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Philip Marlowe: Persian Slippers (EP1283) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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follow that at the War dot Great Detectives dot net. Well, now,
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without any further ado, it's time for today's episode of the Adventures of Philip
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Marvel. It's the Persian Slippers. I felt low, very low the night
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I set out searching for the girl with the strange hazel eyes. The fog
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which hung over Los Angeles didn't help, and I felt even worse when I
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found it. But by then I had death on my hands. From the
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pen of Raymond Chandler, outstanding author of crime fiction, comes his most famous
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character as CBS presents the Adventures Philip Barlow and now with Gerald Moore starred as
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Philip Barlow, we bring you tonight's gripping story, The Persian Slippers. One
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of those thin, chilly fogs had sneaked in from the Pacific, and it
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hung vaguely to the street lights along the Sunset Strip. It was a kind
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of a fog that you could see through, but everything was out of focus.
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I just start wondering what you were going to do when you were ninety
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and you were all alone. I'd have liked to have spent the night in
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a room full of noisy extroverts playing charades, but instead I had to eat
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a quick dinner and drive up into the secluded Hollywood Hills to meet a guy,
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a guy who had nothing but trouble on his mind. When I pushed
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the buzzer, I had the feeling of wishing I was splace else. Called
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de Eleney himself opened the door. He was grim and brusque. Into the
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point, Marlow, that's right, come in, Marlow. I appreciate this.
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You're coming up here after business hours? I mean I wouldn't have asked,
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except well, perhaps I've waited too long as it is. Sit down,
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Thanks waited too long for what, mister Delaney. Thirty six hours ago,
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my wife disappeared. Marlow You've got to find her for me, find
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her just as fast as you can. Wait a minute disappeared, you said,
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would you mind playing that pot back a little slower? Enrma simply walked
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out that door, got in her car, and drove off to get hold
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of herself, as she always does when we've quarreled. Always before, she's
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come back in an hour or so. This time, this time she simply
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didn't come back. Is that it look, mister Delaney? I could you
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have better let me finish before you do anything. Lately my wife has been
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brooding over something, something serious that she refused to discuss. I've caught her
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crying several times, and she's not a woman given to tears. Marlowe,
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I'm sure that unless we move fast, when we do find her, we're
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going to find her dead. Suicide. Yeah. With his thick, blunt
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hand, de Lennie reached for a color portrait, lying face down on the
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table and gave it to me. I looked and saw the face of a
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dream, A beautiful dream with strange hazel eyes and soft black hair. I
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felt to Lennie watching me as I glanced up in time to catch the fading
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end of a very ugly expression on his face. I handed the picture back
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to him and he laid it on the table again, face down. Then
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he took me upstairs to Nomah's room. It was a nice, frilly room,
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typically haunted by elusive sweet smells. There was only one incongruous note.
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What was the horoscope doing on her desk? And the looks of a picture?
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I knew that Normal was attractive enough that she didn't need to look at
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the stars for a future A horoscope. Yeah, you know how women are,
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Marlow. Will you find her for me? I'll try. I rate
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his twenty five dollars day plus expenses, and remember you hired me to find
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her and not bring her back fair enough. You just find her. I'll
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be satisfied. I'll need a starting point. Were there any phone calls or
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letters there anything that might be a lead? What about friends? We have
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no close friends, Norma always state to herself. Wait, there was a
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phone call yesterday from a Madam Janetta. I think it was Who's that a
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dressmaker? I haven't any idea. She wanted to speak to missus Delaney.
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I told her Norma was out, and she asked that my wife call her
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when she got back. That's all it was to it. Anything else you
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can tell me, No, no, it's not much to go on.
