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Philip Marlowe: The Bid for Freedom (EP1595) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho. This
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Eightdetectives dot net. You can also support us on a monthly basis at Patreon
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dot Great Detectives dot net. Now it's time for today's episode of the Adventures
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of Philip Marlow. The original air night January twenty first of nineteen fifteen.
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The title is The Bid for Freedom. Get this and Get it straight.
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Crime is a sucker's road. Those who travel had wind up in the gut
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of the prison of the grave. This time a twisted mind, a whole
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cut in Nowaiia fence, and a copse in a sare room all added up
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to freedom, but only for the one who had it. Coming from the
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pen of Raymond Trember, outstanding author of crime fiction, comes his most famous
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character in the Adventures of Philip Marlowe. Now with Gerald Start as Philip Barlowe,
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we bring you tonight's exciting story. The bid for freedom never fails.
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When you worry over your bank statement, then hug your office phone from nine
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to five, anxious for business. Nothing happens, but the minute you decide
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you'll get rich another day, chuck the puny balance sheet into a bottom drawer
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and make plans you want it. And that was exactly the way it played.
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When it's three o'clock on the kind of slate gray afternoon that makes the
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beckoning Santa Fe railroad vacation goboards look a little more so, I left a
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note on my office door and headed outside and across the street for some real
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Hungarian gulag. The second after a way to disappeared into the kitchen with my
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order. She was standing at my opo, not quite young, not quite
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pretty, not quite blonde, and when she spoke, not quite sure of
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what she was going to say. Next. You you're mister Philip marlow aren't
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you. I mean a private detective whose offices across the street. Yeah,
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that's right. My name is Helen Asher. I have to find someone you
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do that kind of work don't you finding people? I mean, it all
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depends, Missessha. Who's the person you have to find? Leon Rodell a
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friend, h You see, I just got into town. I had his
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address in my handbag, but I lost it the handbag, that is.
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And I don't exactly know which way to do. Well just a minute,
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miss Asher. Let's take it a step at a time. Huh. And
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I said, down, no, thank you. I'm in a hurry,
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mister Marlow, leon Rodell isn't listed in the phone book. I've tried that.
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And I don't know the name of his firm, his business name.
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He deals in ceramics. Is that all you can tell me? Oh?
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No, I have something else. It's a name and an address here in
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Los Angeles. Fortunately that wasn't in my handbag. But here my crows are
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no. No, what Massasha? That's idea on the street. What's on
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the street? Nothing? Nothing at all? Hey, Massasha, Wait a
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minute. There had been a sort of sad look about Helen Asha that made
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me want to help her. So after an even saddle look at the plate
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of bulage that was coming toward me from the kitchen, I followed her in
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the street. He modeled the goods. When I reached the sidewalk, she
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was across the street in a cabin away. That might have been the end
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of it, if something small and ugly that had been standing just outside the
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restaurant hadn't turned and moved into the alley alongside the building. On a hunch
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that he'd had something to do with the sudden exitive Massasha, I followed him
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and found them standing next to a line of empty air, calmly lighting a
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cigarette, Always running alleys, the lights of cigarettes. You always concerned?
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What do you know about, Helen Asher? Helen Asher, are having any
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idea who you're talking about? Come on, little man, I'm talking about
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the galla. Just get into that cab to the words begin to flow.
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I wring him out of here. Get your hands off me. You're ripping
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my pocket, Lucky, it isn't your nose. Come on, talk all
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right, all right, it's no secret here. Told him this letter,
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look right here, told the sharp pointed shoes and caught my shin where it
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really hurts. By the time I was out of the ash cans, back
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on my feet, I knew the damage had been more to my dignity than
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anything else. I knew also as the little man was gone and I had
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no idea where I was. Halfway out toward the street before I realized that
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I still had the little man's letter punched in my hand. It was min
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Omaha Life Insurance Company and addressed to one Elden Hook, thirty one Marlborough Drive,
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Sunnydale, California. Sunny Dale wasn't just around the corner, but the
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fear I'd seen in Helen Asha's face, plus a score to settle with Eldon.
