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Philip Marlowe: The Restless Day (EP1319) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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at Lasernsword dot com. Well, it's Tom for today's episode of the Adventures
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of Philip Marlow The Restless Day. They all knew he was aboard the up
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when it exploded and sank, and everybody called his death an accident. That
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is, everybody except the cops himself. He said it was murder. From
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the pen of Raymond Chandler, outstanding author of crime fiction, comes his most
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famous character as cd AS presents the Adventures of Philip Marlowe and Now with Gerald
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Moore starred as Philip Marlowe, we bring you tonight's exciting story, The Restless
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Day. It had been a long, hard Saturday night that topped off a
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long, rugged week. When I finally got the bed dog tired at five
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am Sunday morning, I was planning to stay there until I caught up in
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all the sleep I'd lost and gained a running head start on the coming week.
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And by three in the afternoon on the day of rest I figured that
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job was only about half done. But however it was. It started riding
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my doorbell had a different idea. I held out until the buzzer stopped,
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but it was only a change of technics, so I gave a all right,
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all right, I know when I'm licked just a minute. Thank Heaven
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you're in mister mollow. I don't know what I'd have done otherwise. I'm
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sorry. Here read this this story on the front page. Down here.
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Ohyah. Explosion death label accident, Yes yes, mystery blast which destroyed the
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Rowlands yacht at Santa Monica Friday night, and in which Benjamin Rowlands noted cosmetics
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manufacturer was killed, was established today by police investigators. Is accidental. I'm
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sorry I spoken to him. That's sorry. The explosion, which shattered and
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sank the fifty foot pleasure boat was caused by a leaking fuel line orlans known
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to be a chain smoker, is believed by witnesses to continue on page seven.
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Never mind, Mallow, I'll tell the rest. I think you'll make
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it. There are two frightening things wrong with that story. Well, go
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ahead, frighten me. First, the explosion was no accident. That pure
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line was repaired a week ago. Second, Ben Rowlins was not killed,
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shaking my faith in the American press. How do you know all this because
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I am Benjamin Rowlins. Yes, well, look, Felly, you better
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dial one one six on the phone and tell a police all about it.
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No, that's exactly what I can't do. Someone's trying to murder me.
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If they find out I'm still alive, I'll be a target for a second
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attempt. Wait a minute, Wait a minute, I need two things right
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now. One a cup of coffee. Would you like some or milk if
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you please? My doctor insists, Okay, come on, Yeah, there's
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a good, solid explanation. Of why everybody thinks you were aboard that yacht.
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Well, first they believe my body was law and the explosion. To
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see, I intended to spend the night there because Lucille, my wife,
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and I quarreled. But I got a call and I had to go out
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of town on business. At the last minute. I went out to the
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boat, but only to pick up some papers. I was a hurry.
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I must have left the lights on. I lost my hat in the wind
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on the way back. It was found. It was found in the water.
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Apparently I didn't secure the dinghy because that was a drift off shore.
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Mind you. I read all this in the paper when I got back this
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morning, back from where Phoenix, Arizona figures I came in on the California
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Limited. You can check on that, Marlow. I must know who tried
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to kill me before they know they've failed. It could be tough. If
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you got any ideas, yes I have, it might be any one of
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three people. Three For instance, Walter Pittman, my ex partner, threatened
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to kill me less than a month ago in New York when I won another
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court decision from him. And there's my business manager for a named Slater I
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almost fired him last week, the arrogant foo. It's always when I get
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cross this cost I see, and I'm sorry to say it, but missus
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Rawlins would no doubt rather have me dead than alive. That's quite a line
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up for a mere cosmetics chemist, isn't it. Yes, it is.
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Look you haven't been running lipstick experiments with somebody else's live equipment, have you,
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Ronins? Oh, certainly not. I've been working so hard. I
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haven't time for my wife, say nothing of another woman. Oh Marlow,
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I'm frightened. I must get to the bottom of this. I'll pay you
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double your usual fee. Will you help me? Okay, Rawlins, it's
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a deal. By hurry, I might get in on your funeral under the
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circumstances that should make somebody do for a very big surprise. I was shaven
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a shower later, and I'd checked my wheezing clients credential, settle them down
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in my apartment with all his answer the phone but not the door, and
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drove out to Santa Monica, where the not very late Ben Rawlins had made
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his home, names, addresses and phone numbers of people close to Rowins.
