November 26, 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 (00:02):
Get this and get it straight. Crime is a sucker's road.
Knows who travel had wind up in the gut of
the prison of the grave. This time. I started with
the Roumanian from left Field, got misled in the Philippine Jungles,
chased a beautiful blonde clear to Venice, and wound up
with a friend from Siam, all without ever leaving Los Angeles.
It happened like this. From the pen of.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Raymond Trandler, 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 tonight's
exciting story, The Sword of Save Boo.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Who Lost?
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Tell me where is the office of Philip marlow the Detective?
Speaker 4 (01:14):
Maybe?
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Yeah, sure, right around the corner here your left.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Oh, thank you very much, my friend. You know this
mister Marlowe?
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Wey, yes, I think you could say I know him.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Tell me he is a reliable man.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Well, that depends on what you want to rely on
him for. Excuse me, will you? I want to unlock
the door. You are Philip marlow Yeah, you're all right,
Come on in, mister never.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Mind, now listen to me. I will pay you twice
what Henry Pound has offered to you. Also, I will
add to that one thousand dollars for a bony.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Wait a minute, Wait a minute, what is this Henry Pound?
A thousand?
Speaker 4 (01:45):
Please?
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Please, I have not the time for haggling. We may
get two thousand dollars, but you must work for me,
not for Henry Pound. You only pretend to work for him.
Speaker 5 (01:53):
Now.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Look, but in the first place, I haven't heard from
Henry Pound since I worked for him four years ago.
Second place, I still don't know who you are or
what you want. Maybe a better Sonana over there started
the beginning and tell.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Me trying to treat me very well tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
The short, dumpy man with wild black hair turned suddenly savage,
swung a hard fistful of knuckles at my front teeth,
and piled me back up against my office desk. By
the time I got out into the hall, he was gone.
I was gonna follow him with my phone, screaming for
attention inside stop me. I decided to be philosophical about it.
After all, screwballs find me all the time. Hello, Marlo
speaking till this is Henry Pound. Remember me, Yes, yes,
(02:29):
I just had a reminder.
Speaker 5 (02:30):
I've been trying to get hold of you for two hours,
my boy, where have you been.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Out to dinner? And now listen, mister Pound, I just.
Speaker 5 (02:35):
First, Marlol, this is most important. I need your help
again immediately.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
No doubt includes the stubby crumb with a head full
of wild black hair and a nasty temper that left
here on the run ten seconds ago, Kurt Babisco, whatever
you call him, it's probably it Bibesco, Kurt Babesco.
Speaker 5 (02:48):
He's the one man I have reason to hear, Marlo,
come out here to my place at once, will you,
my boy? Oh, Henry Pound's future is dangling over a
very deep abiece by the merrest thread all because the sword.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Is what sort? What sor are you talking about, mister Palm.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
I'm the island of Simpo in the Philippines.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
The sword of simple what.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
It means everything to me? And it's gone finished. I
must have it back, hurry Marlow.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Twenty minutes later, I pulled up in front of the
wall in jungle. Henry Pound called home and zig zagged
in through an Okanawan add evil spirit gait waited past
the grove of dripping elephant ears and ragged banana trees,
and finally made the front door the house itself from
turned up eaves to thatch Nipa. And I must have
been gathered pieceme along Pacific Islands all the way from
Hokaido to the New Hebrides. Was Henry pound himself once
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the door.
Speaker 5 (03:40):
Oh Marlow, you know the only thing wrong with you
is I never get to see you except what I'm
in trouble.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
It's the business I'm in. Come in, come here here. Hey,
it's quite a place you have here, mister.
Speaker 5 (03:52):
Palm the islands, my boy, Yes, she's business keeps me
away from them. I brought their atmosphere here to me.
All but the mosquitoes. Oh, shoeshoe, now stay away from underfoot?
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Will you want to get shoeshoe? Eh? That's an aw
bino Siamese.
Speaker 5 (04:10):
It's quite unusual, but he sheds that abominable white furve
is like an common cat this type of year. By
the way, did you see my servant, high decie?
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Was I supposed to?
Speaker 5 (04:22):
When I couldn't reach you by phone? I sent him
down to your office to wait.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
He must have gotten lost, then, no matter.
Speaker 5 (04:27):
Let's get down the cases, my boy, Now sit down,
Sit down, will you please and listen closely? All right,
My my major business, as you remember, is importing pearls
from the Orient. And since you worked for me last
I acquired a partner, a fine fellow named Voss in Manila.
With his contacts there and mine here in the States,
we've been extremely successful.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Was he the one who sent you that sword you mentioned?
Speaker 5 (04:50):
Yeah, he arrived two days ago, But he said, over
half the curios you see in this room. That's why
I failed to realize that there was anything special about
the sort of sabo.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
What is so special about it?
Speaker 5 (05:01):
Mister Palm here read this letter I got.
Speaker 6 (05:03):
Fum in.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Henry. I'm certain now there's gonna be trouble from one
Curt Bibesco in particular. Yeah, however, I've taken every precaution
rest assured Henry that if anything ever happens to me,
I shall somehow get the complete list of my contacts
here into your hands. Sincerely, Eugene Voss.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
Well, Eugene Voss was murdered four days ago in Manila,
murdered for that list of context.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
You think the sword ties in in some way.
Speaker 5 (05:32):
Well, I'm positive of it.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
What's it look like?
Speaker 5 (05:35):
It's three feet long, hollow. The handle and the sheets
are from the same gorgeous piece of white mahogany and
literally covered with intricate and exquisite carving.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Sounds wonderful it is.
Speaker 5 (05:47):
When the sword is in the sheaths, the two pieces
form a complete pattern. I thought of it it once,
of course, but when I came in to examine it again,
it was gone stolen.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Naturally.
Speaker 5 (05:57):
I called Julestead of the police. I've got to get
it back morrow, intact and without publicity. Wait, that's sort
is witch Hi.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Hey, he's hurt.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Well, miss a palm Hi dick, you very sorry.
Speaker 7 (06:11):
He did not see a noble missa Morrow.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
Hicky was attacked outside the minute.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
By a stocky guy with wild black hair.
Speaker 7 (06:18):
Yes, yes, not him. He finds out where high Decky
was going. Then he he died that all high deck
you remember, until a few minutes ago when he waked
up again.
Speaker 5 (06:28):
Do you need a doctor, hikky, No.
Speaker 7 (06:31):
No, thank you, just the same, miss A palm Hi
deky already feel much better.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
Well, if you're sure, if you were everywhere now you
better go lie down anyway.
Speaker 7 (06:40):
So so thank you.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
We washed ahead first time to be ship shaped no time.
Very sorry, Hi was.
Speaker 8 (06:48):
Very sorry.
Speaker 5 (06:49):
Clear that explains how the Bisco got to your office.
