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Philip Marlowe: The August Lion (EP1475) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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Great Detectives dot net. Well, now it's time for today's episode of the
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Adventures of Philip Marlow. The original air date is August sixth of nineteen forty
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nine, and the title is The August Lion get this and get it straight.
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Crime is a sucker's road, and those who travel it wind up in
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the gut of the prison of the grave. It started with death on my
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dostep, and got worse when I lied to a sympathetic bull, was pistoled
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with by a gorilla with dimples, and fought with a kitten on the keys.
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And it might have gone on that way all night if I hadn't been
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helped by the King of the Beasts. From the pen of Raymond Chandler,
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upstanding author of mystery, comes his most famous character and crime's most deadly enemy,
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as we present the Adventures of Philip Marlow now with Gerald Moore starred as
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Philip Morlow. We'll bring you tonight's exciting story, The August Lion. It
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was one of those in between us along about ten and a night at home,
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when you don't quite know what to do with yourself. Then all of
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a sudden it's eleven and then eleven thirty and you're in slippers in a robe
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and have done nothing, which is exactly where I was, except that I'd
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already decided on one and only one very dry martini, a quiet cigarette in
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bed. When it came loud, insistent, and unwoken. No improvement when
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I opened up and saw less than five feet of excited cab driver jumping up
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and down. Mallow. Yeah, I'm doc, Mallow. That's right here.
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It comes with a doc. You better make room. Is a soap
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of arrow, Okay, I'll clara. Wait a minute, Jack, who
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comes? Who? Okay, mister, bring her on in the dock's here?
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All right? Hey, doctor, she's stiff, she's out like a
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light. Who the babe? Who do you think? Sure? Too bad?
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Some people can't drink. Yeah, it's real tough. Now tell me,
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do you? That's an angel? I'm sorry to bust it on you.
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This way is a soaper, right, No, it's tough with granted,
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put her in the bedroom. Okay, will you take care of the
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driver please? Yeah? Yeah? How much? Friend? Well, there's
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only eighty cents on a meter, doctor, A couple of buck sort of
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cover it here? Good night, Good night, Diamond, Jim, Well,
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Phil, I guess i'd better explain all this. Uh huh, here,
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I haven't seen you in six months, and when I do, never
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mind the details. Jud boy, let's talk about the problem. Who's the
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girl? Her name is Voss Eileen Voss. She's kind of a stockbroker,
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maybe speculators a better term, you know, takes big chances with other people's
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money. I was in love with a phil and till tonight when what happened.
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When I found out I was just one of many, it threw me.
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Phil, I really lost my temper. I swore i'd kill her on
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site. Yeah, most guys do at a time like that, Jed.
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And what's that got to do with her being drunk? By the way,
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while we're talking, I'll put on some coffee now, No, don't feel
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why not, because it can't help. She had a shot too many,
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all right, only this one was a bullet in her head. She's dead.
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Oh fine, now, Phil, listen, please, you've got to
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help me. I've got to find out who did it. Phil. It
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started a couple of hours ago when I found out she'd been playing before Sucker.
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I went to have placed the first time in a week, Boiling Man.
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The door was opened. Jats An Angel's eyes never left my face as
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he told the story from the beginning, A girl's buddy on the couch when
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he walked in and eat hole in the back of her head. A gun
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he knew she owned shoved under a pillow. Then in the next second,
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before he could even look in the other rooms, the arrival of the cabby
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is somebody called who thought Eileen was just another drunk who had to be shown
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the way to go home. How he seized on that as an opportunity to
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keep from being placed at the scene of the murder. He had every reason
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to commit. How minutes after he was in the cabb he realized it was
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near my place. How to avoid suspicion, he said, I was a
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doctor, everything except why specifically he was so afraid of the police. I
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knew that was going to be next. Now, Phil, I suppose you
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want to know why I couldn't possibly call the police. Yeah, that's right.
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Why because I'd surely be booked and fingerprinted, and that had ruined me.
