:47:02
Where are you going?
:47:04
To a party
with the bay city cops.
:47:11
Don't you
know enough not to handle
:47:13
a weapon found
at the scene of a crime?
:47:15
Marlowe: No.
:47:15
Smart guy,
aren't you, marlowe?
:47:17
Well, this time
you're in a jam, a bad jam.
:47:19
What's your alibi,
or haven't you thought of any yet?
:47:21
I've already told you
this mrs. Fallbrook was here before me.
:47:24
It could have been her.
:47:25
It could have been pixies, too.
It could have been you.
:47:27
You said you'd come
back and get lavery, didn't you?
:47:30
Not in those words.
:47:32
But in that tone.
:47:33
Last time i saw you,
i told you
:47:34
not to start trouble
in my district
:47:36
without
letting me in on what you were after.
:47:38
Coroner's
on his way down.
:47:40
Good.
:47:40
Marlowe: Is finding
a corpse a crime?
:47:42
In this town,
yes.
:47:43
Look, i knew
a little about this dead guy lavery.
:47:46
He was quite a chaser.
:47:47
What of it?
:47:48
Well, the whole setup
indicates a dame.
:47:50
You know what
divorce stuff.
:47:53
All right, who
are you working for?
:47:54
And don't give me
that baloney about protecting a client.
:47:57
Marlowe: My client's name
is derrace kingsby.
:47:59
He runs a string
of magazines.
:48:01
Yeah?
:48:02
His wife ran out on him
about a month ago
:48:03
from a place he has
up in the mountains called little fawn lake.
:48:07
Uh-huh.
:48:07
Chris lavery was
supposed to be the guy
:48:09
kingsby's wife
ran off with.
:48:10
Oh, yeah? You guys
go back to work and call the dispatcher.
:48:14
I'm going
to have a talk
:48:15
with a mr. Kingsby
and his missis.
:48:16
May be a little tough
talking to mrs. Kingsby. It happens she's missing.
:48:20
Missing?
:48:21
Yeah. The last 2 months.
:48:22
Make a note of that.
We'll get a teletype out on her.
:48:24
This is getting
interesting.
:48:26
All right,
you guys, go on.
:48:27
And keep
your hands off things.
:48:29
Marlowe: I came down here
day before yesterday
:48:31
to ask lavery
if he knew where she was,
:48:33
and for my pains,
i landed in the can,
:48:35
as you may remember.
:48:36
We remember,
peeper.
:48:37
What was lavery's
story about kingsby's wife?
:48:40
He said there
was nothing to it,
:48:42
so i made a trip
up to little fawn lake
:48:44
because something peculiar
happened up there.
:48:47
Yeah?
:48:47
They found a drowned woman
in the lake.
:48:49
It turned out to be
a dame named muriel chess.
:48:52
I don't want
any part of that.
:48:54
Let's confine
ourselves to what went on here.
:48:56
Nothing went on here.
I came to see chris lavery today,
:48:59
and he was dead.