The Open Window

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 terrified woman lost in a maze of memories she couldn't explain.

And waiting for outside an open window was dead. From the pan of Raymond Chandler, outstanding author of Crime Fiction, comes his most famous character in... The Adventures of Philip Marlowe. Now with our star, Gerald Moore, star is Philip Marlowe.

We bring you tonight's exciting story, the open window. California's a year round kind of place. Where each day blends into the next with a sort of sunny indifference. But the one just passed it's been a little special.

It was the cool, crisp autumn weather that reminded you of the east. Where autumn meant kicking your way through needy drips of brown and yellow leaves. Along a rutted country road that hinted to adventure at every turn.

Yeah, that's the kind of day it had been. But now, in little past eight, as I stood at the window of my third floor apartment, I stared out over an up-improved Los Angeles real estate, the house, maybe half a million people at tonight I wanted no part of, because the world was out there minding everybody else's business.

Well, I was in here minding my own. In here, everything was in order and cozy. I could read if I want to, write a letter if I want to, or just relax with... Oh no.

Your name's Philip Mona? Yeah, why? Because I had that name of Mr. Dries written here on this card. I think I was supposed to see you. Do you know me? Well, no, frankly, I don't.