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Philip Marlowe: The Grim Hunters (EP1361) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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me and I'll promote you the address. Well, now it's Tom for today's
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episode of the Adventures of Philip marlow The Grim Hunters. It was a hunt
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through a jungle of city streets, with danger waiting at every inter section,
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until halfway through, when the hunters became the hunted and death brought an end
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to the game. From the pen, the Raymond Chandler, outstanding author of
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crime fiction, comes as most famous character as CBS presents The Adventures of Philip
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Marlowe now with Gerald Moore starred as Philip Marlowe. We bring you tonight's exciting
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story, The Grim Hunters. The morning paper at headline prices rising. My
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bank statement in the afternoon mail had worn, balance falling, and I had
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wasted the evening and the half of a client who ran out on me when
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I tried to collect, all of which added up to the end of the
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day and me unhappy in my office at ten pm with one hand on my
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check book, and the other one raised in almost solemn mode, I Philip
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Marlow, private detective and too often public servant, hereby resolved to one way
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or another, jockey might budget into something close to equilibrium. And from this
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day for Hello Marlow speaking, my name is Helen Palmer Marlow. I need
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your help badly. Yeah, but look, I'm up at eighty seven hundred
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Magnolia Terrace in the Hollywood Hills. Now please drop whatever you're doing. In
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no, no, I must have let go of the phone, grabbed my
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hat and coat open and closed the office door, piled into my car outside,
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and raced up into the Hollywood Hills. Because the next thing I remember
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after Helen Palmers screamed was swinging off North Bronson Drive on the Magnolia Terrace.
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But a minute later, when I scratched to a stop away from number eighty
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seven hundred, scrambled out from nt of the wheel and started on the run
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for the front door, I was no longer sure of anything. Because the
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house in question of stock Southern Mansion, complete with stable boy statue in the
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gravel driveway, which according to the book, should have been as dark and
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as quiet as the inside of a coffin. There was anything else but and
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when I got to the oversized bronze door knocker and dropped it high, I
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was beginning to doubt that I had the right address. Can I be a
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some assistant, sir, I don't know. I'm looking for a woman named
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Helen Palmer who called me my office said she needed help, And a second
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after that, she screamed, tell me, sir, what is your name?
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An occupation? That order? Philip Marlow private detective good My, Helen
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good happy? Aren't you what's going on here? What is that? Why
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it it's a party, sir, a scavenger hunt. It looks like Helen
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Palmer's Oh wait a minute, laughing boy, I had a call and was
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interrupted by pistol shots and I all just part of the place. Yeah,
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Helen Palmer had to bring that one, detective. Yeah, you see Marlow.
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Each list, aside from the usual heart to find objects, had a
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human being on it. That's right. I had to bring back a Hoover
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vacuum cleaner salesman. And believe it or not, he's already sol a good
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host that he's going that he looks smart. Yes, they did it,
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man. You see mister Marlow. Helen Palmer wasn't permitted to actually hire you.
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That's why she had to pretend to be in trouble with an that result
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that I nearly broke my neck getting up here, mister Grove, where is
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miss Palmer? I don't know for sure, Marlow. She called just a
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bit ago and said that she only had to catch on to you and one
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other eye. I'm going to be back after that, the winnness tomorl because
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none of us did better than half Ireland. Oh, by the bye,
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you don't have them, have the breechlock of a fifty seven millimeters out of
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tank gun with you at the moment. No, now do I have time
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for scavenger hunters, Not even when they most cordially invite you in with the
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finest servant, a potestyle Southern fried chicken. Imagine the come on, no,
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I'm sorry, it's delicious chicken. Well, okay, the chicken did
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it. The inside of Patty as Groven's house was also a stock Southern mansion.
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From a giant cut glass punch bowl belonged to my mother's first lady,
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Atlanta, Georgia, to a white and winding colonial staircase it left your expecting
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the descent of Scarlet O'Hara at any moment. There was one strange note in
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the soft southern surroundings, filed three feet high in the middle of the room
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with the crazy quote results of evening scavenger hunt, including a wooden cigar store
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Indian, a pair of hiccocks, suspenders from the local fire chief, one
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red motorcycle, a stuffed owl, a set of antlers, and more.
