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Shapiro: Lawyer

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Keswick: Lawyer

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Griffith Park
Sachetti's car a dark-blue coupe (when Huff was shot)
Movie Theater

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Walter Huff:

Of the General Fidelity of California
Lives in a bungalow in the Los Feliz Hills

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1930 - 1940
Glendale
House of death - Cockeyed, spanish house, white walls, red tile roof, patio out to one side, garage under the house, stone steps to the front door.
San Pedro street
When Mr Nirdlinger die, they are in the car.
Railrode track - Where Mr Nirdlinger was found

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Mrs Nirdlinger

Phyllis who is blue-eyed, blonde-haired, and attractive, but sort of

washed-out looking.
Has killed 3 children

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Chapter 1:

·      Cock-eyed - Skævt
·      Renewal - fornyelse
·      Blood red drapes - Gardiner

·      Patio - gårdhave/terrasse

·      Velvet - fløjlsblød

·      Tapestry - tapet

·      Fidelity - troskab

·      Courteous - høflig

·      Peevish - gnaven, sur eller irriteret

·      Quarrel - uenighed

·      Feud - strid

Chapter 2:

·   Washed-out - udmattet

·  Fortune - formue

·  Pleats - en fold i stof lavet ved at fordoble materiale over - på sig selv
·  Allowance - godtgørelse
·  Red-hot poker- en sydafrikansk plante med høje- opretstående pigge og blomster

·  Peeping - kigge & titte

·  A scarlet shroud - den røde pimpernel

·  Audacity - turde eller have modet til at..

·  Bold - modig, dristig eller kæk

·  hedge - hæk
·  croupier - dealer

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1st person narrator (I narrator)

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Mr Nirdlinger:
Big blockey man, with glasses

Los Angeles representative of the Western Pipe & Supply Company

Apart of the oil industry

Went to Leland Stanford University

Was 44 years old

Born in Fresno

Active at Signal Hill

Broken leg

Blue suit

Crutches

Broken neck

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Norton:

President of the company

Short stocky man about 35, got his job after his father died

“Never does anything right” - Keyes

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Belle:

Housekeeper

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Nettie:

Mr. Huff secretary, is getting called “Nettie”

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Lola:

Mr Nirdlingers daughter
19 years old

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Keyes:

Head of the claim department

Big and fat and peevish

Tiresome

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Filipino boy:
Walters housekeeper.
Will not sleep at the house

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· Bailable - bopælspligtig

· Procures - skaffe, tilvejebringe

· Liability - ansvar

· Hauling - transportere

· Bail-bond - kaution

· Solemnly - højt og helligt

· Dissertation - afhandling

· Pestering - plage

· Bookkeeping - bogføring/bogholderi

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High-pressured - presse / tvinge

Ignition - tænding

Switchboard - omstillingsbord / strømtavle

Pulleys - trisse

Crutches - krykker

Booklet - brochure / hæfte

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Liability - ansvar

Prospects folder - fremtidsudsigter folder.

Loose-leaf - system

Gauze - gaze

Iron rod - jernstang

Bulged - bule/bulede

Railroad train - jernbanetog

Kibbitz - stå ved siden af

Crosspiece of the crutch - Tværstykke af en krykke

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When insurance agent Walter Huff has to make a routine call in Glendale, California,  he remembers that  a certain Mr. Nirdlinger who lives nearby has a car insurance renewal pending, so he drives over to see if his client is Home. After a few moments of teasing and pretending to be friends with Nirdlinger's servant, he lets her in even though her employer is not at home. Walter ends up talking to Phyllis, the wife of his client, who is blue-eyed, blond-haired, and attractive but somehow exhausted. She keeps Walter talking, saying that the car club tried to sell her husband their  insurance badge and membership.

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Walter's second visit to Phyllis begins with Phyllis saying that she gave the maid the day off and  made  tea. The road leads to a sequence of small talk that quickly turns into a conversation about car insurance, but then comes to an abrupt halt when Phyllis asks Walter to  allow her to secretly take out  accident insurance for her husband. Walter's first thought is to put out the cigarette and go out. He actually puts his arm around Phyllis and kisses her, then they flutter up Phyllis' blouse until Walter has to leave. Phyllis tells her that she will let her know when she can come  again.

