 Get this and get it straight crime as a suckers road knows who traveled wind up in the gutter the prison of the grave There's no other end, but they never learn this time It started as a routine search for a rich girl's fiance And the trail led to a silent house haunted by a face at the window and blood in an open cedar chest But before it was over it became a search for a corpse that wouldn't sit still From the pan of Raymond transfer Outstanding author of mystery comes his most famous character and crime's most deadly enemy as we present the adventures of Philip Marlowe With Gerald Moore start as Philip Marlowe. We bring you tonight's exciting story the busy body Phone jerk me up off my back and out of the sports page at 9 30 in the evening of an already too long day On the other end was a warm feminine voice Aged with the kind of self-assurance that means money and lots of it But the words were both hurried and panicky so After I hung up I reluctantly waited through the sports section with my feet instead of my eyes Headed for the coffee shop at Franklin and Bronson where my new client would identify herself as Liz Stewart said she'd be waiting a Pair of blue eyes at a table in the corner measured me from haircut to shoelaces So I took the cue and walked over After we introduced ourselves. I was waved into the chair opposite her She leaned toward me and started with a rush. Mr. Marlowe. I've got to find a man named Dean Howard as soon as possible It's not exactly a new switch. He's Marcy on say we plan to notify my uncle Hanley of our engagement tonight Who is uncle Hanley uncle Hanley steward of steward aluminum? Okay, go ahead Dean Dean Howard was to meet me at seven, but he didn't show up And then about a quarter to eight he called he started to tell me something about Something that he referred to as a horrible mistake, but before he could get it out We were cut off. Well, I tried coffee coffee. Oh no, no I tried to call him back, but there was no answer So I went to his house, but it was locked in dark and yet his car was still parked outside Well, look miss Stewart, why don't you save yourself 50 bucks go home and wait for an apologetic phone call, huh? What do you mean? Well this stacks up as being a case of cold feet or a little celebration that got out of hand Either way, there's nothing to worry about. I've come to you for help Marlowe not a pat on the head Okay, okay. I'll assume. It's my error for the moment. How long have you known this Dean Howard? I met him at a party about three months ago Uncle Hanley and I both liked him tremendously right from the first. I suppose you've considered the possibility of another one Well, of course, I'm not a child. I can see that Dean has been deeply troubled for the past week He wouldn't tell me why but I'm certain that this business tonight is tied in with it Something's wrong, and I want you to find out what it is. All right But I'm no leg man for Cupid's so if it turns out to be nothing more than a guy's heart beating in double time I drop it fair enough fair enough Give me a short list of posh joints. She and Dean Howard sometimes visited and his address which was 312 Normandy She said I could reach her at home, which was 28 Roxbury Drive and Beverly Hills Well 50 bucks is 50 bucks So after she left I spent a handful of nickels checking the list by phone and drew a complete blank So I drove out Los Feliz to Normandy and found the number 312 As I walked up to the door and lean on the bell I got the feeling that I was being watched. There was no answer. So I tried the door. It was locked. I threw a look over my shoulders I walked around the side of the house and caught a glimpse of her face in a window next door Just before the curtain was dropped back into place The back door of 312 was locked too. I found out who's did the face next door Which was watching me again from one of the rear windows One answer to that so I went out in the street and up the steps of the house next door and knocked good and loud Do you want my name's Marlowe lady? I'm a detective. You may be able to help me Come right in tomorrow. It's about time though. I have to say I'm agatha lamb rigor What's he been up to who are you investigating that bachelor next door? Aren't you? Yes. Oh, how'd you know sense the reason I've known all along. He's a suspicious character Live there a year now comes and goes at all hours drive that fancy car out there Where's fine clothes, but nobody seems to know what he does or where he gets all his money Well, look mrs. Lamb girl. Oh Believe you me. They don't come to clean his house Never gets cleaned, but they come just the same by only tonight. There was one some blonde in a white dress I tell you I'm never this is lamb rigor to the girl going side Well, no, but she tried to the door was locked And it's miss lamb rigor. Oh Stupid of me. Well, tell me did you notice mr. Howard come home tonight? Well, I didn't exactly see him come home, but he was over there. All right, and I don't need her is that so another girl No, no was only some man Oh, but it still bears out what I've been saying because I just happened to glance out of my window It is one here across that one of his you see yes Well, I like was on over there and I could look straight down the hallway and do you know what what Those two grown emmer rough