November 19, 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.
Those who travel had wind up in the gut of
the prison of the grave. This time a ca hop
knocked me down a flight of stairs, An honest woman
was strangled by a green silk sash, and his simpering
dandy was shot to dead, all because of a run
of the mill actus five hundred miles away. It happened
like this.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
From the pen of Raymond Treandler, outstanding go through 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 vital statistic.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Hey boy, give me a paper, were sir, what do
you like Greece's comics? A class mine? I about some
news here you are? Thank you? Hey, go out of
my way. Hey, take it easy.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Drive away from here.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Wait a minute, wait a minute, what is this got
to help me? On? Being followed in just a minute.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Says right, swing driveway, you hurry please, okay, okay.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
She was streamlined from close cropped hair the color of
a smoky sunset, to low heeled slippers brocaded in bronze
and in between address that conformed as close and smooth
as lacquer on a Chinese vase. I made four turns
and four blocks and pulled into the curb and stopped.
She stabbed to look at me with a pair of sharp,
jade green eyes that said life had always been nothing
but a calculated risk. And she stepped out of the
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car and smiled.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
You were a big hell brother.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Thanks, goodbye, and not just like that, baby, Come here.
I don't like being left out on a limb.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Now.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Look, you did me a favor, okay, but we dropped
right here. It's trouble. You wouldn't like it.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
On the contrary, it's business like keeping my own nose clean.
I'm a private detective, but I didn't issue any invitation
for you to jump into my car.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
A private detective.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Yeah, who's chasing your baby? The law? You can tell
me out here on the straighter inside over a drink.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
I'll take the drink.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
I need it.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Uh huh, maybe I need you too. This might be
a break. I'm missus Terry Lebar and you're Marlow, Philip Marlow.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Who you're running from? Missus Lebarn A woman in slacks.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
I don't know who she is and why she's following me,
But every time I look back, she's there. This is
the second day.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Booth. Yeah, sure, say look, why haven't you talked it
over with your local policeman?
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Are you working for me, private detective?
Speaker 1 (02:42):
That all depends alright.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
I'm a merchant Chinese Silk's not a little shop for
six percent profit, but wholesale quick with cash and forty percent.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Uh huh so what's the point?
Speaker 5 (02:52):
No police?
Speaker 3 (02:53):
All it takes is a rumor of police, and I'll
have doors closed on me from Seattle to Mexico.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Good evening.
Speaker 5 (02:58):
May I get you something?
Speaker 3 (02:59):
A martini?
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Pla? May it too? Winner, Yes, sir, right away. This
gets us back to the woman in slacks. Huh yeah, here.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Mallow fifty and fifty a hundred dollars. I want you
to locate that woman, find out who she is and
why she's after me?
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Will you not without a few more effects? For instance,
could she have some connection with your business?
Speaker 6 (03:18):
No?
Speaker 3 (03:18):
I have two men working with me, A strong one
named Harlan Casey, who sees that my cash gets safely
to where it's going, and a smart one named Joe Temple,
who knows what to buy with it. She doesn't belong
to either of them.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Oh you sure?
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Positive? Casey hates all women, even me, I think. And
Joe Temple, well, Joe's a wonderful guy.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
You hint like a woman falling in love with a
fellow named Joe Temple. Can't they talk about it further?
Speaker 4 (03:44):
Why not?
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Temple and Casey have been in San Francisco all week
on a deal, a big deal. It'll make or break.
It's every set I have is tied.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Up in it. Well, what about you and Joe Temple?
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Yeah, well, perhaps this will explain. I plan to go
away this weekend, but I changed my mind because I
didn't want to miss his letters. I know it sounds funny,
but it's true.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Those must be some letters.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
They are like the one I got this morning. It's
half business, all right, complete account of how hard he
and Casey worked for me yesterday in San Francisco. But
the rest of it is to me personally.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
I don't wanna sound old fashioned missus lebar. But what
about my husband? Yeah, yeah, that was a mistake.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
I couldn't live with one thing. I can't Stan Marlow
was being lied to. It leaves me vindictive. I'm swiming
for divorce right now, vince lebar is a human elite,
just cold and spineless and parasitic is the real thing.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Okay, but why would your hating your husband put a
woman in slics on your trail? I don't know, alright, Terry,
I'll worry about that too. Any idea where I can start?
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Just one? I pulled a switch on her yesterday, Marlow,
for about an hour. I turned her to the corner
of Wiltshire and Losienagether and lost her in traffic. There
are several dancing schools around there. Is that worth anything?
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Maybe? What kind of car was she driving? We were
both walking.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
She's tall and brunette, and I've seen toads with nicer eyes.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Not enough, can't guarantee anything.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
I'll keep my fingers crossed. Mallow here, take the hundred,
do what you can to report to me at my place,
two or four Beechwood Circle.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
Okay, pardon, sir, your drinks to Martini?
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Oh thanks here, Thank you, sir, to.
Speaker 7 (05:17):
Your success, private detective, to your health, silk merchant, drink hotting,
slugging it down was no way to treat a good
dry martini.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
But I figured it was time I was on my way.
I drove out to the Wheelshare in Los Angega and
slowed down enough to look at all four corners. It
was a drug store with a specialized garbage cans and
drive in call scutties, a branch of the Bank of
Los Angeles, and a flying red horse over a mobile
gas station. I drove on again. When I spotted a
pair of black slacks going into a dancing studio, I
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half blocked down. It looked like a lead. After two
hours of staring at nobby knees and shorts and bulging
hips and bloomers, all knocking themselves out for a mythical
clea lighted future, I was finally convinced that it was
a dead end now. I got back into my car
and headed up into the hills for Beechwood Circle in
the slim hope that Terry could give me something more
to go on. Her house at two Old four was
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low and dainty and half hidden behind the tough, slender
grace of a bamboo grove. The walk was guarded by
a white marble line of Korea in the front door.
When I finally found it turned out to be a
sliding panel in a wall of oriental lettice work. As
the door slid open, I was looking down the barrel
of a snub nosed pistol held very steady in the
hands of a hard eyed brunette in a pair of
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black slacks.
Speaker 5 (06:38):
You've been looking high and low for me, haven't you, peeper?
Ever since you left that day I might have been.
You're not the brightest character in the world, in spite
of what you and your friends think. I spotted your
car when she got in. It wasn't too tough to tag.
Where's Terry sleeping off a hangover from better day?
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Skip the chatter? Where is she?
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Come on in and look?
Speaker 5 (06:57):
And that's no suggestion, sailor, it's an order. Move over
there to the top of the stage.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
Sure, that's a good smart boy. You're late. You know
I got what I came for. Now I'm in a hurry.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Turn around, look, sister, oh oh. There were ten stairs
down to the basement, and with a chiv re enforced
by the forty five, I hit all but the first three.