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That is close enough to kill, and I decided that off the Slayer,
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the business manager, was my best bet for an opener. He had been
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described as soft spoken, efficient, and somewhat arrogant. After I found his
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cottage on Seaview Drive and walked up to the door, I heard someone inside
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offering a similar description, but with more color. Mighty routine office later.
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Do you think for two minutes you could throw the land you over any time
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you feel like it? After all the promises you've made your wrong that's just
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about enough ery not by Hey, brother, I know which way the wind
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is blowing, and it's a nice, big wind. Nobody kicks me out,
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I I mean nobody, So thinking over, mister big get out of
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my way. Yes, ma'am, cute kid friend of yours? Slator?
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Who are you another insurance investigator? That's right, My name's Marlow. May
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I come in? Certainly all the others did. Thanks, Who knows?
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That may be the last Slater. I've got three reasons for believing that yacht
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explosion was no accident? Not an accident? What reasons you're talking about?
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One? Wallan Pittman. You mean Rawlin's ex partner you know only by name.
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I never met the man, all right, then let's talk about a
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reason number two. Lucille Rawlins, how do you feel about it? Slady?
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You must be out of your mind? Model. She and Ben fought
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constantly. Yes, Slater, I asked how you felt about missus Rawlins.
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I don't like her? Now what or who is reason number three? You
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are? You had an argument with Rawlins last week? He practically fired you.
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And do you think I'd kill him over? That could be Marlow.
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Ben Rawlins drove himself like an overloaded truck. He had a cigarette cough,
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nervous shakes, and bad dreams. To me, bureau drawer, eye lashes
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and blue on fingernails simply aren't that important. So we had frequent arguments.
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Now do you have any more smart reasons you'd like to discuss? So?
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Would you care to leave? Just one thing more? Why does your girlfriend
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think you're a little stuck up? These days? You're becoming a bit too
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personal? Model, Get out. I'm not compelled to answer any of your
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questions. There's an established legal proceeds I it I need to, I'll be
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back, and I'm fairly chummy with the boys and Blue myself, so I'll
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get the answers if I want him good night. Big shot Arthur Slater was
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like a billion ball, hard to rub the wrong way, and if he
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did have an angle, he was playing KG. So as long as I
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was in the neighborhood, in the trail was hot, I figured i'd have
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a talk with a SplitFire Angie. It wasn't hard to trail it. A
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corner newsboy had heard her get into a cab. The cabby swore he'd never
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forget her swore again, so finding her apartment was less trouble than unfolding a
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five dollar bill. When I pulled up across the street from a place,
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I noticed a big car, as big as the average garage and older than
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last year's college graduate. Parked in front was a black pierced arrow, and
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someone with a mouthful of cigar huked behind the wheel, and cigar was pointed
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at me as I crossed the street. When I went up the stairs to
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Angie's door, it was still pointed at me, but I forgot about that.
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When the apartment door opened, Angie was relaxed. There a little glints
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of gold and her green eyes, and the warm lights behind her shimmered on
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soft waves of hair, a shade of burnished copper. Maybe she was a
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spitfire, but at the moment her damper was down. Yea, well,
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Busty, you got your math open, you might as well say something,
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eh, Angie, who do you think murdered Ben Rollins? Murdered? My
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mistake? Chum? Good night? Just a minute, This is business,
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honey. Who are you anyhow? Philip Marlow? You ran over me on
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your way out of slatest place a few minutes ago and dented my ego?
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Well sue me who you're working for? Shamas? It wouldn't believe me if
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I told you, But I will tell you this, sweetheart. The explosion
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on that yacht was no accident, So I'm checking up on wives. It'd
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rather be widows. We'll see you rolling not She was rolling in though.
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Either way. She hated her job, but she sure didn't have to kill
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to quit. Get your compass fixed, Marlow? Wrong way? Well,
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suppose Lucille were in love with the Pittman. Maybe Pittman? Who's he shotman?
