The Green Flame

When it started, it was simple, just a lawsuit for damages. But before it was over, it was far from simple and the damages were murder. All because a red-headed woman, a ghost writer with ambition, and a match that burned with a bright green flame.

From the pen of Raymond Chandler, outstanding author of Crime Fiction, comes his most famous character as C.B.A.S. presents... The Adventures of Philip Marlowe. Now, with Gerald Moore, starred as Philip Marlowe, we bring you tonight's exciting story.

The Green Flame. It had been the kind of early start late finish crowded in between day that it made breakfast coffee, lunch a hand sandwich on the run, and dinner and nothing. So by the time it finally ended it was pushing nine o'clock, and I was both a little tired and a lot hungry.

All of which made the feast I could imagine spread out in front of me over an emerald green tablecloth. Something better than good enough to eat. Blue Point oysters on a half shell, a Caesar salad.

Beel, Scallopini, top with mushrooms the size of silver dollars. Oh, I was ready for it. Yes. Yes, well, the oysters once again became a blue ash trade. The Scallopian output. A green cloth underneath all.

My desk lollar. Hello, Marlowe speaking. Don't eat with Marlowe, ever hear me? I have. I've also heard you own half a dozen screen magazines, a local radio station, and a daily published for the motion picture industry called the Hollywood Trades.

Is that covered? Not quite. Today I acquired something else. A libel suit for a trades by a hazmatic witch Marlowe is the reason I'm calling you. Huh? Don't drop whatever you're doing boy and get over here in the Whitmar building.