By the time I worked all the kinks out and
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was back upstairs again, she was gone. I started through
the house, then slowly from one room to another, turning
on lights. As I went looking for I knew it
was going to be a very sick client. When I
got as far as the study, where somebody had gone
through the desk draws with what must have been a snowplow,
and I still hadn't found Terry. I got that number
feeling in my stomach. I started out of side door
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that opened it to the patio, but then I heard
a whistle from the front walk. I cut back through
the house instead and waited near the door.
Speaker 5 (08:00):
Hey, hey, Terry, can I come in?
Speaker 1 (08:03):
It's little Joe, the Frisco kid? What happened to your weekend? Trypantia?
Who are you?
Speaker 5 (08:11):
What do you want?
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Hey? Temple, how do you know me? Missus Lebba hired
me today just after she canceled the weekend. She gave
me a rundown. She hired you? What do you mean?
I'm a private detective named Marlow. Why would she hire you?
Because she was being followed by a brunette and slacks.
She didn't like it. And that's all the information you're
gonna get. So relaxed, you say, Terry, isn't here? Isn't home?
Not so far? No man? Back here to the study. Temple.
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I want you to look at Semple. Somebody's gone through
the desk in an awful hurry. Yeah, yeah, I see
what you mean. Maybe you know something about what's missing. Huh.
You and missus Leba were fairly close when I'm told
the letters the letters are gone.
Speaker 8 (08:48):
Terry kept my letters in this bottom drawer.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
H By the way, Temple, where's your sidekick Colin Casey?
I don't know.
Speaker 8 (08:54):
We we both left San Francisco yesterday. He hates to fly,
so I assume he took a train. You ought to
be here in La now. Well, you don't think Casey's
mixed up in this, do you?
Speaker 1 (09:05):
I don't know. It could be Vince Labar. That's who
it was that got those letters. It was Vince Lebar.
They were really love letters. The business part was nothing.
Speaker 8 (09:14):
And Lebar is the dog in the manger kind of
guy who wants everyone to be unhappy.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
If he that fits, that fits Temple. With a smart lawyer,
your letters to Terry becomes great a material for a
counter suit for divorce. Sure he could make it stick
and also get a fat settlement at the community property laws.
I listen, here's what you Marlow. It's it's Terry. Terry Temple. Wait, Terry,
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look at her, Marlow, look at her.
Speaker 8 (09:41):
She's dead.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Matthews, Hamashi detail, Malo, Matthews is a dead one out here.
A woman he got a pencil. Always go ahead, I'm
a two o four Beechwood Circle. Woman was a client.
She was strangled with a green silk sash. My laundry pajamas, Matthews.
Sometime within the last I'd say our her name was
Terry Lebar was and Terry Lebar.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
Wait a minute, Mornthal, listen. We got a teletype here
from a sheriff and Empire Oregon come in five minutes ago.
So oh, wait a minute, yeah, says some guy named
Jess Freeman from La was killed there this morning in
a traffic accident. Was loaded with big dough, but doesn't
look the type. The only other identification on him was
a business card from one Terry Lebar. Yeah, you gonna
help pilancer for that.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Wait a minute, Wait a minute, Uh, Temple, do you
know anything about a man named Jess Freeman? He was
killed in Oargan today in a traffic accident and had
one of Terry's cards on him.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Freeman.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Yeah, no, no, I don't remember. Oh, Dice, Matthews, what
are you talking to him? Joe Temple, one of Terry
Lebar's associates, he's here. Never heard of Jess Freeman.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
Yeah, okay, mom, the Prince to Washington. The tattoo says
he was in the navy once Phil fit him down.
No about out there. Any idea will kill him.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Yeah, maybe a brunette and slacks. I think I know
where to find it.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
Well, it's dandy, sit out until we get them. I'll
be right out there.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Wait a minute, Lieutenant. Look right now, it's only a hunch,
but if I move fast and quiet, I might be
able to develop it into something worthwhile. Okay, okay, but
keep in touch Field. Yeah yeah, I still can't believe
it about Terry Marlowe. Now look, look, why don't you
just go home and take it easy. I'll tell Lieutenant
Matthews where you can find you. Huh thanks? Thirteen ten
Marlborough drying right now. Tell me you know where Vince
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Leabar lives.
Speaker 8 (11:29):
Yeah, yeah, the Laverne apartments on Rossmore. He's got a
suite on the top floor seven eight seven A. And
if it's any help, he drives a new green Nash Sedan.
But I thought you said that it was that brunette.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
I did. I did. And if Vince Leabar can't lead
me to the lady in long pants, I'll eat my shirt.
What's more, Matthews, we'll see to it personally. Yes, what
do you want some quiet conversation with Vince Lebar? I'm
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Philip Malo, private detect.
Speaker 6 (12:04):
How exciting had I known you were coming out of
bake the cake?
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Oh, you're breaking me up. I was hired by your
wife to your wife is dead, Labar. She was murdered,
Terry murdered. Yeah, now, if you don't mind, I'll come in.
Huh she was killed because of a packet of letters, Lebar?
Oh kind of or a cinched to cause a big
stir in anybody's divorce cord. Start biking up to swing
a countersuit you favor. I don't know what you're talking.
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Let us let us let us Joe Temple's let us
to terry the ones you arranged to have stolen Tonighty.
Her death wasn't part of the plan, Labar. That was
one of those bum deals. A robbery that got out
of hand, wound up as a murder where is she,
labl who's the brunette and slacks? And where do I
find her? You get out of here. I'll have the
police shut out not only steel letters but as trays too.
Huh like this coy little number here at doghouse'scott. He's
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driving in will shin lascion again. Okay, Laba, that's all
our gun man. They say you're yellow Lava, but you're not.
You're just stupid.
Speaker 6 (13:05):
The terrace outside those doors, mylow those with the iron grille,
go on out there, go on. I don't think Terry's dead,
and I don't think she hired you. I think you're
working for that lousy louse Joe Temple, and if so,
he'll need a battalion of private detective before I'm true.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
You're true right now, Laby. You're too dumb to see it.
Go on clear over the rail, keep your back to me.
Speaker 6 (13:31):
It's seven floors down Milow to a concrete driveway.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Just in case you get jumping in just a moment,
the second act of Philip Marlowe. But first, most people
like to know what to expect, But on at least
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one CBS show, a great part of the fun is
in what turns up on the spur of the moment.
That show is Groucho Marx Great Quiz You Bet Your Life,
heard every Wednesday Night on most of these same CBS stations.
Now with our star Gerald Moore, we returned to the
second act of Philip Marlowe and Tonight's story.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
The vital Statistic, the moment Vince Lebbar and the courage
caliber thirty two we held in his right hand made
it out of the apopment on the run for the elevator.
