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Speaker 1: fifty is today's episode of the Adventures of Philip Marlow.
Speaker 1: The Vodal statistic.
Speaker 2: Get this and get it straight. Crime is a sucker's road.
Speaker 2: Those who travel it wind up in the gut of
Speaker 2: the prison of the grave. This time of ca hop
Speaker 2: knocked me down a flight of stas an honest woman
Speaker 2: was strangled by a green silk sash, and a simpering
Speaker 2: dandy was shot at bit all because of a run
Speaker 2: of the mail Act six five hundred miles away. It
Speaker 2: happened like this.
Speaker 3: On the pen of Raymond Chendler. Outstand they go through
Speaker 3: crime fiction comes his most famous character in the Adventures
Speaker 3: of Philip Marlowe now with Gerald Moore starred as Philip Marlowe.
Speaker 3: We bring you tonight. It's exciting story. The vital statistics.
Speaker 2: Hey boy, give me a paper.
Speaker 4: What do you like?
Speaker 2: Graecis coming to clutch min How about some news far
Speaker 2: here you are, thank you, Hang out of my way,
Speaker 2: They take it easy.
Speaker 5: Drive away from here.
Speaker 2: Wait a minute, Wait a minute. What is it got
Speaker 2: to help me? On? Being followed in just a minute,
Speaker 2: says that light screen driveway.
Speaker 6: You hurried?
Speaker 2: Please, okay, okay. Here was streamlined, close cropped hair, the
Speaker 2: color of a smoky sun and set the low heeled slippers,
Speaker 2: brocaded and brogs, and in between address that conformed us
Speaker 2: close and smooth as lacquer on a Chinese vase. I
Speaker 2: made four turns and four blocks and pulled into the
Speaker 2: curb and stop. You stabbed to look at me with
Speaker 2: a pair of shop jade green eyes that said life
Speaker 2: had always been nothing but a calculated risk. And she
Speaker 2: stepped out of the car and smiled.
Speaker 5: You were a big hell brother.
Speaker 2: Thanks good bar, and not just like that, baby, Come here.
Speaker 2: I don't like being left out on a limb.
Speaker 6: Now.
Speaker 5: Look, you did me a favor, okay, but we drop
Speaker 5: it right here. It's trouble. You wouldn't like it.
Speaker 2: On the contrary, it's business like keeping my own nose clean.
Speaker 2: I'm a private detective, but I didn't issue any invitation
Speaker 2: for you to jump into.
Speaker 6: My car a private detective.
Speaker 2: Yeah, who's chasing your baby? The law? You can tell
Speaker 2: me out here on the straighter inside over a drink.
Speaker 5: I'll take the drink. I need it. Maybe I need
Speaker 5: you too. This might be a break. I'm missus Terry
Speaker 5: Lebar and.
Speaker 2: You're mallow Philip Marlow. Who you're running from? Missus Lebarn?
Speaker 5: A woman in slack. I don't know who she is
Speaker 5: and why she's following me, but every time I look back,
Speaker 5: she's there. The second day, both yeah.
Speaker 2: Sure, say look, why haven't you talked it over with
Speaker 2: your local policeman.
Speaker 5: Are you working for me, private detective? That all depends,
Speaker 5: all right, I'm a merchant Chinese silks, not a little
Speaker 5: shop for six percent profit, but wholesale quit with cash
Speaker 5: forty percent?
Speaker 2: Uh huh, so what's the point?
Speaker 5: No police? All it takes is a rumor of police,
Speaker 5: and I'll have doors closed on me from Seattle to Mexico.
Speaker 2: Good evening.
Speaker 6: May I get you something?
Speaker 5: I'm Martini?
Speaker 2: Please play you too, winn Yes, right away. This gets
Speaker 2: us back to the woman in slacks.
Speaker 5: Huh yeah, here mallow, fifty and fifty one hundred dollars.
Speaker 5: I want you to locate that woman, find out who
Speaker 5: she is and why she's after me?
Speaker 2: Will you not without a few more effects, for instance,
Speaker 2: because she had some connection with your business?
Speaker 5: No, I have two men working with me, A strong
Speaker 5: one named Harlan Casey, who sees that my cash gets
Speaker 5: safely to where it's going, and a smart one named
Speaker 5: Joe Temple, who knows what to buy with it. She
Speaker 5: doesn't belong to either of them.
Speaker 2: Are you sure positive?
