Private investigator Philip Marlowe has a quiet evening interrupted when a man is shot dead in a nearby bar before asking about a beautiful woman in a distinctive jacket. When the same woman appears at Marlowe's apartment building, she draws him into a complex case involving stolen pearls, blackmail, and murder. As bodies pile up and secrets unravel, Marlowe must navigate between protecting the woman and uncovering the truth.With Philip Marlowe, Lola Bosseline, Waldo, Baldy, Leon Velasanos, Frank Bartley, Eugenie Colchenko, Lieutenant Ibarra.Listen for: The atmospheric description of the desert wind's effect on the city and its people; Marlowe's hard-boiled narration as he pieces together the blackmail scheme; the revelation that the pearls Lola treasured are actually phony glass.First aired on September 26, 1948 on NBC.Episode notes written with AI from the recording itself; the audio is the original broadcast.Free, complete and restored, no modern ads. A new episode every week: The Adventures of Philip Marlowe on Stupid Potato, live around the clock.Stupid Potato restores classic radio and TV audio and runs 60 free 24/7 channels and 189 podcasts: old-time radio westerns, detectives, comedy, science fiction and suspense, vintage TV, Saturday-morning cartoons, Halloween and Christmas. No modern ads. Listen free at stupidpotato.com.