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of Philip Marlowe. The original air date August fourth, nineteen
fifty one, and the title is The long Way Home.
Speaker 3: Get this and get it straight. I'm as a sucker's road,
and those who travel it wind up in the gut
of the prison of the grave. There's no other end,
but they never learn.
Speaker 4: From the pen of Raymond Chandler, outspending author of crime fiction,
comes his most famous character in the Adventures of Philip
marlow Now, with Gerald Moore starred as Philip Marlowe, we
bring you tonight's exciting story, A long Way Home.
Speaker 3: The valley floor gave off the kind of heat that
ate into you stayed. I wondered why some eight hundred
thousand people voluntarily made the San Fernando Valley their home.
That was their problem, My problem at the moment was
to make a right turn off Riverside Drive, and I
did four or five blocks north. I saw the name
on the redwood post by the driveway. Mister and missus
enis Hopper.
Speaker 5: Yeah, this was it.
Speaker 3: I drove in the drive into the cool oasis, an
orderly wilderness of pepper trees, palms, evergreens, and everything else
I had ever seen grown in southern California. The house
sat well back on the lot, very neat, also redwood
to match the post by the driveway. I got out
of the car and walked across the grass toward the
slightly stooped you're clipping the heads on the far side
of the lot. I didn't hear you coming here. I'm sorry.
I hope I didn't frighten you. I'm Philip Marlow, mister Harper, Oh.
Speaker 6: Yes, yes, indeed, mister Tomorrow.
Speaker 3: I'm glad you're here here. I'll put up this chair.
Speaker 6: It's all right, I've got it now.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, sit down, mister Tomorrow.
Speaker 6: How about you, if you don't mind, I'll keep on
clipping the heads here while we talk. I feel better
doing something, you know. Oh sure we could go into
the house. I guess I could rather whether it bothers
me to be in there now. Yeah, I expect it does.
All you've been gone, mister Harper since Monday morning, that
nine o'clock I guess it was. She got the laundry
together and said she was going to the laundry man.
Speaker 3: It's the last time I saw her Monday, that days ago.
Take the car. No, Amy doesn't drive. I offered to drive.
Speaker 6: He wonder, MAT's about five blocks from here in that
little community center on Riverside. You've probably passed it. Oh yeah,
And she said no. She thought the walk would do
her good.
Speaker 3: And she hasn't called her anything since. Uh, no, no, nothing. Well,
how about.
Speaker 6: Friends relative, Well, I've been quiet around the neighborhood.
Speaker 3: You see, we have lived here wrong tomorrow.
Speaker 6: We're not really what you call well acquainted with anyone here.
Speaker 3: You mean the valley.
Speaker 6: Well, in California, you know, we're from New Jersey. Came
out here right after the first of the year. Amy
always wanted to live in California, and you know we
moved out.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but about those relatives, you didn't say, Well, well, yeah,
I had none living.
Speaker 6: Amy does have a cousin out here, cousin Beatrice.
Speaker 3: And that's all I've ever heard of. Call Beatris. She
lives in Burbank. I've never met her.
Speaker 6: Seems like I've always been busy. When Amy's gone over there,
Cousin Ray usually picks Amy up. That's cousin Beatrice.
Speaker 3: What you call this? Sin? Samey's this parent? Oh?
Speaker 6: Yes, yes, a number of times, but there's been no answer.
That's odd too, How odd? Cousin Beatrice is an invalid?
Amy says, that's why she's never come to call on us. Well,
perhaps they were out when I called.
Speaker 3: Maybe, So tell me, mister Harper, you and Amy have
you been happy together? I mean, you haven't quarreled or anything.
Speaker 6: Oh no, mister Morna, Amy and I have never raised
our voices to one another.
Speaker 3: We've been very happy. Yeah. Oh, there isn't much to
go on. By the way, if you checked the hospital,
you know, there could have been an accident.
Speaker 6: I thought of that first. Yes, I called him, No,
no one fitting Amy's description.