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And behind all that, my counterparts bring him back a live items from each
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list, a streetcar conductor in uniform, a waiter ball and under forty a
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school teacher redheaded in over fifty. But I was the center of attention.
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But that he has introduced one after another of the guests of the genuine and
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one hundred percent non shrinkable Private Detective and now miss Marlow's a very special friend
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of mine. At thirty one saw the president of Sample and Clayborne best building
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contact is in the city of Los Angeles. That's so very interesting, mister
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Grover. Oh but mister Marlowe sampled made it right to the top in the
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past two years. Uh huh yeah, ever since old Joshua Claiborne got killed
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following off of scaffold he did costs between you and me and the Gate Post.
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Some folks say it was suicide. Oh larry that boy. I'd like
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you to meet mister Marlowe private detective, Mister Marlowes, Sam, how do
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you do allow? Mister Marlowe. Glad you're with us. Hey, Peneus
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has run to call it in it. Last time I heard from her was
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when we split our list in two and she headed out after a Latin America
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and Rumber team. Well, if she might have to bot, you bring
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her back. That's ryn to like me. We're speaking of mister Marlowe.
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Lies Lady Bress, nicest person I know, chef, because my fiance,
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Helen, Helen is in Palmer my patron, mister Grove, yees go the
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end the scenes. Well, we said they have a lot of fun,
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even if we don't make much money of a yeah you sent me, mister
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Grove. It just sain't money most surely did bar you know dollars and ten?
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Yes, Well, gentlemen, you'll excuse me please, but I do
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have to run. Good night, mister Sample and mister Grover. Thought it's
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been a distinct pleasure. Thought I did you goodbye? THU goodbuye your God.
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When I got back to my office, which I had left flights on
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and unlocked, my telephone was ringing at this late hour, gullible Meat took
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faint hope that it could be a client who might still save the day.
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When I picked up the receiver, Marlowe, I let go of that straw
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fast, Marlowe. It was the technical Lieu Tenanty, Bara marlow Do you
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know a girl named Helen Palmer? Ellen? Hey, Bara, don't tell
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me there's a pair of somewhat flat feet on the ladies scavengjeohn plaz very funny,
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Phil, How do you know her? No? Not beyond a panic
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telephone call that ended to make the Lieves scream in a couple of pistol shots,
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all designed to bring me running to a party at eighty seven hundred magnolia
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terras. Well, that AD's all right because the only item is not checked
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off the list or a night watchman's badge and one detective private which must be
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you, is your name is circle in the classified directory? Here in this
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phone booth, here in what phone booth? Where are you? Barra at
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a close filling station on Vanassaw Hollywood Boulevard. Wait a minute, why is
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a girl's list there with you? Because it's clenching a right hand filled and
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she's folded up on the floor of this booth dead. No two bullet holes
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in her back. Oh yeah, but but Ibarra, her call was a
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gag. The shots weren't Anyhow, it looks like a stick up since the
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lady's purse is gone. And who we who? A whino we picked up?
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So what he calls a curly headed guy with short legs do it and
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run? Also, the whino says it Murder had been hanging around for a
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couple of hours, like he was looking for a well to do prospect.
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Yeah, I know, but it's still kind of strange me getting that call.
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I mean, well, I'll drop around a headquarters tomorrow morning, Lieutenant.
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If you need any statement from me, I think you'd better make that
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tonight. Phil at the eighty seven hundred address. I'm sending money up there
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now. Oh but wait a minute, I borrow. You don't need me,
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and I do need business. If you think I'm gonna get it by
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Phil, huh, Phil, Let's say that I'd appreciate it if you'd show
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for a few minutes. Okay, No, well, okay, a few
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minutes, just so long as you appreciate it. Goodbye. Driving back to
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Magnolia terrorists, I used Detective Lieutenant E. Burrough as an oversized whipping boy
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for the day's disappointments. So when I finally break to a stop behind a
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half part squad car, which meant that police Officer Mooney was already on hand,
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I was about back to normal. Then in the next quick moment I
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forgot all about it, Bara, because in the shadows ahead, stinking away
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from a side entrance to the Number seven, looking as guilty as Lucretia boys,
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you're leaving a corner Pharmacy was a young lady, brunette and beautiful.