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Hobey and Ethel:

A pair of friends to Mrs and Mr Nirdlinger

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Harness - sele

Redcap - medlem af militærpolitiet

Porter - dørvagt

Berths - køje

Seldom - sjældent

Outskirt - udkant

Hobble - humpen

Abreast - overhale

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Vacant - ledig

Lunatic - sindssyg

Drawstring - snorelukning

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Walter comes to the Nirdlinger house and pretty quickly finishes the paperwork with Mr. Nirdlinger  while Phyllis sits and watches. The witness Phyllis brings is someone Walter really doesn't like because it's Phyllis' daughter, Lola. Phyllis makes up the excuse that she needs Lola to help her weave a yarn, to make sure Lola is there to listen to Walter pitch the accident insurance policy, which she does, underlining every possible selling point. Walter thinks to himself that he was waiting for Phyllis to bring  a friend or a neighbor. She didn't bargain for her daughter to be there and it makes her uncomfortable thinking about what they are  doing to her father. In the end, he is forced to catch his daughter and give her to the cinema.

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Joe Pete:

Night watchman

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Since Nirdlinger drives everywhere by car, an issue that puzzles Walter and Phyllis is how to get Walter in the car without Mr. Nirdlinger notices. But two or three days later they had some luck. Philleys had called Mr. Huff said he had broken his leg and was unable to drive the car. This was their chance to get Mr. Nirdlinger on the train. Philleyes was worried about his health. She said it was dangerous if he left the bed too early because it could cause the leg to become shorter, but Mr. Huff didn't care and told her that was the only thing they shouldn't be worried about

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Northbound - nordgående

Old regime - gamle styre

Autopsy - obduktion

apoplexy - raseri

Verdict - kendelse / dom

Occupation - beskæftigelse

Cyanide - cyanid - kemikalie

Strychnine - stryknin

(I’m sunk) - Det er ligesom, at være på spanden/gå ned

Procurable - som kan skaffes/til at skaffe

Incommunicado - afskåret fra forbindelse med omverdenen/isoleret

Yardmaster - jernbanevæsen

Coroner - jura (embedsmand, jurist el. læge)

Stinko - døddrukken

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On the day  Nirdlinger's train is scheduled to leave at 9:

5 p.m., Walter continues to imitate his alibi. He goes to interview a long-term prospect at, comes back to the office and makes him a card, then  goes home and has a Filipino houseboy serve him dinner. After the  meal, Walter is getting ready for bed at a quarter past eight when the houseboy comes to visit one last time before heading out for the day. The plan was that mrs. Nirdlinger was to forget her notebook, and they needed to get Mr. Nirdlinger out the car so Mr. Huff could get in the back seat. After a while they had come to a planned dark street. Mrs. Nirdlinger beeped the horn twice, that was Mr. Huff sign. Mr. Huff put his hand over his mouth and took one of the crutches and hooked it under his chin. Two seconds later Mr. Nirdlinger was curled down in the seat with a broken neck.

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Walter's attention to detail seems sharper than ever since the murder. He catches Phyllis about to throw away Nirdlinger's cigar and stops her when the cigar was lit in front of witnesses before leaving the house; therefore, Walter needs it  to complete his performance on the train. Then, as Phyllis drives to the place where the body will be placed, Walter uses a light cotton string and an iron handle to create a  harness for the body so  they can remove the body easily and quickly. Leaving the corpse in the locked car seat, they take Nirdlinger's bag, briefcase and crutches and  walk to the station. Phyllis carries both a bag and a briefcase so that the porter does not get too close to Walter when taking the luggage.

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Walter  jumped off the train and  crouched between two tracks on the highway to wait for Phyllis' arrival. He is a little upset because he can't see the car and Phyllis left 7 minutes before the train left. He knows that the train takes 6 minutes  to reach this place and 11 minutes to leave the station because he checked it 20 times. He waits but sees nothing. Then he hears panting and footsteps. To him, it looks like something nightmarish is approaching, but then he sees that Phyllis is  carrying her 200-pound husband on her back using the same harness that Walter used.

They dump Nirdlinger's body by the side of the road and then escape in a car.

