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addresses at support doc Greatdetactives dot net. Well, now it's time for today's

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episode of the Adventures of Philip Marlow. The original air date February seventh of

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nineteen fifty and the title is The
Long Arm, Get This and Get It

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Straight. Crime is a sucker's road
and those who travel it wind up in

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the gut of the prison of the
Grave. Happened in a place called Bay

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City, whereas unwelcome to a fat
fry cook with a secret at at depa

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gambler, but to the long Arm
of the Law, I was poisoned.

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It happened like this on the pen
of Raymond Chandler. I'm standing author of

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crime. Pick comes his most famous
character in the Adventures of Philip Marlowe.

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Now with Gerald Moore starred as Philip
Marlowe. We bring you tonight's exciting story

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The Long Arm. I got my
Sunday best time go and strutting with It's

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Laura Belle. Oh fine, every
time I take a shower. Noticin it?

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All right? Okay, hello speaking
one moment City is calling. I

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have your party. Go ahead,
Oh that you Mordow. Yeah, this

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is Ernie partch phil at Bay City
Part Yeah. You remember me, don't

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you? No, I can't see
Oh yeah yeah, Ernie Pott, you're

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the guy who saved my life when
the Bay City Law left me beat up

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and bleeding all over the city dump
right, yeah, yeah, yeah,

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that's it. Oh yeah, Marllow. Please listen what I'm in an awful

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jam, like what I just got
out of jail yesterday. You were in

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a day jail, Ernie, Yes, yeah, a very neat spring Silver.

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Oh not half as neat as the
one that's trying to hang on me.

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Now, this one's worse. You
remember my wife, don't you,

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Grace Paul? Yeah, yeah,
what about it? She's dead model,

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she was murdered. I'm gonna try
to pin it on me. You'll come

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right away. Look, Ernie,
I'm poisoned in Bay City, you know,

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man, Please, Rake's Terman would
give a year's page just to watch

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me break an on five if I
drowned to Marlow. You don't know which

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terminal had your messed up from sticking
your nose in the Bay City politics.

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No, no, but I can
show a second guess that it was tough

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cop tactics all the way. You
mean you won't help me? Yeah,

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well, Ernie, really, I'm
sorry, kid, but you better get

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yourself an honest lawyer. And you
know better than that phil who have the

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guts to knock heads with a police
in this town, especially when they got

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a custom Taylor's pigeon like me standing
by with one wing already clipped. I

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feel like, kind of it looks
like I'm murdered. Grace. Now,

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look, kid, I saved your
life once Okay, what's your right?

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Resident thirty eight four Land of Life
A City was a snug seacoast town some

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twenty miles southwest of la In about
twice that distance from being on the up

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and up. The string of gambling
houses were politely winked at by some elements

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of the law and it's gamblers and
turned politely winked back while the pulling money

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passed from sucker to slick at a
crooked cup. But Bay City also was

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home to a lot of honest fishermen
retired real estate brokers. Had another element

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of the law, good cops.
Which side the technical Lieutenant Rake's terman was

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on. I'd never been able to
figure it. He only added one way

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all cop, morning, noon and
night. I kind of made any private

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detective feel a little less welcome than
a leopard. Ell. An hour after

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Doc, I pulled up and parked
well away from thirty eight Orlando Street.

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Five minutes later, I was watching
a nervous ernie parts where out the cop

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in a chabby living room. It
was at art Manelli's place, Phil about

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a year ago. The little casino. It's out north on the edge of

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town. I've had a few drinks
with some of the guys who worked at

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my gas station. One thing led
to another, and so finally we were

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out there trying a pyramid fifty bucks
into fifty thousand. That's when the cops

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came in. Huh yeah, yeah, you know, one of those pre

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election raids that looked good in the
papers. Do you want to drink?

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No? No, look, that
raid couldn't have gotten you a year and

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a day, Ernie. Oh no, but the gun they found on my

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top coat pocket could have Yeah,
thirty eight I'd never seen before in my

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life. Plant. Huh yeah,
plant that. I could only figure two

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ways, Philip. Either someone at
Art Mavanelli's place just happened to choose my

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pocket to drop his gun and tour
someone just happened to drop it in on

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purpose. Someone who was sweet on
Grace and wanted me out of the way.

