October 12, 2025 • 29 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 (00:00):
Get this and get it straight. Crime is a sucker's road.
Those who travel had wind up in the gut of
the prison of the grave. This time a peddler, pulp
paper love, a blackmailow with muscles south of the border.
Chisler are simpering prudent. A corpse in a bedroom. I'll
at one thing in common each was a woman. It
happened like this.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
From the pen of Raymond Chandler, outstanding author of crime fiction,
comes his most famous character in the Adventures of Philip Marlowe. Now,
with Gerald Moore starred as Philip Marlowe, we bring you
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tonight's exciting story, The Ladies Night.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
And the moment the sauce is boiling curios anything which
is right? Now, add one full cup of tomato pace
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gradually in stir vigorously. Okay, one full cup of tomato
pacey No, no, not now, I'll be a minute, I said,
I'll be. Oh, oh no, all right, So I add
tomato pascee cup and all okay, Okay, I'm coming. Who
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is it? Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't mean about you, okay, Venamin.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Darling Staunch Ben Cake, Am I welcome me in my
small Western union.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Joe Oh sure, sure, come on, didn't honey we go
in the kitchen.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Oh it's not Marlow playing chet again?
Speaker 4 (01:51):
What is it this time?
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Sauce a la Marino, went's on your poor little rich
girl's fourteen carre at mine tonight? You it's two Tuesday.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Yes, this is a meeting night in my crowd, the
Greens Committee at the country club, the Beverly Hills mayl Choir.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
The veterans of this and that.
Speaker 5 (02:09):
So no man left.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Uh step starch friend mallow, Huh look ka baby, just
because I.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Did that to I know it by heartfield, just because
brave private detective once saved rich uncle Enox niece kay
Baby from.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Lots of travel, which he was well paid.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
There's no reason why they've got to go on seeing
each other. Well, mister, you're wrong. There is a reason,
a big fat one. I like you lots, you know,
especially on Tuesday.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
I can't tell you how happy that makes me now, not.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Being too bold, am I. I did call you no
three times. You weren't home all day.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
It didn't discourage you.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
If I can't have you, I'll take the door stare
Tuesdays on Tuesdays. Now about this, sauce Alla McCall. What
do we do first, fish out the cup or wait
for the milk?
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Well, it all depends if we want to Hey, that
things sticking out of your pocket real telegram or proper gag?
Speaker 4 (03:05):
Oh no, no, proper, real thing. I met the boy
in front of your door.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Open my hands, a greased.
Speaker 5 (03:10):
So I noticed over there, self reliant.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
It's called soap and water.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
We'll read it there straight like straight like, try to
read you all day. Very important. The tulip room sunset
strip at a tonight will take.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
It from.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Time means everything armsby you?
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Are you need a toll? Will?
Speaker 6 (03:33):
I think?
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Sure?
Speaker 5 (03:35):
She's the demon editor for Pastman House.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
We'll publish what magazine's.
Speaker 7 (03:39):
Torrid love great passions?
Speaker 5 (03:42):
You know the shop girl's encyclopedia.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Uh huh, well now tell me, shop girl, where'd you
meet editor gg Ormsby.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
At a cocktail party about a year ago. She's quite
a character, sleek to look at and listen to. Oh,
someplace between a career woman and a marine sergeant.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Credit good, excellent.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
Enoch once shook hands with her, and that's better than done.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
And bread, Hey, where are you going?
Speaker 1 (04:04):
The dun jacket and professional demeanor both are going to
the Tulip Room. But you're not. This is and the
sauce alamorino needs one measuring cup. Remove that delicate woman's touch.
Here on end, Bye bye key, you're a staunch friend. Indeed,
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the Tulip Room was one of those extra chic spots,
you know, curl up at the foot of the Hollywood Hills,
where the velvet and the maitre D's tone of voice
made you sure you had egg on your vest. But that,
plus the crew cut glamour girls lined the boots and
shrilled darling no matter what was saying, I had finding
my prospective client that much easier. In severely tailored banker's
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gray flannel, she stood out among the neighboring naked shoulders
like a wart on a cue ball, as did her voice, which,
once it had gone through the introductions, came right the point, Marlow.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
My problem is simple. I want to find a woman
in a hurry.
Speaker 8 (05:04):
Her name is Henrietta Long, and she's a good hack
writer who disappeared I know not why health likewise, now
here it is one two three. A couple of weeks ago,
Henrietta Lawrence showed up in my office from someplace like
Seattle of Portland. I forget which and handed me an
outline for a three installment serial story that was excellent
according to our stand. Three days ago she brought in
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the first two installments, also excellent. But the day before yesterday,
when the third installment was due, I was sitting in
my office window when it's happened.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
She only got as far as the front door. What happened,
I don't know.
Speaker 8 (05:35):
She saw somebody going by slowly in a car, scared
the daylights out.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
Of her, and she hubbled for it.
Speaker 8 (05:41):
Yeah, she limbs us a cave. Anyway, she piled into
this cab and took off. Haven't had a word from
her since. I'm worried. Mallow. She's a nervous thing, the
kind who'd go to pieces little ones fast.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
So I want you want it?
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (05:54):
As I live in is stale NIVI.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
Saginette business, So I see? And what thens and gentlemen's
name of am I supposed to get? It's Dracula, Darling,
where counting the white throats? Goodbye your price, goodbye Jeanette.
This is business strictly well, I was only being friendly.
Excuse me, Darling, happy business.
Speaker 8 (06:16):
Oh if they let loose after die anyhow modo, I
want you to find this girl, maybe in an awful jam.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
Now what do you want to know?
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Well? Description might help gge.
Speaker 8 (06:25):
Okay, Henriette is about thirty five, on the drab side,
no makeup, no jewelry. Each time I saw she was
wearing the same thing, a plain brown coat, a plain
of brown, had low heels, all in all the sex appeal.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Of a tumbleweed last day dress you had on her.
Speaker 8 (06:40):
It's the only one. The Brace Hotel for Women, Room seven.
It's over on fun near Losienega. But she hasn't checked
back there in two days either. A giggling flower of
the old South discwork I could talk to on the
phone today, hasn't a slide aside me away asher, But
I figure for you she might mollow, probably got a
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face like a wet ham.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
Her name is Clarice.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Well we'll try it. Where can I reach you?
Speaker 8 (07:05):
G my home in Bruntwood, Sunday side nine one one, Yeah,
I'll stay next to the phone.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
Really do your best, William.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Marlow, Okay, it will be my best, all right, don't
worry about it. I'll call you.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
Face Hotel, big bout it more or one moment.
Speaker 7 (07:38):
Please go ahead? Hello, can I can I help you?
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Oh? We alone? Is the switchboard closed? What?
Speaker 7 (07:52):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Good? You see. I'm a private detective named Marlow Clarice.
Speaker 7 (07:57):
A brother, A detective.
