August 18, 2025 • 28 mins
The Adventures of Philip Marlowe was a radio series featuring Raymond Chandler as Philip Marlowe. He was a gritty, no nonsense American, hard-boiled detective; however, he was more complex than other hard-boiled detectives of the era. "Hard-boiled" refers to a gritter urban element to the detective genre. Marlowe could handle a gun and take a beating, but he was also college educated. He played chess and appreciated classical music. He had standards too, and he turned down jobs that didn't measure up to those standards.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
I'll up the coast with two murders behind me, telling
all of one Night's white haired old lady when the
clock struck swells. From the fan of Raymond Chandler, outstanding
author of prime fiction, comes his most famous character in
the Adventures of Philip Marlowe. Now with Gerald Moore starred
(00:27):
as Philip Marlowe, we bring you tonight's exciting story The
House that Jack Wiline built. They say, the end of
(00:50):
an old year in the start of a news a
good time to take Scot stand back and give yourself
the one sofa, do a reissue, and that tired list
of resolutions. But for detective that routine only means tallying
at the times you dirty your hands on someone else's
murdered or dirty your brain with their schemes. So you
let the height on your heart grow a little thicker,
full a part of your mind that feels things a
(01:12):
little farther back into a show, and maybe plan on
later hunting up a cup of kindness or two in someplace.
Not even that has a price tag on it these days.
So there was work to do and a feeder collect
before I could pick up the tab on an evening's fun.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
It's not a fair question, you said.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
I fantastic, I tell you crazy, but this is horrible.
Took a feat. It does a matter what's going on
the house, it's gone, it's vanished.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
All the papers, with the years of research and months
improving work in the jungles, viidings of preciousness all gone.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
We's go away from the very heart of a teeming city,
an entire house. Now, look, if you just sit down
and tell me who you are, no object. I must
have action. I must look at who are you? Professor? Physics? Paper?
Speaker 2 (01:50):
What's all?
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Let's talk about jungles and research and botanical research tropical herbs.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Is half another years of it all for nothing out
because the house has disappeared.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Book.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
You said that several times. Now look, look investigatings you've
had experience. I would I hire you? Now I go
to where a house should be, a house in which
I myself who stood? And where do I find that
they can lie hold in the ground?
Speaker 2 (02:08):
And oh would take it here?
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Come on over at the couch and lie down.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Make it easy.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Well, I'll be. It's all in such a shock, in
seven deaths, the long trip to get our papers, and
didn't define the house. Car I know. Now, Look if
you just lie there a few minutes until you feel better.
Well taught over a little closer to the beginning.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
What matter? What's happened here?
Speaker 1 (02:30):
The day the house has disappeared and the professor's collapsed
trying to tell me about I didn't I you? You? Oh?
Who are you? I'm professive pipe as a system? What
do you a system? Will Deephanie? Oh, I'm glad you
got it. Don't worry to do nothing. I'll be all.
Let's not waste any more time. You've got to find
out what happens about.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
House release prosessive types. But don't excite yourself. Let me
explain to the detective Mallow, Philip Mallow, I'm definitely crazy.
Hello the house, mister Mallow. I presume you got as
far as telling you that, for over a year was
been in South America, in the interior of Brazil studying
tropical earths.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Yeah, part of that get in there somewhere.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
I think it was what the culture.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Did tell 'em about the house. Then step at a time, TV,
I love, professor, I've got something here to do. Use
the world of good ah me too. I think I'll
try this take your time about it, I said, mister Monow.
Could I speak to you here? Of course?
Speaker 4 (03:21):
Oh the write backness to pipe.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
On volatile, isn't it?
Speaker 4 (03:27):
Yes, that's partner. As I was saying, mister Marlow, we've
been almost completely out of touch with civilization for over
a year.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Really, you never know it?
Speaker 4 (03:37):
Beauty of products before America. Mm, pleasing tomorrow. Let me
tell you what happened? Oh kay, professor's Piper's collaborator and partner.
The Nextville Stuyvesant Colt fever and died three weeks ago.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Where was this Brazil?
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Whether or not that's come from nothing?
Speaker 4 (03:51):
Then, looked mister Morlow. They had worked together for years,
and all their notes and papers were kept stored at
Sidistant's place here at Los Angeles. We came here to
get that material.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
The house was gone.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Fantastic, didn't it? Certainly is?
Speaker 4 (04:04):
We all thought Nteville Stivesant's wife, Katherine was living in it.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
She owned it in her name.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
Yes, Maxwell actually owned nothing.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
He didn't want to.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
He was gone all the time.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
It didn't sit too well with Catherine, now right.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
She wanted Stavesant to stay home, and he always promised it.
The some day he would, and they lived a happy
life together. But well she was a young woman.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Impatiently did yeah, where is she now?
Speaker 4 (04:25):
Well, one of the neighbors, an old woman, said she stopped.
She remembered hearing that Catherine went.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
To Nebraska, Nebraska.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
And that's all we know. Professor Piper and I are stumped.
We came to you because we want action and want
it fast. Will you help us?
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Well, a whole years been screwy, there's no reason why
they should bother me. Tracking a runaway residence through the
metropolitan wilds of Los Angeles didn't sound so tough. So
after Stephanie gave her the address eighty eight forty on
Orange Drives and told me that she and the Professor
could be reached the villa three in the w she gotten.
(05:01):
I get in my car control of out Orange Drive,
where a house number eighty eight to.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Forty should have been.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
I found that said house to be moved out six
months ago in the middle of the knife too, said
where wire who had done the job?
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Nobody knew until I got around with missus Elma lay.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Truck, whose house back to Stuyvesant Place. From across the alley,
she blocked her front door with a waistline and said
she never heard.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Of Rye Crisp.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Gave me an eye as warm and as sympathetic as
a nice cube.
Speaker 5 (05:25):
Remember that, Huh, I said, I have to tell you,
I remember.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Craziest thing I ever saw them men working.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
All day and all.
Speaker 5 (05:32):
Night getting that little house up on rollers.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Not there. I'd like to know what all the rush
was about.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Oh, you wouldn't happen to know where they took it?
Speaker 5 (05:39):
Hu, No, at Catherine Stuyvesant wasn't a very sociable type person.
But if that's the way she wants to be, it's
all right with me.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
That's good.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Now.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Look, I don't suppose you'd know who she sold it to.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Nope, White Company did the movie?
Speaker 6 (05:52):
Oh wouldn't.
Speaker 5 (05:53):
I though, it's the Gilligan Wrecking and Movement Company. And
believe you meet, the name fits them clumsy boxes. It's
such a rush day backed a big truck over my
pomegranate tree, a beautiful, full grown tree.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
And a pink of health. Did I make them pay?
I'll bet now you listen, Have I a choice?
