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Philip Marlowe: The Baton Sinister (EP1511) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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The original air date September the seventeenth of nineteen forty nine and the title
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the Baton Sinister Get This and Get It Straight. Crime is a sucker's road,
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and those who travel and wind up in the gut of the prison of
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the Grave. There was a gorgeous tapestry found under a tomb, and they
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were all after it, the worried impart of the man with half a face,
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the Englishman in an la slum, and the lady wearing a green veil.
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But before it was over, none of them had it, and two
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of the four was dead. From the pen of Raymond Chandler, outstanding author
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of crime fiction, comes his most famous character in the Adventures of Philip marmel
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Oh, with Gerald Moore starred as Philip Marlaw. We bring you tonight's transcribe
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story, The Baton Sinister. I'd watched the blood red sun set behind an
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ugly purple storm out on the ocean, and the weird afterglow that crept into
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the canyons of the Hollywood Hills made me uneasy. I added emphasis to the
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disquieting phone call I received at my office. My man named Pollack Schindler min
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knew was a very capable worldwide broker of bizarre art objects in words that fellow
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of each other in urgency. He asked me to meet him at my place
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at once. As I drove to my apartment, I figured the trouble lay
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ahead, but I didn't realize how close it was until I parked and started
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out of my car. A bullet smashed the corner my winch here and my
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duck for covered and hugged it building and headed for the rear, where I
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was sure I'd seen a gunflash. I was halfway there when the side door
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flew open and Pollard Shindler himself stopped me. It was white faced and shaking,
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his eyes, ring by dark blue circles of fatigue. Barlow that shot.
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Yeah, somebody throw a slug at me? She look from back there.
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Okay, I was afraid of this. We can't talk here, not
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now. Come, Let's get in your car and drive hurry. Wait a
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minute, Wait a minute. What's all this about? Who shot at me?
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And why? It must have been that lizards five and lost hu?
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He's furrowed me all away from England model because but I tell you what about
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it? And be safe right now? We must get away from here.
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Okay, but watch yourself. Come on. Well, so far, so
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good. I see that hole in the winchhield. It's lucky it's not in
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my head. Have you being followed? Not yet anyway, oh Pollot.
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Last time it was a cloak of came a May and a trip to Honolulu.
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What is it? This time? It's worse? The tapestry modeled fifteenth
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century and exquisite worked twenty thousand. There's a museum piece alone, A lot
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of money for chuck a cloth ah snuffing. I'm getting there around eighty thousand
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for it from a man named Alfthur Merrit in Seattle. Eighty grand Yes,
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correct, you see this Merit claims to be a direct descended from Edward,
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second Duke of York, who felt it ajincour really yeah, he spent a
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fortune raising his genealogy and collecting family pressures and regards this tapestry as his greatest
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price. Or HiT's a gorgeous steam bottle depicts the Duke and a gold horse
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riding to battle beside the king. Want such colors, reds, blues,
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greens, breast but I'm so tired. I don't think I've slept in weeks.
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For eighty thousand bucks, you're going to afford to retired Sheendler. How
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does the guy with itchy trigger finger fit into all this raft that's come He
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was after the tapestry tour. He got hint of the fact that someone was
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willing to pay eighty thousand for it. Mart He doesn't know who. I
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see you found it first. Yes, he's in a sealed tomb on the
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ruins of a castle in Vales, just minutes ahead of Loft. Why is
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the tapestry now at this moment. It's in a cheap suitcase checked in a
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public locker at the Kevenga Boulevard busty book. Now, I want you to
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pick it up and get it safely to Arthur Merritt. Here, here's the
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locker key. You take it on a plane leaving in three hours and your
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money five one hundred dollars bills. Enough enough, Well I find out the
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Merrit seventy six Rest Streets, Seattle. He'll be expecting you and Marlow.
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I feel better if you get the tapestry soon and keep it with you ontil
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the plane time. You're really afraid of this guy laughed, an't you?
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He'll stop at nodding. I warn you now, I'll get off here at
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the corner Marrow. Incidentally, when you get the tapestry, don't go back
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to your apartment loft maybe waiting there. I'm at the Hollywood Crest Hotel,
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Hollywood Crest. Yeah, call me when the chop is done. Goodbye,
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Marlow, and good luck you'll need it. The key shinder the left was
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number four ten, So I drove to the bus station and went in a
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casual walkthrough. Showed me that locker number four to ten was the last on
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the left. Then I ambled over to the lunch counter or ordered the sandwich
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and coffee and sat down the case the rest of the customers. Finally I
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spotted him, a dark man in ragged clothes with a profile out of Western
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Asia who was also watching number four ten a profile glanced around nervously and looked
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away fast when he caught me watching him. I used the key to four
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ten out of my pocket and slipped it under my sandwich. All the waitress
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I'd be right back, and started taught him. He saw me coming and
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made for the back exsit broke into a run when he got to the door.