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Doc? Tell me something, Angie. Your boyfriend Slater has picked up
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a lot of push lately. How come some big deal they've been working on
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at the plant and he makes me sick? It's the first sniff of his
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success, and send me all his hats are too small, especially his old
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hats. Honey, you can't blame the guy if he's really on his way
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up. Now, can you listen, Mac, I'll tell you him and
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the whole world something. Nobody is going to put little Angie on the skids
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if there's a heave hole pulled around here, mister hopshot slater himself, or
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get it and ride in the neck. So if you have to be snooping
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for him, Marlow, you can potter right back and tell him so,
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now beat it. It's not a bad idea. Oh, by the way,
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what's Angie stand for? Angelica? But don't count on it, brun,
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don't count on As I went down the front steps, the cigar and
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the black Pierce Harrow lined up on me again and followed me as I crossed
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the street and get into my car. It was still pointing at me as
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I drove away. But after all, the street was public property and the
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guy could smoke a cigar if he wanted to. Oh. By the time
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I knocked on the front door of the Rawlins home, I was braced for
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a deluge of tears and a session of red eyed hysteria. So I was
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caught off balanced by the handsome blonde woman of thirty five with a ry,
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crisp voistline, who was cool, calm, and well collected in green slacks.
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She introduced herself as Lucille Rawlins. Sit down, mister Marlow. You
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said you're a friend of Bent. That's right, missus Rawlins. I stopped
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by to offer my condolences, but apparently condolences aren't much in order to day.
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No tears, not even crocodile tears. I'm not a hypocrite, mister
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Marlowe. That's why I merely stanned and confused over this terrible accident. And
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I'm not sure yet how I feel. Yeah, it was an excellent all
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right, especially since that leaky fuel line had caused it was repaired a week
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ago. It had been repaired. Oh yeah, it's interesting thing, isn't
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Who are you? Marlow I'm a private detective and I know a lot more
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than that. I know, for instance, that the insurance on the boat
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alone will keep you in pretty do Dads for several years, and that's only
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a drop in a bucket. Mister Marlow, I think you'd better leave and
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I think you better climb down off that high horse and listen, because I
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haven't even started yet. Ben was a hated man by Pittman, by Slater,
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and maybe by you. And I can prove he didn't die accidentally,
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baby, So I'd like some nice straight answers. Huh, when did you
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see Pittman last? I've never seen Walter Pittman. I don't even know what
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he looks like. Ben and I were married two years ago. He broke
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with Pittman long before that. But you're pretty chummy with Arthur Slater. That's
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a lie. We hardly spoke until a week ago. You picked a poor
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time to get friendly, baby. Listen here, Marlow. Mister Slater I
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ran into each other purely by accident. One afternoon last week. I happened
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to stop in at a small bar and downtown Los Angeles. Mister Slater was
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there at the table talking with some man a stranger to me. When he
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saw me, he came over. He seemed upset. No upset, there
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anyone else here in there. I know my Maide went out the movie.
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I heard something and no, it sounded like it came to the service points.
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Want to have a look. I don't know what. Somebody turned them
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off look out bullets, which had been intended for Lucilla. It only traveled
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with to the kitchen. But miraculous they both had missed. However, it
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had thrown them moved out fast, because when I got through the service poorts
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and into the backyard, nothing stirred except the restless ends of a pepper tree.
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But a second later a heavy clanking motor rod on the side street,
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and I got to the fence just in time to see a box car on
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rubber tires skid around the corner. It was a black pierced arrow. I
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went back to the house, found the master switch and turned on the lights.
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Lucilla, face trained and bloodles, stood in the kitchen door and watched
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me. A hole had been punched in the back screen door, and on
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the floor there was a strange object which you been used to unhooked the lock.
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It looked like an oversized bobby pin wearing rubber pants, which didn't mean
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a thing to me, but to Lucilla, who stared at it like it
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was a centipede she just found in a cream puppet meant plenty. Ben what
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it's like, Ben himself with here like he wasn't killed at all. What
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are you talking about? What is this thing anyway? I don't know,
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part of some newould invention he was working on for the last month. Been
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carried two or three of these things with him everything. Look, Lucilla,
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whe's your phone right there? Ollow, you don't support friend of mine,
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he'd better be in too. It's matter Mallow. Busy, Yeah, yeah,
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Busy's hated talking to someone who has gone out after leaving the phone off
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the hook. And either way, Lucy, that makes my friend very busy.