My boy, he's our man or.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Yeah, but I don't think the Bestco has the sword.
You see, he's looking for it. He aftered two thousand
bucks to meet a double cry.
Speaker 5 (07:00):
Oh, I can't understand it. The vesco is the only
one who might know the truth about the sword. If
he didn't take it then who oh you stupid cant
it out there? Now I knew it. Now see what
you've done? Broken my siling beach.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
It was playing with a piece of paper over there.
Wait a minute, Oh yeah, here it is. It's a
rent receipt made out of somebody named Saunders.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
Let me see it. Sure received forty dollars rent one
month in advance for eight twelve Front Street, Venice.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
It's dated yesterday.
Speaker 5 (07:33):
Mono, I've never heard of this Saunders person. Yet this
thing was dropped here in my house, perhaps by our thief, Monol.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
You realize what a break this is.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Dropped isn't the word? This was deposited? Oh you mean
a plant. It's a plant, complete with name, address, and date,
was left here by someone who wanted it to be
found because whoever has the sort of say boo right
now might also have it up for sale.
Speaker 5 (07:52):
I think you're right, my boy.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
What do you plan to do?
Speaker 1 (07:55):
The only thing I can do go to Venice and
strike a bargain in our favor. I hope I'll call
him mister Palm. I pushed my way out through the
jungle of my car, turned around at the dead end
of the street, and went down the way i'd come.
At the first intersection, leaning against the lamp post was
six feet of lantern jawed redhead and a turtleleg sweater
and semen's jacket. Gave me a hard, steady once over
(08:18):
until I was out of sight. Later, halfway to Venice,
I picked up a pair of very sticky headlights in
my rear view mirror, but lost them again. I turned
out the front street and finally found number eight twelve,
all by itself out of the far end. I parked
the block away and walked back. It was a battered,
rickety beat shack. I moved in gently and found a
crack wide enough to look through. There was no furniture,
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just one big packing crater, kerosene lamp and a and
a blonde Oh what a blonde. She belonged in that
giant like an orchid and a blacksmith. In one hand
she held a cigarette and the other a small automatic.
I went quietly at the back of the house, found
a tin cannon through it, and I plastered my back
up beside the door and waited. She came out slowly,
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gun first, and when there was enough showing to get
a hold of, I grab my sister.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
Come on, give.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
That's better. Now we can go in and talk.
Speaker 6 (09:10):
Huh, you'll think you're so clever.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Goodbye, Hey, cozy little spots.
Speaker 6 (09:17):
You picked your gut here so.
Speaker 5 (09:19):
It serves its purpose.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Hawhile, Philip Marlow, Henry Pond's Private detective words of sword.
Speaker 5 (09:24):
We things to talk over.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Your bargaining position is lousy, Miss Saunder's.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
What's the author zero?
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Baby? I'm getting it back for free? Nowhere is it?
Speaker 5 (09:31):
Take your hands off me.
Speaker 6 (09:35):
The sword is here in the house, but the scabbard isn't.
And one's quite worthless without the other, you know.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
And I'm taking a lot of chances, are you, kid?
Speaker 6 (09:43):
The sword has already brought me five thousand dollars Marlow,
and I've only just begun, So make an offer. I
make it good.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
You're a liar, so it's not worth one tenth third,
not of itself.
Speaker 6 (09:52):
No, but this one's special, and I know why. And
I'll tell you something else.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
You bet you will. You'll tell me where it isn't
fast drop the gun now you even turn around a
lantern show with red hair. So you were telling me
after all? You said it.
Speaker 6 (10:11):
Now wait a minute, the front door.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Go on, go on, beat it. I'll see you later.
Speaker 9 (10:18):
Now, you mister, now what Now we sit down a
couple of smart guys and find a good sensible way
to work this out. Only I'm just a little smarter
because I got the only gun. Keep talking what you say?
The sword was Speak up, fellow, times running out.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Sounds like time's not the only thing that's running out. Red.
Speaker 9 (10:37):
Somebody's in my back room. Sorry Toochy, but now this
only works one Wait.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Oh oh, I couldn't tell how long I've been out.
I felt like I'd lost at least a weekend and
somebody's boiler factory. I got back far enough to real
something was going through my pockets. It was snaggled too
for the weeks across the beard and put the room
in need of a healthy spring of sweet air.
Speaker 10 (11:11):
Yeah, that's that's a little better. I thought you was
done in there for a minute.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Eh, who are you? Oh what happened anyway?
Speaker 4 (11:20):
Yeah, that's what I'd like to know.
Speaker 10 (11:22):
Call me Sid.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Okay, Sid, thank you.
Speaker 10 (11:27):
I was walking along the beach out there, like and
I always do, when all of a sudden I heard
a swim, you know, like it was a wounded cat
came from in here. And I know this house has
been empty for years? Was it you was screened?
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Oh no, I went out too fast.
Speaker 10 (11:43):
Yeah. Well, I come a running and just when I
stepped up in the porch and fell on the pea jacket,
come charging out and beat it down the street.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Yeah, I remember red and the noise in the back.
Have you been in there that back room?
Speaker 10 (11:59):
Me?
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 10 (12:00):
So I just looked this far and then I found you.
What's it all about, mister? What's back in there?
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Hey? Bring that kerosene Latin, will you?
Speaker 5 (12:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (12:13):
Yeah, sure, here I got it.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Look a guy, yeah, a wild head Rumanian named Bibesco
with a sort of save boo sticking clear through him.
Dead center.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Now with our star Gerald Moore, we continue with the
second act of Philip Marlowe and Tonight's story The Sword
of say Boo.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
The Beachcomba gaped like a marionette with broken jaw strings
at the hell. Buddy of Kurt Babesco slumped at our feet.
I quickly covered the room in the back porch, which
led to the beach outside, looking for the wooden sheath
that belonged to the sort of say boom just in
case Class Saunders have been bluffing. But five minutes of
that got me nothing more than a little exercise and
a lot of salt hair.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
Well, what should we ought to do now? Mister call
the cops?
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Yeah, I guess so.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
Sure would like to take that sword.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
So Jr. But the homicide boys are kind of narrow minded,
you see. They like their corpses as is. Come on,
let's get to the phone.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
Okay, the neest one is a couple of blocks away.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
You got a car, yeah, it's out front. Uh got
a light?
Speaker 4 (13:40):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Nice? Oh? Hey wait a minute, what do you do
with the conga club mate? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (13:47):
Oh the matches ain't mine. Just picked them up off
in that barrel.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Come on, good club man, you know where it is?
Speaker 10 (13:57):
Hey, sure, it's right here in Venice x MA runky
in a while, though cops rated it once they had
some dancing.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Where is it? Where is it? Comme on, it could
be important.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
Straight down Front Street, Broadway, then left phone block and
you're there.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Huh. Now look you call the cops and get back
here and wait till I come. Tell him. My name
is Philip Marlow. I'm a private detective.
