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The Bums Rush

Adventures of Philip Marlowe · September 3, 1949 · 29 min · 5,128 words

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Get this and get it straight. Crime is a sucker's road and those who travel it wind up in the gut of the prison of the grave. The trail started in Montana with a bum with two names rushing away from his lady love, and led fast into LA.

Past a southerner from Canada, a worried wool dealer and a chorus girl with a .45. When it finally stopped at murder in the park, the tramp was still in a hurry. From the pen of Raymond Trandler, outstanding author of Cry infection comes his most famous character in...

The adventures of Philip Marlowe. Now with Gerald Moore, star to Philip Marlowe, we bring you tonight's exciting story, The Bums Rush. You know, there comes a time in everyone's life when a relative wants a favor.

But this was a particularly nice relative. It's like the great old gal. She'd written my name in address in the center and her name, Jesse Gavin, Ziegle's Rock Montana and the upper left corner of the envelope.

The stamp's total away on the male special and the letter inside started off like one of those I was wrong you've got to find them for me you've got to type but it didn't wind up that way clip to the letter was a hundred dollar check and under that a not too good snapshot

of a bald man holding a rake who wouldn't have been helped anybody better photography ten minutes later at exactly eight p.m. my long-distance call was put through and the voice that belonged to Aunt Jessie was snapping at me Miegel's rock Montana like the end of a whip yeah you said that in your letter and

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