August 26, 2025 • 30 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,
and those who travel and wind up in the gut
of the prison of the grave this time each carried
a torch, and each was burned by it. They heel
the hero worshiper and the hard bitten blonde, and all
because of a woman already two days dead.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
From the pen of Raymond Chandler, outstanding author of crime fiction,
comes his most famous character in the Adventures of Phillip Barlow.
In just a Moment Tonight's story, But first, a message
(00:38):
from the fod Dealers of America.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
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Speaker 4 (00:51):
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Speaker 5 (01:09):
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Speaker 4 (01:10):
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Speaker 3 (01:14):
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Speaker 1 (01:19):
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Speaker 3 (01:21):
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Speaker 1 (01:41):
Tomorrow now with Gerald Moore starred at Phila Marlowe, we
bring you tonight's exciting story The Torch Carriers. Eight hours
(02:05):
that had just slipped away had been a noisy assaultment
of big people with little troubles. I hadn't wanted their help,
and little people with big troubles I hadn't been able
their help. So by the time it was all over
and I was heading for home, a cozy, quiet cocktail
lounge at the Wiltshire Gardens Hotel seemed like a good
idea when I was there, up at the bar with
(02:26):
one down and one to go. The strain that had
been with me all day began to ease up. But
even as I relaxed, the tension between the couple sitting
at my left became more and more aturn. I looked
down the bar. The girl was young, pretty and obviously
afraid of the little man with her had only asthma
where a voice should have been. Now have I made
(02:46):
myself clear?
Speaker 6 (02:47):
I don't know what you're talking about. I looked sa
shir Larry saw it doesn't go for people snooping out
for or nothing, and either to why it gives me
work to do that sometimes?
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Rough enough poddich grave boytle man, you've had your busy day. Hey,
take your hands off. That's something as you'll relax. Okay, okay, Charla, gentlemen,
please no fighting. I can lose my life before now
you leave, but won't fight him minute folly, you heard
him busting.
Speaker 5 (03:11):
Okay, I should want to come to slay an.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
You all right? Miss you? Sure would you like another drink? No?
Speaker 6 (03:20):
No, I think I'll go back to my dolla.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Oh you're staying here at the Worster Garden Villa twelve
tout you and the queen. Maybe I better see you
as far as the door, little Pala, yourys might still
be around. Well, thank you, all right, come on, this
is really very nice of you, mister Marlow. Philip Marlow,
(03:43):
what about you?
Speaker 7 (03:44):
What?
Speaker 8 (03:45):
Oh it's Claire Exing.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Well, I look, Claire, I'm not trying to pry into
your business, but in a way, people like Larry's salt
in my business.
Speaker 6 (03:53):
Larry, how did you know about him?
Speaker 1 (03:55):
The little panel in the bar wasn't whispering. Oh, I'm
a private detective, Claire, and I A lot of people
get in over their head. I hate to see it
happen to you. You know, these people play rough, usually
for keeps. Maybe you better tell me about it.
Speaker 8 (04:07):
Huh, Well this is my type.
Speaker 6 (04:10):
Oh it's tomorrow, I'll be frank with you. A month
ago I got into a jam. It was an investment.
I'd made some stock, a sure thing, I was told,
and they usually are. Anyhow, the certificates weren't quite Joe
deads and they took a dive, a deep one.
Speaker 8 (04:24):
And to protect myself I.
Speaker 6 (04:26):
Needed more money, so I took a bracelet. I had
a diamond run and got a loan on it.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Mary Salter, Yes, from.
Speaker 6 (04:32):
Chalfor a friend a prison. I saw it with a
friend recommended him to me.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Oh, you cast your bracelet, covered your investment, got your
money back, and now you want the bracelet again. Correct.
Speaker 6 (04:42):
Yes, but Salter isn't around.
Speaker 8 (04:44):
He's high.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
How do you know?
Speaker 6 (04:45):
But I went to the.
Speaker 8 (04:46):
Club he runs up on this trip.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
I overheard it. Care Uh.
Speaker 6 (04:49):
The two men spoke of him as being on a
an extended vacation for his health. Of course I didn't
believe that, so I went around the back, found the
door open, and got into Salter's private office.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
That in itself is a wonderful way to get into
trouble deep.
Speaker 6 (05:02):
Yes, I know, but I just had to find out
Rasalta could be located so I could pay him and
get my bracelet.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Bats huh.
Speaker 6 (05:08):
Here, look it's his paper. He was folded under Salter's Memmosdad.
On one side it says Madge Gladystone two seven four,
the last numbers missing torn off and on her back
meet at one O one no at ten ten.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Can this help the tenny mind? But first, Claire a
couple of questions that might help even more. Who was
that Arsat's little caesar slatted you in there?
Speaker 6 (05:31):
One of the men I overheard talking at Charcher's time.
He must have seen me and then followed.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Me here I figured. Now, look, honey, yeah, scrambling awful
had for a thousand bucks bracelet. What's the rest of it?
Speaker 6 (05:41):
Raced it? Well, you're out of your.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Honey, what's you that's burnie?
Speaker 6 (05:48):
I might just as well tell you the bracelet. Doesn't mind,
mister marlow It belongs to my aunt. I live with
her in San Diego.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Oh you borrowed it while she was away? Maybe? Huh?
Speaker 8 (05:57):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (05:58):
Oh please, I've learned my lesson. I only want to
get their breast crack now, mister marlow please, pep, will
you help me? O?
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Can you never mind that? Now? Oh?
Speaker 8 (06:06):
Pee?
Speaker 6 (06:07):
I must know where Larry's soldier is.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Okay, Claire, we'll try to find out. But I want condition.
Huh would you try? But you go inside, lock all
doors and windows, sit next to the phone, and until
you hear from me again, do absolutely nothing on your own. Agree.
Speaker 6 (06:20):
Oh yes, agreed, mister Marlowe, Thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Maybe it was because the sweet young kid had the
kind of voice you could still hear long after she
was gone. You know, one of those lingering sounds like
like the echo of the train whist hanging on Crisp
early morning air. But when I was at a payphone,
I stopped wondering and started dialing numbers prefixed Gladstone and
followed by two, seven, four, and then in order one, two, three,
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and so on until afternoon. Answer once wise, crackers twice,
and the baby said, we thought I was a mash
up from my high school. I finally scored at number five.
The answer took me to a dame named Madge Gilbert,
a place called the Beakman Pluzy. It wasn't the kind
of place you'd go for mother, and Madge Gilbert wasn't
the kind of girl mother would put up with. However,
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she must have been nice to look at once, and
from the smile pleasant to know.
Speaker 8 (07:22):
Okay, mister busy guy, now that we're together, what is it?
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Oh? For one thing, the name's Kirby, and you can
drop the fancy handle.