Speaker 5 (08:00):
You know my name?
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Oh? We find things? Uh?
Speaker 7 (08:04):
Oh I how can fully load me help you?
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Well, it's about Henrietta Lawrence, the girl with a king.
She's in trouble and I think it's a man, so
do I?
Speaker 7 (08:15):
Well, I don't know?
Speaker 1 (08:16):
You sure positive?
Speaker 7 (08:18):
She was always so quiet, so mysterious, it was enough
to make a body cureous. So one night I followed her.
She went to any Stringer's Hollywood health Club, A better.
Speaker 9 (08:29):
Lady's Turkish beth ovin Santa Monica Boulevard and o'haney m.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Well, maybe she ducked in there because she knew you
were fine her.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
Oh no, I was very careful.
Speaker 7 (08:38):
Besides, she had something to say to a woman there.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
I know.
Speaker 7 (08:42):
I saw him talking in the doorway when I went by.
Couldn't see who it was though, No man, No, but
I keep my eyes open when she comes back.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Oh you do, just then keep them wide open, Chlorice,
They're lovely eyes. Good night, honey. My client was wrong
Clorice did not have a face like wet hamp It
was more like a batch of biscuits. But the body
curious had provided a lead as far as the corner
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of Santa Monica and Dolheiny and into the white, addiseptic
looking reception room of Annie Stringer's Hollywood health club women
Only there I forgot about clarice, hemp and biscuits alike,
and thought instead about something a whole lot tastier, Like
the girl who was leaning on the corner of a
desk marked information while she made pencil marks on a chart.
She looked up when I closed the door and started
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toward me, But when another door in the room opened
and a woman who was built like a sack of
cement bore down on me, she turned back to a shark.
Speaker 6 (09:44):
Yes, sir, I help you.
Speaker 5 (09:46):
I'm Annie Stringer. We don't have a men's section here,
if that's what you wanted.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
No, it was something else from a Stringer.
Speaker 5 (09:52):
Annie'll do names my stock in trade, something else like.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
What Henrietta Lawrence?
Speaker 5 (09:57):
I'm looking for her, mister, what's your name?
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Philip Marlow. I'm a friend of Henriette' from Portland, They
told me over the Brace Hotel, that Henriette might be
at your place. You see, someone has seen he come
in here once, Henrietta Lawrence.
Speaker 5 (10:11):
Well, name doesn't mean anything to me but money.
Speaker 10 (10:14):
Missus Horton, once you become me for a while.
Speaker 5 (10:16):
All right here, they'll be right there. I don't recall
anyone by that name, mister Marlow, but you might check
with my receptionist there. Take care of the gentleman. William Mona,
dear very well, I'm coming, missus Gordon, I'm.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
I'm sorry, mister Marlow Mona, dear Philip Marlow, Marload.
Speaker 10 (10:37):
Well, I don't recall any Henriette Lawrence ever having been
with us, but why don't we check the registration cards
at my desk? Can be sure I might be mistaken,
all right.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
She's a woman about thirty five. She wears no makeup,
I know. Just listen.
Speaker 10 (10:53):
You see, mister Marlow, the cards here everyone who ever
visits the club. Why do you really want Hennette Laurence.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Well, I'm a private detective with interested clients who has money, Amigo.
It could be what's your connection here?
Speaker 10 (11:06):
Receptionist and a good friend to any confident you might say,
all right, I say it meet me nearly behind the
hardware store across the street. Now half far we closed him. Well,
I'm sorry, mister Marlow, but we don't seem to have
any listing of a Henrietta Lawrence.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
But perhaps you know never mind, thanks just the same.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
Well, you're quite welcome.
Speaker 10 (11:28):
Don't keep me waiting, amigo.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
I killed most of the thirty minute waited and all
night beanery a block away, where I drank bad coffee
and listened to a special monologue my waitress, which was worse.
And at exactly ten thirty, I stepped into the street
and walked to the alley behind the hardware store, who
cautiously taw the dark shadow of the building until I
hand that gripped like a bed trap, snap shut on
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my upper arm, while another locked my time in my back.
Speaker 11 (12:01):
One inch, mister Marlow, and I'll break it off and
hand it to her. I was a lady Rifer, understand.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Oh do I still call you Annie?
Speaker 5 (12:09):
Mind?
Speaker 4 (12:09):
Nor wise?
Speaker 11 (12:10):
Cracks in a long day and I haven't got patience.
Now what's your angle? Flat foot?
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Slip? Baby? In more ways than one? Start talking?
Speaker 4 (12:19):
All right?
Speaker 5 (12:20):
All right, Henrietta came from Seattle, not Portland. Somehow, some
advice forget Henriette Lawrence Shamas, you can't do her any good.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
A liar Annie, and you know it wasting your breast Shamus,
that's bluff any hot air.
Speaker 5 (12:34):
Yeah, I suppose that goes for the letter too.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
I said, better you slipped again, kid? What about it?
Speaker 5 (12:41):
You don't know what letter I'm talking about, mister Marlowe,
Henrietta Lawrence does. So tell her to call off the
bloodhound or that letter will go.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
Right to the cop. They'll know exactly what to do with.
Speaker 12 (12:54):
Okay, your head off launch, Well you can still walk,
go all right, But I'll be around Marlowe, So don't
forget the message I gave you for miss Laurence.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
In just a moment, the second act of Philip Marlowe.
But first, the kindly physician of rivers End, doctor Christian,
will meet the spirit of George Washington in the most
unusual way this Wednesday Night, when doctor Christian tells his
story on most of these same CBS stations, an elderly
patient who claims to have a personal message from George
Washington comes to doctor Christian's office and presents him with
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one of his most perplexing cases. Doctor Christian starring Geene
Herscheldt is a regular Wednesday night feature. Now with our
star Gerald Moore, we return to the second act of
Philip Marlowe and Tonight's story The Ladies Night.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Kay watched and Andy's tringer lumber out of sight down
the alley, and she turned tossed me and I told
you so, smile and lit a cigarette for me here. Well,
I guess it's a good thing.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
I chucked that scullery, made routine and followed you.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
After all, look, I've already said thanks, so go ahead,
get real corny rub it in marlow pinned by a
woman that was no woman's fill.
Speaker 5 (14:21):
It was as a lake gargangeous cousin.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Yeah. I was also out numbered and surrounded by the way,
where's your gun, Kay, I.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Don't have any gun, just a lot of bluff and
curiosity about what you were doing out here in the
alley with a creature like that.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
I was taking a judo lesson by correspondence.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
Maybe what was all that about?
Speaker 1 (14:39):
A letter? Well, for my money, the way things stack
up gg ormsby it's top writer one Henrietta Lawrence. It's
being blackmailed by any stringer, and that letter is Annie's
protection goes to the cops of anything. Can't get out
of side quick?