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You see, a long time ago, I said, time when the
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state penitentiary in Illinois. What, yes, Yes, So I've kept it
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quiet only Phoebe Hammond in my office nodes. It was before Jery, Phil,
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it was under another name, and way back when I didn't know the
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difference between clever business and crooked business. It's taken ten years to work up
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my reputation as an accountant. So you see, if I get mixed up
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in this in law, come out and well smash lots of pieces. No
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more. Oh, you've got to help me, Fiel. You've got to
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find the real killer before the police get to me. Please, Fil,
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I can't Judd be smashing just as many little pieces for me too if I
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try to pull anything like this on homicide. Oh, I'm sorry, Jud,
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I've got to report this body. But Phil, Look what if you
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do report the body, but you say that you don't know anything about it,
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that you're going out to find what you can? What about that?
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Phil? Oh? Please please Phil? Okay, what's the girl's address?
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Ninety one Hollycrest Drive. Yeah, the door wasn't locked. Fill your phone
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number, Jed. Let's doone three nine. I won't move out of my
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place until I hear from you and make sure you know, Jed, because
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if I can't find the real killer, I've got to tell what I know
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about you. You understand that, don't you. When Angel left, I
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called Detective Lieutenant Matthews the police headquarters and lied that there was a corpse in
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my apartment about which I knew nothing. That I was on my way out
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to see what I could find, and I hung up fast, not feeling
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very good. Twenty minutes later, when I was in the plush living room
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at ninety one Holy Crest Drive, I had zero to go on until I
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got to the bedroom where caught in the folds of lace at the bottom of
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a petticoat of vanity, I found a piece of male jewelry that stood out
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against that backdrop, like argyle socks on a turtle. It was a gold
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tie class, ornamented with a figure of a lion, a little more majestic
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than most. I dropped it into my pocket and then moved out into a
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long hall that led to the kitchen. I was about to start tottered when
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he spoke, don't move, buddy. Like the voice, he was thicking
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soft, especially in the middle where he was girdled and double breasted gray flannel,
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so I couldn't tell whether he was plus it's a thie class. Also,
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he had no hair and a pair of deep timples that danced when he
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talked, a gun in his hand. Didn't Okay, turn around, Let's
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go back to the living room, buddy. I want to ask you a
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few questions, like why you're taken inventory here? Well, it's my job,
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you see, I'm an auctioneer. The lady of the house won't need
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this stuff anymore. She's not gonna. I stop where you are and don't
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turn around. Okay, where's the girl? Come on? Come on?
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Where is she out? And only if you'll tell me why? You want
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to know? Well, I tell you a way. You see that way
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I come out even maybe Lyleen voice owes me money, buddy, and I
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want it now before she's flat broke. Now you worr? Is she on
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away to the morgue like you don't know? What do you mean by that?
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I didn't kill her, honest engine. Listen, you get this straight.
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I came into this place just now for one reason, only to check
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on the Voss girl and make sure she wasn't on her way out of town
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bag and baggage in hand and my fifty grand and I don't forget that.
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I'll try not to and don't move. Hello, No, no, she's
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not here, she Judy. Yeah it's me, honey. No, No,
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she's she's out. Yeah. Well, I'll tell you about it later
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at the club. Yeah right, Judy, So long? Now where were
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we, buddy? In the middle of a big fat lie or reason for
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being here. Oh yeah, that's where we were. And you know that's
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a good old lace to leave it, buddy. When the twin telephone lamps
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and end tables next to me got back to being one of each again,
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I saw the note next to the phone that said call Monday at the garden
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Room. It's did mad too much, and I realized that Monday was spelled
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not as the day in the week, but mundy Why And I recalled the
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garden Room was a cozy collection of crepe paper flowers where some people did their
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serious drinking that plus dancing dimples, telling a girl named Judy who had called
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for Eileen in the first place, that he meet her at the club was
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a little better than the zero plus tie class I've been working with. And
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a half hour later that little became a lot when things started the dovetail because
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a placard under glass in front of the garden Room bragged about the glamour pus
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pianist featured inside, whose name was first Judy, second Monday, not as
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day in the week. I blessed my good luck exchange smiles only with a
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headsheg girl in the lobby and found a table for one inside, not more
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than a half a dozen octives away from this Monday's left hand. I'd ordered
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a drink and had a cigarette going before she paid any attention to me.
