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Philip Marlowe: Mexican Boat Ride (EP1469) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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Great Detectives dot net. Well, now it's time for today's episode of the
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Adventures of Philip Marlowe. The title is Mexican Boat Ride. The original air
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date July the thirtieth of nineteen forty nine. Get this and get it straight.
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Crime is a sucker's road, and knows who travel had wind up in
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the gut of the prison of the grave. That's time I took a beating
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and gave one. A man who lived in the dock was afraid. Someone
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I never got to meet was murdered, and a knife wielding crab was destroyed,
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all because a girl who hated the water took a boat ride in Old
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Mexico. From the pen of Raymond Chandler, outstanding author of mystery, comes
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his most famous character and crimes most deadly enemy. As we present the Adventures
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of Philip marlow Now with Gerald Moore starred as Philip Marlowe. We bring you
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tonight's story Mexican boat ride. It was a rare morning, clear and clean,
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you know the kind that knocks ten years off your age and makes you
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taste the sun shining your orange juice. It was a day to be spent
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on an open road to some place new and exciting. What a phone call
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I'd received. It reduced my open road to Calmlida Avenue and nothing more exciting
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than Beverly Hills. The house I stopped at was one of those you wented
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through a tunnel of dank overhanging foliage on a flagstone path grown green with damp
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moss. A low, thick walled affair with tiny barred windows hidden from the
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sidewalk. I pressed the bell, and a moment later a sallow housekeeper opened
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the door with what seemed to be a last hounce of strength. She squinted
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at my cart and beckoned me inside. I followed her down a dusky card
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to a heavy closed door, where she signaled me to wait. The air
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in the house smelled thick and stale. When she came out again, she
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held the door open for me and motioned me into a room full of darkness.
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It became nearly complete from the door click shut behind me. All I
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could see was the vague form of a man in smoke glasses, propped up
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on a bed across the room. There's a chair beside you, marlow if
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you care to sit. Oh. Thanks, I'm Carl Lesterbrook, importer.
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You may have heard of me, No, I don't think so well.
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No matter, Marlowe, I have a peculiar problem. I want to know
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why my wife Ona was on a boat day before yesterday off the coast of
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Mexico. I think you could find out that's all you got to go on.
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I doubt it now. Oh, there's a little more on. And
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I planned to take vacation together, but when I was confined with this illness,
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we decided she should go on alone. Oh and your illness is the
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reason for the Midsummer black idem. Yes, if I exposed my eyes to
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light at any time in the next few weeks, the doctors promised me plenty
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of pain and virtual blindness. Oh, it's temporary, but tegious to mend.
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That's why I need a capable man with sharp eyes to look into what
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specifically the paradox of my wife aboard a boat. She has a phobia about
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them. The mere thought of being on a boat mix our panicky. She
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drove to Ensinn out of Mexico earlier this week, but believe me, her
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plans did not include boat rides. Well, tell me, how'd you find
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out she was on one? She right, No, she hasn't written me
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at all, but that's not unusual for her. Friend of mine got back
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yesterday from a fishing trip down there. The day before, his boat passed
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another with a girl aboard. He got a good look at her. I
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was so sure that it was owner that he hailed her. The girl turned
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and ran inside it. It bothered him to the extent that when he got
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home here he called me to find out if owner was in en Sonata?
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Is that all? And that's all? He didn't get the name of the
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boat. Look, you want me to go all the way down there just
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to find out if the girl he saw was missus? Esterbrook right er.
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What is your fee, Marlowe? Fifty bucks a day plus expenses. That's
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the minimum if I take the job. I don't think I will. When
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business gets so bad I have to do divorce work, I'll quit and write
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my memoirs. I'm sorry, but that's the way it is. No,
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no sit down. Marlow Own and I have had our share of difficult It's
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true. She's quite a few years younger than I and used to be a
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dancer. But generally speaking we're happy. Specifically what I'm worried about her here
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there's money in this envelope and a recent photograph at my wife, and there's
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more of both if the need arises. Er Incidentally, what kind of a
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day is it outside? Gorgeous? And then you can drive it's only two
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hundred and fifty miles. Yeah. By the way, how has the importing
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business been lately? Legitimately speaking, you do have a suspicious mind, don't
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you, Only when the situation calls for it, and this does. However,
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I can understand an imagination working over time here in the dark, mister
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Esterbrook. So I'll take your money and go on down in Sonod and see
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I anything's wrong. But look, I'm giving you notice beforehand. It turns
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out to be family laundry and nothing more. I drop it. You're a
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reputable man. Just see that. I get my money's worth, Marlow,
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and you can keep the change. I'll expect to hear from you. When
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my eyes adjusted to the dazzling glare outside, I looked in the envelope and
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picture of an impish, dark haired woman and five one hundred dollar bills.