Speaker 3: Well, that's a point about that description. You have a
recent picture of your wife?
Speaker 6: Oh yes, yes, of course. Would you come in the house, torow, I'll.
Speaker 3: Get one for you, okay, sure.
Speaker 6: Year, Amy drupted him. Mister Murrow flowers, big trees. All
those plants you see. Amy came for them, wanted cultivated.
This is her garden, mister Murrow. I'm just trying to
keep it nice for her.
Speaker 3: He turned finally, a slight, little gray man led the
way into the house. I felt sorry for him, didn't
take much the figure that his Amy was his whole life,
and in his mild, gentle way, his heart was broken.
Inside the house is neat and well kept. A Zenas
hopper himself. I got the first real shock of the
day because the Amy I'd pictured in my mind as
Zenas spoke of her, was nothing.
Speaker 7: At all like the portrait he handed me from the mantle.
Speaker 3: She's beautiful, isn't she, mister Mourna, Yeah, yes she is. Yes,
she's young, too much, much younger than I. Yeah much.
I'm a very lucky man, mister Mona. Well about this picture?
Do you have a smaller one when I can take
with me?
Speaker 6: Well, yes, one of these on the death should be
about right side.
Speaker 3: I should think I hadn't spotted at the gallery on
the desk across the room Untilena started for you a
quick count, and I came up with seven pictures of
Amy carefully arranged along the top ledge of the desk,
all different, all beautiful, sensational the better word. I think
the tended one showed the hair to the ash, blonde,
the eyes large and brown in the mouth. Oh, Lenus
broke the spell. This was, mister, I believe it's Amy's favorite.
Oh thanks, this a little fine? Yah? Want it back? Oh?
Speaker 6: Sure, sure, you bet? Now then is there anything more
on anything else that.
Speaker 3: Might be helpful? Well, let's see. Oh yeah, that cousin Beatrice,
cousin Ray, their address and phone and burbank huh. And
if they have a last name, that would help.
Speaker 6: I don't have the address, but I imagine it's in the
book named Quinlan, Quinlan Ray, Quentlan Bourbon.
Speaker 3: Okay. And by the way, you said, the laundromat your
wife patronized is in the community.
Speaker 6: Center on the River Center, on the north side of
the street, just a few doors east where you turn.
Speaker 3: To become a key. Right.
Speaker 8: I'll be waiting, mister Morrow. If you find out anything anything,
Oh sure, right away.
Speaker 3: The little community had no name, but it had everything else,
a series of one of each shops and services all
the way from health foods to a branch bank. Well.
I parked on the street in front of the laundromat
and studied the picture of Amy Hopper again. Tried to
figure her with a laundry bundle and couldn't. Tried to
figure her with enis and decided to go back to
the laundry bundle made more sense. I went inside. Never
smell anything so clean?
Speaker 6: Good morning?
Speaker 3: Can I help you? Yeah, I'm trying to get a
line on someone. And missus Hopper. Do you know missus Harper,
missus Enis Hopper. Oh here, I look at this. She
looks like this. Oh Amy, sure? Yeah, Well when's the
last time you saw her?
Speaker 6: Well, let's see.
Speaker 3: They or so ago?
Speaker 6: I guess let me check the bundles here that tell us?
Oh yeah, here, here we are Monday. It was Monday morning.
Speaker 3: I think, yeah, well what.
Speaker 9: I'd like to put my daughter's double parked out in front?
Speaker 6: Can I pick up my laundry?
Speaker 7: You can?
Speaker 3: Have you got the right ticket?
Speaker 7: Oh yeah?
Speaker 10: Here?
Speaker 6: Do you banning?
Speaker 3: I just washed?
Speaker 6: Was banning? No ironing?
Speaker 3: I just washed. Here we go.
Speaker 6: That's sixty two cents.
Speaker 9: Well for once I had the right change.
Speaker 6: Thank you? Can I take it out for you?
Speaker 3: Banning?