Speaker 10 (14:16):
Yeah. Oh no, no, they're not me. I ain't waiting
here alone.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Ten bucks all you heard me here? Tell the all
get in touch as soon as I can. Also said
I'll match that ten the next time we meet. If
you've kept your mind on your.
Speaker 10 (14:30):
Work, yeah, yeah, okay, okay, But well, I telling me
you went to the conga.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
You catch unfast the conga junr. Well it be Max
Scotch and a little information girl named Claire Saunders dressed
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in a white linen. I never heard of him. Oh,
I see so many people you know? Yeah? Sure, now
you get what I mean, don't you?
Speaker 4 (15:03):
May?
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Of course? Well you better make that a double scotch.
I'm through. He should have known better, trusting a fast
name with every set of his war bonus uh war bonus. Yeah?
Who should have known better? Well? I yeah, I'll be
with you in a minute a minute.
Speaker 11 (15:23):
Look, who should have known betterness?
Speaker 1 (15:25):
My kid brother back in New York. He's a vet Marines.
He got his check from the state and he turned
it over to this Claire's saunas they were going to
get married. That's what she said, And that was the
last he saw of her. Oh well, it happens every day.
He'll know better the next two.
Speaker 11 (15:43):
I just happened to remember.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
You do.
Speaker 11 (15:48):
Yeah, been around a couple of days now. It's pretty
flush all right now. Where she's staying, Yeah, sure, the
Ritzy Motel about four blocks.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
From here, the pavilion, pavilion, huh, Yeah, she got bungalow
ten there.
Speaker 11 (15:59):
I know because she was complaining about it being the
end one too long, A run for the bell hop
and a cracked ice to you go get him? And
when you do, tell a kid brother that another ex
marine tips you off.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Yeah, you bet I will. Who the bell hop eyes
(16:35):
and you made it. We're gonna straighten it out right now,
Quiet down, just now, down over there, don't as much
as bad a false eyelash. Take inventory, baby, I know
you're alone because I played Peeping Tom before I played
bell Hop. Chamber maid's doing much needed job on bedsprits.
Speaker 5 (16:55):
All right, so it's down to the pillow. So you've
got the sheet? Are you going to do with it?
Speaker 6 (17:01):
And without the sword?
Speaker 1 (17:01):
New kid in Duchess. You don't think I missed that
back room at the cottage, do you?
Speaker 6 (17:05):
You found the sword there?
Speaker 1 (17:06):
And Kurt Babesco, who's wearing the sword the hard way
through his insides?
Speaker 6 (17:11):
Somebody, somebody was killed with the sword.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Oh, come on, come on, it's a little late with
that wide eyed pitch baby. It doesn't show carry a
top partner. Tell you every time he kills Molla.
Speaker 6 (17:20):
You got everything wrong?
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Oh sure, sure, yeah, sure, but just for laps. Let's
pass it and you along with the cops.
Speaker 6 (17:27):
Huh no, please don't please, I'll tell you everything. Turner
isn't my partner. He hardly knows me.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
That's better. Just who's Turner?
Speaker 6 (17:35):
The man with the red hair?
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Ow?
Speaker 6 (17:37):
Malla, believe me, I can explain everything.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Okay, let's try it. Did you take a sword for
my client Henry Pound? Yes or no?
Speaker 6 (17:42):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Why?
Speaker 5 (17:43):
Moll Let me.
Speaker 6 (17:44):
Start at the beginning a week ago and Manila, please.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
All right, let's have it.
Speaker 6 (17:48):
It was late in the afternoon, and I was shopping
for a handbag, just looking in store windows. Suddenly I
noticed a man hurrying down the opposite side.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
Of the street.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Man who turned out to the Eugene Voss, Henry Pound's partner.
Maybe that's right.
Speaker 6 (18:00):
I could tell he was afraid of something, Marllowe. He
darted into a curio shop nearby. A minute later I
saw Turner, you know him, just slightly. We'd met once.
Obviously he was following Voss, but he didn't go into
the curio shop. Insteady he hid close by, and then
when Boss came out, he shot him Marlow, just like that.
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It was gone before anyone knew.
Speaker 8 (18:22):
What had happened.
Speaker 6 (18:24):
I ran over to Vorce to see if there was
anything I could do to help, but there wasn't.
Speaker 4 (18:28):
He was dying.
Speaker 6 (18:30):
Oh, it was frightful. Please, Marlow, I'd like a drink.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
There on the desk when you're through. Go on, go on.
What happened next?
Speaker 5 (18:37):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (18:37):
He told me to take the money in his billfold,
five thousand dollars, to take it all for delivering a
messy bought the sword. Yes, I was to get in
touch with Henry Pond here in Los Angeles, and tell
him that the sword which Voss had just purchased in
the curio shop was on its way. He should pay
special attention to.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
It, and then he died.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Well, you decided that five thousand bucks was an awful
lot for playing messenger boy. Eh, so you said nothing
that the police grabbed the first plane for la, got
the pounds place here and swiped the sword.
Speaker 6 (19:10):
Right, If a delivering message was worth five thousand dollars,
the sword itself would be worth.
Speaker 11 (19:16):
A lot more.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
But you had no idea.
Speaker 6 (19:17):
Why No, maybe a code in the pattern of the
design and the jewels in the handle, Probably not the
sword itself.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Yeah, you figured right, little schemer. Yeah, here's your drink.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Huh. The rest of the story I can fit together myself.
You knew you had something, but you didn't know what,
So you swiped the sword. You left an obvious clue
to an empty cottage. That rent receipt. You counted on
it to start the ball rolling, and it certainly did.
What would that be? I don't know find.
Speaker 8 (19:48):
Out who is it?
Speaker 1 (19:51):
I want to talk to.
Speaker 5 (19:52):
You just a minute.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
You still sure you're not partners?
Speaker 6 (19:56):
Yes? I told you the truth, all right?
Speaker 1 (19:59):
Answering I'll wait here in the closet with the door
open wide enough for the barrel of at thirty eight.
Just in case you've never been to Manila, go on
a hurry. What was it quite? That peeper? Maybe around who?
When I slugged over the cottage, it wasn't there. When
I went back, just some.
Speaker 8 (20:17):
Bomb I skared away went back.
Speaker 9 (20:19):
Yeah, yeah, I went back after you ran. There was
some excitement, Sweets. First I slugged the people because I
heard some noise in the back.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
I thought, was you me?
Speaker 6 (20:27):
I never returned to the cottage.