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In just a moment, we will return to the second act of the
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Adventures of Philip Marlowe. But first, it may have taken a little detective
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work finding a much wanted man last week, but an unprecedented number of listeners
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seem to have turned Philip marlow for Jack Benny's largest audience this season found him
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here on his opening show on CBS Tomorrow night. Jack will be back with
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Mary Dennis, Phil Rochester and Don for more of the fun that's made the
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Jack Benny Show the number one comedy in radio. You'll find him right here
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on CBS every Sunday at seven Eastern Standard Time, and now with our star
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Gerald Moore. We returned to the second act of Philip Marlowe and Tonight's story
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The Restless Day, and I left Lucille Rowlins with Feminine Target for the night.
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I hited for Angie Gordon's, where I'd first seen the man with a
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cigar in his face, who I suddenly thinkured might be Waller Pittman, And
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as I drove, I felt like my brains had spent the night playing lead
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frog in a squirrel caged Because anyway I call a dice, every one of
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my clients suspected of murdering him to somebody else. Just to keep things from
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making any sense at all, I suspected my client. I'd pulled up near
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Angis and saw the Pierce Arrow Park lights and a man with cigar out.
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When I got close to the bungalow door, I knew that the lady was
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at home and that she was receiving a gentleman caller more or less me.
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Your name is Smith, which incidentally I don't believe. And then you start
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asking a lot of very personal questions half cozy, no, please, you
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do not understand there are certain things about the death of Ben Hollins that I
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must know things that mean a lot to me. How much a lot?
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Well, one hundred dollars maybe. Now, don't tell me that's how you
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could step into that briefcase there in your hand. Listen, girl, I
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must know whether that explosion on the boat was an accident or not the police
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let it go as an accident. Never mind that you are sleetos girl.
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You must know something about him as well as the other one who was here.
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Now you tell me, stay away me, your big lug. I
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don't know anything you heard the lady Patman. Let go? How do you
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know my name? I read tea leaves? And why we're all asking questions?
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You mind telling me why you were throwing bullets at the China Air on
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Missus Rowlands. I did no such thing. I don't even know missus Holler.
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You're a liar. It's dull as the sour kraft. A gun in
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your pocket will prove it. I have no gun in my pocket here.
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Look for yourself, all right, I will. But if it's all the
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same to you, I'll start with your briefcase. I'll give me that why
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so you can get to the gun first. Because all right, all right,
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mister smart man, go ahead and look see for yourself that there's absolutely
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nothing there that concerns you. And don't look so astonished. Friend, It's
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called a gun, why you little? Uh? I skip it? Mallow.
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It isn't my idea of returning a favor, but it is good business,
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you see, baby. Little Angie sells out to the highest bidder.
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And no matter how I add things up, that isn't you? So exit
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Pittman huh briefcase? And what are you staring at that? That little gadget
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there must have fallen out of Pittman's briefcase? Eh? What is it?
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Twin brother of a night of I found a little while ago rubber pants included.
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What are you talking about? Marlow? Nothing? Baby? Just tell
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me how long I sit here? As long as you life? Now,
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you see, Marlow, I just can't afford to let you get the pitman
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ahead of me. Yeah, that good business you were talking about? Uh
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huh. After all, Gal's got to make a living one way or another,
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Marna doesn't she. I was roomed at debate Angie's point, but no
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time, so I skipped her invitation for a drink, both promised and threatened
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to see her again, and headed to my car and the only direction left,
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a residence of the local pivot man, mister Rolthis Slater and I got
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to within a block of the place, I parked and then approached, slowly,
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keeping in the shadows all the way. The house turned out to be
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as dark and quiet as the inside of a coffin. I was about to
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leave when some noise a dozen yards behind me said that I was no longer
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alone. I turned quietly and got ready for what I figured would be a
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reunion with my old buddy Wall of Pittnum. But I was wrong. Sneaking
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through a nearby clump of orange trees with all the deafness of an ox with
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bunyan trouble was no one else but my client, Ben Rollins. When I
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called his name out loud, he ran toward me, arms and legs flailing
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the wind like a Kansas scarecrow caught in a tornado. Lolla. I've been
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looking all over you, Rollins. Why aren't you back in my apartment where
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you're supposed to be. I couldn't wait any longer. I was afraid something
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at happened to you when you didn't call. I was sure of it.