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She hurried directly to a gray ash parked in the rear, and without looking
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back, climbed in and took off following her had to be more fun in
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conversation with Mooney. Ten minutes later, the lady came to a stop in
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front of a dark, politely landscaped cottage on North Ogden Drive. Another two
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she was inside and the light was on. When I got to the front
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door and leaned against the bell and card over it said that this could be
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one Ronda Langley, mister Larry Sample's girlfriend. That same card also gave another
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name, Helen Palmer. The lady denbou rang again. When the door opened.
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Was the brunette still beautiful, only this time something had been added in
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her right hand forty five ugly and pointed straight at my head? What do
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you want one straight answer, miss Langley? Why did you run away from
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maybe seven hundred Magnolia terrorists? The cop with routine questions, Wait a minute,
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who are you? How do you know my name? I'm a private
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detective label Philip Marlow idem number eight on the late Miss Palmer's list. And
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I know about you because I've already been to Thadeus Grover's party. How after
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you put this gun away? We'll get back to my question. Why'd you
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run? Come on, talk lady now before I yell copyright, come in
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night to morrow. I don't think Helen Palmer's murder was any run of the
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mill, Robert, you don't think what I stayed just long enough to hear
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the policeman say Helen had been killed. When I got to you, welcome,
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mat I was greeted with a forty five talk some more, Miss Langley,
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real playing like that. We have a chance, will you. I
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didn't say anything to the police about this because I don't want to do any
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damage before I'm sure about a few things like what like the kind of a
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mess that Helen was in, Mister Marlow, I need help. I've got
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to know some facts. Please, but you work for me. I'll pay
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you anything. Well, at this point, let's call anything twenty five at
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d in expenses. Huh about Helen and the Mesha spoke of how much do
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you know? Very little? Only that I think Helen was blackmailing somebody,
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somebody who was at the party tonight by grovery your boyfriend, Larry Sample,
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I don't know. You've got to believe me, Mistermorrow. Well, all
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right, for the time being, I will now, first of all,
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how'd you lash out of this blackmail? But yesterday morning I accidentally overheard Helen
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talking to someone on the telephone. She spoke of a payoff that was to
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be made at Sadius's party. I don't know who she was talking to,
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but she warned the person not to try anything. Rats in murder she didn't
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say, but she did say that she'd already emailed a letter to her lawyers
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in San Francisco that would protect her from any harm, and she laughed about
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the scheduled scavenger hunt and hung up. M you said nothing to her about
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this? Huh? What was it? Creat? All right? The letter
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to San Francisco? Do you see aim mailer? I mailed it myself earlier
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in the day, along with one of my own. I didn't think about
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it until after her call, when she pointedly asked me if I'd remembered to
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mail a letter, my letter that is, which she knew that I'd written
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to an aunt. I have him to say it New Jersey. Well,
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that's the whole story you want me, I'll be over at Satty. It's
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it's place, that is. Yes, he was in love with Helen.
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Yeah, maybe she was a returning met in love with blackmail. What do
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you think, Ronda? I don't know. The thinking is now your job,
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mister Marlow. But I left Ronda Langley and started back to my cause.
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A bona fide private detective with client, wasn't sure whether or not I
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was happy about the whole thing. A second later, at the sight of
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a man and the doctor had half crouched behind a tree. I quit deliberating
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the point and get ready for trouble, because one I could see the gentleman
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in hiding had both the curly hair and very short legs that he borrow I
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had mentioned as a sign of Helen Thomas Killer. I kept walking straight until
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I was abreast the trees, and I pivoted sharply, took one step,
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taught him and swa, haven't got that time. They believe me if we
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will leave me alone, sure right, we'll after you start talking. Now
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get up, okay, okay, don't hit you again, I'll talk.
