Hello and welcome to another episode nostalgic mystery radio.

I'm your host Stevie Kay, and it's my honor to bring you the radio shows of yesterday year.

For this episode, I bring you The Adventures of Philip Marlowe, episode titled The Headless Peacock, originally aired July 16th, 1949, where a woman hires Marlowe to help her fiancé who has a gambling problem.

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

Thank you for listening.

Get this and get it straight.

Crime is a suckers road and those who travel had wind up in the gut of the prison of the grave.

This one began with a bedlam and got worse as I bumped into a burglar, a bookie, a Boswell,

and a body in a big shot named B.

And before it was all over, everyone had lost his head because the headless peacock had moved.

From the fan of Raymond Chandler, outstanding author of mystery,

comes his most famous character and crime's most deadly enemy,

as we present,

The Adventures of Philip Marlowe.

The Adventures of Philip Marlowe. Now with Gerald Moore

starred as Philip Marlowe,

we bring you tonight's exciting story,

The Headless Peacock.

The Headless Peacock The day had been eight noisy hours of international complications, local vintage.

That it started when a Frenchman from Beverly Hills and spoke no English,

hired me to find the Filipino house boy he thought it stole the family silverware to sell to a prosperous downtown Chinese.

However, it had played differently since the Frenchman had been wrong all the way.

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