 It was hot boiling hot that night. I wanted to grab a beer and turn in early So what happens I get my beer, but with it comes a gunshot a beautiful woman in trouble and murder From the pen of Raymond Chandler outstanding author of crime mystery CBS presents his most famous character brought to you now in the adventures of Philip Marlowe With Gerald Moore starred as Philip Marlowe, we bring you tonight's unusual story red wind There was a rough desert wind blowing into Los Angeles that evening It was one of those hot dry Santa Anna's that come down through the mountain passes and curl your hair And make your nerves jump and your skin itch On nights like that every booze party ends in a fight and meek little housewives feel the edge of a carving knife and Study their husband's necks Anything can happen when the Santa Anna blows in from the desert. I closed up my office early I got tired of reading Philip Marlowe private investigator backwards on the ground glass of my office door So I locked up and decided a nice cold beer would taste good before I went up to my apartment They're up again. Mr. Marlin Marlowe Marlin's a fish Yeah, I know Marlin's also the name of a lady on the radio Marlin comma Mary the story of yeah, my wife listens to it Yeah, good for her Yeah, that drunk again, what do you expect in this business autograph hounds? Be right with your sport gotta draw this man a beer Crying out loud these stumble bums Hey, but you got another customer back us. Hey, but you're seeing a lady in here lately Lady a tall good-looking brown hair a print bolero jacket on a blue silk dress. No, sir. No, sir Nobody like that spin in all right straight scotch fast. Yes, sir As the man drank I noticed the drunk was grinning at him and then without changing his grin the drunk swept a gun from somewhere so fast It was just a blur coming out Made a couple of hard snaps You other guys don't move So long Waldo don't move you too Cool, Waldo. I bet I made his nose bleed So long boys Get on the phone kid. I'll get his license number. Oh smoke lady drove away in the dead guy's car And maybe he ain't dead now. He's dead. All right. Oh guy was using a 22 target pistol when they use that kind of gun They don't make mistakes. Where's your phone? This is for the police Proud car boys were there in five minutes. All I was out of business. All right Nothing in his pockets told who he was but he had about $700 on him with that kind of heavy coin you can buy a good 1910 automobile even today Well, I told the cops what I knew including about Waldo's brown-haired pretty girl in the Bolero jacket It was about nine o'clock when I stepped out of the elevator in my apartment house And almost walked right into a brown-haired pretty girl in a Bolero jacket Waiting for the elevator on my floor Just a minute lady. What is it? I'm a great admirer of Bolero jackets. I'll take the one you've got on for instance I'm sorry, but I'm gonna hurry no no no wait if you'll be good enough to let me buy. Oh, you've made me miss the elevator It's just as well What? Well, it's better. You don't go out in those clothes Just what do you mean? It's all good-looking. Well, they're all jacket blue silk dress Lady might I take the trouble of telling you that you're in trouble? Trouble and the cops are looking for you in those clothes. I haven't done anything Maybe not but if I were you I'd have a little talk with me 41 across the hall. I know things about you Well, good girl. Come along It took a firm grip on her arm, but I managed to get her to my room. I rustled up some drinks, but when I turned to give her hers I Saw she held a small automatic She looked at me steadily. I Put down both glasses slowly so I wouldn't be misunderstood Look sister. I know it's hot tonight and he does funny things to people, but Let's put that little thing away and have a nice cool drink, huh? Don't move. Oh, I'm strictly frozen in my tracks Stay that way. Okay. Okay Wouldn't you like to know that I'm a private detective? Private detective I can prove it if you'll let me That's better. Yeah, I don't like those things pointed at me I'll have that drink. Oh good. I don't often give good liquor away like this. I can't afford it Why are they after me? Well, a man was just shot in a bar down the street Before he got it even asking you about a tall pretty girl with a bolero jacket What did he look like? This man I was tall about 511 Slim dark dark brown eyes with a lot of glitter Dark suit white handkerchief in the breast pocket And he must have seen you earlier tonight to know how you were dressed by getting anywhere He used to be my My chauffeur had an appointment with him didn't you he asked for you didn't he? Yes, I had an appointment with him He'd stolen something from me when he left three days ago. I was going to buy it back from him Why didn't you tell the police? I couldn't tell It was valuable wasn't it valuable enough for Waldo to steal $15,000 peanuts But it wasn't the value You see it meant something to me Man, I love gave it to me Now he's dead The shot down over Germany. I'll go back and tell my husband that he'll he probably hired you He didn't how much is he paying me and where is this husband of yours? This late at night It's a very important man The hydroelectric engineer