The Tale of the Mermaid

Get this and get it straight. Crime is a sucker's road and those who travel it wind up in the gutter the prison of the grave. This started with a wreck and went from there to double murder over 75,000 bucks worth of glitter that nobody got in the inn.

Because I found out just in time what was fishy about the tale of the mermaid. 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 starred as Philip Marlowe, we bring you tonight's exciting story, The Tale of the Mermaid. I'm 30, I was still in my office tucking in the loose ends on a report. While I listen with half an ear to the fabric of city sounds rising from the street below.

Fabric ripped suddenly by tires clawing concrete. The shattering crash that followed rocking into my feet. It was a traffic accident, a bad one. I ran to the window but it had happened around the corner out of sight for my office.

I watched others run for it and remembered grimly that every 30 seconds somewhere in the country, a thing like that happened. And one out of every 16 minutes was fatal. I wondered it would've been chewed up in a chromium meat grind of this time as I listened to first the proof.

And the emergency ambulance and finally, the scavenger truck cleaned the wreck off the street. After that, I went back to my report again and tried to forget about it. But an hour later that same accident came back into my office.

Mr. Marlowe. Yeah. This is Corey Riggs. Yes, Mr. Riggs. I'm a nurse at the Warwick Emergency Hospital. Oh, huh. About an hour ago, a mailing for you. For me? He was badly injured in an automobile accident on Coengan, his way to your office.