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For the first time I realized what Esterbrook had meant by keep the change,
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But it didn't help my attitude even a little. By two o'clock I was
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on the road south, a late luncheon La Joyo with an old friend or
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routine baggage inspection at the border, and then seventy twisting miles of lonely road
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brought me to wen Sonata, just as the Mexican sun dropped into the sea.
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I drove past the piers and canneries at the edge of town, and
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then along the curving shore to the only hotel elegant enough to meet the demands
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of the woman I figured on a Esterbrook to be. After I'd got in
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a room and cleaned up, I went to the desk and asked for it.
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She was registered and had number seventy four, and at the moment was
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out on the patio, all of which sounded ridiculously normal, and I thought
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again of an imagination at work in a dark room back in La I thanked
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the clerk in crippled Spanish, and turned in time to catch the end of
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a long cold stare, a pair of frog like eyes, the bulge out
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of an otherwise handsome head, and a man in a gray Gabardine suit.
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I didn't think my language even that bad, but when Popeye followed me out
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onto the patio, I wasn't too sure. There was no mistaking on Esterbrook.
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She sat alone at the table in the far corner, a tall minted
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gin drink in front of her. So I put on my best tourist type
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smile and walked over. Well own Asterbrook. This is a pleasure in showing
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a visit. But oh, yes, very much. But I don't think
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I know me. Oh of course you wouldn't remember. My name's Marlow,
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Philip Marlow. No, no, I'm sorry, mister Malo. You're a
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dancer, won't you before your marriage? I mean, yes, I was
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a dancer. But you'll have to excuse me now I'm expecting a friend I
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had. Well, just one thing, then, missus Esterbrook, would you
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mind telling me why you were out on a boat day before yesterday? Oh?
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Boot mm hm why do you ask that? Because you hate boats,
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you have a phobia, and yet you were seen aboard one just two days
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ago? How come? Well, I come tell me, I've spilled a
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drink all over my skirt. Excuse me, I'll have to change at Maneuvu
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was as subtle as a bulldozer at work. When she spilled her drink,
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was done desperately in fear sent her running for the exit. I turned to
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follow her as she left a lighted patio and headed down a dark arcade.
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But a gray gabanine suit and a pair of popeyes, slid out of the
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chair and beat me to it. I waited until their footsteps faded, which
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said they turned a corner. Then I started after them. It was strictly
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followed the leader. But I didn't realize how many were playing the game until
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a knife point stung at the skin at the soft part of the back about
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kidney. High stop, senor, and don't cry out, don't even say
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ouch. I turned and saw a mottled red face, ugly on a squat,
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long armed body. The ivory handled knife in his hand could have clipped
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my spine in one easy thrust. You got a car here, Senor?
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Come on, I speak English. Good, you got a I gotta car?
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What's it to you? I am hiaba the crab. It's latched to
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me. What's your pet buster? Come on? Tell me? Hey?
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My tennis says for me to keep a sharp eye on things, to be
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sure something is not wrong. It looks to me like something is wrong with
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your Who's Martinis? You're gonna play passims in your This one is your car?
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All right? Yeah? Okay, I take first your run now,
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please to get in. You're gonna drive, believe it or not. You're
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making a big mistake crabbing. Besides, what if I don't want to drive?
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You better want to drive gringo? Or kill you? Right here?
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Go on dry and she stop here and now we get out. It's nice
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and quiet here on the beach. No walk over there to that old adobe
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war We're gonna have a talk there. It's gonna be dull bust. We've
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got nothing in common. You don't make it hard on me. I don't
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know why you've got to come and mix everything up again when time is running
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out. Why did you come? I needed new ratchets. Look you think
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I'm ugly, you know, beauty crab Let's face it. See and I
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can act even uglier. Maybe I could go on the radio and make a
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big hit. No, or maybe I make a big hit on your face.