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I'll tell you hey, hey, look no, no, don't oh that
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Losy Nott. In just a moment, we will return to the second act
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of the Adventures of Philip Marlowe. But first you can do a lot of
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singing for fourteen thousand, five hundred dollars, so they say, And tonight
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some CBS listener may be able to speak with authority on the subject, because
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fourteen thousand, five hundred is what's waiting for whoever can solve the mystery behind
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the new phantom voice. On CBS's Great Saturday Night quiz game sing It Again,
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listeners from coast to coast will be quizzed by telephone about the new patom's
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identity, and they'll also be given a chance to win one of the other
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famous prizes for solving the riddle songs, which features Sing It Again's hour of
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Saturday Night Fun. Here sing It Again on most of these same CBS Network
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stations. Tonight and every Saturday Night Now with our star Gerald Moore, we
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returned to the second act of Philip Marlowe and Tonight's story The Grim Hunters.
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When the shots crashed out of the darkness, the life ran out of the
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little man like air from a kid's balloon. I couldn't figure exactly where the
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shots had come from, and I stopped trying when a pair of spiked heels
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clicked fast across the concrete driveway between me and the house, and a modus
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tartted in the second Later cod roughed by was Ronda Langley at the wheel.
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I yelled at it as stop as she went why and ran out on the
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street after and yelled again at the re trading car, but she ignored me.
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When another car came round the curve behind me, I tried to flag
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it down with the drive it eat even slow up. I just stood there
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while the two cars twisted out of sight down the winding street, eating nothing
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but silence and a lot of unanswered questions hanging in mid air. Walked back
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to the cops, went over carefully, but there was no identification, nothing
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but a gun to indicate how he fitted into the screwy mosaic of murders,
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scavenging and blackmail. I went inside to CALLI Bara. In five minutes of
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traces, relays and busy signals went by before I finally got through to him
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with my news about Helen Palmer's killer. What where are you? Marlon?
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In our house and I've been drive forty three ten North was shared by Helen
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Palmer my new client, Ronda Langley. Did she kill my suspect marl It
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could be she left here in a big hurry. Another thing he borrowed.
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There's more behind this business than robbery, like what like blackmail? Maybe?
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So we just found a Palmer's girl handbag in a trash can, nothing left
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but a lipstick and two letters. Incidentally, one is addressed the York Ronda
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Langley. It figures they shared the hust So Helen happened to pick up the
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day's mail. What's the other letter? It was one return for insufficient postage.
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They forgot that air mail is six cents these days. We return.
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Wait a minute, is that letter addressed to a law firm in San Francisco?
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I was addressed to Sophie Kilbirdie. Sophie kho kill Birdie? I say
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New Jersey whyy bora Listen? Helen was blackmailing somebody, and she covered herself
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by mailing a letter to a lawyers in San Francisco. If that letter was
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returned for insufficient postage, and the blackmail victim knew it, he'd have no
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qualms about killing her, right sure, But the letters were in Helen's purse.
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Do you think she'd have known her protection was gone? Phil, I'm
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gonna put out a pickup call and your client, you get on down here
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so we can go over this mess one step at a time. Where's here
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still at the gas station? And Van I saw of Hollywood Boulevard? Okay,
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Bora, how long are you going to be there? Just until Thadius
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Grova shows up to identify the body and give me some answers personally about that
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scavenger hunty through tonight. What about this curly headed copse I've got here?
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Have you gone over him? Yeah? Yeah, nothing but a gun?
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Some small bills on then I'll keep I'll expect you in a few minutes.
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Okay, so long you Borrow and I put it on the phone. I
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was convinced that a big switch was you any minute, because finding those letters
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and Helen Thomas purse made a lot of sense in one direction and not a
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bit in another. I could have made more heads and tails by flipping a
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ball bearing than I got out of the fax he Borrow had given me.