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I'll play anything you want. It's the rule of the house. Just name
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it. Ahummet oh whistle. But don't that's also a rule of the house.
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What will it be? How about the number you always play for that
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fat friend of yours, you know, the one with the deep temples?
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Be sure, kind of corny remember it? Yeah, you're a friend of
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his exactly. I didn't think so. He'd crown you. Have you heard
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you say? Dimples? He's sensitive? Yeah you here, aren't you.
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I have been in once or twice. Mutual friend of ours used to speak
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well of you. I lean boss made a change of mind. She was
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murdered tonight. Any idea? Who did it? I said, I heard
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you, No, mister, I haven't got the slightest idea. That's the
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end of your request. Sorry, but I'm only allowed one to accustom it.
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It's a rule of the house, I know. Yeah, I'll see
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you, Judy. Hello, this is marlo' angel. Oh Phil, what
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are you? What have you found out in that order? I'm in a
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phone booth at a club called the Garden Room. What I've found out so
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far won't impressed Detective Lieutenant Matthews of a homicide squad at all. When next
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we meet nothing in the apartment, no lead of any kind. I'm not
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sure. Jed, I ran into a round man with a sleek gun,
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who piled me up and left before very much was said fulfilled the Garden Room,
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the girl there's a funder. Ireens talked to her. Yeah, yeah,
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I already did. Jed got me the round man's name and no more.
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It was BLETHI you mean anything? Yeah, a fat guy with hair,
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that's right, he claimed Eileen at fifty grand that belong to him.
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That must be him? Men phil oh, Yes, she's a gray markeety
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that comes from San Francisco. I've never seen him with the girl in my
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office. Phoebe Hammond Canopas. She once did some auditing work for Burlat but
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she found out how crooked he was. She told me about him. I'll
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call her and have her meet you then, Field All right, but look,
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I'll be at a corner table facing the door and tell it to hurry,
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will you I'll call you back later. Goodbye. It was exactly one
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o'clock when what was at least three part cpa to each part woman pushed the
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front door out of a way and entered it. At the top there was
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close cropped hair streaked with some gray, no hat. At the bottom,
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dock brown stockings running into dark of brown shoes, no heels in between,
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severely tailored tweed closed tight at the neckline. It took all of fifteen efficient
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seconds to decide that I was her man, and less than that again to
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introduce herself, asked for a cigarette and name her drink, and it was
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my turn to talk. I'd brought her up to date. Eileen Voss's murder
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included, it's too bad MANO just a great guy. Yeah, it was
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only lunch today that he was knocking himself out trying to figure what would be
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for over my birthday next week. Now this tell me what can I do
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to help? Well? At the moment, LEI, all I know about
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him is Hammond. Aside from what I told Jul he said at Eileen's is
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that he and Judy Monday are a team. And Judy was a friend of
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Aileen how cozy. Well, it goes like this. Billefee's front name is
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Steve, and he's out of San Francisco via Detroit and Chicago, and in
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each case only a length of the subpoena ahead of the law. Oh.