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We played follow the leader down the tunnel to the alley behind the bus
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barn and around the corner. There the game stopped because a claw that belonged
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down a lobster reached out, grabbed me by the shirt front and pulled me
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up against eighteen inches of curved Damascus steel, chopping up the shaved with so.
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I knew then why he showed me only his profile. Half his face
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was handsome, the other half well, when he spoke, he he's through
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the flexible half of his mouth. Thanks till my friend or I slichorg gizz
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it for you. Where is Myron Loft? I don't know. I never
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met a man up close. That is why you are working for him.
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Keep using that knife of punctuation. Hell, I admit anything. I followed
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the fat German. I watched him put the tapestry in one of those lockers
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inside. Therefore I knew that Loft or his hireling wouldn't be far behind him,
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and mayor off base. That's myrone, love to you what Indeed,
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only I know the true value of that tapestry, But it was I who
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paid for it. But half my face and half my mind. But before
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I'm through, Loft will know too. Where is he? I don't know,
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but I wish I were with him. She like you for being stupid,
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got a Loft and tell him that a car is not dead, but
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has come back to teach him the price of treachery. This will surprise him
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now, doubt. And he murdered me so I would not talk. He
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left me for dead and me a hurtling. I'm conscious of a bridge and
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a top of braazing oil. It made me like this claw for a hand,
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a face to frightened demons, But it did not kill me sky Lord
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and the tapestry itself. Tell him it will bring him nothing but despair.
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But I have put a curse of worthlessness on it. A car from the
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alley the shot. Did you see who it was? I car? No,
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but I didn't have to see it to know. He thinks he has
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finished it now, but he is wrong. Look look for the button city
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start what look for what? A car in the duke shield? The button
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sinister? A car the words baton sinister whatever that meant on his twisted lips,
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twisted little man dyed. I walked back carefully the way I'd come with
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lightning. The busty bow was going on as usual. The waitress gave me
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a hard eye when I sat down at the lunch counter again in a mirror
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over the back, but told me why I was pasty green from eyes to
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mouth. I thought that death and an alley still did that to me was
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strangely gratifying. I got the key fromund of the sandwich, dropped a buck
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on the counter, and then went to lock up four ten and opened it.
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Shindler's t haaded suitcase was there. I picked it up, took it
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over to a stall phone and sat on it while I put in a call
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Lieutenant Matthews at Homicide. Oh say that again, Model, I don't think
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I heard you right? Yeah she did, Matthews. I said, a
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man with half a face named that car was shot in the alley backup coinga
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bus depot, probably because he knew too much about a tapestry. Yeah,
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yeah, that's what you said the first time. Who did you got any
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ideas? Really? Could be a guy named Myron Loft. That's all I
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know about him, just a name. Okay, I'll send somebody stick around
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with it film. Hey, hey, lieutenant, yeah, you happen to
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know what a baton sinister is? H the spell off me with it?
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Feel never mind, Matthews. I'll call you again before I leave. When
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I left the bus depot, I drove to my office, took the suitcase
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upstairs, and after I locked myself in, I opened it on the lamp
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on my desk. Boles of dazzling cloths spilled out. I remember Chindler saying
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Duke was riding a gold horse, so I looked for that. Yeah,
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it was easy to spot, and from there I located his shield. It
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was deep blue with three white roses on one side and a red lion on
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the other, and in a set of pointing diagonally from up a right to
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lower left was a thin line of still deeper blue. That was all I
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had a chance to see, because a hand in a rubber glove clamped a
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wet cloth over my face, and the sickly sweet odor went through me like
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warm oil through a paper bag. One hundred years later, I had a
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strange dream. I saw a pair of high heeled green swede shoes, and
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then a woman in a green veil looking at an empty suitcase. It must
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have been a green because I couldn't move and my eyelids were leaden. When
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the green veil and green shoes left, everything went black again. Next time
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it was no dream. I was faced down in my office, copet alone
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and very sick to my stomach. I'd been chlorophormed. I crawled over to
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the desk and pulled myself up. The suitcase was open and empty. Somehow
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I got the phone off the hooked dial of information. In a minute later,
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I had my client on the wire, Marrow, you sound sick,
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but he's wrong. I am sick. They're gonna be too. Shinley a
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tapestry is gone. It was stolen. God, I'm stolen? Yeah?