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Just then, the shadow of a man slid up the walk. I heard
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a pair of feet off the stairs, two at a time. It was
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the wonder Boy executive I had met at the party. Better hold it right
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there, sample Marlo, Why the gun so the same thing won't happen to
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me? That happened to the dead little guy outside another murder? Marl,
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where's Rnda? Is she all right? She left here as fast as an
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ate. Some of the motor wide open could move just after it happened,
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and it was Ronda. I saw on my way over here a speeding car
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almost crowded me off the road. It looked like Ronda's, but I wasn't
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sure, and Marlow, she was being chased by another car, a fast
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one chased to assure. Yes, the first car is by inches when it
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swung around a curve. I don't know yet how she made it. Then
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a second car came along and passed the curve, but it stopped, backed
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up, and then took the same road Randa had taken, and she got
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away. I don't know. I come on outside, sample, I want
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to take a look at this. By the way, how long have you
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known Randa? How about a year? She's a brilliant girl. Marlow came
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out from the East and I gave her a job as my secretary. He's
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more than that now, huh. I'm in love with her, that's what
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you mean? Yeah? Yeah, Oh, here is Marlowa. I know
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this man. That's Nate Murdoch. He used to be a foreman with off
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firm. He left and went back to Atlanta right after Clayburn's death. Atlanta,
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isn't your host? Thaddius Grove from Atlanta? Like, yes, he
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is, Oh, brother, When did you see Grover last? The police
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asked him to go and identify Helen's body he left the party while the officer
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was still questioning the rest of us, and on the way he could have
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taken time off the drop by here kill Murdock and make a try for Ronda.
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Two. Come on, let's get to the phone. Why Marlowe good?
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Heavens, Grover's our friend. He and Helen were engaged to be married.
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All right, so it doesn't make sense. But it's fiance and his
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short friends with Atlanta both dead, and Ronda's burning the tires off a car
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to keep out of reach. Those are the facts. Will make sense later.
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I call Grover's place in hurry up. That's where she intended to go
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when she left here to console him. No less scavenger hunt my aunt Minnie?
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Hello? Hello, is mister Grover there? No? Well, has
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miss Langley arrived yet? Oh? It's the maid marl rondahead? What's that?
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She's coming up the walk Now hold the line a minute least she just
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got there, model. What'll I tell her? Tell her to leave again?
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Tell her? No, where do you live? Forty four six odd?
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Only? All right? Tell her I said for her to wait outside
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in the back of the house until you can get over there to pick her
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up. Take her to your place, and I'll pin Grover down right.
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Where are you going? Now? See lieutenanty Bora? And I can get
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there faster than I can call him on the phone. Good luck. Sample.
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Sample was repeating my name over the Groves mate on the phone as I
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left. A few minutes later, at the mobile gas station off Hollywood Boulevard,
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I found the Bora looking sad danik in the blinking light from a flying
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red Neon horse above his head as he flipped through a stack of papers on
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top of an oil drum. It's about time, Martl. Where's that client
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of you were? Now? Wait a minute, he Barrow, I had
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a peg doll. Wrong, she's a pigeon. Has Tatius Grove have been
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here yet? Just left? He's quite a character, that guy. He
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didn't let him get away alone, he was what do you mean get away?
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Borrow? There's a there's a big connection between Tatius Grover and Murdoch,
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the guy who killed Helen. Now Grover might have hired him for the job,
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and now he's trying to get rounda Now, Marvel, how does that
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figure? It doesn't, But so help me, Borrow. That's the way
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it is. Grove was heading for his friend Larry Sample's house, and he
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left tapping nowhere Sample, he smoked, that's exactly where I told Sample to
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take the girl. Forty four h six odd more. That's great, mardl.