Speaker 8 (07:28):
Uh huh.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
And for another thing, Kirby, I wanna find Larry saw
that it quick? Why got a proposition for him?
Speaker 8 (07:35):
He won't be interested.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Nuh uh. How can you tell you don't know what
it is?
Speaker 9 (07:40):
No, but I do know what at the moment Larry
is yeah, and then three letters.
Speaker 8 (07:45):
My friend, the word is sad. He lost his lady
love drink.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
No thanks? What do you mean is lady love? I
heard that you and Larry mind what you heard?
Speaker 8 (07:57):
All that used to be the pre ja and trial period.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Uh, I'm a sad comes from Jane's finding a better deal?
Maybe huh No.
Speaker 9 (08:05):
She was killed automobile accident night before last saw the
were her No again, she was alone and drunk, and
that's probably the way Larry is.
Speaker 8 (08:17):
Right now a blind pool.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Sell it up way sure, look baby, believe me, it
won't put out the torture carrying.
Speaker 8 (08:28):
Shut up. Sorry, I brought the whole thing up.
Speaker 6 (08:33):
Now.
Speaker 8 (08:33):
What was that proposition you mentioned.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
For Larry exclusively? Where is he the.
Speaker 8 (08:37):
Foundry on cushion? Why the faundry and least Los Angeles?
Speaker 9 (08:43):
Hey, wait a minute, Kirby, you seem kind of lost
for a friend of Larry.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
I'm just fuzzy on locations, that's all.
Speaker 8 (08:49):
How about numbers you address down there? What does it
come on?
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Fat ten ten? Unless it's been changed recently?
Speaker 8 (08:57):
That hasn't. Okay, busy guy, you still are? I?
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Thanks? And if I play it real close I think
you'll be too, see imagined Cushing Avenue in East Los
Angeles' industrial literally wrong side of attraction about his non
Hollywood is an honest day's work. And all the way
(09:24):
there I kept blessing the dumb luck that had made
me answer ten ten for the address before I'd even
had time to think. When I pulled up and poked
away from the place, I hoped that luck would continue,
because ahead was the foundry, or what remained of it,
and in no sense did it looked like friendly territory.
I found a metal staircase climbing from what had once
been a loading ramp up to the yard foreman's office,
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where a single, staring, unshielded light inside said that somebody
was home. And when I had quietly gone up those stairs,
I saw through a glass door of who that somebody
was Larry's self, alone next to a telephone and pitching
to the smiling face on the calendar across the wall
that red January nineteen twenty eight, And I knocked with
(10:06):
the barrel of my thirty eight on a dirty glass
door told me to come in without looking up, make
yourself at home, neighbor, be with you in a minute.
Speaker 8 (10:18):
Ah, I did it.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Your front twos have been trying for that all night,
so glad you made it. I won't be on your
mind while we talk about what bracelets, bracelets and neighbor.
This is an iron foundry, but you want as a
jewelry shot. Let's save each other a lot of time
in a level huh. I'm a private detective named Marlow
Sultan at the moment working for Claire Osborne, who now
is the price of a bracelet wants it back in
(10:42):
a hurry. Do we do business?
Speaker 9 (10:43):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (10:44):
You don't. And it's not because I don't like your neighbor,
but but because one I never heard of any Claire
Osburn two bracelets and stuff for second story man, which
I am not. And three you ought to get yourself
a pair of sneakers. Stupid. You've been followed all the
way through the yard, up the stairs and into this
(11:06):
room an old gag. Say no, no gag. So while
you still can, you better put that gun away, because
my boy cover takes a strange delight in messing people up.
Speaker 5 (11:16):
Feel bad your bracketed you better drop it fast?
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Ye yep, that's better him. I'm all low with how
any double talk about babes and bracelets. Let's have it.
You're one of freeman best boys, aren't you. You think
guy had something to do with him getting knocked off
in that ditch. You're here to square things away. That's
it is. It gets your hands off. Oh okay, I
(11:45):
won't touch you again, but that's more than I can
say for cover.
Speaker 5 (11:50):
Yeah, lots more.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Oh, it was a toss up where a cope's gun
on the side of my head, on the side of
my head, on the floor and down. The damage either way,
it didn't seem to matter because I couldn't make it back.
Speaker 7 (12:14):
Any further than very sult his voice.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
It sounded like it was coming from the bottom of
the well, even though I could see him talking of
the telephone. Okay, my promis later.
Speaker 5 (12:27):
Oh, it's eighty one hundred north from.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
The cern in Holly. But then, oh no, I couldn't
even see that anymore. Oh oh yeah, h m oh,
(13:00):
could you think what your Garden's hotel really really? Twelve? Please, yes, sir,
one moment please? Oh uh right? Hello, olloh Claire, listen,
I'm over in East Los Angeles.
Speaker 6 (13:17):
Come, my lord? Did you find him? Do you know
where larry'salt?
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Is Yeah, I think so, eighty one hundred Northwold turn.
It's hep in Hollywood near you. Now, listen Claire about
the bracelet.
Speaker 8 (13:27):
Noce what there was.
Speaker 6 (13:29):
No wat, no trouble on stock marketing.
Speaker 8 (13:31):
No loan made?
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Why do you wanna know where Solar is? What do
you want from him?
Speaker 6 (13:37):
His life?
Speaker 8 (13:38):
Good dy, mister Mortlow.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Let him in a Claire Clay listen to me, I
oh oh, why uh?
Speaker 5 (13:47):
I wouldn't try it?
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Try him? Hey, covert listening.
Speaker 7 (13:52):
You don't have to go no place until Larry Sala
comes back and says so not relax chum.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
In just a moment the second act of Philli Marlowe.
But first, a brief message from the Ford Dealers of America.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
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(14:37):
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Speaker 2 (15:18):
Now, with our star Gerald Moore, we return to the
second act of Philip Marlowe and Tonight's story, The Torch Carriers.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
I turned to the Poka face cover and the forty
five books tearing at me from across six dusty feet
of concrete floor that maybe ancient Eastela foundry seem colder
and even more lonely.
Speaker 5 (15:44):
You don't stay put, so good, do you, sweet ear?
Speaker 1 (15:46):
You can a heavy handed with that gun at Rkvit.
Speaker 5 (15:48):
You want to try again, Sweetart.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
I'll pass Stanning. Heres tearing at each other you have
to get dull. Don't you think.
Speaker 5 (15:56):
That's entirely apt to use sweet eye?
Speaker 1 (15:58):
You bleed pre like that when you're kid. Look just
so I don't get plugged by mistake. Bet let me
sit down before I fall down.
Speaker 7 (16:06):
Help yourself over there on that box, so we keep
me between you and the door.
Speaker 5 (16:12):
That's right, you're a good boy.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
You got no idea? Hey, come on, how long do
we play like this? I'll tell you better when Oval
the Squeak gets back? What's Oval the Squeak?