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Don't try something, senior, or I kill you with your own gunn
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the truth. You spoke to the Senora, but they bought Why I forget?
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Oh? Who are you? Senor? Private detective? Name malo?
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Private detective? Are you working for Dolf Bentley? I never heard of Dolf
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Bentley? Who's here? You're lying? Listen? You knows him? They
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say dof Bentley. Won't make it tonight. He's lucky. See I tell
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you something else, he better not to make it. My Denis is going
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to do business with one man only tonight. Now you want to say something,
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no, then I'll say it. You take what's going to be left
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to your faces and your bentman out of Vinceni. Don't come back. Don't
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understand. No, wait a minute, stop the cray come on. Oh
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it's you. I'll kill you. Take it ease. You're in good hands
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now, man, I'm a follow American. You know you're pretty lucky,
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you know? And oh sure yeah at my pal go. I chased them
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off. You know what, I want to read it and put a knife
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in you. These fellows are mean with knives. This guy was no slots
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for the gun, but are they Hey? Where'd you come from anyway?
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Oh? Down the beach aways. I just finished working on my boat and
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I was taking a walk and I heard the promotion. Came over to see
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about it. This guy was beating you up, so I yelled and started
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for him, but he ran. Oh is that right. I'm glad somebody
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stopped him. Thanks very much, mister h Lou Romans, my name,
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pleased to meet your momo. You know me. Uh well, yes,
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I took the liberty of looking in your wallet to see that the devil had
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dropped you. It doesn't seem so though. Yeah, I guess I got
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here just in time. You're a private investigator. I see, Hey,
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you working on a case. Now, it's debatable, so father case is
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working on me. I like to find a guy named Dlph Bentley though.
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Dolph Bentley, Yeah, the guy who beat me up had the idea that
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I was Oh, I was hired by Dlph Bentley. Jevy heaven no,
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No. When I come down here every year to face too, I know
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a lot of folks around here, but I never heard of that one before.
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Why are you after it? Well, he's he's tied up in some
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way to the crab, who seems to work with another guy named Martinez,
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who in turn is going to do some business of some kind tonight with somebody
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other than Dolf Bentley. I don't know. And it's it's all connected for
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some screw reason with it. The woman who took a boat ride the day
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before yesterday, Well what about that? The woman being on a boat to
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me, Oh, well, she can't stand boat. She's afraid. Oh
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my head wait, wait here, get you some first aid right away?
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Only smoked my car, relax it right over there, Come on, let
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me help you out, all right, I'll ride it. Where are you
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staying at the hotel? Then? Yeah? Thanks Roman, Yeah, I'm
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still busy. Easy, I got you. I gotta get back there.
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I gotta find that girl because she's up to a head doing a very nasty
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mess. Listen, if I can help in any way, let me know,
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will you? You knows Americans have to stick together in a place like
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this, right, that's it. Come on, let's go, Blue Roman,
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a hail fellow, was indeed well met. He found my gun and
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drove me back to the hotel. A long hour had gone by. Sinson
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asked the brook and run from the patio, followed by the popeyed character in
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the Gabardine suit. I tried a room check with the desk again, and
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from there spent thirty minutes peering at the corners and balconies and getting nothing but
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indignant glares for Mexican lovers. So I left the building and started through the
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grounds. I worked my way from the stables up into a seppluted garden deserted
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by all but a marble statue of Matezuma, who, when I passed him,
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grown in the dock. At my feet lay Hi by the crab,
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his muttled face twisted into a tortured grin of agony, and sticking straight up
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just above his belt buckle was the white avery handle of his own knife.
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Crab. Crab, Who was it who got you? I am shorry what
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I did? Never mind that? Who did this to you? Know?
