WEBVTT 1 00:00:28.719 --> 00:00:33.439 Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho. 2 00:00:33.679 --> 00:00:36.880 This is your host, Adam Graham. If you have a comment, 3 00:00:36.960 --> 00:00:41.039 send it to me Box thirteen at Great Detectives dot net, 4 00:00:41.039 --> 00:00:45.759 follow us on Twitter at Radio Detectives, and become one 5 00:00:45.799 --> 00:00:49.799 of our friends on Facebook, Facebook dot com slash Radio Detectives. 6 00:00:50.159 --> 00:00:52.439 Before we do get started, I want to encourage you, 7 00:00:52.439 --> 00:00:54.520 if you've not already, to pick up your copy of 8 00:00:54.679 --> 00:00:55.840 Slime Incorporated. 9 00:00:56.280 --> 00:00:58.320 It's my first detective. 10 00:00:58.679 --> 00:01:02.960 Novel and it mixes elements of classical detective fiction with 11 00:01:03.039 --> 00:01:06.719 a modern style. It's available as an audiobook through audible 12 00:01:06.760 --> 00:01:09.319 dot com where the iTunes stores. You can also pick 13 00:01:09.359 --> 00:01:11.799 it up as a paperback or an ebook. We have 14 00:01:11.840 --> 00:01:15.359 some great overall reviews on Amazon, so I think you 15 00:01:15.439 --> 00:01:16.239 will enjoy that. 16 00:01:16.599 --> 00:01:17.400 But now it's. 17 00:01:17.280 --> 00:01:21.200 Time for today's episode of the Adventures of Philip Marlow. 18 00:01:21.760 --> 00:01:26.319 The original air date May thirtieth of nineteen fifty and 19 00:01:26.359 --> 00:01:29.799 the title is The Bedside. 20 00:01:29.519 --> 00:01:36.200 Manners, Get This and Get It Straight. Crime is a 21 00:01:36.280 --> 00:01:38.879 sucker's road, and those who travel and wind up in 22 00:01:38.879 --> 00:01:41.159 the gut of the prison of the grave there's no 23 00:01:41.239 --> 00:01:43.439 other end. But they never learn. 24 00:01:45.959 --> 00:01:48.840 From the pen of Raimond Chandler, outstanding author of crime fiction, 25 00:01:49.000 --> 00:01:53.200 comes his most famous character in the Adventures of Philip 26 00:01:53.200 --> 00:02:06.000 marlow Now with Gerald Moore starred as Philip Marlowe, we 27 00:02:06.079 --> 00:02:10.199 bring you tonight's exciting story the bedside manners. 28 00:02:21.360 --> 00:02:33.680 In your head and hit the streets. I had Tommy, okay, kid, 29 00:02:34.000 --> 00:02:46.919 he thanks, have it easy now, sure. 30 00:02:46.120 --> 00:02:46.479 Can't go. 31 00:02:47.240 --> 00:03:05.199 Somebody give it a be Okay, just take it easy. 32 00:03:00.599 --> 00:03:04.000 Now. That's the way it happened two weeks ago, and 33 00:03:04.039 --> 00:03:06.039 they scraped me up off the pavement. I felt like 34 00:03:06.719 --> 00:03:10.360 everything must have been broken. God. Finally the doctor boiled 35 00:03:10.360 --> 00:03:12.759 it all down or A fractured tibia and the sordid 36 00:03:12.759 --> 00:03:17.080 bruises leaded me ten days in the hospital, tangled up 37 00:03:17.080 --> 00:03:20.479 with enough pulleys, weights and trapeze bars to rig a 38 00:03:20.560 --> 00:03:24.319 circus tent, after which I managed to get sprung with 39 00:03:24.400 --> 00:03:27.680 the peace and quiet of my own apartment. There on 40 00:03:27.759 --> 00:03:30.120 a special bed in my living room, I spent four 41 00:03:30.240 --> 00:03:33.759 days scratching my broken leg through an inch of plastic 42 00:03:33.840 --> 00:03:36.759 cast while I worried about the business I was missing, 43 00:03:37.759 --> 00:03:40.680 until finally Ordine Patterson, a girl with a multimillion dollar 44 00:03:40.759 --> 00:03:44.039 estate i'd worked for once, insisted on seeing me immediately 45 00:03:44.039 --> 00:03:46.680 about a job. Once she was sure I could handle 46 00:03:46.759 --> 00:03:48.240 even flat on my back. 47 00:03:49.039 --> 00:03:51.120 Phil, it's about my brother. 