The Name to Remember: The Adventures of Philip Marlowe (April 9, 1949)

“The Name to Remember” is an episode of The Adventures of Philip Marlowe, the old-time radio show, first broadcast April 9, 1949. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Philip Marlowe is hired by Eddie Malitz, a war surplus businessman, to find out information about a mysterious man. When Marlowe visits Eddie's house to investigate, he encounters a violent stranger in a t-shirt who punches him and flees after getting what he came for. Marlowe then discovers Eddie's girlfriend Ruth Dunn at the house, and together they find Eddie dead in the garage with a crushed skull. Now Marlowe must uncover the connection between Eddie's death, the violent stranger, and a man named Clay from Nevada.

Los Angeles, primarily Eddie Malitz's home and surrounding areas, with connections to Mexico City and Nevada.

Characters: Philip Marlowe, Eddie Malitz, Ruth Dunn, Lieutenant Ibarra, Tina Malitz, Lou Tripp, The Man in the T-shirt

Listen for: The mystery of who the man in the t-shirt is and what he was searching for in Eddie's house; the significance of Ruth Dunn's letters and the man named Clay from Nevada.

Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.