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Back in the thirties he was a mobster, the numbers, game protection,
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rackets, that kind of stuff. But after the war he cashed in all
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his chips and went into a mo or less legitimate business with of course,
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absolutely no change in tactics. Know what you mean? Now, Look,
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can you tell me where he lives? No? But I bet my bottom
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dollar that the kitten on the keys here can only be careful. B Leffie
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has a reputation for shooting first and talking later. I only hope he isn't
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after Judge two. You know, there might be some connection between them that
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goes back to the dates when Judd was Francis Lyon and BELEFFI, Babe,
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did you just say Francis Lyon? That's right? Oh? Why? Oh,
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Judson Angel is the name he took when he came out here. Why
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what does that mean? I don't know. Here, Look at this thie
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class the ornament. It's also a lion I found it in the bedroom at
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Eileen's place, And yet Judd told me that he hadn't gone past the living
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room. But marlow that doesn't prove that Judd lied. Why it might not
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be his at all? Have you ever seen it perform? No? I
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haven't. Besides, I never knew jud to wear a tie. Clab okay
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could belong to Billippi, but it's still worth checking. After we get Jut
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out of his apartment. Look, where's your place, Phoebe mul Holland,
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drive three sixty one, three sixty one, bought a mile up into the
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hill. I'll let you do the trick, honey. You go home and
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stay close to the fireside. I'll get a hold of Judd and tell him
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to get over that fast, and then maybe we we can, maybe we
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can. What what is it, Marlon outside Mahybe? It's a man coming
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this way? Worse? Goodbye, baby, I'll see you later at your
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place. I've been afraid of this all night. Who is it? What
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his name? Detective Lieutenant Matthews? He's a police of Phoebe, First last
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and always so long. In just a moment, the second act of Philip
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Marlowe, but first music you like best of all, whether it's classical favorites
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Coraliers every Sunday overmost of these same CBS stations. Now at our Star,
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Gerald, we returned to the second act of Philip Marlowe and Tonight's story,
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The August Lion. When I left Phoebe Hammond at the table and moved toward
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the bar, my first impulse was run, do not walk. This is
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a different kind of an emergency. But a quick glance into the mirror behind
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me taged that is suicide and pushed try nonchalance into its place, because I
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could see that Detective Lieutenant Matthews had already spotted me when he was closer.
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I could also see that nonchalance would go over like punching him in the nose
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on the steps of city halls. All right, Phil, that little game
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is over. Now let's have it straight and fast. Who are you working
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for? And don't bother with the pitch on professional ethics, So we'll try
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this all over again down in headquarters. His name? What is it?
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Phil? Judson? Angel is a friend who is wanted the corps. He
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was in love with her, but he didn't kill her. I look,
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Matthews, I've never held out on you before, have I, which means
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you want to start now? Huh? What are you getting at? Phil?
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My client's in a jam, Lieutenant. He didn't kill the girl,
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but unless I can find out who did, he's and I brought deep in
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a mess. It doesn't even concern him. Which has what to do with
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you playing bashful tipster on the phone, with the body being in your bedroom
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and Marlow starring like a one man police force. Will you listen? I'm
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on, Phil, I've been an hour and a half just finding in a
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level. Why is this judson angel in a jam? If he didn't do
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it? Okay, okay, we'll try it, hones slily. He once
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did time in another state under another name, way back when he had less
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sense. If he's booked and fingerprinted, it'll be splashed all over the papers.
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He'll be ruined. Why what's his business? Well, today it's a
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count and see and then it was forgery. You can see that side by
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side. They don't make a very handsome couple. Now, come on,
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Matthews, give the guy a break. Will you take my word? He
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deserves it. What do you want me to do? Give me some time.
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If I don't have the answer to him, out of luck, and
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so is Judge's angel. Please match you? All right? All right,
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Phil, all right? Sixty minutes, and if I don't hear from you
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by ten, alfter two we start all over again. Donald Headquarters, your
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client included, I'll be waiting for your call Field. Good night. Detective.
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Lieutenant Matthews was nobody's keystone cop. And I knew that when he said
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sixty count, I'm sixteen minutes, he meant just that, and no more.