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Shack - Hytte

Pneumonia - lungebetændelse

Prickle - torn/pig

Pulmonary - lungesygdom

Trudged - traske

Imperative - bydende nødvendighed

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The next morning, Walter eats breakfast and opens the paper to see if there is a notice of Nirdlinger's death. It is, and the newspaper says it's an accident. Later when Walter gets to the office he must confront Norton and tell him all the details of how he sold the insurance to Nirdlinger. Walter recounts the agreement, adding that Nirdlinger told him not to share  the existence of the policy with his wife, Phyllis, or his daughter, Lola. Keyes and Norton are on to the case. Mr Keyes, is obsessed by convincing Norton it was suicide. But Mr. Norton isn’t convinced. He believes that it was murder, he tries to convince Mr. Keyes but isn't quite successful.

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Squawk - høj fuglelyd

Dissertation - videnskabelig afhandling, ofte en doktorafhandling

Shroud - ligklæde

Frocks - Kjole

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A week later, Lola Nirdlinger comes to visit Walter at the office. He's pleased to see her, in spite of the circumstances. When he asks about her boyfriend, Sachetti, the one who took out a loan from Walter, she says she doesn't want to talk about him, and tells him that she has moved out of the house and taken her own apartment. She eventually gets down to what she wants to talk about, her father's death. She hems and haws a great deal, and then she reveals that she had a similar feeling when her mother died. She tells Walter that her mother died of pneumonia in a winter cabin on a lake, and it so happens that the companion who was with her was her nurse, Phyllis.

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Huff has feelings for Lola, but feels guilty about his behavior towards her. According to Lola, Nino didn't kill Mr. Nerdlings. One day, Lola spots Nino and Phyllis, and discovers that Nino has been in love with Phyllis since they first met. The two had a conversation about money and Lola discovered that Nino had spent all the money Huff had given him, including his graduation. He spent the rest of the money on Phyllis. Lola is convinced that Phyllis is the culprit in Mr. Nirdlinger's death.

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The chapter starts off with Huff saying that he's decided to kill Phyllis. He then decides to frame Sachetti for both murders.
Huff is going to kill her by driving Sachetti's car over the edge of a cliff, with her in it. He plans it and makes sure he has his alibi in check by going to a movie theatre and talking to an actor he knows. Then when he is going to meet her she beats him to it and shoots him. After he's been shot he crawls out of the car and gets to his own car.

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Walter follows Keyes' instructions and gets his steamship ticket. Despite feeling weak, he takes a taxi to the pier and boards the ship. After a day of rest, he goes up on deck and sees Phyllis in the next chair. Phyllis informs him about Lola and Sachetti's marriage being a sensation on the ship and how they are registered under different names. Walter realizes that he has seen Phyllis since he sat next to her on the deck.

Suicide:
"There's nothing ahead of us, is there Walter?" "No. Nothing".....

"...Walter, the time has come". "What do you mean, Phyllis"?
"For me to meet my bridegroom. The only one i ever loved. One night I'll drop off the stern of the ship. Then, little by little I'll feel his icy fingers creeping into my heart".
"...I'll give you away".
"What?"
"I mean I will go with you".
"Its all that's left, isn't it?"

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·      Errand - Ærinde

·      Repossess - At tage tilbage

·      Hooey - Vås/sludder

·      Deliberately - Bevidst/med vilje, med fuldt overlæg

·      Ushers - En der anviser folk deres pladser fx. en kontrollør

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Keyes waits in the hospital for Huff to wake up. A person he assumes to be a nurse gives him ice to suck on and he hears people talking but can't understand them. He sees a nurse and Keyes, who approaches his bed and informs him that the theater program in his pocket likely saved his life.Walter asks if they retrieved the bullet and the woman, to which Keyes replies yes, and says he'll come back later to talk more. Keyes explains that the police found Huff in his car with Lola and Sachetti trying to unlock the door to help him. The police believe Sachetti shot him, and Lola thinks so as well. Huff confessed that he killed Nirdlinger because he didn't want Lola to get in trouble.

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Matchmaker / Kirsten Giftekniv

Puckers / Runke sig

Grazed / Strejfe