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They'll all be together in one place. I'll pick up a whole crew,
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and right now you're gonna pick up the pieces. You mean you think
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there'll be a showdown any minute, he barrow. It can't miss. Okay,
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So we'll take some firepower along and McCall up. Great, let you
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go, come on, Phil, Look ye Borrow, maybe Sample hasn't gotten
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home with Ronda yet. I'll go up the grovers and try to head them
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off. Okay, okay, marlol. But if you get them before I
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do, bring them in and O alibis, I'll see it. Borrow was
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grim as he climbed in his car and drove off fast. I headed for
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my car. Then as I turned my arm swept the scavenger list. See
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Barrow had left on the oil drum, off onto the ground, and I
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picked them up. Ronda Langley's name was on top. Her list was as
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coony as the others, but near the bottom was an item strangely familiar to
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me which hadn't been checked off. It was a canceled ticket from wood Haven
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Ballroom. All at once I realized why it was familiar. The sign I'd
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been half conscious of on top of the big squat building across the street read
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wood Haven Ballroom closed tonight. And a hunch I dug the Helen Palmer's list
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Yay borrow was right. Everything but a night watchman's badge and one detective private
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had been checked off, and that gave me half of the switch. I
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knew. I had to show up a random my car and headed for that
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southern mansion in the Hollywood Hills in the end of a very complicated frolic,
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and with every turn of the road, I gave myself another whack for being
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such a near sighted sucker. I got there. The big house on Magnolia
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Terrace was dark, except for a light in the servants' quarters. I stepped
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down the block, walked back and edged around the patio with the garage,
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the hothouse, and the king sized barbecue loomed only as shapeless lumps of shadow.
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I stood still and watched, and I saw him move, walking slowly,
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gun in hand along the fence toward the hothouse. I started tolling him
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quietly, just as he found out what he was looking for. Oh you're
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clever, my dear. But it's all over now. I know you're in
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there, so come on out with your hands up. Oh no, you're
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hanging yourself from murder right now, Larry Sample, I've got all the proof
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I need. I don't know what good it'll do you, Rande, I'll
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have a pay you are sent for it, your blackmailing tramp. I'll kill
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you first. And that protection that you wrote to your lawyers was return Dolly.
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I found it accidentally and Helen's pursed the night of the party, so
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no one will know. Come on out or I'm going in after you.
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I wouldn't try that if I were. You sampled Marlows you here any minute
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now. He called me and told me that was idea you. I used
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his name when I talked to the maid. Oh. I should have done
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this myself in the first place, instead of trusting that stupid Murdoch. Are
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you gonna come out of there? No, And I've got a gun.
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You can't see me, and I know it. Your white dress makes a
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perfect target. Your little fool, Robert Temple, Now let's have that gun,
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replied you got here. No, No, he's not dead and he
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won't be from bullets. Give me your gun too. Come on, I
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was too scared to use it anyway. Thanks. I sit down and shut
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up. We're gonna wait for lieutenanty Bar. Then you're both going to the
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pokey what listen? You know I don't go for blackmail his male off female,
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even the cute one's a rugby lady. Very u Phil, Wait,
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you've got to understand something. Two years ago, Larry Sample killed his partner,
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Joshua Claiburn. I knew it, but I couldn't prove it, so
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I pretended I couldn't blackmailed him. Don't you see if he paid offer or
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tried to kill me, that would be proof of his guilt, and he
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did. Marlow, why should you pull a stunt like that. I'm a
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divorce a. Marlow Langley is only my married name. Okay, so what
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my maiden name was Claiburn Clavern. I'm josh Claiburn's daughter. Oh and I
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can prove that that reason enough? WHOA why didn't you level with me instead
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of labeling Helen a blackmailer. Helen was already dead. Now I needed your
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health desperately. I thought I had to lie to get it. Okay,
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yeah, okay, baby, anyone care for more coffee? How about you?
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Lieutenant? Oh oh thanks, mister Grove. All aw, you got
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it all to come out even anyway. Frankly, that's more than I expected.
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And I left you with that gas station. Yeah, yeah, we
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were lucky. Burr. I yes, I owe you an apology, mister
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Grover. Oh shock, it's all right, sir. There's a shock to
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me that'd be accused of poor Helen's murder. But well, Choren, now,
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yeah, you said it was the scavenger list. Set you straight.
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How'd you figure that? Boy? Well, there was a wood Haven ballroom
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ticket on Ronda's list, so she had to go there for the ticket,
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you see. Sample knew that, and he told his killer Murdoch. Coincidentally,
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he hired the murder Clayburn two years ago that the girl who went to
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the wood Haven ballroom was his target. But Helen happened to go there after
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the night watchman's badge, which he could have picked up any place in town.
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Yeah, a terrible coincidence for Helen. But that was all that saved
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my life. Really, that's right, honey. Murdoch made the mistaken.