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So. I found a nice and public phone booth at the gas station
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across the street, and while I kept one eye out for Bert lefe and
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the associates, I dialed Judge and Angel's number. But in the next second,
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when I was through to him, I knew that I could forget about
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Burt LEFFI on my end, Pil, I'm in trouble here outside. A
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man and woman. They're coming up the walk now. He's fat and gray
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flannel. Yes, yes, she just pulled up in a cab and he's
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been out there twenty minutes watching the place. Berleffie, listen, Judd,
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get out the back way, get over to Phoebe's place. Huh, he's
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out the doing of Phil. He's kicking it in Phil, Phil, get
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up here twenty one South Orange Lane. Judd, do as I say.
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Will you get out, get the Phoebe's place. I'mulhalland drive. I'll see
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you there. Hurry all right, Bno, all right, follow Judd.
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Put that phone down. Angel, I'll kill you now. And I screeched
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towards top at number twenty one South Orange Lane, which was lights out,
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front, door open and no car parked in sight. I went inside just
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physical in the moonlight was the huddle figure. I'd been afraid i'd find.
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What I didn't know until I was kneeling next to it was that it was
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Judy Monday, not my client, and only unconscious, not dead. It
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was a large white envelope lying next to her, and beyond that a litter
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of broken porcelain that had once been a lamp. I switched on a light,
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found some brandy, and then brought her to as fast as I could
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Marlow and with a brand new request. Here take a drink. I'll ask
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the questions one, what happened here with the three of you, wesbur Leffie
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and more important Judt Angel. Come on, baby talk forbout all right?
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My angel got away. I don't know where he is. BURLEFFI dead.
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I hope I got him to thank for that lamp. Getting together with my
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head angel made a break for I'd kicked out the lights and tossed a lamp
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at the same time. Here old bur Leffie used me for a shield and
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took off after him. Your connection with both Burlefi and Eileen Voss, what
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was it? I forget? I'm on, Judy, baby talk. You're
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not gonna get another chance. The side of the witness box, witness box
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for a girlfriend's murder, trial by jury and old Yankee tradition. You remember,
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I didn't have anything to do with Eileen getting killed. They can't tie
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that under me. They can try, Now, what'll it be? It'll
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be It'll be what you want. That's better. I only got chumming with
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Eileen in the last month marrow because Berlettie told me to. He was my
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boyfriend. Hooray for love. Go on? What was in it for Berlefe?
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He wanted to know where Eileen got her tips on the market. That
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way he could get paying her any commission. Figures. What went wrong?
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Nothing on. Instead of finding out how well she knew who, I discovered
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she was going broke. Period. The rest of it you Aileen being dead,
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that muscle woman you talked to in the barrow. Wait a minute,
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Wait a minute, what about that girl in the bar You two get together,
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not for very long. After you left the table, she went outside,
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So I followed, why because the cow jumped over the moon? And
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what do you think are we still working from the lefte Remember, I thought
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it would help if he knew where she fit in. What did you get?
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You slap in the face, I said. She was raised on bar
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bells. And this envelope here that fell out of her pocket. Oh,
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don't get excited about it. It's only one of those horoscope charts. What
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do you do? Collect him? As I having well their notes on the
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back. Yeah. However for Frienville left, he was unimpressed. Yeah,
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look yourself, it's double talk. Course, bus was ten percent ninety days
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when he was saying, yeah, strictly a CPA's margin nose doesn't mean it
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you Molly your mouth open, what is it? You look dumb? Dumb
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I am and have been all night, sweetheart. In your own clumsy way,
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you may have saved justson angels life. What are you talking about,
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Marla? According to this horoscope, it's written in this tize. Maybe I'll
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make a good cup happy goodbye sweets. O'halland drive is a fancy collection of
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half in turns and deceptive curves along the top of a mountain that separates Hollywood
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and Beverly Hills from the San Fernando Valley. But when I was on it
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and burning up good rubber at each bend as I headed for number three sixty
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one north gas pedal on the floor driving conditions with the least of my worries.
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And it wasn't until I had parked away from the bungalow that perched on
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the edge of a cliff, and was out of my car thirty eight and
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a half and close to a half open French window that I breathed a long,
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long sigh of relief, because then I could clearly see that jets and
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Angel was still alive. I swallowed the side fast. When I could also
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see Angel's face. It said there was nothing permanent about his good health because
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on the other side of the room it only visible to me via corner mirror.