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I'll get a doctor nor crab. Yeah, in just a moment, the
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second act of Philip Marlowe. But first, when you are sixty five,
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if you have worked in business or industry, call any office of the Social
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Security Administration for information about your old age and survivor's insurance. The account number
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that appears on the Social Security card identifies your wage account. The amount of
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retirement and family insurance that may be payable is set by this account. Now,
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with our star Gerald Moore, we'll return to the second act of Philip
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Marlowe and Tonight's story, the Mexican boat Ride. Even as the life trickled
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out of the ugly little man called Haiber and his face which had been not
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a titan pain, when slowly limp Andy was Still, I knew that i'd
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have to get next to Duff Bentley before the importance of ownA Esterbrook a board
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a fishing boat off Fensnata would make any sense. Also, I knew that
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there was a good chance that said mister Bentley and the gentleman in greg Abadeen
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known to me as Popeye's, are one and the same. So I started
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back to the hotel, but halfway there I stopped at the sight of a
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figure ahead scampering toddn All alone taxi park near the main entrance. It was
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onwa Esteborough. I took off after it when she was in the cabin away
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before I could get close enough to do any good. I tried the next
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best thing, which was the Sombrero doman nearby, who I figured might have
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heard the address she'd given the driver. Yeah, but what I didn't figure
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was that the doorman might not abla much English. The senor Esterbrook, she
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senor her enters libre and minuci. Yeah, yeah, that's right, I
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know that Where did her go? Which way in the libre librement nor amigo.
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I don't want a taxi, no libre, no libre, none whatsoever.
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Now please come here, Let's let's back it up a little. Huh,
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Senora Esterbrook in libre right? Okay? Now where did she go?
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What direction? K direccion this, Senor Q direccion compreno, Senor Estabrook.
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Go to the pier, the the fishing spier, which one? Which fishing
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is peer coal pier? The small pier, sen the little one near the
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big cannery, the fishes cannery. That's all I want to know, Grasses
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and Senor, What are you seeing that? I'm not sure, but even
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if I were, I wouldn't be able to explain it to you when it's
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not just pal thanks a lot. I had been seeing at the silhouette of
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a man huddled close to the ground and slinking out from a hotel along a
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high hedge that led back toward the statue and the body of Iba, a
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man who I knew could be the elusive Popeyes. I followed the walk that
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was close into the hotel until I was on the line with a hedge.
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Then I started after him fast. I still had a good two yards to
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go when he heard me unpivoted, so I swung first Roman. Wait a
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minute, holy gee, it's me mollow. I'm sorry, Holy smoke,
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I thought you were someone else. What did you hit me with? I
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have everything I had. I figured you were Dolph Bentley and such. Roman.
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I didn't want you to get away with murder, literally murder. Hey,
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not that girl you mentioned Mardow? Oh, I asked the brook.
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No, no, the corpse is that item you sigked away from me?
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Over in those ruins? Somebody got to him with his own knife. Then
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near the statue. Ah, then I was right. I did see some
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and move over. Well. Yeah, a couple of minutes ago, Marlow,
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I was on the balcony outside of my room at face of the garden
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here you see. And when I saw you run for the main entrance,
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I had a feeling that you might be in trouble again, so I came
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on down here. Well then what happened? Well, I was about to
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call out to you when I heard some noise over there near the statue.
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It was a man. He was running away fast, heading toward those stables.
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A man wearing gabardine. Maybe Damn, maybe Gray, maybe Dolph Bentley.
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Thanks for Roman, You've got a big help. When you get back
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to the hotel, tell him about the dead man, will you? I
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got a run. The stable was a robust left field, as pegged a
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home plate from where we'd been standing, so by the time I got there,
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I was out of breath and facing nothing more important than thick darkness,
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a lot of hay, and a couple of horses who couldn't sleep nights talking
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things over until I moved around a corner, past the stalls and close to
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the half open door of a shack marked both Cabina Telefono and the equivalent in
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English that showed a single unshaded light and under that a man standing alone next
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to a telephone, riding something on the back of an envelope. He was
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wearing a gray Gaberdeine suit, and when he lifted his popeyes from a paper
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in front of him, I knew the next move had to be mine thirty
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eight and go bust and keep your hands close to your sides, just as
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you say, Senor, I'd be a fool not to obey, Yes,
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sir, right, a dead fool. So keep that in mind while we
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chat, won't you? Mister Bentley? Bentley? Uh huh? How did
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you find out who I am? It was easy? All I had to
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do was listen to with dying man's last two words. When I asked him,
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the name is murderer, he said, Dulph Bentley. Any comment,
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Yes, you know a lot, Senyor. No, it resented, friend,
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I learned it all the hard way. Don't move, Bentley. I
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was only changing my position, Senor, which will be prone if you try
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it again. What do you know about this whole messon an American girl named
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Onna Estherbrook White figure is no mobster nothing, You're a liar, Bentley,
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which brings me to the point. One why the pressure on the girl?