Speaker 5 (14:51):
What's Marlow not another?
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Yeah? Yeah, my day, tuck. Well you didn't one. It's important,
all right, but don't forget.
Speaker 5 (14:57):
You're a sucker for a hammerlock.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
So watch it.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Over here mana see here?
Speaker 4 (15:07):
Here are we alone?
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Yeah? Yeah, we're alone.
Speaker 10 (15:12):
It is worth my life what I'm going to tell you?
And we like me alive?
Speaker 1 (15:17):
You know? Look what is it? Money and knows something
about Henriette Lawrence?
Speaker 7 (15:20):
See more than enough. There's a certain letter.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Oh you know about that? Sure?
Speaker 10 (15:25):
I know where it is and what it says.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Plus you, baby, where is it? I want that letter bad?
Speaker 10 (15:29):
It's nice nice see, and I would love to give
it to you for nothing. But but what but my
poor mother she needs an operation. My father the mortgage
on her.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Und Your little system wants music lessons. I come on, kid,
how much?
Speaker 4 (15:44):
How much is the life of Henry Lawrence worth?
Speaker 10 (15:46):
Pheel dear to me, to you to Henry.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Lawrence her life, and I'll see what I can do.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
You better do real good, amigo. It's a very serious thing.
I take a great risk. Any stringer is stupid, but
it also.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Strong like a bull.
Speaker 10 (16:02):
Come to my apartment eighty three day in North Ardmore,
number D one hour.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
D okay, I'll be there.
Speaker 10 (16:10):
Good unpleasing me because you don't know whole hot feelings
against me, not for this. You know, business is business,
pleasure is pleasing. Maybe we can mix them in an hour.
I'll be waiting for you.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Fil honey, you like that.
Speaker 7 (16:30):
It was as touching a little scene as I've ever wished.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Hip. Okay, this deal is liable to get rough before
it so over. And I've got a call to make.
Let's go.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
And I was dumb enough to warn you against the
hot hammer lock. The kid's the The hammer lock that
that kid holds is like a padel it.
Speaker 5 (16:43):
Can I go with you?
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Just for last Yeah, we're gonna call on my clients.
You're scramming. Come on hello, mallo gg got a line
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on Henriette. But you're not gonna like it much.
Speaker 6 (17:07):
What do you mean?
Speaker 4 (17:08):
How does it good?
Speaker 1 (17:08):
Model? Trouble is she's got black mail. I don't know
what the hook is, but I have word of one
of the bargain as it's plenty serious. Who's doing a
phil A female master don named Danny Stringer is the
big wheel. I got onto it. Throw a letter a letter. Yeah,
Annie wrote her protection letter. It's got all a dirt
in it and goes to the cops if anything happens
to Danny. It's a standard routine.
Speaker 6 (17:27):
Where is it letter? Who happened?
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Is it? Double crossing? Little Spanish number named Mona was
supposed to meet her again in an hour at her place.
Speaker 6 (17:34):
Phil, We must get that letter.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
It's no sense, gg. Mona is not bright, but she's sly.
It's liable to be expensive.
Speaker 6 (17:39):
That doesn't matter. Okay, anything I can do to help Henriette.
I want to do now more than ever.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
What does that mean?
Speaker 6 (17:44):
I've heard from the model She called me just a
few minutes ago.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Where was she?
Speaker 6 (17:48):
That's a tough part. She was crying, said was the
end of everything. She tried to tell me about the
last installments of the story. Then she was interrupted. She
gasped out something that sounded like American Airlines ticket office.
Then the line went dead. There are three of those
offices in town.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Yeah, well we better check them. Look, can you take
the one out in Beverly Hills. I'll get the others
all right?
Speaker 6 (18:07):
And Mallow, Well, where does the Spanish thing?
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Live North odd Moore, eighty three ten, Apartment D.
Speaker 6 (18:12):
I'll meet you there in an hour.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
When Gigi hung up, I sent Kay to check the
Airline office in Hollywood for a woman carrying a cane
in a big load of trouble, telling her to call
me at the Downtown agency within half an hour, and
I haded south for the oppice on Sixth Street. Halfway
down it began to rain, you know, the kind of dismal,
misty drizzle it makes your clothes smell like blankets at
a fire sail. I spent a fruitless half hour picking
at the corners and trading descriptions, and finally, when Kay
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called in a negative report from the Hollywood office, it
was high time to beat it out to my appointment
with Mona. The rain had put enough dazzling sheen on
the pavement to make you going slow and slick, but
I got out to eighty three to ten, out more
and not over a minute late. The apartment V was
the last time to write, and completely dark. As I
walked toward it, I found myself following a set of
feminine footprints rapidly filling with water. Besides each left print
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was a little round hole By the time that registered
on me, I was already at the door. I could
hear her crying inside. I didn't wait to knock, honor, Honor.
It's me mollow keeap's sake. What happens to you? Philt woman?
Speaker 10 (19:20):
What's here waiting for me in the dark?
Speaker 9 (19:21):
Get a big club?
Speaker 10 (19:22):
When a kiny She.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Grabbed me and beat me with it. I was a cane,
Not that it makes any difference. Now, hey, you're a
province a rush. She got the letter? Hunh see she
got it it loom look at me later later, right now,
I want to know what that letter said. You can
forget about me paying the Mexican National debt for it.
I wanted free and fast. Come on, what's any got on?
Henrietta Lawrence?
Speaker 4 (19:41):
Right right, she knows it. What somebody's outside there?
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Oh it's gig. My name is Gig?
Speaker 6 (19:50):
Oh bell?
Speaker 1 (19:51):
Who was this?
Speaker 4 (19:52):
A poly? You told me about?
Speaker 9 (19:53):
Com minute?
Speaker 1 (19:54):
You you get all right?
Speaker 8 (19:55):
Hold it, hold it, take it easy, mousey housekeeper sister,
what happened your hat dance?
Speaker 4 (19:58):
Get out of control?
Speaker 1 (20:00):
A minute? Wait a minute. Henriette scooped this gig. She
was here and got the letter herself. What yes, we're
just talking about the letter when you came in. Let's
get on with it, Mona, what's big Annie's pitch?
Speaker 7 (20:10):
Supposing I won't tell you now, then I'll.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Have you in a pokey for attempted extortion before you
can say, Pancho Robinson beautiful? Come on when? Okay, that's better?
Speaker 4 (20:20):
Were you and me going?
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Dan?
Speaker 10 (20:22):
I don't know what Henriette Lawrence means to this dragon here,
but she's a murderer.
Speaker 4 (20:28):
Are you lying a little?
Speaker 8 (20:29):
Tomlly Toata? That's impossible. Henriette is a fine girl.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
You know what you're saying? Mona, Sure I do.
Speaker 4 (20:34):
I read the letter, didn't I?