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Was the reason why holy On Tight was short. Ugly Revolver was the
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one the horoscope had said could be Eileen Voss's killer, a CPA known as
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Phoebe Hammond. While she talked, I moved around to where I'd be able
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to take aim in one about everything. Didn't want to kill Eileen in the
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first place. It was an accident. It doesn't matter now, you see,
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I'd invested some money with a judge, money that wasn't mine. I
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found out she was going broke. I went up to see her and demanded
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it back. She laughed at me. I got mad. I hit her.
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She took out a gun and said she'd call the police if I didn't
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leave. I grabbed it away from her. Then I shot her. Then
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you were there when I came in. Yes, and when I saw you
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and that cab driver she'd called earlier, take the body. I didn't know
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what to do until later, when I met with Marlow on your behalf and
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learned all about Blefi and the thie class beat done the tie class with a
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lion on us. That you'd recognize his mine if Marlo ever got the chance
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to show it to you. But he won't, Judge, I can't let
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him. Phoebe. Phoebe, you're crazy. You're crazy. You'll never get
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away with her. Oh, yes I will, Judd. It'll be Billefi.
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They'll blame. He entered your room with a gun in his hand.
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I know I saw him and that girl also, Judd, I'm the reason
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you got away from him. I rammed into his car when he started after
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you. Too bad. Jud worse than that, Phoebe. It's a crying
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shame. The light step, Phils, you can see your silhouette, I
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can follow of footsteps were even filled the terrace. She's trying to get away.
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There, she's outside. She trip filled the rail. Oh, oh,
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holy smoke, Phil, it's a it's a good two hundred feet down,
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just solid rock. Yeah, went away from it, Jad, time
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we made a phone call. MM. It was four o'clock in the morning
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and we were still on up the mountain before the police had found the broken
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body of Phoebe Hammond and ber Lefi had been picked up and in lieu of
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anything better, booked for breaking and entering Eileen Voss's place, and the parade
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of law pressed and just curious who always show up at the scene of a
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murder and finally left. It made it just me and Judd, a copp
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named Matthews. Well, let me see if I got this straight for the
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records film. First you thought it was a tough called Burlefi, and second
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you were afraid you'd been a sucker and it was really your client. And
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finally you figured it had to be a woman who all the way looked like
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she was no more than along for the right. What do you mean you
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really believe I could have got filmed? Well, yeah, it looked that
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way for a while. Jad. You know you said you hadn't been passed
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the living room up at Eileen's, and yet I found a thie class in
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the bedroom there, ornamented with a lion. And then I found out your
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real name was also Lion. It almost added. Yeah, but since you
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didn't have a chance to find out whether or not Burlefi was missing a Thai
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clasp, you still consider that was only circumstantial elevens right right, yeah,
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until I ran into the switch, which was an envelope that had belonged to
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Phoebe Hammond. It was a horoscope chart inside, which meant, well,
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it only meant that she went in for that stuff. No more until I
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remembered her mentioning that her birthday was next week, which is early August,
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and that no doubt puts her under the sign of the zodiac run by one
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Leo the Lion. Yes, and the managed tight neck suits you always wore
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could have met a shirt and tie underneath minus class exactly, gentlemen. That's
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it now, me, lieutenant. Look when you get back down the headquarters
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and you know you start the paperwork. Yeah, yeah, I have to
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mention a guy named Judson Angel, a guy named what Judson age and nothing,
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nothing, I was just thinking out loud. Yeah, yeah, that's
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a bad practice fit. You know, it's kind of like only telling a
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policeman half of what you know. It can get you in trouble unless you're
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lucky. Oh, give you a left, mister, you missed you already
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have, Thanks, Lieutenant and Phil. Good night Judd. When Judd and
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the Lieutenant left, I figured i'd have a last cigarette on the terrace think
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a little about the desperate people i'd met. On a night that had started
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out to be quiet, I found myself not smoking, not watching the early
