:27:00
At the lake, i visit
that little morgue
:27:02
they've got up there
in the mountains,
:27:04
and i see muriel chess.
:27:06
30 days in the water...
there isn't much left of her,
:27:11
but i find out a few things
:27:13
i think adrienne
might like to hear about,
:27:15
so i go back to town
at 4:00 in the morning,
:27:18
and i go
straight to her place.
:27:35
Why didn't you
telephone?
:27:37
Marlowe: I didn't
have a nickel.
:27:42
Not bad
in this light.
:27:45
What did you find
at the lake?
:27:48
Snow.
:27:49
Who's being
cute now?
:27:51
You are.
:27:54
There will be an
item on your bill
:27:55
for bribes i spent
finding out muriel chess had another name.
:27:59
What?
:28:00
Yeah. Mildred havelend.
Did you ever hear of her?
:28:02
Muriel chess married
your boss' caretaker
:28:04
after meeting him in a bar
in san bernardino,
:28:07
but her real name
was mildred havelend,
:28:09
and she married chess
because she wanted a place to hide.
:28:12
It seems that
a tough cop was after her.
:28:14
What's this got to do
with crystal kingsby?
:28:16
I'm coming to that.
She and muriel-
:28:18
or shall i call her
mildred-had a fight over a man.
:28:21
What man?
:28:21
The guy i was slipping
the $20 bills to
:28:23
kept claiming
he didn't know his name.
:28:25
But i suppose
you do.
:28:26
Yeah. I stopped beating
his brains out with money
:28:29
and started
snooping for myself, and look what i found.
:28:32
"To mildred
from chris."
:28:33
It was hidden in a sugar can
in mrs. Kingsby's cabin.
:28:37
There could be any
number of chrises.
:28:39
Oh, don't say
a thing like that.
:28:41
That's our boy-
lavery.
:28:42
That ties him up
with 2 missing women- crystal and muriel.
:28:45
Do you think
he drowned muriel chess?
:28:47
He would have drowned me
if there'd been any water handy.
:28:50
No, i'm sure
it must have been crystal kingsby.
:28:52
She fought with muriel
over a month ago. You just said so.
:28:55
Muriel's
been found dead, and crystal's missing.
:28:57
And from now on,
marlowe's missing.