:48:01
Yeah?
:48:02
His wife ran out on him
about a month ago
:48:03
from a place he has
up in the mountains called little fawn lake.
:48:07
Uh-huh.
:48:07
Chris lavery was
supposed to be the guy
:48:09
kingsby's wife
ran off with.
:48:10
Oh, yeah? You guys
go back to work and call the dispatcher.
:48:14
I'm going
to have a talk
:48:15
with a mr. Kingsby
and his missis.
:48:16
May be a little tough
talking to mrs. Kingsby. It happens she's missing.
:48:20
Missing?
:48:21
Yeah. The last 2 months.
:48:22
Make a note of that.
We'll get a teletype out on her.
:48:24
This is getting
interesting.
:48:26
All right,
you guys, go on.
:48:27
And keep
your hands off things.
:48:29
Marlowe: I came down here
day before yesterday
:48:31
to ask lavery
if he knew where she was,
:48:33
and for my pains,
i landed in the can,
:48:35
as you may remember.
:48:36
We remember,
peeper.
:48:37
What was lavery's
story about kingsby's wife?
:48:40
He said there
was nothing to it,
:48:42
so i made a trip
up to little fawn lake
:48:44
because something peculiar
happened up there.
:48:47
Yeah?
:48:47
They found a drowned woman
in the lake.
:48:49
It turned out to be
a dame named muriel chess.
:48:52
I don't want
any part of that.
:48:54
Let's confine
ourselves to what went on here.
:48:56
Nothing went on here.
I came to see chris lavery today,
:48:59
and he was dead.
:49:00
Brother, you're
a great help.
:49:02
This muriel chess
had an anklet
:49:03
that had been given to her
by somebody named chris.
:49:07
So what?
:49:08
So you figure it out.
:49:09
She's dead, and the corpse
we have here is named chris.
:49:12
I see. Any little
thing that will tie 2 deaths up together
:49:16
makes a bigger
package.
:49:17
And on a pretext
like that, you go through the joint,
:49:20
handle the gun,
collect or steal anything you can,
:49:23
and finally
get around to calling us.
:49:26
Well, i don't
buy it.
:49:27
What do i care about
a drowned dame in a lake?
:49:30
I got a body here,
and that's enough for me.
:49:32
That's all that's
in my jurisdiction.
:49:35
What's the play,
marlowe?
:49:37
You trying to cloud
the issue?
:49:38
Who are you
covering up for?
:49:40
Man: Anybody here?
:49:41
That's ed.
He's coroner this week.
:49:44
Merry christmas, ed.
:49:44
Ah, but it isn't christmas
yet, you know. Not yet.
:49:46
Well, what have we got
this time, gentlemen,
:49:48
and where
is the customer located?
:49:50
Upstairs.
I'll take you up.
:49:51
Oh, good. Man or woman?
:49:53
Man.
:49:54
Kane: You stay here.
You come with me.
:49:55
Going to be a little
tough to find out when he was killed.
:49:59
He was in the shower,
and some bright mind