Speaker 5: Casey hates all women, even me, I think, And Joe Temple, well,
Speaker 5: Joe's a wonderful guy, you hint like a woman falling
Speaker 5: in love with a fellow named Joe Temple.
Speaker 2: Can't they talk about it further?
Speaker 5: Why Temple and Katy have been in San Francisco all
Speaker 5: week on a deal?
Speaker 2: A big deal.
Speaker 5: It'll make or break. It's every set I have is
Speaker 5: tied up in it.
Speaker 2: What about you and Joe Temple?
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, perhaps this will explain. I planned to go
Speaker 5: away this weekend, but I changed my mind because I
Speaker 5: didn't want to missus letters. I know it sounds funny,
Speaker 5: but it's true.
Speaker 2: Those must be some letters.
Speaker 5: They are like the one I got this morning. It's
Speaker 5: half business, all right, complete account of how hard he
Speaker 5: and Casey worked for me yesterday in San Francisco. But
Speaker 5: the rest of it is to me personally.
Speaker 2: I don't want to sound old fashioned missus Lebarb.
Speaker 6: But what about my husband?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Yeah, that was a mistake. I couldn't live with one thing.
Speaker 5: I can't Stan Marlow was being lied to. It leaves
Speaker 5: me vindictive. I'm suing for divorce right now. Vince lebar
Speaker 5: is a human elite, just cold and spineless and parasitic
Speaker 5: is the real thing.
Speaker 2: Okay, but why would your hitting your husband put a
Speaker 2: woman in slice on your trail. I don't know, all right, Terry,
Speaker 2: I'll worry about that too. Any idea where I can start?
Speaker 5: Just one? I pulled a switch on her yesterday model
Speaker 5: for about an hour. I traveled to the corner of
Speaker 5: Wilshire and Losienagether and lost her in traffic. There are
Speaker 5: several dancing schools around there. Is that worth anything?
Speaker 2: Maybe? What kind of car was she driving?
Speaker 5: We were both walking. She's tall and brunette, and I've
Speaker 5: seen todes with nicer eyes.
Speaker 2: Can't guarantee anything.
Speaker 5: I'll keep my fingers crossed. Marlow here take the hundred
Speaker 5: do which you can report to me at my place.
Speaker 6: Two or four Beechwood Circle.
Speaker 2: Okay, pardon, share your drinks? Oh thanks here, Thank you, sir,
Speaker 2: to your success private dependent, see your health silk merchant
Speaker 2: drink cording. Slugging it down was no way to treat
Speaker 2: a good dry martini, but I figured it was time.
Speaker 2: I was on my way. I drove out the Wheelshare
Speaker 2: in Losienegas and slowed down enough to look at all
Speaker 2: four corners. It was a drug store with a specialized
Speaker 2: garbage cans to drive in called Scutties. A branch to
Speaker 2: the Bank of Los Angeles and the flying red Horse
Speaker 2: over a mobile gas station. I drove on again. When
Speaker 2: I spotted a pair of black slacks going into a
Speaker 2: dancing studio, I half blocked down. It looked like a lead.
Speaker 2: But after two hours of staring at knobby knees and
Speaker 2: shorts and bulging hips and bloomers, all knocking themselves out
Speaker 2: for a mythical cleek lighted future, I was finally convinced
Speaker 2: that it was a dead end. Now. I got back
Speaker 2: into my car and headed up into the hills for
Speaker 2: Beechwood Circle in the slim hope that Terry could give
Speaker 2: me something more to go on. Her house at two
Speaker 2: o four was low and dainty and half hidden behind
Speaker 2: the tough, slender grace of a bamboo grove. The walk
Speaker 2: was guarded by a white marble Lion of Korea in
Speaker 2: the front door. When I finally found it turned out
Speaker 2: to be a sliding panel in a wall of oriental
Speaker 2: lettice work. As the door slid open, I was looking
Speaker 2: down the barrel of a snub nosed pistol felt very
Speaker 2: steady in the hands of a heart eyed brunette in
Speaker 2: a pair of black slacks.
Speaker 7: You've been looking high and low for me. Haven't your
Speaker 7: peeper ever since you left that day? I might have been,
Speaker 7: You're not the brightest.
Speaker 6: Character in the world.
Speaker 7: In spite of what you and your friends think.
Speaker 6: I spotted your car when she got in.
Speaker 7: It wasn't too tough to tag, where's Terry sleeping off
Speaker 7: a hangover from better day?
Speaker 2: To get the chatter? Where is she?