Speaker 7 (20:36):
Henrietta Lawrence killed a woman in Seattle four years ago?
Speaker 4 (20:38):
Any thaw do it?
Speaker 7 (20:40):
She had named date, places, everything.
Speaker 4 (20:42):
I can't believe it. I just can't. She's such a
swelled person.
Speaker 8 (20:48):
Look, she even left this the final installment of the
story for me, and that will should ticket office.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
We do, we do, Phil, We got to help her, Okay,
the snither sheen nor Annie counted on Mona here reading
the letter. The best way to help her is try
to keep it from committing another murder?
Speaker 4 (21:02):
Are you crazy? What are you talking about?
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Come on, gig get with it. The letter was worthless
except as Annie Stringer's protection. Yet Henrietta went to all
the trouble of getting it, why so she could shut
Annie up. And there's only one way to.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
Do that, killer, Holy mackerel. I didn't even think you
shoot Senora. You got nothing else to work. We dropped.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
Stop stop it. Better take clear of it from here on, Gigi,
go home and wait for me.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
Okay, soil, whatever you say, call me as soon as
you can't sure?
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Sure? All right, come on, mom, let's go me yes, Oh.
Speaker 10 (21:33):
No, migo, the letter's gone and so is Mona's interested.
I'm very tired.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Listen you you cut yourself in on this right at
the isambrero. You know any so you may be able
to help me. It's that I spend the night, Nicola
added up, sweetheart on the lay.
Speaker 10 (21:47):
All right, you're so forceful, a migo, Come.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
On, let's go. Lennie's not in her apartment, then she's
not around the health club? What's next morning? Where else
will she be touch me or me? Think? Will you?
She had any appointment slight leaders didn't fit with a
regular routine.
Speaker 10 (22:12):
Well, she went out on Fountain Avenue and a big hurry.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
A couple of fount Avenue. That's where Henriette has been
staying in a hotel out there, the brace hooker, that's
it on my nose. Is any dumb enough to go there?
Speaker 7 (22:22):
I'm sure she's stupid and her strength makes her wreck.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
That's it. Let's go. Come on, moment's here on the
first floor.
Speaker 7 (22:43):
It's you again, mister Manor.
Speaker 9 (22:45):
It's me again, Florida, Miss loans number seven. Well you're sure,
and luck mister mal Oh, she's in now. She came
back by a half hour ago with her friend, the
biggest woman I ever saw any It's true.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
I remember you are right.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Yeah, come on, let's get back there.
Speaker 6 (23:00):
You can't go back there.
Speaker 7 (23:01):
You're man in this hotel.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
Phone, you gotta pass you there, aperture. Come on. This
entire night, from start to finished, hasvent for women only
getting sick and tired of a pleasant company included number
seven right here, Henrietta, unlock it, Corey's fast, get back, Henny.
Speaker 7 (23:28):
Did it's a knife.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Yeah, go ahead, and screamed to Ras get it over with.
Speaker 4 (23:35):
Where where's miss Laurence?
Speaker 1 (23:38):
She no doubt left by the window here and it's
still open, only five feet to the ground, and a
clear set of footprints in the wet dirt, cane marks
and all just like just like what mister morn I
started to say, like the ones I saw earlier. Sure,
the lasting tom on the story, the letter at Mona's
the airline ticket. Now she's out of its slick as
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a whistle. Chlorice, callar cops here, give him my card.
I'll get in touch where you go, mister Mordow to
break the unpleasant news as gently as possible of my client.
Speaker 4 (24:07):
Hee, what about me? What will I do now?
Speaker 1 (24:10):
Just keep looking at any beautiful chiseling double crossing jerk.
Maybe I learned something, but I'm not going to count
on it. Pee Gigi had a lot of lights on
in a glossy Brentwood house. As I walked up the wet,
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curving flagstones to a door, I could see her inside,
pacing slowly back and forth, an impatient cigarette in one hand,
a stiff brace of brandy in the other. Whatever gg
Armsby really thought I felt about Henriette Lawrence Lynn, I
couldn't tell, but I was sure that before I left,
she was going to despise it.
Speaker 8 (24:48):
Phil, I've been waiting for you to phone me, I
some burd isn't that? I can see it in your face.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
We found any Stringer's body, Gig in Henriette's hotel.
Speaker 4 (24:58):
Room, dirty, dirty, shame, and Henrietta gone.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
But she won't get far, not this time. The circle
gets smaller every time. She can't keep on killing. It's
got to stop someplace.
Speaker 4 (25:11):
Yeah, I suppose so, But I'm sorry for her. Phil.
Speaker 8 (25:15):
I hope she got a plane ticket to night and
is miles away by morning. I hope she gets a
break this time.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
She didn't buy a ticket. She's not even running, and
she won't get that break.
Speaker 4 (25:25):
You talk as if you know where she is, do you?
Speaker 1 (25:29):
You've been to Seattle, haven't you?
Speaker 4 (25:30):
Gig of course, but not for years.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
You lived there. You were a writer before you became
a publisher. Why what is this? You knew any Stringer
long before the night too, Gigi, huh?
Speaker 4 (25:41):
What are you driving at Marlow?
Speaker 1 (25:43):
But your real name is Henriette Lawrence. That you killed
a woman in Seattle once changed your name and got away.
But there was a witness and a couple of weeks ago,
purely buy a chance that witness Andy Stringer ran Andy.
You recognized you was Henriette and granted the chance for blackmails.
So you had to bring Henriette Lawrence back to life
just long enough to get rid of the witness. But
first you had to get a letter she'd written, and
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also have someone who tell a straight story to the cops.
Say you hired me, planted the right leads along the way.
You gotta wait in my desk. I'll try it. Gg.
You can't win, so at least lose gracefully with you.
Speaker 8 (26:15):
This was in one of my books. No one wanted
to believe it. You're right, I can't win. It's all true,
Phil Where was a loophole?
Speaker 1 (26:27):
It started only as a hunch, but everything fit. I
got it from the cane you use Gg at Mona's place.
The cane marks were on the left side of your
tracks outside the hotel window, they were on the right.
Anybody who really has to use the cane couldn't do
that such.
Speaker 4 (26:42):
A little thing.
Speaker 8 (26:43):
As a matter of fact, it was Look, Mallow, you're
the only person between me and that break. I got
more money than I know what to do with. I
can bid high, really high. You wouldn't be for sale,
would you, No, baby?
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Just for hire? Get you coaches, you were going down
at headquarters, getting the whole business down on police stationary,
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one orderly step at a time, as the process is
full of well as full as the fiscal report of
the First National Bank, for twice as long as whip up.
But finally it was all over. I was on my
way home to my bachelor apartment, and then I remembered somewhere.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
I marn't explaining what took you so long, darling. You're
here now, Dinner is ready and waiting, the martinis are
ice cold.
