The Fatted Calf

Get this and get it straight. Crime is a sucker's road, no two travel it wind up in the gut of the prison of the graves. This time rain's slashing a glass roof, an old man's curiosity, and an imaginary imp out of place.

They all became important when two people died violently so a third could make a killing. From the pen of Raymond Chandler, outstanding author of Crime Fiction comes his most famous character in... The Adventures of Philip Marlow.

Now with Gerald Moore, star is Philip Marlowe, we bring you tonight's exciting story, The Fattered Cat. The first film of the season came as a surprise. It always does in LA where somehow or other people are never ready for it.

It's funny in a town where people are ready for anything. Where every year the opening slash of lightning stands nerves on edge and cracks composure like it was so much dreads in China. And by five o'clock in an afternoon of driving rain in thick grey sky I was no exception.

There wasn't help anybody by the arrival of a special delivery letter. A hundred-dollar bill in clothes which dragged me out of my suddenly cozy office, ate in my car and over to Studio City in the San Fernando Valley.

Where according to the letter Junius Poppy the veteran kazoomis and creator of the Impish Peter Pajan comic strip wanted to see me at once. But as I wound up the spiral of McCatham coals since we're at drive to a number 3840, I forgot about the storm around me, and wondered instead about the man I was going to meet.

Wonder just how many parts pixie the originator of a half leprechaun, half very funny human being who tickled the nation's satiric funny bone daily from coast to coast was going to be. And when I was parked in front of the place, which was a few million raindrops bouncing off a roof that was all glass, out of my car and going to the front door, I had made up