Speaker 7: Come on in and look? And that's no suggestion, sailor
Speaker 7: as an order. Move over there to the top.
Speaker 6: Of the stage.
Speaker 2: Sure, that's a good snot.
Speaker 6: Boy, you're late.
Speaker 5: You know I got what I came for, and now
Speaker 5: I'm in a hurry.
Speaker 2: Turn around looks oh oh? There were ten stairs down
Speaker 2: to the basement, and with a chivalry and forced by
Speaker 2: the forty five, I hit all with the first three.
Speaker 2: By the time I worked all the kingshout and was
Speaker 2: back upstairs again, she was gone. I started through the house,
Speaker 2: then slowly from one room to another, turning on lights
Speaker 2: as I went looking for I knew it was going
Speaker 2: to be a very sick plant. Well. I got as
Speaker 2: far as the study, where somebody had gone through the
Speaker 2: desk draws with what must have been a snowplow, and
Speaker 2: I still hadn't found Terry. I got that number feeling
Speaker 2: in my stomach. I started out a side door that
Speaker 2: opened into the patio, but then I heard a whistle
Speaker 2: from the front walk. I cut back through the house
Speaker 2: instead and waited near the door. Erry, Hey, Derry, can
Speaker 2: I come in this little Joe the Fresco kid? What
Speaker 2: happened your weekend trip? Honeia? Who are you? What do
Speaker 2: you want? Hi? Temple? How do you know me? Missus
Speaker 2: Lebbar hired me today just after she canceled the weekend.
Speaker 2: She gave me a rundown. You hired you? What do
Speaker 2: you mean? I'm a private detective named Mallow. Why would
Speaker 2: she hire you? Because she was being followed by a
Speaker 2: brunette and slack. She didn't like it. And that's all
Speaker 2: the information you're going to get. Relax, you say, Terry,
Speaker 2: isn't here, isn't home? Not so far? No man? Back
Speaker 2: here to the study, Temple. I want you to look
Speaker 2: at Temple. Somebody's gone through the desk in an awful hurry. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: I see what you mean. Maybe you know something about
Speaker 2: what's missing. Huh. You and missus Leabar were fairly close
Speaker 2: when I'm told the letters. The letters are gone. Terry
Speaker 2: kept my letters in this bottom drawer. By the way, Temple,
Speaker 2: where's your sidekick Colin Casey?
Speaker 8: I don't know.
Speaker 9: We both left San Francisco yesterday. He hates to fly,
Speaker 9: so I assume he took a train. He ought to
Speaker 9: be here in La Now. Well, you don't think Casey's
Speaker 9: mixed up in.
Speaker 2: This, do you. I don't know.
Speaker 10: It could be Vince Lebar. That's who it was that
Speaker 10: got those letters. It was Vince Lebar. They were really
Speaker 10: love letters. The business part was nothing. And Lebar is
Speaker 10: the dog in the manger kind of guy who wants
Speaker 10: everyone to be unhappy. If he had it's that fits Temple.
Speaker 2: With a smart lawyer, your letters to Terry becomes great
Speaker 2: a material for a counter suit for divorce. Sure he
Speaker 2: could make it stick and to get a fat settlement
Speaker 2: at a community property laws. And listen, here's what you doll.
Speaker 2: It's it's Terry, Terry temper wait Terry. Look at her, Marlow,
Speaker 2: look at her.
Speaker 6: She's dead.
Speaker 2: Matthews, hamside Mallow. Matthews is a dead one out here.
Speaker 2: A woman and got a pencil.
Speaker 11: Always go ahead.
Speaker 2: I'm at two old four Beechwood Circle. Woman was a
Speaker 2: client he was traangled with a green silk sash my
Speaker 2: laundry pajamas, Matthews. Sometime within the last I'd say hour.
Speaker 2: Her name was Terry Lebar and Ry Lebar.
Speaker 11: Wait a minute, month to listen. We gotta tell a
Speaker 11: type from a sheriff and empire are a gun come
Speaker 11: in five minutes ago?
Speaker 2: So wait a minute, Yeah.
Speaker 11: Says some guy named Jess Freeman form La was killed
Speaker 11: there this morning in a traffic accident. Was loaded with
Speaker 11: big dough, but doesn't look the type. The only other
Speaker 11: identification on him was a business card from one Terry Lebar. Yeah,
Speaker 11: you gotta help polanswer for that.
