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strip of McAdam that twists its way up, would Todd Mulholland drive like a
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snake writhing from a long, long belly ache. I forgot about both client
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and relatives alike, because at the top and the middle of the south,
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where Granny had said it would be, it was Lester Connie studio, all
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right, but burned to the ground. Willy, you'll like my ways,
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you'll go fast, I chief, Yeah, more than twenty minutes on this
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one. Hey, Mester, where are you going? Some of that metal
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stuff still pretty hot? Or are you with a long? Oh? Chief?
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I'm a private detective named Marlow. I was wondering if Lester Kennie was
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coordinary owned the shack I know? Is your friend of yours? No,
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it's strictly business. He's wanted for murder. He was wanted for murder,
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Phill, he was burned to a crisp and hellokay, Matthews, what's your
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guess he started on purpose suicides hardly ever burned himself at death. No,
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No, he probably took some sleeping pills of poisoning and a cigarette left going.
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Did this? You know? Hey, by the way, Phil,
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you saw Connie tonight. You think you might recognize him? Right, Yeah,
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he's over there. There isn't much your case, right, Matthews,
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garcon Hey, you tied Connie and this fire together kind of fast, didn't
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you. Lieutenant, I just found out about this place. Yeah, but
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you work alone, mollow I got help there. It is all that's left.
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See anything? Yeah, that ring I noticed it earlier. And the
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watch I'm not sure. I don't remember what Kenny. Hey, Matthews,
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what is it? What are you staring? That fight over here? See
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this little piece of metal? Yeah, I think it's the watch Hill.
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You know, fire makes things hot? Yeah? Yeah, hot things burn?
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And what is it? It's an idea? Yeah? Like what?
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Like? This isn't suicide after all, Like it's murder. Matthews. Come
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on, we gotta get to our phone quick. Los Angeles International Airports Central
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Dispatcher's Office. Look, miss, this is important. I'm calling for Detective
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Lieutenant Matthews the police headquarters. What passenger flights have left in the last half
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hour? Passenger flights? Yeah, well there have been two sirs, one
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of Dallas, Texas, the other Chicago, both American airlines. Nothing out
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of the country. Wait, a minute. However, there is a flight
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schedule to leave at ten ten that's just five minutes from now, that's going
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to Manila Mercury Airways. Shall I connect you? Yeah? Hurry, will
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you please? Hey Matthews, this maybe I'm glad for you. Mercury Airway
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Central Dispatcher's Office, Mercury. There's a call from the police here for you.
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Go ahead, sir. Look, you're ten ten flight for Manila.
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Is it going out on schedule? Yes, A're the plane standing by for
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the passing bill. Now, oh, then tell me this is there a
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passenger of board named Bert Lawson. Hurry, we're there this loss and kill
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Leicester Connie. Then we hold at Matthews, Yes, sir, we have
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a bird lastner boy. Oh, good keeping there, and don't let that
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plane get up in the air. You hear the man's wanted for murder,
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but don't do anything else side. They just let him sit and wait for
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us. You got that, Yes, I understand. Fine, We'll be
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there as soon as we can. Goodbye. Come on, Matthews, it's
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your show from here on in sirens included. Okay, Malo, okay,
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enough, So we're on our way to the airport. We're gonna catch or
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kill. Everything is great, but first how the things add up with the
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monty take it easy five seconds more or less? Never yet turned the trick.
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Were you saying something, Matthews? Yeah, yeah, I'm saying I
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don't know which end is up, philed. Look, Lester Connie killed his
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wife right right Why because he wanted out of the way so that he in
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a cheap little monster named Carol King, can live happily ever after. Well,
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divorce wouldn't do that for him. Huh Oh, I don't think so.
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Probably because Julia Connie had a real tight grip on the purse strings.
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Oh maybe something more like it's not very nice pass for a guess. Yeah.
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Yeah, but the purse strings the money. That's where Burt Lowson figures
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in huh a booky with a klin Oh no blackmail. Now, I figured
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Bert Lawson knew about Connie and Carol King. He must have stopped by wants
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to pick up or pay off a bed at the right time. Yeah,
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and from there and from there, the team of Carol unless to kill Lester's
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wife. Yeah, which we're colored, but not in detail. Now listen,
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you see after the murder, lest the plan to kill himself. Yeah,
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or at least make it look like that. Yeah, a suicide note
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to mohalland studio burned down the works, Yeah, yeah, on the body
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we found. That's an added attraction. Bert Lowson included in the last minute,
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what the wife, and then the black bailer you're getting it drug while
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drinking at Carol's Way he thought that he was going to get paid off in
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money, and up to molhalland drive bring watch and flames at it. Oh
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and then and out here at the app board headed for Manila, Lester Carney,
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Hey, mooney, we're getting closer. You got to killer siren,
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Okay, not Phil. How do you know all this? I mean the
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switch, you know what makes it so? That piece of metal? I
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burn my fingers on Matthews. It was a tap from a shoe and Bert
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lost in war taps. The rest of it ads from there, Yeah,
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including Connie at the airport. Now as last sure, who'd be looking for
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a beat up second rate book? You decided to leave town aside from a
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nephew, that is, yeah, aside from my nephew. Tried every place
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but the airport. I'll go. Bert couldn't stand planes that break's Matthews.