48 00:03:51.680 --> 00:03:54.800 Another jam huh, yes, Wait a minute, I gotta get comforted. 49 00:03:55.039 --> 00:03:57.080 I guess your father knew his son pretty well when 50 00:03:57.080 --> 00:04:00.960 he left. He left all that dough and your hands 51 00:04:01.000 --> 00:04:01.800 are being. 52 00:04:01.680 --> 00:04:05.240 Yes, only this time, I sincerely believe Mayna has learned 53 00:04:05.240 --> 00:04:05.680 this lesson. 54 00:04:05.680 --> 00:04:05.960 Phil. 55 00:04:06.400 --> 00:04:10.520 He's worried, sick and frankly, so am I? 56 00:04:10.560 --> 00:04:13.240 So am I if I can straighten this leg out? Well, 57 00:04:13.240 --> 00:04:14.800 if you think I can help in this condition, it 58 00:04:14.800 --> 00:04:17.160 can't be too serious. Hey, before you sit down and 59 00:04:17.160 --> 00:04:18.160 reach me cigarette, will you? 60 00:04:18.240 --> 00:04:18.399 Yeah? 61 00:04:18.439 --> 00:04:22.639 Sure, sure, Phil? Here it is thanks Phil. 62 00:04:22.959 --> 00:04:25.920 Last Saturday night, Maynard went out on a binge. He 63 00:04:25.959 --> 00:04:28.959 got home at four o'clock in the morning, awfully intoxicated. 64 00:04:29.040 --> 00:04:31.279 No, it's not unusual for Mayna, is it. No? 65 00:04:31.600 --> 00:04:36.439 Except this time he was frightened, Phil, scared stiff. Well, 66 00:04:36.480 --> 00:04:39.480 that's just the point. We don't know. He was so 67 00:04:39.800 --> 00:04:43.120 drunky he couldn't remember anything, didn't know where he'd been. 68 00:04:43.160 --> 00:04:45.639 Or with whom Phil. 69 00:04:45.720 --> 00:04:46.000 It was. 70 00:04:46.240 --> 00:04:49.519 It was terrible. This was last Saturday. Why you're so worried? 71 00:04:49.839 --> 00:04:51.600 And it happened surely by now you'd have heard. 72 00:04:51.720 --> 00:04:54.879 But something did happen, Phil. This morning I got a 73 00:04:54.879 --> 00:04:56.680 phone call from a man who meant business. 74 00:04:56.720 --> 00:04:57.199 Believe me. 75 00:04:58.279 --> 00:05:00.199 I made notes on a memo pad while he took 76 00:05:00.199 --> 00:05:03.800 so I wouldn't forget any of it. Here, Dad, here, 77 00:05:04.120 --> 00:05:04.720 here read it. 78 00:05:04.800 --> 00:05:10.800 No, this is fish Fish, Yes, tell maned fifty gees 79 00:05:11.319 --> 00:05:14.120 important money by tomorrow or trouble. 80 00:05:14.759 --> 00:05:16.720 Then he hung up on me, Phil. 81 00:05:17.120 --> 00:05:19.839 Fish did you have Mane ever hear him before? 82 00:05:20.000 --> 00:05:20.240 Well? 83 00:05:20.279 --> 00:05:22.600 I certainly didn't. And when I asked Maynard he didn't 84 00:05:22.600 --> 00:05:26.879 know him either. He had a oh a cold, heavy 85 00:05:27.000 --> 00:05:29.240 voice and spoke with a thick list. 86 00:05:29.360 --> 00:05:30.839 You want me to pick this fish for him? 87 00:05:31.040 --> 00:05:33.959 Yes, so I'll know why Maynard? Oh was that much money? 88 00:05:34.240 --> 00:05:36.240 And now, look, baby, I'm bed ridden. I'm stuck. I 89 00:05:36.240 --> 00:05:37.279 can't even move that. 90 00:05:37.439 --> 00:05:38.240 I know that, Peel. 91 00:05:38.279 --> 00:05:40.959 But you have the phone here, a lot of contacts 92 00:05:40.959 --> 00:05:44.959 and plenty of diplomacy. If this is something I can 93 00:05:45.000 --> 00:05:47.040 get made it out of by paying that money, then 94 00:05:47.079 --> 00:05:47.480 I'll pay. 95 00:05:47.680 --> 00:05:50.920 Okay, baby, I'll try. But look, if it's outside the law, turn. 96 00:05:50.800 --> 00:05:52.720 May it in. Yes, yes, I'm aware of that. 97 00:05:52.839 --> 00:05:55.839 All right? Where do I start? Where did he start? Saturday? 