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The Hook said. The twenty mile drive into the San Fernando Valley was
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a minor point under the gray sky overhead that thickened by the minute. Sunnydale
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about the size of the hole in a candied lifesaver looked as warm and cheerful
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as crape paper, and number thirty one Marlborough Drive, also gray, was
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no improvement from the ponderous bleak stone buildings, which said Queen Victoria should have
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slept there. Asked the high thick wire fence that surrounded it, to the
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wrought iron gate in front of me labeled Hill Crests Sanitarium. He brought for
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ten minutes of softly phrased questions and answers to get the boss man at doctor
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Chernetti to the gate. I told him who I was and what brought me
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to him, including the description of Eldon Hook. I don't understand. Come
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in, mister Marlow please. Elton Hook has been with us as an attendant
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for more than a year now. His behavior has always been satisfactory. Nothing
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would surprise me anymore today. By the way, sir, what did you
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say. That woman's name was the one who approached you in the restaurant?
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Oh, Helen Asher. Is it possible that she was once a patient here?
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Doctor? No? What about Leon Rodell? Leon Rodell? How do
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you know that name from? Helen Asher? She was looking for him,
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That's why she wanted to hire me. She knew he was here in Los
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Angeles, mister Marlow, this woman was she young? About thirty, blonde?
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Yeah, that's right. Why? Why? Because this morning, early
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about six o'clock, one of our patients escaped a woman you know as Helen
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Asher and we know as Charlotte Rodell, leon Rodell's wife. Oh, she's
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insane temporarily, Yes, come over here near the fence. I'll show you
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how to cut away. But how she managed to cut through enough of this
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thick wire link fence to make a hole large enough to crawl through beyond me
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here, look behind this eye. Even with a good wire snipper, it
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would take hours to get through all this strand. And wasn't she missed inside?
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Yes, but she was only gone minutes. Apparently she had been doing
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a little at a time during her recreation period at night, whenever she could
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be careful of the birds and those bushes there. Mister Mallow, Ye see
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what you mean? Tell me doctor the policeman notified. Of course at once
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the law compels us to. And frankly, mister Malowe, I'm terribly worried
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now. You see. It was her husband, Leon Rodell, who had
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her confined here a year ago. Six months after their marriage she began to
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act strangely. He felt it would be only with our help that she could
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ever regain her mental equilibrium. I thought that we were accomplishing that. Apparently,
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no, obviously no, But mister Mallow, we must call the Los
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Angeles police right away and tell them that Leon Rodell now lives here, not
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in San Francisco. He must be protected. Yeah, I see your point.
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She did break out. She is trying hard to find Leo and free.
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She ran from elden Hook, who was very close on a trail.
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That's right, mister Molow. That's why I suggested that Leon Rodel discontinue seeing
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his wife as of last month. He always left Charlotte very upset. Now
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I'd better call the police. That's a good idea. Although Charlotte didn't know
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where her husband was staying or what the name of the ceramics business was,
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she say, doc, Doc, she claimed that she lost her handbag.
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Have you found it by any chance? Yes, we did. We found
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it in the brush near the hole in the fence. I've got it right
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here. In my debt, I was an addressed of the hard he Yes,
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here it is three eight four zero. Lookout terrors. Oh got Terrence
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got Terres. That's right here in the valley up the hill south of Ventura
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Boulevard. This is the mallow. If possible, I'd like to avoid having
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the papers get hold of this story. This is a rather exclusive nursing home.
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So well, in a sense, you're already in this case. Could
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you try to find Charlotte Rodell and bring her back here before the police do
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well, doctor Snetti, I would be doing a great service for the woman
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and her husband. I'll pay you your fee, all right, doctor Snetti,
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I'll try. I'll call you as soon as I have something. When
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I first started Marlboro Drive in Sunnydale, it had been a combination of interest
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in a sad eyed girl and a strong desire to punch elden hook on the
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nose. Out was business. It took twenty minutes of fast drive and you
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get over to look out Terrace in the hills that separate Hollywood from the San
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Fernando Valley itself. The house was a squat chunk of overly stuccoed Archaia California
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architecture at the top of a steep driveway. When I was out of my
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car and walking toward the front door, everything was black except tiny pinpoints of
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light sparkling up from the floor of the valley. I just left good evening.
