Ep.258 The Adventures Of Philip Marlowe: The Heat Wave

Nostalgic Mystery Radio

Stevie K.

Detective, Fiction, Crime, Arts, Radio Show, Mystery, Tv & Film, Performing Arts, Drama, Old Time Radio

4.8 • 588 Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Get this and get it straight. Crime is a sucker's road and those who travel it wind up in the gutter, the prison or the grave. Philip Marlowe was Los Angeles's toughest detective in the groundbreaking series by Raymond Chandler that helped establish the "hard-boiled" detective subgenre. The Heat Wave: Why is "The Heat Wave," a burlesque dancer wearing a golden mask? Marlowe's been hired to find out. Murder tries a strip tease! Originally aired: August 16th,1949. Support the show

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of nostalgic mystery Radio. I'm your host Stevie K.
0:23.4	And it's my honor to bring you the radio shows of yesteryear. For this episode, I bring you
0:28.6	The Adventures of Philip Marlowe, episode titled The Heat Wave, originally aired April 16th,
0:36.0	1949. Why is a burlesse dancer named The Heat Wave wearing a gold Originally aired April 16, 1949.
0:42.2	Why is a burlese dancer named the Heat Wave wearing a golden mask?
0:44.6	Marlowe has been hired to find out.
0:51.0	So sit back and relax, and I hope you enjoy this nostalgic mystery radio.
0:58.9	Thank you for listening. It was hot and still.
1:01.1	An August night in the middle of April.
1:03.1	But that didn't matter to the strip-tees dancer in the golden mask.
1:06.8	Because murder made her blood run cold the night the heat waves struck.
1:11.6	From the pen of Raymond Chandler, outstanding author of crime fiction, comes his most famous character in...
1:17.6	The Adventures of Philip Marlowe.
1:34.6	Now with Gerald Moore, starred as Philip Marlowe, we bring you tonight's exciting story,
1:36.2	The Heat Wave. Spring with... Spring was only three weeks old,
1:50.1	but the sun bore down on Los Angeles
1:52.0	with the middle of the summer vengeance.
1:54.4	At noon, it was 102 in the shade,
1:56.8	and by 3.30, with doors, window, and shirt collar all open as far as they would go.
2:02.1	I still sweltered in the kind of heat that wilts both your clothes and your character.
2:06.4	As I tried to make sense from the crisp words of a telegram I just received from one Karen Driscoll, Jr., no less,
2:12.3	of Nob Hill, San Francisco.
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