The Eager Witness

Get this and get it straight. Crime is a sucker's road, and those who travel had wind up in the gut of the prism of the grave. This started with a man on trial for his life, and an A1 citizen eager to testify.

But there it was interrupted, and it wasn't until I found a corpse in a bubbling bath, gunplay in the woods, and lots of blackmail that the real ego witness had a chance to talk. From the pen of Raymond Chandler, outstanding author of Mystery Comes, his most famous character and crimes most deadly enemy as we present the

adventures of Philip Marlow now with Gerald Moore star is Philip Marlow we bring you tonight's exciting story the eager witness California for the county of Los Angeles now in session the honorable Albert Winston judge presiding everybody rise it was the case of the people versus the The afterrested never convicted, small, Earl Jernigan, sometimes bookie, charged in the

first degree with a month old killing of a kindly grey-haired horse trainer named Kurt Hopper, who had once almost been my client. It was the afternoon of the fourth day of the trial, and the prosecutor for the state had already built an almost airtight case against the alleged gambler when my turn finally

came. So Father substantiate the state's claim that Earl Jernigan did willfully and with malleth of four thought take the life of the deceased Kurt Harper. Will Mr. Philip Marlow take the stand? Raise your right hand.

I'm sorry to talk to you from my true self-guard. I do. Take your name and occupation. Philip Marlow, private technique. Stand. Mr. Marlow, on the morning of the 30th day of July last, the day on which the late Kurt Harper was murdered, were you hired as a private detective by the set Mr. Harper?