Hello and welcome to Nostalgia Mystery Radio.

I'm your host, Stevie K.

And I'm honored to bring you the radio shows

of yesteryear. For this episode, I bring you the adventures of Philip Marlowe in The Long Rope,

originally aired February 5th, 1949, where Marlowe is hired by an elderly man to transport a string of pearls to Chicago,

but arrives to find the man who hired him dead and the pearls missing.

So sit back and relax and enjoy this nostalgic mystery radio.

Thank you for listening.

A man with a bad heart.

A telephone number scribble and a cash register receipt and a corpse on the other side of town.

But I couldn't see the connection between them until I realized that they were all tied together by the same long rope worth $30,000.

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 Long Rope The Long Rope.

I'd finally wound up a sour case in which I'd been kicked around, disillusioned, and short-changed.

And in my book, a routine like that calls for relaxation.

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