I kicked through the plate glass door, and I spent
the next two minutes ultimately swearing, straining, and nicking myself
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while I played contortionist in and out of the fancy
snake grew work and my wrought iron cage, until finally
I reached the inside handle. I was free out and
over to the telephone in a big hurry because for
my money. The icing on Lebar's voice left Joe Temple
someplace on the short side. What the life insurance people
call good risk? Hello marlow Temple, listen hard, your life's
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in danger? What labar you had him tag him? The
first he's after those letters are right? But what about
the girl and slack? Well? I think she might have
a connection with a drive in on Wilshore and Losienaga,
a place called Scottie's In. I'm gonna check it. Now,
tell me any word from Terry's muscle man yet Harlan
ca Yeah, oh nothing, Marlo. But look, can I meet
you and talk? No? No, Vince Leabar had a gun
and a short temper when he left here. I'll make
us working easier. Just tay away from open windows, temple.
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I'll caught it. Scottie's In was eating on the run
in the finest California tradition, a mammoth circle of steel
and the glass painted a dazzling yellow and blue, surrounded
by a half a dozen cars containing teenaged couples with
smudged lipstick and the giggles. The second after I pulled
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in and parked something in slacks with false eyelashes, a
waist you could span with a handcuff, and a fixed
front line. Chorus girl smiled with the cod mark ginger
against my wind shoe, handed me a menu that still
had the froth from an earlier customer's milkshake in one corner.
Just coffee, ginger, clean information.
Speaker 5 (16:00):
Oh it's you again, huh Look, baby, what I told
you on the phone ten minutes ago still goes huh about?
Speaker 4 (16:05):
What about Rose Fassetta?
Speaker 3 (16:07):
The girl you described long black hair, are nice shape,
you're infatuated, but you don't have the name an address.
So I was nice. I gave the name, told you
to look the address up in the phone book.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Period. Don't be so lazy, baby, Wait a minute, Ginger,
I didn't call you before, but that dime cup of
coffee will bring you a ten buck tip if you
tell me who did Hey.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
You want the guy who called.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
I don't know any names, but you're not him.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
He didn't talk up like you do.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
But what's all the fuss, baby, Rose Fasetta's got a
guy she's spoken for besides.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
A handsome phone, I do, sweetheart, this is business strictly,
believe me. Oh what's the address?
Speaker 3 (16:39):
Come on twenty four to twenty eight Havenhurst Drive, bottom floor.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Thanks, here, here's a ten I promise you.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
No, never mind, the name.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
Was free to him, so why should I charge you?
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Besides beside what.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
I like the way you said, sweetheart, Come on back sometime,
will you, baby? When you want more coffee?
Speaker 1 (16:56):
Okay, when I want more than coffee, and less than murder.
I will stay out of a Ginger. It was definite
double talk, but the effect was what I wanted. Ginger
with mouth wide open and staring after me like my
ears were on backwards. That way she might be scared
out of making a simple curiosity spike telephone call in
the popular Rose for setta which were a trumpet my
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arrab loud, clear and prematurely. Ten minutes later, I was
parked away from number twenty eight twenty four Havenhurst. As
I got out of my car and started toward the place,
I found Vince Labar's green sedan on the opposite side
of the street and carefully tucked into the shadows of
a pair of long haired pepper trees. It was a
good time for me to be careful, So when I
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knocked on the front door, which showed yellow light at
the threshold and was the starting point for something not
too close to music, I did it with the butt
end of my thirty eight Yeah is it ziggy? Front
of Gingers. She asked me to deliver a message Rose,
all right.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
What's a message back?
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Why you love trying Sunshiner's no law agains shoot ladies
and knocking downstairs. I'm back off. Come on, move but
not too far the moment. I want you in between
me and vince lebar who look, Angel, it's all real plane.
Those suitcases behind you there are packed his cars outside.
He's after the letters.
Speaker 5 (18:15):
Oh no ah, there goes vince Now buster, well, peeper,
your openers stink.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Get inside fast, sure.
Speaker 5 (18:25):
Sure, and he plays some particular sailor.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
That chair near the desk. Keep your hands in your lap.
Speaker 5 (18:31):
Okay, it'll please you missed a detective. I'll be very
glad to after all.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
You might guest.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
And now we talk like a little lady Harros. Vince
Leaba picked up the letters from you as scheduled, and
you're getting ready to run because you killed Terry and
you'd rather not be around for the question and answer period. Right,
I didn't kill her.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
I just knocked her down.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
No, you didn't kill it. He just slowed down a
breathing somewhat with a pajama sash. You're wrong, Coppy, right, Pippet,
isn't that any other way? Go on, answer it?
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Who is it?
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Mister Shirley? What's going on then, mister Sata?
Speaker 5 (19:10):
Now the jerk who lives in the top half of
this place, along with a few thousand friends.
Speaker 6 (19:14):
Door.
Speaker 4 (19:15):
I'm going to call the police. I distinctly heard a noise.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Did I come on in? Mister Shirley? Wow? What's going
on in here? Who are you? Never mind that? Now
get on the phone, call the police.
Speaker 4 (19:25):
Oh oh, yes, of course, yes, certainly operate, Oh, operate it.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
I want the police her.
Speaker 5 (19:35):
Look, hero, you're a little mixed up about some of
the things.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Yeah, and you're just a kid who straightened me out
a leather as you've got a Terry's place where written
by Joe Temple? Was your boyfriend Vince henting for Temple
when he left here?
Speaker 4 (19:46):
I can't.
Speaker 5 (19:49):
All right?
Speaker 1 (19:51):
Maybe he was?
Speaker 5 (19:52):
Now leave me alone?
Speaker 1 (19:53):
Not quite, mister Shirley. Yes, that desk next year, there's
a gun keep it on at the law rides. But
he's wanted for murder. Yeah, then shoot Shirley fast because
if you don't, she'll kill you. Fella cops. I'll fill
in the blanks later. Not wait, why must you leave?
Speaker 4 (20:10):
Why do we both watch?
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Because a guy named Joe Temple needs my help a
lot more than you do. The home address Temple had
given me turned out to be lights in a quiet house,
on a quiet street named Marlborough. I was there, out
of my car and running for the front door when
they came. I chucked my gun out of the holes
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that got close into the building and moved up until
I was on a line with a pair of half
open patio doors. And I saw something I hadn't expected.
On the floor that was littered with the broken lamp,
pieces of oas and overturned furniture was Vince Labar, doubled
up dead, and standing over him, his faced the color
of soft cement of thirty two. Dangling in his limp
right hand was Joe Temple. When he saw me, he
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tried to talk with the words jammed in his throat.
When I stepped into the room, he began to tremble.
I shot him. I couldn't help it. He was gonna
sit down, Temple, get hold of yourself. Got any brandy
around over on that table.
Speaker 6 (21:07):
Near the phone.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
Now he was out of his mind. Mardow an absolute maniac.
He said he was gonna kill them. They lunched for him.
There was a fight, and you came up with the gun. Huh.