housing like a pair of hoodlums in that hall Wrestling they were like ordinary ruffians. I tell you I never saw the like I got a good look at him and I'd certainly know him if I saw him again. Well, how'd the fight come out? Yeah Well, I can't say about that my phone rang it was Lenore Crowley. She simply talks at ear off When I finally got back to the window It was dark over there, so I never did find out what actually happened. Yes. Well, thanks very much for your help I really must run The noise and the drinking that's gone on in that house why you wouldn't believe it As soon as possible Well, I'm not at liberty to do that Well, I'll be here all the time you know and I'll certainly keep an eye on that house Oh, I can't tell you how much I appreciate from you're going to all this trouble. It just for me Bonsoir miss lamb reggae Backed out of that wind tunnel gotten my car and drove noisily around the corner Then I cut my lights turned quietly into an alley behind the house and stop Slip through how it's back gate and up the side of the house found a window that would be persuaded and went in How it was a lousy housekeeper and everything that didn't get brushed off and normal traffic was covered with dust I Found my way to the room opposite agatha lamb reggae's observation window and ran smack into her first line Where she said there was a hallway. There was a solid wall Papered with purple roses and hung with four dingy pictures and bronze frames Two on each side of a big ugly mirror There were two hallways, but no angle at which either could be seen from her window Furthermore, there was no sign of a struggle One hall led to the study the out of the bedroom and I checked both but still there was no indication of a fight My way out. I'd bought my shin on the nose of a lion carved on the corner of an oversized cedar chest Just as the abrupt sound of someone for dog brought me to a rigid hold But it was at the patience of an eight-year-old on circus day So I set myself up as the type who might live in a joint like this and answered What's the matter with the lights out blow a fuse I could this be some new economy measure I like it this way I don't think I know you you should Howard you should I called Yesterday about a certain money matter the name is Leo. Don't go for your gun. How it well since yours is pointed at my third rib Why should I like I told you on the phone? My boss is anxious your way over do Howard. I want that 50 grand the boss loan here three months ago Evered for me the day after tomorrow all of it Without fail He knows I'm good for my debts. Why all the pressure maybe figures your investments aren't so smart Like maybe you've been blowing too much on that second-rate canary Carol. Oh, oh, yeah, Carol. I remember. She's your girl Well, that's none of my business see a day after tomorrow about the same time And if you get a headache from worrying about paying off just think of the one you'll have if you don't pay It'll be like ten times Five in his hand caught the side of my head and I went out cold I Opened my eyes the room it shrunk until there wasn't enough space left to stretch out in And the climb to my feet. Oh It's as easy as roller skating through a log jam And it wasn't until I found a match and had a light that I knew why Somebody had moved me from the front door and crammed me into a broom closet like a bag of wet wash I got out. I saw that my cubby hole was off the whole of the bedroom Listen, but there was no sound in the house. So I started moving But stop when I noticed something else The big cedar chest with carved lions on the corners that have been closed before an hour standing open. I Struck another match Inside on the bottom was a thick red puddle of blood Blow out the mansion was in the middle of a metal apology to lose Stuart when it came I ran for the front door in time to see Agatha charge out of the driveway and down the street stock terror twisting her face Hey What is it what happened Come on, we'll have a look you can show me where he is Happen to look out my rear window and I saw something move The dogs had been getting in my pens is lately enough. I thought this was another so I came out to chase him away That's when I saw the body right back here What's gone? Now look miss lamb reggae. I've got a headache. I'm getting a little tired of this You saw a body here. Just like you saw a fight in our hallway from your window You're so anxious to be in the middle of things should make up any kind of a story I saw that I saw Dean Howard body too. It was here. I dare you where show me exactly Right right about there. Oh sure sure and I suppose it hey wait a minute My apologies baby, there is something here Could be blood It's two dimes and a borrow seat from the tulip room on the strip What do you do now? Raid the place you can use my phone. Thanks, but until we know where the body is we better play it cagey Now let's keep this a secret between us that'll take a lot of courage. I know but I can trust you I won't open my mouth to a soul. Well, that's great. That's splendid now You better go inside and stay there until you hear from me. Who knows you may yet be a hero in miss lamb reggae Our receipt was a long shot when I was still two blocks away from the tulip room I knew it had paid off because a fluorescent banner four by 12 Draped over