Marlowe Page #2

me into a room and... zap!

Party checks out and your left

with me on the floor in 22.

Wouldn't want a case of rigor

in your hotel, would you Ollie?

Give me the box.

Will you hold this a minute?

Checked in 5:
47. One local

phone call. No Room Service.

Dr. G. W. Hamilton, El Centro.

What did he look like?

That's right, I stay out there

with a Brownie when they register.

Don't move.

A 45 I wouldn't argue, but a 32

I can get in a couple of words.

I've said them all.

Please. Don't forget you're a lady.

I like the perfume.

What is it?

BENSON's Camera Shop

Whoever did this is a performer.

Cut the spinal cord first try.

They developed the

technique in Brooklyn.

You don't say.

Sonny Steelgrave's

Boys were specialists.

You're aren't trying to

connect Steelgrave with this?

Pretty fragile, isn't it? -Yes

Anyway, he definitely wasn't

the last of the big spenders.

Fourteen dollars and

change, Seven master keys...

Maybe he thought he'd

clean out the hotel.

Eddie, do any of these

keys fit this dump?

You can unlock our doors

with your little finger.

Well, he knew

somebody was after him.

Spotted them getting close.

Calls Marlowe and offers him

$100 to safe keep something.

Is that your story, Marlowe?

That's it.

Only he hasn't got $100 on him.

Maybe he was figuring on

getting you to gamble along.

Eddie, could the desk give

us a rundown on any visitors?

You don't have to pass

the desk to go in or out.

No wonder he stayed in here.

That, and all the atmosphere.

I guess that just about does

it for the first run-through.

Oh not quite.

What do you know.

Maliway Mushtom.

Used to be a runner for Ace Devore.

How you been, Maliway?

Going to miss you at

the morning line-up.

Well, that takes the pressure off.

This punk won't be

a 24 hour a day job.

How did you know about that wig?

I'm a trained detective.

That's your exit line,

Marlowe. Follow it out.

And don't leave town, you hear me?

Go on, Hady, You too.

What's bugging you? -The 150.

Don't get funny in the wrong place.

Oliver, when I checked

him he had $164.

Now there's only 14 left. -So?

So where were you while I

was calling the Lieutenant?

Are you accusing me?

-Just checking for crimes.

Fifty-fifty?

Okay, here you go.

I'll remember you!

Ollie!

I don't want the money.

I want something else.

What? -The girl.

Went out of here by these

stairs. She had to pass you.

She'd have been running,

you'd have been following.

What makes you so wonderful?

-I'm a trained detective.

All right. I followed

her and she got the car.

How do I know that this isn't

a number you already had?

Just take my word for

it. -What kind of car?

Jaguar convertible, XKE, yellow.

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