Speaker 5 (27:51):
Just come on in and close the door.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
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Speaker 1 (28:42):
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Speaker 1 (28:52):
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Get this and get it straight. Crime is a sucker's road.
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From the pen of Raymond Chandler, outstanding author of crime fiction,
comes his most famous character in the Adventures of Philip Marlowe. Now,
with Gerald Moore starred as Philip Marlowe, we bring you
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tonight's exciting story, The Ladies Night.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
And the moment the sauce is boiling curios anything which
is right? Now, add one full cup of tomato pace
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gradually in stir vigorously. Okay, one full cup of tomato
pacey No, no, not now, I'll be a minute, I said,
I'll be. Oh, oh no, all right, So I add
tomato pascee cup and all okay, Okay, I'm coming. Who
(01:34):
is it? Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't mean about you, okay, Venamin.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Darling Staunch Ben Cake, Am I welcome me in my
small Western union.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Joe Oh sure, sure, come on, didn't honey we go
in the kitchen.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Oh it's not Marlow playing chet again?
Speaker 4 (01:51):
What is it this time?
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Sauce a la Marino, went's on your poor little rich
girl's fourteen carre at mine tonight? You it's two Tuesday.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Yes, this is a meeting night in my crowd, the
Greens Committee at the country club, the Beverly Hills mayl Choir.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
The veterans of this and that.
Speaker 5 (02:09):
So no man left.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Uh step starch friend mallow, Huh look ka baby, just
because I.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Did that to I know it by heartfield, just because
brave private detective once saved rich uncle Enox niece kay
Baby from.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Lots of travel, which he was well paid.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
There's no reason why they've got to go on seeing
each other. Well, mister, you're wrong. There is a reason,
a big fat one. I like you lots, you know,
especially on Tuesday.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
I can't tell you how happy that makes me now, not.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Being too bold, am I. I did call you no
three times. You weren't home all day.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
It didn't discourage you.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
If I can't have you, I'll take the door stare
Tuesdays on Tuesdays. Now about this, sauce Alla McCall. What
do we do first, fish out the cup or wait
for the milk?
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Well, it all depends if we want to Hey, that
things sticking out of your pocket real telegram or proper gag?
Speaker 4 (03:05):
Oh no, no, proper, real thing. I met the boy
in front of your door.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Open my hands, a greased.
Speaker 5 (03:10):
So I noticed over there, self reliant.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
It's called soap and water.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
We'll read it there straight like straight like, try to
read you all day. Very important. The tulip room sunset
strip at a tonight will take.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
It from.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Time means everything armsby you?
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Are you need a toll? Will?
Speaker 6 (03:33):
I think?
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Sure?
Speaker 5 (03:35):
She's the demon editor for Pastman House.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
We'll publish what magazine's.
Speaker 7 (03:39):
Torrid love great passions?
Speaker 5 (03:42):
You know the shop girl's encyclopedia.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Uh huh, well now tell me, shop girl, where'd you
meet editor gg Ormsby.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
At a cocktail party about a year ago. She's quite
a character, sleek to look at and listen to. Oh,
someplace between a career woman and a marine sergeant.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Credit good, excellent.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
Enoch once shook hands with her, and that's better than done.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
And bread, Hey, where are you going?
Speaker 1 (04:04):
The dun jacket and professional demeanor both are going to
the Tulip Room. But you're not. This is and the
sauce alamorino needs one measuring cup. Remove that delicate woman's touch.
Here on end, Bye bye key, you're a staunch friend. Indeed,
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the Tulip Room was one of those extra chic spots,
you know, curl up at the foot of the Hollywood Hills,
where the velvet and the maitre D's tone of voice
made you sure you had egg on your vest. But that,
plus the crew cut glamour girls lined the boots and
shrilled darling no matter what was saying, I had finding
my prospective client that much easier. In severely tailored banker's
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gray flannel, she stood out among the neighboring naked shoulders
like a wart on a cue ball, as did her voice, which,
once it had gone through the introductions, came right the point, Marlow.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
My problem is simple. I want to find a woman
in a hurry.
Speaker 8 (05:04):
Her name is Henrietta Long, and she's a good hack
writer who disappeared I know not why health likewise, now
here it is one two three. A couple of weeks ago,
Henrietta Lawrence showed up in my office from someplace like
Seattle of Portland. I forget which and handed me an
outline for a three installment serial story that was excellent
according to our stand. Three days ago she brought in
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the first two installments, also excellent. But the day before yesterday,
when the third installment was due, I was sitting in
my office window when it's happened.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
She only got as far as the front door. What happened,
I don't know.
Speaker 8 (05:35):
She saw somebody going by slowly in a car, scared
the daylights out.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
Of her, and she hubbled for it.
Speaker 8 (05:41):
Yeah, she limbs us a cave. Anyway, she piled into
this cab and took off. Haven't had a word from
her since. I'm worried. Mallow. She's a nervous thing, the
kind who'd go to pieces little ones fast.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
So I want you want it?
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (05:54):
As I live in is stale NIVI.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
Saginette business, So I see? And what thens and gentlemen's
name of am I supposed to get? It's Dracula, Darling,
where counting the white throats? Goodbye your price, goodbye Jeanette.
This is business strictly well, I was only being friendly.
Excuse me, Darling, happy business.
Speaker 8 (06:16):
Oh if they let loose after die anyhow modo, I
want you to find this girl, maybe in an awful jam.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
Now what do you want to know?
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Well? Description might help gge.
Speaker 8 (06:25):
Okay, Henriette is about thirty five, on the drab side,
no makeup, no jewelry. Each time I saw she was
wearing the same thing, a plain brown coat, a plain
of brown, had low heels, all in all the sex appeal.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Of a tumbleweed last day dress you had on her.
Speaker 8 (06:40):
It's the only one. The Brace Hotel for Women, Room seven.
It's over on fun near Losienega. But she hasn't checked
back there in two days either. A giggling flower of
the old South discwork I could talk to on the
phone today, hasn't a slide aside me away asher, But
I figure for you she might mollow, probably got a
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face like a wet ham.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
Her name is Clarice.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Well we'll try it. Where can I reach you?
Speaker 8 (07:05):
G my home in Bruntwood, Sunday side nine one one, Yeah,
I'll stay next to the phone.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
Really do your best, William.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Marlow, Okay, it will be my best, all right, don't
worry about it. I'll call you.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
Face Hotel, big bout it more or one moment.
Speaker 7 (07:38):
Please go ahead? Hello, can I can I help you?
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Oh? We alone? Is the switchboard closed? What?
Speaker 7 (07:52):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Good? You see. I'm a private detective named Marlow Clarice.
Speaker 7 (07:57):
A brother, A detective.
Speaker 5 (08:00):
You know my name?
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Oh? We find things? Uh?
Speaker 7 (08:04):
Oh I how can fully load me help you?