Speaker 5 (06:11):
I tracked that outfit down and made them shell out
through the nose.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
For that was I burn Well bully for you.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Now look where is the Gilligan out for the topics,
which is Laber and Adam's.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
And Rampart Street four ten. But say, what's going on anyway?
Are you asking me all these questions?
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Well, frankly, I'm a pomegranate fancy in myself, missus laser
happy New Years?
Speaker 4 (06:45):
Yeah you want some?
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Yeah? This is for ten Rampart, isn't it.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
That's correct?
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Sign outside says Bluckman's Novelies.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
You want to.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
First day, take a late time.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Till the taper.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Okay, honey, okay, And look you looking for the Gilligan
Wrecking and Moving Company. So they had this place the
months ago, that's right, but they're.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
Out of business now. They were wing broke last September
by Septown in the hurry.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
How do you like that real much?
Speaker 4 (07:07):
Mister Gilligan? Oh, everybody waits, including my boyfriends. He needs
to watch. That's where we met that They were moving.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Out as we moved in, getting smaller over time. Now, look,
I'd like to talk to your boyfriend mits stay.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
Bessy, well that lives real close to here, the Beakman Room.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Oh thanks, Bessie.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
What's back? Class name.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
Button shlag?
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Oh, button shlag? Yeah, anybody know that you gotta just
call him back, all right, and then it's tell him
the job rons, will you?
Speaker 2 (07:50):
I wish I was a tender A lot of man.
I wonder who wrote hurry?
Speaker 4 (08:00):
I wish it was.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
A what was this name?
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Smallow?
Speaker 1 (08:06):
I want him to help on a job the Gilligan
company did. Bat?
Speaker 6 (08:09):
Alright, Uh, how did you get to me?
Speaker 1 (08:16):
I see?
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Oh, by the way, said theater drop around.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Oh yeah, dumb dame, don't I have ring night?
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Come on an buddy, exchoose a row by it.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
I was in the shower, sure, and now looked bat.
Were you working for Gilligan six months ago?
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Yeah? Oh?
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Why you remember moving a house mediate forty orange dry
and he ate.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Forty orange drying?
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (08:35):
See now, oh yeah, that one going? It was the
screwiest deal I ever saw.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Where'd you move it to it? Do you remember?
Speaker 3 (08:40):
All the way to San Pedro, big hurry up job,
the boss kept saying, we were racing the weather.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Nobody could figure it, racing the women.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Why it beats me when you set the house off
down at the end of the front street in the Harbor
Salvage Company yard Harbor.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Salwich and Sam Pedro tell me that was the house empty?
Well shortainly, you don't think run all back?
Speaker 1 (09:00):
I mean the furniture. Oh oh well, what's all the
fuss now? Some people are interested in locating that house.
Oh yeah, Oh that's too bad.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
How come? Oh?
Speaker 1 (09:08):
I got a big hunch.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Shit didn't sit very long where we left it, buddy,
The Pacific Ocean was only six inches from the back door.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
I'm beating, ass mate.
Speaker 6 (09:26):
What's on your mind?
Speaker 1 (09:27):
I let the other head man of Hobby's salvage company
and houses on my mind.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
That's me.
Speaker 6 (09:31):
But I don't want any more house job, and I
did want this year and.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
That's plenty six months ago. House delivered by Gilligan.
Speaker 6 (09:37):
That's it, mate, And I did a masterpiece.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
But I do say so myself.
Speaker 6 (09:41):
Sure wouldn't change it again, though, too shifty.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Never mind your career.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
What happened to that house? What happened? Why?
Speaker 1 (09:46):
I loaded it on that old woman's bird What old woman?
Speaker 2 (09:49):
As I was.
Speaker 6 (09:50):
Saying, I loaded it on that old woman's barge, battened
it down ship cape in the last two days, good
sailing weather and center out the sea. It made that
house cleft here on a barge. Yeah that it didn't
eat bound for the Golden Gate in the upper armor.
San Francisco Bay, little shrimp fishing town in the back water.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
They're called Wilson if I.
Speaker 6 (10:08):
Remember Riding's on San Pablo Bay, about fifteen miles north Berkley.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Now do you mind telling me who the old woman
was who owned that barge? Nias not a bit kindly
old soldier.
Speaker 6 (10:17):
Was named Jacqueline.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Beattie went aboard with the house and waved goodbye.
Speaker 6 (10:21):
As in the front door.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
She pulled out all smiles too, Maidie.
Speaker 6 (10:25):
Soon he looked like a deckhand.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Who's lost your sea legs.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
But it started three short hours.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Ago as to check up on an la residence that
evolved itself into a chase up the coast after our houseboat,
which was a project, I distinctly did not want to
jump into it without birth and nod from my clients.
In fact, I was ready to scuttle a whole business
if I found a phone and called Villa three, it's
the Wilship Garden. Yeah, hello, oh that's you Matthew. Ma oh,
(11:02):
hi have Phil? What can I do for you but
make it snappy?
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Where do you.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
I'm up to my ears.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Wait a minute, Bill, Look you called up? You're expecting
someone else? Fantid o, a guy named Felix Piper. Maybe
nice fit? What's the connection, Cliant? What fit ex client? Mallow?
Speaker 6 (11:18):
He is it?
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Somebody packed him?
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Yeah? With then I very fancy and I have like
some Indians in Brazil Us.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
The boy tell me you better drop in here. Where
are you now, San Pedro?
Speaker 1 (11:30):
What are you doing down there?
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Well you you wouldn't believe it, Matthews, Really you wouldn't.
I love money, you can get all of that double now.
Oh hello, Mamo, I am Matthew's any progress?
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Who's so? I know? Way, I'm counting on you for that.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Come on inside, have a look.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Okay? When did it happened? A couple hours ago?
Speaker 1 (11:58):
What was his dodge? Anyway? He found a club membership
card list him as a botanist who, as far as
I know, spent a lot of time in research in Brazil.
Would nuts come from nothing? Oh well there's your client
fill Professor Felix Spifer, and somebody nailed him right between
the shoulders. Hey, Matthews, something's awful, Hayware, What do you
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mean that's not the man who hired me in just
a moment the second act of Philip Marlowe. But first
one fellow who made a New Year's resolution years ago
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not to get married, certainly saw it blow up with
a bang. A couple of weeks ago, fellow by the
name of Andy of Amos and Andy opened his mouth
at the wrong moment, and there he was married to
the wrong woman. Listen for Amos and Andy and Andy's
Bride on most of these same CBS stations. Tomorrow Night
Now with our star Gerald Moore, we returned to the
(13:03):
second actor, philam marlow and Tonight's story the House that
Jack Will un Built. When I told the tective, Lieutenant
Matthews that the couple's form at our Pete identified as
Felix piper and the Felix.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Pipero had hired me were.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Not one in the same, he asked for single eyebrows slowly,
and I.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Told him the rest of the story. Both eyebrows fightly
leaped from his forehead.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
So all in all it was thirty minutes of steady
gab my solemn word.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
That what I had said was nothing but the truth.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
That flunt reminder that if private Detective's license is revocable.