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I don't see what I can do, mister Delaney. I'll be here all
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night. Marlone call me if you need anything. I'll do that. Good
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night. I drove back through the persistent fog the sunset boulevard. I was
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nine thirty. I knew it was going to be like tracking a hummingbird through
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a petrified forest by the bent twigs. But I got to classify directory and
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I started digging. I checked the hairdressers, the manicurists, and the milliner's,
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and I was just about to start on the interior decorators when I remembered
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the horoscope on Norma's desk. I quickly turned to the personal consultants. Yeah,
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there it was Madame Jeanette's. Her establishment, located in the dubious neighborhood
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south of Olvera Street, turned out to be a TACKI cottage set back next
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to an alley. It was as dark inside as out. I was pounding
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on the door like a vampire at sunrise when a newsboy came up the path
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looking for Madame Jeannette. Yeah, yeah, you know, sure. She
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tells fortunes, says I've got a great career line. You want to see
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it? Not right now? Thanks, And I'll say for her that she's
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a sound sleeper. Maybe, but not so early as this. But this
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time she's always hanging around the bar on the corner. Tonight she's throwing a
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farewell party in there, farewell party. Who for her self? She's leaving
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town. Oh thanks a lot here, kid, She your buck. My
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own man will swear up and shooting rap again. I mean another one,
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Charlie. Not every night I say goodbye to my dear old neighborhood, Jeannette.
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Yeah, did I say dear old neighborhood, Charlie. I think you
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did. Jeannette. Must have had one too many then, because of all
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the low flea bitt and row of shacks I ever lived in. This is
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the new law, Jeanette. That's no way to talk. You hurt my
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feet. It ain't nothing like a little deer. This so it hurt?
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You said it? Jeanette? Can I have another? Yeah? Tel,
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I get thinking another. This is last the last I thought you said it
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was a farewell party. Hey, you and all your dogs dogs to get
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me out of this rat trap of a town, see the last. I
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want to see it of it in all my life, see yeah, yeah,
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yeah, Charlie. Hold on, Jeanette, Hey, what'll it be?
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Miss something just a bit drier than Musca? Tell say Scotch, it's
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not me mister my party? Well, well, this is indeed a pleasure.
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You're the Madame Jeanette, aren't you. Yeah? Why you're all of
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twenty years younger than what I expected, probably the life I lead. Hey
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wait a minute, why should you be expecting anything about me? I don't
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know you, perhaps not, but I know you from where. Oh you're
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more famous than you think. Your reputation is spread far beyond all vera straight.
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In fact, it's gone up as far as the sunset strip, Madame
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Jeanette, no kidding. I was your kid of fortune teller. Don't you
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know all? See all and tell all? Well, I'm judging from that
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Spanish show. Your Hungarian skirting, those embroidered Persian slippers. I'm beginning to
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think your fame is not only local, but it's a nationals say. You're
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beginning to make me feel like I shouldn't be giving up as racket after all,
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giving that fortune telling no, Yeah, I'm living town on a midnight
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train, and I spread my talents all over the East and I'm not coming
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back. Don't tell me your crystal ball has laid a golden egg. So
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to speaker, I commended some lettuce suddenly. That's always nice. I guess
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it means you won't be interested in the few portray dollars I'd intended to spend
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with you. I can have another beach. You're not that pinky blow,
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just a traveling lady. You can always use a little extra mula. What
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was it you wanted? Then, I'm looking for someone Norma Delaney. I'm
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afraid I don't know anybody for that name. I'm afraid you do. What's
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your wrangle? Who are you anyway? I'm Philip Mollow, private detective,
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some private dick you must be to have to resort to fortune. Tell us,
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I'm on Jeannette, looking at your crystal muscatels heaving a spot Norma Delaney.
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I told you once. I don't know the name. Now blow just
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a minute, dark guys, Hey, Charlie, this bird's crabbing my party.
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What kind of a joint is this? Anyway? Lady can't sit here
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and have a farewell party without being insulted by every jerk that drops him.
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Well, mister, I haven't finished my drink yet. You got pockets,
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ain't you just poured a drinking to one of them and take it along.
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You ain't finishing it here. Charlie reached under the bar for his pick handle.
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So I left without pursuing the subject further. But I knew Jeanette was
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lying righting up purple lipstick about Norma. I walked back to my car with
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a cigarette and spent a few precious minutes trying to decide whether or not to
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break into her place in snoop. Then I caught the shadow of a figure
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slipping up on me from behind. Turn Wait, wait, don't swing,
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I don't swing. It's to me me. Thank you. I was in
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the bar when you was talking to them, Adam. That tight wa Jeanette,
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Yeah, I saw you. So she did something the minute you left,
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I figured you might like to know what it was. It all depends,
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well. I thought it might be worth something to you, like saw.
