This is Case Closed, Crime Stories from the Golden Age of Radio.

Welcome back to Case Closed. We'll begin this show with the Adventures of Philip Marlowe. We'll hear his story from October 8th, 1949, titled The Open Window. After that, it's the adventures of Michael Shane, and the case of the man who couldn't die. That story aired December 12, 1951.

Get this and get it straight.

Crime is a sucker's road and those who travel had wind up in the gutter of the prison of the grave.

This started with a terrified woman lost in a maze of memory she couldn't explain,

and waiting for her outside an open window was dead.

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

comes his most famous character

in The Adventures of Philip Marlowe.

Now with our star, Gerald Moore, starred is Philip Marlowe.

We bring you tonight's exciting story, The Open Window.

Music California is a year-round kind of place, where each day blends into the next with a sort of sunny indifference.

But the one just passed had been a little special.

It was the cool, crisp autumn weather that reminded you of the east, where autumn meant kicking your way through knee-deep drips of brown and yellow leaves, along a rutted country

road that hinted of adventure at every turn. Yeah, that's the kind of a day it had been. But now,

at a little past eight, as I stood at the window of my third floor apartment, stared out over an up-improved Los Angeles real estate to house

maybe half a million people that tonight I wanted no part of.

Because the world was out there minding everybody else's business.

Well, I was in here, minding my own.

In here, everything was in order and cozy.

I could read if I want to.

Write a letter if I want to.

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