Before I was trading a back to my apartment on
Franklin while the police went to work. That made it
exactly four pm on key in hand. I reached my
front door lock just as it swung in and away
from me.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
Come in the Tomorlow well.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
The globe trotting Stephany, how'd my place here to get
on your map?
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Baby?
Speaker 4 (13:59):
Please don't joke.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Thank you lovely apartment you've got.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
Here, mister Marlow, Please, this is no time to be funny.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Why not everything else plays funny? Your lost la house
turns up floating on the outskirts of San Francisco.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
A screwball button.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
This from South America is maybe also a killer wants
a bunch of hook at port killer.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
What do you mean, mister Marlow Enix Piper didn't kill
Corday Corday that's his name.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Euh you get around, don't you care?
Speaker 4 (14:25):
Yes, Martin Corday. He was on the floor of my
villa when I got back. That's why I came here.
The janitor.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
H yeah, let's not change the subject, Miss Corday. Who
is he or was he?
Speaker 4 (14:34):
Scheming ruthless man? When you went South America an important.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Wait a minute, an importer wants a button this paper.
Come on, baby, tell me the truth.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
Mister mallowy around new paper.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Oh that's great. You mean that all this about the
house is phony making No, no, no, it's true.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
But that's no papers only jewels only ge oh no,
b business, Tomorrio in a little couch thirty thousand dollar
hidden in the house.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Where in the house the fireplace.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
Is behind the brick somewhere in the right hand side.
You see those movies belong to Felix and that Maxwell
statison I mentioned Now they belonged to Phoenix alone. They
were for their old.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Ages, expressions, nests take so.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
They could carry on their work. Mmm, you don't believe me.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
No, not quite no, and for two very valid reasons. One,
why did you lie in the first place and stay
it with papers?
Speaker 4 (15:22):
Because we didn't know if we could trust you.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
And now what the man dad, you have to is
that if no, I.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
Don't have to, but I do trust you.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Miss tomorrow it may not be mutual, Stephanie, what do
you mean, well, if i'd buy all this the jewels
Piper and Stipisant's unique retirement plan. Corday, posing as Piper
in some way cut in as a new hooker, which
is what Kuday's murderer. It should now be you or
Felix Piper.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
No, then who cor.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
Day's partner of a swore? They looking littleman? I don't
mean it's Manyama. The last saw him with Corday in
South America.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
You see.
Speaker 4 (15:53):
The original plan was that I come up here ahead
of Felix, but he was too anxious. You couldn't wait.
You follow it almost so Oh, somehow or other Corday
and this swarthy man found out about our plans, decided
that Colorda should poses Celix. And that's for their schemes
and what what al must have been a double cross.
(16:13):
Corday probably trying to do away with the swarthy man,
but's getting done away with himself instead.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Mm, well, it's Felix Piper now in the second rate hotel.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
I'm sentiment, oh number that you know it?
Speaker 1 (16:24):
Oh hundred? Yes, I I have a right here looking
all right?
Speaker 4 (16:28):
Christ f ate something he's here? Christ few eight for
one four fourth or one or or okay?
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Here you telling him Stepanie, My nerves won't take the chady?
What what what's you like?
Speaker 4 (16:41):
Telling makes Felix piper leader.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
No, don't tell him for the time being. We're gonna
skip the police. M but you and I are going
up to San Francisco on the next plane and then
out throw a place called Wilson. A looks for our
house boats, No less rubies. Yeah, Also tell 'em to
meet us up there at the Crystal auto court. Got
that it's the place I'd stayed at a little beyond
Berkeley on the road to San Pablo Bay.
Speaker 4 (16:59):
Al Right, so many tea my moment.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Yeah, Yeah, tell them to take clear of swarthy men tonight,
especially small ones.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
They're dangerous.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
It was two hours and thirty minutes later when Stephie
and I drove into the quiet fishing village of Wilson
on San Pablo Bay that hugged the bend in the
sloping shawline like I was afraid of crawling in. The
best instornation would be the local guests in porium. So
I drove my rented car in at a round shouldered
one pump station, something freckled and gangling with a shock
of flames for hair, pulled himself out of it, and
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arms and legs working independently wobbled over braced themselves against
the car.
Speaker 6 (17:41):
Gus, you're just information folks. Don't be ashamed, everybody. If
my town gets lost in Wilson's it's so big.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
And look, if that's the case, we'll on up right away. Red,
we're looking for a house post. Yes, then you better
drive the water. This boy kills himself, isn't he look rad?
Speaker 2 (18:00):
We're in a hurry.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
His house port of Blonde with a lady named Jaqueline Beatty,
no moch else.
Speaker 6 (18:04):
Huh yeah, don't worry. There's nothing funny about that.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Cruel old would believe me?
Speaker 1 (18:09):
She's that sad?
Speaker 6 (18:11):
Why tell about six months ago she took ever since
she had went down to La bought a house and
bought a bards and put them both together and come back.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Here to do what to to do?
Speaker 6 (18:21):
Nothing all day and all night long.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
She never leaves, you know why?
Speaker 6 (18:25):
Nope, even as nobody else except that her husband was
an artist painted sea picture, so she likes it around
the water.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
But she's not gonna tell you. Acts like the place
is well, acts like it's made of gold.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Go I look, Red, tell me how do I get? There?
Were reported Smeloy doing a story.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
On her flight. Oh newspaper people, the reporters usually our boy,
Well that's different.
Speaker 6 (18:46):
It's one bluck straight ahead, then right and down to
the bay.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Thanks rad happy, yeah, m And we'd got one ahead
and free rich and we're down to weather Town of
the bay.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Trickle left to me one another.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
We saw it a white three room cottage or floats
around white fishing boats and a sawed potet the front
door opened it. I'm not I've tugboat any you or
the straggly pioneer woman rifle cradled in bonie arms. Does
anybody's grandmother and under a white.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
Lace shawl at that?
Speaker 3 (19:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (19:22):
Jee?
Speaker 6 (19:23):
Can I help this?
Speaker 2 (19:24):
Well?
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Uh? Yeah, I believe so you're missus D. Huh, it's right,
Missus jack when nek oh?
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Well, I'm Philip Marlow, Missus v D. This is Stephanie Fraser.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
How do you do? We're reported from my leg good polka.
We uh were going through Wilson here when we heard
about your houseboat and how you brought it all the
way up from Los Angeles. You uh had a.
Speaker 4 (19:42):
Particular reason for wanting this house.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
Missus D. Oh my, yes, what was that A long?
Long story?
Speaker 2 (19:50):
My boy? I see?