And when he started from.
Speaker 8 (21:17):
Me again, I pulled the trigger, and then I did
it again and a third time.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
Yeah, yeah, drink this. He brought the letters back, Marlowe.
They're inside on the floor where he threw them. He
said they didn't mean anything anymore, that he and that
girl in the slacks had taken care of Terry Easy
Temple Easy. He seemed to go crazy.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
He said, I was a wife steamer, the cause of
his trouble, and then I deserved death.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
Well that's when I jumped at him.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
It was terrible, Marlow.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Yeah, between the two of us, we've just about got
all the answers, which is usually a good time to
call the police.
Speaker 4 (21:50):
Huh, what do you mean just about got all the answers? Marlow?
What else is there?
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Jess Freeman, the guy Lieutenant Matthews told us about when
we were over at Terry's place. Remember, Oh, yes, that
traffic crash and Empire, Oregon. But why should that figure in.
Speaker 5 (22:03):
This, Marlow.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
It shouldn't, but I think it does. Mallow Matthews. Another
dead one on the Terry lebar case. Yeah, Vince Labara,
her husband. He was shot. Yeah, a guy named Joe Temple.
It was self defense. We're coming in, Matthews. I'll take
that gun. Temple, you get the letters. Let's go, and
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we got into my car and started downtown. Temple was
more relaxed, and he talked easily until we passed Vince
LaVar's sparkling green sedan parked the block away, once again
close into the shadows, and once again empty, really empty.
The sight of it closed them up tight for the
rest of the trip. When we walked into police headquarters
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and through the quarter of a mile of glossy charador
leading to the doorkmarcked he didn't open up any but
it didn't matter really, because it's police rule never to
talk to two men about the same thing at the
same time. I was first. Matthews said hello without shaking hands,
waved me into an uncomfortable seat, and then lit his pipe. Well,
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I brought him up to date and it was his turn.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
Sir Rose Faceta killed Terry Labass that she could get
the letters Joe Temple had written. Did this so that
her boyfriend, Vince Leabar could raised a lot of fuss
in divorce court. Wouldn't let us file a counter suit
that kind of stuff. That's the whole deal, yea, with
Temple making it a doublehead about shooting Vince When Vince
came to kill him.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
That said Matthews, if you believe Temple, huh? And if
Temple hadn't slipped all right? Now, what are you getting at,
Phil that when I was on the phone with you
earlier at night, you asked me if Temple or I
knew anything about a Jess Freeman was killed in a
traffic accident and Empire Arregon right right, But you didn't No, No,
nor did I mention the town of Empire. It's a Temple.
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Yet a half hour ago, just before I called you,
Temple came up with that name. Oh then, Molly, you
hold my calls, Mooney, I mean that Joe Temple killed
Terry lebar Rose just knocked her out and got the
letters Temple's strangled while she was still unconscious. But why
because a guy identified as Jess Frameman got himself killed
in a traffic accident. So a guy who I think
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was actually Holland Casey, Terry's two fisted assistant, who together
with Joe Temple, was crossing the boss later and that
left Temple in a very hot spot to save himself,
he had a kill. Can you approve all is mollow? No?
Not a word of it it's conjecture, but conjecture that
fits Matthews. When Temple found Terry unconscious in the god
and that was his chance, he took her. Look, Phil, Phil,
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you're guessing it. Sure, Sure, I'm guessing, but not in
the dock. I know how these guys thinking act. I've
done too many cases not to know. And I listen
for a minute, Willia Matthew.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
All right over.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Now, Look, Temple had to get those letters back, right,
the last one in particular, because in the last one,
this is the way it's got a figure. He had
lied to Terry about being in San Francisco with Casey
yesterday when actually Casey was an Empire Oregon.
Speaker 4 (25:00):
Yeah, when Casey was killed up there, the fact was
bound to come out.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
Yeah, it's it's a good run, Matthews. You let me finish, please,
all right, finish. Temple knew Terry would find out. He
knew that she couldn't stand a liar and a partner
who double cross it. Temple knew that she'd get him
and ruin him if it took the rest of her life.
So he came back to get the letter before she
could read it. But she hadn't left Towna's plan, ironically enough,
because she didn't want to miss one of his letters.
Speaker 4 (25:23):
Yeah, but look, I'm a policeman, Phil, I gotta have
all right.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
All right, you're the policemen. You got labs and technicians.
You'll get the facts and I'll bet you figures just
like I said. Okay, Phil, Okay. And another thing, Matthews,
what when you talk to Temple, who's holding the packet
of letters now like a real good boy. Yeah, you'll
find the last one missing. It'll be in his pocket.
I'll bet you on that. I'll let her to do it. Lieutenant.
Speaker 4 (25:45):
There was one exception, Phil, Eh, how did Temple maneuver
all this, getting the letters from Rose Pasta then setting
up that self defense deal?
Speaker 1 (25:53):
I don't know, But my guess is that Vince got
the letters from Rose just before I arrived at her place.
Speaker 4 (25:59):
But when he got into his oh yeah yeah, yeah yeah,
Temple was waiting, slugged him, drove back to his own house,
dropped the body in the living room, shot him when he.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
Heard you coming. Something like that. Matter. See if he
can't get it out that way, Oh no worry, if
you'll if it's true.
Speaker 4 (26:10):
We'll get it out it'll be true. Oh, now, would
you ask mister Temple to come in, please, mister Mullow,
I'll be glad.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
To hell, Lieutenant, say Temple. Lieutenant like to see him?
All right, Marlow? I think I can speak coherently now. Good? Good?
They like to get the facts straight in there, go ahead, Yes,
of course, Good night, Marlow, and thanks for your help. Oh,
good evening, mister Temple, sit down and start talking. When
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I got into my car, the new day was starting
to push the black out of the sky, and the
early morning air smelled fresh and cool and clean. And
the whole night had been confused and complicated. But I
knew that by the time Matthews had finished with Temple,
there'd be no questions left unanswered. That would be great,
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wouldn't it if everything could be that way, no questions
left unanswered.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
The Adventures of Philip Marlowe Bringing You Raymond Chandler's most
famous character star Gerald Moore, are produced and directed by
Norman McDonald and are written for radio by Robert Mitchell
and gene Leavitt. Gerald Moore may currently be seen starring
in Republics The Blonde Bandit featured in the cast were Charlotte,
Lawrence Elliott, Reed, Doris Singleton, Georgia Ellis, Bill Lally, and
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Hugh Thomas. Detective Lieutenant Matthews is played by Larry Dubkin.
The special music is composed and conducted by Richard Arunt.