98 00:05:55.959 --> 00:06:00.399 At the Colony Club with a female named Feofman. Well, 99 00:06:00.519 --> 00:06:02.920 whatever happened must have been done there. That's why I 100 00:06:02.920 --> 00:06:05.879 thought of you feel. You know the Colony Club, Well, I. 101 00:06:05.839 --> 00:06:08.120 Know the Scotch's Johnny Walker and sid Ray Feels the 102 00:06:08.160 --> 00:06:08.839 owner of that song. 103 00:06:09.160 --> 00:06:11.839 That may be enough. Will you want to talk to. 104 00:06:11.839 --> 00:06:14.079 Me in it? Yeah? Yeah, send him over in about now. 105 00:06:14.560 --> 00:06:17.519 Yes, he'll be here. And that alphin girl's number is 106 00:06:17.639 --> 00:06:19.560 Sunset oh one four four. 107 00:06:19.480 --> 00:06:22.759 O one four four okay, Ordeine, I'll get him at 108 00:06:22.839 --> 00:06:29.480 least my dial finger isn't Hello, what fish? 109 00:06:29.920 --> 00:06:31.319 I know my pigeons with you now? 110 00:06:31.439 --> 00:06:32.079 I followed her. 111 00:06:32.480 --> 00:06:35.120 Don't clip her wings? Well back out now where you 112 00:06:35.160 --> 00:06:35.720 still can't. 113 00:06:35.800 --> 00:06:36.439 I'm wanting you. 114 00:06:38.639 --> 00:06:41.800 Still? Who who was that you? You look upset? 115 00:06:42.199 --> 00:06:46.920 Yeah? Well my uh my horse just ran fourth. Look 116 00:06:46.920 --> 00:06:50.079 you better run along now or dean okay, and stay 117 00:06:50.079 --> 00:06:59.040 out of the dark corners, huh. In spite of my 118 00:06:59.120 --> 00:07:01.360 sitting duck position, and I told myself that a private 119 00:07:01.360 --> 00:07:04.399 detective who listens to warnings today is out of business tomorrow. 120 00:07:05.199 --> 00:07:07.120 So I put in a call for sid Rayhaield at 121 00:07:07.120 --> 00:07:09.800 the Colony Club. Sid was out, so I left a 122 00:07:09.800 --> 00:07:12.360 message for him to get in touch with me. Next, 123 00:07:12.399 --> 00:07:15.240 I tried fay Altman, but the Sunset number went unanswered. 124 00:07:16.000 --> 00:07:17.959 After that, I started checking for the next best thing 125 00:07:18.000 --> 00:07:20.879 to legs. I could think of a guy named Hunger 126 00:07:20.959 --> 00:07:24.920 Molloy by profession, or robing bookie by appearance of slouch 127 00:07:24.959 --> 00:07:29.480 and threadbare hounds tooth propped against any convenient lamp post. Hunger, 128 00:07:29.480 --> 00:07:32.000 by some peculiar instinct, either knew I could find out 129 00:07:32.000 --> 00:07:37.000 about anything, especially slightly illegal, and because I'd once brought 130 00:07:37.040 --> 00:07:38.600 him out of a tight spot, he loved me like 131 00:07:38.600 --> 00:07:41.720 a brother. I finally located him in a pool hall 132 00:07:41.800 --> 00:07:43.639 on Melrose and told him what I needed to know. 133 00:07:44.480 --> 00:07:46.079 He promised it was as good as done and was 134 00:07:46.079 --> 00:07:49.279 off to the canning club and I would hear from him. Well. 135 00:07:49.279 --> 00:07:51.519 That left me with nothing to do but scratch my 136 00:07:51.639 --> 00:07:54.360 cast again, worry about my gun being in the desk 137 00:07:54.439 --> 00:07:58.839 drawer and my office, think about fish and wait. Things 138 00:07:58.879 --> 00:08:00.680 went like that for forty five five minutes, and then 139 00:08:01.959 --> 00:08:11.199 come in. Who is it? Who's there? 140 00:08:12.920 --> 00:08:14.519 Why it's me Hunger. 141 00:08:15.000 --> 00:08:17.560 Oh, what's the matter, Philip, you're jumping? 142 00:08:18.120 --> 00:08:19.639 Yeah, I'm real glad to see you, fella. 143 00:08:19.879 --> 00:08:23.680 Likewise, I have fear under the weather has it. 144 00:08:24.199 --> 00:08:27.199 No, it's bothering me a little. Look I brang you 145 00:08:27.279 --> 00:08:30.439 some flowers. Oh, hunger, you shouldn't be I know. 146 00:08:31.240 --> 00:08:33.200 I tried to get long stems, but then plants in 147 00:08:33.240 --> 00:08:38.039 the parking dunes the good this year? Hey, listen, are 148 00:08:38.039 --> 00:08:40.039 you sure you gave me the right dope on the phone, Philip? 