the front of the squat square building extolled the vocal virtues of one Carol Cody I parked across the street went in and found a dressing room door and knocked She distinctly said come in but when I did I thought the room was empty Until a small handful of spangled satin costume Hopped up and behind a screen in the corner. I made a sight unseen introduction It was only a moment later that it's all brunette Filling a white silk blouse and snug dark slacks Tossed a few pounds of glossy black hair away from her face and Gestured me into a chair. Which paper did you say you were from Marlowe? I didn't honey. I'm a private detective I can't use it. Don't give odds on it, baby. Not yet anyway, huh? Let's talk first For instance, what's with you and Dean Howard Dean Howard is a low-crawling thing That's strange. Had it you loved him I didn't till tonight when I found out that he has two heads That's so he can lie and keep a straight face with one while he laughs of his sleeve with the other Nuts to him nuts to Liz Stewart and her money and nuts to you I hate Dean Howard enough to kill him and I might just do that I don't think you will know because somebody beats you to it you You mean how it's dead looks that way I'm not sure because he won't stay in one place long enough if you're trying to shock me you're wasting your time I'm not sorry one. I think we've got company keep talking. I'll get him As you say my friend the music business is just as lousy as any other dodge and I can prove You're a good listener but to join the party boy. Why are you listening out there? Come on? Just just a minute. I wasn't listening. I was looking for you Marlowe. I'm Ward older. Mr. Handley Stewart's assistant You're doing fine. Don't stop now Ever since I learned that mr. Stewart hired you Marlowe. I've been trying to talk to you I I followed you here from that place on Normandy because I must know what you found out so far why what business is it of yours because mr. Marlowe I doubt very much that you even know of the robbery robbery what robbery more than $40,000 worth of negotiable securities were stolen for mr. Stewart's sake this evening to get all your information at keyholes Hmm, and I have reason to believe that the man you're looking for took them Of course, I don't dare accuse him without proof of his relationship with Liz Mr. Stewart's niece if I were wrong it would cost me my job autumn did Liz know about the robbery when she hired me Look see this her name is Carol She's involved right up to a mass carer in the whole mess I'll let her out of your sight till I get back Shut up and it's for being cheap. I'll take care of you when I get back In just a moment the second act of Philip Marlowe, but first Three gentlemen with highly varying but equally effective approaches to dealing with crime Entertain you with their deeds of daring on CBS every Sunday Jethro Dumont alias the Green Lama police commissioner Bill Grant of call the police and Dashel Hammett Sam Spade these three sterling gentlemen all make their appearances tomorrow on most of the same CBS network stations And now with our star Gerald Moore We return to the second act of Philip Marlowe and tonight's story the busy body Convincing Ward Odom that his greatest contribution to the cause would be staying close But not too close to the violent lady in slacks I piled into my car and started for Beverly Hills in a beautiful liar named Liz I didn't stop until I was at number 28 Roxbury Drive out of my car and walking fast up the semi-circle of gravel driveway It led to the carefully antique front door But then for two good reasons I stopped again The first the squad car parked ahead of me that said everybody except Marlowe You all about the bonds Mr. Handley Stewart could no longer call his own The second reason and more important was my client Liz Stewart Sneaking out of a side door and hurrying toward a gray coupe. I stepped back into the shadow of a squat palm and waited for it To come abreast of me late-date miss Stewart Marlowe you start with me considering everything. It's the least I can do. What do you mean? I don't like clients who lie to me So if you don't mind I'll just stroll along with you while you assure me you can explain everything But I can Marlowe just give me a chance, please. All right Why didn't you tell me that 40 grand worth of negotiable bonds disappeared from your uncle's safe at the same time as Howard? Because I didn't want you to be prejudiced to be looking for a thief from the start If Dean did take those bonds he had a reason like being fond of money No, like being forced to do what he did. All right. Let's say he was forced what then well Then I wanted to help him to get to him before the police they'd arrest him in a minute And you on the other hand would get the bonds back to your uncle convince him It was all a mistake and talk him out of telling the law, huh? And with your own dough you would help how it out of the spot. He was in is that it? Yes But you haven't proved the dean took the bonds No, I haven't Could have been anyone who knew the combination of the library safe Which includes how many? Aside from Uncle Han and myself just the the family lawyer and mr. Odum Yeah, what about Odum? Could he have done it Liz? No, I don't think so as much as I dislike it You see Marlo for years Odum's been