Hardly Boiled - Episode 27

Why did Emma Legrand leave Parabellum City? What does she want from Falk Zildjian? How many mysteries can one town hold? Are all these names gonna be on the test? Find out!

Hardly Boiled, episode 27 of This Gun in My Hand, was simmered by Rob Northrup. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, information on how to subscribe, and to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. What’s warm and comforting and slippery and fits in my pocket and has a sulfurous surprise inside? A hardboiled egg. And I suppose that would also describe This Gun in My Hand!

This episode is available on Youtube, including automated closed captions of the dialog.

Show Notes:
1. Owen Taylor is the name of the chauffeur murdered in The Big Sleep. When the director and star of the film couldn’t agree on who killed the chauffeur, they sent a telegram asking the author of the novel, Raymond Chandler. Chandler replied, “Damned if I know.”

2. The exquisite line “You talk or this gun does!” was stolen from an old time radio show about a guy who wears a green mask. Don’t worry, the episode is public domain.

3. A Webley-Fosbury .38 automatic revolver is what somebody uses to plug Miles Archer in The Maltese Falcon -- which I just watched to get ideas for this short series of Hardly Boiled stories.

4. Today I learned that if you have a Grotto Club in your town, it’s probably Masonic.

5. “The Forty and Eight” is another one of those weird fraternal organizations that were reaching the tail end of their popularity around the time Fred Flintstone was shown in “The Loyal Order of Water Buffaloes Lodge.”

Credits:
The opening and middle transitional music clips were from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), and the closing music was from Killer Bait (1949), both films in the public domain. Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.

The ad segment of a woman describing a beauty facial is excerpted from the public domain radio show Lux Radio Theater, the episode titled “Phantom Lady,” broadcast March 27, 1944.

Sound Effect Title: Sliding glass door open and close, big & smooth
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/goblinjack/sounds/376407/

Sound Effect Title: bustle in the pub
License: Public domain
https://freesound.org/people/organicmanpl/sounds/403285/

Sound effect title: 38 Caliber Gun Shot 5x
Recorded by Mike Koenig
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
http://soundbible.com/375-38-Caliber-Gun-Shot-5x.html

Title: Real Colt 45 M1911 (shot)
By Carmelomike
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://freesound.org/people/Carmelomike/sounds/255216/

The image associated with this episode is a modified detail of the cover of Dime Mystery Magazine, Vol. 33, No. 4 (September 1946). Art by Gloria Stoll Karn. Public domain.