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I hope I didn't stottle you, mister Rodel mister. I know your
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name, yes, sir, And I know some other things as well,
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like what oh incidental facts like well, it's cool in there, so you
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haven't been home in hours, and and the refrigerator is empty, so you're
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only staying here off and on also the old male inside phone bills, et
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cetera. They don't have your name with this address, so this is probably
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a friend's house, which totals to what zero? Maybe zero? Mister Rodell,
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like, you're gonna photo, Look, you don't pay the money you
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order my good friend in San Francisco. Yeah, you know what I mean,
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don't chimsster Rodel Yeah. What I don't know is how good friend thinks
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I'm going to raise that kind of dough. I made it funny. Oh
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you kidding? What's fifteen thousand to you? You? Shall, I say?
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An intimate friend of Ordeen black Man. Oh, Ordean black Man,
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eah Udeene black Men come off at boy, I'm thorough, an eager sort.
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I know that a lady from Bella has loaded and that she's nuts about
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you. How, before I leave, a word of advice. Rhodel One
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can't run away from his obligations forever, and you won't be able to walk
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away after twenty four hours, unless, of course you pay. Good night,
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good night, eager. So we meet again. Oh, there'll be
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some heatyness somewhere. Information operator, I'd like to telephone number of a miss
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Ordine Blackburn and bel Air. I don't have the address. Have you tried
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your directly? Sir? I can't put the house burn down one moment.
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Please, we have an ordined Blackbird and two three two one bel Air Roads.
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Yeah, that's it. What's the number? Please? Three one one
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one, Thank you? House burned down? Hello, hell, I was
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Blackburn, Yes, Blackburn. My name is Philip Mallow. I'm a private
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detective at the moment. Is anxious to get hold of Leon Rodell. You
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know where he is? Yes, I do, but I don't think Please,
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it's important. Leon Rodell's life is in danger. I want to help
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him. What's going on? There isn't time to explain. That's what she
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said, said someone who called about twenty minutes ago, a miss Helen Ashur.
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She said she was supposed to meet lee On at the storeroom about purchasing
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some ceramics, but she begot his address there. Did you give a tour?
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Well, yes I did it. Oh great, she's the one who's
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after And what's that address? Come on quick? Three nine oh nine and
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a half been durable Avard. It's in the rear of a parking lot.
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But tell me, mister Mallows. Well, there's plenty wrong for one thing.
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Okay again, babies, mother turned, I thought it's mister Rodel jumped
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to a hastic conclusion, didn't I Yeah, yeah, you did. You
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see, I'm really only a bill collector, just like yourself. So why
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don't we make up? Well that chance, sweetheart, I wouldn't be happy
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that way. I wouldn't know when you were telling the truth and when you
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were lying. You know what I mean? Tomorow hmm, Well, as
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I said before good night, in just a moment, the second act of
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Philip Marlowe. But first, CBS will bring you the earth shaking premiere of
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a new opera Tomorrow Night, an opera written by Alec Templeton, with Charlie
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McCarthy as a lovelorn singing Bengal lancer, Templeton himself as a maharaja, and
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Ursul Twing as a flying carpet salesman. You can hear it on the CBS
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stars will also be on hand on most of these same CBS stations. Jack
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Benny, of course, has heard in them all On Sundays. Now,
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with our star Gerald Moore, we return to the second act of Philip and
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Tonight's story, The Bed for Freedom. The gun blood I had been slept
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with felt like a log chain. Next time would be different. I waited
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till he drove away, and went out and got my car and unwound my
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way down the hill again of intire Boulevard, and I turned west and drove
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out the thirty nine oh nine and a half. There's a glass in Neon
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super grocery store closed for the knife. The only light showing at Leon Rodell's
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ceramic outfit trickled out on the ground in a narrow wedge, so it had
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to be a partly opened back door. And even as I watched it,
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the wedge danced to a crazy pattern and disappeared. I ran for it and
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got there just in time to see Charlotte Rodell got down the alley. Second
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later she vanished in the shadowy jumble of backyard buildings. I knew there was
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no use trying to follow. Instead, I eased the storeroom door open and
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looked into a room full of flower pots, slammed vases, and dishes.