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Oh no, no, it can't be you plumbering, stupid Folmno, why
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did you say? I'm sorry? Screaming and hysteeli. I won't get it
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back via No, how did it happen? Well? I brought it up
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here to my office, but somebody was already in here laying for me.
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I was chloroformed and out for about half an hour, and I came to
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it was gone. Now listen, you know a man named my car horribly,
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Scott from Burns a car. No, why did he get it?
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Yeah? Not the way you think? He was killed at the bus station?
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What kids, heavens did's loft to it? I don't know that car,
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thought so, And I'm getting tired of hearing that name lofty. Incidentally,
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what's a battime? Sinister? Yeah? I ma terribly? But what
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had that point? It might be important? What is it? Actually?
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Partly it's simply a short line on a shield or a scutcheon. It runs
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diagonally from sinister chief to deckster base. What does that mean? From uper
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right to lower left? Maybe if you're facing the sheet. Yes, it's
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the mark of fraudulents. Why I was totally to look for the battown sinister
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by wait a minute, pollen and something on the floor head looks like an
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envelope. Yeah, there's nothing in it, but it's addressed to Holy smoke.
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This is address to Myron Loft nine four six South Grand Avenue. L
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I knew it. I knew twist behind the tapt Morrow. But now we've
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got a chance to get the text to be back. There is this Grand
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Avenue. It runs through a slum called Bunker Hill. Any cab driver knows
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it. I'm going down there now. She good. I'll get there as
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soon as I can to cover you and marrow. Listen the man, he's
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a devor be care for Bunker Hill stuck up above downtown. I lay like
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a water on a debu tanse hand the big street to the tunnel under it
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or bypassed the years ago left it nothing more than the dingy, isolated attic
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where the city has worn out cast offs finally end up to die. The
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big hotels that open on the Swine Street below it all carefully turned their backs
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on the hill. I parked near Angel's Flight and walked on the yard number
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side of the street until I spotted nine four six, a crumbling yellow stucco
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rooming house clung to the hill face from habit only, and I gave the
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windows a lot of attention to be sure no one was watching, and went
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out of the corner, crossed and came back. And I need me night
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light was not at the end of the hole, so I pushed my way
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through the smells toward the door with a grimy card that set office. I
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was about the knock when a voice purred from the landing on the stairs behind
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me. When you turn around, do it slowly? Understand? Oh,
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perfectly, I dare say you're prolarge shindlers man could be, which makes you
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myron laugh. Yes, I've been up on the roof watching you expect you
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to come before long. I suppose you want the tapestry. Now, how's
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she gets then? And what prices should have decided to offer me? Price
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your kid hardly. I don't enjoy humor. Perhaps you don't know much about
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the tapestry. Not much. I know more than I used to. I
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had quite a chat with that car. A car that's impossible. My exsistant
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is dead, I know, but he lived long enough to tell me about
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the baton sinister and the duke shield. Yeah, to lie, my fine
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fellow, there's no baton sinister on that shield, and it's oh, of
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course that's sly idiot AKA. I would try something like a baton sinister,
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But what purpose I can't imagine. Just to make sure that you'd pay for
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his murder? What's that? Must have been a shock to find out it'd
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survived that burning truck accident you tried, so you finished them tonight with a
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bullet. Oh that's strange. How much more do you know along this line
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enough to make bargaining more than worth your while? And I haven't kept it
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all in my head? I see for my door is a second on the
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left. I'll move along now quickly. I see no reason to hurry.
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I do see what you mean. Although the accent was Oxford, the gestures
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were strictly scared roll. So as I proceeded myron left and gun into my
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lord's sagging chamber, I watched carefully for the chance I knew i'd have to
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take before long. But a small step toward a dark corner told me it
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wasn't going to be easy. The gentleman with a flexed voice was being very
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wary about me, now turn it out and faced me quickly, so wary
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about me, in fact, that the quiet footstep behind him went out.