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Well, it's about Henrietta Lawrence, the girl with a king.
She's in trouble and I think it's a man, so
do I?
Speaker 7 (08:15):
Well, I don't know?
Speaker 1 (08:16):
You sure positive?
Speaker 7 (08:18):
She was always so quiet, so mysterious, it was enough
to make a body cureous. So one night I followed her.
She went to any Stringer's Hollywood health Club, A better.
Speaker 9 (08:29):
Lady's Turkish beth ovin Santa Monica Boulevard and o'haney m.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Well, maybe she ducked in there because she knew you
were fine her.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
Oh no, I was very careful.
Speaker 7 (08:38):
Besides, she had something to say to a woman there.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
I know.
Speaker 7 (08:42):
I saw him talking in the doorway when I went by.
Couldn't see who it was though, No man, No, but
I keep my eyes open when she comes back.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Oh you do, just then keep them wide open, Chlorice,
They're lovely eyes. Good night, honey. My client was wrong
Clorice did not have a face like wet hamp It
was more like a batch of biscuits. But the body
curious had provided a lead as far as the corner
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of Santa Monica and Dolheiny and into the white, addiseptic
looking reception room of Annie Stringer's Hollywood health club women
Only there I forgot about clarice, hemp and biscuits alike,
and thought instead about something a whole lot tastier, Like
the girl who was leaning on the corner of a
desk marked information while she made pencil marks on a chart.
She looked up when I closed the door and started
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toward me, But when another door in the room opened
and a woman who was built like a sack of
cement bore down on me, she turned back to a shark.
Speaker 6 (09:44):
Yes, sir, I help you.
Speaker 5 (09:46):
I'm Annie Stringer. We don't have a men's section here,
if that's what you wanted.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
No, it was something else from a Stringer.
Speaker 5 (09:52):
Annie'll do names my stock in trade, something else like.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
What Henrietta Lawrence?
Speaker 5 (09:57):
I'm looking for her, mister, what's your name?
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Philip Marlow. I'm a friend of Henriette' from Portland, They
told me over the Brace Hotel, that Henriette might be
at your place. You see, someone has seen he come
in here once, Henrietta Lawrence.
Speaker 5 (10:11):
Well, name doesn't mean anything to me but money.
Speaker 10 (10:14):
Missus Horton, once you become me for a while.
Speaker 5 (10:16):
All right here, they'll be right there. I don't recall
anyone by that name, mister Marlow, but you might check
with my receptionist there. Take care of the gentleman. William Mona,
dear very well, I'm coming, missus Gordon, I'm.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
I'm sorry, mister Marlow Mona, dear Philip Marlow, Marload.
Speaker 10 (10:37):
Well, I don't recall any Henriette Lawrence ever having been
with us, but why don't we check the registration cards
at my desk? Can be sure I might be mistaken,
all right.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
She's a woman about thirty five. She wears no makeup,
I know. Just listen.
Speaker 10 (10:53):
You see, mister Marlow, the cards here everyone who ever
visits the club. Why do you really want Hennette Laurence.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Well, I'm a private detective with interested clients who has money, Amigo.
It could be what's your connection here?
Speaker 10 (11:06):
Receptionist and a good friend to any confident you might say,
all right, I say it meet me nearly behind the
hardware store across the street. Now half far we closed him. Well,
I'm sorry, mister Marlow, but we don't seem to have
any listing of a Henrietta Lawrence.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
But perhaps you know never mind, thanks just the same.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
Well, you're quite welcome.
Speaker 10 (11:28):
Don't keep me waiting, amigo.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
I killed most of the thirty minute waited and all
night beanery a block away, where I drank bad coffee
and listened to a special monologue my waitress, which was worse.
And at exactly ten thirty, I stepped into the street
and walked to the alley behind the hardware store, who
cautiously taw the dark shadow of the building until I
hand that gripped like a bed trap, snap shut on
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my upper arm, while another locked my time in my back.
Speaker 11 (12:01):
One inch, mister Marlow, and I'll break it off and
hand it to her. I was a lady Rifer, understand.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Oh do I still call you Annie?
Speaker 5 (12:09):
Mind?
Speaker 4 (12:09):
Nor wise?
Speaker 11 (12:10):
Cracks in a long day and I haven't got patience.
Now what's your angle? Flat foot?
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Slip? Baby? In more ways than one? Start talking?
Speaker 4 (12:19):
All right?
Speaker 5 (12:20):
All right, Henrietta came from Seattle, not Portland. Somehow, some
advice forget Henriette Lawrence Shamas, you can't do her any good.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
A liar Annie, and you know it wasting your breast Shamus,
that's bluff any hot air.
Speaker 5 (12:34):
Yeah, I suppose that goes for the letter too.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
I said, better you slipped again, kid? What about it?
Speaker 5 (12:41):
You don't know what letter I'm talking about, mister Marlowe,
Henrietta Lawrence does. So tell her to call off the
bloodhound or that letter will go.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
Right to the cop. They'll know exactly what to do with.
Speaker 12 (12:54):
Okay, your head off launch, Well you can still walk,
go all right, But I'll be around Marlowe, So don't
forget the message I gave you for miss Laurence.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
In just a moment, the second act of Philip Marlowe.
But first, the kindly physician of rivers End, doctor Christian,
will meet the spirit of George Washington in the most
unusual way this Wednesday Night, when doctor Christian tells his
story on most of these same CBS stations, an elderly
patient who claims to have a personal message from George
Washington comes to doctor Christian's office and presents him with
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one of his most perplexing cases. Doctor Christian starring Geene
Herscheldt is a regular Wednesday night feature. Now with our
star Gerald Moore, we return to the second act of
Philip Marlowe and Tonight's story The Ladies Night.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Kay watched and Andy's tringer lumber out of sight down
the alley, and she turned tossed me and I told
you so, smile and lit a cigarette for me here. Well,
I guess it's a good thing.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
I chucked that scullery, made routine and followed you.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
After all, look, I've already said thanks, so go ahead,
get real corny rub it in marlow pinned by a
woman that was no woman's fill.
Speaker 5 (14:21):
It was as a lake gargangeous cousin.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Yeah. I was also out numbered and surrounded by the way,
where's your gun, Kay, I.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Don't have any gun, just a lot of bluff and
curiosity about what you were doing out here in the
alley with a creature like that.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
I was taking a judo lesson by correspondence.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
Maybe what was all that about?
Speaker 1 (14:39):
A letter? Well, for my money, the way things stack
up gg ormsby it's top writer one Henrietta Lawrence. It's
being blackmailed by any stringer, and that letter is Annie's
protection goes to the cops of anything. Can't get out
of side quick?
Speaker 5 (14:51):
What's Marlow not another?
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Yeah? Yeah, my day, tuck. Well you didn't one. It's important,
all right, but don't forget.