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Oh look, you're sure you know
what you're saying? Or positive three

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hundred and sixty six days in prison
with only one miserable letter from her convince

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me that in the word I got
at Gumbo's Place like the safternoon Gumbo's Place,

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Yeah yeah, Gumbos shabby and the
chickens joint run by a fat fry

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cook named Lou Gomborski. M Grace
worked there. I stopped and just before

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I ran into Lieutenant Rakesterno. Wait
a minute, Wait a minute, what

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do you mean ran into termine?
What happened, well, Pili, I

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was on the street getting into icy
dann You see, I picked it up

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from a guy who was using it. What it was away? When Steerman

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pulled up alongside of me in a
squad colony, he started to tell me

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how much he likes seeing ex cons
back in Bay City. What interrupted him?

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Oh, call on a police radio. But before he left the promise

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to drop around here sometimes a night
and chat awhile. And before that,

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at Gumbo's place, I found Grace. A minute, wait a minute,

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I had enough for Anie. You
found Grace and what we had? A

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fight, she admitted, running around. Said I wasn't worth waiting for,

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but she wouldn't say who was.
I slapped it hard, all right,

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take it easy. Grace is dead
now murdered. Remember, Yeah, she's

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dead here and they're gonnattack me for
it. Now, tell me what happened

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after you left Gumbos, I ran
into Stirman, like I said, and

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I drove around for a couple of
hours to come off, and I got

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hold of myself. I came back
here and found it strangled at bit in

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that chair. Phil. It was
horrible. What did you do about it?

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I'm not sure exactly. I changed
my mind, Thanks Phil. No,

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I decided to get her out of
here. It was just getting dark,

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so I waited a little and I
carried her down the roar stairs and

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I put her in my car in
the back seat, put a blanket over

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it. She's still there, Phil. I was gonna drive the car away,

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but I guess I lost my nerve. Well, I gotta do Phil,

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Sterman might be here any minute.
Then you gotta help me do it.

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Sorry, all right, but key's
in the car. No, what

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are you gonna do? I don't
know what you get out of here?

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Do something? But what anything?
Go to a movie? Actors relaxed that

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you can't do anything except come back
here for the at least two hours.

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Now, go on, all right, Phil, whatever you say, I'll

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go to a movie. Yeah,
right now, by the way, Thanks,

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hil I know you'll get me out
of this, and he. Parcha's

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vote of confidence made comfortable listening for
both of us. When he was gone,

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and I was down the rear stairs
and out to his car and the

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alley, keys in hand, I
realized that it stopped right there in the

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back seat. Then in the light
that spilled a nearby unshaded window, I

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saw I was might have company.
Sharp pointed elevated shoes, careful blue flannel,

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and patted with the hair over a
pasty face, all of it no

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more than five and a half feet
and held together by a hand painted tie

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that sported a dapper knot the size
of a catalog. I wonder if you

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could help me. I'm looking for
any park thirty six Orlando Drive. I

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couldn't find any number on this house. Yeah, but part isn't it?

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He just left? No where he
went? No, no, all right,

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Patas, I only want to talk
to him. My name is add

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Manela, a friend of his,
and the queen the same. He went

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to a movie, mister Manila.
I saw the pictures. So I'm going

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home, back to San Diego.
I live there. Good San Diego means

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you as one oh one to the
south, right past my next stop.

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I came in a cab or run. Those keys in your hand there said

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that you're leaving I mean I don't
want to work. Oh, wait for

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a taxi or wait for it?
Shall I get in? Or do you

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want to slide over to the driver's
seat. I want to slide, if

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that's all right with you? Tell
me, mister cruse shutters, you have

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business with personal business, you,
mister Manelli, Yes, I want to

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see only about a good location.
I haven't mind for a new gas station.

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You know about such things? No, no, and I don't think

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you're do either, Menelli. Less, of course, the pumps can be

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converted in the roulette wheels. Oh
you know who I am. Yeah,

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I also know. It's a little
strange for you to show up at Ernie's

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place the day after he gets out
of the state ten for a frame that

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took place that you a little casino. What are you getting at, mister?

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An outside chance that you yourself were
responsible for that frame, But you're

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anxious to see what, if anything, only intends to do about it?

