This is case closed, crime stories from the Golden Age of Radio.

With another hour of mystery and crime from the Golden Age of Radio, this is case closed.

Welcome back. Thanks for joining me this Wednesday. We're going to start off with the adventures of Philip Marlowe this week.

We'll hear Life Can Be Murder from July 21st, 1951. After that, it's yours truly Johnny Dollar and the Rat Pack Matter.

That story aired April 23, 1961.

Most Saturdays at this time, we spent an exciting half hour of adventure and action with America's public hero number one, hop-along Cassidy.

Well, even two-fisted cowboys take summer vacations when they can, and Hoppy is no exception.

Hopalong and Topper will be back with us riding the CBS Air Trails again, nine weeks in tonight, September 22nd.

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

There's no other end.

But they never learn.

From the pen of Raymond Chandler,

outstanding author of crime fiction,

comes his most famous character in

The Adventures of Philip Marlowe.

The... Now, with Gerald Moore,

We bring you tonight's exciting story

Wife Can Be Murdered.

Life can be murdered.

The sign in the half light above the entrance reads Bells trifle in.

If you say it fast enough, you may be right.

It's authentic English script and it hangs over the door of an authentic English restaurant just south of the authentic sunset script, owned and bot-headed by Bell Smithers.

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