Speaker 7 (16:22):
She runs errands for Larry, like finding out what's phony
about a certain young babe in or bracelets that don't exist.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
So that's where the bird with the whiskey soprono fits.
That's the way the punk operates. Huh, well that way, kobu.
We'll both die of old age before Oh well, you
hear that somebody moved downstairs. Maybe this is a visitors
night and the old Foundry they'll get your hopes up
sweeter if those live here. They're rats.
Speaker 5 (16:47):
They eat small dogs.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
The one thing warm? Please shoot? What's that for? Punk?
Speaker 7 (16:56):
Dropping your hands out of your lap where I couldn't
see 'em?
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Don't try it again on your bill. You know, Covi,
you're holding me here on Larry Sola's orders. And yet
I'm the only one who knows what schedule that happened
to him tonight.
Speaker 5 (17:06):
Maybe you better tell me, sure, sure.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Only first I want to know something. What about the
late mister Freeman?
Speaker 7 (17:12):
Best Freeman was scum, low stinking scum.
Speaker 5 (17:18):
Nobody misses him, I mean nobody. And Larry didn't kill him,
that's out.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
But he was connected, wasn't he. And there was a
girl named Janie Trout? How does she figure?
Speaker 7 (17:27):
You better let that one set sweet out for your
own sake. Now let's have your runing fast. What's supposed
to happen?
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Did you hear it? Yeah? What? Don't tell me a
tough boy like you gets jumping, all right?
Speaker 5 (17:41):
Give come on, wise boy jabbing.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Oh COVID won't do you any good anyway. I'm the
only one who got there was something. Maybe you right,
something enough to wear shoes?
Speaker 7 (17:51):
Shut up, I said, and sit right there. I'll bully
in two and I mean it. Oh hove, hey, squake,
is that Joe.
Speaker 5 (18:09):
W was out there?
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Hekk to me this coverdged out of the room. I
felt along the side of the box. Had been sitting
on for a jacket chunk of metal slag I spotted earlier.
It was about the size of a baseball and heavy.
I picked it up and moved across to the opposite wall
near the door. YO got out of hair.
Speaker 5 (18:27):
The bosses throw at it, I'll fit.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
I stepped out and saw Covid standing at the head
of the stairs, was back to me. I threw the
lump of iron slag with everything I had caught a
my hammer between the shoulder. Waves had flew back, his
fingers clawed at the air, and he pitched face first
down the stairs. I caught a glimpse of a woman
ducking out of sight behind the poundrake furnace. It was
Madge Gilbert, Hm, you killing me?
Speaker 8 (18:57):
Covid is dead.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
I don't know, and I don't care. What are you doing?
Then bought it up, rat trapper.
Speaker 8 (19:01):
There's nobody else here. Just doesn't cover it.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
Creepy number they called aval a squeakers do any.
Speaker 8 (19:06):
Minute, nasty little loss gives me the willie.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
You made your bed, baby, But let's not get lost.
What are you after in here? Oh?
Speaker 9 (19:13):
I've been thinking plenty about that torch you're talking about.
I decided, if you carry the same old one long enough,
you're bout to get burned.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
Finally felt the heat.
Speaker 9 (19:23):
Huh, yeah, plenty. So I came here looking for you
or Larry.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
Couldn't make up your mind, certainly.
Speaker 8 (19:30):
I wanted to tell Larry I was throwing it made.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
A beat you to it, but you found me.
Speaker 9 (19:34):
So Okay, what if Larry of the Squeak come back
after what I'm gonna tell you?
Speaker 8 (19:40):
You gotta help me get out of here. Larry'd kill me.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
Okay, kid, let's have it.
Speaker 9 (19:44):
You wanted to know about Janis Trout, Okay, I'll tell you.
She was beautiful. I'd be the first to one minute
a brune nettli like every woman wishes she was. And
Larry fell for She took him away from me, just
like I'd been dead to years. Only she was rotten
number once they're cleaned the vault in her twisted, dry.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Old brain, Oh, says the jealous lover.
Speaker 8 (20:08):
Jealous.
Speaker 9 (20:09):
Sure, I was jealous at first, and just hurt and disgusted.
She was double crossing Larry every time he turned around.
But there was nothing I could do.
Speaker 8 (20:18):
I try to tell him, yeah.
Speaker 9 (20:22):
All but this one time I made it stick. She
borrowed Larry's car to take that slimy Freeman Best out
for a ride in it with extra laughs because there
was Larry's car, mind you and Freeman Best.
Speaker 8 (20:35):
In case you haven't heard.
Speaker 9 (20:36):
Heard, well, I got to leave that they were going
to wind up at the bridge cafe. I made Larry
take me out there to prove what I'd been telling
him about Jennis was true.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
You proved it.
Speaker 9 (20:48):
Sure, We waited for him at the bridge. They showed
up all right doing ninety. She couldn't make the curve
and they hit the bridge.
Speaker 8 (20:55):
Rhyn. He killed them both.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Wait a minute, Wait a minute, your stretching baby fleaming
best body was found thirty miles south.
Speaker 9 (21:01):
Sure, sure it was because Larry couldn't bear the idea
of Jani's trout being found with Freeman's dad. He tried
to protect her and keep everybody from finding out what
a tramp she really was. He pulled Freeman's body out
of the wreck and hall that clear down the long
Beach and dumped it. I watched him do it.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
And all this business is just to keep that secret
about Janni's trial.
Speaker 9 (21:23):
Sure, Ja, can you imagine a love like that going
to waste. Huh even with her dad, even now, he
won't as much as speak to me. I'm not so bad.
I've tried and I've waited, but he won't drop it.
Speaker 8 (21:40):
So it's all yours, Kirby, and take it. I hope
you put it right. Word hurt to him?
Speaker 1 (21:46):
No, dis baby, Kirby was a stall. I'm hollow, private detective.
Speaker 8 (21:51):
What gee? How cheap did I sell out? Anyway?
Speaker 1 (21:55):
That depends. The only exce time grinding is for a
girl named Clare os whenever hear no, that's funny. For
some reason, she hates Solder even more than you.
Speaker 8 (22:06):
It's horrible. It's horrible.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
You stay where you are.
Speaker 8 (22:10):
I'm scared of it.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
I'll pull his fings. Just talk it absent minded by
which side you're on?
Speaker 8 (22:21):
How horrible?
Speaker 5 (22:22):
Why it's Larry, I don't know.
Speaker 8 (22:24):
I've been waiting for.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
Her fast covered. Then I got something in parking cover.
Speaker 8 (22:29):
Oh why he went out for a few minutes.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Yeah. I don't like this, sister. You want here all
by yourself? Something's wrong? What is it? Tell? What's the matter?
Hold it all over you? Alright?
Speaker 5 (22:44):
H Why is the gun?
