The Monkeys Uncle

Get this and get it straight. Crime is a sucker's road and those who travel it wind up in the gut of the prison of the grave. This time I tangled with a mad scotchman a phony English lord and a beautiful blonde corpse in a freight house All because of a butler who walked on his knuckles. It happened like this

From the pen of Raymond Chandler outstanding author of crime fiction comes his most famous character in The adventures of Philip Marlow now with Gerald Moore starred as Philip Marlow We bring you tonight's exciting story the monkey's uncle This is Marlow Who are you who's Cornelius where you're calling from and about what let's have it a slow step at a time, huh?

All right, lead on McDuff Ashley who? himself across the street. I got to get to it. Mr. Marlow-Hurry meet me in the hotel lobby. Yes, but- Come on, we've got to stop them. They're going to kill Cornelius.

My first reaction was to forget the whole thing. Curiosity is strong stuff with me. Any triumvirate labeled Wesley McDuff Lord Ashley Duke and Cornelius had to add up the screwball, no matter where he started. The word kill was still big in my vocabulary, so I buttoned the The office up quickly got down in my car and drove over to the Beakman Plaza Hotel, where

a 10-minute stand in the lobby produced nothing closer to Worried Scotchman than the plaid covering and a sagging Morris chair. And at the reception desk there was no Wesley McDuff registered or ever heard of.

So at that I was ready to call it quits. I turned for the door, but before I got there I was stopped. The uniform said bellhop and the sprinkle of freckles plus barn cow lakes said all American boy.