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I thought you might be here, Slater, but I did call, and
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all I got was a busy signal about an hour ago. But that was
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a friend of yours. He wanted to know if you'd play cards with him
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tonight. How do you believe me? Now? The time being is incidentally
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rollins? Do these mean anything to you? These oversized bobby pins? Good
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lord? The curlers? Where did you get those curlers? Marlow? They
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should be my safe and I found one at your house and the other in
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a briefcase to belong the wall of pitment, Marlow. These are samples of
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my newest invention, these fair curlers. They can produce a home permanent wave
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overnight that will last for six months. It's my brilliance to me. If
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you live, yes, it should be easy to figure out who wanted to
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kill me? And not so sure if you didn't even know these were missing?
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Why should someone have to kill you to get hold of them? And
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second of all, how come the shootings still going on? What shooting is
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you're talking about over at your place? Somebody tried to kill your wife there
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just before I And that brings us right back to your alibi about talking to
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a bora at the time. It's a little too, pat Rawlins. Besides,
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that curler could very easily have dropped out of your pocket. Why should
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I shoot at Lucille the best reason in the books. You wanted to kill
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her, And when that yacht business almost boomerang down you, you still hadn't
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changed your mind, and that led to this whole routine with me, devil
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Builders, Patsy and star witness boards. You're out of your mind, Mallow.
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I couldn't have set that explosion on the yachta the tap for Lucille.
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Why not? Because it was on account of me that Lucille wasn't on the
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yachta. So that night, after we argued, we decided not to spend
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any more time under the same roof. Lucille said that suited half fine,
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and she'd sleep on the yacht. And we let him go at that till
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about noon on Friday, and you got small about things and said the yacht
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was yours, maybe that you'd sleep on it. Yes, I was just
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bickering. Last a minute, Rowlins. I've heard enough, and I think
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I finally understand this whole screwy deal. I know for sure, just as
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soon as I can make one single phone call to your house, we'll get
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back to Slater. Come on. When I got to a telephone and throw
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to the maid at the Rowlins place, I was almost positive that in another
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minute i'd have both a solid answer for my client a couple of clumsy customers
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for the law. When the shaky voice at the other end of the tube
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told me that Lucille had just left the house in high gear after mumbling something
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about a place called inspiration Point. I stopped being confident and started to worry.
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And when I tossed the jackpot question at the maid and got the winning
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answer, that worry became something worse, and it must have showed me.
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What is it, Marl What did you find to much? Explain? Now?
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Where's inspiration Point? Wrong? About a mile south of here, straight
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along the shore? Good? What kind of a car does your wife drive
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for Blue Nash? What's inspiration Point got to do with Lucille? Marlo?
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Everything? Now? Look, you call the cops and tell them to get
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out there as fast as they can. Do you get me as fast as
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they can. Inspiration Point turned out to be an acre of windswept rock that
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overlooked the cold January Sea. After I saw Lucille's empty car, I crept,
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staggered, and fell down a narrow, winding trail that led from the
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road to a palmon tree itself. I was afraid that I was going to
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be too late to stop what I was sure was I hastily scheduled murder.
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But a minute later, when I rounded the last crazy turn in the trail,
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I felt better because standing only a couple of yards away from me,
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her hair slapping wildly against the upturned color of a coat very much alive,
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was Lucille Rowlins, and I was about to breathe a sigh of relief when
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suddenly I caught the expression in her eyes. I turned to follow the line
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of an unblinking gaze, and I knew that I hadn't arrived any too soon,
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because a lady was being held at the point of a gun, a
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gun held by Arthur Slater. I closed my hand tied around the cove thirty
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eight my pocket moved closer. When you pulled me in the house, you
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said my art was alive and with you. Why did you lie to because
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I knew that would bring you running, and I had to be alone with
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you, Lucille, so I could do what I missed doing last time.
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You mean the yacht you did that, yes, but somehow other Ben was
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out there instead of you, So that accident was a waste of time.
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But this one, the bereaved wife jumped a pail to her death from the
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edge of inspiration points. Won't be good. Why lady, why do you
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want to kill me? There's no time to explain. I'll see you and
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we'll take time. Slater, harlow you damoo. You gotta kill me?