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Noticed the footsteps that had been made by a green swede pumped belong to a
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lady with a veil, also green. I now knew i'd actually seen earlier
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in my office. When she took her next step, the gun she clenched
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in her expensively gloved hand was raised high, came down hard early of my
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dreams. I thank you. That was neat, and believe me, not
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a moment too soon. He's not dead, isn't. No, it's just
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how cold? Isn't deep freeze? But aren't we being a little matter of
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fact about all this? Well? Did you expect pears well from the veil?
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Yeah, that's where I'm probably being misled. I should concentrate on your
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green swede shoes. They seem to be more in character, and you seem
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to be quite ungrateful and gabby. So why don't we just move on some
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over there? That bundle it could be the tapest tap. Hey lady,
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you're not after it too? No, I came here to save you alife.
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I love you come on, mister Robbie, warm hot, this is
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it all right? Good? Don't get back? Oh no, oh yes,
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way back, and for safe keeping in the snug little closet there.
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But that's so much as a peace at the veil, I mean without so
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much is another word your mouth. I mean, go on inside. It
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won't hold you for long, but I don't need long anymore. She was
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so right, didn't hold me for long, because even a misplayed ticcop could
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you all lose most any given segment of Bunker Hill construction. However, by
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the time I got to the street, it was lady with veil and bundle
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tucked underneath her arm, climbing into a cab, and only a tail light's
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getting out of sight around the corner. So I played the only bedlet.
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She departed in a cab. Maybe she'd arrived in one, and maybe that
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one was still in line at the hackstand across the street at the back of
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the hotel at number four. I connected, Yeah, yeah, sure,
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the doll with a veil. I brought her here? Why what's that mean
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to you? Everything? She's my long lost sister. Where'd you pick her
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up? I can't remember? Okay, okay, here here's five. Not
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try it. Sure it was a sunset gardens hotel. Villa twelve witches around
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on the side, but you know what else, Oh what else? I'll
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bet this five she ain't really assisted at all. I'll bet she's really your
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white Yeah, you're so wrong, She's really typhoid Mary Jackiet. But I
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fumigate fast, both inside and out. Goodbye. I was thirty anxious minutes
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weaving my way through the thick west Brown traffic than any snail could have easily
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outsprinted before I was finally parked away from Villa twelve, then out of my
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car and running toward the squadschunk of termite proof Old Spain. But I hope
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that again meet up with both. The lady who wore a mosquito net for
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a hat in my client's hard come by Drapery at the bungalow in front of
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me said no such luck, because it was dark, close, tight,
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and as quiet as snow falling all the way around until I was in the
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bank. For each villa had its own junior picnic grounds, complete with barbecue
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pit. Then from somewhere behind me, I heard it, first a rattle
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of paper, then a few footsteps high heels that I knew could be the
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green swede ones on flagstone. After that over either pit, liquid poured on
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wood, and then sudden flame. It was the lady who shoes I knew,
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all right, But this time no veil, only a face that might
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have been pretty if it weren't for the prancing shadows. The flames threw over
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an expression that was a little more than determination, a little less than psycho.
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I moved close to her quietly, and when she had the tapestry on
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wrap and was ready to make a little offering to the fire gods, that
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took my cue. Marshmallows will taste better, baby, honest you Yeah,
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little me and thirty eight not so little, don't stand very still, honey,
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priceless heirloom included. No, I won't. It's going to fire work.
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That's a matter of opinion. Go on, you big hat, let
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it go, baby, better way, dirtyeth retingent, Come on, let
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go, that's better. I come on fire blug you, oh Naomi marsh
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us Okay, now tell me where you fit in the tapestry or do we
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shake some more? No? Thanks, I'll tell you what you want to
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know. Who are you? James Philip Marlowe, Papa oh, a private
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detective hired the baby sitting with a tapestry. Let's not change the subject.
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Heay, Okay, getting there. I'm Arthur Merritt's and so lair guy in
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Seeattle, who's waiting for me to deliver this item as your uncle. My
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uncle is Jersey. Wait a minute, Wait a minute, let me get
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this straight. You steal a tapestry, risk your life, play with guns
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and with people who only play for keeps so you can get a chance to
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burn eighty thousand bucks where the pantcy needle. My uncle has been throwing away
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his money on antiques and all this that less of a half a million is
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one hundred grand. I don't want four fifths of that use for this stinking
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substitute for wallpaper anything else. Yeah, how long you've been working on this
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project? This operation? Arson a week came down from Seattle, and I
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learned that the man my uncle was dealing with his name Poulade Schindler. You
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can till I've been to Mayor. Now do you mind if I leave?