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Well, tell me this bed the house as exactly as
it was in Los Angeles. I don't do it to Marlow,
would you like DC? Oh?
Speaker 4 (19:59):
Yes, we'd love to fine.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Then shall we see lunch tomorrow?
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Uh? Well, missus b D.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
We're on our way back to at Los Angeles bus
now at night.
Speaker 5 (20:09):
Oh that's toes. Yeah, but when you see eyes simply
have to tidy up from the poor company wits.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
Perhaps every time.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Well, uh I I I think lunch tomorrow will be splendid,
mister Peedy. Of course. Good Then until midday tomorrow we'll
have the say. But it's rest under the fire place.
Speaker 4 (20:30):
Good night, miss Razy, Good night.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Mister Marlow, Good night, mister Peedy.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
Well is it just a sweet old lady?
Speaker 2 (20:41):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
But when will we learn about mid day tomorrow? Why
let's get back to the crystal waught. I'll carting your boss.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Right.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
It looks Piper out and alone is a combination that
worries me plenty, No, mister Morlow, Mister Piper hasn't shown
yet that he should any minute now. He called a
half hour ago from some place in Berkeley and said
(21:09):
he was coming out here in a taxi. And well,
now let's see a single cabin for miss Fraser. Here
for six and a double number eleven for you and
mister Piper, right, mister Morlow, Yes, that's right, mister Crystal.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
Okay, now, miss Fraser, if he'll come along with me,
I'll show you the way the back in a minute,
mister Morlow.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
I I I'll just tidy up Phil and I'll come
back here and wait with you for Phoedig. I'm so worried.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Yeah, no, well he'll be alright once he's with us,
I hope. So still. Oh uh, mister Crystal, can I
call La on this phone?
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Here? Oh sure, mister Marlow long distances one? One?
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Oh hop righty, I wanna call a los Angele's presson
the person in party? I wanted detective lieutenant why delay?
Oh yeah new years he Well, look, honey, I'd like
to put the call through anyway.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Tomorrow was an what do you look like?
Speaker 1 (22:17):
Take an easy?
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Color? Hold on tight? Did just see him? Was he small? Swarthy?
I'm not sure, Crystal, c what do he looked like?
Speaker 1 (22:25):
He was kind of short and maybe he's maybe swathy.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
It was also fast.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
I couldn't tell you. All right, all right, come on,
come on away from her. We'll go back to your office.
I'll listen to me carefully. You phone the police. I'm
going to a houseboat on the Santabelo Bay, where I
think we'll find a small swarthy man push a nice
old lady around without batting an eye about thirty thousand
bucks worth of rubies. After I met Felix Piper and
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told him wouldn't happen to Stephanie and brought him up
to date on everything else, I slammed my right foot
down hard on the accelerator and kept it that way
until we were back at San Pablo Bay, out of
the car and running toward Jaqueline Betty's house book, where
I figured the swarthy man who seems to know I
removed might show. But there I was wrong because Jacqueline
was all alone, safe and sounds and surprise. Why why,
mister Barlow, you and that girl is she won't be
(23:22):
with the time afraid. This is, by the way, we're
not reporters. This bady, the lady in question is dead
and so it's not a man, but all because of
thirty thousand bucks worth of rubies and a pouch that's
behind one of the bricks in that firefight. Yes, yes,
and I'm going to find them right away. It got
to be here, just procers. You found them out her?
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Yes, or catch your lessus Beady.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
It isn't too long and news of these rubies doesn't
seem to surprise you right any What did you hunch
is beating out of the way a goodness?
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Yeah, for a man named Corday?
Speaker 1 (23:56):
What is it?
Speaker 6 (23:56):
Mama?
Speaker 1 (23:58):
It was what did you say?
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Corday?
Speaker 1 (24:02):
As in Martin Corday?
Speaker 2 (24:03):
And it looks like I was right?
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Yes, yes, me not do you any good? My sure should.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Bother?
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Is he going to die out until the state gets
his hands on him?
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (24:19):
You see, missus Betty, he's killed twice tonight, right, card
A you mind if you want an ambulance talk y?
They had it coming on them.
Speaker 6 (24:26):
Stands who's double crossed by Piper In his difference, Stavens
is one of the.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Rubies to go to his wife, Kevin. What was missus bady?
Go on?
Speaker 2 (24:34):
Corday?
Speaker 1 (24:34):
The real Piper was a crook, decided to get the
jewels himself with that, Yes, but he was also dom
Stephanie the secretary crossed you for a pretty deal with me.
He was all her idea I'm going to you for
help with me posing his piper rules go on carday, Yes,
Stephaniey decided to double cross me. He used to have
(24:55):
the real piper because he got up to La and
your villa soon of them expected yes, but she couldn't cross.
I mean I was.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
I was following all the time. She didn't phone you
for my flight.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
No, no, no, no no no. I was outside your door, Dan,
and she was talking to her number.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
She made up.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
You got lucky you handled her the phone when you did.
If you hadn't, she would have shot you. It was
all light. It was light. The swore the man included.
There isn't one mister Marlo. He's he's unconscious, Missus Baty.
I'll get an ambulance.
Speaker 4 (25:23):
I'm sure you where the phone is?
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Yeah, after you tell me about the jewels. Huh the rupe's,
Missus Beatty, you'll like of surprised about them being hidden
the fireplace. I mean, how come well I phoned.
Speaker 5 (25:33):
Those six months ago when I bought this house from
Catherine Study to sit.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
In Los Angeles. Why the way, mister Miloud, how did
you move?
Speaker 2 (25:41):
That man was for d fireplace? Honey?
Speaker 1 (25:45):
He went to the wrong side. It was worth the
shot in the dog. It was week it phoned over there.
You know.
Speaker 5 (25:50):
I noticed the loose bits on the right hand side
of the fireplace the moment and walked in.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
You see, I built this house with my own had
Really why'd you move it up here, honey?