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I think moved shot it. I was sure it had a reason for running,
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so I went in tore a table in the corner where the only light
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was burning. It was almost up to it before I saw the reason.
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It was a good one. Eldon Hooked, the Sanitarium autendant, was on
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the floor behind the table, his body still trying to arch away from the
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knife in his back. But I bent over and they opened his eyes.
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They were already cloudy. It was close. I found the hole in the
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fence and oh, Dean, what Hook? Who did it? Can you
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tell me? I figured I left Elden Hook just as he was went to
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the door that opened to the front of the seramic shop. A desk was
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there with a phone on it. I got half way through a homicide heural
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number when a silhouette showed up at the curtains at the front door. Put
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the phone down, stands back into the shadows. More yet, Hm,
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that's funny, not necessarily. Mister Rodell. Oh you name's Marlow. I'm
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private detective. You are Leon Rodell, aren't you? Yes? What are
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you doing here in my shop? You better finished taking your overcoat off,
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mister Roodell, see your wife has run away from Hillcrest Sanitarium. Charlotte is
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out right. How do you know this? She came to me tonight under
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her phony name, tried to get me to locate you. She lost your
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address. This is a shock, mister Marlow and Tero Shaka or Charlotte.
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What an awful thing this is her? Yeah, excuse me, I need
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this? Sure, no thanks, it's see model. I've only been here
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in Los Angeles a month. The last time I visited Charlotte that was about
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three weeks ago, and I hadn't planned to stay out. Wait a minute,
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my wife is the only one who had my local address. If she
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lost that, how did you find me? That's a long story. I
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got the address Charlotte lost, and I've already been up to your house.
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But the last step was a call to or miss Ordine Blackburn or Dean.
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Yeah, she sent me up here. Oh then you know about Ordine and
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me a little Well, I suppose under the circumstances. That's hard for you,
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ton't understand, Marlow, and even harder to accept you not exactly under
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the circumstances. Oh well, the law is not as generous as you are,
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as no room for understanding and sanity isn't grounds for divorce until after three
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long years of pat and maybe miss Blackburn doesn't want to wait that long.
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It'll be frank. I don't know. I'm in love with her. I
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think she loves me. I haven't had the courage to tell her about Charlotte.
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Ye, maybe won't have to. Charlotte called her up tonight before I
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did. It's a missus esher. She must have gotten Ordeene's name and the
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phone number from you somewhere in that last visit of yours. That's impossible,
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and she got it somewhere. Well, do you know where Charlotte is.
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We've got to find her. She's not responsible. She might even be dangerous.
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It's an understatement, Rodell. She's deadly, deadly. I don't understand.
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Come here, never behind that table there where the light is. Go
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ahead, and look when I showed up here and I saw Charlotte running away,
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I came in and found that to tell you. Yeah, he knew
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she'd escaped. He found the hole in the fence where she got out,
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and he's been following her on his own. Strangely enough, he's dead.
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He's dead. He's sorry. What model she must be completely mad. We've
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got to stop her. Why she might go for Ordine next time? Are
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you yeah? What can we do? Well? You can go home.
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She doesn't know that address up there, so he'll be okay on that score.
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All right, Roadell, listen, keep your doors locked up there,
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shirt, you said shot. I know, I know. I'm not thinking
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about Charlotte. Now there's something else. The guy in San Francisco that you
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owe all that money to. What about him? Send a mug down here
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who intends to collect it. I've tangled with him already. He means business.
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So be careful, Rodell, and I'll see as soon as I can.
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Mmm. I watched him go out the door, limpley, his head
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down. He looked about as tough as a bowl of whipped cream. And
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I went back to the desk again and saw that he left his overcoat where
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he dropped it on the chair. I called the police, game in the
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word on Charlotte, and when that was over, I had to switch on
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the desk light to check the sanitarium number before I could call doctor Chennetti.
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That's when I saw the letter lying on the desk. An important letter,
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but for one reason only. It was addressed to Leon Roodell at his house
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on look Out Terrace. Was an open invitation to anybody who'd come to the
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shop looking for that particular piece of information. There was no doubt in my
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mind that Charlotte had seen it, which made it long past time for me
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to get up there. And I'm the double one. I turned, headed
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for the door and stopped. All in one motion. A pair of headlights
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slashed the windows and then blinked out. I stepped back out of the circle
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of light from the desklap and waited. A second later, the hulk of
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mister Eager filled the open back door. He was still very sure of himself.