Speaker 5 (14:57):
You're a sucker for a hammerlock.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
So watch it.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Over here mana see here?
Speaker 4 (15:07):
Here are we alone?
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Yeah? Yeah, we're alone.
Speaker 10 (15:12):
It is worth my life what I'm going to tell you?
And we like me alive?
Speaker 1 (15:17):
You know? Look what is it? Money and knows something
about Henriette Lawrence?
Speaker 7 (15:20):
See more than enough. There's a certain letter.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Oh you know about that? Sure?
Speaker 10 (15:25):
I know where it is and what it says.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Plus you, baby, where is it? I want that letter bad?
Speaker 10 (15:29):
It's nice nice see, and I would love to give
it to you for nothing. But but what but my
poor mother she needs an operation. My father the mortgage
on her.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Und Your little system wants music lessons. I come on, kid,
how much?
Speaker 4 (15:44):
How much is the life of Henry Lawrence worth?
Speaker 10 (15:46):
Pheel dear to me, to you to Henry.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Lawrence her life, and I'll see what I can do.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
You better do real good, amigo. It's a very serious thing.
I take a great risk. Any stringer is stupid, but
it also.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Strong like a bull.
Speaker 10 (16:02):
Come to my apartment eighty three day in North Ardmore,
number D one hour.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
D okay, I'll be there.
Speaker 10 (16:10):
Good unpleasing me because you don't know whole hot feelings
against me, not for this. You know, business is business,
pleasure is pleasing. Maybe we can mix them in an hour.
I'll be waiting for you.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Fil honey, you like that.
Speaker 7 (16:30):
It was as touching a little scene as I've ever wished.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Hip. Okay, this deal is liable to get rough before
it so over. And I've got a call to make.
Let's go.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
And I was dumb enough to warn you against the
hot hammer lock. The kid's the The hammer lock that
that kid holds is like a padel it.
Speaker 5 (16:43):
Can I go with you?
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Just for last Yeah, we're gonna call on my clients.
You're scramming. Come on hello, mallo gg got a line
(17:05):
on Henriette. But you're not gonna like it much.
Speaker 6 (17:07):
What do you mean?
Speaker 4 (17:08):
How does it good?
Speaker 1 (17:08):
Model? Trouble is she's got black mail. I don't know
what the hook is, but I have word of one
of the bargain as it's plenty serious. Who's doing a
phil A female master don named Danny Stringer is the
big wheel. I got onto it. Throw a letter a letter. Yeah,
Annie wrote her protection letter. It's got all a dirt
in it and goes to the cops if anything happens
to Danny. It's a standard routine.
Speaker 6 (17:27):
Where is it letter? Who happened?
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Is it? Double crossing? Little Spanish number named Mona was
supposed to meet her again in an hour at her place.
Speaker 6 (17:34):
Phil, We must get that letter.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
It's no sense, gg. Mona is not bright, but she's sly.
It's liable to be expensive.
Speaker 6 (17:39):
That doesn't matter. Okay, anything I can do to help Henriette.
I want to do now more than ever.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
What does that mean?
Speaker 6 (17:44):
I've heard from the model She called me just a
few minutes ago.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Where was she?
Speaker 6 (17:48):
That's a tough part. She was crying, said was the
end of everything. She tried to tell me about the
last installments of the story. Then she was interrupted. She
gasped out something that sounded like American Airlines ticket office.
Then the line went dead. There are three of those
offices in town.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Yeah, well we better check them. Look, can you take
the one out in Beverly Hills. I'll get the others
all right?
Speaker 6 (18:07):
And Mallow, Well, where does the Spanish thing?
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Live North odd Moore, eighty three ten, Apartment D.
Speaker 6 (18:12):
I'll meet you there in an hour.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
When Gigi hung up, I sent Kay to check the
Airline office in Hollywood for a woman carrying a cane
in a big load of trouble, telling her to call
me at the Downtown agency within half an hour, and
I haded south for the oppice on Sixth Street. Halfway
down it began to rain, you know, the kind of dismal,
misty drizzle it makes your clothes smell like blankets at
a fire sail. I spent a fruitless half hour picking
at the corners and trading descriptions, and finally, when Kay
(18:43):
called in a negative report from the Hollywood office, it
was high time to beat it out to my appointment
with Mona. The rain had put enough dazzling sheen on
the pavement to make you going slow and slick, but
I got out to eighty three to ten, out more
and not over a minute late. The apartment V was
the last time to write, and completely dark. As I
walked toward it, I found myself following a set of
feminine footprints rapidly filling with water. Besides each left print
(19:06):
was a little round hole By the time that registered
on me, I was already at the door. I could
hear her crying inside. I didn't wait to knock, honor, Honor.
It's me mollow keeap's sake. What happens to you? Philt woman?
Speaker 10 (19:20):
What's here waiting for me in the dark?
Speaker 9 (19:21):
Get a big club?
Speaker 10 (19:22):
When a kiny She.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Grabbed me and beat me with it. I was a cane,
Not that it makes any difference. Now, hey, you're a
province a rush. She got the letter? Hunh see she
got it it loom look at me later later, right now,
I want to know what that letter said. You can
forget about me paying the Mexican National debt for it.
I wanted free and fast. Come on, what's any got on?
Henrietta Lawrence?
Speaker 4 (19:41):
Right right, she knows it. What somebody's outside there?
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Oh it's gig. My name is Gig?
Speaker 6 (19:50):
Oh bell?
Speaker 1 (19:51):
Who was this?
Speaker 4 (19:52):
A poly? You told me about?
Speaker 9 (19:53):
Com minute?
Speaker 1 (19:54):
You you get all right?
Speaker 8 (19:55):
Hold it, hold it, take it easy, mousey housekeeper sister,
what happened your hat dance?
Speaker 4 (19:58):
Get out of control?
Speaker 1 (20:00):
A minute? Wait a minute. Henriette scooped this gig. She
was here and got the letter herself. What yes, we're
just talking about the letter when you came in. Let's
get on with it, Mona, what's big Annie's pitch?
Speaker 7 (20:10):
Supposing I won't tell you now, then I'll.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Have you in a pokey for attempted extortion before you
can say, Pancho Robinson beautiful? Come on when? Okay, that's better?
Speaker 4 (20:20):
Were you and me going?
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Dan?
Speaker 10 (20:22):
I don't know what Henriette Lawrence means to this dragon here,
but she's a murderer.
Speaker 4 (20:28):
Are you lying a little?
Speaker 8 (20:29):
Tomlly Toata? That's impossible. Henriette is a fine girl.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
You know what you're saying? Mona, Sure I do.
Speaker 4 (20:34):
I read the letter, didn't I?
Speaker 7 (20:36):
Henrietta Lawrence killed a woman in Seattle four years ago?
Speaker 4 (20:38):
Any thaw do it?
Speaker 7 (20:40):
She had named date, places, everything.