Speaker 6: Well?
Speaker 9: Thank you. No, no, no, I can manage. Oh and
just thank you for letting me budgie.
Speaker 3: Oh, thank nothing of it.
Speaker 4: What do you mean you're trying to get a line
on Amy.
Speaker 3: Oh, well, just that anyone ever come in with her?
Speaker 6: No, can't remember anyone.
Speaker 3: Well can you remember if you noticed anything special about it?
When she came in Monday?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 7: What you got her picture?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I mean besides that, No, she was just Amy.
Speaker 6: You want to pick up her laundry.
Speaker 3: I don't have her ticket. I was doing great, huh,
Ines had told me, and he went to the laundry
mat on Monday morning. And now I knew as much
as he did. And I took a picture with me
into all the transportation offices around bus, train, plane, car rental.
Everyone liked the picture, but no one has sold her
a ticket on anything a supermarket in the drug store
where everybody is helpful. And then I remembered her green thumb.
Speaker 6: Well, I must say I've seen her many times, many
times with mister Harper, of course.
Speaker 3: Well do you think you might have seen her Monday?
Speaker 6: No, not, missus Harper.
Speaker 3: I do believe mister Hopper was in Monday, though, seems
to me it was about his nier. Yeah, well I
really couldn't say.
Speaker 6: I believe it was, he asked. Of course, it really
doesn't matter too much.
Speaker 3: They're the same family, you know, Oh, gens Nast streame
family compositor.
Speaker 6: You know that's the family name.
Speaker 3: I'm impressed. But look, I want to tell you.
Speaker 10: Can you imagine they used to be called star Wars
star Warts?
Speaker 3: What a neasty little name for a NaSTA. Have you
got a Burbank phone directory? No, big part of a
burbank phone directory.
Speaker 6: I thought we were talking about the Hoppers.
Speaker 7: I thought we were too star Warts.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Ray quinnan. Oh, I'm Philip Marlow, investigating impossible disappearance
of Amy Hopper. Amy. Come in, thanks, come in. I
understand that she's your wife's cousin. But oh yeah, oh thanks,
U's hired. Huh yeah, it's right, He says. He's tried
to call here several times, no answer.
Speaker 6: How long has Amy been missing since?
Speaker 3: Monday morning? Put some laundry to the laundro, Matt, and
that's all anybody knows. Have you seen her since then?
Heard from her? No?
Speaker 11: Sure happened. We're halfway expected to hear from Amy Monday too.
Usually do but he didn't.
Speaker 3: Well, how about your wife? Can I talk to her?
Beatrice isn't here.
Speaker 6: She I took her to the hospital this morning.
Speaker 12: They're gonna operate later today.
Speaker 3: Oh I hope it does the true? Yeah, so do we?
Well that's right, Ena says she's nivalid. Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 6: How about Amy? I that's all you know?
Speaker 3: Just that she left for the London and got there.
That's about it. It's crazy. Amy wouldn't just disappear, wouldn't she?
Speaker 6: No, No, I don't think she would.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Well, I'm in the book, mister Quinlan Central directory. If
you get any ideas, call me. Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Oh by the way, what are you happy to get
her the hoppit? Yes? Where's I know? The late afternoon
sun was just at eye level as I headed west
again on Riverside Drive. Cousin Ray was a brown, solid man,
not fat, but husky, not too tall five ten maybe
it must be about thirty five or so. Yes, wasn't
home when I got back to Amy's natural habitat. So
on a hunch, nothing more, I checked with the next
door neighbor, Missus Brownley her name was was spooning her
yogurt straight and propelling her patio glider like she was
closing in on the finish line of the Honolulu Yacht Races.
Speaker 5: Well, I saw.
Speaker 9: Her coming out of the laundromat and offered her ride home.
Speaker 6: Money was just real warm.
Speaker 3: You may remember poor Lulu. Yeah, yeah, she.
Speaker 5: Might put it that way anyway.
Speaker 9: I told her I was driving right after I picked
up some.
