The Old Acquaintance

When it started a girl's wedding in New Year's Eve were only six hours away And I didn't think the bride to be would make either one of them But that was before I ran up against the slot machine operator the escape convict and above all the old acquaintance From the pan of Raymond Chandler outstanding author of crime fiction comes his most famous character as CBS presents

the adventures of Philip Marlow and Now with Gerald Moore starred as Philip Marlow We bring you tonight's exciting story, the old acquaintance. At six o'clock in the last evening of the year, I was sitting with my feet up on my office desk thinking of impossible new years resolutions and what the girl on my butchers 1949 calendar would not be wearing.

But at that present point, there was a soft, almost apologetic knock at my office door. I said, Cuminin saw a quiet man in quiet clothes, so extended a quiet hand. He introduced himself as Paul Reicher, a Beverly Hills insurance broker.

But the tremor in his voice said very worried client, which I knew Year's Eve was something I could do without. Mr. Marlow, you've got to find Nancy Marshall for me. Just for a springboard, Mr. Reicher, who is Nancy Marshall?

She's my fiancé. We were to be married at my place in Beverly Hills tonight. I knew Year's Eve? Yes, you see it was at a New Year's Eve party a year ago that we met for the first time.

Oh, when's your last year from her? Two hours ago. He called and said that she was in terrible trouble that nobody, especially the police, could help her that the wedding was off. I see. You're sure it's not just a matter of you being left at the altar.