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Podcast: Nostalgic Mystery Radio
Episode: Ep.7 The Adventures of Philip Marlowe: The Long Rope
Description: 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 Long Rope: Marlowe is hired by an elderly man to transport a string of pearls to Chicago but arrives to find the man who hired him dead and the pearls missing. Originally aired February 5, 1949.Support the show