Speaker 2: Uh Temple, do you know anything about a man named
Speaker 2: Jess Freeman? He was killed in Ourgan today in a
Speaker 2: traffic accident. Had one of Terry's cards? Huh Freeman? Yeah, no, no,
Speaker 2: I don't remember how dice Matthew, what are you talking
Speaker 2: to him? Joe Temple, one of Terry Levar's associates here,
Speaker 2: haven't heard of Jess Freeman, said.
Speaker 11: Prince to Washington. The tattoo says he was in the
Speaker 11: Navy once still open him down now about out there?
Speaker 11: Any idea will killed him?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Maybe a brunette and slacks. I think got no
Speaker 2: where to find it.
Speaker 11: Well, it's dandy. Sit until we get them. I'll be
Speaker 11: right out there.
Speaker 2: Wait a minute, lieutenant, But look right now, it's only
Speaker 2: a hunch. But if I move fast and quiet, I
Speaker 2: might be able to develop it into something worthwhile. Okay, okay,
Speaker 2: but keep.
Speaker 11: In touch Field.
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, I still can't believe it about Terry Marlowe.
Speaker 2: Now look, look, why don't you just go home and
Speaker 2: take it easy. I'll tell Lieutenant Matthews where you can
Speaker 2: find your.
Speaker 9: Thanks thirteen ten Marlboro Drawing right now.
Speaker 2: Tell me you know where Vince Leabar lives.
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, the Laverne apartments on Rossmore. He's got a
Speaker 9: suite on the top floor seven eight seven A. And
Speaker 9: if it's any help, he drives a new Green Nash Sedan.
Speaker 9: But I thought you said that it was that brunette.
Speaker 2: I did. I did, And if Vince Leabar can't lead
Speaker 2: me to the lady in long pants, I'll leave my shirt.
Speaker 2: What's more, Matthews, we'll see to it personally. Yes, what
Speaker 2: do you want? I'm quiet conversation with Vince Leabar. I'm
Speaker 2: Philip marlow private detect. How exciting had I known you
Speaker 2: were coming out of bake the cake? Oh you're breaking
Speaker 2: me out. I was hired by your wife. Today your
Speaker 2: wife is dead, Labar. She was murdered, kerry murdered. Yeah, no,
Speaker 2: I you don't mind, I'll come in. Huh she was
Speaker 2: killed because of a packet of letters Labar. Oh, no
Speaker 2: kind of or a cinched to cause a big stir
Speaker 2: anybody's divorce cord started biking up to swing a countersuit.
Speaker 8: I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 2: Let us let us Joe Temple's let us to terry
Speaker 2: the ones you arranged to have stolen tonight. Oh you
Speaker 2: must be crazy. That wasn't part of the plan, Labla.
Speaker 2: That was one of those bum deals, A robbery that
Speaker 2: got out of hand, wind up as a murder. Where
Speaker 2: is she? Lablah? Who's the brunett and slacks? And where
Speaker 2: do I find her? You get out of here. I'll
Speaker 2: have the police shut out not only steel letters but
Speaker 2: as trays too. Huh. Like it's coy little number here
Speaker 2: at dog house. He's gott he's driving will shin Lessiga. Okay,
Speaker 2: that's all. Oh, now a gone man. They say you're
Speaker 2: yellow la blah. But you're not. You're just stupid.
Speaker 8: The terrace outside those doors, Mallow, those with the iron grill,
Speaker 8: going out there, go on. I don't think Terry's dead,
Speaker 8: and I don't think she hired you. I think you're
Speaker 8: working for that lousy louse Joe Temple, and if so,
Speaker 8: he'll need a battalion of private detectives before I'm thrue.
Speaker 2: Through right now, Laby, you're too dumb to see it.
Speaker 2: Go on clear over the.
Speaker 8: Rail, your back to me, seven floors down, marlow to
Speaker 8: a concrete driveway, just in case you get jumpy.
Speaker 3: In just a moment, the second act of Philip marlow
Speaker 3: But first, most people like to know what to expect.
Speaker 3: But on at least one CBS show, a great part
Speaker 3: of the fun is in what turns up on the
Speaker 3: spur of the moment. That show is Groucho Marks Great
Speaker 3: Quiz You Bet Your Life, heard every Wednesday Night on
Speaker 3: most of the same CBS stations. Now with our star
Speaker 3: Gerald Moore, we returned to the second act of Philip
Speaker 3: Marlowe and tonight's story The Vital Statistic, the.
Speaker 2: Moment Vince Lebar and the courage Caliber thirty two we
Speaker 2: held in his right hand made it out of the apopment.