Speaker 6: Wheat Germans, some black strap.
Speaker 9: Glasses, I'd been going home, and that she was welcome
to ride with me. And she gave me that nice
smile of hers and says, no, thanks, Miss Brownley.
Speaker 6: The walk will do me good.
Speaker 9: Now, just try a walk.
Speaker 6: In the hot sun and do anyone any good beyond me.
But I'm not.
Speaker 10: One to push myself on other people.
Speaker 7: And the ride was there, she could.
Speaker 5: Take it or leave it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, tell me, did you see her after that?
Speaker 9: Yes, yes, I did, this time from across the street.
But there's no mistaking her for anyone else, you know,
there is well there she was.
Speaker 3: Going into ply just a minute, just a minute plenty.
Speaker 6: The camera shop, pliny brandstats place.
Speaker 3: Focus, focus, out of focus.
Speaker 6: That's what mister Browney.
Speaker 4: Is going fliny.
Speaker 3: But then they're in the lodge together, you know, Yeah,
that makes all the difference. I really know if she
was or not.
Speaker 5: Just he Pline, he's not here.
Speaker 9: He had to go into Hollywood for supplies.
Speaker 3: I don't work.
Speaker 13: Here's wife.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but if missus Harper left some pictures here or
picked him up to be a record of it, wouldn't there?
Speaker 9: Yes, I suppose there would.
Speaker 3: I just left the door open to keep cool.
Speaker 9: We're really supposed to be close.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I realized that. Well, I just thought, remember the lodge.
You know, Pliny might be willing to Why didn't you
say so? Well, left your emblem on your other suit?
Speaker 9: I'll bet yeah, the full Piney does it all the time,
you man, I'm in the aug Hilo.
Speaker 6: Well, now let me have a.
Speaker 3: Look here pictures Missus Harper.
Speaker 13: Be here?
Speaker 9: Isn't back here, Amy Harper? That's right there you are,
mister Harper. That'll be seventy three stamps including text, seventy
three cents.
Speaker 3: Mister Harper. Oh yeah, Well, I want to tell you
two things. I think missus Hopper would want to pick
these up herself, and I'm not mister Hopper. I slowed
to a walk around the corner. I got in my
car and thought about what I'd seen a cozy selection
of pictures taken at the beach of Amy, mostly but
one or two of cousin Ray lifting weights yet and
one of Amy and Ray together. Who took it Enus
cousin Beatrice, I don't think so. It was almost dark
now as I used the car and the Enus's driveway,
and when I got there it was dark. The sky
above still held the afterglow of early evening, but the
web of compact trees and shrubs that surround at the
Happer house made patches of blackness all around me. I
got out of the car and I saw a light
somewhere in the back of the house. Back there to
a faint sound I couldn't distinguish. There was a sudden
movement from the hedge behind.
Speaker 5: Stay out with marlow.
Speaker 4: In just a moment, we will return to the second
act of Philip Marlowe. But first, a crossword puzzle traps
a criminal. Tonight on most of these same stations when
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Speaker 3: Story A long way home. There was a shop, not
a pain at the top of my spine, but the
bulldozer who jumped me from behind wouldn't settle for that.
My face mashed into the dew silk grass, and I
inhaled a lungful of wet vigoro while someone with the
strength of tin flailed away at my back. Why I
wanted to turn over and take it head on, I'll
never know. I kept trying to turn. I slithered instead,
slid along the wet grass with advice on my back,
advice with a voice that kept hounding me.
Speaker 5: Tet out of it, tomorrow s.
Speaker 3: Hopper, you get.
Speaker 10: It, morw popper, Hopper off my property. Now go on,
get over here, hey hopper, mister Morrow has left me.
Speaker 6: Oh I don't understand, mister what happened?
Speaker 3: Three guesses?
Speaker 6: What do you mean you?
Speaker 3: You better come into the house, mister Morning. I'll help you.
It's loud enough for you to hear out back here. Blood.