Be sure and be with us again next week.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
When Philip Marlowe says it's time of bride to bee,
a corpse in a plush bungalow and a Southern troll
behind a gun all had one thing in common. They
moved through the same deep shadow.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
Remember you'll find George Burns and Gracie Allen and their
good friend Bill Goodwin here on most of these same
CBS stations every Wednesday night, in the half hour following
the Bing Crosby Show.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
This is Roy Rowan speaking.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
Now stay tuned four Pursuit, which follows immediately. This is
CBS where Burns and Allen are heard every Wednesday night.
The Columbia Broadcasting System
Get this and get it straight. Crime is a sucker's road.
Those who travel had wind up in the gut of
the prison of the grave. This time a ca hop
knocked me down a flight of stairs, An honest woman
was strangled by a green silk sash, and his simpering
dandy was shot to dead, all because of a run
of the mill actus five hundred miles away. It happened
like this.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
From the pen of Raymond Treandler, outstanding go through 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 vital statistic.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Hey boy, give me a paper, were sir, what do
you like Greece's comics? A class mine? I about some
news here you are? Thank you? Hey, go out of
my way. Hey, take it easy.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Drive away from here.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Wait a minute, wait a minute, what is this got
to help me? On? Being followed in just a minute.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Says right, swing driveway, you hurry please, okay, okay.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
She was streamlined from close cropped hair the color of
a smoky sunset, to low heeled slippers brocaded in bronze
and in between address that conformed as close and smooth
as lacquer on a Chinese vase. I made four turns
and four blocks and pulled into the curb and stopped.
She stabbed to look at me with a pair of sharp,
jade green eyes that said life had always been nothing
but a calculated risk. And she stepped out of the
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car and smiled.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
You were a big hell brother.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Thanks, goodbye, and not just like that, baby, Come here.
I don't like being left out on a limb.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Now.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Look, you did me a favor, okay, but we dropped
right here. It's trouble. You wouldn't like it.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
On the contrary, it's business like keeping my own nose clean.
I'm a private detective, but I didn't issue any invitation
for you to jump into my car.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
A private detective.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Yeah, who's chasing your baby? The law? You can tell
me out here on the straighter inside over a drink.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
I'll take the drink.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
I need it.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Uh huh, maybe I need you too. This might be
a break. I'm missus Terry Lebar and you're Marlow, Philip Marlow.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Who you're running from? Missus Lebarn A woman in slacks.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
I don't know who she is and why she's following me,
But every time I look back, she's there. This is
the second day.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Booth. Yeah, sure, say look, why haven't you talked it
over with your local policeman?
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Are you working for me, private detective?
Speaker 1 (02:42):
That all depends alright.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
I'm a merchant Chinese Silk's not a little shop for
six percent profit, but wholesale quick with cash and forty percent.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Uh huh so what's the point?
Speaker 5 (02:52):
No police?
Speaker 3 (02:53):
All it takes is a rumor of police, and I'll
have doors closed on me from Seattle to Mexico.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Good evening.
Speaker 5 (02:58):
May I get you something?
Speaker 3 (02:59):
A martini?
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Pla? May it too? Winner, Yes, sir, right away. This
gets us back to the woman in slacks. Huh yeah, here.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Mallow fifty and fifty a hundred dollars. I want you
to locate that woman, find out who she is and
why she's after me?
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Will you not without a few more effects? For instance,
could she have some connection with your business?
Speaker 6 (03:18):
No?
Speaker 3 (03:18):
I have two men working with me, A strong one
named Harlan Casey, who sees that my cash gets safely
to where it's going, and a smart one named Joe Temple,
who knows what to buy with it. She doesn't belong
to either of them.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Oh you sure?
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Positive? Casey hates all women, even me, I think. And
Joe Temple, well, Joe's a wonderful guy.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
You hint like a woman falling in love with a
fellow named Joe Temple. Can't they talk about it further?
Speaker 4 (03:44):
Why not?
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Temple and Casey have been in San Francisco all week
on a deal, a big deal. It'll make or break.
It's every set I have is tied.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Up in it. Well, what about you and Joe Temple?
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Yeah, well, perhaps this will explain. I plan to go
away this weekend, but I changed my mind because I
didn't want to miss his letters. I know it sounds funny,
but it's true.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Those must be some letters.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
They are like the one I got this morning. It's
half business, all right, complete account of how hard he
and Casey worked for me yesterday in San Francisco. But
the rest of it is to me personally.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
I don't wanna sound old fashioned missus lebar. But what
about my husband? Yeah, yeah, that was a mistake.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
I couldn't live with one thing. I can't Stan Marlow
was being lied to. It leaves me vindictive. I'm swiming
for divorce right now, vince lebar is a human elite,
just cold and spineless and parasitic is the real thing.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Okay, but why would your hating your husband put a
woman in slics on your trail? I don't know, alright, Terry,
I'll worry about that too. Any idea where I can start?
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Just one? I pulled a switch on her yesterday, Marlow,
for about an hour. I turned her to the corner
of Wiltshire and Losienagether and lost her in traffic. There
are several dancing schools around there. Is that worth anything?
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Maybe? What kind of car was she driving? We were
both walking.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
She's tall and brunette, and I've seen toads with nicer eyes.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Not enough, can't guarantee anything.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
I'll keep my fingers crossed. Mallow here, take the hundred,
do what you can to report to me at my place,
two or four Beechwood Circle.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
Okay, pardon, sir, your drinks to Martini?
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Oh thanks here, Thank you, sir, to.
Speaker 7 (05:17):
Your success, private detective, to your health, silk merchant, drink hotting,
slugging it down was no way to treat a good
dry martini.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
But I figured it was time I was on my way.
I drove out to the Wheelshare in Los Angega and
slowed down enough to look at all four corners. It
was a drug store with a specialized garbage cans and
drive in call scutties, a branch of the Bank of
Los Angeles, and a flying red horse over a mobile
gas station. I drove on again. When I spotted a
pair of black slacks going into a dancing studio, I
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half blocked down. It looked like a lead. After two
hours of staring at nobby knees and shorts and bulging
hips and bloomers, all knocking themselves out for a mythical
clea lighted future, I was finally convinced that it was
a dead end now. I got back into my car
and headed up into the hills for Beechwood Circle in
the slim hope that Terry could give me something more
to go on. Her house at two Old four was
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low and dainty and half hidden behind the tough, slender
grace of a bamboo grove. The walk was guarded by
a white marble line of Korea in the front door.
When I finally found it turned out to be a
sliding panel in a wall of oriental lettice work. As
the door slid open, I was looking down the barrel
of a snub nosed pistol held very steady in the
hands of a hard eyed brunette in a pair of
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black slacks.
Speaker 5 (06:38):
You've been looking high and low for me, haven't you, peeper?
Ever since you left that day I might have been.
You're not the brightest character in the world, in spite
of what you and your friends think. I spotted your
car when she got in. It wasn't too tough to tag.
Where's Terry sleeping off a hangover from better day?
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Skip the chatter? Where is she?
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Come on in and look?