Speaker 5 (26:00):
Because my husband nice than our honeymoon in this house
and we found out happiness year at San Pablo.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
You also found the rubies and send them back to
Captain Steyveers. Yes, wit had been still here mid Happy.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
New Year, Jacqueline.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
By the time I'd said goodbye to jacque Wine and
walked outside, first son of nineteen fifty was glinting across
the waters of today, nineteen fifty another chance for marlow
and for the world.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
I hope we both do better with it this year.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
The Adventures of Philip Marlowe, Bringing You Raymond Chandler's most
famous character, star Gerald Moore, are produced and directed by
Norman McDonald and are written for radio by Robert Mitchell
and Gene Levitt. Feature in the cast were Lois Corbett,
Howard mcneer, Georgia Ellis, John Dayner, and Parley Bear. Detective
Lieutenant Matthews Is played by Larry Dobkins. The special music
(27:34):
is composed and conducted by Richard Urant. Be shuring me
with us again next week, when Philip Marlowe says, this
time each carried a torch, and each was burned by it,
the heel, the hero worshiper, and the hard bitten blonde,
(27:54):
and
Speaker 2 (27:55):
All because of a woman already two days dead,
I'll up the coast with two murders behind me, telling
all of one Night's white haired old lady when the
clock struck swells. From the fan of Raymond Chandler, outstanding
author of prime fiction, comes his most famous character in
the Adventures of Philip Marlowe. Now with Gerald Moore starred
(00:27):
as Philip Marlowe, we bring you tonight's exciting story The
House that Jack Wiline built. They say, the end of
(00:50):
an old year in the start of a news a
good time to take Scot stand back and give yourself
the one sofa, do a reissue, and that tired list
of resolutions. But for detective that routine only means tallying
at the times you dirty your hands on someone else's
murdered or dirty your brain with their schemes. So you
let the height on your heart grow a little thicker,
full a part of your mind that feels things a
(01:12):
little farther back into a show, and maybe plan on
later hunting up a cup of kindness or two in someplace.
Not even that has a price tag on it these days.
So there was work to do and a feeder collect
before I could pick up the tab on an evening's fun.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
It's not a fair question, you said.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
I fantastic, I tell you crazy, but this is horrible.
Took a feat. It does a matter what's going on
the house, it's gone, it's vanished.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
All the papers, with the years of research and months
improving work in the jungles, viidings of preciousness all gone.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
We's go away from the very heart of a teeming city,
an entire house. Now, look, if you just sit down
and tell me who you are, no object. I must
have action. I must look at who are you? Professor? Physics? Paper?
Speaker 2 (01:50):
What's all?
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Let's talk about jungles and research and botanical research tropical herbs.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Is half another years of it all for nothing out
because the house has disappeared.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Book.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
You said that several times. Now look, look investigatings you've
had experience. I would I hire you? Now I go
to where a house should be, a house in which
I myself who stood? And where do I find that
they can lie hold in the ground?
Speaker 2 (02:08):
And oh would take it here?
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Come on over at the couch and lie down.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Make it easy.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Well, I'll be. It's all in such a shock, in
seven deaths, the long trip to get our papers, and
didn't define the house. Car I know. Now, Look if
you just lie there a few minutes until you feel better.
Well taught over a little closer to the beginning.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
What matter? What's happened here?
Speaker 1 (02:30):
The day the house has disappeared and the professor's collapsed
trying to tell me about I didn't I you? You? Oh?
Who are you? I'm professive pipe as a system? What
do you a system? Will Deephanie? Oh, I'm glad you
got it. Don't worry to do nothing. I'll be all.
Let's not waste any more time. You've got to find
out what happens about.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
House release prosessive types. But don't excite yourself. Let me
explain to the detective Mallow, Philip Mallow, I'm definitely crazy.
Hello the house, mister Mallow. I presume you got as
far as telling you that, for over a year was
been in South America, in the interior of Brazil studying
tropical earths.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Yeah, part of that get in there somewhere.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
I think it was what the culture.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Did tell 'em about the house. Then step at a time, TV,
I love, professor, I've got something here to do. Use
the world of good ah me too. I think I'll
try this take your time about it, I said, mister Monow.
Could I speak to you here? Of course?
Speaker 4 (03:21):
Oh the write backness to pipe.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
On volatile, isn't it?
Speaker 4 (03:27):
Yes, that's partner. As I was saying, mister Marlow, we've
been almost completely out of touch with civilization for over
a year.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Really, you never know it?
Speaker 4 (03:37):
Beauty of products before America. Mm, pleasing tomorrow. Let me
tell you what happened? Oh kay, professor's Piper's collaborator and partner.
The Nextville Stuyvesant Colt fever and died three weeks ago.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Where was this Brazil?
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Whether or not that's come from nothing?
Speaker 4 (03:51):
Then, looked mister Morlow. They had worked together for years,
and all their notes and papers were kept stored at
Sidistant's place here at Los Angeles. We came here to
get that material.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
The house was gone.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Fantastic, didn't it? Certainly is?
Speaker 4 (04:04):
We all thought Nteville Stivesant's wife, Katherine was living in it.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
She owned it in her name.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
Yes, Maxwell actually owned nothing.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
He didn't want to.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
He was gone all the time.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
It didn't sit too well with Catherine, now right.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
She wanted Stavesant to stay home, and he always promised it.
The some day he would, and they lived a happy
life together. But well she was a young woman.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Impatiently did yeah, where is she now?
Speaker 4 (04:25):
Well, one of the neighbors, an old woman, said she stopped.
She remembered hearing that Catherine went.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
To Nebraska, Nebraska.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
And that's all we know. Professor Piper and I are stumped.
We came to you because we want action and want
it fast. Will you help us?
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Well, a whole years been screwy, there's no reason why
they should bother me. Tracking a runaway residence through the
metropolitan wilds of Los Angeles didn't sound so tough. So
after Stephanie gave her the address eighty eight forty on
Orange Drives and told me that she and the Professor
could be reached the villa three in the w she gotten.
(05:01):
I get in my car control of out Orange Drive,
where a house number eighty eight to.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Forty should have been.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
I found that said house to be moved out six
months ago in the middle of the knife too, said
where wire who had done the job?
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Nobody knew until I got around with missus Elma lay.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Truck, whose house back to Stuyvesant Place. From across the alley,
she blocked her front door with a waistline and said
she never heard.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Of Rye Crisp.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Gave me an eye as warm and as sympathetic as
a nice cube.
Speaker 5 (05:25):
Remember that, Huh, I said, I have to tell you,
I remember.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Craziest thing I ever saw them men working.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
All day and all.
Speaker 5 (05:32):
Night getting that little house up on rollers.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Not there. I'd like to know what all the rush
was about.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Oh, you wouldn't happen to know where they took it?
Speaker 5 (05:39):
Hu, No, at Catherine Stuyvesant wasn't a very sociable type person.
But if that's the way she wants to be, it's
all right with me.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
That's good.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Now.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Look, I don't suppose you'd know who she sold it to.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Nope, White Company did the movie?
Speaker 6 (05:52):
Oh wouldn't.
Speaker 5 (05:53):
I though, it's the Gilligan Wrecking and Movement Company. And
believe you meet, the name fits them clumsy boxes. It's
such a rush day backed a big truck over my
pomegranate tree, a beautiful, full grown tree.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
And a pink of health. Did I make them pay?
I'll bet now you listen, Have I a choice?
Speaker 5 (06:11):
I tracked that outfit down and made them shell out
through the nose.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
For that was I burn Well bully for you.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Now look where is the Gilligan out for the topics,
which is Laber and Adam's.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
And Rampart Street four ten. But say, what's going on anyway?
Are you asking me all these questions?