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Lights Red, No fool, I'll
tell me. Why would I want to

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frame? Or any time? I
don't know, could be Menelli, that

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you did it accidentally. You know, a little gun hidden in a big

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hurry. It could be had a
title reason huh like like Grace Pratt,

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very pretty girl, you're out of
your mind? Yeah, sure, I

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am just plain nuts. Why don't
you get out here, take up a

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nice saying taxicab. It'll be safer, all right, he will tell you

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way. Sure, we're right,
and no I got stuff in that close

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that torped okay, happy like so
what the crew coup? What kind of

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h from menella? I'm a bootlegger
who never got the word Believe me,

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I do like Green fell Off.
I went three short blocks and I got

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out of traffic and drove as far
back towar Tolando Street as a vacant lot

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that was only a block away.
Morning there after, I wiped the wheel

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a gearship everything else i'd touched the
plain Prince. I left this stand as

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is and walk back to where it
originally talked my own car behind the wheel

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of my coop. I spent the
next twenty minutes finding gumbo shatty where Grace

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part wouldn't ddy long leg standing knee
deep in the Pacific Ocean and circled at

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the waist by an imitation ship's deck
for summer time outdoor reading a gang plank

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let up from the street level,
and when I'd gone about half a length

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of it, I saw something at
the door ahead, shaped like a bowling

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pin, topped by a chef hat, encompassed by a yard and a half

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a piccox belt that said it's had
to be fat fry cook Lou Gumborski,

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returning the reversible sign from open the
clothes. Sorry, mister, I'm closing

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early tonight. Food's talk going all
right? How about a drink? I

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only want a quick shot? Gumbo
Gumbo. They're stranger here. You know

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the name, it's written off ahead
and four foot letters. I keep my

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eyes open, Okay, take it
fast. I want to hit the Yeah

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you live here? Yeah? What
do you want? Scott Any didn't word?

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Little information? Oh but what girl
who works for you? Grace parts.

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I don't know anything, not even
for five number it's ten, okay

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ten? And the drinks on the
house huh yeah, okay, face punch

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is five foot two, eyes of
blue. Also, she quld work at

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six tonight like she does every night
period. Huh. Here's do yet?

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I tell me where she's been going? Where I learned he's been in stir

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Another ten? Yeah for another on
one condition, no more lousy poems.

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Gambo, just do straight backs,
no drink, no no, no,

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thanks for it. Well, you've
been hanging around little Casito, Manelli's,

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Giant Yeah's place, were a lot
of people hang around. What is it?

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What are you standing at? Gambo
window? I saw someone not doing

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a tick looking in probably see guys. Forget it now. Look, I

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don't sure it is someone getting away
in the car. Any idea who it

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was? I said, any?
I heard you going home, mister,

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get out of here. Make it
easy, big guy. You got twenty

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bucks, give it, yeah,
I think you're lovesy. Twenty bucks and

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the drinks on the house and good
night. After one question, guy in

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that car that just took off with
it, I'll repeat myself, good night,

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mister. Okay, let it go
at good night, Gambo. But

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just for now getting more out of
Gumbo. So I went back to my

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car, pointed at northward the edge
of town in the little casino, where

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I figured I might get lead.
I'm an Elia's whereabouts. Thirty minutes later,

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when I was there out of my
car, standing in front of it,

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looked like an oversized concrete blockhouse Salona
and a parking lot. The sides

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of the coliseum. I think it
different. A huge tign out front.

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Red clothes cooderations were reopened soon,
bigger and better than ever. Gambling in

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Bay City was obviously on the QT
like an artillery barade. By the time

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I got back to thirty eight around
those street, nearly three hours of gone

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by since I'd last seen on it, I started up start the light in

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his living room. Wasn't happy over
the lack of information I had for him,

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But when I opened the door and
saw it was waiting for me,

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I didn't manage one a huge beefy
freckled hand. There was the usual Police

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Department thirty eight revolvement. Hello kid, nice cool gray eye. He's gonna

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thick, broken nose, the nasty
curl of the lips all belong to Bay

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City's toughest homicide detected Lieutenant Rape Hello
Marlow. I've been waiting for you too

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long, kid. I would have
baked a little cake if I knew I

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was going to have this much time. There's any pride coming. He's under

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arrest, kid, He's found his
wife's body. He's under arrest for murder.

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You know what else, kidd?
Now what else? Kid? So

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are you in just a moment the
second act of Philip Marlowe, but first

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Bred Allen's crack that it's no wonder
comedians can't find work when singers go comical.