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He took in the storeroom with one long last night sidled through the cutter
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as definitely as a rumba dancer, tore the door with the desk and I
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were waiting. The instant he got within reach, I swung again. You'll
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wait, je bitch once, big man. Why don't you sit on it,
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sick. That's glare at the top of that clip on the chap you
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gave me. Oh no, oh, not quite a mess, even Steve,
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now, big man. I went down that time he took the chair
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of Rodell's overcoat and half the step on the desk with him. He was
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still moving, trying to free himself at the tangle, so I reached for
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him again, but got only a fistfull of the overcoat Rodell. It left
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behind me, and suddenly my hand stung like I grabbed the wrong end of
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a bumblebee. Projected back and looked at the palm. Something was stuck to
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my skin, something I couldn't understand until finally a realization whose through the molasses
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in my brain. I left and ran all the way to my car and
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almost sprung the frame, twisting up look out terrace. I parked down the
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hill from thirty eight to forty and ran as far as my house next door,
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where I got to the back hop of the fence and got my gun
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in hand. As I expected, leon Odell was there, and so was
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Charlotte and the coop. The door open was poised at the top of the
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precipitous driveway like a lead carn a roller coaster. I get in the car.
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We haven't much time. I did everything just like you said. I
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love my hand. I had to find you did not you did, And
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then I learned about your shop and I went through. You shouldn't have done
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that. I get in the car lay On, I thought what you'd done
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to that mister hook from the sanitary You kill him with a knife. I
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had to Charlotte. He's been spying on us all the time, and you
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all our plans and you want lots of money to keep quiet. I wish
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you had the shot it. It doesn't matter anymore. Don't kid yourself.
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Oh I found Leon by myself, so I really don't need you after all.
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I only wish you were right. Baby, don't move Rodel. But
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you don't understand, mister Morow. Leon and I are going away together.
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I understand, all right, more than you do that Charlotte, and I
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think you better go in the house and wait for us. No, don't
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plea, I asked why, But don't be low some trip. You headn't
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mind Rodell your wife and this coup and straight down over the bank strictly solo.
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She didn't even suspect. Keep your hands off me, sure, sure,
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I'd never get them clean again. But it'll give me great satisfaction to
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drop you with a bullet. And I'll do just that if you take one
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step before the police get here, stand still, Rodell, real still,
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really all that happened, Doctor Jeannetti, I'm sorry you were worried, and
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I'm mostly glad. I'm back so by, my dear, and we'll talk
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more about it in the morning. What you need right now is a good
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night's rest in your own bed. Ah, you're right, doctor, I'm
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very tired. Good night, mister, No night. She still doesn't realize
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that shit. No, and it's a good thing. Plenty of time for
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that later, when it can come gradually. At this point, she could
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tear herself to pieces of a thing like this. Yeah. The husband the
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words that are run away and helps her do it for the sole purpose of
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getting her out where you can kill her. I'm a security in that set
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up. Huh. No, you mentioned another woman, mister Marlow, Miss
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Ordine Blackburn, Oh, dean gullible, rich girl without much on the ball.
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Rodell planned to marry her and solve all his money problems. Believe me,
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Doki had him big ones. I see, well, she's better off
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this way. Yeah. Six months of marriage to Rodell and she'd have been
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a candidate for your sanitarium herself. Is that kind of a guy. And
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my late employee Elden Hook. Well, he knew that Rodel had been urging
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his wife to run away, and then he cut that hole in the fence.
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Hook found out that Rodel was interested in Nordine, and he tried to
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shake Rodel down, signed his own death warrant on the spot. You know,
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it's sometimes frightening to me, mister Maddl, to realize how many warped
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and twisted minds there are that never get help until it's far too late.