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Well, frankly, I'm a pomegranate fancy in myself, missus laser
happy New Years?
Speaker 4 (06:45):
Yeah you want some?
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Yeah? This is for ten Rampart, isn't it.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
That's correct?
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Sign outside says Bluckman's Novelies.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
You want to.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
First day, take a late time.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Till the taper.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Okay, honey, okay, And look you looking for the Gilligan
Wrecking and Moving Company. So they had this place the
months ago, that's right, but they're.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
Out of business now. They were wing broke last September
by Septown in the hurry.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
How do you like that real much?
Speaker 4 (07:07):
Mister Gilligan? Oh, everybody waits, including my boyfriends. He needs
to watch. That's where we met that They were moving.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Out as we moved in, getting smaller over time. Now, look,
I'd like to talk to your boyfriend mits stay.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
Bessy, well that lives real close to here, the Beakman Room.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Oh thanks, Bessie.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
What's back? Class name.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
Button shlag?
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Oh, button shlag? Yeah, anybody know that you gotta just
call him back, all right, and then it's tell him
the job rons, will you?
Speaker 2 (07:50):
I wish I was a tender A lot of man.
I wonder who wrote hurry?
Speaker 4 (08:00):
I wish it was.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
A what was this name?
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Smallow?
Speaker 1 (08:06):
I want him to help on a job the Gilligan
company did. Bat?
Speaker 6 (08:09):
Alright, Uh, how did you get to me?
Speaker 1 (08:16):
I see?
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Oh, by the way, said theater drop around.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Oh yeah, dumb dame, don't I have ring night?
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Come on an buddy, exchoose a row by it.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
I was in the shower, sure, and now looked bat.
Were you working for Gilligan six months ago?
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Yeah? Oh?
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Why you remember moving a house mediate forty orange dry
and he ate.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Forty orange drying?
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (08:35):
See now, oh yeah, that one going? It was the
screwiest deal I ever saw.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Where'd you move it to it? Do you remember?
Speaker 3 (08:40):
All the way to San Pedro, big hurry up job,
the boss kept saying, we were racing the weather.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Nobody could figure it, racing the women.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Why it beats me when you set the house off
down at the end of the front street in the Harbor
Salvage Company yard Harbor.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Salwich and Sam Pedro tell me that was the house empty?
Well shortainly, you don't think run all back?
Speaker 1 (09:00):
I mean the furniture. Oh oh well, what's all the
fuss now? Some people are interested in locating that house.
Oh yeah, Oh that's too bad.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
How come? Oh?
Speaker 1 (09:08):
I got a big hunch.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Shit didn't sit very long where we left it, buddy,
The Pacific Ocean was only six inches from the back door.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
I'm beating, ass mate.
Speaker 6 (09:26):
What's on your mind?
Speaker 1 (09:27):
I let the other head man of Hobby's salvage company
and houses on my mind.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
That's me.
Speaker 6 (09:31):
But I don't want any more house job, and I
did want this year and.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
That's plenty six months ago. House delivered by Gilligan.
Speaker 6 (09:37):
That's it, mate, And I did a masterpiece.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
But I do say so myself.
Speaker 6 (09:41):
Sure wouldn't change it again, though, too shifty.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Never mind your career.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
What happened to that house? What happened? Why?
Speaker 1 (09:46):
I loaded it on that old woman's bird What old woman?
Speaker 2 (09:49):
As I was.
Speaker 6 (09:50):
Saying, I loaded it on that old woman's barge, battened
it down ship cape in the last two days, good
sailing weather and center out the sea. It made that
house cleft here on a barge. Yeah that it didn't
eat bound for the Golden Gate in the upper armor.
San Francisco Bay, little shrimp fishing town in the back water.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
They're called Wilson if I.
Speaker 6 (10:08):
Remember Riding's on San Pablo Bay, about fifteen miles north Berkley.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Now do you mind telling me who the old woman
was who owned that barge? Nias not a bit kindly
old soldier.
Speaker 6 (10:17):
Was named Jacqueline.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Beattie went aboard with the house and waved goodbye.
Speaker 6 (10:21):
As in the front door.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
She pulled out all smiles too, Maidie.
Speaker 6 (10:25):
Soon he looked like a deckhand.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Who's lost your sea legs.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
But it started three short hours.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Ago as to check up on an la residence that
evolved itself into a chase up the coast after our houseboat,
which was a project, I distinctly did not want to
jump into it without birth and nod from my clients.
In fact, I was ready to scuttle a whole business
if I found a phone and called Villa three, it's
the Wilship Garden. Yeah, hello, oh that's you Matthew. Ma oh,
(11:02):
hi have Phil? What can I do for you but
make it snappy?
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Where do you.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
I'm up to my ears.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Wait a minute, Bill, Look you called up? You're expecting
someone else? Fantid o, a guy named Felix Piper. Maybe
nice fit? What's the connection, Cliant? What fit ex client? Mallow?
Speaker 6 (11:18):
He is it?
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Somebody packed him?
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Yeah? With then I very fancy and I have like
some Indians in Brazil Us.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
The boy tell me you better drop in here. Where
are you now, San Pedro?
Speaker 1 (11:30):
What are you doing down there?
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Well you you wouldn't believe it, Matthews, Really you wouldn't.
I love money, you can get all of that double now.
Oh hello, Mamo, I am Matthew's any progress?
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Who's so? I know? Way, I'm counting on you for that.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Come on inside, have a look.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Okay? When did it happened? A couple hours ago?
Speaker 1 (11:58):
What was his dodge? Anyway? He found a club membership
card list him as a botanist who, as far as
I know, spent a lot of time in research in Brazil.
Would nuts come from nothing? Oh well there's your client
fill Professor Felix Spifer, and somebody nailed him right between
the shoulders. Hey, Matthews, something's awful, Hayware, What do you
(12:22):
mean that's not the man who hired me in just
a moment the second act of Philip Marlowe. But first
one fellow who made a New Year's resolution years ago
(12:43):
not to get married, certainly saw it blow up with
a bang. A couple of weeks ago, fellow by the
name of Andy of Amos and Andy opened his mouth
at the wrong moment, and there he was married to
the wrong woman. Listen for Amos and Andy and Andy's
Bride on most of these same CBS stations. Tomorrow Night
Now with our star Gerald Moore, we returned to the
(13:03):
second actor, philam marlow and Tonight's story the House that
Jack Will un Built. When I told the tective, Lieutenant
Matthews that the couple's form at our Pete identified as
Felix piper and the Felix.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Pipero had hired me were.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Not one in the same, he asked for single eyebrows slowly,
and I.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Told him the rest of the story. Both eyebrows fightly
leaped from his forehead.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
So all in all it was thirty minutes of steady
gab my solemn word.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
That what I had said was nothing but the truth.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
That flunt reminder that if private Detective's license is revocable.