149 00:08:40.159 --> 00:08:41.960 Sure, sure, I'm sure. Why what'd you find out? 150 00:08:42.440 --> 00:08:43.159 That's just it? 151 00:08:43.399 --> 00:08:43.720 Nothing. 152 00:08:44.240 --> 00:08:46.399 I went to the Colney Club and got talking around, 153 00:08:46.480 --> 00:08:48.919 but not one thing worth medicine went on there Saturday night. 154 00:08:49.000 --> 00:08:51.000 Well maybe it started there and moved out, huh. 155 00:08:51.039 --> 00:08:51.799 I tried that. 156 00:08:52.519 --> 00:08:54.639 Some of the customers went out to the valley after 157 00:08:54.679 --> 00:08:57.440 the shoot, little dice. Now the bunch moved on to 158 00:08:57.480 --> 00:08:59.279 that big John on Adams with some poker. 159 00:09:00.080 --> 00:09:04.799 That's all gambling could be a gambling set up. Were 160 00:09:04.799 --> 00:09:05.679 they big games? 161 00:09:06.039 --> 00:09:10.399 No, just the usual, nothing extra at all, And especially 162 00:09:10.440 --> 00:09:12.440 I couldn't been down a thing on any fifty. 163 00:09:12.240 --> 00:09:14.240 J's changing hands are a positive? Hunger. 164 00:09:14.440 --> 00:09:17.480 Well, you don't ask too many questions in that league, Philip, 165 00:09:17.519 --> 00:09:20.279 But I'm pretty sure nobody got rich, right I heard 166 00:09:20.559 --> 00:09:20.759 you know? 167 00:09:22.000 --> 00:09:23.080 I got a hint at least. 168 00:09:23.159 --> 00:09:25.720 Okay, Well, look what about this guy named Fish? Blank. 169 00:09:26.279 --> 00:09:29.080 Some new faces in town, but no high rollers. Answering 170 00:09:29.080 --> 00:09:33.279 to fish in the background. Yeah, some pick and shovel 171 00:09:33.320 --> 00:09:36.399 clean in a nice way. Been digging nuggets here in 172 00:09:36.440 --> 00:09:39.200 there for a year or so. The latest is the 173 00:09:39.200 --> 00:09:41.759 gill Edge punk. You want to know about Maynard Patterson? 174 00:09:44.320 --> 00:09:45.159 Can I have one of these? 175 00:09:45.279 --> 00:09:46.559 Yeah, go ahead, feed your face. 176 00:09:49.399 --> 00:09:53.759 Incidentally, they was among those president of the county Saturday nine 177 00:09:53.799 --> 00:09:54.799 if that means something to you. 178 00:09:56.279 --> 00:09:59.399 And that's about it, Philip, Okay, Hunger, thanks amitting. 179 00:10:00.120 --> 00:10:02.639 Sorry I couldn't be more help, but I think you're 180 00:10:02.639 --> 00:10:07.039 getting a bump pitch Well, visitors, how you I got 181 00:10:07.039 --> 00:10:08.279 a back way out of here, It won't. 182 00:10:08.039 --> 00:10:09.879 Look such a sure, sure bedroom, Hunky, you can go 183 00:10:09.879 --> 00:10:12.080 out the window and down the fire escape. Wait a minute, 184 00:10:12.120 --> 00:10:13.320 is that new shirt? No? 185 00:10:13.440 --> 00:10:14.960 I come into a bit of clink, so I had 186 00:10:15.000 --> 00:10:15.559 it washed. 187 00:10:16.360 --> 00:10:17.600 I hope you feel a better, Philippo. 188 00:10:17.799 --> 00:10:25.759 Yeah, thanks, Come in, Ordine, you wanted to see me. 189 00:10:25.840 --> 00:10:28.879 Mister mollow, sorry about your leg. 190 00:10:29.000 --> 00:10:31.960 I'm sorry about it. Tool, I can't get comfortable. Heyy 191 00:10:32.000 --> 00:10:34.399 I hear you really tied one on the other night. 192 00:10:34.440 --> 00:10:36.919 I kid you have it, but I'm through mister motow. 193 00:10:36.960 --> 00:10:40.720 I swear yeah, sure, so thanks. What about the gambling 194 00:10:40.720 --> 00:10:41.759 loves your head over that too? 195 00:10:42.200 --> 00:10:45.399 Yeah, I guess I do, far as my allowance goes. 196 00:10:45.399 --> 00:10:47.440 Anyway, Now, allow Look, I want you to tell me 197 00:10:47.559 --> 00:10:49.039 or you remember about Saturday night. 