Speaker 4 (20:42):
I can't believe it. I just can't. She's such a
swelled person.
Speaker 8 (20:48):
Look, she even left this the final installment of the
story for me, and that will should ticket office.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
We do, we do, Phil, We got to help her, Okay,
the snither sheen nor Annie counted on Mona here reading
the letter. The best way to help her is try
to keep it from committing another murder?
Speaker 4 (21:02):
Are you crazy? What are you talking about?
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Come on, gig get with it. The letter was worthless
except as Annie Stringer's protection. Yet Henrietta went to all
the trouble of getting it, why so she could shut
Annie up. And there's only one way to.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
Do that, killer, Holy mackerel. I didn't even think you
shoot Senora. You got nothing else to work. We dropped.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
Stop stop it. Better take clear of it from here on, Gigi,
go home and wait for me.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
Okay, soil, whatever you say, call me as soon as
you can't sure?
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Sure? All right, come on, mom, let's go me yes, Oh.
Speaker 10 (21:33):
No, migo, the letter's gone and so is Mona's interested.
I'm very tired.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Listen you you cut yourself in on this right at
the isambrero. You know any so you may be able
to help me. It's that I spend the night, Nicola
added up, sweetheart on the lay.
Speaker 10 (21:47):
All right, you're so forceful, a migo, Come.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
On, let's go. Lennie's not in her apartment, then she's
not around the health club? What's next morning? Where else
will she be touch me or me? Think? Will you?
She had any appointment slight leaders didn't fit with a
regular routine.
Speaker 10 (22:12):
Well, she went out on Fountain Avenue and a big hurry.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
A couple of fount Avenue. That's where Henriette has been
staying in a hotel out there, the brace hooker, that's
it on my nose. Is any dumb enough to go there?
Speaker 7 (22:22):
I'm sure she's stupid and her strength makes her wreck.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
That's it. Let's go. Come on, moment's here on the
first floor.
Speaker 7 (22:43):
It's you again, mister Manor.
Speaker 9 (22:45):
It's me again, Florida, Miss loans number seven. Well you're sure,
and luck mister mal Oh, she's in now. She came
back by a half hour ago with her friend, the
biggest woman I ever saw any It's true.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
I remember you are right.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Yeah, come on, let's get back there.
Speaker 6 (23:00):
You can't go back there.
Speaker 7 (23:01):
You're man in this hotel.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
Phone, you gotta pass you there, aperture. Come on. This
entire night, from start to finished, hasvent for women only
getting sick and tired of a pleasant company included number
seven right here, Henrietta, unlock it, Corey's fast, get back, Henny.
Speaker 7 (23:28):
Did it's a knife.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Yeah, go ahead, and screamed to Ras get it over with.
Speaker 4 (23:35):
Where where's miss Laurence?
Speaker 1 (23:38):
She no doubt left by the window here and it's
still open, only five feet to the ground, and a
clear set of footprints in the wet dirt, cane marks
and all just like just like what mister morn I
started to say, like the ones I saw earlier. Sure,
the lasting tom on the story, the letter at Mona's
the airline ticket. Now she's out of its slick as
(23:59):
a whistle. Chlorice, callar cops here, give him my card.
I'll get in touch where you go, mister Mordow to
break the unpleasant news as gently as possible of my client.
Speaker 4 (24:07):
Hee, what about me? What will I do now?
Speaker 1 (24:10):
Just keep looking at any beautiful chiseling double crossing jerk.
Maybe I learned something, but I'm not going to count
on it. Pee Gigi had a lot of lights on
in a glossy Brentwood house. As I walked up the wet,
(24:31):
curving flagstones to a door, I could see her inside,
pacing slowly back and forth, an impatient cigarette in one hand,
a stiff brace of brandy in the other. Whatever gg
Armsby really thought I felt about Henriette Lawrence Lynn, I
couldn't tell, but I was sure that before I left,
she was going to despise it.
Speaker 8 (24:48):
Phil, I've been waiting for you to phone me, I
some burd isn't that? I can see it in your face.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
We found any Stringer's body, Gig in Henriette's hotel.
Speaker 4 (24:58):
Room, dirty, dirty, shame, and Henrietta gone.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
But she won't get far, not this time. The circle
gets smaller every time. She can't keep on killing. It's
got to stop someplace.
Speaker 4 (25:11):
Yeah, I suppose so, But I'm sorry for her. Phil.
Speaker 8 (25:15):
I hope she got a plane ticket to night and
is miles away by morning. I hope she gets a
break this time.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
She didn't buy a ticket. She's not even running, and
she won't get that break.
Speaker 4 (25:25):
You talk as if you know where she is, do you?
Speaker 1 (25:29):
You've been to Seattle, haven't you?
Speaker 4 (25:30):
Gig of course, but not for years.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
You lived there. You were a writer before you became
a publisher. Why what is this? You knew any Stringer
long before the night too, Gigi, huh?
Speaker 4 (25:41):
What are you driving at Marlow?
Speaker 1 (25:43):
But your real name is Henriette Lawrence. That you killed
a woman in Seattle once changed your name and got away.
But there was a witness and a couple of weeks ago,
purely buy a chance that witness Andy Stringer ran Andy.
You recognized you was Henriette and granted the chance for blackmails.
So you had to bring Henriette Lawrence back to life
just long enough to get rid of the witness. But
first you had to get a letter she'd written, and
(26:03):
also have someone who tell a straight story to the cops.
Say you hired me, planted the right leads along the way.
You gotta wait in my desk. I'll try it. Gg.
You can't win, so at least lose gracefully with you.
Speaker 8 (26:15):
This was in one of my books. No one wanted
to believe it. You're right, I can't win. It's all true,
Phil Where was a loophole?
Speaker 1 (26:27):
It started only as a hunch, but everything fit. I
got it from the cane you use Gg at Mona's place.
The cane marks were on the left side of your
tracks outside the hotel window, they were on the right.
Anybody who really has to use the cane couldn't do
that such.
Speaker 4 (26:42):
A little thing.
Speaker 8 (26:43):
As a matter of fact, it was Look, Mallow, you're
the only person between me and that break. I got
more money than I know what to do with. I
can bid high, really high. You wouldn't be for sale,
would you, No, baby?
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Just for hire? Get you coaches, you were going down
at headquarters, getting the whole business down on police stationary,
(27:21):
one orderly step at a time, as the process is
full of well as full as the fiscal report of
the First National Bank, for twice as long as whip up.
But finally it was all over. I was on my
way home to my bachelor apartment, and then I remembered somewhere.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
I marn't explaining what took you so long, darling. You're
here now, Dinner is ready and waiting, the martinis are
ice cold.
Speaker 5 (27:51):
Just come on in and close the door.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
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Speaker 1 (28:52):
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and a long haired piano player, but thrown into a
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