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Murder on a motorcycle, as Marlowe goes to work for a millionaire trying to protect his daughter. An iron skull was their trademark, their business was climbing walls, and it was all done on wheels at 70 miles an hour. But that was a cinch for the death cheaters, until they felt murder and a feminine touch....

In a Mexican diamond mine, Detective Philip Marlowe must knab a thief! Get this and get it straight. Crime is a sucker’s road, and those who travel it wind up in the gutter, the prison, or an early grave. There’s no other end, but they never learn. Let me give you an example. Philip Marlowe was hired to find a thief and he did, a thousand miles from home. What he found was a fresh corpse in the closet, and all because the only woman in sight wouldn’t play fair.

Why is The Heat Wave, a burlesque dancer, wearing a golden mask? Marlowe's been hired to find out. Murder tries a strip tease!

A good action story about an escaped convict and the two women in his life. When it started, a girls wedding and New Years Eve were only six hours away, and Philip Marlowe didn’t think the bride-to-be would make either one of them, but that was before he ran up against the slot machine operator, the escaped convict, and above all, the old acquaintance.

Eddie Mallet is being followed by a gorilla in a tee shirt with muscles out-to-here. Marlowe is hired to find out why, but not soon enough to save Eddie. The partner from Mexico City, the stranger dead in Nevada, and the man with the cauliflower ear all added up to a corpse on a concrete floor, but Philip Marlowe couldn’t figure why until he found out that there was one name above all that had to be remembered....

Marlowe finds himself in Lonesome, Arizona, on the trail of the loot from a bank robbery. A corpse that wouldn’t stay dead, a pistol with a silencer on it, and a fortune in a black satchel spell death for the big city boys when they finally get together in lonesome Arizona.

The four original stories on this highly praised recording were inspired by an October moon in New England.

Augustin Fresnel (1788–1827) shocked the scientific elite with his unique understanding of the physics of light. The lens he invented was a brilliant feat of engineering that made lighthouses blaze many times brighter, farther, and more efficiently. Battling the establishment, his own poor health, and the limited technology of the time, Fresnel was able to achieve his goal of illuminating the entire French coast. At first, the British sought to outdo the new Fresnel-equipped lighthouses as a matter of national pride.

General managers and fans alike have pondered this most important of baseball questions. The Moneyball strategy is not the first example of how new ideas and innovative management have transformed the way teams are assembled. Pursuit of Pennants examines and analyzes a number of compelling, winning baseball teams over the past 100-plus years, focusing on their decision making and how they assembled their championship teams.

Avraham Bahar leaves debt-ridden and depressed Albania to seek a better life in, ironically, Stalinist Russia. A professional barber, he curries favor with the Communist regime, ultimately being invited to become Stalin’s personal barber at the Kremlin, where he is entitled to live in a government house with other Soviet dignitaries. In the intrigue that follows, Avraham, now known as Razan, is not only barber to Stalin but also to the many Stalin look-alikes that the paranoid dictator circulates to thwart possible assassination attempts - including one from Razan himself.

Originally published in the Netherlands in 1993, De Loo's first novel to be translated into English explores the enmity that existed between Germans and the rest of Europe after World War II. This moving tale addresses notions of guilt and responsibility in a sensitive, thought-provoking manner, without exonerating or condemning.

The story of a mixed-up girl, and her mixed-up life, and her really strange sister. The big fog that clung to Los Angeles made searching for the girl who was going to kill herself slow and uneasy, but in the end I’d have settled for that and more because murder happened twice before I found the lady in mink....

A Hawaiian caper on the trail of the fabulous historic relic. Marlowe finds murder and intrigue...including a dead Philip Marlowe, found in a lily pond! A good dramatic conclusion on the Pali of Oahu. It started at dawn in a Los Angeles taxi and wound up that night on a cliff in the middle of the pacific all because of a dustman with $50,000, a corpse in a lily pond and an oriental with a chauffer who wanted a cloak made of nothing but feathers....

Bizarre enthusiasm, unusual inheritors, $300,000, and a map are some of the details that made the radio broadcast perfect. When the will was read, everybody figured she'd been crazy when she wrote it. And that included me. But I changed my mind after spending a night on an island with a pig, a cat, and an ape. Because in reality, they were people.

Harry Houdini's story is the classic American tale of an immigrant who from impoverished beginnings made it big in the United States. Born in Hungary as Erik Weisz, he was brought up in Wisconsin, USA and first developed his acts at the age of 17 after a childhood in poverty. Captivated by magic shows, he began performing tricks on stage with one of his brothers, and then with his wife. From being bound in chains to massive locks and straight jackets, Houdini found fame with his dramatic escapes.

Con Piensa como un freak, Steven D. Levitt y Stephen J. Dubner han escrito su libro más revolucionario hasta la fecha. Con el sello inconfundible de narración cautivadora y análisis no convencional, nos llevan al interior de su proceso reflexivo y nos enseñan a pensar de manera un poco más productiva, más creativa, más racional, es decir, a pensar como un freak.

Rachel Levitt and John Robertson provide timely researched commentary on Home to Roost, a weekly take on the effect of national policies on Alaska.

One man searches for his past while another searches for ways to change his past. Two: The Tale of Light and Darkness follows the saga of these two flawed characters. The Son, a young boy who loses his memory, is told that he is the key to leading the universe to a more peaceful age. Hoshek, a wayward man deprived of his dreams, wants to go back in time to fix his catastrophic mistake that transforms the universe into utter darkness.

These days, when most people think about “medicine”, they think of doctors, surgeons, hospitals, pharmacies, and prescriptions. This might surprise you, but as a naturopathic doctor…I actually agree. Drugs and surgery ARE medicine for sure. But, medicine CAN and SHOULD be much much more than that. Food is medicine. Herbs are medicine. Movement is medicine. Prayer is medicine. Art, music, storytelling… there really is medicine everywhere…if you open yourself up to finding it. On this show, I’ll be talking to experts in every one of those areas: the physicians, the surgeons, the ...

A weekly podcast for the curious and introspective. NY comedian Gary Levitt dives deep to discuss the things that matter most to each of his guests. We hear from psychologists, comedians, philosophers, musicians, writers, entrepreneurs, anyone who has something thoughtful and interesting to share. Email the show: thegaryhour@gmail.com || http://garygarylevitt.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.