Speaker 2: On the run for the elevator. I kicked through the
Speaker 2: plate glass door, and I spent the next two minutes
Speaker 2: ultimately swearing, straining, and nicking myself while I played contortionist
Speaker 2: in and out of the fancy snake grill work in
Speaker 2: my wrought iron cage, until finally I reached the inside hand.
Speaker 2: I was free out and over to the telephone in
Speaker 2: a big hurry, because for my money, the icing on
Speaker 2: Labar's voice left Joe Temple someplace on the short side.
Speaker 2: What the life insurance people call good risk? Hello, Marlow
Speaker 2: Temple listened hard. Your life's in danger? What Leabar? You
Speaker 2: had him tagged from the first after those letters? All right?
Speaker 2: But what about the girl in swat Well? I think
Speaker 2: she might have a connection with a drive in on
Speaker 2: Wilshore and Losienego, a place called Scotty's In. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: check it now. Tell me any word from Terry's muscle
Speaker 2: man yet? Yeah, oh nothing, Marlow?
Speaker 11: But look, can I meet you and talking?
Speaker 2: No? No, Vince Lebar had a gun and a short
Speaker 2: tempa when he left here. I think it's working easier.
Speaker 2: Just hey, waye from open windows temple. I'll caught you.
Speaker 2: He's got his inn. Was eating on the run in
Speaker 2: the finest California tradition. A mammoth circle of steel and
Speaker 2: the glass painted a dazzling yellow and blue, surrounded by
Speaker 2: a half a dozen cars containing teenaged couples with smudged
Speaker 2: lipstack and the giggles. The second after I pulled in
Speaker 2: and parked something in slacks with false eyelashes, a waist
Speaker 2: you could span with a handcuff, and a fixed front
Speaker 2: line chorus girls smiled with the cord mark ginger against
Speaker 2: my wind shoe, handed me a menu that still had
Speaker 2: the froth from an earlier customer's milkshake in one corner.
Speaker 2: Well famous dress coffee, ginger, clean information.
Speaker 6: Oh with you again?
Speaker 12: Look, baby, what I told you on the phone ten
Speaker 12: minutes ago?
Speaker 2: Still go huh about? What about Rose Fassetta?
Speaker 12: The girl you described long black hair, are nice shape,
Speaker 12: you're infatuated, but you don't have the name an address.
Speaker 2: So I was nice.
Speaker 12: I gave the name, told you to look the addressed
Speaker 12: up in the phone book.
Speaker 6: Period.
Speaker 2: Don't be so lazy, baby, Wait a minute, Ginger, I
Speaker 2: didn't call you before, but a dime cup of coffee.
Speaker 2: You'll bring you a ten buck tip if you tell
Speaker 2: me who did Hey?
Speaker 12: You want the guy who called? I don't know any names,
Speaker 12: but you're not him. He didn't talk up like you do.
Speaker 2: But what's all?
Speaker 12: The first baby roads sat has got a guy she's
Speaker 12: spoken for besides the handsome phone.
Speaker 2: You, sweetheart, this is business strictly, believe me. What's the address?
Speaker 12: Come on twenty four to twenty eight even hers drive
Speaker 12: bottom floor.
Speaker 2: Thanks, here, here's a ten I promise.
Speaker 12: You no, never mind, her name was pretty him, So
Speaker 12: why should I judge you besides beside what I like
Speaker 12: the way you said, sweetheart, come on back sometime, will you, baby?
Speaker 5: When you want more coffee?
Speaker 2: Okay, when I want more than coffee and less than murder,
Speaker 2: I will stay out of a ginger. It definitely double
Speaker 2: talk with the effect was what I wanted. Ginger with
Speaker 2: mouth wide open and staring after me like my ears
Speaker 2: were on backward. That way, she might be scared out
Speaker 2: of making a simple curiosity spike telephone call in the
Speaker 2: popular roads for setacase would trumpet my arrab loud, clear
Speaker 2: and prematurely. Ten minutes later, I was poked away from
Speaker 2: number twenty eight, twenty four, Havenhurst. As I got out
Speaker 2: of my car and started to taut the place, I
Speaker 2: found Vince Labar's green sedan on the opposite side of
Speaker 2: the street and carefully tucked into the shadows of a
Speaker 2: pair of long head taper tries. It was a good
Speaker 2: time for me to be careful. So when I knocked
Speaker 2: on the front door, which showed yellow light at the
Speaker 2: threshold and with the starting point for something not too
Speaker 2: close to music, I did it with the butt end
Speaker 2: of my thirty eighty Yeah is it ziggy front of Ginger's.
