Hello, and welcome to another episode of Nostolic 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 Marlowe, episode titled The Tale of the Mermaid, originally aired October 1st, 1949.

Where a traffic accident outside of his office leads Marlowe to a murder on the waterfront in a mermaid.

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 sucker's road, and those who travel had wind up in the gutter of the prison of the grave.

This started with a wreck and went from there to double murder over 75,000 bucks worth of glitter that nobody got in the end.

Because I found out just in time what was fishy about the tale of the mermaid.

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

character in The Adventures of Philip Marlowe.

Music in the Adventures of Philip Marlowe. Now with Gerald Moore, starred as Philip Marlowe,

we bring you tonight's exciting story,

The Tale of the Mermaid.

The exciting story, the tale of the mermaid.

9.30, I was still in my office, tucking in the loose ends on a report. While I listened with half an ear to the fabric of city sounds rising from the street below, fabric ripped suddenly by

tires clawing concrete, a shattering crash that followed brought me to my feet. It was a traffic

accident, a bad one. I ran to the window, but it had happened around the corner out of sight in my office.

I watched others run for it and remembered grimly that every 30 seconds, somewhere in the country,

a thing like that happened.

And one out of every 16 minutes was fatal.

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