198 00:10:49.960 --> 00:10:52.200 Well, I I went to the Colony Club with Faye. 199 00:10:52.600 --> 00:10:53.320 That's my girl. 200 00:10:54.000 --> 00:10:55.600 By the way, how do you write stuff like Fay 201 00:10:55.679 --> 00:10:59.200 on your allowance? Just to get then that skipper skipp 202 00:10:59.200 --> 00:10:59.720 it go ahead? 203 00:11:00.320 --> 00:11:03.240 While I was drinking quite a bit. By one o'clock, 204 00:11:03.279 --> 00:11:06.279 I guess I was pretty fuzzy. I lost face someplace. 205 00:11:07.080 --> 00:11:10.039 Then I went outside for some air, and from there 206 00:11:10.080 --> 00:11:11.159 on it's just a blank. 207 00:11:11.440 --> 00:11:13.240 Well. Now, look, if you didn't pass out cold, you're 208 00:11:13.240 --> 00:11:15.200 bound to have some flashes you can remember. I want 209 00:11:15.240 --> 00:11:15.480 it all. 210 00:11:16.240 --> 00:11:18.200 Well, I do remember a couple of things, mister Montague. 211 00:11:19.000 --> 00:11:21.720 The more like a dream than anything else. I seem 212 00:11:21.759 --> 00:11:25.320 to remember a big, old fashioned house. It was dark 213 00:11:25.360 --> 00:11:30.240 and gloomy, with high ceilings and old ornate brass chandeliers. 214 00:11:30.600 --> 00:11:32.440 I don't know how I got there or what I 215 00:11:32.480 --> 00:11:32.919 was doing. 216 00:11:33.200 --> 00:11:34.000 Were you alone? 217 00:11:34.919 --> 00:11:37.799 Well, I don't think so. I've got a man's face 218 00:11:37.799 --> 00:11:40.440 in my mind, a flabby guy in a silk shirt. 219 00:11:40.480 --> 00:11:42.879 He had big hands, freckled on the backs of him, 220 00:11:43.080 --> 00:11:46.320 who was kind of a reddish hair on him. I 221 00:11:46.360 --> 00:11:47.679 remember him against something green? 222 00:11:48.000 --> 00:11:48.639 Did he lisp? 223 00:11:49.759 --> 00:11:53.279 I can't even remember, and just thinking about him gives 224 00:11:53.320 --> 00:11:55.120 me the willies. But I don't know why. I can't 225 00:11:55.120 --> 00:11:58.559 figure out why. I talked to face. She waited for 226 00:11:58.559 --> 00:12:00.360 me until the colony closed, and then she went home. 227 00:12:01.559 --> 00:12:02.720 She was pretty mad about it. 228 00:12:02.759 --> 00:12:04.879 Are you sure that's all you can remember? Yep? 229 00:12:05.399 --> 00:12:08.639 That's everything. How does it make any sense at all? 230 00:12:09.159 --> 00:12:11.960 Not much? Sounds like you could have been mixed up 231 00:12:12.000 --> 00:12:14.080 a poker game at a green top table and an 232 00:12:14.080 --> 00:12:15.960 old dump on Adam has lost your shirt to a 233 00:12:16.000 --> 00:12:17.000 fat guy named Fish. 234 00:12:17.240 --> 00:12:18.399 You think that's all there is doing her? 235 00:12:18.720 --> 00:12:21.159 Well, not quite all. There's the little matter of fifty 236 00:12:21.240 --> 00:12:22.279 thousand bucks you ow. 237 00:12:22.240 --> 00:12:27.840 Him fifty thousand. Look, mister Mollowey, if you and Ordine 238 00:12:27.840 --> 00:12:29.919 get me out of this mess, I swear I'll straighten up. 239 00:12:29.960 --> 00:12:31.360 I'll never get into trouble again. 240 00:12:31.120 --> 00:12:34.320 Honest, sonny boy. What you do later is your sister's headaches. Strictly. 241 00:12:34.600 --> 00:12:36.440 I got trouble enough lining things up, so you can 242 00:12:36.440 --> 00:12:38.679 get off the hook. I go on home and stay 243 00:12:38.679 --> 00:12:39.360 there like collya. 244 00:12:39.519 --> 00:12:44.960 Okay, Okay, mister Molowike, I know you don't like me, 245 00:12:45.000 --> 00:12:48.080 but well thanks. 246 00:12:47.879 --> 00:12:57.720 Anyhow, fifty thousand bucks. Oh yeah, sun said old one. 247 00:12:59.559 --> 00:13:09.600 Or for I have to put cast on so tight. Hello, Fay, 248 00:13:09.960 --> 00:13:11.679 my name is Phil Mallow. I've been trying to reach 249 00:13:11.720 --> 00:13:12.639 you for two hours. 