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But there's always some good in every bad thing. They say, what about
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this case, Charlotte? I expect her to recover completely soon because now the
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main contributor to her neurosis, to speaker, is gone forever. That was
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Leon Rodel. Yeah, well, Doc, it's a long way back to
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Hollywood. I better get going. And just one thing more, if you
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don't mind, Charlotte would have died in a smashed car and what would have
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passed for an accident. Also, she'd have been blamed for Hook's murder if
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you hadn't found out the truth about Rodell. I'm very curious. Remember the
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birds grew along your fence outside blasted nooses. Yeah, but as you just
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said, Doc, it's always some good and every bad thing. Odell told
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me that he hadn't been up here for three weeks, yet tonight's overcoat was
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loaded with birds. I got one of my hand from it that gave me
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a hunch off, and there on its play disappointed to the contrary, satisfied
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completely. Good night, Mistermallow, Good night Doc. As I left Hillcrest
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Sanitarium and drove back across the wide flat San Fernando Valley, dark and quiet
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in the hour just before dawn, I found myself being grateful for a lot
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of little orderly things, things like the clear white line down the middle of
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the road, the rhythm of the motor in my car, and the prospect
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of going home to my owns. You're a Parma. Then I wondered about
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Charlotte and the sort of nightmare jungle the world must be to her mind,
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twisted suddenly out of purpose. But there is no symmetry or logic. But
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nightmares can be banished, bears driven away, and in time, with doctor
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Chenettick's help, should come out of it all right. But the others,
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others, like Hook and Rodel, for them, the jungle is home,
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no nightmare that they live in it by choice, until one way or another
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they're destroyed, choked his death by the very tangle they hide him. Well,
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that's fair enough. And The Adventures of Philip Marlowe Bringing You Raymond Chandler's
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most famous character, Star Gerald Moore, are produced and directed by Norman McDonnell
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and are written for radio by Robert Mitchell and Gene Leffard. Featured in the
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cast were Gene Bates, Larry Dobkin, Yvon Patty, Harold Drenforth, Jack
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Edwards, and John T. Smith. The special music is composed and conducted
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by Richard Runt. He shuring me with us again next week when Philip Marlowe
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says, this time of fireball too handy with a target pistol, let me
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down our rocky road, past the sleezy money grubbad or curly headed cops.
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And it might have gotten worse if I hadn't slowed down, if they have
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been turned battered but unbowed by his bout with bred Allen last Sunday night,
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Jack Benny will be back at the same old stand tomorrow night, Jaunty as
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ever, And why not, Jack has just been elected the King of Hearts
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by the American Heart Association. Listen for Jack Benny Tomorrow on CBS. This
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is Roy Rowan speaking Now. Stay tuned for Gangbusters, which follows immediately over
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most of these same CBS stations. This is CBS where Philip Marlow takes the
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case every Saturday night the Columbia Broadcasting System. This is Andrew J. Graham,
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author of the web surface series Oh and a Man of His Wife.
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You're listening to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio. Welcome back. It's
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kind of interesting. In the closing monologue, Marlowe basically considers the view of
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the world by criminals to be just as twisted and wrong as those who have
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been institutionalized, so it says something about Marlowe's overall view of crime. I
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found it somewhat interesting. The name that was used by the lady who escaped
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was Helen Asher. For those of you who are big fans of old time
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radio detectives, the name Helen asherll ring a bell because Helen Asher was the
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name of Richard Domond's girlfriend and kind of odd, you know, character from
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Philip Marlow adopts a name from the Adventures of Richard Domon, which will be
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playing in a little less than a year, so a good reminder there.
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Also, I like, while Marlowe misjudges the husband in this, he doesn't
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give the husband key clues to cause mayhem, which was something that Marlow did
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a lot in early episodes. He would totally give someone all the information they
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need so they go out and kill somebody. Marlow doesn't give that much information.
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And it does show how the show really does correct any tendencies it has
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towards excesses in terms of the tops of plots, the tops of twists.
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And that's rare because most shows, when they have a flaw that's recurring,
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they don't usually get rid of it. It just kind of stays there,
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and it's one of those things you have to just accept, you know that.
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That's one of those things they do with Philip Marlow. The show seems
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to adapt and to get better and they avoid falling into too many consistent pitfalls
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for too long. Anyway. All right, Well, that will do it
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for today. Join us back here tomorrow for the Adventures of Philip Marlow in
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