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Welcome to The Marlow Files, a show that brings you classic noir detective stories from the golden age of radio. Rediscover the hard-boiled world of Raymond Chandler's iconic private eye...
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Welcome to The Marlow Files, a show that brings you classic noir detective stories from the golden age of radio. Rediscover the hard-boiled world of Raymond Chandler's iconic private eye through these re-broadcasts of the beloved radio program. First airing in 1947, The Adventures of Philip Marlowe became one of radio's most celebrated detective series, known for its sharp dialogue, atmospheric storytelling, and compelling mysteries. Follow Philip Marlowe, brought to life by talented radio actors, as he navigates the mean streets of Los Angeles, solving cases that take him from penthouses to dive bars, uncovering secrets, lies, and deadly schemes along the way. What sets Philip Marlowe apart is its noir atmosphere, witty narration, and complex plots that keep you guessing until the very end. Each episode delivers a complete mystery filled with memorable characters, dangerous dames, and the kind of tough-talking detective work that defined the genre. Whether you're a longtime fan of old-time radio or discovering these classic mysteries for the first time, The Adventures of Philip Marlowe promises to deliver suspenseful entertainment and a nostalgic journey through one of radio's most iconic detective series. Tune in and let the mysteries of Philip Marlowe captivate your imagination.
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15 FEB 2026 · On a night when the hot Santa Ana winds blow trouble into Los Angeles, private detective Philip Marlowe stumbles into a barroom killing that quickly turns personal. A small-time hood named Waldo is gunned down, leaving behind stolen money, a trail of blackmail, and a terrified woman desperate to recover a priceless necklace tied to a lost wartime love. As Marlowe navigates jealous husbands, hired killers, and double-crosses fueled by greed and grief, the case peels back layers of illusion—ending with a quiet, bittersweet reckoning on the edge of the Pacific.
Originally aired: June 17, 1947.
Cast: Van Heflin, Lorreen Tuttle, Wendell Niles
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2 FEB 2026 · When a small-time hood named Waldo turns up riddled with bullets, private detective Philip Marlowe is hired to untangle a case no one else wants. The trail leads through cheap nightclubs, frightened witnesses, and a tangle of double-crosses involving stolen money and misplaced loyalties. As suspects pile up and alibis crumble, Marlowe pieces together the truth behind a killing that was never as simple as it first appeared. Originally aired: June 12, 1947.
Cast: Gerald Mohr, Virginia Gregg, Lawrence Dobkin, Parley Baer, Howard McNear
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17 JAN 2026 · Hired to keep a reckless young millionaire out of trouble, private detective Philip Marlowe heads to a county fair where a daredevil parachute act hides more than cheap thrills. When one of the performers plunges to her death before a stunned crowd, Marlowe uncovers sabotage, jealousy, and murder behind the colorful spectacle. As rivalries and greed collide midair, Marlowe races to stop a killer before another fatal “accident” claims its next victim.
Originally aired: November 26, 1949.
Cast:
Gerald Mohr, Lois Corbett, Rita Lynn, Don Randolph, Junius Matthews, Jack Moyles Tags:
PhilipMarlowe, RaymondChandler, privateeye, noir, mystery, murder, investigation, parachute, carnival, jealousy, sabotage, Hollywood, crimefiction, suspense, detective, classicradio
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7 DEC 2025 · In this episode of The Adventures of Philip Marlowe, a blinding blizzard forces Marlowe off a mountain road and straight into a lodge filled with people who despise him—because six months earlier he killed Virgil Boraki in self-defense. What should have been a routine night of shelter becomes a suffocating trap of grief, resentment, and looming violence. Inside the isolated lodge, Marlowe meets Virgil’s embittered widow Helen, his stern mother, the volatile young Donna, and Ralph—Virgil’s hot-headed friend who makes no secret of wanting Marlowe dead. When an explosion destroys the cabin Marlowe is meant to sleep in, it’s clear someone is done waiting for the storm to finish the job. As tension rises, Marlowe uncovers the truth: Helen, pushed beyond sanity by loneliness and rage, engineered the “accident,” stole Marlowe’s gun, and built a meticulous plan to frame him—even planting evidence to make her own murder look like Marlowe pulled the trigger. Her obsession spirals into a full breakdown, and only Donna’s intervention prevents a tragedy. But the cruelest truth is the one Marlowe saves for last—Virgil had been in love with another woman, and his dying wish was that Helen never learn it. Protecting that secret becomes Marlowe’s final act of mercy toward a family already broken by loss. A haunting, snowbound thriller where guilt echoes louder than the storm outside, and Marlowe must fight not just for his life—but for the chance to walk away with anyone’s humanity intact.