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When he and Sample discovered it, they made another try at Ronda's house.
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Yes, but I caught Murdoch there, so Sample shot him before he could
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talk. When I left, he followed me in his car. I knew
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they were after me, and I thought for sure they'd killed you, Phil.
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That's why I ran, yeah, and threw me for a loop,
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and Sample came back to make sure that Murdoch was dead and sold me a
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great, big bill of goods at the same time. It's a terrible,
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terrible thing, asked mister Grover. It is, Lieutenant. I want to
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thank you personally for your participation. Thank you, thank you very much.
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Well, I've got everything I need, so I'll say good night. Yeah,
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me too, I feel shall I Why yes? I think? No?
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No, no, wait a minute. You know, honey, with
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with your knowledge of postal rates, so why don't you just deliver it in
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person? Maybe love to count on its tomorrow. I drove down from the
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Hollywood Hills with a check warming my wallet and the echo of a soft invitation
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warming my imagination. You know that was quite a party at Grover's house.
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Scaveng John. People determined to have a good time even if it killed him.
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You know what, it didn't. I know another game associations goes like
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this Grover's party. Randa Langley, Randa m hm, dates hm hmm.
29:44
I wonder if she likes baseball. The Adventures of Philip Marlowe created by Raymond
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Chandler, star Gerald Moore and are produced and directed by Norman McDonald. Script
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is by Meldon la Robert Mitchell, and Gene Levitt. Featured in the cast
30:17
were Alan Reid, Mary Shipp, Jack Moyles, Richard Benedict and Lorette.
30:21
Phil Brandt, Lieutenant Detective of bar is played by Jeff Corey. The special
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music is by Richard o'urant. He assured me with us again next week when
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Philip Marlowe says, they were born on the same hour and the same day
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of the same parents, and they were identical in beauty and talent. Only
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one was deadly and the other was not. And I couldn't tell which was
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which until I found a green purse, a fresh corpse, and a pair
30:52
of dancing hens. If you happen to miss Jack Benny's hilarious show last week
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featuring the Ronald Colemans. You missed the laugh treat of the year. But
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Jack will be back again tomorrow on these same CBS Network stations with his entire
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the Jack Benny Show tomorrow. This is Roy Rowan speaking. This is CBS
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where ninety nine million people gather every week the Columbia Broadcasting System. Welcome by
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Well. I like the little bit of lighter moment that was worked into the
32:08
story with the realization of the scavenger hunt and Marlow, after initially being steamed,
32:15
willing to be good humor about it. It was nice. And I
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do like that portrayal, the Gerald Moore portrayal of Philip Marlow, because he
32:25
can be light and humorous without being flipped or overly sarcastic. Of course,
32:31
if Pat Novak were in this situation, he would not even probably have accepted
32:37
the invitation in. But that's the big difference. And I think what makes
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Marlow over the radio such an interesting character. Well, we turned out to
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some listener comments and feedback, and we'll start with Joels, who rots in
32:54
your podcast are regular bedtime feature for me. They are tops on Hit Parade.
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Thanks well, Thank you, Joel. Then we also have a note
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here from CoA, who says I've been enjoying your broad cast for quiet some
33:10
time now. Although I love some shows more than others, I love the
33:15
entire detective genre. I've even written some short stories myself, although I've only
33:21
allowed a few friends to suffer through my writing. I very much like the
33:24
rhythm, the dialogue, and how certain characters seem to represent different arch times.
