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The Last Laugh
Adventures of Philip Marlowe · April 2, 1949 · 29 min · 5,273 words
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It was a grim joke that started when six heirs came to an ugly house on a rain-swept island to hear a madman's will. But the joke soon turned to murder, and in the end it was hard to tell who had the last laugh.
From the pen of Raymond Chandler, outstanding author of Crime Fiction, comes his most famous character in... The Adventures of Philip Marlow. Now with Gerald Moore starred as Philip Marlow, we bring you tonight's exciting story.
The Last Laugh. I'd spent a week waiting through moldy beer joints and cheap hotels after a dancer on the down grade. And when I found her she was two days dead and a cold seller.
All of which left me with a rancid taste in my mouth. But when I woke up after a night's sleep to the tune of a robin on my window sill, I realized it was spring and time for mallow to take a long, easy weekend someplace.
place where the surf meets sand like it does it say en cinada without so much as a second thought I threw some clothes in a bag phone the Riviera Pacifico for reservations and charged out the door I ran head on into a funny man with a studious face charging in oh I am awfully sorry but why you feel it Marlow yeah yeah I know and my name is
Darwin I represent the law firm that handles the interests of Julius Spangler Did you say Julius Spangler? Goodbye, Mr. Darwin. Oh, no, wait, Mr. Marlow. A senior... Listen, I had a run-in with that screwball Spangler less than a month ago.
A man was knocked down to fight a stairs I got shot at and a pop-and-house was set on fire, and Julius called it a practical joke and laughed himself silly. That's like a dew form with three days in jail, it should have been three years.
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