Speaker 9 (20:28):
I know it was a loust name, but Besco I
got 'em all right, for the very sort. He was
after the little number right here in my hands. He
was competition. So were you, Sweets, except that I'd dope
your angle a long time ago. What do you mean,
oh Bo, I told you something before he died in Manila.
I stopped after I ran Doll. I even came back.
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I saw you go for his billfold, some mumbo somethin.
When I ran into you again here in La, I
knew you were swinging.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
In the dark. It was a nice try, Sweets, but
you missed. Now give me the sheath he's too belonged
to get it. Come on, hand it over. You don't
want me to be rough with your dog?
Speaker 9 (21:12):
Here he is, Like I said, they belonged.
Speaker 4 (21:17):
To together it.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
That's funny.
Speaker 8 (21:22):
They should fit it, laughing at.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
The answer is sweet. It's a slip of paper with
a list of people on it.
Speaker 9 (21:32):
I think it's crumpled in the bottom of the sheath.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Here, and that's why the sword.
Speaker 8 (21:36):
Won't go all the way.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (21:41):
Here it is a piece of paper.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
A valuable piece of paper. Sure, names and numbers of
all the players.
Speaker 6 (21:56):
Oh he's dead, isn't it's about it?
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Dead is a guy named Eugene Vass was last week
on a sidewalk in Manila or the party called the bestco.
Speaker 6 (22:09):
What is it?
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Turner is dead? But I don't think his partner is Mo?
Speaker 6 (22:13):
You thought I was his partner?
Speaker 1 (22:15):
M Oh yes, yes, And I thought wrong, Claire. And
now I'll get a little more to go on. I'll
see you, honey.
Speaker 6 (22:21):
Oh no, wait, what am I.
Speaker 5 (22:22):
Supposed to do?
Speaker 6 (22:23):
Call the police and explain it all away as a
practical joke, Mo, have a.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
Hard Where are you going back to my client? Little dreamer?
I think it? Give me a line on that partner'd
be good. I was an hour plus driving slowly back
to the transplanted world on Crestline Drive, and all the
way I kept adding and subtracting all the screwball figures
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i'd run into, hoping that someplace i'd find a mistake.
But when I was there, through the junior jungle and
standing at the front door, I knew that my hunch
was right.
Speaker 5 (22:59):
Muddle, you've got the sword.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Sorden sheath you like mister Palmer in my car. Also,
I got news the best goes dead, so is Turner.
Speaker 5 (23:09):
I don't know any Turner, But why haven't you brought
the sword and sheath in with you?
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Because they don't count. Mister Palm, there wasn't any colde
in the pattern on either one. The answer was a
slip of paper jammed down in the sheath. Here is
that what we're after?
Speaker 3 (23:21):
Let me see?
Speaker 4 (23:22):
Yes, yes, Marto, this is it.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Oh.
Speaker 5 (23:25):
I knew he wouldn't fail me. I knew Boss was loyal.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
I knew it, Oh, better than that, mister Pound. You
counted on it, and don't move a finger. Happy. It's
a great night for killing. Now go on into the study.
We're gonna use the phone.
Speaker 4 (23:35):
Marno, you're in tree.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Sure, Sure, I am, so much so that I let
the hairs fro an affectionate Siamese cat change my mind
about everything. Keep moving the cat.
Speaker 5 (23:45):
What do you mean?
Speaker 1 (23:45):
I mean? The Turner who shot Eugene vossman, the low
murdered but bestco out at the beach, who I just
killed before he could kill me, had white hairs mo
molting white Siamese cat all over his suit, the same
kind of white hairs I got on mine when shoeshoe
rubbed against me. I go on, open that door. In
other words, pound Turner was a friend here, not foe,
and from there on in it all figures. Well, you
still think I'm insane?
Speaker 4 (24:06):
Yes, I.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
Oh myle, You're right, you bet, I'm right.
Speaker 5 (24:13):
Turner was in this with me, a partner, you might see.
You see, I knew that Eugene Voss was worried.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
About competitors like the best skill. Go on.
Speaker 5 (24:23):
I knew that Voss would see I got his clients
list the pearl dealers if his life was really.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
In danger, and gave you a brilliant idea. Put his
life in danger, so you sent Turner to Manilla to
kill Voss once the list was on its way. Oh,
I'm neat, tell me clean cut. Why didn't you let
Turner know about the sword at once?
Speaker 5 (24:41):
Because he was strict, Voss planted a faint list at
his hotel, hoping the Turner would find it and go
his merry way, which Turner did. He didn't know it
was fake until he arrived here this morning.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
Which of course didn't affect the scheduled murder. Nice and thorough,
aren't you? Or if you left out some little detail
I should know, like why you bothered having Turner get
mixed up in this all tonight? I would have brought
the sword and sheep back for you without him.
Speaker 5 (25:03):
I know you would, Marlow. That's why I heard you.
But I also knew that there was a good chance
that in finding the sword you would also find that
ideal in Opium, not per Oh fine, And Turner was
right behind me all the way, ready to kill me
if I found that out from from say Berbesco. Turner
was right behind you, Marlow. Even if high Decky is
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right behind.
Speaker 12 (25:24):
You, you fool. Why do you think I kept talking here,
kept confessing? Speak up, Hi, Deckie talk He can't, mister Palmer, Hi,
Defy is.
Speaker 5 (25:35):
Very unconscious, right Hi hit him with a base a Philippine.
Speaker 8 (25:39):
You're lying, Mallow, You've got him.
Speaker 6 (25:53):
Behind the curtain.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
There's nothing there, Honey, I think more than a friendly
cat named Shoes. It took a long time, it always does.
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But finally the police in Los Angeles and the police
of Manilla knew exactly who had done watter, whom and why,
all of which left Henry Pound, the vicious little character
wouldn't even recognize honor among thieves with a short, unpleasant future.
And I thought about him and every rotten thing he'd
done as I walked through his imported island jungle to
my car. Thought about him, and Butbesco about Turner the houseboy,
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about Eugene Vasen. I didn't think about Claire Saunders until
I got to my car. Was in behind the wheel,
headlights on. The words were written in lipstick. The length
and breadth of my windshield failed.
Speaker 6 (26:55):
Here I stepped out when nobody was looking.
Speaker 5 (26:59):
But don't brin, because from here on out I'm going
to be very good.
Speaker 6 (27:04):
I've learned my lessons.
Speaker 11 (27:07):
PS.
Speaker 5 (27:08):
My plane doesn't leave until morning. Would you like to
help me wait?
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Report of the airport cafe. They have good food in
their open all night Claire m Airport Cafe. It's an
hour's driving unless I hurry.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
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famous character star Gerald Moore, are produced and directed by
Norman McDonald and are written for radio by Robert Mitchell
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(28:06):
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by Richard Arunt. He shortly with us again next week,
when Philip Marlowe says.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
This time an old Spanish woman who cared a redhead
and a mink who didn't, and a green suede button
beside a corpse all led me to a wounded man
with a gun in his hand, corner on a warehouse roof.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
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Speaker 1 (28:49):
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Speaker 2 (28:55):
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Broadcasting Sisters
Get this and get it straight. Crime is a sucker's road.