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And two? What's so important about it taking a ride on a fishing boat?
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Come on, brother, it's getting late for a murderous tart talking straight
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the first time out? All right, I'll start with the question, Senor,
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how does all this concern you? You gain a percentage if the smugglers
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are not interfered with. Perhaps we were talking about the girl, remember,
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yes, I remember. But you see, Senor, I have little to
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offer. An that's how little a single observation. In your country, Senor,
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people who do not mind their own business are called nosey. Here in
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Mexico we have another term as which means why jackass senor who unliked the cat
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cannot see in the dark. I can try his best. Bentley, okay,
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I mean going no gun, but this as noo. When Bentley met
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the floor and wentout coal, I sagged to one knee stayed that way until
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the air rushing into my lungs quit sounding like sandpaper over a drumhead, and
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I got back to my feet and turned on a bracket lamp on the other
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side of the room. I opened Bentley's jacket, slipped his thirty two automatic
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out of a shoulder host and emptied the clip, and stopped dead at the
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shimmer of light dancing on polish silver that I hadn't expected. It was a
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badge below his shola holster in Pindu his vest, Republic of Mexico, Department
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of Customs. Captain. I made a dive for the envelope near the telephone.
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On the fact there was writing in thick pencil, which I finally figured
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to mean fishing pier near cannery two am inside. Nothing on the front,
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further proof that I'd never met mister Dolf Metley at tall. But instead it
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tangled hard like with one Captain Juan Descato's intelligence section Custom Building, Mexico City,
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Mexico. By trying to revive Captain Descado's the truth rammed into my mind,
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Owner Esterbrook, it rushed off for the pier near the cannery that Captain
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Descardos had noted. It's a good place to be at two o'clock in the
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morning, which was less than twenty minutes away, and a great time for
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me to get to my car and the pier. It work. You're a
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bright boy. Thanks. You like the job on the car, Senor.
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I think it shines well for the eight pestels you own me. Nobody asked
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you to bother the junior. But I'll see you later. Right now,
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I gotta run. Huh for eight piesels one dollar, you can ride in
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your or replace the distributor cap. What come, hear you? But it
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was very dirty all over inside too, this daring where blackest can be.
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Looka I ruined my best drag cleaning. It's tough. Now give me that
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distributed cap. But you'll be the saddest pair of dark eyes between here and
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the Panama Canals. Oh never mind. Here, you pay me the doll
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, Just put the cap back where it belongs.
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Quick will you, I mean a hurry. We'll come on. Let's go,
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Let's go, let's go. Pressure sixty seconds ticked off before I was
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out of the parking lot and driving toward the fishing pier near the cannery,
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where I knew I was finally going to get next to Dolph Bentley, and
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if I made it in time, prevent another murder. When I screeched to
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a stop away from the pier, piled out of my car and ran the
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length of the oil soap planking to where a single boat was making ready to
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cast off. I saw one of the two persons aboard the small catch was
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onwa Esterbrook. The other was Lou Roman, haughty American fisherman. When I
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stepped aboard, our hunch hit me right between the eyes. I pulled my
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gun and pointed to an inch above his waists. What are you doing here,
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Marlo? I might ask you the same question, Roman? Or do
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I call you Bentley from here on Outna? You know now he can't kill
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me. Now I don't have to be afraid of him anymore. Oh Marlow,
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Thank goodness you got here in time. Yeah, hooray. The mareams
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have landed in the form of a private eye it out, Bentley, and
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don't move. I don't know what do you mean about being afraid? What's
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your connection with this fisherman here? It was an accident, Marlow, a
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mix up in our baggage. Lou Roman and I both had him to stop
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for customs inspection at the border at the same time, and our suitcases were
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switched. I didn't notice it the time. When I got to the hotel,
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I discovered the mistake and went to Roman's room to correct it. Instead,
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you found Bentley here posing his Roman right, he killed him, Malo,
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he told me he did. That's a dirty lie of Romans. Alright,
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isn't your car? No, he's not. He's dead. You killed
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him someplace between here and Tijuana. Milo. He said, I'd get the
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same treatment if I opened my mouth. And he's the one who forced you
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to go out on that boat. Yes. So that people wouldn't be suspicious,
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he made me appear at the hotel in the patio there at the restaurant.
