The Busy Body

Get this and get it straight. Crime as a sucker's road knows who travel and wind up in the gut of the prism of the grave. There's no other end, but they never learn. This time it started as a routine search for a rich girl's fiancé and the trail led to a silent house haunted by a face at the window and blood in an open cedar chest.

But before it was over it became a search for a corpse that wouldn't sit still. From the pan of Raymond Tranfer, outstanding author of Mystery Comes, his most famous character and crime's most deadly enemy.

deadly enemy as we present the adventures of Philip Marlow. Now with Gerald Moore, star is Philip Marlow, we bring you tonight's exciting story, The Busy Body. And jerk me up off my back and out of the sports page at 9.30 in the evening of an already too long day.

On the other end was a warm, feminine voice, aged with a kind of self-assurance that means money and lots of it. But the words were both hurried and panicky, so... After I hung up, I reluctantly waited through the sports section with my feet instead of my eyes.

And headed for the coffee shop at Franklin and Bronson, where my new client would identify herself as Liz Stewart said she'd be waiting. A pair of blue eyes at a table in the corner measured me from haircut to shoelaces.

So I took the cue and walked over. After we introduced ourselves, I was waved into the chair opposite her. She leaned toward me and started with a rush. Mr. Motto, I've got to find a man named Dean Howard as soon as possible.