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Yes, honey, I know he had to because he told your husband's intention
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to sell a wall of Pittman. He was going to go into business with
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him. Now when the cops get here, he's going first to a hospital
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and then to jail. The grand larssone and attempted murder can't admitted. What
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about then? Ben was a near miss, honey, nothing more. You'll
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see what I mean in a minute. When Lucille found out that Bend was
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still alive, there were a lot of tears and promises to be good from
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both bodies. And it wasn't until an hour had gone by and the police
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had already booked both Slater and Pittman, who was picked up heading back for
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la But mister and missus Rawlins were any conditioned to sit down and talk things
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over, even with the help of coffee and cigarettes. Ne Rolins home and
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Loaho scheme. Marler was designed by Slater, who was my business manager,
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had access to the new Curlers. That's Ryan. Knowing how Waller Pittman felt
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about you, Slater secretly contacted him to handle the manufacturing agency. I see
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a few changes in the design, and the whole thing would have been patented
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and on the market while you and Slater pretended that Pittman was a stranger to
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him. Huh, were still laboring away at last minute changes, and when
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we learned about Pittman's products, Slater would act a surprise to them. Here.
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Yes, so right, Lucille, that was the plan. But it
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fell apart. See it fell apart when you accidentally ran into Slayter in that
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small bar in downtown La. Do you remember, yeah, when he was
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with Pittman, the man you described me as the stranger, Yes, of
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course, all right. Well, he realized then that with Pittman's product the
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success, you would sooner or later see a picture of Pittman, a newly
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rich inventor, and recognize him as the man you saw with Slater before Pittman's
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product was on the market. Well, that meant that Slater either had to
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get rid of Lucy or give up his entire plan. Have you got a
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match, mister? No, no, I'm gonna give them up. But
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Marlow, was Pittman involved in the murder attempt to Oh? No, no,
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he drew the line at the theft. See when he found out that
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you had died mysteriously, he turned up here to check on Slater because he
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couldn't afford to be mixed up in your murder. I see, But how
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did you figure all this, Marlow? Well, after I had tangled with
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everybody, I was no place. Angie Gordon was looking for an angle.
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You Lucille were getting shot at for a doll and Pittman and Slater were not
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on the same team, at least as far as the business on the was
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concerned. Nobody seemed to have a clear cut motive. But when I told
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you that Lucille herself was supposed to stay on the yacht that night, you
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had the answer. That was the time after I called your house and asked
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the maid the jackpot question, which was who aside from you, then knew
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that Lucille was going to sleep on the yacht Friday night, and she said
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Slater didn't she yeah, said something else too. She also said that you
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had left for inspiration point in a big hurry. Yeah. Then Slater tried
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to kill me, first on the yacht, second in the house here,
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and finally out on the point. But in the end it worked out fine,
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darling, because the third time was the charm h for right. Well,
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by the time I was through tying in all the loose ends for my
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client and his wife, it was three o'clock in the morning, and I
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was dog tired all over again. When I got into my car and started
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away from the place, then and Lucilla were standing in the doorway, waving
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at me and smiling. So as I drove back toward la I forgot about
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the sleep I was missing and thought about them, a couple who couldn't get
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along until one or the other of them had been robbed, dynamited and shot
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at. Yeah, I guess it's really so. As the old Bromide has
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it, the path of true love never does run smooth smoothly, it smoothly
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hm hm oh well. The Adventures of Philip Barlow created by Raymond Chandler,
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Systems. Welcome back. Well, a good story. It started out a
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little bit slow, I thought, but really got interesting. Shirley Mitchell making
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an interesting appearance as the girlfriend, which is different because usually when we hear
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Shirley Mitchell it's in a lot more comedical. And she was famous for things
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like the Great Guilder Sleeve. And I always like how they work in these
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little happy endings, you know. I just finished it as of this recording,
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reading the Philip Marlow book The Little Sister, and you know this place
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where you know, the police and Marlowe are cooperative with one another. It's
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almost exactly opposite of the book. But I don't books, but I like
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this. The way it ended, it was pretty nice and brought something positive
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out of poor Philip Marlow's restless day. Now we turned to some listener comments
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