Speaker 6: Oh yes, I came running, didn't I come along?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 14: I'll take care of you, mister Morrow. Someone beach at
till Annis. You should feel better, should I.
Speaker 3: Heynous? Like the beach?
Speaker 6: Why all right, mister Tomorrow, I'm not much of a
swimmer anymore. When Amy never came for the beach, so
we never went? And why do you ask?
Speaker 3: I don't know?
Speaker 6: Why do you ask anything, mister Morrow. I know you've
been through a round. I wouldn't blame you if you'd
want to give up looking for Amy.
Speaker 1: If you.
Speaker 3: I don't give up anything. Well, so far the case
I added up to a stiff back and I head
wrapped in a tight band of steel with building hammer.
A few quick blasts at the pint and the glove
depop and help not at all. But something drove the car.
The stop at the hospital in Burbank could have been
for personal reasons. They attendant at the main flaw desk
looked real surprise when I asked what flawed. Cousin Beatrice
was on.
Speaker 6: Nearly nine to thirty.
Speaker 3: Busiting hours are over at eight to me, Oh well,
I lost track of time. I guess Can you tell
me why she is? Anyway? I'll come back tomorrow. What
did you say? The name was Quinlan, Missus Ray or
missus Beatrice could be out of one queen by.
Speaker 6: No Quinlanlets be sure?
Speaker 3: I just look? Are you sure? No? As a matter
of fact, I'm not. Thanks for asking me. Ohmorrow, come in, yeah,
I will you look all in? I'm fine. What hospital
is your wife in Quentland? The one about three blocks
from here, just up on Riverside. You made her up Quinland?
You were Amy made her up? Amy never had a
cousin Bittriss like you never had a wife of the
same name. Well you know that much. You know where
Amy is. No, I may get another psychic flash any
minute now, like the one I got when you were
unlacing my spine a while back.
Speaker 11: You shouldn't have found out about those pictures. More than that,
you shouldn't have going to tell us about him.
Speaker 3: There's a lot you don't know.
Speaker 6: Amy doesn't want to hurt the old guy.
Speaker 3: You've been trying to figure out how to tell him.
You got any leads on her and any real ones? Hey,
wait a minute, you really don't know where she is.
I knew i'd be with her. Tell me how'd you meet? It?
Had a bar over on Riverside, near where she lives.
Speaker 11: She'd already invented cousin Beatrice all by herself to give
her some place to go.
Speaker 6: We we liked it being together.
Speaker 11: Got kind of brave about it after a while. Sometimes
I can ride up to a door for the rest
of the time. We have a regular corner where I
pick her up.
Speaker 3: This corner isn't near our house, not far. I was
supposed to pick her up Monday, but she didn't show up. Yeah, hey,
you know it's funny. I was gonna set the beach
ahead flat when I came in all of a sudden,
I don't feel like when I got back to the car,
I thought my head would cave in every inch. May
screamed with pain. And sometimes you got to give into
these things. I tried for home, but I only made
it to a motel on Riverside. I was out before
the light was I found a barber shop in Black
Coffee the next morning, and the community center near Hoppers.
There was a thick, fuzzy ten o'clock when I reeled
out out of the street and headed toward my car.
Speaker 1: That's the one time, Hey, you there, Hey, wait a minute,
me Yeah, Hey, you sure, honey.
Speaker 3: I'm sure, all right? Well, what's the trouble I do
something wrong with? Is planning?
Speaker 7: You think so?
Speaker 12: Helen Well posing as a large brother when you're not
as pretty serious?
Speaker 3: Mister, I don't like that. Well, I don't think much
of it myself, now that I think of him. But
we'll skip that.
Speaker 12: What I want to know is what's to deal with
those pictures of missus Harper's no deal? Why everybody's looking
at him? Nobody's picking them up?
Speaker 3: We're paying. Wait a minute, Wait a minute, wait a minute,
do that slow? All right?
