Hello and welcome to another episode of nostalgic mystery radio Mystery Radio. I'm your host Stevie K.

And it's my honor to bring you the radio shows of yesteryear. For this episode, I bring you

The Adventures of Philip Marlow, episode titled Night Tide, originally aired May 21st, 1949,

where Marlowe is hired by a businessman who is concerned that a dock worker he sent to prison is out for vengeance.

So sit back and relax, and I hope you enjoy this nostalgic mystery radio.

Thank you for listening.

When it started, the tide was high on the San Pedro

waterfront, and a hot-tempered kid had murder on his mind.

But there was a knife at my throat of beating under the piers

and a corpse on the beach before the tide went out again,

and the kid was finally

stopped.

From the pen of Raymond Chandler, outstanding author of crime fiction, comes his most famous character

in The Adventures of Philip Marlowe, we bring you tonight's exciting story, Night Tide.

Night Tide.

It all happened in San Pedro, the harbor of Los Angeles.

The lights on the ships were fuzzy through the wet mist that creeps up out of the ocean every night.

And I drove slowly looking for the establishment of Mike Basso, my new client.

One side of the crooked street was nothing but the smell and the sound of oily salt water,

sloshing through the piling beneath the piers.

And the other side was a tangle of warped, dingy buildings,

equipped to satisfy the thirsts of reckless men.

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