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Maybe come on, you spell it any good at all? It's worth
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five or no more? Right off? She made a phone call? Who
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too? What you say? Nothing? Just some swear words in Spanish.
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The line was busy, but I kept my eyes open and I got the
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number. All right, let's have it if you can still remember it?
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Oh, I can remember it easy. Uh. Five of first year.
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The number was crunchaw nine. Put together it like the Year of the Big
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Crash, thanks to the first of an underweight lush. I wasn't at the
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end of my rope yet. I drove as far as the nearest drug store.
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I dropped a nickel in the slapped and dial Crenshaw the Year of the
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Big Crash. Hello, Hello, let me speak to Norman Delaney. Please.
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I'm afraid you must have the wrong look you. I'm trying to locate
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missus Delaney. I suggest you help me. How did you get this number?
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I'm a client, mister car Delaney. But that's impossible. Let's stop
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sparring. We can save each other a lot of wear and tear. If
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we get together and talk this over, maybe you're right. Does that sound
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sensible? I'm at the Beachwood apartments number four. Check Illy right out,
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mister Pierre gillim It says here on the door. Yes, you're the matter.
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Call Uh huh, Philip Marlowe, come in, won't you? You
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said you were looking for Normal Delaney. Mister marlow tell me what's wrong.
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Has anything happened to her man? Her husband seems to think she might have
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killed herself. But I have a hunch that you might have something interesting thing
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to say. Oh, poor kid, poor Norma. I'll tell you what
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I can model, but it isn't much. Oh I'm all is, and
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I'll say it thanks. I was in love with Normal once, briefly,
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a long time ago. It was a wonderful girl, but her husband was
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insanely jealous, even though she hadn't loved him for years. He refused to
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give her up, even threatened to kill her first. No, Norma,
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and I realized that serious trouble lay ahead. So we bought it good friends,
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and I haven't seen her or heard from her in months. I buy
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it all, but the last line you have seen or heard from her and
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recently. I'm not going to argue that I told you the truth. You
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can take it or leave it. I leave it most we both put our
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cards on the table. You lied to me when you said called delnegating my
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number. I know because Madame Jeanette called me short touche. But why did
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she run the call you with the mention of Norma's name if you two broke
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up months ago and incidentally have that Ursat's ericle, Jeanette get mixed up in
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this in the first place. That is a long story, Mollo good.
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I like long stories. I'll bet it begins just for a lock. Norma
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and I went down to Olvera Street. Once they have our palms read.
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That's exactly how it started. Madame Jeanette was an unusual woman, a character
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you might say. Well, we became friendly with her. Norma got quite
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sentimental about her. One day we made a sort of pact that either of
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us was in trouble and needed the other, we'd go to Madame Jeannette or
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get a message to her. She would notify the other. So when I
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walked in asking for Norma, that madam assumes she was in trouble, right,
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called me immediately because she herself was leaving town in less than an hour.
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I know, well, mister gill Him, it's all very interesting,
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but it's getting me no place. Thanks if I need you. Oh wait,
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Marlo, don't go. I know a lot of details about normally that
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I'm sure will be helpful. For instance, she drives a Nash coupe,
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part of blue, out of blue coupee. E. Thanks, that will
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health. Oh and and she has a fondness for white gloves. Were's them
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quite often. I see, well, I better get more. Oh wait,
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just a minute, I've got to go now. Listen, I told
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you I was not hurry, take it easy, stick around a while.
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Yeah, I wait, thatt door, But just who do you think you
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are? I'm busting in here, prying, asking questions. You dirting,
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you asked for it? Kill you got a left too, saw my brother
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let Gillim sprawled all over his coffee table, his limp as a five cent
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salad and side. I glanced at my watch. Madam Jeannette's train left in
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forty minutes. I ran through twenty two bucks worth of red lights getting down
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to a cottage because I was sure Gillim's attempted stall was tied in with the
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departure, but I couldn't figure out why that is. I couldn't until I
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switched out my lights and coasted to a stop in front of her place.