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I'm looking forward to bed and a good cry. Eighty thousand dollars worth?
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Do I go? Yeah? On one condition. Yeah, gun baby,
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it stays. I watched her until she was around at the front of the
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bungalow and out of sight, and I grabbed up the tapestry and started to
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fold it when a sudden flare from the fire threw a crazy spurt of light
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over the material on my arm, and I saw them on the shield as
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the Duke of Kent carried. There was no Bedtown Sinister. This was not
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the same tapestry I'd examined in my office like them. Just to make things
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all the merrier, I once again heard from Naomi Mark and the even chance
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that this was a trap, Naomi playing fossom with healthy lungs. I ditched
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the tapestry in a nearby clump of trees, then gun in hand ran for
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the front door of Villa twelve. I got there just as a great convertible
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lights out roughed off and Naomi was climbing back onto her feet. What judges
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a long list knew the real tapestry? Where is it? The Oh no,
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you're kidding. Maybe that number you just tried to burn is not the
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one I started out with tonight. It's minus Baton Sinister minus Who what are
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you talking? About just this. Maybe you still have the tapestry, and
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the routine with the flames was done with a phony and strict right for my
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benefit. You are nuts. No, you listen. When I told you
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before was the truth? Nothing? But however it happened to work out that
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I walked off with a phony and you did likewise. I'm sorry, I'll
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bet the time being all buy it that way. Tell me what went on
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here? I was about to unlock the door when it happened a hand with
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a rubber glove. Grab me. Wait a minute, Wait a minute,
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rubber gloves, rubber glove? Do we say everything twice? Whoever it was
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obviously didn't want to leave fingerprints or the smell of chlorophone on his hands.
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He comes to think that I did get a whisk of something funny. How
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do you know about that in my office when the tapestry was Wait a minute,
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you were that and you get a look at him? No, there
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was only a single light on, and you were already out cold when I
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got there, which must have seen something your stars. After he took the
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tapestry, then laid an envelope of some kind next to you. I told
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him to reach way up, got me piled into a heap on your office
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floor. Envelope I followed, but I lost it. Hey, hey,
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hold it back up, Naomi, What you say he placed that envelope there
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next to me. That's what I said. See what I mean. We've
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got it out, baby, I've got an idea of thought about a bedtion
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cinnis then what's really going on? Also, it just occurred to me that
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Myron Love might not remain unconscious forever, and that my client was going to
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cover me at lost place on Bunker Hill. Wait, what are you going?
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Mol Once I pick up the tapestry I just hid, which may not
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be a phony back of Bunker Hill. It's a long kid. Oh no,
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somebody somebody called it police Brow Tomorrow, Barlow, Thank goodness you're here.
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I I just shut Myron Love. You did watch Shindler? Yes,
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good to him? Did Marlow? Way? What's going on in John?
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Now? Then you can help sweet hat O try to hold it down.
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It was terrible and Marlow. I came to this place after I didn't hear
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from you and found out Rich gloom Loft head red Eyed been in. He
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was on the floor unconscious. So I started to look around for the tapestry.
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In the meantime, Loft came too, got hold of the gun and
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rushes at it. Yes, we struggled, and then the convent off for
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Marlow. What should we do now? Call the police. Yeah, I'll
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take care of it. You go back into the room there and don't touch
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anything and see that nobody else does. All right, Marlow, but you
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have the tapestry. Yeah, I got a Chandler safe and sound. Your
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worries are over homicide. Matthews speaking Marlow, Matthews, I'm a nine four
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six South Grand Avenue and sells another body admired and Loft. I mentioned my
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client Paula Chandler just shot him in self defense, which also clears up that
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death of that car up behind the bustypo. I mean love got him and
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then tried for your client but missed. Yeah. Yeah, if you believe
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my client. Oh Malo, what are you reaching for? You? Very
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tasty but hard to swallow. Facts One, my client's a liar to my
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client killed both I con Myron laugh in. Three, I've been set up
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and used as Nita's chump, Patsy sucker fall guy. They all fit even
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shot through my windshield for realism. Alan Shindler never had the real tapestry,
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Matthews, He had only a phony, gave it a meet to deliver,
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and then swiped it from me, after which he put me on the trail
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of the real one. Uh huh. So while swiping it back for him
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like a good private detective, you are you'd come up with the real one.
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Ah, that's tidy. I'll be right down, Phil. Okay,
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you told the police what happened to Marrow. Yeah? I told them,
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mister Shindley, I told them everything. Now there's nothing for us to do.