Speaker 2: She asked me to deliver you a message. Rows, All right,
Speaker 2: what's the message? Why you locked? Sunshine? Is no law
Speaker 2: against shooting ladies and knocking downstairs. I'll back off. Come on, move,
Speaker 2: but not too far the moment. I want you in
Speaker 2: between me and Vince lebar Who look, Angel, it's all
Speaker 2: real plane. Those suitcases behind you there are packed his
Speaker 2: cars outside. He's after the letter said oh no ah, there.
Speaker 7: Goes this now bus well paper your openers.
Speaker 2: Think get inside fast.
Speaker 6: Sure sure he played some particular tailor.
Speaker 2: That chair in the desk. Keep your hands in your lap.
Speaker 6: Okay, it'll please you.
Speaker 2: Miss the detective.
Speaker 7: I'll be very glad to after all, you're might guess
Speaker 7: and I nice.
Speaker 2: Now we talk like a little lady. Harrose Prince Lebo
Speaker 2: picked up the letters from you as scheduled, and you're
Speaker 2: getting ready to run because you killed Terry and you'd
Speaker 2: rather not be around for the question and answer period. Right,
Speaker 2: I didn't kill her.
Speaker 6: I just knocked it down.
Speaker 2: No, you didn't kill it. He just slowed down, a
Speaker 2: breathing somewhat with a pajama sash. You're wrong, copper, right,
Speaker 2: doesn't that any other way? Go on? Answer it?
Speaker 6: Who is it?
Speaker 2: Mister Shirley? What's going on then?
Speaker 7: Mister Setta, now the jerk who lives in the top
Speaker 7: half of this place along with a few thousands, don't
Speaker 7: open this door.
Speaker 2: I'm going to call the police. I just think we've
Speaker 2: heard a noise, did I? Mister Shirley?
Speaker 4: Wow, what's going on in here?
Speaker 2: Who are you? Never mind that? Now I get on
Speaker 2: the phone, call the police. Oh, oh yes, of course, certainly.
Speaker 6: Operate, Oh operate it.
Speaker 2: I want police her.
Speaker 6: Look here, you're a little mixed up about something.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you're just a kid who straightened me out.
Speaker 2: Just letters, you've got a Terry's place where written by
Speaker 2: Joe Temple, was your boyfriend Vince heading for Temple when
Speaker 2: he left here?
Speaker 6: I can't, I don't right, Maybe you wont now leave
Speaker 6: me alone?
Speaker 2: Not quite, mister Shirley that desk next year. There's a
Speaker 2: gun keep it on at the law right, ladies wanted
Speaker 2: for murder? Yes you should? Yeah, then shoot Shirley fast
Speaker 2: because if you don't, you kill you tell the cops.
Speaker 2: I'll fill in the blank, Slad not wait, Why must Julie?
Speaker 2: But it we both watch because a guy named Joe
Speaker 2: Temple needs my help a lot more than you do.
Speaker 2: The home address Temple had given me turned out to
Speaker 2: be lights in a quiet house on a quiet street
Speaker 2: named Marlboro. I was there, out of my car and
Speaker 2: running for the front door when they came. I chucked
Speaker 2: my gun out of the holes that got close into
Speaker 2: the building and moved up until I was on the
Speaker 2: line with a pair of half open patio doors. And
Speaker 2: I saw something I hadn't expected. On the floor that
Speaker 2: was littered with the broken lamb, pieces of oas and
Speaker 2: overturned furniture was Vince Laba, doubled up dead and standing
Speaker 2: over him, his face the color of soft cement of
Speaker 2: thirty two dangling and his limp right hand was Joe Temple.
Speaker 2: When he saw me, he tried to talk with the
Speaker 2: words jammed in his throat. When I stepped into the room,
Speaker 2: he began to tremble. Oh, I shot him. I couldn't
Speaker 2: help it. He was going to down Temple. Get hold
Speaker 2: of yourself. Got any brandy around over on that table
Speaker 2: near the phone. Yeah, he was out of his mind,
Speaker 2: an absolute mania. He said he was going to kill me.
Speaker 2: They lunched for him. There was a fight, and you
Speaker 2: came up with a gun. Huh. Started from me again.
Speaker 2: I pulled the trigger, and then I did it again
Speaker 2: a third time.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, think this. He brought the letters back, Marlowe. They're
Speaker 2: inside on the floor where he threw them.