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Then I saw it, half hidden in the shadows. Back of the house,
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sat a pot of blue coupe. I got up on the porch close
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to the front door and listened. Jeanette was talking to a woman. I
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couldn't catch what they were saying, but one thing was certain. The woman
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was norma Dealini. All at once I realized the talk had stopped. That
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was my cue. I shoved opened the door and went in. Jeanette sat
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at the table alone, facing me. Oh, mister Marlow, you've redturned.
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I like my fortune too. Yeah, I listened close comes you.
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I'll make this a short and snappy reading, because I'm catching the train in
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fifteen minutes. There's a woman very close to you. In fact, she's
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right mind. You suck a work. When I finally opened my eyes again,
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nothing changed. It took me a long time to faceigure out that the
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lights were off and it was dark. I climbed up the table leg hand
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over hand, and switched on a lamp. Jeanette's house was absolutely quiet.
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I had caught a glimpse of a white glove hold known as a blunt instrument
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just before I dozed off, and that reminded me what I was down here
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for. I wabbled through the kitchen and out the back door, but the
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pot of blue coupe was gone. It was twelve fifteen I had in the
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fog. Both had got a little thicker, so I just stood there useful
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like a ping pong ball and a bowling alley. It was a sound of
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footsteps that finally moved me, and a newsboy was back. Wow high again,
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mister. Did you ever get a hold of Madam Jeannette before she left?
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Yeah? I have. I'm not tight enough. Say a blue cupe
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left here a few minutes ago, just see it? Nope, I did.
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She I'm sure. Sorry she went away. She gave me a buck
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tonight too, said she was coming into a fortune you and your career,
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saying what's that down there in those weeds? I don't know. It looks
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like some kind of a shoe. It is a shoe, you see?
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What do you know? A Persian slipper? I took the slipper along as
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a souvenir for my scrapbook and walked back to my car, trying to fit
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Norma Delaney's lovely hazel eyes in with that crack on the skull, but I
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couldn't between throbs of my headache. I figured Pierre Gillim would know why Norma
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had dropped in on a madam so close to train time, and decided to
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go back and ask him. Gillim was as reliable as a two headed quarter
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and just as tricky, So when I got to his apartment, I pushed
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the buzzer, stepped back and braced myself. There was no fight left in
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him. He opened the door in his robe, fingered the mouse I had
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given him in grin. So you found your way out by yourself. Uh
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huh, say Gilim? What was so important about Norma seeing Madame Jeanette just
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before a train left. I don't know. You know enough to try to
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keep me here? Did delay me? Why? Oh mollow? I did
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that for old time's sake, for an old friend. Jannette asked me to
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hold you here until midnight, and I tried my best. Obviously wasn't good
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enough. That's all I know about I see your phone is off the hooks.
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You know that. Yeah, I took it off. It's given me
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nothing but trouble. Tonight. I hereby wash my hands of this whole business.
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I'm going to bed and I hope to sleep. Good night. I
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envied him, and left to call my client, Carl Delaney. He said
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he'd be in all night for me. Phone kept ringing and ringing, and
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no one answered. I suddenly got a very creepy feeling. Twenty minutes later,
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I pulled to a stop at that small but elegant house. The lights
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were on and I saw the pot of blue coupe in the garage, next
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to Karl's big black sedan. I ran up the steps. The front door
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was ajar, so I went in. I found card in front of the
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fireplace, face down on the floor. It did. There was a handbag
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on a chair. I opened it, compact cigarettes and a key to room
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three forty in the Bradford Arms Hotel, OH identification. That color portrait of
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normal was standing up on the table. This time, those searching hazel eyes
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seemed to follow me all the way to the telephone. Turn a bar speaking
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till MALOI barra, there's a dead one. At ten seventy seven Holy Crest
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Road named Carl Delaney murdered. I'll be right out. I hung up the
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phone, and then the hair on my neck crawled as I heard thee unmistakable
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sound of a woman's heels on the floor ups theirs. I ducked behind the
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door as the heels clicked down the steps. Then she entered the room.