33:30
Of course, there are some are more complex. Another one repeating character
33:35
is Jock Omadigan from Pat Novak. We see a sober version of him on
33:39
Candy Matson but still not surprising with KGO connection, and of course he's referring
33:45
to Candy Matson's sidekick who initially in the first episode they portrayed him as a
33:51
drunk, but they dropped that portrayal, probably just to avoid copying too much
33:55
from Pat Novak, and he goes on as said. Still, yet that
34:01
character crops up all over the place, occasionally on Richard Diamond as the drunken
34:06
former granted, Richard does spoof Pat Novak from time to time, a rival
34:10
detective named Pat Covan from San Francisco. I can't think of a particular episode,
34:15
but I feel like I've heard his brother on Philip Marlow. Also the
34:20
other day I was listening to something completely different. It was a BBC production
34:24
circa nineteen forty six called The Dark Tower, starring Richard Burden. I was
34:30
a neo Shakespearean is it was a neo Shakespearean Ibsenish production. The hero of
34:36
the story meets up with a fella that is almost the exact character of Jocko,
34:40
right down to the manner of speech. He's berating the protagonists and tell
34:44
interrupted the whole bit. I almost fell over laughing. I thought you might
34:46
get a kick out of it if you get the chance to listen. Thanks
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for the wonderful shows and all the great commentary. I hope this finds you
34:54
well well. Thanks so much, And received another comment kind of in regard
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to the Jocko character in the email from Brian who rites in I know you
35:07
really like the series Pat Novak for Hire, but I'm so glad it has
35:12
come to an end. I really think there was a whole lot of overacting
35:15
by Jack Webb and Raymond Burr. I tried to enjoy the writing. It
35:19
was very good, but I couldn't take the delivery. The one bright shot
35:22
for every show was Jock Omadigan. Was that character in any other radio show?
35:27
I could swear I heard it in another series. Thanks for bringing such
35:31
a wide variety of shows to the public. I've been through all the Sherlock
35:36
homes and let George do it still listening to the older Johnny Dollars along with
35:40
the Bob Bailey versions you currently play. I can't tell you how many hours
35:45
of enjoyment your podcast have brought me. Well. Thanks so much. We
35:50
actually played a program back in April of two thy twelve. It was an
35:57
episode of a series called Mystery Ward Theater and it was called The Screwball Division.
36:02
It was written by Anthony Boucher. It was most famous for his work
36:07
on the radio version of Sherlock Holmes, but Boucher's character was a drunk who
36:15
was an ex police officer who ended up getting called in by other officers to
36:22
solve difficult to fathom cases. And where Boucher said he got the idea was
36:30
from the idea of the Oracles of Delphi. The Oracle of Delphi would be
36:38
a woman over a pit of intoxicating glue, to which people they would bring
36:47
her their problems, and she, under the intoxicating influence, would provide the
36:54
solution to the problem. And that was the key to Boucher creating his character,
37:00
and certainly with Boucher's overall influence in the mystery writing community. Now that
37:06
could have inspired some of these other characters we see in the later part of
37:09
the nineteen forties, or they may have drawn the same inspiration. I do
37:15
appreciate both questions. And as to Pat Novak, I guess if you didn't
37:19
enjoy Pat Novak, the good news is it will probably be quite some time
37:23
before we go back to him. We still have quite a few series we
37:28
haven't even done the first time. The reason we came back to Pat Novak
37:31
the second time was just kind of to recreate an experience for what early listeners
37:37
to Dragnet experience, where you would actually have Pat Novak and Dragnet on the
37:46
air simultaneously, both featuring Jack Webb, but with Jack web playing very different
37:52
parts. I think it will probably be years until we end up revisiting at
37:57
least on a regular basis in a series like that. Finally, I do
38:04
have a Facebook mail from Eddie who says, Hi, I've listened for years
38:08
to your Detective podcast. I wonder why you haven't added just a Philip Marvel
38:15
podcast. Already have the other shows of yours that you are, including the
38:17
group podcast with Marlowe, and would like having to avoid the other having the
38:22
other shows twice. I don't expect you to create just a Marvel podcast for
38:25
me, but was curious as to why you would be lumping in your prior
38:29
show with the Marley marlow series Curiosity aside. I love the shows and thank
38:34
you for your hard work. I'm a private investigator and listen to you all
38:38
the time during my cases. Well, thanks so much, Eddie, and
38:42
I will apologize. During the war, I kind of got behind on a
38:45
lot of the of some of the administrative task with the sign keeping the archives
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page up to date as well as as well as main at a feeds for
39:00
each particular show, so I will hopefully have that caught up by the time
39:06
listeners are listening to this on September the tenth. We'll have it caught up
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during some pto. Well, that will do it for today. We will
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