Before I was trading a back to my apartment on
Franklin while the police went to work. That made it
exactly four pm on key in hand. I reached my
front door lock just as it swung in and away
from me.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
Come in the Tomorlow well.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
The globe trotting Stephany, how'd my place here to get
on your map?
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Baby?
Speaker 4 (13:59):
Please don't joke.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Thank you lovely apartment you've got.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
Here, mister Marlow, Please, this is no time to be funny.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Why not everything else plays funny? Your lost la house
turns up floating on the outskirts of San Francisco.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
A screwball button.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
This from South America is maybe also a killer wants
a bunch of hook at port killer.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
What do you mean, mister Marlow Enix Piper didn't kill
Corday Corday that's his name.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Euh you get around, don't you care?
Speaker 4 (14:25):
Yes, Martin Corday. He was on the floor of my
villa when I got back. That's why I came here.
The janitor.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
H yeah, let's not change the subject, Miss Corday. Who
is he or was he?
Speaker 4 (14:34):
Scheming ruthless man? When you went South America an important.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Wait a minute, an importer wants a button this paper.
Come on, baby, tell me the truth.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
Mister mallowy around new paper.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Oh that's great. You mean that all this about the
house is phony making No, no, no, it's true.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
But that's no papers only jewels only ge oh no,
b business, Tomorrio in a little couch thirty thousand dollar
hidden in the house.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Where in the house the fireplace.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
Is behind the brick somewhere in the right hand side.
You see those movies belong to Felix and that Maxwell
statison I mentioned Now they belonged to Phoenix alone. They
were for their old.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Ages, expressions, nests take so.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
They could carry on their work. Mmm, you don't believe me.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
No, not quite no, and for two very valid reasons. One,
why did you lie in the first place and stay
it with papers?
Speaker 4 (15:22):
Because we didn't know if we could trust you.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
And now what the man dad, you have to is
that if no, I.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
Don't have to, but I do trust you.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Miss tomorrow it may not be mutual, Stephanie, what do
you mean, well, if i'd buy all this the jewels
Piper and Stipisant's unique retirement plan. Corday, posing as Piper
in some way cut in as a new hooker, which
is what Kuday's murderer. It should now be you or
Felix Piper.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
No, then who cor.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
Day's partner of a swore? They looking littleman? I don't
mean it's Manyama. The last saw him with Corday in
South America.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
You see.
Speaker 4 (15:53):
The original plan was that I come up here ahead
of Felix, but he was too anxious. You couldn't wait.
You follow it almost so Oh, somehow or other Corday
and this swarthy man found out about our plans, decided
that Colorda should poses Celix. And that's for their schemes
and what what al must have been a double cross.
(16:13):
Corday probably trying to do away with the swarthy man,
but's getting done away with himself instead.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Mm, well, it's Felix Piper now in the second rate hotel.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
I'm sentiment, oh number that you know it?
Speaker 1 (16:24):
Oh hundred? Yes, I I have a right here looking
all right?
Speaker 4 (16:28):
Christ f ate something he's here? Christ few eight for
one four fourth or one or or okay?
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Here you telling him Stepanie, My nerves won't take the chady?
What what what's you like?
Speaker 4 (16:41):
Telling makes Felix piper leader.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
No, don't tell him for the time being. We're gonna
skip the police. M but you and I are going
up to San Francisco on the next plane and then
out throw a place called Wilson. A looks for our
house boats, No less rubies. Yeah, Also tell 'em to
meet us up there at the Crystal auto court. Got
that it's the place I'd stayed at a little beyond
Berkeley on the road to San Pablo Bay.
Speaker 4 (16:59):
Al Right, so many tea my moment.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Yeah, Yeah, tell them to take clear of swarthy men tonight,
especially small ones.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
They're dangerous.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
It was two hours and thirty minutes later when Stephie
and I drove into the quiet fishing village of Wilson
on San Pablo Bay that hugged the bend in the
sloping shawline like I was afraid of crawling in. The
best instornation would be the local guests in porium. So
I drove my rented car in at a round shouldered
one pump station, something freckled and gangling with a shock
of flames for hair, pulled himself out of it, and
(17:36):
arms and legs working independently wobbled over braced themselves against
the car.
Speaker 6 (17:41):
Gus, you're just information folks. Don't be ashamed, everybody. If
my town gets lost in Wilson's it's so big.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
And look, if that's the case, we'll on up right away. Red,
we're looking for a house post. Yes, then you better
drive the water. This boy kills himself, isn't he look rad?
Speaker 2 (18:00):
We're in a hurry.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
His house port of Blonde with a lady named Jaqueline Beatty,
no moch else.
Speaker 6 (18:04):
Huh yeah, don't worry. There's nothing funny about that.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Cruel old would believe me?
Speaker 1 (18:09):
She's that sad?
Speaker 6 (18:11):
Why tell about six months ago she took ever since
she had went down to La bought a house and
bought a bards and put them both together and come back.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Here to do what to to do?
Speaker 6 (18:21):
Nothing all day and all night long.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
She never leaves, you know why?
Speaker 6 (18:25):
Nope, even as nobody else except that her husband was
an artist painted sea picture, so she likes it around
the water.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
But she's not gonna tell you. Acts like the place
is well, acts like it's made of gold.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Go I look, Red, tell me how do I get? There?
Were reported Smeloy doing a story.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
On her flight. Oh newspaper people, the reporters usually our boy,
Well that's different.
Speaker 6 (18:46):
It's one bluck straight ahead, then right and down to
the bay.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Thanks rad happy, yeah, m And we'd got one ahead
and free rich and we're down to weather Town of
the bay.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Trickle left to me one another.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
We saw it a white three room cottage or floats
around white fishing boats and a sawed potet the front
door opened it. I'm not I've tugboat any you or
the straggly pioneer woman rifle cradled in bonie arms. Does
anybody's grandmother and under a white.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
Lace shawl at that?
Speaker 3 (19:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (19:22):
Jee?
Speaker 6 (19:23):
Can I help this?
Speaker 2 (19:24):
Well?
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Uh? Yeah, I believe so you're missus D. Huh, it's right,
Missus jack when nek oh?
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Well, I'm Philip Marlow, Missus v D. This is Stephanie Fraser.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
How do you do? We're reported from my leg good polka.
We uh were going through Wilson here when we heard
about your houseboat and how you brought it all the
way up from Los Angeles. You uh had a.
Speaker 4 (19:42):
Particular reason for wanting this house.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
Missus D. Oh my, yes, what was that A long?
Long story?
Speaker 2 (19:50):
My boy? I see?
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Well, tell me this bed the house as exactly as
it was in Los Angeles. I don't do it to Marlow,
would you like DC? Oh?
Speaker 4 (19:59):
Yes, we'd love to fine.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Then shall we see lunch tomorrow?