very close to Uncle Han He's had a thousand opportunities to steal if he wanted to or like this afternoon for instance He had $10,000 worth of the bonds with him today. How's he doing with all that dough paying gas bills? He was going to sell them for my uncle But the transaction fell through so he brought them back to the house and put them back in the safe Anyway, Marlo, I don't think he'd have the courage to steal. I know what you mean. I've already met mr. Odum When? No about a half hour ago in a nightclub called the tulip room Odum thinks Dean is guilty Liz But he's afraid to mention it publicly till he knows a little more. What's a nightclub got to do with Dean Carol Cody She's Dean's girlfriend Marlo you're crazy. I talked to her honey She's a singer there told me that she and Howard were more than chummy But that she gave me at a night when she found out about you and you believe that Now that I've had a little time I believe even more The tales that she never bothered to mention the tales like Dean Howard and Carol Cody playing you for a sucker He gains your confidence and the combination of the safe Then goodbye, but you see the end was a switch Liz Dean didn't Dean didn't what? What is it Marlo? What are you staring at? Back of my car there It's not gas dripping on the driveway the colors too red list they back Yeah That Liz is the switch I was talking about I think Dean Howard not only crossed you but Carol Cody as well Listen get inside tell the police about this. Do you hear me? But first give me a five-minute lead. I'll take your car. I want to get the Carol Cody before the law does Without saying another word list do it a face drawn and streak with tears handed me the keys to a car and Turned it walk slowly back to the house. I took one long look at the blood soaked sure front on the body I've been a step behind all night Then got into Liz's car and pointed it back to all the tulip room 20 minutes later when my knock on the locked dressing room door brought no answer I kicked my way in alone and half conscious in the middle of the floor was Ward Odom the man I decided to stand century over the brunette. Oh my gosh. He tricked me ask for a cigarette and I went to light it She swung my dad's Odom and you're lucky. She let it go with that was more permanent in Howard's case Oh, then then you found his body model and the trunk of my car. Oh Oh, how awful and she did all that this Carol Cody. Yes, and no She must have had help Odom because first of all it takes something stronger than the chance To keep shifting a coughs from Cedar Chester garden to car The rate that how it was being moved and second an old crow named Agatha Lambriger saw a man rough housing with how it over his Own place not a woman. You you mean there was a witness to the murder model more or less And you have no idea who the murder is That Odom is all the more reason why I want to catch up with Carol Cody happen. I know where she lives Oh, yes, yes, yes at the grayfield apartment hotel on North Havenhurst Drive To room room 118 and I think My top coat is gone. Why yes, and she was wearing slacks. Remember Marlowe. Maybe she's leaving town disguise. There's a man It's a point Odom. I still think I'll try the apartment hotel first Not doubling for a bell hop so get over there sit down and keep your hands in your lap because if I have to I'll shoot I'll make it real plain I think you murdered Dean Howard because he double-crossed you after he emptied hand list you it's safe I think you're out of your mind which brings us to a position called stalemate and that in turn makes this a good time to Call a cop I didn't kill Dean. I swear. I didn't oh listen to me What you said about Dean double-crossing me after he stole the bonds is true But not the way you think it is second verse He didn't want to just cut me out of my share Marlowe He wanted to return all the bonds intact He really fell in love with Liz Stewart and decided to play all American boy You mean he decided to call it all off after he'd stolen the bonds. Yes, Marlowe That was the reason we argued tonight it's a stronger reason the one I already had for your committing murder, baby You wanted that money bad. No, you're back here Why did you belt Odom and run and don't bother denying that you did because I just left him and he's minus good health And that top coat over there, so if you think that you explain that I I was scared that a confession out of Dean would get me Into hot water and when you showed and then oh just a minute. Just a minute will you think I've got the answer It's dust Carol dust and what an old gossip swear she saw from a window like now I've got to get over to her place before she ends up looking like the late Mr. Howard Then you believe me Marlowe about not killing Dean. I don't know since you've been in and his cheap swindle from the start We'll just tuck you into an old-fashioned wardrobe. Just for safe keeping, baby Outside and Liz's car I slammed my foot down hard against the accelerator and didn't ease up until I screeched to a stop away from 310 North Normandy where I knew murder was scheduled to happen again I Was next to a pair of half-open French doors to which I could see Agatha Lambrick is sitting erect in a straight back chair I was happy that I hadn't taken any longer and getting there I was also happy