250 00:13:13.000 --> 00:13:14.679 Maybe you need longer arms. 251 00:13:14.399 --> 00:13:17.120 Mister mom, just some conversation about Manard Pattison. I'm in 252 00:13:17.120 --> 00:13:19.759 my apartment number two, ten Granad Arms on Franklin. Can 253 00:13:19.799 --> 00:13:20.200 you come over? 254 00:13:20.679 --> 00:13:22.399 Why would I want to talk about Maynard to you 255 00:13:22.559 --> 00:13:24.320 in the first place, and why don't you come over 256 00:13:24.360 --> 00:13:25.039 here in the second? 257 00:13:25.200 --> 00:13:27.000 In the first place, I'm a private detective. In the 258 00:13:27.000 --> 00:13:30.159 second I got a busted leg. How about it? It's important. 259 00:13:30.840 --> 00:13:34.120 Well, I've never dated a private detective with a broken leg. 260 00:13:34.200 --> 00:13:37.799 Before it sounds dressing. I'm around the corner on Bronson. 261 00:13:37.840 --> 00:13:38.519 I'll be right there. 262 00:13:38.639 --> 00:13:50.120 Good out, goodbye, Faye, come on in well, sid Rayphiel 263 00:13:50.200 --> 00:13:51.120 in person yet. 264 00:13:51.279 --> 00:13:53.559 Yeah, the boys at the club told me about your 265 00:13:53.639 --> 00:13:55.639 urgent call peepers, so I came right out. 266 00:13:55.840 --> 00:13:57.360 Well, if i'd known you were coming out of make 267 00:13:57.360 --> 00:14:00.200 the snakes, let's get the cracks. I know what you want. Well, 268 00:14:00.200 --> 00:14:03.480 then you're clairvoyant. Because I'm not sure myself yet. Try this. 269 00:14:04.039 --> 00:14:06.639 You're working for Udine Patterson like you did once before? 270 00:14:06.679 --> 00:14:09.279 Because the punk brother hers isn't a bad jam with 271 00:14:09.360 --> 00:14:12.080 one mister Fish, Well. 272 00:14:12.639 --> 00:14:14.559 Yeah, it's quite neat, quite neat. You happen to know 273 00:14:14.600 --> 00:14:14.919 the guy? 274 00:14:15.000 --> 00:14:17.159 Yeah, well I happen to know the guy. That's why 275 00:14:17.159 --> 00:14:19.360 I'm here to tip you, because you're a friend of 276 00:14:19.399 --> 00:14:22.399 mine more or less. So I say, leave it alone, 277 00:14:22.440 --> 00:14:23.600 my get out of it, stay out. 278 00:14:23.639 --> 00:14:25.799 It's none of your business. You know, you talk like 279 00:14:25.840 --> 00:14:28.840 a man with a personal angle. What I ort to 280 00:14:28.840 --> 00:14:30.679 split your lip for that? I come here to do 281 00:14:30.759 --> 00:14:33.240 your turn it easy. Mind your bedside man has said 282 00:14:33.240 --> 00:14:33.919 I'm an invalid. 283 00:14:33.919 --> 00:14:35.360 You'll be worse than that if you don't back out 284 00:14:35.360 --> 00:14:37.120 of this. I'm telling you this guy Fish is too 285 00:14:37.120 --> 00:14:38.480 hot to handle mylow and you better? 286 00:14:39.840 --> 00:14:42.720 Who's that? How should I know? For a sick room? 287 00:14:42.759 --> 00:14:45.159 Is joints becoming more like Hollywood and Fine by the minute? 288 00:14:45.200 --> 00:14:46.720 I took a long chance coming here. I got to 289 00:14:46.720 --> 00:14:47.600 get out without being seen. 290 00:14:47.639 --> 00:14:50.279 Well, try the bedroom window and fire escape. Everybody else does. 291 00:14:50.320 --> 00:14:51.360 Don't let them until I'm gone. 292 00:14:51.399 --> 00:14:52.240 You hear it ain't healthy? 293 00:14:55.600 --> 00:14:56.519 Said said? 294 00:14:56.519 --> 00:14:58.720 What is it? Sid? 295 00:15:00.919 --> 00:15:08.879 Oh this stinking leg it's going, mister fish, I suppose 296 00:15:08.919 --> 00:15:11.639 that makes me. 297 00:15:12.440 --> 00:15:13.279 From the restaurant. 298 00:15:14.159 --> 00:15:15.879 Are you all right and mellow? 299 00:15:16.320 --> 00:15:19.480 Yeah? Yeah, it's the I'm okay, I'm fine. 300 00:15:19.639 --> 00:15:22.200 Really, I thought you was talking to somebody. 