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7 DEC 2025 · In this episode of The Adventures of Philip Marlowe, a quiet Christmas Eve turns into a whirlwind of double-cross, murder, and international intrigue—all centered around a mysterious relic known as the Sword of Cebu. When Marlowe is visited first by a desperate stranger waving money and then by his old client Henry Polne, he’s pulled into a tangle involving a murdered pearl dealer in Manila, a smuggler with a temper, and a beautiful blonde who lies as easily as she breathes. The sword—an ornate, hand-carved ceremonial blade—turns out to be more than a curio. Hidden in its sheath is a list of black-market contacts worth killing for, and several people already have: Polne’s partner in Manila, a Romanian thug named Bebesco, and a red-haired gunman who won’t hesitate to add Marlowe to the pile. The blonde—Clara Saunders—tries to outplay everyone by stealing the sword and selling it to the highest bidder, but she’s only one move ahead until the bodies start dropping faster than she can improvise. As Marlowe pieces the truth together, he uncovers the real puppeteer: Henry Polne himself, who engineered the Manila murder, hired Marlowe as unwitting cover, and planned to eliminate every associate between him and a clean escape. But his final ambush collapses when Marlowe shows up with a different “friend” behind the curtain than Polne expected—and the killer’s careful scheme finally caves in on him. A fast, exotic, and deadly story where everyone reaches for the prize, but only Marlowe walks away intact.
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7 DEC 2025 · In this episode of The Adventures of Philip Marlowe, a half-dead Marlowe is jolted from a few minutes’ sleep by a terrified young woman named Carolyn Shepherd—beautiful, shaken, and certain that a man has been following her for weeks. But before Marlowe can even pour the coffee, she vanishes out of his apartment without a sound, leaving only her wallet behind. When he hunts down her address, Marlowe finds that Carolyn has been lying about nearly everything: her name, her residence, even the people she claims to know. A roommate named Dee Dee is frantic, a cigar-smoking stalker jumps Marlowe in broad daylight, and a landlady who never sleeps hands out cryptic clues. Every thread Marlowe pulls only tightens the knot. Then Carolyn cracks. In a moment of hysteria, she begins begging a ghost named Steve to leave her alone—insisting he’s dead, insisting she killed him. That’s when the pieces snap into place. A call from Barstow confirms the truth: her husband, Stephen Shepherd, was murdered months earlier, and Carolyn fled town. The “blackmailer” she’d been paying was no friend—just a man who saw a chance to milk a killer who’d come apart at the seams. In the end, Marlowe realizes the figure haunting Carolyn wasn’t a stalker at all. It was her own mind—guilt, fear, and a memory she could no longer outrun. A grim, unsettling tale where the real villain is conscience itself, and where a beautiful woman’s descent into madness becomes the final evidence of the crime she tried so hard to bury.
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7 DEC 2025 · In this episode of The Adventures of Philip Marlowe, a simple missing-person search turns into a deadly game of impersonation, cover-ups, and a murder that was never supposed to see daylight. Marlowe is hired by a polite, too-slick Philadelphia lawyer named Martin Almond to find a man named Buff Ryan—an easy job on the surface, since Buff has allegedly inherited $5,000 from a deceased aunt. But when Marlowe starts knocking on doors, people get nervous, lies pile up fast, and everyone connected to Buff seems to be running from something. Buff himself is a Skid Row wino with a bad past and worse friends, including Blossom—the glamorous burlesque dancer who still loves him—and a twisted tough who shadows Marlowe through back alleys and theater catwalks. But the biggest twist comes when Marlowe checks Buff’s police jacket: Buff is also known as C.A. Douglas… and as a key witness in the unsolved murder of his own Aunt Julie Leader. That’s when Marlowe realizes the truth: lawyer Martin Almond isn’t here to give Buff an inheritance—he’s here to kill the only witness who can tie him to murder. Marlowe races Blossom to Buff’s hiding place in time to stop Almond from finishing the job, leading to a tense standoff that finally exposes the killer for who he is. In the end, Buff isn’t a crook on the run—just a scared man who saw too much and drank himself numb trying to forget it. With Almond exposed and justice finally in reach, Buff and Blossom get a chance to start over, trading Skid Row for a clean slate and—maybe—something like happiness. A sharp, fast-moving tale of deception, identity, and the dangerous price of being the one man who knows the truth.