Speaker 12: First, missus Harper comes in the monday, it was Monday,
and they're not ready yet. She says she'll pick them
up later that day.
Speaker 3: She don't come back.
Speaker 12: A guy does, though, he just looks at them, smiles
and says she'll get them.
Speaker 3: Who is he? You know? Oh? I don't know.
Speaker 12: Only a young guy, brown hair, got a tan well Well.
In about an hour or another guy.
Speaker 3: Comes in and he looks but he don't buy.
Speaker 12: Then last evening.
Speaker 3: You wait a minute. That second guy plenty, he's older,
small man, gray, about sixty.
Speaker 5: Eh.
Speaker 3: Now here's my problem. Who wants those pictures? Not your problem? Planny,
old boy, it's mine. The house was open, so I
walked in. Innes was out in the back, pouring something
out of a sack onto a flower bed along the
back fence and working it into the soil around the flowers.
I looked around and found a bedroom that had to
be Amy's. Everything was neat in order. I turned and
started out of the room, and then and I saw
it sticking out from under a cologne bottle on a
dressing table. Picked it up, and as I turned to
go out, three matched pieces of luggage pointed an accusing finger,
and then I found my way back into the garden.
Speaker 6: Hey, good morning, mister Mona. Have you found out anything?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I have this laundry ticket iness. I
found it in Amy's room.
Speaker 6: Oh, why didn't you tell me the truth in the
first place, Y, I don't know what you meant.
Speaker 3: Amy was here after she left for the laundry. Matt.
The ticket proves it. Well. You found out about cousin
Ray and Genius. You looked at the pictures in the
camera shop. Maybe it's suspected for a long time in
this sensed it, so you picked her up on the
corner instead of Ray and you came home. I had
a big pet fight about Ray, didn't you, Yes, yes,
we did it. I said some horrible things, mister Muraw, horrible.
Are you sorry? You want to back right? Anything to
have her back? Mister Moon, I love it, you know, yeah,
I know? In this I looked through Amy's closet. It's
pretty full of clothes. Her luggage's still there.
Speaker 6: Yes, Amy has a lot of clothes. She wears him
well too.
Speaker 3: Amy didn't go very far in its No, the man
in the garden shop says you're the gardener around here,
not Amy?
Speaker 5: Did he?
Speaker 3: That sack of lime is almost empty? And firsty pounds
is a lot for a garden, isn't.
Speaker 6: It depends on what use should put it to? Mister
m Do you have to kill her?
Speaker 3: Amies? Keep her ed?
Speaker 6: She wanted to leave me, go away with him. I
couldn't stand that. Did you think I wouldn't say?
Speaker 3: Here? I didn't know, but.
Speaker 6: I had to find out, didn't I? Mister Morow?
Speaker 3: He came with me quietly. Everything about him was quiet
and neat and gray. He was the mildest, gentlest man
I ever met, And yet it killed the thing he
loved most. His is Amy the oldest reason in the world.
She wasn't his anymore. What was it? The old man said,
I had to find out, didn't I, Mister morlow Yeah,
curiosity killed the cat.
Speaker 6: It also killed Amy.
Speaker 4: The Adventures of Philip Marlowe, Bringing You Raymond Chandler's most
famous character star Gerald Moore, are produced and directed by
Norman McDonald and written for radio by Kathleen Hite. Featured
in the cast were Bill Johnstone as Nus Harper and
Jack Moyles as Ray Quinlan, with Mary Lancing, Sam Edwards,
Junius Matthews, Vivi Janis.
Speaker 3: And Peter Lee.
Speaker 4: Gerald Moore may currently be seen in the Santana production Sirocco.
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Speaker 2: Welcome back. Scene where the lady comes into the store
and buys a miscellaneous item that has nothing to do
or tie in with the plot really feels like a
way in which even on Philip Marlow, the existence of
dragnet was influencing how detective shows were done. Overall, it's
a very solid, hard boiled story with a with one
of our more downbeat a indis all right, Well, that
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