never mind about him. What about Waldo? Why was he knocked off? mean he's dead Waldo is dead. Yes, sister. He's dead very dead Screaming won't bring him back I'm not going to scream Who would that be? There's a dressing room behind the door. Hide there take your glass with you. All right You're loud yawning sound Foolishly I didn't have my gun that was a mistake Because when I opened the door the guy on the other side certainly had one 22 target automatic that had already killed one man that night And I knew the bald head the flat shiny eyes and the face like a poisonous lizard All he put the muzzle of his gun lightly against my throat I backed into the room and baldy kicked the door shut You alone look for yourself. I'm asking not looking I'm alone You and that dumb bartender saw me dust off Waldo. What did Waldo do to you? Who's asking just making conversation? He still don't me on a bank job. We did together got me four years in Michigan Penn How is he dead? Hmm Well, I'm still good drunk or sober Tell me why I came here pal. You heard the bar keeping me talking. I told him my name and where I lived That's how I said why skip it a hangman won't ask you to guess why he's there You're pretty tough at that But you're slamming off All right, but Could you get that gun out of my neck and try somewhere else just any place? This better This suits y'all, right? It just so it isn't my neck Say when pal It's your party I leaned against the gun weekly Or the dressing room showed a crack of darkness the crack widened I began to shake a little in spite of the heat Girl came quietly into the room, but there was white all around her irises. She was scared She had a gun in her hand, but I was sorry for it dead. Sorry She tried to make the door a scream either way it would be curtains for both of us Scared mister Worried about any little thing I couldn't talk The girl floated in the air somewhere behind ballie The horrified face was drifting tortoise My mouth was as cold and dry as yesterday's toast Well kid, how's it feel? You ready yet? Say the word don't take all night about it if you're gonna do something about it do it Why not pal? I like this suppose I yell Go ahead Yeah Thanks sister Advise me Everything I have is yours now and forever They did flatter me no end lady. They only punched him I get out of here while I call the cops down on this killer Wait a minute wait a minute that jacket marks you for the cops leave it here. You don't need it in this kind of weather Okay See you again Why I don't know We might have be the rival of a dead flyer and things like that No, I second thought forget the whole thing I'll see that the police get Jesse James here Good night, lady You mean me. Yes, please. Oh You again Get in. I want to talk to her. You want to know what happened at headquarters? Yes I went down to headquarters with the law and gave him the story. I left you out of it You saved my life so no one knows anything about you incidentally neither do I My name is Mrs. Frank Bartholomew 212 Fremont Place Olympia 2 4 5 9 6 That was your one. I guess so There it is Now where'd you really come back? I Wanted my pearls. Oh, no pearls too. Yes All right, tell me about the pearls We've had a murder a beautiful mystery woman and this sadistic killer and an heroic rescue now. We will have pearls I risked to buy them back from the man called Waldo and I saw everything that came out of his pockets They weren't any pearls Could they be hidden in his apartment? It's possible Waldo lived on the same floor you do in this apartment Why didn't I know him at least by sight? Well, he just moved in last week Managed to get a sublet sort of amateur magician on the side, huh? it's Getting out of late. Yeah What about your husband this hot mysterious night? Still at his meeting I didn't have any answers We just sat there looking at one another I was suddenly aware of the hot desert wind starting at the night. I Took hold of her and I kissed her She sat very still I Was shaking when I let go of her a Voice trembled a little when she spoke. I meant you to do that. I wasn't always this way Only since Johnny Dalmas was killed in the war He gave me those pearls 41 of them the Diamond Propeller class I'd have loved them if they wouldn't be it's because he gave them to me I love Johnny Well, you'd love just one time Understand that yes, I can But I don't understand is how you could explain a $15,000 pearl necklace to your husband Only my limitation That I bought them myself. How did Waldo latch out of them and what they stood for? When my husband was in Argentina Waldo and I would go for long drives. I was restless and wretched because of Johnny Sometimes Waldo and I had a little drink together But that was all but you can fight it in Waldo about those pearls and when your husband came back Waldo stole the pearls and I were to sell them back to you tell Papa Now you think the pearls are upstairs in Waldo's apartment. I Suppose a lot I've been paid Now go look wait here Was I gone long? Well, no No pearls no pearls It was a man in Waldo's room man, you know a guy named Leon Vela Sanos Mexican South American about 45 small iron gray hair very neat Fawn colored suit wine colored tie. No, I don't think I know such a man You say he was in the room. Yeah, what