Speaker 5 (06:57):
And that's no suggestion, sailor, it's an order. Move over
there to the top of the stage.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
Sure, that's a good smart boy. You're late. You know
I got what I came for. Now I'm in a hurry.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Turn around, look, sister, oh oh. There were ten stairs
down to the basement, and with a chiv re enforced
by the forty five, I hit all but the first three.
By the time I worked all the kinks out and
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was back upstairs again, she was gone. I started through
the house, then slowly from one room to another, turning
on lights. As I went looking for I knew it
was going to be a very sick client. When I
got as far as the study, where somebody had gone
through the desk draws with what must have been a snowplow,
and I still hadn't found Terry. I got that number
feeling in my stomach. I started out of side door
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that opened it to the patio, but then I heard
a whistle from the front walk. I cut back through
the house instead and waited near the door.
Speaker 5 (08:00):
Hey, hey, Terry, can I come in?
Speaker 1 (08:03):
It's little Joe, the Frisco kid? What happened to your weekend? Trypantia?
Who are you?
Speaker 5 (08:11):
What do you want?
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Hey? Temple, how do you know me? Missus Lebba hired
me today just after she canceled the weekend. She gave
me a rundown. She hired you? What do you mean?
I'm a private detective named Marlow. Why would she hire you?
Because she was being followed by a brunette and slacks.
She didn't like it. And that's all the information you're
gonna get. So relaxed, you say, Terry, isn't here? Isn't home?
Not so far? No man? Back here to the study. Temple.
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I want you to look at Semple. Somebody's gone through
the desk in an awful hurry. Yeah, yeah, I see
what you mean. Maybe you know something about what's missing. Huh.
You and missus Leba were fairly close when I'm told
the letters the letters are gone.
Speaker 8 (08:48):
Terry kept my letters in this bottom drawer.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
H By the way, Temple, where's your sidekick Colin Casey?
I don't know.
Speaker 8 (08:54):
We we both left San Francisco yesterday. He hates to fly,
so I assume he took a train. You ought to
be here in La now. Well, you don't think Casey's
mixed up in this, do you?
Speaker 1 (09:05):
I don't know. It could be Vince Labar. That's who
it was that got those letters. It was Vince Lebar.
They were really love letters. The business part was nothing.
Speaker 8 (09:14):
And Lebar is the dog in the manger kind of
guy who wants everyone to be unhappy.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
If he that fits, that fits Temple. With a smart lawyer,
your letters to Terry becomes great a material for a
counter suit for divorce. Sure he could make it stick
and also get a fat settlement at the community property laws.
I listen, here's what you Marlow. It's it's Terry. Terry Temple. Wait, Terry,
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look at her, Marlow, look at her.
Speaker 8 (09:41):
She's dead.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Matthews, Hamashi detail, Malo, Matthews is a dead one out here.
A woman he got a pencil. Always go ahead, I'm
a two o four Beechwood Circle. Woman was a client.
She was strangled with a green silk sash. My laundry pajamas, Matthews.
Sometime within the last I'd say our her name was
Terry Lebar was and Terry Lebar.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
Wait a minute, Mornthal, listen. We got a teletype here
from a sheriff and Empire Oregon come in five minutes ago.
So oh, wait a minute, yeah, says some guy named
Jess Freeman from La was killed there this morning in
a traffic accident. Was loaded with big dough, but doesn't
look the type. The only other identification on him was
a business card from one Terry Lebar. Yeah, you gonna
help pilancer for that.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Wait a minute, Wait a minute, Uh, Temple, do you
know anything about a man named Jess Freeman? He was
killed in Oargan today in a traffic accident and had
one of Terry's cards on him.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Freeman.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Yeah, no, no, I don't remember. Oh, Dice, Matthews, what
are you talking to him? Joe Temple, one of Terry
Lebar's associates, he's here. Never heard of Jess Freeman.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
Yeah, okay, mom, the Prince to Washington. The tattoo says
he was in the navy once Phil fit him down.
No about out there. Any idea will kill him.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Yeah, maybe a brunette and slacks. I think I know
where to find it.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
Well, it's dandy, sit out until we get them. I'll
be right out there.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Wait a minute, Lieutenant. Look right now, it's only a hunch,
but if I move fast and quiet, I might be
able to develop it into something worthwhile. Okay, okay, but
keep in touch Field. Yeah yeah, I still can't believe
it about Terry Marlowe. Now look, look, why don't you
just go home and take it easy. I'll tell Lieutenant
Matthews where you can find you. Huh thanks? Thirteen ten
Marlborough drying right now. Tell me you know where Vince
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Leabar lives.
Speaker 8 (11:29):
Yeah, yeah, the Laverne apartments on Rossmore. He's got a
suite on the top floor seven eight seven A. And
if it's any help, he drives a new green Nash Sedan.
But I thought you said that it was that brunette.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
I did. I did. And if Vince Leabar can't lead
me to the lady in long pants, I'll eat my shirt.
What's more, Matthews, we'll see to it personally. Yes, what
do you want some quiet conversation with Vince Lebar? I'm
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Philip Malo, private detect.
Speaker 6 (12:04):
How exciting had I known you were coming out of
bake the cake?
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Oh, you're breaking me up. I was hired by your
wife to your wife is dead, Labar. She was murdered,
Terry murdered. Yeah, now, if you don't mind, I'll come in.
Huh she was killed because of a packet of letters, Lebar?
Oh kind of or a cinched to cause a big
stir in anybody's divorce cord. Start biking up to swing
a countersuit you favor. I don't know what you're talking.
(12:30):
Let us let us let us Joe Temple's let us
to terry the ones you arranged to have stolen Tonighty.
Her death wasn't part of the plan, Labar. That was
one of those bum deals. A robbery that got out
of hand, wound up as a murder where is she,
labl who's the brunette and slacks? And where do I
find her? You get out of here. I'll have the
police shut out not only steel letters but as trays too.
Huh like this coy little number here at doghouse'scott. He's
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driving in will shin lascion again. Okay, Laba, that's all
our gun man. They say you're yellow Lava, but you're not.
You're just stupid.
Speaker 6 (13:05):
The terrace outside those doors, mylow those with the iron grille,
go on out there, go on. I don't think Terry's dead,
and I don't think she hired you. I think you're
working for that lousy louse Joe Temple, and if so,
he'll need a battalion of private detective before I'm true.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
You're true right now, Laby. You're too dumb to see it.
Go on clear over the rail, keep your back to me.
Speaker 6 (13:31):
It's seven floors down Milow to a concrete driveway.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Just in case you get jumping in just a moment,
the second act of Philip Marlowe. But first, most people
like to know what to expect, But on at least
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one CBS show, a great part of the fun is
in what turns up on the spur of the moment.
That show is Groucho Marx Great Quiz You Bet Your Life,
heard every Wednesday Night on most of these same CBS stations.