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sun brighten the valley below, and not thinking about much of anything except the
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overturned stone flower pot that was lying next to the splendid rail where Babe Hammond
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the tripped and taking her final plunge. It was an ordinary square flower pot
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with an ordinary flower in it. The figure in relief on the side was
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a lion resting on its haunches, And you know, as I looked at
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it, I thought it was a little more majestic than most The Adventures of
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Philip Marlowe Bringing You Raymond, Chandler's most famous character and crime's most deadly enemy,
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starred Gerald Moore and was directed Tonight by Cliff Howell. Script is by
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Meldon la Robert Mitchell and Gene Lovitt. Featured in the cast were Gene Bates,
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D. J. Thompson, Wally Mayer, Bonnie Phillips, and Jerry
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Hausner. Lieutenant Detective Matthews is played by Larry Dupkins. The special music is
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written by Richard Durant. Be sure and be with us next week when Philip
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Marlowe says, it started with an Indian gift of a piece of pottery and
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led to a brown bear and mocksins and archaeologist, much laughing water, and
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finally death in an alley. But just to make matters worse, the Indian
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giver was a female and one hundred percent genuine, hot blooded apache. They
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cracked the phantom voice question on Singing again last Saturday, so the jackpot is
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down to minimum only fifty thousand dollars, although looking at it optimistically, fifty
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thousand dollars is still the largest jackpot in radio. You get other nice prizes
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just for solving those gay little riddle songs, and it's one of the most
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entertaining hours you'll find all week. So if you like fun and riddles and
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good tunes, even if you don't care about fifty thousand dollars. Here's singing
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again tonight on most of these same CDs stations. This is Joe Walter speaking,
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stay tuned now for Gangbusters, which follows immediately over most of these same
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stations. This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System, welcome back. Well,
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a few interesting things here. First of all, great to hear Wally
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Mayor in this episode, who is an actor who will be starring in a
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great detective series. Will be playing after we get through the Saint in about
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nine months, when we play Michael Shane Private Detective, so he'll be with
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us shortly in that role. It's kind of an interesting pon that CBS used
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here on the word lion because this episode aired in August of forty nine,
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and it was just a little less than eight months previously that Jeff Reagan,
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often nicknamed the lions Eye, went off the air and it was actually coming
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back in two months with Frank Graham in the title role instead of Jack Webb.
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So an interesting pun given that it ties into CBS's future and past shows.
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Also, I liked this episode because it added a little bit more realism
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and complexity to Philip Marlow's relationship with the police, because it seemed like,
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particularly in some of the earlier radio episodes when Lieutenant Ebarrow was in charge,
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that Marlow could just go off and take the case over for the police and
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be acting as if he's a fully functioning member of the police in some cases
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even pushing around the person who is actually the policeman. And you know,
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there's some realistic being mythed without going over the top, and certainly I think
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it's a nice touch. So I like that, very nice turn on that
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episode. We do have one listener comment to get to, and this is
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from Bobby Lee Walker, who says, as you know, I've been listening
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to yours, truly Johnny Doller for several years now. I decided to give
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some of the other shows a try. My wife and I watched this episode
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of the Philip Marlow TV series and love it. I will be adding it
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to my list of regulars. Thank you for turning me on to a great
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show. Well, thanks so much, Bobby Lee. Thing that is said
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is that the two episodes of Philip Marlow's television show we played are actually the
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only two that are in circulation there was an entire season of twenty three episodes.
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All of them are public domain because they weren't for nude, but only
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two have come to line. If we find anymore, I'll be sure and
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let you know. And I hope you've enjoyed the Philip Marlow TV series with
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Phil Carey, and you know, if you do have any thoughts on them,
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I would love to hear from you on them. All Right, Well,
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that will do it for today. We will be back tomorrow with Nick
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Carter and join us next Wednesday for another episode of the Adventures of Philip Marlow.
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