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Yes? What do you know about Claire Osbonde? I don't
think I know the party show you do a cute
little brunette named Claire. When I want the straight dope
on it, and I want it now, not later, he
over hy answer my questions.
Speaker 5 (22:57):
You're crapy.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
You wont get anything out of me, Larry pick care
a pucker head jerk, and maybe there's something on It'll
give me an answer without talking back.
Speaker 8 (23:07):
Okay.
Speaker 9 (23:07):
He always wrote things down in a little notebook inside
his check Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Yeah, you're right here it is. Let's see, I'm sure
sure this is it. Claire Osband arrived from San Diego
last night by plane. I just did as Wilshire Gardens
as Claire Osband. According to the driver's license, her real
name is for Pete's sake, no wonder, I'll see you kid.
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It took me twenty minutes to get from East la
Over to Lucerne and another five to find the bleak
white bungalow that belonged to Larry's sewer. It's front windows
were dark when I drove past it, parked on the
side street and walked back, but in the rear one
window showed a light. The screen door was open, so
I eased myself into the service porch where I could
see Solfa sitting in the kitchen table, a look on
his face of hurt. The fiants like a small boy
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accused of thing he hadn't done. I couldn't see it
was facing him, but there was no mistaking the voice.
It was Claire.
Speaker 6 (24:06):
Oh my life, gents was everything to me. And now
she dead and you killed him. That's true, isn't it.
Speaker 5 (24:11):
I've already told you once, kid, you're making a mistake.
Speaker 6 (24:13):
I know I'm not. You're going to pay for my
sister's jest. No colonel ever call it murder, but that's
what it was. You did it dust as surely as
if you'd strangled.
Speaker 8 (24:21):
Her with your own hands.
Speaker 6 (24:23):
And now I'm going to get even for Jannet.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
Claire.
Speaker 6 (24:26):
You crazy? Why did you come here?
Speaker 1 (24:28):
Give me that gun?
Speaker 6 (24:29):
Claire, You can't stop me, nobody can. Even if you
shoot me, Marlowe, I'll kill him.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
You listen to me before you start pulling that trigger.
You better know all the facts. Everything Solah here has
done since your sister's death has been a shield and
protect what little she herself left of a good reputation.
She turned bad, Claire, She lying, no, no, what reason
have I got to lie. I'm telling you this because
it's true and I can prove it.
Speaker 8 (24:52):
I don't believe you.
Speaker 6 (24:53):
You're trying to trick me.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
It was your big sister who tricked you years ago.
She was no good, She's that double crossing dirty cheet.
Wouldn't shoo square for five minutes, not as more, and
night she died. She was too timing Larry. But even
in spite of that, he wrisked his neck to move
the body of the other guy, just so she wouldn't
be found with a kind of cheap trash she'd been
running around with. And do you know why, because Larry
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saw her there. Loved your sister, loved her every bit
as much as you did.
Speaker 8 (25:18):
Laughter.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Yeah, I know this can't be true. Yeah, it's true, kid,
all of it. I loved her all right. Just too
bad that Jenny's went like she did. Okay, baby, the hotspots,
come on, give me the gun. You don't want to
shoot anybody now, you'll better clare, Yes.
Speaker 6 (26:01):
I hope be alright when I get used to a
few new ideas. Yes, what's going to happen to me? Now?
Speaker 1 (26:09):
Ah, that's pretty much up to you. How do you
mean the world spins like mad, honey, you have to
keep up or get lost.
Speaker 8 (26:19):
Like I was tonight. I was lost, my little terribly.
Everything I had any face in which was gone.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
Yeah, I know that's because you had blind face, Claire.
You know that's okay for kids. But you're not a
big girl now.
Speaker 6 (26:35):
Ah, Yes, I I get it. From now on it
it's me on my own two feet and my eyes
wide open.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
We'll take it easy, baby. It's uh fun to close
him once in a while. After I dropped Player off
at a hotel, I I remember the drink I'd started
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out to get and left half finished on the bar. Well.
It was too late now to stop anywhere, so I
drove home and poured myself a nightcap in my own apartment.
I carried it over to the window and looked out
across the city at the endless miles of wicking lights,
each one a torch. Everybody carries a torch for something,
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Some for love. They can never have an ideal it's
out of reaching. Some just just for memory. Funny thing,
so many dark corners get their only light. I'm a
torch that somebody carries.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
Philip Marlowe will be back in just a moment. But first,
here's a message from the Ford Dealers of America.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
More than one hundred and ten thousand delighted motorists were
already driving the new fifty Ford. Here's what Jack Ferrell,
hotel manager says. I did a lot of shopping around
and chose Ford for styling, and I'm certainly glad because
I found there's plenty of car beneath its beautiful body.
There's plenty of power under the hood too, and it's
as comfortable as a high price car. I could go
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on for hours about the quietness, the economy, and the
comfort of my car, but it all ends up to this.
The fifty Fords are mighty fine card own. We Ford
dealers are not surprised that new owners rave about their
fifty Fords. We've studied this new Ford from stem to stern.
We know every detail of it's fifty ways new for fifty,
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but until you get behind the wheel, you won't be
able to believe how good it is. That's the reason
we want you to test drive the fifty Ford. The
classified phone directory will give you the name of the
nearest Ford dealer, or perhaps you know him personally. Why
don't you phone him tomorrow, before you buy any car
at any price, you owe it to yourself to test
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drive the fifty Ford, assuring.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
Me with us again next week, when Philip Marlowe says,
this time everything that happened from the orange haired man
with a matt patio for the pitchfork, that the body
at the covered bridge was wrong, dead wrong. The Adventures
(29:50):
of Philip Marlowe Bringing You Raymond Chandler's most famous character,
star Gerald Moore, are produced and directed by Norman McDonell,
and are written for radio by rober Bbert Mitchell and
gene Leavitt. Featuring the cast were Sammy Hill, John Dayner, Vivijanis,
Harry Bartel Wilms Herbert, and Edgar Barrier.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
The special music is composed and conducted by Richard o'ront.
This is Roy Rowan speaking.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
Stay tuned now for Gangbusters, which follows immediately on most
of these same CBS stations. This is CBS the Columbia
Broadcasting System.
Get this and get it straight. Crime is a sucker's road,
and those who travel and wind up in the gut
of the prison of the grave this time each carried
a torch, and each was burned by it. They heel
the hero worshiper and the hard bitten blonde, and all
because of a woman already two days dead.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
From the pen of Raymond Chandler, outstanding author of crime fiction,
comes his most famous character in the Adventures of Phillip Barlow.