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Norma de Laney was lovely, as lovely as a picture. She moved calmly
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and deliberately, put a note on the table, picked up a handbag,
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then turned to face the door I was hiding behind. You can come out
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now, mister Marlow, Hello missus Delaney. You can call me Norma now.
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And if you're thinking of using your gun, perhaps you'll be good enough
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to read this note first. Here to whom it may concern, I,
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Norma Delaney purposely and with premeditation shot and killed my husband Karl. It is
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beyond me to express how deeply I hated him. And since I must pay
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for this in Canada and you're a public spectacle, I shall take my own
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life within the next few minutes. Now, look, Norma, no gun
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kill you if necessaries, but it would be so pointless. Now I'm free
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at last, and I want to spend a little time left to me in
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my own way. If you're from tonight, I made my only friend and
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Madame Jeanette happy, and I killed a man who needed killing. Something good,
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something bad. So I'm quitting. Even what are you propose to do
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with me? You mustn't try to stop me, Marlow. See that closet,
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Get inside, and careful how you move your hands. Turn around to
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the wall. That did Marlow. I'm sorry I had to hit you with
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Jeannettes Tonight. Goodbye. It took three shots to smash the lock in that
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closet door. I heard it driving away just as I got it open.
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In spite of what she said, I couldn't let her kill herself. I
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ran outside to my car. One glance under the hood was all it took.
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There was nothing left to the wiring but loose ends. I ran into
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the street, and the miracle happened the first time in my life, a
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taxi in Los Angeles when I wanted it. I'm sorry, fella, I'm
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gonna call get it. This is an emergency. Hey wait a minute,
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you lad business. A girl is driving up the road in the blue coupe.
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We gotta catch up before she kills herself. Let's go. I think
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I saw a tail lights just then. Yeah, can't you go any faster
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out on these curves, brother, I got a wife and kids. Okay,
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fellow, we'll be at the top of the hill. When we can
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get around the next bend, we should spot he then, Yeah, you
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can see the whole road down the other side. Here we are, mister,
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this is the top, but I don't see it. Where is she?
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Hey, wait a minute, stop here, turn up your motor.
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This is haywire. I don't get it. We were gain an honor and
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now she just disappeared. That side road we passed, that's it. Look
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holy smoke. We both saw the awful sight for just an instant, a
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part of blue coupe with a woman crouched over the wheel. It shot out
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of that side road, crashed through the guardrail and fell end over end down
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into the gorage. By the time we got to the hole in the fence,
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the wreck was an in final No, he was trying to get down
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there. The whole hill side'll be on fire another minute, I guess.
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She pulled over here into his side road and waited for us to go by,
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and we did. Yeah, Sandy here too, so one of she
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didn't get stuck. What's the matter. There's something buried here in the sand.
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One of her tires ran over it. What is it? It's plenty,
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brother, Come on that hack of yours around. Let's get off this
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mountain. I just found the answer to a lot of questions, Lieutenant.
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We found the body and the wife's suicide. Note. Then one of the
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boys spottled that fire up on the hill. What is it? Ka went
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off the road? An accident or the suicide, just a little of both,
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he bora. But we'll talk later. Right now, we got to
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go to the brad Fordams hotel on the double and please no siren. The
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Bradford Arms was a three story walk up and when we got there he borrow
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a station. One man in front, sent another to cover the back,
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and we started up the stairs. He had reached the second floor when we
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saw him on the landing above Gillim. He spotted us at the same time
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and turned back fast. There mallow, who's that? That's our boy?
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Borro up here, Gillim. Let's go there he goes, he's sading for
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the fire. I got lieutenant, he's oh, yes, I got this
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is the other way. Shot right, shot room three thirty six, thirty
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eight, three forty. It's all over now you better drop the gun please.
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It's been neat so far. I don't mess it up. Come on,
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beautiful, drop it. It's better. Oh my god, I wing
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him to bring him down when here he is and the lady must be yes,
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Lieutenant. The lady is Normah Delaney, the girl who wanted to kill
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a jealous husband and then commit suicide, but didn't want to die doing it,
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so she used someone else's body, Madam Jeannette's, which was a logical
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choice because Jeanette was blackmailing her. That's two vultures with one stone, leaving
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two love birds free to fly away together. Right, Nomah. Didn't you
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give Madame Jeanette money so she'd leave town and tell everybody she was going away?