301 00:15:22.440 --> 00:15:24.840 No, no, I was reading. I didn't hear the buzzer. 302 00:15:25.000 --> 00:15:26.960 Oh yeah, I know what you mean. 303 00:15:27.360 --> 00:15:31.960 Sometimes I get real carried away myself. Look, I fixed 304 00:15:32.000 --> 00:15:35.840 up your dinner everything, just like you're ordered here. 305 00:15:36.240 --> 00:15:37.720 No, missie, I don't think I'll eat right now. I 306 00:15:37.799 --> 00:15:39.360 just put the tray down and beat it. Huh like 307 00:15:39.399 --> 00:15:39.960 a good girl. 308 00:15:40.120 --> 00:15:41.639 Yeah, but what about the dishes? 309 00:15:42.080 --> 00:15:43.720 Oh get him in the morning. Will you get out 310 00:15:43.720 --> 00:15:44.279 of here while. 311 00:15:44.159 --> 00:15:44.480 You go on? 312 00:15:44.960 --> 00:15:47.759 Yee, we're okay, good night, mister. 313 00:15:49.480 --> 00:15:54.840 Okay fish, the girl's gone. Oh come on in? Did 314 00:15:54.919 --> 00:15:58.399 you hear me? I said, come on in. I guess 315 00:15:58.399 --> 00:15:59.720 I'm as ready as I'll ever be. 316 00:16:12.240 --> 00:16:14.600 In just a moment the second act of Philip Marlowe. 317 00:16:14.600 --> 00:16:18.120 But first, this Wednesday Night, CBS brings you the premiere 318 00:16:18.159 --> 00:16:21.240 of a bright new musical show, The ABC's of Music, 319 00:16:21.279 --> 00:16:25.480 starring Robert Q. Lewis and Ralph Flanagan's orchestra. It promises 320 00:16:25.480 --> 00:16:28.039 a half hour of top Hits and Top Entertainment every 321 00:16:28.039 --> 00:16:31.919 Wednesday on CBS, when also you hear the hilarious Groucho Marx, 322 00:16:31.960 --> 00:16:34.159 squiz show, You Bet Your Life and the drama of 323 00:16:34.240 --> 00:16:38.440 Doctor Christian. The ABC's of Music, Graucho Marx and Doctor 324 00:16:38.519 --> 00:16:42.600 Christian come every Wednesday and most of these same CBS stations. 325 00:16:44.720 --> 00:16:45.399 Now with our. 326 00:16:45.279 --> 00:16:48.080 Star Gerald Moore, the second act of Philip Marlowe, and 327 00:16:48.120 --> 00:16:56.840 Tonight's story The Bedside Manners. 328 00:17:00.480 --> 00:17:04.359 The man is never ready to die. Really, sometimes saying 329 00:17:04.400 --> 00:17:08.000 you helps, sometimes, like when you're flat on your back 330 00:17:08.039 --> 00:17:11.319 waiting for a killer with a silencer might step into 331 00:17:11.359 --> 00:17:16.799 view through your bedroom door. I kept on waiting for 332 00:17:17.000 --> 00:17:20.039 sixty seconds each as long as a fall down an 333 00:17:20.079 --> 00:17:24.000 empty well. Once I thought I heard the window close, 334 00:17:25.599 --> 00:17:29.119 at least another five minutes went by, and I actually 335 00:17:29.200 --> 00:17:31.640 began to believe that for some reason, Fish had gone away, 336 00:17:33.119 --> 00:17:37.039 and it made the scoreboard really easy to read. Sid Rayfiel, 337 00:17:37.079 --> 00:17:38.880 a guy who knew his way around, had been killed 338 00:17:39.640 --> 00:17:42.519 and I hadn't been able to do a thing about it. 339 00:17:42.359 --> 00:17:45.240 It was time for called a homicide. But even as 340 00:17:45.240 --> 00:17:49.400 I reached for the phone, it went off Hello. I said, hello, 341 00:17:50.119 --> 00:17:53.440 last morning, Oh you got the phone fast, But still, 342 00:17:53.480 --> 00:17:56.319 what's on your slippery mind? Fish, something to. 343 00:17:56.279 --> 00:17:56.920 Pay attention to? 344 00:17:57.559 --> 00:17:57.599 You? 345 00:17:57.720 --> 00:17:59.240 See, Molly, you're only still alive. 346 00:17:59.039 --> 00:18:00.200 Because that's convenient me. 347 00:18:00.319 --> 00:18:02.359 Too bad you didn't feel that way about sid rayphield 348 00:18:02.440 --> 00:18:02.680 Ray if you. 349 00:18:02.799 --> 00:18:03.519 Got what he deserved. 