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Sound and the Unsound

Adventures of Philip Marlowe · September 15, 1951 · 29 min · 5,016 words

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Most Saturdays at this time we spend an exciting half hour of adventure and action with America's public hero number one, Hop Along Cassidy. Well, even two fisted cowboys take summer vacations when they can, and Hoppe is no exception.

But Hop Along and Topper will be back with us riding the CDS air trails again one week from tonight, September 22nd. Get this and get it straight. Crime is a sucker's road, nose will travel and wind up in the gut of the prison of the grave.

There's no other end, but they never learn. From the pan of Raymond Chandler, Outstanding Author of Crime Fiction, comes his most famous character in... The Adventures of Philip Marlowe. Now, with Gerald Moore, star to Philip Marlowe, we bring you tonight's exciting story...

The Sound and the Unsound. You know, in my business you get to the point where you think you've seen everything. In fact, you get there at least twice a week. This time I was sure of it.

It was 10 o'clock at night and stretched across my apartment door was the settee that customarily covered the frayed carpet about 10 paces down the hall. And stretched across the settee was a sturdy female in her twilight years.

She was sound asleep. Hey, hey lady, hey lady come alive. The madam, madam you're sleeping in my doorway. Oh, oh evening mister Marlon. What must have dozed off? What time is it? About ten. May I ask what's the idea?

Oh, ten o'clock, you don't say? Yeah. Well, it wouldn't have slept. I don't suppose except the lights bad in this hole, not fit for reading, Mr. Marlow. Yeah, well, I'll speak to the landlady. Now, what is...

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