did he say? very little in fact nothing He was dead You are listening to the adventures of Philip Barlow created by one of America's most outstanding writers of crime and mystery fiction Raymond Chandler our story for today the red wind continues in just a moment But first a message of interest for all young men How would you like to be up there in the wild blue sky flying America's mightiest bombers fastest fighters in newest jet jobs? Believe me It's a great feeling to know that you have the skill the courage it takes to become a pilot officer in the United States Air Force the Air Force that's second to none Keep your eye on the local newspapers and your nearest Army Air Force recruiting station an Aviation cadet recruiting team will be in your community soon If you're between the ages of 20 and 26 and a half years of age single and a high school graduate Plan to see the aviation cadet interviewing team if you pass the metal and physical examination You'll be accepted for the 52-week aviation cadet training program when you graduate You'll be a second lieutenant in the US Air Force the mightiest of all And now back to the adventures of Philip Marlowe with Gerald Bores our star we continue today's adventure I Sat with Lola Barcelli in a car listening to the hot wind gallop around in the midnight streets I just told her about the lap and looking man. I'd found in Waldo's room in a very dead condition. I Held her hands until they stopped trembling and then I gave her the few remaining details He had a gun in a shoulder holster, but someone had strangled him before he could set up in business with a gun someone Maybe You see that convertible coupe two cars ahead of us Oh, it's been there for hours there before I parked here to wait for you Leon the guy in Waldo's room came in that car But according to the key container he carried it isn't his car whose car is Does it matter that belongs to a lady according to the tag on the car keys? Eugenie Colchenko West Los Angeles You better go home now What are you gonna do drive that flussy convertible around and wave at my friends Impressed people you run along now me. I've got another date Yes, what is it please miss Eugenie Colchenko? Yes, what is it? Did you lose or misplace a pigeon-grey convertible coupé? What are you saying? Don't be alarmed. I found it brought it home to you Come in, please It is a reward you wish shall we snap out of a dragon lady. Who was he? Who was who a little guy Leon you loaned your car to he's dead. Who was he? Oh, no, no Darling darling come here, please Who is this man? I came about miss Colchenko's car. What about a car? Well gentlemen who borrowed it couldn't return it on a kind of he isn't alive. He's dead darling He is dead. That's putting it more bluntly of course dead. Yeah completely. Who are you Phillip Marlowe private investigator my card Have you told the police yet? Never do it once what can be profitably deferred pending negotiation. He's up. I might negotiate Peachy just what do you know Marlon? Well a man named of Waldo was shot in a bar tonight I happen to have the inside as to who he was and when I visited his apartment tonight I found this Leon Velozano's dead. He wouldn't have had $500 and 20s on him, would he? No But this Waldo had over $700 on him when he was killed in that cocktail bar mostly in 20s Is there a basis for negotiation yet? Very well, Marlon There were certain bills for some stuff miss Colchenko here had charged to my account But darling you told me I might charge to your account. All right my dear so I wasn't bright That might be the understatement of a decade, but go on I had the bills safely in my briefcase Somehow there's Waldo had a chance to steal the briefcase I hired Leon gave him $500 to buy back those bills from Waldo instead Waldo took Leon's coupons was forced to kill Leon in the process Anyone out to keep another date and walked into an old pal hostile enough to blow him down And somebody still has those bills and I'm in front of war Hmm a man who shot Waldo got away in Waldo's car with your briefcase, and it could be cops caught him And the police have the briefcase maybe But the police are interested in solving crimes not in tossing mud for the benefit of sensation eaters Have a friend or two at headquarters. Let me see what I can do. It's worth $500 to me Marlon, then that's what it'll cost you Good luck, and thank you mr. Marlowe Philip Marlowe remember my name is Frank Barclay Wasling oh And just what is that the big hydroelectric engineer? Yeah, yes, how'd you know never mind may I use your telephone? Someday I must tell you about Ibarra. Now. He's a solider here at Ibarra detective lieutenant over at Central homicide Well, I phoned Ibarra from Miss Colchenko's house and told him where he could find a well-dressed cadaver named Leon and Furnished a few small details. I Gave Ibarra time to check my tip, and then I went down to see the good lieutenant And told him why I'd been up in Waldo's room only to find Leon instead of a certain lady's string of pearls Pearls ain't yeah, I thought Waldo might have had them up there whose pearls were they a lady's go on Oh, they might have been in Waldo's car that Waldo's killer drove away in yeah What yeah, they might have yeah Also a batch of bills