Now with our star Gerald Moore, we returned to the
second act of Philip Marlowe and Tonight's story.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
The vital Statistic, the moment Vince Lebbar and the courage
caliber thirty two we held in his right hand made
it out of the apopment on the run for the elevator.
I kicked through the plate glass door, and I spent
the next two minutes ultimately swearing, straining, and nicking myself
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while I played contortionist in and out of the fancy
snake grew work and my wrought iron cage, until finally
I reached the inside handle. I was free out and
over to the telephone in a big hurry because for
my money. The icing on Lebar's voice left Joe Temple
someplace on the short side. What the life insurance people
call good risk? Hello marlow Temple, listen hard, your life's
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in danger? What labar you had him tag him? The
first he's after those letters are right? But what about
the girl and slack? Well? I think she might have
a connection with a drive in on Wilshore and Losienaga,
a place called Scottie's In. I'm gonna check it. Now,
tell me any word from Terry's muscle man yet Harlan
ca Yeah, oh nothing, Marlo. But look, can I meet
you and talk? No? No, Vince Leabar had a gun
and a short temper when he left here. I'll make
us working easier. Just tay away from open windows, temple.
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I'll caught it. Scottie's In was eating on the run
in the finest California tradition, a mammoth circle of steel
and the glass painted a dazzling yellow and blue, surrounded
by a half a dozen cars containing teenaged couples with
smudged lipstick and the giggles. The second after I pulled
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in and parked something in slacks with false eyelashes, a
waist you could span with a handcuff, and a fixed
front line. Chorus girl smiled with the cod mark ginger
against my wind shoe, handed me a menu that still
had the froth from an earlier customer's milkshake in one corner.
Just coffee, ginger, clean information.
Speaker 5 (16:00):
Oh it's you again, huh Look, baby, what I told
you on the phone ten minutes ago still goes huh about?
Speaker 4 (16:05):
What about Rose Fassetta?
Speaker 3 (16:07):
The girl you described long black hair, are nice shape,
you're infatuated, but you don't have the name an address.
So I was nice. I gave the name, told you
to look the address up in the phone book.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Period. Don't be so lazy, baby, Wait a minute, Ginger,
I didn't call you before, but that dime cup of
coffee will bring you a ten buck tip if you
tell me who did Hey.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
You want the guy who called.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
I don't know any names, but you're not him.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
He didn't talk up like you do.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
But what's all the fuss, baby, Rose Fasetta's got a
guy she's spoken for besides.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
A handsome phone, I do, sweetheart, this is business strictly,
believe me. Oh what's the address?
Speaker 3 (16:39):
Come on twenty four to twenty eight Havenhurst Drive, bottom floor.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Thanks, here, here's a ten I promise you.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
No, never mind, the name.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
Was free to him, so why should I charge you?
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Besides beside what.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
I like the way you said, sweetheart, Come on back sometime,
will you, baby? When you want more coffee?
Speaker 1 (16:56):
Okay, when I want more than coffee, and less than murder.
I will stay out of a Ginger. It was definite
double talk, but the effect was what I wanted. Ginger
with mouth wide open and staring after me like my
ears were on backwards. That way she might be scared
out of making a simple curiosity spike telephone call in
the popular Rose for setta which were a trumpet my
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arrab loud, clear and prematurely. Ten minutes later, I was
parked away from number twenty eight twenty four Havenhurst. As
I got out of my car and started toward the place,
I found Vince Labar's green sedan on the opposite side
of the street and carefully tucked into the shadows of
a pair of long haired pepper trees. It was a
good time for me to be careful, So when I
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knocked on the front door, which showed yellow light at
the threshold and was the starting point for something not
too close to music, I did it with the butt
end of my thirty eight Yeah is it ziggy? Front
of Gingers. She asked me to deliver a message Rose,
all right.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
What's a message back?
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Why you love trying Sunshiner's no law agains shoot ladies
and knocking downstairs. I'm back off. Come on, move but
not too far the moment. I want you in between
me and vince lebar who look, Angel, it's all real plane.
Those suitcases behind you there are packed his cars outside.
He's after the letters.
Speaker 5 (18:15):
Oh no ah, there goes vince Now buster, well, peeper,
your openers stink.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Get inside fast, sure.
Speaker 5 (18:25):
Sure, and he plays some particular sailor.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
That chair near the desk. Keep your hands in your lap.
Speaker 5 (18:31):
Okay, it'll please you missed a detective. I'll be very
glad to after all.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
You might guest.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
And now we talk like a little lady Harros. Vince
Leaba picked up the letters from you as scheduled, and
you're getting ready to run because you killed Terry and
you'd rather not be around for the question and answer period. Right,
I didn't kill her.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
I just knocked her down.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
No, you didn't kill it. He just slowed down a
breathing somewhat with a pajama sash. You're wrong, Coppy, right, Pippet,
isn't that any other way? Go on, answer it?
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Who is it?
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Mister Shirley? What's going on then, mister Sata?
Speaker 5 (19:10):
Now the jerk who lives in the top half of
this place, along with a few thousand friends.
Speaker 6 (19:14):
Door.
Speaker 4 (19:15):
I'm going to call the police. I distinctly heard a noise.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Did I come on in? Mister Shirley? Wow? What's going
on in here? Who are you? Never mind that? Now
get on the phone, call the police.
Speaker 4 (19:25):
Oh oh, yes, of course, yes, certainly operate, Oh, operate it.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
I want the police her.
Speaker 5 (19:35):
Look, hero, you're a little mixed up about some of
the things.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Yeah, and you're just a kid who straightened me out
a leather as you've got a Terry's place where written
by Joe Temple? Was your boyfriend Vince henting for Temple
when he left here?
Speaker 4 (19:46):
I can't.
Speaker 5 (19:49):
All right?
Speaker 1 (19:51):
Maybe he was?
Speaker 5 (19:52):
Now leave me alone?
Speaker 1 (19:53):
Not quite, mister Shirley. Yes, that desk next year, there's
a gun keep it on at the law rides. But
he's wanted for murder. Yeah, then shoot Shirley fast because
if you don't, she'll kill you. Fella cops. I'll fill
in the blanks later. Not wait, why must you leave?
Speaker 4 (20:10):
Why do we both watch?
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Because a guy named Joe Temple needs my help a
lot more than you do. The home address Temple had
given me turned out to be lights in a quiet house,
on a quiet street named Marlborough. I was there, out
of my car and running for the front door when
they came. I chucked my gun out of the holes
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that got close into the building and moved up until
I was on a line with a pair of half
open patio doors. And I saw something I hadn't expected.
On the floor that was littered with the broken lamp,
pieces of oas and overturned furniture was Vince Labar, doubled
up dead, and standing over him, his faced the color
of soft cement of thirty two. Dangling in his limp
right hand was Joe Temple. When he saw me, he
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tried to talk with the words jammed in his throat.
