Ep.140 The Adventures of Philip Marlowe: The Old Acquaintance

from Nostalgic Mystery Radio · host Stevie K.

Get this and get it straight. Crime is a sucker's road and those who travel it wind up in the gutter, the prison or the grave.Philip Marlowe was Los Angeles's toughest detective in the groundbreaking series by Raymond Chandler that helped establish the "hard-boiled" detective subgenre.The Old Acquaintance: A good action story about an escaped convict and the two women in his life. Originally aired December 26th,1948.Support the show

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