The Orange Dog

A startled corpse, a blue-eyed woman in a cryptic message scrawled by a dying man, with a pieces of a Chinese puzzle that wouldn't fit together, until I found out what was deadly about the Orange Dog.

From the fan 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 Orange Dog.

By six in the evening of a very slow day. I'd resigned myself to the business of no business. So I took my feet down for my desk, switched off the lights and started out the door for home with a prospect of a nice quiet evening ahead of me.

But I didn't make it. Even as far as the door. Oh. Oh. Philip Mallow. Mallow, my... My sister is in a jam, a nasty one. Well Miss Martin, as a matter of fact, I was just closing up for the night.

Look, you. I need the services of a private detective right now this minute. Yeah, okay, and thanks for the reminder. That's me, you hear, sprinting up your front walk. That was the end of my quiet evening.

But I just couldn't resist those government engravings of Mr. Lincoln. So I drove down to Weston, turned off on Los Fieles, and found the number 8412. The yard was an overgrown tangle of perennial plants losing their battle with the weeds.

It was like a girl in a strapless evening garden with a hair up in curlers. However, I could see a light through the Venetian blinds and the doorbell works. The resident took tone chime because the door opened just far enough to...