350 00:18:04.119 --> 00:18:04.680 So will you? 351 00:18:05.440 --> 00:18:07.200 Like I said, you're only still a life because that's 352 00:18:07.200 --> 00:18:07.880 convenient to me. 353 00:18:08.359 --> 00:18:09.880 You're happen to be working for the lady who. 354 00:18:09.799 --> 00:18:11.119 Holds the purse strings go on. 355 00:18:11.599 --> 00:18:15.440 Therefore, that's very little more, Mallow, except this Maynard Patterson's 356 00:18:15.440 --> 00:18:18.279 a lousy poker player. On Saturday night he dropped fifty 357 00:18:18.319 --> 00:18:21.279 thousand to me fifty thousand and two markets Mellow, one 358 00:18:21.319 --> 00:18:23.680 for two thousand and the other for forty eight. I 359 00:18:23.680 --> 00:18:24.799 want both paid promptly. 360 00:18:24.799 --> 00:18:27.880 You want a thing not quite Manad Patterson doesn't remember 361 00:18:27.880 --> 00:18:30.480 what happens Saturday night. Oh maybe you know all about it, 362 00:18:30.480 --> 00:18:31.880 and you're making this up as you go along. 363 00:18:32.759 --> 00:18:33.839 No, Mallow, that's. 364 00:18:33.680 --> 00:18:34.319 Not the case. 365 00:18:34.839 --> 00:18:37.119 If you drag yourself to the window sill in your bedroom, 366 00:18:37.160 --> 00:18:38.319 you'll find all the proof you need. 367 00:18:38.319 --> 00:18:39.880 What do you mean that I left. 368 00:18:39.759 --> 00:18:42.279 One of the markets there in a white envelope, the 369 00:18:42.279 --> 00:18:45.039 one for two thousand, Anna and the poor little rich 370 00:18:45.079 --> 00:18:47.880 boy's own handwriting. I left it there so you'd know 371 00:18:47.920 --> 00:18:50.680 I'm not kidnappout forty eight grand I'll be in touch. 372 00:18:50.880 --> 00:18:55.880 So long, mellow, lousy double crook, come in? 373 00:18:59.119 --> 00:18:59.559 Why not? 374 00:19:00.400 --> 00:19:03.200 How could a girl ever resist to welcome? In your voice? 375 00:19:03.839 --> 00:19:05.480 I'm Faye open, private detective. 376 00:19:05.519 --> 00:19:07.200 That figures what happened to you? 377 00:19:07.240 --> 00:19:09.440 Fall out of a transom or trip over a clue? 378 00:19:09.519 --> 00:19:12.240 Which neither? It was a wise crack? Honey, I leafed 379 00:19:12.279 --> 00:19:13.799 so hot, I fell down and broke my leg. 380 00:19:15.240 --> 00:19:16.200 Let's get down to business. 381 00:19:16.279 --> 00:19:19.079 Huh, yeah, for a stought of Faye. What's your connection 382 00:19:19.119 --> 00:19:21.720 with Manet Pattison? How tight is there not? Huh? 383 00:19:21.799 --> 00:19:22.519 What was that again? 384 00:19:22.640 --> 00:19:25.160 I said you and Mayne? Just how chummy are you too? 385 00:19:25.480 --> 00:19:28.519 I thought I heard you right? You know, Private Detective. 386 00:19:28.599 --> 00:19:30.039 I don't like being pushed around. 387 00:19:30.079 --> 00:19:32.079 Hey, there's a dead man in the bedroom. 388 00:19:34.119 --> 00:19:36.680 Dead man? Did you say it? Deadness? 389 00:19:36.759 --> 00:19:39.079 Sid Rayphael? He was murdered Faye. 390 00:19:40.119 --> 00:19:43.880 No, oh, not sid Gee. He was a nice guy, Marlo. 391 00:19:43.680 --> 00:19:44.960 Sharp but nice. 392 00:19:45.039 --> 00:19:45.200 Hey. 393 00:19:45.240 --> 00:19:46.279 I want you to go in there and look for 394 00:19:46.279 --> 00:19:49.640 an envelope on a window sill. No, I don't think 395 00:19:49.920 --> 00:19:52.000 it's important, Faye. I can't get out of this bed. 396 00:19:52.640 --> 00:19:54.480 I go on, it may help us tag Sid's killer. 397 00:19:56.839 --> 00:19:58.160 All right, I'll get it. 398 00:20:01.799 --> 00:20:05.119 Keep going key at the window sill, do you see it? 399 00:20:05.599 --> 00:20:10.559 Yeah? Here? Yeah, hey the window's broken in there. 400 00:20:10.559 --> 00:20:13.519 Do you know what? Yeah? Yeah, I'll faye. My question 401 00:20:13.599 --> 00:20:15.519