Hello and welcome to another episode nostalgic mystery radio. I'm your host Stevie K. That's my honor to bring you the radio shows of yester. For this episode, I bring you The Adventures of Philip Marlowe, episode titled The Old Acquaintance, originally aired December 26, 1948.

This one is a good action story about an escaped convict and the two women in his life.

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

Thank you for listening, and Happy New Year.

When it started a girl's wedding and New Year's Eve, we're only six hours away,

and I didn't think the bride to be would make either one of them.

But that was before I ran up against the slot machine operator, the escaped convict,

and above all, the old acquaintance.

From the pen of Raymond Chandler,

outstanding author of crime fiction,

comes his most famous character

as CBS presents,

The Adventures of Philip Marlowe.

And now with Gerald Moore, starred as Philip Marlowe,

we bring you tonight's exciting story, The Old Acquaintance. S At 6 o'clock in the last evening of the year, I was sitting with my feet up on my office desk thinking of impossible New Year's resolutions and what the girl on my butcher's 1949 calendar would or would not be wearing.

But at that pleasant point, there was a soft, almost apologetic knock on my office door.

I said come in and saw a quiet man in quiet clothes who extended a quiet hand.

He introduced himself as Paul Reiker, a Beverly Hills insurance broker.

But the tremor in his voice said, Very Worried client,

which on New Year's Eve was something I could do without. Mr. Marlowe, you've got to find Nancy Marshall for me. Just for a springboard, Mr. Riker, who is Nancy Marshall? She's my fiancé. We were to be married at my place in Beverly Hills tonight. A New Year's Eve? Yes, you see, it was at a New Year's Eve party a year ago that we met for the first time.

Oh, when's your last to hear from her?

Two hours ago. in Beverly Hills tonight. A New Year's Eve? Yes, you see, it was at a New Year's Eve party a year ago that we met for the first time.

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