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Oh here we are, Yeah, just you and me and Mooney and Killer.
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Aren't you coming? Phil? H No, I think I'll wait here,
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Matthews. I got some thinking to do about the scum you're sometimes meeting
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a night. No at the kind of a kid I almost never meet in
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the night, see it? Yeah, all right, come on, Mooney,
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maybe a boy. You'll make a break for an I hole Lester Connie
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didn't make a break for it. And now or later when they picked up
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Carol King, it was the same thing. Each of them was surly ugly,
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but they talked someone. I finally left police headquarters, where I try
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as he would for Tommy's sake, Matthews had found it impossible to skip over
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Burt Lawson's connection as a blackmailer. Was pushing midnight, and I was dog
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tired. There was something worse than that. When I was back on the
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corner near my office, walking toward Tommy Lawson, who was untying a stack
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of fresh newspapers, then the headline read all about it. Hollywood killer,
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nab blackmailing, bookie, jealous wife slain Hi you kid, Hi am mister
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Marlow Tennant. Matthews tells me you had kind of a rough night, kinda
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when'd you talk to him, Tommy after the first editions hit the street.
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I wanted to know if you were okay. The story didn't say publicity,
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no, good for your business? Huh, not much the kid. Did
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the lieutenant say anything about you? I mean, I'm gonna stay with a
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neighbor friend of Uncle Burt. He had friends. You know. He wasn't
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really bad at heartens Tomorrow, not really. I believe that it was just
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mixed up. Yeah, sure he was. You know why the way he
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thought the world owed him a living. That's why I couldn't tell him otherwise.
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Excuse me, mister Marlowe. I gotta get going. Thanks a lot,
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you were swell sure, extra extra fucking babe slaying in Hollywood Triangle,
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too dead in Hollywood slaying the extra extra. There's nothing more pathetic than a
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kid the first time he's really slapped down by life. We the older ones,
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the tired ones, learned a role with a punch because we've got time
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in our corner watching us, counseling us, teaching us how to save ourselves,
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so that the final gang we're still on our feet. But a kid.
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A kid steps in a life serena, expecting to find his opponents all
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he was taught to believe they would be. But instead he finds the old
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one too below the belt. But if here he finds a good guy and
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they're a great girl, the going suddenly becomes not so. The fight becomes
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worth it, if only to help the next generation of Tommy's find their ring
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a little cleaner, and the break's not quite so. Tapped The Adventures of
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Philip Marlowe Bringing You Raymond Chandler's most famous character, star Gerald Moore and are
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produced and directed by Norman McDonald. Script is by Robert Mitchell and Gene Levitt.
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Featured in the cast were Gil Stratton Jr. Virginia Gregg Wilms, Herbert
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Janes Banks, and Vivi Jannis. Detective Lieutenant Matthews is played by Larry Dubkin.
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This special music is composed and conducted by Richard o'rant. He shorted me
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with us again next week When Philip Marlowe say, it started with laughter on
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a bright morning in a battle over a chicken, and got better as it
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went along. It could have lasted a lifetime, but it didn't. It
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stopped on a gray morning with a little wishbone broken. Stay tuned now for
30:41
Gangbusters, which follows immediately on most of these same CBS stations. This is
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Roy Rowan speaking. This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System. Welcome back.
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Well a very emotional story, I think, particularly for Marlow having to
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be the one to bear this news, and I think that was the major
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feature. The mystery had a kind of a good twist, and we even
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had a hint of it with the mention of the of the shoe style by
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the newsboy. I think it was, like I said, definitely emotional.
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Maybe having him go out and sell papers that contained the story of his uncle's
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murderer that might have been a bit much, But beyond that, I thought
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this was just very well done and a and a interesting story with this sort
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of appeal again with the idea that we have to make this a better world.
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And this was a very big thing after World War Two, and it
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wasn't like something that was viewed to some sort of political radicalism as all.
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But in some ways, as we had just gone through so much in the
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midst of the Second World War, there was this sense of duty to those
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who had died into the ideals that we'd said we stood for to make things
32:45
better, and that theme definitely works through here. All right, Well,
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that will do it for today. We'll be back tomorrow with Nick Carter,
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and then join us back here next Wednesday for another episode of the Adventures of
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Philip Marlowe. In the meantime, send your comments to Box thirteen at Great
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