:12:03
Sit down.
:12:10
Thanks.
:12:20
If you're going
to take this case, mr. Marlowe,
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the first person
you should see is chris lavery.
:12:26
Who's he?
:12:27
The handsome brute
that crystal kingsby ran away with a month ago,
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or so we thought.
:12:32
A month, eh?
Take him that long to get to el paso?
:12:36
Who said anything
about el paso?
:12:38
Why didn't you tie it
on my ear? I'd have found it quicker.
:12:42
Oh, why,
i didn't even know-
:12:43
you're working
overtime. I don't get it.
:12:45
What's the mystery
if kingsby's wife is in mexico?
:12:50
The mystery
is that i ran into chris lavery last week,
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and he said he hadn't
seen crystal kingsby for 2 months.
:12:56
He's home, and she isn't.
No one's seen her. She's missing, vanished.
:13:00
Wire's a phony. Anybody
could have sent it.
:13:02
Why, even i could call up
and clear a wire out of el paso if i wanted to.
:13:08
Maybe you did.
:13:09
You're very funny.
:13:10
If she's really missing,
why isn't kingsby looking for her?
:13:12
I don't know.
Maybe he thinks she's off on a toot,
:13:15
but a mexican divorce
with no property settlement?
:13:17
Not crystal kingsby.
She'd do it right here in california.
:13:20
Besides that,
crystal kingsby isn't a big enough fool
:13:23
to marry chris lavery.
:13:25
Why not?
:13:26
You don't marry
the chris laverys of this world.
:13:28
You just pay their
bills, lend them all the money they need,
:13:32
then forget
to ask for it back.
:13:34
You seem to know
all about him.
:13:38
What's that
got to do with it?
:13:39
Nothing. It has
to do with you.
:13:42
You know him well?
:13:42
What do you mean?
Why are you looking at me like that?
:13:48
If you don't think
there's a case or a mystery here,
:13:52
then i've been
wasting your time.
:13:54
Please don't let me
waste any more of it.
:13:56
Perhaps you'd better go
home and play with your fingerprint collection.