In just a Moment Tonight's story, But first, a message
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from the fod Dealers of America.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Tonight, more than one hundred and ten thousand enthusiastic motorists
on new nineteen fifty Fords. Here's what Donald L. Gibson,
the pilot from Kansas City, says about his fifty Ford.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
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why I bought a fifty Ford. That V eight really
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it's this smooth and quiet. Is the Swiss movement a
good watch? And it's not just the Ford engine that's fine.
The ride is just like flying in smooth air, and
the car handles like a dream.
Speaker 5 (01:09):
Anyone who's thinking of buying a new.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
Car should certainly take a check ride in the fifty Ford.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
We Ford dealers are swamped with comments like that, but
don't take anyone's word for this new fifty Ford.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
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Ford dealers.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Tomorrow now with Gerald Moore starred at Phila Marlowe, we
bring you tonight's exciting story The Torch Carriers. Eight hours
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that had just slipped away had been a noisy assaultment
of big people with little troubles. I hadn't wanted their help,
and little people with big troubles I hadn't been able
their help. So by the time it was all over
and I was heading for home, a cozy, quiet cocktail
lounge at the Wiltshire Gardens Hotel seemed like a good
idea when I was there, up at the bar with
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one down and one to go. The strain that had
been with me all day began to ease up. But
even as I relaxed, the tension between the couple sitting
at my left became more and more aturn. I looked
down the bar. The girl was young, pretty and obviously
afraid of the little man with her had only asthma
where a voice should have been. Now have I made
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myself clear?
Speaker 6 (02:47):
I don't know what you're talking about. I looked sa
shir Larry saw it doesn't go for people snooping out
for or nothing, and either to why it gives me
work to do that sometimes?
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Rough enough poddich grave boytle man, you've had your busy day. Hey,
take your hands off. That's something as you'll relax. Okay, okay, Charla, gentlemen,
please no fighting. I can lose my life before now
you leave, but won't fight him minute folly, you heard
him busting.
Speaker 5 (03:11):
Okay, I should want to come to slay an.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
You all right? Miss you? Sure would you like another drink? No?
Speaker 6 (03:20):
No, I think I'll go back to my dolla.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Oh you're staying here at the Worster Garden Villa twelve
tout you and the queen. Maybe I better see you
as far as the door, little Pala, yourys might still
be around. Well, thank you, all right, come on, this
is really very nice of you, mister Marlow. Philip Marlow,
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what about you?
Speaker 7 (03:44):
What?
Speaker 8 (03:45):
Oh it's Claire Exing.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Well, I look, Claire, I'm not trying to pry into
your business, but in a way, people like Larry's salt
in my business.
Speaker 6 (03:53):
Larry, how did you know about him?
Speaker 1 (03:55):
The little panel in the bar wasn't whispering. Oh, I'm
a private detective, Claire, and I A lot of people
get in over their head. I hate to see it
happen to you. You know, these people play rough, usually
for keeps. Maybe you better tell me about it.
Speaker 8 (04:07):
Huh, Well this is my type.
Speaker 6 (04:10):
Oh it's tomorrow, I'll be frank with you. A month
ago I got into a jam. It was an investment.
I'd made some stock, a sure thing, I was told,
and they usually are. Anyhow, the certificates weren't quite Joe
deads and they took a dive, a deep one.
Speaker 8 (04:24):
And to protect myself I.
Speaker 6 (04:26):
Needed more money, so I took a bracelet. I had
a diamond run and got a loan on it.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Mary Salter, Yes, from.
Speaker 6 (04:32):
Chalfor a friend a prison. I saw it with a
friend recommended him to me.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Oh, you cast your bracelet, covered your investment, got your
money back, and now you want the bracelet again. Correct.
Speaker 6 (04:42):
Yes, but Salter isn't around.
Speaker 8 (04:44):
He's high.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
How do you know?
Speaker 6 (04:45):
But I went to the.
Speaker 8 (04:46):
Club he runs up on this trip.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
I overheard it. Care Uh.
Speaker 6 (04:49):
The two men spoke of him as being on a
an extended vacation for his health. Of course I didn't
believe that, so I went around the back, found the
door open, and got into Salter's private office.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
That in itself is a wonderful way to get into
trouble deep.
Speaker 6 (05:02):
Yes, I know, but I just had to find out
Rasalta could be located so I could pay him and
get my bracelet.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Bats huh.
Speaker 6 (05:08):
Here, look it's his paper. He was folded under Salter's Memmosdad.
On one side it says Madge Gladystone two seven four,
the last numbers missing torn off and on her back
meet at one O one no at ten ten.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Can this help the tenny mind? But first, Claire a
couple of questions that might help even more. Who was
that Arsat's little caesar slatted you in there?
Speaker 6 (05:31):
One of the men I overheard talking at Charcher's time.
He must have seen me and then followed.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Me here I figured. Now, look, honey, yeah, scrambling awful
had for a thousand bucks bracelet. What's the rest of it?
Speaker 6 (05:41):
Raced it? Well, you're out of your.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Honey, what's you that's burnie?
Speaker 6 (05:48):
I might just as well tell you the bracelet. Doesn't mind,
mister marlow It belongs to my aunt. I live with
her in San Diego.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Oh you borrowed it while she was away? Maybe? Huh?
Speaker 8 (05:57):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (05:58):
Oh please, I've learned my lesson. I only want to
get their breast crack now, mister marlow please, pep, will
you help me? O?
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Can you never mind that? Now? Oh?
Speaker 8 (06:06):
Pee?
Speaker 6 (06:07):
I must know where Larry's soldier is.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Okay, Claire, we'll try to find out. But I want condition.
Huh would you try? But you go inside, lock all
doors and windows, sit next to the phone, and until
you hear from me again, do absolutely nothing on your own. Agree.
Speaker 6 (06:20):
Oh yes, agreed, mister Marlowe, Thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Maybe it was because the sweet young kid had the
kind of voice you could still hear long after she
was gone. You know, one of those lingering sounds like
like the echo of the train whist hanging on Crisp
early morning air. But when I was at a payphone,
I stopped wondering and started dialing numbers prefixed Gladstone and
followed by two, seven, four, and then in order one, two, three,
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and so on until afternoon. Answer once wise, crackers twice,
and the baby said, we thought I was a mash
up from my high school. I finally scored at number five.
The answer took me to a dame named Madge Gilbert,
a place called the Beakman Pluzy. It wasn't the kind
of place you'd go for mother, and Madge Gilbert wasn't
the kind of girl mother would put up with. However,
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she must have been nice to look at once, and
from the smile pleasant to know.
Speaker 8 (07:22):
Okay, mister busy guy, now that we're together, what is it?
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Oh? For one thing, the name's Kirby, and you can
drop the fancy handle.
Speaker 8 (07:28):
Uh huh.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
And for another thing, Kirby, I wanna find Larry saw
that it quick? Why got a proposition for him?
Speaker 8 (07:35):
He won't be interested.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Nuh uh. How can you tell you don't know what
it is?
