Welcome back to Case Closed. Our weekly hour of mystery and crime begins with the adventures of Philip Marlow this week.

We'll hear the Good Neighbor Policy from July 28, 1951.

After that, it's Dragnet and the Big Building. That episode aired June 14th, 1951.

Get this and get it straight. Crime is a sucker's road.

Those who travel at wind up in the gutter, the prison, or the grave.

There's no other end.

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.

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

The Good Neighbor Policy.

The day was hot and sticky.

City wore it like a wet shirt.

To make things worse, there was a xylophone playing somewhere in the building,

and that started me thinking about my neighbors.

Mostly I was thinking two things about them.

One, I didn't know any of them.

And two, I'd like to shake the hand to the fellow that banged that xylophone day and

night and break it.

Not a very neighborly thought, but then it had been one of those days.

You know the kind that prompts the neighbors to set the dogs on each other.

Ah, but now the sun had called it today.

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