This is Case closed, an hour of mystery and crime from the Golden Age of Radio every Wednesday at Relicradio.com.

Our first story comes from the adventures of Philip Marlowe this week.

We'll hear the Indian Giver from August 13, 1949.

After that, it's yours truly Johnny Dollar.

And the weather or not matter, that story aired July 15, 1962.

Get this and get it straight. Crime is a sucker's road, and those who travel had wind up in the

gutter, the prison of the grave. It started with an Indian gift of a piece of pottery and led to a

brown bear in moccasins, an archaeologist, much water, and finally, death in an alley.

But just to make matters worse, the Indian giver was a female and 100% genuine hot-blooded Apache.

From the pen of Raymond Chandler, outstanding author of mystery, comes his most famous character

and crime's most deadly enemy, as we present...

The Adventures of Philip Marlowe.

Now with Gerald Moore

starred as Philip Marlowe,

we bring you tonight's exciting story,

The Indian Giver.

By day, the industrial heart of any city is just so much steel and stone streets, jammed full with a raucous sounds of a thousand and one different machines.

But by night, all of that is gone, and there are only endless, smooth-sided, lonely canyons that overflow with a steady humming silence that everywhere hangs like a distant echo of the day that's passed.

And Los Angeles was no exception at nine o'clock at night as I pulled up and parked in front of a graced curtain storefront on a deserted downtown street.

It marked the showroom of the wholesale curio dealer who would telephone my office an hour earlier.

And in a Dutch accent laced tight with worry, it urged me to call on him at once.

A raised gold lettering on a side door that showed a strip of yellow light at the threshold.

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