Speaker 9: He said they didn't mean anything anymore, that he and
Speaker 9: that girl in the slacks had taken.
Speaker 2: Care of Terry Temples. He seemed to go crazy.
Speaker 9: He said I was a wife steamer, the cause of
Speaker 9: his trouble, and then I deserved death.
Speaker 2: Well that's what I dumped at him. It was terrible,
Speaker 2: marlow Yeah. Well, between the two of us, we've just
Speaker 2: about got all the answers, which is usually a good
Speaker 2: time to call the police. What do you mean just
Speaker 2: about got all the answers, Marlow? What else is there?
Speaker 2: Jess Freeman, the guy Lieutenant Matthews told us about when
Speaker 2: we were over at Terry's place. Remember, Oh, yes, that
Speaker 2: traffic crash and Empire oreicon. But why should that figure
Speaker 2: in this, Marlow? It shouldn't, but I think it does,
Speaker 2: Marlow Matthews. Another dead one on the Terry Lebar case.
Speaker 2: Vince Lebara husband. He was shot, Yeah, a guy named
Speaker 2: Joe Temple. It was self defense. We're coming in, Matthews.
Speaker 2: I'll take that gun. Temple, you get the letters. Let's go,
Speaker 2: and we got into my car and started downtown. Temple
Speaker 2: was more relaxed, and he talked easily until we passed
Speaker 2: Vince Lava's sparkling green sedan parked the block away, once
Speaker 2: again close into the shadows and once again empty realm.
Speaker 2: The sight of it closed him up tight for the
Speaker 2: rest of the trip. When we walked into police headquarters
Speaker 2: and through the quarter of a mile of glossy carter
Speaker 2: leading to the door mark homicide, he didn't open up
Speaker 2: any But it didn't matter really, because it's police rule
Speaker 2: never to talk to two men about the same thing
Speaker 2: at the same time. I was first. Matthews said hello
Speaker 2: without shaking hands, waved me into an uncomfortable seat, and
Speaker 2: then with his pipe, well, I brought him up to
Speaker 2: date and it was his turn.
Speaker 4: The Rose Faceta killed Terry Labar so that she could
Speaker 4: get the letters Joe Temple had written. Did this so
Speaker 4: that her boyfriend, Vince Labar could raise a lot of
Speaker 4: fuss in divorce court with the letters, file a counter suit,
Speaker 4: that kind of stuff.
Speaker 2: That's the whole deal.
Speaker 4: Yeah, with Temple making it a double ahead of by
Speaker 4: shooting Vince from Vince came to kill him.
Speaker 2: That's it, Matthews. If you believe Temple, huh. And if
Speaker 2: Temple hadn't slipped, Now, what are you getting at, Phil?
Speaker 2: When I was on the phone with you earlier at night,
Speaker 2: you asked me if Temple or I knew anything about it.
Speaker 2: Jess Freeman was killed in a traffic accident and Empire, Oregon, right, right,
Speaker 2: But you didn't no, no, nor did I mention the
Speaker 2: town of Empire. It's a Temple. Get a half hour ago,
Speaker 2: just before I called you, Temple came up with that name.
Speaker 4: Oh, then Molly, hold my calls, Mooney, Molly, I mean
Speaker 4: that Joe Temple killed Terry lebar Rose.
Speaker 2: Just knocked her out and got the letters. Temple strangled
Speaker 2: while she was still unconscious. But why because a guy
Speaker 2: identified as Jess Freeman himself killed in a traffic accident.
Speaker 2: So a guy who I think was actually Holland Casey,
Speaker 2: Terry's two fisted assistant, together with Joe Temple, was crossing
Speaker 2: the boss Lager and that left Temple in a very
Speaker 2: hot spot save himself. He had a kill. Can you
Speaker 2: approve all this mode No, not a word of it.
Speaker 2: It's a conjecture, but conjecture that fits Matthews. When Temple
Speaker 2: found Terry unconscious in the gard and that was his chance,
Speaker 2: he took her. Look, Phil, Phil, you're guessing at night? Sure, sure,
Speaker 2: I'm guessing, but not in the dock. I know how
Speaker 2: these guys think an act. I've done too many cases
Speaker 2: not to know. And I listen for a minute, WILLI
Speaker 2: your Matthews? All right? Look, Temple had to get those
Speaker 2: letters back, right, the last one in particular, because in
Speaker 2: the last one, this is the way it's got a figure.