Speaker 9 (07:40):
No, but I do know what at the moment Larry
is yeah, and then three letters.
Speaker 8 (07:45):
My friend, the word is sad. He lost his lady
love drink.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
No thanks? What do you mean is lady love? I
heard that you and Larry mind what you heard?
Speaker 8 (07:57):
All that used to be the pre ja and trial period.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Uh, I'm a sad comes from Jane's finding a better deal?
Maybe huh No.
Speaker 9 (08:05):
She was killed automobile accident night before last saw the
were her No again, she was alone and drunk, and
that's probably the way Larry is.
Speaker 8 (08:17):
Right now a blind pool.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Sell it up way sure, look baby, believe me, it
won't put out the torture carrying.
Speaker 8 (08:28):
Shut up. Sorry, I brought the whole thing up.
Speaker 6 (08:33):
Now.
Speaker 8 (08:33):
What was that proposition you mentioned.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
For Larry exclusively? Where is he the.
Speaker 8 (08:37):
Foundry on cushion? Why the faundry and least Los Angeles?
Speaker 9 (08:43):
Hey, wait a minute, Kirby, you seem kind of lost
for a friend of Larry.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
I'm just fuzzy on locations, that's all.
Speaker 8 (08:49):
How about numbers you address down there? What does it
come on?
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Fat ten ten? Unless it's been changed recently?
Speaker 8 (08:57):
That hasn't. Okay, busy guy, you still are? I?
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Thanks? And if I play it real close I think
you'll be too, see imagined Cushing Avenue in East Los
Angeles' industrial literally wrong side of attraction about his non
Hollywood is an honest day's work. And all the way
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there I kept blessing the dumb luck that had made
me answer ten ten for the address before I'd even
had time to think. When I pulled up and poked
away from the place, I hoped that luck would continue,
because ahead was the foundry, or what remained of it,
and in no sense did it looked like friendly territory.
I found a metal staircase climbing from what had once
been a loading ramp up to the yard foreman's office,
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where a single, staring, unshielded light inside said that somebody
was home. And when I had quietly gone up those stairs,
I saw through a glass door of who that somebody
was Larry's self, alone next to a telephone and pitching
to the smiling face on the calendar across the wall
that red January nineteen twenty eight, And I knocked with
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the barrel of my thirty eight on a dirty glass
door told me to come in without looking up, make
yourself at home, neighbor, be with you in a minute.
Speaker 8 (10:18):
Ah, I did it.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Your front twos have been trying for that all night,
so glad you made it. I won't be on your
mind while we talk about what bracelets, bracelets and neighbor.
This is an iron foundry, but you want as a
jewelry shot. Let's save each other a lot of time
in a level huh. I'm a private detective named Marlow
Sultan at the moment working for Claire Osborne, who now
is the price of a bracelet wants it back in
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a hurry. Do we do business?
Speaker 9 (10:43):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (10:44):
You don't. And it's not because I don't like your neighbor,
but but because one I never heard of any Claire
Osburn two bracelets and stuff for second story man, which
I am not. And three you ought to get yourself
a pair of sneakers. Stupid. You've been followed all the
way through the yard, up the stairs and into this
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room an old gag. Say no, no gag. So while
you still can, you better put that gun away, because
my boy cover takes a strange delight in messing people up.
Speaker 5 (11:16):
Feel bad your bracketed you better drop it fast?
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Ye yep, that's better him. I'm all low with how
any double talk about babes and bracelets. Let's have it.
You're one of freeman best boys, aren't you. You think
guy had something to do with him getting knocked off
in that ditch. You're here to square things away. That's
it is. It gets your hands off. Oh okay, I
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won't touch you again, but that's more than I can
say for cover.
Speaker 5 (11:50):
Yeah, lots more.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Oh, it was a toss up where a cope's gun
on the side of my head, on the side of
my head, on the floor and down. The damage either way,
it didn't seem to matter because I couldn't make it back.
Speaker 7 (12:14):
Any further than very sult his voice.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
It sounded like it was coming from the bottom of
the well, even though I could see him talking of
the telephone. Okay, my promis later.
Speaker 5 (12:27):
Oh, it's eighty one hundred north from.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
The cern in Holly. But then, oh no, I couldn't
even see that anymore. Oh oh yeah, h m oh,
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could you think what your Garden's hotel really really? Twelve? Please, yes, sir,
one moment please? Oh uh right? Hello, olloh Claire, listen,
I'm over in East Los Angeles.
Speaker 6 (13:17):
Come, my lord? Did you find him? Do you know
where larry'salt?
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Is Yeah, I think so, eighty one hundred Northwold turn.
It's hep in Hollywood near you. Now, listen Claire about
the bracelet.
Speaker 8 (13:27):
Noce what there was.
Speaker 6 (13:29):
No wat, no trouble on stock marketing.
Speaker 8 (13:31):
No loan made?
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Why do you wanna know where Solar is? What do
you want from him?
Speaker 6 (13:37):
His life?
Speaker 8 (13:38):
Good dy, mister Mortlow.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Let him in a Claire Clay listen to me, I
oh oh, why uh?
Speaker 5 (13:47):
I wouldn't try it?
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Try him? Hey, covert listening.
Speaker 7 (13:52):
You don't have to go no place until Larry Sala
comes back and says so not relax chum.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
In just a moment the second act of Philli Marlowe.
But first, a brief message from the Ford Dealers of America.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Over one hundred thousand motorists are experiencing the engineering leadership
built into the fifty Ford As owners. They already know
that it's the one fine car in the low priced field,
and its personal experience that counts in buying a car.
That's why the Ford Dealers of America are issuing this
special invitation to test drive this new fifty Ford for yourself.
(14:37):
In the classified phone directory, you'll find the name of
your nearest Ford dealer. Perhaps you know him personally, he'll
be delighted to arrange a test drive tomorrow. So get
behind the wheel and test drive it for the comfort
of its midship ride and it's unmatched ruminus. Test drive
it for the power and quietness of the only V
eight in the low priced field, the kind of engine
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found in America's costliest car yet priced lower than ten
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of its own king size breaks largest in the low
priced field. Before you buy any car at any price,
you'll find it to your advantage to test drive the
fifty Ford at your Ford dealers tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Now, with our star Gerald Moore, we return to the
second act of Philip Marlowe and Tonight's story, The Torch Carriers.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
I turned to the Poka face cover and the forty
five books tearing at me from across six dusty feet
of concrete floor that maybe ancient Eastela foundry seem colder
and even more lonely.
Speaker 5 (15:44):
You don't stay put, so good, do you, sweet ear?
Speaker 1 (15:46):
You can a heavy handed with that gun at Rkvit.
Speaker 5 (15:48):
You want to try again, Sweetart.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
I'll pass Stanning. Heres tearing at each other you have
to get dull. Don't you think.