that the man standing opposite a gun in hand the man who would murder Dean Howard and is back to me I got a firm grip on the 38 in my hand so nosy miss Lamborghini And it's too bad that Marlowe had to let me know you've been a witness when I killed Dean Howard a rough house I think you call it rough house is what I thought at the time But when I saw Dean Howard's body out in the alleyway, I knew you know I killed him Everything would have been simple if you hadn't had your nose out a mile I was going to run over him and it would have looked like an accident But I had to move the body after you saw it Marlowe's car looked good until I could dispose of it But there's no point telling you all this you won't be able to gossip about it. Miss Lamborghini. I'm sorry Sorry, but that's the way it has to be you or me. I vote for you autumn drop your gun before I close the pulse for good real noisy like Okay, I moved to the middle of the room hands-high Dean Howard was gonna return the Bonsi took Because Howard only stole 30 grand out of that safe you were taking 10 grand legitimately sell for your boss And when you went to return them you saw there'd been a theft and you decided to make the most of it Let somebody else take the rap for the whole 40 grand Don't worry a man who shoots another man in the back has no guts You won't try anything while I'm looking at him I don't have any more guts it takes to jump behind a woman's skirt All right Oh We're right Marlowe No guts It was an ambulance a half a dozen squad cars and a police captain included in three long hours of questions and answers and triplicate later Before 310 North Normandy and environs settled back to being just another quiet house on just another quiet street With of course the exception of Miss Agatha Lambriger Who now would never return to normalcy? As we sipped hot tea together in a clock someplace Deeper than other rooms truck twice She was still going strong Howard old money So he and that worthless singer decided that he should get friendly with your wealthy client and then at the propitious moment Correct correct. Yeah, but I don't understand is how you knew it was that awful man Well, there were two things honey his anxiety to get me to Carol together with a streak of dust the length of Odum's topcoat sleeve All added up to a hunch that Phillip. I don't understand. Well, you got to take him in reverse order I saw a dust on Odum's topcoat sleeve when I was in Carol Cody's apartment that reminded me of the dust all over how it's Luckily and the dust was the length of the sleeve as though somebody had brushed against the wall Coated thick with it as one wouldn't searching for something. That's right. That's right now There's another thing you saw Howard and another man rough housing in a hall by looking out of that window there Where Miss Lambriger? No hall is visible, but where there is a mirror Then you mean I actually saw a reflection. Yes, darling. You did Dean Howard hid the bonds behind the mirror Which tilted so that I saw the reflection of a side hall. That's right Well Now one last question. Why did Odum move the body? Well, if it's the last I'll answer it Because he didn't want Howard's death to appear a murder on the night the bonds was stolen It was better if he died accidentally and wasn't connected with a theft. Oh, yeah, well now look miss Yeah, but miss lambry Miss lambriga really I Miss lambriga A long minute, I'm sure Goodbye girl. I got outside the silence was deafening And I remember that I still had a client up on Roxbury Drive. Oh, I had to see and that they were automobiles to be exchanged And maybe I could find them some right words to say to a girl had a very rough night So I started driving that way slowly But ten minutes later when I was halfway there, I stopped turned around headed back to 310 North Normandy And my 38 that I'd forgotten after a handful of policemen had finished examining it It wasn't until I was at Agatha lambriga's front door again that I realized something more important Yes, well I could get my gun another day Ventures of Philip Marlowe bringing you Raymond Chandler's most famous character and star Gerald Moore and are produced and directed by Norman McDonald Script is by Mel Dennelly Robert Mitchell and Gene Levitt featured in the cast were Lois Corbett Lorette Phil Brandt Lynn Allen Peter Leeds and John Stevenson. The special music is by Richard O'Ront Be sure and be with us again next week when Philip Marlowe says It began as the threat of a beating the journey to murder with a brown-eyed blonde Jovial hippopotamus and a tough ex-soldier of fortune all complicating the problem until I got next to the key man Will you be listening when fifty one thousand dollars go on the block during sing it again tonight? 26,000 in fabulous prizes for solving the mystery of the phantom voice and additional 25,000 in cold hard cash for answering only one more question about the phantom There's many another prize too for unriddling the smart tuneful little riddle songs that keep singing again Moving at a terrific clip for the hour that it's on the air It'll be here a little later on most of these same CBS network stations This is Roy Rowan speaking stay tuned now for gangbusters Which follows immediately over most of these same CBS stations. This is CBS the Columbia broadcasting system