Speaker 2: He had lied to Terry about being in San Francisco
Speaker 2: with Casey yesterday when actually Casey was an Empire Oregon.
Speaker 2: When Casey was killed up there, the fact was bound
Speaker 2: to come out. Yeah, it's it's a good run. You
Speaker 2: let me finish, please, all right, finish. Temple knew Terry
Speaker 2: would find out. He knew that she couldn't stand a
Speaker 2: liar and a partner who double cross it. Temple knew
Speaker 2: that she'd get him and ruin him if it took
Speaker 2: up the rest of her life. So he came back
Speaker 2: to get the letter before she could read it. But
Speaker 2: she hadn't left Towna's plan, ironically enough, because she didn't
Speaker 2: want to miss one of his letters.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but look, I'm a policeman still, I got a hat,
Speaker 4: all right, all right, you're the policeman.
Speaker 2: You got labs and technicians. You'll get the facts, and
Speaker 2: I'll bet you figures, just like I said. Okay, Phil, okay.
Speaker 2: And another thing, Matthews. But when you talk to Temple
Speaker 2: who's holding the packet of letters now like a real
Speaker 2: good boy, Yeah, you'll find the last one missing. It'll
Speaker 2: be in his pocket. I'll bet you on that. I'll
Speaker 2: let her to do it. Lieutenant.
Speaker 4: There was one exception, Phil, How did Temple maneuver all
Speaker 4: this getting the letters from Rose, paset it then setting
Speaker 4: up at self defense deal?
Speaker 2: I don't know, but my guess is that Vince got
Speaker 2: the letters from Rose just before I arrived at her place.
Speaker 4: But when he got into his car, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: Temple was waiting, slugged him, drove back to his own house,
Speaker 4: dropped the body in the living room, shot him when
Speaker 4: he heard you.
Speaker 2: Coming, something like that. Man. See if you can't get
Speaker 2: it out that way, Oh, no worry, Phil, if it's true,
Speaker 2: we'll get it out. It'll be true.
Speaker 11: Oh.
Speaker 2: Now, would you ask mister Temple to come in, please,
Speaker 2: mister Mullow, I'll be glad to Lieutenant, say Temple. Lieutenant
Speaker 2: like to see him, all.
Speaker 9: Right, Marlowe, I think I can speak coherently now.
Speaker 2: Good. Good. They like to get the facts straight in there.
Speaker 2: Go ahead, Yes, of course, good night, marlow and thanks
Speaker 2: for your help. Oh good evening, mister Temple. Sit down
Speaker 2: and stop talking. When I got into my car, the
Speaker 2: new day was starting to push the black out of
Speaker 2: the sky, and the early morning air smelled fresh and
Speaker 2: cool and clean. Yeah, the whole night had been confused
Speaker 2: and complicated, but I knew that by the time Matthews
Speaker 2: miss with Temple, there'd be no questions left unanswered. That'd
Speaker 2: be great, wouldn't it if everything could be that way,
Speaker 2: no questions left unanswered.
Speaker 3: The Adventures of Philip Marlowe Bringing You Raymond Chandler's most
Speaker 3: famous character, star Gerald Moore, are produced and directed by
Speaker 3: Norman McDonald and are written for radio by Robert Mitchell
Speaker 3: and Gene Levitt. Gerald Moore may currently be seen starring
Speaker 3: in Republics The Blonde Bandit. Featured in the cast were
Speaker 3: Charlotte Lawrence Elliott Reed, Doris Singleton, Georgia Ellis, Bill Lally.
Speaker 2: And Hugh Thomas.
Speaker 3: Detective Lieutenant Matthews is played by Larry Dubkin. The special
Speaker 3: music is composed and conducted by Richard Arurun be sure
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Speaker 2: a corpse in a plush bungalow and a southern trawl
Speaker 2: behind a gun all had one thing in common. They
Speaker 2: moved through the same deep shadow.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back, Well, I somewhat more sedate reveal of the
Speaker 1: murderer in some ways makes a lot more sense than
Speaker 1: usual when Marlow will reveal what he knows or you know,
Speaker 1: not just Marlow, but they're a wide variety of different
Speaker 1: detectives who will basically tell what they know and put
Speaker 1: their lives in peril. Marlow really does the smart thing,
Speaker 1: you know, just pretends that he's totally been taken in
Speaker 1: and then once he gets into headquarters, then he reveals
Speaker 1: to the police that he's actually wise to what's going on.
Speaker 1: But at any rate, that will do it for today.
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