Hello and welcome to another episode of Nostologic Mystery Radio.

I'm your host Stevie K.

And it's my honor to bring you the radio shows of guest year.

For today's episode, I bring you the Adventures of Philip Marlowe, episode titled The Promise to Pay,

originally aired May 14th, 1949, where a young businessman hires Marlowe, after he's blackmailed over a marker he gave to a gambler that could ruin his career.

So sit back and relax, and I hope you enjoy this installed at Bustery Radio.

Thank you for listening.

It was only a gambler's marker, a promise to pay worth $1,000.

And I was hired to find it, which sounded easy, until I realized that it meant the whole future to two men,

freedom to a third, and death to the girl in the cottage.

From the pen of Raymond Chandler, outstanding author of crime fiction,

comes his most famous character in The Adventures of Philip Marlowe.

Now, with Gerald Moore, starred as Philip Marlowe, we bring you tonight's exciting story,

The Promise to pay.

It started over a bottle of port at 5 o'clock in the afternoon.

When Mama Nodella, a proud old lady, who ran a restaurant,

bet me I couldn't prepare a dish of chicken, cacciatore.

I never pass up a bed.

So at 5.30, I picked up a can of chicken, and at six had gone to work on it.

At a quarter after seven, everything was ready for the pan,

and my enthusiasm was at a high air until the telephone rang. And what I thought was a check call from Mama Nodella,

turned out instead to be Garfield Randall. He was a used to be client, who at 32, was currently

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