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He has had a fast reply from
Bing Crosby. Bing has invited Fred

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to be his guest on the CBS
Show this Wednesday Night. You can get

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right into the very middle of the
argument on most of these Sames CBS stations

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where Bing Crosby shows. Hey Wednesday
Night, be sure to hear Fred Allen's

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visit The Bing Show this Wednesday.
Following Groucho Marx and You Bet Your Life

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Now with our star Gerald Moore,
we returned to the second act of Philip

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Marlowe and tonight's story The Long Arm
Lieutenant's terman moved, taught me curl the

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thick fingers of his left handed to
a fist. Braced myself with the blow

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never came stead. He shut his
face up close to mine, and his

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mouth twisted into a one sided grin
that was as full of fun as a

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set of thumbscrews. Well, you
finally came true from me, didn't you,

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kid? I don't know what you're
talking about. I've been waiting a

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long long time for you to put
something in my town, mallow where you

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can't run back across the line and
hide behind the skirt your cup friend over

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in La having yourself a pipe dreams. M don't forget it real, sorry,

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I sir, do you might explaining
what this is all about. It's

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one of my rights as a citizen. You know, even in Bay City

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or as I'm concerned, killers ain't
got any rights. How Come you had

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nothing to do with grass murders?
So I can tell you why you're a

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stinking liar private detective. I suppose
private detectives have no rights either, huh

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none. We found the girl's body
in a car parked a vacant lot,

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and somebody overlooked a couple of fingerprints
which I'm gonna match up with your tomorrow.

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How come you're so sure because we
pulled any punch out of the movies

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five minutes after we found his wife
jailbirds singing Bay City model. We don't

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harsh around with him. Let's go
wait a minute. Oh, you pushed

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too far on the wrong track.
That's an angle here, you want to

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know about it? There is always
an angle with you. Ain't the right

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boy. Yeah, but you're gonna
like this one first, and that Kay

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is so proud of. You're gonna
find prints from one, not Manella.

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That's right. One of those days
in operation when everybody else in Bay City

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is closed up, you better find
out who told you're stepping on down the

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city hall before you got out.
You've got problems, and that's not one

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of them. You got some intelligence
office philling without wise cracks, all right.

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I think Patch was framed a year
ago and Minnelli's joint, No god

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on Minelly's orders. Why Because Grace
Potch was a pretty girl with the end

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for gamblers. That's why. All
the time Ernie was in the cooler,

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she was running down a Mannelly's place, and I got a witness to prove

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it. Also makes it the kind
of little cheap tramp that gets out of

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hand. Ally should have me tonight. No satisfactory reasons for him. What's

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more, you warned Ernie Potch just
this afternoon that you were keeping an eye

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on him if you wanted to kill
his wife. He's not stupid old not

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to have done it tonight. Menelly's
standpoint, it was a perfect time,

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you see, because you guys would
go for it just exactly as you have.

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I know you got no use from
this time. Sure a cop,

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after all, as long as somebody's
got to take a rap, it might

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as well be the right guy.
You know what, sweetheart, what your

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fairy story makes the average just air, which not the mass. Now get

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down too tired to take what I
know it'd be given once for exterman got

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me inside the Bay City headquarters.
I made my decision fast. There were

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three steps in the front watch of
the wall, and he was right behind

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me. I took the first two, then turn and grabbed sailed over my

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shoulder, and I heard him land, flying on his back on the sidewalk.

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As I rounded the corner of the
house, I crossed the backyard,

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bolted the fence, and put one
hundred yards the valley between us. Before

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I even stopped to think, and
I went back to my car, drove

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down to the water again. In
Gomboski's chicken shanty place was dark and locked

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up tight. Went around at the
back was his living quarters were, and

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listened. Crocodile slithering over the floor
inside would have made the same sound.

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I pushed the door open and went
in. Wasnmbowski all right, but you

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couldn't tell it from his face that
had been worked over long and had by

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an expert. He didn't know I
was there until I touched the good one.

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Oh girl, I gave you the
beating gumbo. Please already alight,

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I get up. I love gumbo. You told me one thing about at

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Manelly, The great part went was
joined a lot, and you spotted somebody

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outside the window, and you're clammed
up. I come back now, and

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I find you like this isn't the
obvious. You're wasting your time trying to

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protect them. Shut off and get
out of Listen to me, your poor

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sap, And just so you're gonna
be living with this from now on.

