The Soft Spot

Get this and get it straight crime is a suckers road knows who travel it wind up in the gut of the prison of the grave There's no other end, but they never learn From the pen of Raymond transfer outstanding author of crime fiction comes his most famous character in The adventures of Philip Marlow

Now with Gerald Moore start his Philip Marlow. We bring you tonight's exciting story the soft spot and so much for the news from abroad Here in Los Angeles, two persons were killed in eight injured today, and three separate automobile accidents attributed directly to the thick fog that has blanketed the city ever since yesterday morning.

And according to the weather bureau, the fog which is rolling in from the sea will be with us for... Ah, smog, everything's cocky. Hello. Philip Marlow please, Erlan Lee speaking. This is Marlow. How are you Mr. Hanley? How's the newspaper circulation business?

How about zooming, Philip? Oh, er, look Marlow. Can you come out to my joint in the last village Boulevard? is full of art 3810 I'd like you to work for me again and you write your own ticket as usual no no thanks they play too rough in your league handling the sides is a bum night to ride around in a cold newspaper truck watching out for

hijack no no no no no no no it's nothing like that this is personal business oh yeah it's an old man who's disappeared I'd like you to find it Still a dark night. W your feet.

I see a light, Mr. Hanley. MUSIC Outside the city was wrapped up tight in the kind of wet ceiling zero fog that leaves your feeling damp and all alone. Hanley's joint on Los Felis was an old English stone mansion.