Speaker 5 (15:56):
That's entirely apt to use sweet eye?
Speaker 1 (15:58):
You bleed pre like that when you're kid. Look just
so I don't get plugged by mistake. Bet let me
sit down before I fall down.
Speaker 7 (16:06):
Help yourself over there on that box, so we keep
me between you and the door.
Speaker 5 (16:12):
That's right, you're a good boy.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
You got no idea? Hey, come on, how long do
we play like this? I'll tell you better when Oval
the Squeak gets back? What's Oval the Squeak?
Speaker 7 (16:22):
She runs errands for Larry, like finding out what's phony
about a certain young babe in or bracelets that don't exist.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
So that's where the bird with the whiskey soprono fits.
That's the way the punk operates. Huh, well that way, kobu.
We'll both die of old age before Oh well, you
hear that somebody moved downstairs. Maybe this is a visitors
night and the old Foundry they'll get your hopes up
sweeter if those live here. They're rats.
Speaker 5 (16:47):
They eat small dogs.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
The one thing warm? Please shoot? What's that for? Punk?
Speaker 7 (16:56):
Dropping your hands out of your lap where I couldn't
see 'em?
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Don't try it again on your bill. You know, Covi,
you're holding me here on Larry Sola's orders. And yet
I'm the only one who knows what schedule that happened
to him tonight.
Speaker 5 (17:06):
Maybe you better tell me, sure, sure.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Only first I want to know something. What about the
late mister Freeman?
Speaker 7 (17:12):
Best Freeman was scum, low stinking scum.
Speaker 5 (17:18):
Nobody misses him, I mean nobody. And Larry didn't kill him,
that's out.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
But he was connected, wasn't he. And there was a
girl named Janie Trout? How does she figure?
Speaker 7 (17:27):
You better let that one set sweet out for your
own sake. Now let's have your runing fast. What's supposed
to happen?
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Did you hear it? Yeah? What? Don't tell me a
tough boy like you gets jumping, all right?
Speaker 5 (17:41):
Give come on, wise boy jabbing.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Oh COVID won't do you any good anyway. I'm the
only one who got there was something. Maybe you right,
something enough to wear shoes?
Speaker 7 (17:51):
Shut up, I said, and sit right there. I'll bully
in two and I mean it. Oh hove, hey, squake,
is that Joe.
Speaker 5 (18:09):
W was out there?
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Hekk to me this coverdged out of the room. I
felt along the side of the box. Had been sitting
on for a jacket chunk of metal slag I spotted earlier.
It was about the size of a baseball and heavy.
I picked it up and moved across to the opposite wall
near the door. YO got out of hair.
Speaker 5 (18:27):
The bosses throw at it, I'll fit.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
I stepped out and saw Covid standing at the head
of the stairs, was back to me. I threw the
lump of iron slag with everything I had caught a
my hammer between the shoulder. Waves had flew back, his
fingers clawed at the air, and he pitched face first
down the stairs. I caught a glimpse of a woman
ducking out of sight behind the poundrake furnace. It was
Madge Gilbert, Hm, you killing me?
Speaker 8 (18:57):
Covid is dead.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
I don't know, and I don't care. What are you doing?
Then bought it up, rat trapper.
Speaker 8 (19:01):
There's nobody else here. Just doesn't cover it.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
Creepy number they called aval a squeakers do any.
Speaker 8 (19:06):
Minute, nasty little loss gives me the willie.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
You made your bed, baby, But let's not get lost.
What are you after in here? Oh?
Speaker 9 (19:13):
I've been thinking plenty about that torch you're talking about.
I decided, if you carry the same old one long enough,
you're bout to get burned.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
Finally felt the heat.
Speaker 9 (19:23):
Huh, yeah, plenty. So I came here looking for you
or Larry.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
Couldn't make up your mind, certainly.
Speaker 8 (19:30):
I wanted to tell Larry I was throwing it made.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
A beat you to it, but you found me.
Speaker 9 (19:34):
So Okay, what if Larry of the Squeak come back
after what I'm gonna tell you?
Speaker 8 (19:40):
You gotta help me get out of here. Larry'd kill me.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
Okay, kid, let's have it.
Speaker 9 (19:44):
You wanted to know about Janis Trout, Okay, I'll tell you.
She was beautiful. I'd be the first to one minute
a brune nettli like every woman wishes she was. And
Larry fell for She took him away from me, just
like I'd been dead to years. Only she was rotten
number once they're cleaned the vault in her twisted, dry.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Old brain, Oh, says the jealous lover.
Speaker 8 (20:08):
Jealous.
Speaker 9 (20:09):
Sure, I was jealous at first, and just hurt and disgusted.
She was double crossing Larry every time he turned around.
But there was nothing I could do.
Speaker 8 (20:18):
I try to tell him, yeah.
Speaker 9 (20:22):
All but this one time I made it stick. She
borrowed Larry's car to take that slimy Freeman Best out
for a ride in it with extra laughs because there
was Larry's car, mind you and Freeman Best.
Speaker 8 (20:35):
In case you haven't heard.
Speaker 9 (20:36):
Heard, well, I got to leave that they were going
to wind up at the bridge cafe. I made Larry
take me out there to prove what I'd been telling
him about Jennis was true.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
You proved it.
Speaker 9 (20:48):
Sure, We waited for him at the bridge. They showed
up all right doing ninety. She couldn't make the curve
and they hit the bridge.
Speaker 8 (20:55):
Rhyn. He killed them both.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Wait a minute, Wait a minute, your stretching baby fleaming
best body was found thirty miles south.
Speaker 9 (21:01):
Sure, sure it was because Larry couldn't bear the idea
of Jani's trout being found with Freeman's dad. He tried
to protect her and keep everybody from finding out what
a tramp she really was. He pulled Freeman's body out
of the wreck and hall that clear down the long
Beach and dumped it. I watched him do it.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
And all this business is just to keep that secret
about Janni's trial.
Speaker 9 (21:23):
Sure, Ja, can you imagine a love like that going
to waste. Huh even with her dad, even now, he
won't as much as speak to me. I'm not so bad.
I've tried and I've waited, but he won't drop it.
Speaker 8 (21:40):
So it's all yours, Kirby, and take it. I hope
you put it right. Word hurt to him?
Speaker 1 (21:46):
No, dis baby, Kirby was a stall. I'm hollow, private detective.
Speaker 8 (21:51):
What gee? How cheap did I sell out? Anyway?
Speaker 1 (21:55):
That depends. The only exce time grinding is for a
girl named Clare os whenever hear no, that's funny. For
some reason, she hates Solder even more than you.
Speaker 8 (22:06):
It's horrible. It's horrible.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
You stay where you are.
Speaker 8 (22:10):
I'm scared of it.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
I'll pull his fings. Just talk it absent minded by
which side you're on?
