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The Grim Hunters

Adventures of Philip Marlowe · March 12, 1949 · 29 min · 5,358 words

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It was a hunt through a jungle of city streets, but danger waiting at every intersection Until halfway through when the hunters became the hunters and death brought an end to the game From the pen of Raymond Chandler outstanding author of crime fiction comes his most famous character as CBS presents The adventures of Philip Marlow

Now with Gerald Moore starred as Philip Marlow. We bring you tonight's exciting story the Grim Hunters morning paper at headline prices rising my bank statement in the afternoon mail had worn balance falling and I had wasted the evening on behalf of a client who ran out on me when I tried to collect all of which added up to the end of the

day and me unhappy in my office at 10 p.m. with one hand on my checkbook and the other one raised in almost solemn mode. I Philip Marlow private detective and too often public servant hereby resolved to one way or another jockey might budget into something close to equilibrium.

And from this day, hello, Marlow speaking. My name is Helen Palmer Marlow. I need your help badly. Yeah, but look, I'm up at 8,700 Magnolia Terrace in the Hollywood Hills. Now please, drop whatever you're doing.

And no, no, no. I must have let go of the phone, grab my head and coat opening, close the office door, pile into my car outside and race up into the Hollywood Hills, because the next thing I remember after Helen Palmer's scream was swinging off North Bronson Drive under Magnolia Terrace.

But a minute later, when I screeched to a stop away from number 8700, scrambled out from under the wheel and started on the run for the front door. I was no longer sure of anything.

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