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Why don't you run? I couldn't. He wasn't around. Another man
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was a horrible man with large eyes that never left me. Yeah, so
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why didn't you drop it? Model? No sale Bentley. You see,
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I know that the horrible man with the large eyes can't be one of your
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henchmen. His badge says, so what, he's an officer, Madel Yeah,
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Captain on a give up, Bentley, You had better. There are
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too many men ready to thank you. Descados ha ha. Where'd you come
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from? Oh? I've been here quite a while, but your story was
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so interesting I just couldn't it the roup when marlow took you for Dlph Bentley,
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Captain discardus. You played long because you didn't know who he was.
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Is that it? Yes, Senora, and I did not find out until
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I heard Bentley called Marlowe a private eye. You're not mad at me,
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Captain her even though I bungled your plan to capture Martinez, and not to
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mention a little meeting at the stables, A senor, do not say that
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you bungled the job of catching Martinez. It was more a matter of priority
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the tacos of course here you are gracious, you see, Senor Marlowe.
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I am certain that one day I will catch Martinez, but not at the
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cost of letting him murder a kill again. But Senor marlow there is one
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thing that passes the murder of the one known as Haiba Martinez henchman. Well,
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you see, Captain, he knew that a man named Dlph Bentley was
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mixed up in this because he'd overheard Owner and her keeper then called Lou Roman
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talking about him. He wanted to know more. Also, he couldn't figure
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who I was, so he beat you up. Correct. Bentley, of
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course only saved my life because it was an easy way to find out just
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how much Haiba did know, after which he got to him enough, not
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quite simular. There is still one thing. How did you know that Lou
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Roman was actually Bentley? On a hunch, Captain, and by positive identification
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from you Owner when we were on the boat. But now it's my turn.
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I got a question for you, honey, And he had enough vacation.
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Uh huh. As a matter of fact, Marlowe, I wired my
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husband just before we came in to eat. I said, the change,
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didn't your world? Good? Behold tomorrow to stay love always? Well,
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Captain, will you pass the tacos please? There? They're awfully good.
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Really. It was late the next afternoon and ownA Esterbrook was already gone when
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I checked out of the hotel, said goodbye to Doscatos and headed north for
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the border, where two hours later I stopped for customs inspection of my baggage.
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It was dark and I was only fifty miles from Los Angeles before I
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realized exactly what that inspection had meant, because it was then for the first
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time that I noticed the little cowhide suitcase on the seat next to me,
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which should have been mine, was tagged differently the name and address of a
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man who lived in Long Beach, California. I got there, I kept
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driving. I knew I could ship it to him and ask for mine in
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exchange when I got home. Oh yes, I'd had just about enough for
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a while. The Adventures of Philip Marlowe Bringing You Raymond, Chandler's most famous
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character and crime's most deadly enemy, starred Gerald Moore and are produced and directed
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by Norman McDonald. Script is by Meldon Neelley, Robert Mitchell, and Gene
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Lovett. Featured in the cast were Mary Ship, Harry Bartel Nester Piva,
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Bill Bouchet, Ralph Moody, Bill Shaw, and Jerry Farmer. The special
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music is written by Richard Iran. Be sure and be with us next week
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when Philip Marlowe says, it started with death on my doorstep and got worse
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when I lied to a sympathetic bull, was pistol whiped by a gorilla with
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dimples, and fought with a kitten on the keys. And it might have
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gone on that way all night if I hadn't been helped by the King of
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the Beasts. This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System. Welcome back,
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well, one of the stronger Philip marlow episodes. I think, actually I'm
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just a fantastic work by Gerald Moore, and I love the scene with him
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and the customs agent, though he didn't know he was a customs agent.
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And this is actually, I think the second customs agent he's got into a
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fight with, though that one was an American customs agent. There were aspects
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of the story that did remind me of the doors truly Johnny Dowler story the
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Alvin Somers matter, though this one definitely had some differences from that story.
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At any rate, another great episode of Philip marlow in the books. We'll
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be back tomorrow with Nick Carter, and then join us back here again next
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Wednesday for another episode of the Adventures of Philip Marlow. In the meantime,
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