Speaker 8 (22:21):
How horrible?
Speaker 5 (22:22):
Why it's Larry, I don't know.
Speaker 8 (22:24):
I've been waiting for.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
Her fast covered. Then I got something in parking cover.
Speaker 8 (22:29):
Oh why he went out for a few minutes.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Yeah. I don't like this, sister. You want here all
by yourself? Something's wrong? What is it? Tell? What's the matter?
Hold it all over you? Alright?
Speaker 5 (22:44):
H Why is the gun?
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Yes? What do you know about Claire Osbonde? I don't
think I know the party show you do a cute
little brunette named Claire. When I want the straight dope
on it, and I want it now, not later, he
over hy answer my questions.
Speaker 5 (22:57):
You're crapy.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
You wont get anything out of me, Larry pick care
a pucker head jerk, and maybe there's something on It'll
give me an answer without talking back.
Speaker 8 (23:07):
Okay.
Speaker 9 (23:07):
He always wrote things down in a little notebook inside
his check Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Yeah, you're right here it is. Let's see, I'm sure
sure this is it. Claire Osband arrived from San Diego
last night by plane. I just did as Wilshire Gardens
as Claire Osband. According to the driver's license, her real
name is for Pete's sake, no wonder, I'll see you kid.
(23:36):
It took me twenty minutes to get from East la
Over to Lucerne and another five to find the bleak
white bungalow that belonged to Larry's sewer. It's front windows
were dark when I drove past it, parked on the
side street and walked back, but in the rear one
window showed a light. The screen door was open, so
I eased myself into the service porch where I could
see Solfa sitting in the kitchen table, a look on
his face of hurt. The fiants like a small boy
(23:59):
accused of thing he hadn't done. I couldn't see it
was facing him, but there was no mistaking the voice.
It was Claire.
Speaker 6 (24:06):
Oh my life, gents was everything to me. And now
she dead and you killed him. That's true, isn't it.
Speaker 5 (24:11):
I've already told you once, kid, you're making a mistake.
Speaker 6 (24:13):
I know I'm not. You're going to pay for my
sister's jest. No colonel ever call it murder, but that's
what it was. You did it dust as surely as
if you'd strangled.
Speaker 8 (24:21):
Her with your own hands.
Speaker 6 (24:23):
And now I'm going to get even for Jannet.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
Claire.
Speaker 6 (24:26):
You crazy? Why did you come here?
Speaker 1 (24:28):
Give me that gun?
Speaker 6 (24:29):
Claire, You can't stop me, nobody can. Even if you
shoot me, Marlowe, I'll kill him.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
You listen to me before you start pulling that trigger.
You better know all the facts. Everything Solah here has
done since your sister's death has been a shield and
protect what little she herself left of a good reputation.
She turned bad, Claire, She lying, no, no, what reason
have I got to lie. I'm telling you this because
it's true and I can prove it.
Speaker 8 (24:52):
I don't believe you.
Speaker 6 (24:53):
You're trying to trick me.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
It was your big sister who tricked you years ago.
She was no good, She's that double crossing dirty cheet.
Wouldn't shoo square for five minutes, not as more, and
night she died. She was too timing Larry. But even
in spite of that, he wrisked his neck to move
the body of the other guy, just so she wouldn't
be found with a kind of cheap trash she'd been
running around with. And do you know why, because Larry
(25:15):
saw her there. Loved your sister, loved her every bit
as much as you did.
Speaker 8 (25:18):
Laughter.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Yeah, I know this can't be true. Yeah, it's true, kid,
all of it. I loved her all right. Just too
bad that Jenny's went like she did. Okay, baby, the hotspots,
come on, give me the gun. You don't want to
shoot anybody now, you'll better clare, Yes.
Speaker 6 (26:01):
I hope be alright when I get used to a
few new ideas. Yes, what's going to happen to me? Now?
Speaker 1 (26:09):
Ah, that's pretty much up to you. How do you
mean the world spins like mad, honey, you have to
keep up or get lost.
Speaker 8 (26:19):
Like I was tonight. I was lost, my little terribly.
Everything I had any face in which was gone.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
Yeah, I know that's because you had blind face, Claire.
You know that's okay for kids. But you're not a
big girl now.
Speaker 6 (26:35):
Ah, Yes, I I get it. From now on it
it's me on my own two feet and my eyes
wide open.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
We'll take it easy, baby. It's uh fun to close
him once in a while. After I dropped Player off
at a hotel, I I remember the drink I'd started
(27:07):
out to get and left half finished on the bar. Well.
It was too late now to stop anywhere, so I
drove home and poured myself a nightcap in my own apartment.
I carried it over to the window and looked out
across the city at the endless miles of wicking lights,
each one a torch. Everybody carries a torch for something,
(27:32):
Some for love. They can never have an ideal it's
out of reaching. Some just just for memory. Funny thing,
so many dark corners get their only light. I'm a
torch that somebody carries.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
Philip Marlowe will be back in just a moment. But first,
here's a message from the Ford Dealers of America.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
More than one hundred and ten thousand delighted motorists were
already driving the new fifty Ford. Here's what Jack Ferrell,
hotel manager says. I did a lot of shopping around
and chose Ford for styling, and I'm certainly glad because
I found there's plenty of car beneath its beautiful body.
There's plenty of power under the hood too, and it's
as comfortable as a high price car. I could go
(28:37):
on for hours about the quietness, the economy, and the
comfort of my car, but it all ends up to this.
The fifty Fords are mighty fine card own. We Ford
dealers are not surprised that new owners rave about their
fifty Fords. We've studied this new Ford from stem to stern.
We know every detail of it's fifty ways new for fifty,
(28:58):
but until you get behind the wheel, you won't be
able to believe how good it is. That's the reason
we want you to test drive the fifty Ford. The
classified phone directory will give you the name of the
nearest Ford dealer, or perhaps you know him personally. Why
don't you phone him tomorrow, before you buy any car
at any price, you owe it to yourself to test
(29:18):
drive the fifty Ford, assuring.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
Me with us again next week, when Philip Marlowe says,
this time everything that happened from the orange haired man
with a matt patio for the pitchfork, that the body
at the covered bridge was wrong, dead wrong. The Adventures
(29:50):
of Philip Marlowe Bringing You Raymond Chandler's most famous character,
star Gerald Moore, are produced and directed by Norman McDonell,
and are written for radio by rober Bbert Mitchell and
gene Leavitt. Featuring the cast were Sammy Hill, John Dayner, Vivijanis,
Harry Bartel Wilms Herbert, and Edgar Barrier.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
The special music is composed and conducted by Richard o'ront.
This is Roy Rowan speaking.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
Stay tuned now for Gangbusters, which follows immediately on most
of these same CBS stations. This is CBS the Columbia
Broadcasting System.
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