Knows who travel had wind up in the gut of
the prison of the grave. This time. I started with
the Roumanian from left Field, got misled in the Philippine Jungles,
chased a beautiful blonde clear to Venice, and wound up
with a friend from Siam, all without ever leaving Los Angeles.
It happened like this. From the pen of.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Raymond Trandler, 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 tonight's
exciting story, The Sword of Save Boo.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Who Lost?
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Tell me where is the office of Philip marlow the Detective?
Speaker 4 (01:14):
Maybe?
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Yeah, sure, right around the corner here your left.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Oh, thank you very much, my friend. You know this
mister Marlowe?
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Wey, yes, I think you could say I know him.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Tell me he is a reliable man.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Well, that depends on what you want to rely on
him for. Excuse me, will you? I want to unlock
the door. You are Philip marlow Yeah, you're all right,
Come on in, mister never.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Mind, now listen to me. I will pay you twice
what Henry Pound has offered to you. Also, I will
add to that one thousand dollars for a bony.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Wait a minute, Wait a minute, what is this Henry Pound?
A thousand?
Speaker 4 (01:45):
Please?
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Please, I have not the time for haggling. We may
get two thousand dollars, but you must work for me,
not for Henry Pound. You only pretend to work for him.
Speaker 5 (01:53):
Now.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Look, but in the first place, I haven't heard from
Henry Pound since I worked for him four years ago.
Second place, I still don't know who you are or
what you want. Maybe a better Sonana over there started
the beginning and tell.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Me trying to treat me very well tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
The short, dumpy man with wild black hair turned suddenly savage,
swung a hard fistful of knuckles at my front teeth,
and piled me back up against my office desk. By
the time I got out into the hall, he was gone.
I was gonna follow him with my phone, screaming for
attention inside stop me. I decided to be philosophical about it.
After all, screwballs find me all the time. Hello, Marlo
speaking till this is Henry Pound. Remember me, Yes, yes,
(02:29):
I just had a reminder.
Speaker 5 (02:30):
I've been trying to get hold of you for two hours,
my boy, where have you been.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Out to dinner? And now listen, mister Pound, I just.
Speaker 5 (02:35):
First, Marlol, this is most important. I need your help
again immediately.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
No doubt includes the stubby crumb with a head full
of wild black hair and a nasty temper that left
here on the run ten seconds ago, Kurt Babisco, whatever
you call him, it's probably it Bibesco, Kurt Babesco.
Speaker 5 (02:48):
He's the one man I have reason to hear, Marlo,
come out here to my place at once, will you,
my boy? Oh, Henry Pound's future is dangling over a
very deep abiece by the merrest thread all because the sword.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Is what sort? What sor are you talking about, mister Palm.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
I'm the island of Simpo in the Philippines.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
The sword of simple what.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
It means everything to me? And it's gone finished. I
must have it back, hurry Marlow.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Twenty minutes later, I pulled up in front of the
wall in jungle. Henry Pound called home and zig zagged
in through an Okanawan add evil spirit gait waited past
the grove of dripping elephant ears and ragged banana trees,
and finally made the front door the house itself from
turned up eaves to thatch Nipa. And I must have
been gathered pieceme along Pacific Islands all the way from
Hokaido to the New Hebrides. Was Henry pound himself once
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the door.
Speaker 5 (03:40):
Oh Marlow, you know the only thing wrong with you
is I never get to see you except what I'm
in trouble.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
It's the business I'm in. Come in, come here here. Hey,
it's quite a place you have here, mister.
Speaker 5 (03:52):
Palm the islands, my boy, Yes, she's business keeps me
away from them. I brought their atmosphere here to me.
All but the mosquitoes. Oh, shoeshoe, now stay away from underfoot?
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Will you want to get shoeshoe? Eh? That's an aw
bino Siamese.
Speaker 5 (04:10):
It's quite unusual, but he sheds that abominable white furve
is like an common cat this type of year. By
the way, did you see my servant, high decie?
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Was I supposed to?
Speaker 5 (04:22):
When I couldn't reach you by phone? I sent him
down to your office to wait.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
He must have gotten lost, then, no matter.
Speaker 5 (04:27):
Let's get down the cases, my boy, Now sit down,
Sit down, will you please and listen closely? All right,
My my major business, as you remember, is importing pearls
from the Orient. And since you worked for me last
I acquired a partner, a fine fellow named Voss in Manila.
With his contacts there and mine here in the States,
we've been extremely successful.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Was he the one who sent you that sword you mentioned?
Speaker 5 (04:50):
Yeah, he arrived two days ago, But he said, over
half the curios you see in this room. That's why
I failed to realize that there was anything special about
the sort of sabo.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
What is so special about it?
Speaker 5 (05:01):
Mister Palm here read this letter I got.
Speaker 6 (05:03):
Fum in.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Henry. I'm certain now there's gonna be trouble from one
Curt Bibesco in particular. Yeah, however, I've taken every precaution
rest assured Henry that if anything ever happens to me,
I shall somehow get the complete list of my contacts
here into your hands. Sincerely, Eugene Voss.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
Well, Eugene Voss was murdered four days ago in Manila,
murdered for that list of context.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
You think the sword ties in in some way.
Speaker 5 (05:32):
Well, I'm positive of it.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
What's it look like?
Speaker 5 (05:35):
It's three feet long, hollow. The handle and the sheets
are from the same gorgeous piece of white mahogany and
literally covered with intricate and exquisite carving.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Sounds wonderful it is.
Speaker 5 (05:47):
When the sword is in the sheaths, the two pieces
form a complete pattern. I thought of it it once,
of course, but when I came in to examine it again,
it was gone stolen.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Naturally.
Speaker 5 (05:57):
I called Julestead of the police. I've got to get
it back morrow, intact and without publicity. Wait, that's sort
is witch Hi.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Hey, he's hurt.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Well, miss a palm Hi dick, you very sorry.
Speaker 7 (06:11):
He did not see a noble missa Morrow.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
Hicky was attacked outside the minute.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
By a stocky guy with wild black hair.
Speaker 7 (06:18):
Yes, yes, not him. He finds out where high Decky
was going. Then he he died that all high deck
you remember, until a few minutes ago when he waked
up again.
Speaker 5 (06:28):
Do you need a doctor, hikky, No.
Speaker 7 (06:31):
No, thank you, just the same, miss A palm Hi
deky already feel much better.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
Well, if you're sure, if you were everywhere now you
better go lie down anyway.
