Hello and welcome to another episode of nostalgic mystery radio.

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

For today's episode, I bring you The Adventures of Philip Marlowe, episode titled The Black Halo,

originally aired January 15th, 1949, where Marlowe is hired to find the missing Julia Perry, but murder and

suicide complicates the case and add a surprise ending. So sit back and relax, and I hope you

enjoy this nostalgic mystery radio. Thank you for listening.

Somewhere in the cold persistent rain that made the city itself seem a thing of evil.

A girl had disappeared, and it was my job to find her. But before I did, I found death and a devil.

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 Black Halo.

Thank you. For three days in ugly storm had lashed at the west coast from northern Oregon to the tip of lower California.

And although it was only noon when I drove up to the sprawling red brick house just south of Santa Barbara to meet a new client of mine. The black that was in the sky and the driving rain that was everywhere left the day

bleak and wet and cold. Left at the kind of day that made you feel that logs blazing in a fireplace

and a warm dry robe were the only things that could matter to anyone.

But when I got inside the house, Felix Drum, 350 uncomfortable pounds of executive in a wheelchair,

who made his living importing perfumes, was very worried, and not about the weather outside.

Marlowe, Julia Perry is gone. I want you to find her and bring her back. And the sooner you do that, the better.

And the more I know, Mr. Drum, the easier it'll be. Exactly who is Julia Perry?

My assistant, very capable girl, who in the past six months has practically taken over my entire business.

She handles most of the work from her cottage here on the grounds where she lives she also has some little cubby hole in Los Angeles where she

keeps her files and some sample stock have the address of that cubbyhole if I

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