When I stepped into the room, he began to tremble.
I shot him. I couldn't help it. He was gonna
sit down, Temple, get hold of yourself. Got any brandy
around over on that table.
Speaker 6 (21:07):
Near the phone.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
Now he was out of his mind. Mardow an absolute maniac.
He said he was gonna kill them. They lunched for him.
There was a fight, and you came up with the gun. Huh.
And when he started from.
Speaker 8 (21:17):
Me again, I pulled the trigger, and then I did
it again and a third time.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
Yeah, yeah, drink this. He brought the letters back, Marlowe.
They're inside on the floor where he threw them. He
said they didn't mean anything anymore, that he and that
girl in the slacks had taken care of Terry Easy
Temple Easy. He seemed to go crazy.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
He said, I was a wife steamer, the cause of
his trouble, and then I deserved death.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
Well that's when I jumped at him.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
It was terrible, Marlow.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Yeah, between the two of us, we've just about got
all the answers, which is usually a good time to
call the police.
Speaker 4 (21:50):
Huh, what do you mean just about got all the answers? Marlow?
What else is there?
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Jess Freeman, the guy Lieutenant Matthews told us about when
we were over at Terry's place. Remember, Oh, yes, that
traffic crash and Empire, Oregon. But why should that figure in.
Speaker 5 (22:03):
This, Marlow.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
It shouldn't, but I think it does. Mallow Matthews. Another
dead one on the Terry lebar case. Yeah, Vince Labara,
her husband. He was shot. Yeah, a guy named Joe Temple.
It was self defense. We're coming in, Matthews. I'll take
that gun. Temple, you get the letters. Let's go, and
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we got into my car and started downtown. Temple was
more relaxed, and he talked easily until we passed Vince
LaVar's sparkling green sedan parked the block away, once again
close into the shadows, and once again empty, really empty.
The sight of it closed them up tight for the
rest of the trip. When we walked into police headquarters
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and through the quarter of a mile of glossy charador
leading to the doorkmarcked he didn't open up any but
it didn't matter really, because it's police rule never to
talk to two men about the same thing at the
same time. I was first. Matthews said hello without shaking hands,
waved me into an uncomfortable seat, and then lit his pipe. Well,
(23:17):
I brought him up to date and it was his turn.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
Sir Rose Faceta killed Terry Labass that she could get
the letters Joe Temple had written. Did this so that
her boyfriend, Vince Leabar could raised a lot of fuss
in divorce court. Wouldn't let us file a counter suit
that kind of stuff. That's the whole deal, yea, with
Temple making it a doublehead about shooting Vince When Vince
came to kill him.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
That said Matthews, if you believe Temple, huh? And if
Temple hadn't slipped all right? Now, what are you getting at,
Phil that when I was on the phone with you
earlier at night, you asked me if Temple or I
knew anything about a Jess Freeman was killed in a
traffic accident and Empire Arregon right right, But you didn't No, No,
nor did I mention the town of Empire. It's a Temple.
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Yet a half hour ago, just before I called you,
Temple came up with that name. Oh then, Molly, you
hold my calls, Mooney, I mean that Joe Temple killed
Terry lebar Rose just knocked her out and got the
letters Temple's strangled while she was still unconscious. But why
because a guy identified as Jess Frameman got himself killed
in a traffic accident. So a guy who I think
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was actually Holland Casey, Terry's two fisted assistant, who together
with Joe Temple, was crossing the boss later and that
left Temple in a very hot spot to save himself,
he had a kill. Can you approve all is mollow? No?
Not a word of it it's conjecture, but conjecture that
fits Matthews. When Temple found Terry unconscious in the god
and that was his chance, he took her. Look, Phil, Phil,
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you're guessing it. Sure, Sure, I'm guessing, but not in
the dock. I know how these guys thinking act. I've
done too many cases not to know. And I listen
for a minute, Willia Matthew.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
All right over.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Now, Look, Temple had to get those letters back, right,
the last one in particular, because in the last one,
this is the way it's got a figure. He had
lied to Terry about being in San Francisco with Casey
yesterday when actually Casey was an Empire Oregon.
Speaker 4 (25:00):
Yeah, when Casey was killed up there, the fact was
bound to come out.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
Yeah, it's it's a good run, Matthews. You let me finish, please,
all right, finish. Temple knew Terry would find out. He
knew that she couldn't stand a liar and a partner
who double cross it. Temple knew that she'd get him
and ruin him if it took the rest of her life.
So he came back to get the letter before she
could read it. But she hadn't left Towna's plan, ironically enough,
because she didn't want to miss one of his letters.
Speaker 4 (25:23):
Yeah, but look, I'm a policeman, Phil, I gotta have
all right.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
All right, you're the policemen. You got labs and technicians.
You'll get the facts and I'll bet you figures just
like I said. Okay, Phil, Okay. And another thing, Matthews,
what when you talk to Temple, who's holding the packet
of letters now like a real good boy. Yeah, you'll
find the last one missing. It'll be in his pocket.
I'll bet you on that. I'll let her to do it. Lieutenant.
Speaker 4 (25:45):
There was one exception, Phil, Eh, how did Temple maneuver
all this, getting the letters from Rose Pasta then setting
up that self defense deal?
Speaker 1 (25:53):
I don't know, But my guess is that Vince got
the letters from Rose just before I arrived at her place.
Speaker 4 (25:59):
But when he got into his oh yeah yeah, yeah yeah,
Temple was waiting, slugged him, drove back to his own house,
dropped the body in the living room, shot him when he.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
Heard you coming. Something like that. Matter. See if he
can't get it out that way, Oh no worry, if
you'll if it's true.
Speaker 4 (26:10):
We'll get it out it'll be true. Oh, now, would
you ask mister Temple to come in, please, mister Mullow,
I'll be glad.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
To hell, Lieutenant, say Temple. Lieutenant like to see him?
All right, Marlow? I think I can speak coherently now. Good? Good?
They like to get the facts straight in there, go ahead, Yes,
of course, Good night, Marlow, and thanks for your help. Oh,
good evening, mister Temple, sit down and start talking. When
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I got into my car, the new day was starting
to push the black out of the sky, and the
early morning air smelled fresh and cool and clean. And
the whole night had been confused and complicated. But I
knew that by the time Matthews had finished with Temple,
there'd be no questions left unanswered. That would be great,
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wouldn't it if everything could be that way, no questions
left unanswered.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
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Lawrence Elliott, Reed, Doris Singleton, Georgia Ellis, Bill Lally, and
(28:10):
Hugh Thomas. Detective Lieutenant Matthews is played by Larry Dubkin.
The special music is composed and conducted by Richard Arunt.
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Speaker 1 (28:23):
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a corpse in a plush bungalow and a Southern troll
behind a gun all had one thing in common. They
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Speaker 2 (28:43):
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Speaker 1 (28:53):
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