Speaker 7 (06:40):
So so thank you.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
We washed ahead first time to be ship shaped no time.
Very sorry, Hi was.
Speaker 8 (06:48):
Very sorry.
Speaker 5 (06:49):
Clear that explains how the Bisco got to your office.
My boy, he's our man or.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Yeah, but I don't think the Bestco has the sword.
You see, he's looking for it. He aftered two thousand
bucks to meet a double cry.
Speaker 5 (07:00):
Oh, I can't understand it. The vesco is the only
one who might know the truth about the sword. If
he didn't take it then who oh you stupid cant
it out there? Now I knew it. Now see what
you've done? Broken my siling beach.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
It was playing with a piece of paper over there.
Wait a minute, Oh yeah, here it is. It's a
rent receipt made out of somebody named Saunders.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
Let me see it. Sure received forty dollars rent one
month in advance for eight twelve Front Street, Venice.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
It's dated yesterday.
Speaker 5 (07:33):
Mono, I've never heard of this Saunders person. Yet this
thing was dropped here in my house, perhaps by our thief, Monol.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
You realize what a break this is.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Dropped isn't the word? This was deposited? Oh you mean
a plant. It's a plant, complete with name, address, and date,
was left here by someone who wanted it to be
found because whoever has the sort of say boo right
now might also have it up for sale.
Speaker 5 (07:52):
I think you're right, my boy.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
What do you plan to do?
Speaker 1 (07:55):
The only thing I can do go to Venice and
strike a bargain in our favor. I hope I'll call
him mister Palm. I pushed my way out through the
jungle of my car, turned around at the dead end
of the street, and went down the way i'd come.
At the first intersection, leaning against the lamp post was
six feet of lantern jawed redhead and a turtleleg sweater
and semen's jacket. Gave me a hard, steady once over
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until I was out of sight. Later, halfway to Venice,
I picked up a pair of very sticky headlights in
my rear view mirror, but lost them again. I turned
out the front street and finally found number eight twelve,
all by itself out of the far end. I parked
the block away and walked back. It was a battered,
rickety beat shack. I moved in gently and found a
crack wide enough to look through. There was no furniture,
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just one big packing crater, kerosene lamp and a and
a blonde Oh what a blonde. She belonged in that
giant like an orchid and a blacksmith. In one hand
she held a cigarette and the other a small automatic.
I went quietly at the back of the house, found
a tin cannon through it, and I plastered my back
up beside the door and waited. She came out slowly,
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gun first, and when there was enough showing to get
a hold of, I grab my sister.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
Come on, give.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
That's better. Now we can go in and talk.
Speaker 6 (09:10):
Huh, you'll think you're so clever.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Goodbye, Hey, cozy little spots.
Speaker 6 (09:17):
You picked your gut here so.
Speaker 5 (09:19):
It serves its purpose.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Hawhile, Philip Marlow, Henry Pond's Private detective words of sword.
Speaker 5 (09:24):
We things to talk over.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Your bargaining position is lousy, Miss Saunder's.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
What's the author zero?
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Baby? I'm getting it back for free? Nowhere is it?
Speaker 5 (09:31):
Take your hands off me.
Speaker 6 (09:35):
The sword is here in the house, but the scabbard isn't.
And one's quite worthless without the other, you know.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
And I'm taking a lot of chances, are you, kid?
Speaker 6 (09:43):
The sword has already brought me five thousand dollars Marlow,
and I've only just begun, So make an offer. I
make it good.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
You're a liar, so it's not worth one tenth third,
not of itself.
Speaker 6 (09:52):
No, but this one's special, and I know why. And
I'll tell you something else.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
You bet you will. You'll tell me where it isn't
fast drop the gun now you even turn around a
lantern show with red hair. So you were telling me
after all? You said it.
Speaker 6 (10:11):
Now wait a minute, the front door.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Go on, go on, beat it. I'll see you later.
Speaker 9 (10:18):
Now, you mister, now what Now we sit down a
couple of smart guys and find a good sensible way
to work this out. Only I'm just a little smarter
because I got the only gun. Keep talking what you say?
The sword was Speak up, fellow, times running out.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Sounds like time's not the only thing that's running out. Red.
Speaker 9 (10:37):
Somebody's in my back room. Sorry Toochy, but now this
only works one Wait.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Oh oh, I couldn't tell how long I've been out.
I felt like I'd lost at least a weekend and
somebody's boiler factory. I got back far enough to real
something was going through my pockets. It was snaggled too
for the weeks across the beard and put the room
in need of a healthy spring of sweet air.
Speaker 10 (11:11):
Yeah, that's that's a little better. I thought you was
done in there for a minute.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Eh, who are you? Oh what happened anyway?
Speaker 4 (11:20):
Yeah, that's what I'd like to know.
Speaker 10 (11:22):
Call me Sid.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Okay, Sid, thank you.
Speaker 10 (11:27):
I was walking along the beach out there, like and
I always do, when all of a sudden I heard
a swim, you know, like it was a wounded cat
came from in here. And I know this house has
been empty for years? Was it you was screened?
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Oh no, I went out too fast.
Speaker 10 (11:43):
Yeah. Well, I come a running and just when I
stepped up in the porch and fell on the pea jacket,
come charging out and beat it down the street.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Yeah, I remember red and the noise in the back.
Have you been in there that back room?
Speaker 10 (11:59):
Me?
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 10 (12:00):
So I just looked this far and then I found you.
What's it all about, mister? What's back in there?
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Hey? Bring that kerosene Latin, will you?
Speaker 5 (12:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (12:13):
Yeah, sure, here I got it.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Look a guy, yeah, a wild head Rumanian named Bibesco
with a sort of save boo sticking clear through him.
Dead center.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Now with our star Gerald Moore, we continue with the
second act of Philip Marlowe and Tonight's story The Sword
of say Boo.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
The Beachcomba gaped like a marionette with broken jaw strings
at the hell. Buddy of Kurt Babesco slumped at our feet.
I quickly covered the room in the back porch, which
led to the beach outside, looking for the wooden sheath
that belonged to the sort of say boom just in
case Class Saunders have been bluffing. But five minutes of
that got me nothing more than a little exercise and
a lot of salt hair.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
Well, what should we ought to do now? Mister call
the cops?
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Yeah, I guess so.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
Sure would like to take that sword.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
So Jr. But the homicide boys are kind of narrow minded,
you see. They like their corpses as is. Come on,
let's get to the phone.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
Okay, the neest one is a couple of blocks away.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
You got a car, yeah, it's out front. Uh got
a light?
Speaker 4 (13:40):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Nice? Oh? Hey wait a minute, what do you do
with the conga club mate? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (13:47):
Oh the matches ain't mine. Just picked them up off
in that barrel.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Come on, good club man, you know where it is?