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Uh? Well, missus b D.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
We're on our way back to at Los Angeles bus
now at night.
Speaker 5 (20:09):
Oh that's toes. Yeah, but when you see eyes simply
have to tidy up from the poor company wits.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
Perhaps every time.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Well, uh I I I think lunch tomorrow will be splendid,
mister Peedy. Of course. Good Then until midday tomorrow we'll
have the say. But it's rest under the fire place.
Speaker 4 (20:30):
Good night, miss Razy, Good night.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Mister Marlow, Good night, mister Peedy.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
Well is it just a sweet old lady?
Speaker 2 (20:41):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
But when will we learn about mid day tomorrow? Why
let's get back to the crystal waught. I'll carting your boss.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Right.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
It looks Piper out and alone is a combination that
worries me plenty, No, mister Morlow, Mister Piper hasn't shown
yet that he should any minute now. He called a
half hour ago from some place in Berkeley and said
(21:09):
he was coming out here in a taxi. And well,
now let's see a single cabin for miss Fraser. Here
for six and a double number eleven for you and
mister Piper, right, mister Morlow, Yes, that's right, mister Crystal.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
Okay, now, miss Fraser, if he'll come along with me,
I'll show you the way the back in a minute,
mister Morlow.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
I I I'll just tidy up Phil and I'll come
back here and wait with you for Phoedig. I'm so worried.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Yeah, no, well he'll be alright once he's with us,
I hope. So still. Oh uh, mister Crystal, can I
call La on this phone?
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Here? Oh sure, mister Marlow long distances one? One?
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Oh hop righty, I wanna call a los Angele's presson
the person in party? I wanted detective lieutenant why delay?
Oh yeah new years he Well, look, honey, I'd like
to put the call through anyway.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Tomorrow was an what do you look like?
Speaker 1 (22:17):
Take an easy?
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Color? Hold on tight? Did just see him? Was he small? Swarthy?
I'm not sure, Crystal, c what do he looked like?
Speaker 1 (22:25):
He was kind of short and maybe he's maybe swathy.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
It was also fast.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
I couldn't tell you. All right, all right, come on,
come on away from her. We'll go back to your office.
I'll listen to me carefully. You phone the police. I'm
going to a houseboat on the Santabelo Bay, where I
think we'll find a small swarthy man push a nice
old lady around without batting an eye about thirty thousand
bucks worth of rubies. After I met Felix Piper and
(22:56):
told him wouldn't happen to Stephanie and brought him up
to date on everything else, I slammed my right foot
down hard on the accelerator and kept it that way
until we were back at San Pablo Bay, out of
the car and running toward Jaqueline Betty's house book, where
I figured the swarthy man who seems to know I
removed might show. But there I was wrong because Jacqueline
was all alone, safe and sounds and surprise. Why why,
mister Barlow, you and that girl is she won't be
(23:22):
with the time afraid. This is, by the way, we're
not reporters. This bady, the lady in question is dead
and so it's not a man, but all because of
thirty thousand bucks worth of rubies and a pouch that's
behind one of the bricks in that firefight. Yes, yes,
and I'm going to find them right away. It got
to be here, just procers. You found them out her?
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Yes, or catch your lessus Beady.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
It isn't too long and news of these rubies doesn't
seem to surprise you right any What did you hunch
is beating out of the way a goodness?
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Yeah, for a man named Corday?
Speaker 1 (23:56):
What is it?
Speaker 6 (23:56):
Mama?
Speaker 1 (23:58):
It was what did you say?
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Corday?
Speaker 1 (24:02):
As in Martin Corday?
Speaker 2 (24:03):
And it looks like I was right?
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Yes, yes, me not do you any good? My sure should.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Bother?
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Is he going to die out until the state gets
his hands on him?
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (24:19):
You see, missus Betty, he's killed twice tonight, right, card
A you mind if you want an ambulance talk y?
They had it coming on them.
Speaker 6 (24:26):
Stands who's double crossed by Piper In his difference, Stavens
is one of the.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Rubies to go to his wife, Kevin. What was missus bady?
Go on?
Speaker 2 (24:34):
Corday?
Speaker 1 (24:34):
The real Piper was a crook, decided to get the
jewels himself with that, Yes, but he was also dom
Stephanie the secretary crossed you for a pretty deal with me.
He was all her idea I'm going to you for
help with me posing his piper rules go on carday, Yes,
Stephaniey decided to double cross me. He used to have
(24:55):
the real piper because he got up to La and
your villa soon of them expected yes, but she couldn't cross.
I mean I was.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
I was following all the time. She didn't phone you
for my flight.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
No, no, no, no no no. I was outside your door, Dan,
and she was talking to her number.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
She made up.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
You got lucky you handled her the phone when you did.
If you hadn't, she would have shot you. It was
all light. It was light. The swore the man included.
There isn't one mister Marlo. He's he's unconscious, Missus Baty.
I'll get an ambulance.
Speaker 4 (25:23):
I'm sure you where the phone is?
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Yeah, after you tell me about the jewels. Huh the rupe's,
Missus Beatty, you'll like of surprised about them being hidden
the fireplace. I mean, how come well I phoned.
Speaker 5 (25:33):
Those six months ago when I bought this house from
Catherine Study to sit.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
In Los Angeles. Why the way, mister Miloud, how did
you move?
Speaker 2 (25:41):
That man was for d fireplace? Honey?
Speaker 1 (25:45):
He went to the wrong side. It was worth the
shot in the dog. It was week it phoned over there.
You know.
Speaker 5 (25:50):
I noticed the loose bits on the right hand side
of the fireplace the moment and walked in.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
You see, I built this house with my own had
Really why'd you move it up here, honey?
Speaker 5 (26:00):
Because my husband nice than our honeymoon in this house
and we found out happiness year at San Pablo.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
You also found the rubies and send them back to
Captain Steyveers. Yes, wit had been still here mid Happy.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
New Year, Jacqueline.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
By the time I'd said goodbye to jacque Wine and
walked outside, first son of nineteen fifty was glinting across
the waters of today, nineteen fifty another chance for marlow
and for the world.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
I hope we both do better with it this year.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
The Adventures of Philip Marlowe, Bringing You Raymond Chandler's most
famous character, star Gerald Moore, are produced and directed by
Norman McDonald and are written for radio by Robert Mitchell
and Gene Levitt. Feature in the cast were Lois Corbett,
Howard mcneer, Georgia Ellis, John Dayner, and Parley Bear. Detective
Lieutenant Matthews Is played by Larry Dobkins. The special music
(27:34):
is composed and conducted by Richard Urant. Be shuring me
with us again next week, when Philip Marlowe says, this
time each carried a torch, and each was burned by it,
the heel, the hero worshiper, and the hard bitten blonde,
(27:54):
and
Speaker 2 (27:55):
All because of a woman already two days dead,
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