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Yes? I did that way the body wouldn't be messed. Uh.
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Yeah, isn't it pretty? I'll lay off Marlow, catch you, Okay,
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yell them okay, eliebar. I've got a sour taste in my mouth.
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I think I'll go home and goggle anything else you'll need. No,
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I guess not, Phil, I've had all it's necessary. Uh wait,
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just one thing. How'd you get inside this setup? How do you find
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out who was the dead Madam Jeannette who went over the cliff instead of the
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very much alive missus Delaney. Here Jeannette had on a pair of Persian slippers,
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lieutenants. One fell off down at her cottage, where Norma murdered her
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and put her in the trunk of the car. The other one fell off
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in the sand to that side road when she took Jeannette out of the trunk
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and propped her up behind the wheel. Was lucky Bara, just dumb luck.
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I took a walk later, a long walk, oh by myself,
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so that thin empty fog, the dark empty streets, A pair of hazel
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eyes and a pair of persian slippers went round and round in my head,
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And for some reason I kept thinking, a pair of persian slippers has two
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souls and two heels, and it's hard to tell just exactly where the one
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becomes the other. The Adventures of Philip Barlow, created by Raymond Chandler,
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stars Gerald Moore and is produced and directed by Norman McDonald. In Tonight's story,
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the Persian Slippers. Virginia greg was heard as Madame Jeannette, with Larry
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Dobkin as Pier Gillam and Louis Van Ruton as Carl Delaney. The additional players
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were Gene Bates as Norma Delaney, Gil Stratton Juniors the Newsboy, Frank Richards
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as the barkeeper, and Tony Barrett is Pinky. Detective. Lieutenanty Barrow was
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played by Jeff Corey. The special music was conceived and conducted by Ivan Dittmars.
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Be sure to be with us again next week at the same time when
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Philip Barlow says, sounded good, real good. A weekend at Malibu,
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expenses paid with a cash bonus thrown in. But that was before I knew
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about the Henchman, the Redhead, and the corpse. These three and a
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white Panama hat ruined it all for me. The Big Stars started. Array
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of CBS Sunday show starts tonight, one, two, three, four,
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five. Top entertainment programs that make listening to your CBS station a happy habit.
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One Cabin B thirteen, the popular dramatic show by John Dixon Carr,
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renowned mystery writer. Two The New Electric Theater Guest starring Henry Fonda tonight and
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regularly star Helen Hayes, first Lady of the Theater when she returns from London.
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of pine Ridge. Five, Strike It Rich, the sensational quiz show with
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a heart to wind up, The sparkling Parade of Entertainment, mysterid drama,
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comedy Excitement Tonight over most of these CBS stations, And next Sunday, the
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first broadcast and the new season for two of radio's greatest stars, Amos Andy.
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Yes, Sunday Nights are great on CBS. Check your local newspapers for
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programmed times. This is Roy Rowan speaking for CBS the Columbia Broadcasting System.
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Welcome back. Well, we once again see a very good mix of the
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hard boiled dialogue with a solid detective solution here. And we're not even I
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think, to the best part of this series. But the one thing that
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really does stand out is the way that More plays it. In the way
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the scripts are written, they seem like things that it's really conceivable that Raymond
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Chandler might have written for Philip marvelf he'd been inclined to write radio plays,
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and of course being able to call on Virginia Greg always helps. All Right,
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Well, now for some listener comments and feedback, we turn to mail
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we had from Jeff, who says, just a quick to thank you for
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all the work you have done aggregating so many great radio shows from many years
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ago. The shows provide an enjoyable break from the unnatural busy world. I
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really look forward to listening to these shows no matter where I am on any
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particular day in this world. Your intros and summaries are great as well.
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Thank you very much. Well, thanks so much, Jeff. And he's
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emailing in from Phoenix, so I hope you're able to get somewhere cool for
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a couple of weeks during this summer. Those Arizona summers can definitely be a
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challenge. All right. Well, that'll do it for today. We'll be
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back tomorrow with Nick Carter and join us back here on Wednesday for another episode
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