Speaker 10 (13:57):
Hey, sure, it's right here in Venice x MA runky
in a while, though cops rated it once they had
some dancing.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Where is it? Where is it? Comme on, it could
be important.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
Straight down Front Street, Broadway, then left phone block and
you're there.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Huh. Now look you call the cops and get back
here and wait till I come. Tell him. My name
is Philip Marlow. I'm a private detective.
Speaker 10 (14:16):
Yeah. Oh no, no, they're not me. I ain't waiting
here alone.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Ten bucks all you heard me here? Tell the all
get in touch as soon as I can. Also said
I'll match that ten the next time we meet. If
you've kept your mind on your.
Speaker 10 (14:30):
Work, yeah, yeah, okay, okay, But well, I telling me
you went to the conga.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
You catch unfast the conga junr. Well it be Max
Scotch and a little information girl named Claire Saunders dressed
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in a white linen. I never heard of him. Oh,
I see so many people you know? Yeah? Sure, now
you get what I mean, don't you?
Speaker 4 (15:03):
May?
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Of course? Well you better make that a double scotch.
I'm through. He should have known better, trusting a fast
name with every set of his war bonus uh war bonus. Yeah?
Who should have known better? Well? I yeah, I'll be
with you in a minute a minute.
Speaker 11 (15:23):
Look, who should have known betterness?
Speaker 1 (15:25):
My kid brother back in New York. He's a vet Marines.
He got his check from the state and he turned
it over to this Claire's saunas they were going to
get married. That's what she said, And that was the
last he saw of her. Oh well, it happens every day.
He'll know better the next two.
Speaker 11 (15:43):
I just happened to remember.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
You do.
Speaker 11 (15:48):
Yeah, been around a couple of days now. It's pretty
flush all right now. Where she's staying, Yeah, sure, the
Ritzy Motel about four blocks.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
From here, the pavilion, pavilion, huh, Yeah, she got bungalow
ten there.
Speaker 11 (15:59):
I know because she was complaining about it being the
end one too long, A run for the bell hop
and a cracked ice to you go get him? And
when you do, tell a kid brother that another ex
marine tips you off.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Yeah, you bet I will. Who the bell hop eyes
(16:35):
and you made it. We're gonna straighten it out right now,
Quiet down, just now, down over there, don't as much
as bad a false eyelash. Take inventory, baby, I know
you're alone because I played Peeping Tom before I played
bell Hop. Chamber maid's doing much needed job on bedsprits.
Speaker 5 (16:55):
All right, so it's down to the pillow. So you've
got the sheet? Are you going to do with it?
Speaker 6 (17:01):
And without the sword?
Speaker 1 (17:01):
New kid in Duchess. You don't think I missed that
back room at the cottage, do you?
Speaker 6 (17:05):
You found the sword there?
Speaker 1 (17:06):
And Kurt Babesco, who's wearing the sword the hard way
through his insides?
Speaker 6 (17:11):
Somebody, somebody was killed with the sword.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Oh, come on, come on, it's a little late with
that wide eyed pitch baby. It doesn't show carry a
top partner. Tell you every time he kills Molla.
Speaker 6 (17:20):
You got everything wrong?
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Oh sure, sure, yeah, sure, but just for laps. Let's
pass it and you along with the cops.
Speaker 6 (17:27):
Huh no, please don't please, I'll tell you everything. Turner
isn't my partner. He hardly knows me.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
That's better. Just who's Turner?
Speaker 6 (17:35):
The man with the red hair?
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Ow?
Speaker 6 (17:37):
Malla, believe me, I can explain everything.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Okay, let's try it. Did you take a sword for
my client Henry Pound? Yes or no?
Speaker 6 (17:42):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Why?
Speaker 5 (17:43):
Moll Let me.
Speaker 6 (17:44):
Start at the beginning a week ago and Manila, please.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
All right, let's have it.
Speaker 6 (17:48):
It was late in the afternoon, and I was shopping
for a handbag, just looking in store windows. Suddenly I
noticed a man hurrying down the opposite side.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
Of the street.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Man who turned out to the Eugene Voss, Henry Pound's partner.
Maybe that's right.
Speaker 6 (18:00):
I could tell he was afraid of something, Marllowe. He
darted into a curio shop nearby. A minute later I
saw Turner, you know him, just slightly. We'd met once.
Obviously he was following Voss, but he didn't go into
the curio shop. Insteady he hid close by, and then
when Boss came out, he shot him Marlow, just like that.
(18:21):
It was gone before anyone knew.
Speaker 8 (18:22):
What had happened.
Speaker 6 (18:24):
I ran over to Vorce to see if there was
anything I could do to help, but there wasn't.
Speaker 4 (18:28):
He was dying.
Speaker 6 (18:30):
Oh, it was frightful. Please, Marlow, I'd like a drink.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
There on the desk when you're through. Go on, go on.
What happened next?
Speaker 5 (18:37):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (18:37):
He told me to take the money in his billfold,
five thousand dollars, to take it all for delivering a
messy bought the sword. Yes, I was to get in
touch with Henry Pond here in Los Angeles, and tell
him that the sword which Voss had just purchased in
the curio shop was on its way. He should pay
special attention to.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
It, and then he died.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Well, you decided that five thousand bucks was an awful
lot for playing messenger boy. Eh, so you said nothing
that the police grabbed the first plane for la, got
the pounds place here and swiped the sword.
Speaker 6 (19:10):
Right, If a delivering message was worth five thousand dollars,
the sword itself would be worth.
Speaker 11 (19:16):
A lot more.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
But you had no idea.
Speaker 6 (19:17):
Why No, maybe a code in the pattern of the
design and the jewels in the handle, Probably not the
sword itself.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Yeah, you figured right, little schemer. Yeah, here's your drink.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Huh. The rest of the story I can fit together myself.
You knew you had something, but you didn't know what,
So you swiped the sword. You left an obvious clue
to an empty cottage. That rent receipt. You counted on
it to start the ball rolling, and it certainly did.
What would that be? I don't know find.
Speaker 8 (19:48):
Out who is it?
Speaker 1 (19:51):
I want to talk to.
Speaker 5 (19:52):
You just a minute.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
You still sure you're not partners?
Speaker 6 (19:56):
Yes? I told you the truth, all right?
Speaker 1 (19:59):
Answering I'll wait here in the closet with the door
open wide enough for the barrel of at thirty eight.
Just in case you've never been to Manila, go on
a hurry. What was it quite? That peeper? Maybe around who?
When I slugged over the cottage, it wasn't there. When
I went back, just some.
Speaker 8 (20:17):
Bomb I skared away went back.
Speaker 9 (20:19):
Yeah, yeah, I went back after you ran. There was
some excitement, Sweets. First I slugged the people because I
heard some noise in the back.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
I thought, was you me?
