The Hiding Place

Get this and get it straight. Crime is as suck as road. Those 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 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 Hiding Place. Brown's gift shop. Oh, yes, yes, Mr. Waltman.

The book ends? Well, let me see now. That was the little Dutch figurines, Waltman's boy and the girl. All right, fine. Well, I'll have to... Oh. Hold... Hold the line a minute, Mr. Waltman. Tomorrow, you...

You're back. Yes, Mrs. Bryant. Did you find him, Mr. Marlow? Did you find Chipper? Chipper is dead, Mrs. Bryant. Oh. Take it easy, Mrs. Bryant, maybe, but I sit down here. No, no. I'm all right.

There's a customer waiting on the phone, I'll finish that. Then I want you to tell me everything you found out about my son. Sure, sure. I'll only be alone. As Martha Bryant went for the telephone, I braced myself for the story I had to tell her.

I tried to figure some last minute way of making hard facts a little softer for a sweet brave, gray-haired lady. I deserved a better break. I first thought about what had happened brought the whole of a business rushing back at me again.

Turned my mind back like a clock to where it had all begun yesterday morning in my office. And that same Martha Bryan, full of hope and quiet courage, walked up to my desk, handed me a letter and asked me to find her son.