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Every time you guess that it is, he'll get you another going over to

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match this one. It really gets
jumpy buster, and then it'll do worse

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than that, don't you get it? And I know what will happen if

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I open my up again. I'm
just not gonna take that chant. I

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don't realize we'll never lick Manelly if
we don't fight a little. I'm not

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saying nothing. You understand nothing,
not one word I get out, all

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right. I am miserable second through
talking to you. Don't think the other

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guy gave you a light massage by
the time I'm through with you here,

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not stay where you are. I
don't what to kid you missed it,

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but I will unless you beat it. I'd rather face that than talk getting

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into deep marching gumbo. There's nothing
else I can do. Nothing to me.

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I know which side my friends butt
it on. Yeah, but it

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made one big mistake already. But
what do you mean let yourself wide open

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for this coffee? I'm sorry that
much time, prob Come on better.

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Just tell me one thing and I'll
leave you alone. All I want to

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know is where I can locate up
in Lly right now. This club,

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but the little casina Lion I was
down there as closed as being remarked.

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Not I'm not lying, all right, you need some more rubbing, Okay,

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okay, he got a sweeter room, dance stairs under the club.

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They're not being done over. That's
where he lives. I gotta be there

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now, but you gotta protect me. He's storm in the mononia. I'll

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kill me. That's all I want
to know. It's all on gumbo.

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The first phone booth I came to, I stopped, looked up a base

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city number and made a call,
which took five minutes. I went onto

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the little casino. I parked on
a side straight and went down the ramp

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to the underground garage. No rear. There was a door between two or

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eight bronzeer and Sally Barba size and
I started talking and Hunt. I stopped

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and studied the decoration on one of
the herons, a small hole in the

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side. I took my handkerchief knot
and stuffed into the hole. Somewhere inside

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the apartment. I heard a chime
ring, Oh my God, out and

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tried the door and opened to a
long, lush haul way baked the far

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end with a heavy gold kit.
I waited through a green carpet deep enough

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to more after the curtain and pulled
it aside. And Ellie sat at a

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wide, glossy desk, fletatically climbing
his names, his eyes staring straight at

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me. You got this far?
About it? Don't tell me you're all

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alone here, Melly? No,
I got five hundred? What do you

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act like you were expecting me?
I knew somebody was coming, wasn't elect

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the guy and those bass jugs out
of the door. Anybody passes it rings

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that chime, they're satisfying. I
w's with a gun. Put it away

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in a minute. Maybe Saint Lieutenant's
terming tonight. Good, I you've been

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rubbing elbows with homicide. I didn't
kill anybody. No, I guess you

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didn't. I've got a good idea. Who didn't earny parts of course?

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No chance. It's your business partner, Lieutenant Reike's terming himself and five will

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get your tennis. Got big news
for you. Hey, right, steam,

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don't move well, look what crawl
out of the woodwork. I'll get

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his gun, ray Manelli, I'll
take it myself. I don't budget,

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don't want to wait a minute.
What is it? Shut up? If

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you killed Gray's park you were in
love with her, but used to meet

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her right here in this room.
That was before she found out a couple

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of things and began to put the
pressure on me. I got in imprieved.

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Then I lost my head and I
shut up. Let's and Bosky took

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a beating and night just because he
mentioned Manella here a little more pressure he

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mentioned someone else. You. Why
would you shut Bosky up about Monella unless

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you and Mennelle were connected. That
connection was all I needed right on the

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pleasant sweetheart. We're all the good
it'll do, and I don't get it.

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I don't understand anymore. You're through
what you're saying. Ray, you

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know too much about me, you
know what all? You can't do this?

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Yes, I can back Marlow.
He gave me the idea, even

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worked out all the motives, so
it's easy. I'm here to arrest you

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for Grace Parcher's murder. You resisted. I had to shoot you, ashame.

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But about this turning part, I
intended to hang it on him,

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Manelli. But he's nothing to me. I don't care if he lives or

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dies. But you, you're you're
getting too big for your bridges anyway,

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So this is better, and I
get three birds with one stone. Grace

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Manelli, you mollow before you start
pulling the triggers there, Man, you

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better ask your boy A couple of
my waiting for you behind a gold curtain

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there. How, you're a liar, Mallow. The elected guy would have

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kept this off if anybody else came
in. I blinded that eye with my

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handkerchief on my way in. Right. How long you've been there? Long

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enough, Lieutenant, I don't take
all this from you, shad to do

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tonight himself. Yeah, I took
the liberty of going over your head,

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lieutenant, just before I came in. Under the circumstances, you'll understand.