Speaker 6 (20:27):
I never returned to the cottage.
Speaker 9 (20:28):
I know it was a loust name, but Besco I
got 'em all right, for the very sort. He was
after the little number right here in my hands. He
was competition. So were you, Sweets, except that I'd dope
your angle a long time ago. What do you mean,
oh Bo, I told you something before he died in Manila.
I stopped after I ran Doll. I even came back.
(20:50):
I saw you go for his billfold, some mumbo somethin.
When I ran into you again here in La, I
knew you were swinging.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
In the dark. It was a nice try, Sweets, but
you missed. Now give me the sheath he's too belonged
to get it. Come on, hand it over. You don't
want me to be rough with your dog?
Speaker 9 (21:12):
Here he is, Like I said, they belonged.
Speaker 4 (21:17):
To together it.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
That's funny.
Speaker 8 (21:22):
They should fit it, laughing at.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
The answer is sweet. It's a slip of paper with
a list of people on it.
Speaker 9 (21:32):
I think it's crumpled in the bottom of the sheath.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Here, and that's why the sword.
Speaker 8 (21:36):
Won't go all the way.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (21:41):
Here it is a piece of paper.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
A valuable piece of paper. Sure, names and numbers of
all the players.
Speaker 6 (21:56):
Oh he's dead, isn't it's about it?
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Dead is a guy named Eugene Vass was last week
on a sidewalk in Manila or the party called the bestco.
Speaker 6 (22:09):
What is it?
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Turner is dead? But I don't think his partner is Mo?
Speaker 6 (22:13):
You thought I was his partner?
Speaker 1 (22:15):
M Oh yes, yes, And I thought wrong, Claire. And
now I'll get a little more to go on. I'll
see you, honey.
Speaker 6 (22:21):
Oh no, wait, what am I.
Speaker 5 (22:22):
Supposed to do?
Speaker 6 (22:23):
Call the police and explain it all away as a
practical joke, Mo, have a.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
Hard Where are you going back to my client? Little dreamer?
I think it? Give me a line on that partner'd
be good. I was an hour plus driving slowly back
to the transplanted world on Crestline Drive, and all the
way I kept adding and subtracting all the screwball figures
(22:50):
i'd run into, hoping that someplace i'd find a mistake.
But when I was there, through the junior jungle and
standing at the front door, I knew that my hunch
was right.
Speaker 5 (22:59):
Muddle, you've got the sword.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Sorden sheath you like mister Palmer in my car. Also,
I got news the best goes dead, so is Turner.
Speaker 5 (23:09):
I don't know any Turner, But why haven't you brought
the sword and sheath in with you?
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Because they don't count. Mister Palm, there wasn't any colde
in the pattern on either one. The answer was a
slip of paper jammed down in the sheath. Here is
that what we're after?
Speaker 3 (23:21):
Let me see?
Speaker 4 (23:22):
Yes, yes, Marto, this is it.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Oh.
Speaker 5 (23:25):
I knew he wouldn't fail me. I knew Boss was loyal.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
I knew it, Oh, better than that, mister Pound. You
counted on it, and don't move a finger. Happy. It's
a great night for killing. Now go on into the study.
We're gonna use the phone.
Speaker 4 (23:35):
Marno, you're in tree.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Sure, Sure, I am, so much so that I let
the hairs fro an affectionate Siamese cat change my mind
about everything. Keep moving the cat.
Speaker 5 (23:45):
What do you mean?
Speaker 1 (23:45):
I mean? The Turner who shot Eugene vossman, the low
murdered but bestco out at the beach, who I just
killed before he could kill me, had white hairs mo
molting white Siamese cat all over his suit, the same
kind of white hairs I got on mine when shoeshoe
rubbed against me. I go on, open that door. In
other words, pound Turner was a friend here, not foe,
and from there on in it all figures. Well, you
still think I'm insane?
Speaker 4 (24:06):
Yes, I.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
Oh myle, You're right, you bet, I'm right.
Speaker 5 (24:13):
Turner was in this with me, a partner, you might see.
You see, I knew that Eugene Voss was worried.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
About competitors like the best skill. Go on.
Speaker 5 (24:23):
I knew that Voss would see I got his clients
list the pearl dealers if his life was really.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
In danger, and gave you a brilliant idea. Put his
life in danger, so you sent Turner to Manilla to
kill Voss once the list was on its way. Oh,
I'm neat, tell me clean cut. Why didn't you let
Turner know about the sword at once?
Speaker 5 (24:41):
Because he was strict, Voss planted a faint list at
his hotel, hoping the Turner would find it and go
his merry way, which Turner did. He didn't know it
was fake until he arrived here this morning.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
Which of course didn't affect the scheduled murder. Nice and thorough,
aren't you? Or if you left out some little detail
I should know, like why you bothered having Turner get
mixed up in this all tonight? I would have brought
the sword and sheep back for you without him.
Speaker 5 (25:03):
I know you would, Marlow. That's why I heard you.
But I also knew that there was a good chance
that in finding the sword you would also find that
ideal in Opium, not per Oh fine, And Turner was
right behind me all the way, ready to kill me
if I found that out from from say Berbesco. Turner
was right behind you, Marlow. Even if high Decky is
(25:24):
right behind.
Speaker 12 (25:24):
You, you fool. Why do you think I kept talking here,
kept confessing? Speak up, Hi, Deckie talk He can't, mister Palmer, Hi,
Defy is.
Speaker 5 (25:35):
Very unconscious, right Hi hit him with a base a Philippine.
Speaker 8 (25:39):
You're lying, Mallow, You've got him.
Speaker 6 (25:53):
Behind the curtain.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
There's nothing there, Honey, I think more than a friendly
cat named Shoes. It took a long time, it always does.
(26:17):
But finally the police in Los Angeles and the police
of Manilla knew exactly who had done watter, whom and why,
all of which left Henry Pound, the vicious little character
wouldn't even recognize honor among thieves with a short, unpleasant future.
And I thought about him and every rotten thing he'd
done as I walked through his imported island jungle to
my car. Thought about him, and Butbesco about Turner the houseboy,
(26:41):
about Eugene Vasen. I didn't think about Claire Saunders until
I got to my car. Was in behind the wheel,
headlights on. The words were written in lipstick. The length
and breadth of my windshield failed.
Speaker 6 (26:55):
Here I stepped out when nobody was looking.
Speaker 5 (26:59):
But don't brin, because from here on out I'm going
to be very good.
Speaker 6 (27:04):
I've learned my lessons.
Speaker 11 (27:07):
PS.
Speaker 5 (27:08):
My plane doesn't leave until morning. Would you like to
help me wait?
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Report of the airport cafe. They have good food in
their open all night Claire m Airport Cafe. It's an
hour's driving unless I hurry.
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