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The Good Neighbor Policy

Adventures of Philip Marlowe · July 28, 1951 · 29 min · 3,998 words

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Get this and get it straight Crime is a sucker's road Those who travel it wind up in the gut of the prison of the grave There's no other end But they never learn From the pan of Raven Chandler outstanding author of crime fiction comes his most famous character in The adventures of Philip Marlow

Now, with Gerald Moore, star to still at Marlow, we bring you tonight's exciting story, The Good Neighbor Policy. They was hot and sticky.

City wore it like a wet shirt. To make things worse, there was a xylophone playing somewhere in the building, and that started me thinking about my neighbors. Mostly I was thinking two things about them.

I didn't know any of them. And two, I'd like to shake their hand with a fellow that banged that drylophone day and night and break it. Not a very neighborly thought, but then it had been one of those days.

You know the kind that prompts the neighbors to set the dogs on each other. But now the sun had called it there. The wind had switched from the desert to the ocean. I was figuring I'd be a better friend of man and woman if I took a long cool shower But there's got to be some legal way to kill xylophone players. Oh no big finish yet

Yes, you name Marlow Phil Marlow Yeah, that's right. I live to a park on star my heart. You got a call on my phone. I Got a call on your phone. Look the cause there. I'm a busy guy. You wanted it. Don't you? Well sure sure I want it Okay, come on. All right. I uh, I didn't catch your name. No, you didn't

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