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Why are you better drop it?
Lieutenant? Okay, Now come on,

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these two guys, come along quiet. Sure, Sure, I always glad

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to ride with old Rake's term at
anytime at all, just as long as

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there's a couple of policemen in the
same car. Cora was all over in

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the Bay City Police headquarters. Everybody
from the mayor of the dog catcher put

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his two cents in, and I'd
given the same answers to the same questions

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at least fifty times, all about
crooked cops and Rakes sermon in particular.

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But finally, hours later I was
freeting it all. As I drove through

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the quiet streets, I was still
thinking about the cops this time the other

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car, the underpaid, over work
cups. How on the city sidewalks day

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and night. You know, the
guys who do everything from telling kids the

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way to the grocery store to untangling
the rush hour traffic. Yeah, I

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thought about each one of the cops
who someday chases a hopped up gunman down

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a blind alley and doesn't get home
that night or any night ever again.

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Then I forgot all about Rakestown,
because after all, he was just one

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bad one in a multitude of goodness, an insignificant sore on a long arm.

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The Adventures of Philip Marlowe Bringing You
Raymond Chandler's most famous characters, star

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Jerald Moore, are produced and directed
by Norman McDonald's and are written for radio

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by Robert Mitchell and Gene Levits.
Featured in the cast where Barney Phillips ed

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Osbourne, Sidney Miller, Tom Tully
and Britt Holland. Special music is composed

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and conducted by Richard Urunt. Bessured
me with us again next week when Philip

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Marlowe says it could have been perfect
snowbound in a mountain lodge with a girl

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was falling in love, but also
present were a widow sick with rage,

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a bitter old woman, a jealous
man, all with reason. They hate

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me more than anyone else in the
world. Two all star bouts are promised

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on seb as This Wednesday Night,
Bing Cross faces Fred Allen across the CBS

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mike to battle it out on Who's
funnier singers or comedians, and in the

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second attraction, Gracy Allen and a
smashed fender team up against not so gorgeous

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George Burns and a guilty conscience.
This Wednesday also brings you Braucho Marx,

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his Dad Lives and his teams of
opposites on You Bet Your Life And to

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Doctor Christian story about two redheads in
love fun action variety. They're all Yours

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with Doctor Christian Brautcho, Mark Bing, Crosby and Fred Allen and George and

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Gracie on most of the same CBS
stations This Wednesday Night, this is Roy

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Rowan speaking. Now stay tuned for
pursuit, which follows immediately. On most

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of these same CBS stations. This
is CBS where Wednesday Night is Bing Crosby

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Night Columbia Broadcastings that this is Andrew
J. Graham, author of the web

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surface series Oh and a Man and
His Wife. You're listening to the Great

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Detectives of Old Time Radio. Welcome
back. Well, this is an interesting

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episode, if for no reason,
then it takes us to one of the

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fictional cities that Raymond Chandler invented.
There were many places outside of Los Angeles

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that Chandler is careful, for what
reason, not to reference directly, instead

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giving alternative names. The last book
which he started but didn't finish, was

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called Poodle Springs, which was,
of course his take on Palm Springs.

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Bay City was actually a fictional version
of Santa Monica, and I did find

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a website where they researched why he
might have done this, and they found

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a city directory from the nineteen thirties
where it referenced Santa Monica, among some

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other places as the Bay Cities.
Bay City was the pivotal location for The

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Lady in the Lake, and in
terms of corrupt cops, it was the

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worst in a Chandler story, and
Lady in the Lake is actually my favorite

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of the Philip Marlowe novel so it's
fitting that we do get a return to

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Bay City when we're dealing with a
corrupt cop. The closing monologue, I

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think is very socially responsible, it's
very fair, and it certainly does reflect

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the feelings of the times. And
I would say that it's probably not something

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that the book version of Philip marlow
would agree with, and certainly not Chandler

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himself, just based on the overall
tenor of his works, particularly when you

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get into the long Goodbye a few
years later. But then again, that

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is also one of the charms and
advantages of the radio version, as played

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by Gerald Moore. At any rate, that will do it for today.

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We'll be back tomorrow with Nick Carter, and join us again next Wednesday for

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another episode of the Adventures of Philip
Marlowe. In the meantime, sender comments

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