charged to the account of a certain Frank Bossily yeah Police aren't interested in domestic scandal. They want to prevent or solve crimes, right? So so I've got $500 for the police fund If those pearls and those bills are returned to their rightful owners quit your kidding. It's a valuable necklace. Yeah There's your necklace take it away on the level Ibarra. Just tell me straight what it's all about all I ask sure sure When you see this Waldo was blackmailing a wife with the pearls and her husband with the bills Bossily, that's the guy's name sent Leon to get the bills from Waldo Waldo killed him and then stepped out and got nailed by that guy in the bar. He'd stool pigeoned against once Well, it boss Lee's name stays out of the papers. I get 500 bucks. It goes to the police fund. Thanks We'll keep them out. I'm not in this case for money I just want to get back the bills and the pearls sure and like you say Marlowe the police aren't in business to sling mud Look you can deliver the pearls of the lady yourself if you like No, you better take them to a Marlowe. You see except for that diamond propeller clasp on them They're phony phony, but look Marlowe. I know pearls real pearls feel gritty between the teeth These are hard and glassy Try Yeah They're phony all but the class Marlowe all but the class I took the pearls and had them appraise the next morning at a guilty edge place in Beverly Hills Phony all but the class An imitation as good as these couldn't have been made that fast These were the pearls at Waldo. It's stolen. I took the glass pearls to a dive on Melrose and had them duplicated for $20 I had the jeweler attached the diamond clasp for the $20 duplicate string of pearls And I called up Lola Hello, Lola, okay, you're in Have a string of pearls for you Wait a minute wait a minute Lola All I was getting set to jib you we sold the real pearls and made up a string with the diamond clasp Sure Meet me at four at Nick lives Hey, Lola, these are the pearls the police found in Waldo's car. You're right. They're not my pearls. I'm sorry Lola No Still have the clasp Johnny gave me Well, I'm happy if you were happy No, not quite happy See this morning my husband told me we're to separate. No, I'm very sorry Lola You've been very kind. That's all right This is Goodbye, I suppose Yeah You'll never get over Johnny Thomas Goodbye Lola, and if anybody ever bothers you again, let me know Name's Marlowe Philip Marlowe I'll remember Philip Marlowe I drove almost to Malibu And then I parked Then I walked Way out on a rock cliff jutting into the Pacific Ocean Then I reached into my pocket Dug out the string of bohemian glass pearls Latenity borough had found in Waldo's car I cut the knot at one end and slipped the pearls off one by one One by one I flipped them into the water Should have seen the gulls swoop down on them Then they flapped up again screaming indignantly Phony pearls They'd fooled Waldo and Lola Barcelli They couldn't fool a seagull. I Said aloud To the memory of Johnny Delmas Just another foreflushing. I listened a while to the wheeling seagulls All at once I realized that the wind had died The Santa Ana had blown itself out The red wind was done. It was over. It was cool again The adventures of Philip Marlowe created by Raymond Chandler stars Gerald Moore and is produced and directed by Norman McDonnell In tonight's story red wind Lola was played by Peggy Weber and Barry Kroger was Baldy Joan Banks played Eugenie Colchenco Jeff Corey was Ltd. Bara Parley Bear was Barcelli Lou Krugman was Waldo and Wilms Herbert played the bartender The special music was conceived and conducted by Ivan Dittmars Philip Marlowe will be back in just a moment young man be a marine Combined travel adventure and education at no expense to yourself When you're a marine you can travel to the far places of the earth and carry on at the same time your own educational program through free Marine Corps Institute correspondence courses You have plenty of courses to choose from and an ideal way of studying Geography or history is to take a course dealing with a background of the area in which you are stationed or any of the more than 160 Marine Corps Institute courses Thanks to this Marine Corps Institute Thousands of Marines are making continual educational Advancements during their service in the US Marine Corps that opportunity upon becoming a US Marine is yours for the asking Check with your nearest Marine Corps recruiting office tomorrow for complete information Next week at the same time be sure to tune in for another adventure of Philip Marlowe when Marlowe says I Was low very low the night I set out searching for the girl with the strange hazel eyes The fog which hung over Los Angeles didn't help I Felt even worse when I found it But by then I had death on my hands If you like your laughs mingled with spicy music be around tomorrow to hear the premiere of Alka Seltzer time Featuring Herb Schreiner and Raymond Scott's quintet. There'll be guest stars, too Here's a show that's guaranteed to keep Monday from being blue It's coming your way Mondays through Fridays over most of these CBS stations So consult your local newspaper for the time of Alka Seltzer time This is Roy Rowan speaking for CBS the Columbia broadcasting system You