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But wait, that does a lieutenant seven fool pages of confession for mister
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Pollock Chindler very craft deeper. Yeah yeah, thanks money. Oh bring that
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girl in a couple of minutes with me, right well, Phil, here
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it is the whole story. Yeah yeah, look followed. Schindler went after
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the tapestry in England, but Myron Love got there first. However, Shindler
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was the one who knew where he could sell it way above museum price.
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So Love had a tuple kit made up and saw to it that Schindler stole
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it from And it was Zach who added the battime sinister the mark of fraudulents
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in herald read the fake tapestry. Yeah, but I still don't clearly follow
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the rest of it, Phil, I mean here in la Oh, well,
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it wasn't much of a change and other very same song. Love State
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closed to Shindler all the way back from England, and he watched and he
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waited until he tigured that Schindler was ready to close his deer you see,
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Yeah, and he stepped forward and announced that the tapestry Schindler had was a
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phony ah, and that he'd give him the real one for a healthy cut
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of the sale price. Uh Loft couldn't go to Merit direct because he didn't
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know who Merit was, sure, and from Merit was me, the patsy
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with the best of references. Yeah, just about shouldn't look kill thatac Caromi
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didn't expect in the scene in the law too, he did so neither one
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could spill to you it's fact now, yeah, come in, come in
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now. When did you oh just a minute, miss March and please,
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when did all this come across to you? Phil? When I got mixed
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up with the lovely lady here, she told me that the man who would
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florify me in my office had carefully placed an envelope on the floor next to
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me, an envelope I later took as a clue From that switch, I
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started to look around from this, Oh great, hooraysa camp a grill me.
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What kind of a metal do? I guess? You get a pretty
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nice one, miss March, And thanks to Monow, you get freedom.
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You know, we could prefer charges against you like what like what like as
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salt and battery for slugging Loft Grand lost me for the theft of the tapestry
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from Loft's place, attempted destruction of Prile. Okay, it's not about those
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things. Thanks Malo, Thanks Marlow. That your official statement. No more,
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not even I'm sorry before you go. Well, yes, I'm sorry,
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all right, real sorry that I missed. Goodbye. It was another
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hour and my signature was on another dozen official papers before I was free to
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leave Matthews, who kept the real tapestry, but gave me the one we
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got back from Paula Shindley, the one with a baton sinister on. It
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is a souvenir. So by the time I got back to my apartment,
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it was pushing four o'clock in the morning, and I was tired. I
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had of a knight that had been jammed full of crooked people who were taking
29:45
crooked paths half across the world chasing up buck. So tired, in fact,
29:51
that I didn't notice the Oni Marchant leaning across the door opposite mine until
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she spoke, Mama, Mama, we could take that tapest you have there,
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even if, because Tony, in spite of see Alan Peloton goar that
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before he knows anything about what happened to here, Marlow, smallow, No,
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smallow, smallow. There was only one thing to do. Put both
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hands firm on her shoulders, spin the girl around and across my knees.
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M you like me? Oh well? And I was too tired for even
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there. The Adventures of Philip Marlowe Bringing You Raymond, Chandler's most famous character
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and Crime's most deadly enemy, starred Gerald Moore and are produced and transcribed by
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Norman McDonald. Script is by Meldonella, Robert Mitchell and Gene Lovett. The
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us next week. When Philip Marlowe says, rains slashing a glass roof an
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old man's curiosity and an imaginary ins out of place. They all became important
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when two people died violently so a third could make a killing. Paul Masterson
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speaking, this is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System, Welcome back poor Marlowe
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talking about corrupt people, and then in incomes that girl suggesting that Marlowe help
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her cheat the uncle out of eighty thousand dollars. And I love how the
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lapd lets Marlow take that whole thing home as a souvenir. Seriously, I
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love this episode. There are just so many great classic characters in there,
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and it was a different conclusion. Plus on Johnny Dollar, I've been talking
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about the lack of continuity between shows, and here we have a returning client
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who this time turns out to be up to no good, and Marlow brings
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him in in a different way. Usually it ends with some big confrontation,
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but here he subtly deceives him and just sets it up for the police to
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go ahead and bring him in. It's nice to have a change of pace
32:45
every now and then, and this episode definitely does it. Now we turn
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to some listener comments and feedback. Bobby Lee comments, I'm becoming a bigger
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Well. Thanks so much for your comments. Definitely appreciate them, and
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