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7 DEC 2025 · In this episode of The Adventures of Philip Marlowe, a harmless complaint from a lonely old neighbor explodes into a dark mystery of secrets, broken families, and a killer hiding in plain sight. Lucille Bellows swears she’s been hearing strange tapping sounds from the vacant bungalow next door—tapping that shouldn’t exist, because its tenant, studio grip Clint Rogers, is out on location. When Marlowe investigates, he finds Rogers suddenly home… nervous, exhausted, and hiding something he won’t talk about. Hours later, gunshots shatter the quiet court, leaving Rogers bleeding on his kitchen floor. As Marlowe digs in, the cracks widen—literally. A split in the shared wall suggests someone was searching for a hidden stash, and everyone in the little bungalow court becomes a suspect. There’s Lucille’s vanished husband, Homer, sniffing around for money in their long-soured marriage. There’s Barbara Curtis, the woman Rogers won’t marry and won’t explain why. And then there’s Bud—Barbara’s “friend” from Ohio whose story doesn’t quite match the fear in Rogers’ eyes. The truth finally breaks when Marlowe uncovers a strongbox hidden above the closet and a newspaper clipping revealing the real danger: Clint’s brother, Thomas Rogers—an escaped murderer—had tracked him down under a false name. Bud isn’t a friend from back home; he is the brother, hunting for the loot he believes Clint hid. He’s also the one who shot Rogers. In a tense showdown, Marlowe disarms Bud and exposes the whole rotten secret while Barbara learns the burden Clint carried alone for years. In the end, she chooses to stand by him—not out of pity, but out of love strong enough to weather even the unsoundness of family tragedy. A moody, emotional story where the sounds in the night aren’t ghosts—they’re warnings—and where the real crime is the weight of a past no one can outrun.
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7 DEC 2025 · In this episode of The Adventures of Philip Marlowe, a planned fishing getaway gets derailed when Marlowe is dragged into a slick, high-class con built on fear, fortune-telling, and a very convenient crystal ball. Lillian Collins hires him to recover her “stolen” jewelry—pieces she quietly removed from a bank vault to cover gambling debts. The story smells wrong from the start, and Marlowe quickly discovers she’s been visiting a mysterious hilltop house where a psychic medium and her partners run an elaborate racket: scare wealthy women with ominous “visions,” convince them their jewels aren’t safe, and then steal them the moment the victims bring them home. When Marlowe gets too close, the gang knocks him out with ether and dumps him miles away. Worse yet, Lillian herself is taken hostage to keep her quiet. With help from a small-time crook named Cookie, Marlowe turns the tables—crashing a getaway, forcing a showdown at the séance house, and holding the whole crooked crew at gunpoint until the police arrive. In the end, the fortune-tellers didn’t see their own fate coming: a pile of stolen jewels recovered, a roomful of nervous socialites lining up to reclaim them, and another vacation ruined for Marlowe by the irresistible lure of trouble.
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3 DEC 2025 · In this episode of The Adventures of Philip Marlowe, a sweltering Los Angeles afternoon pulls Marlowe into a heartbreaking story of love, pride, and the kind of trouble only a family can hide. It starts when Marlowe visits his friend Alex Lesnarvitch, a gentle old fruit seller worried sick about his son, Dom—angry, reckless, and clearly drowning in something deeper than just teenage rebellion. As Marlowe noses around, he discovers Dom’s spending his time with a truck driver named Carl and getting himself into fights that are less “youthful temper” and more “slow-motion disaster.” But the real shock comes when Helena—Alex’s daughter, long believed to be thriving in San Francisco—suddenly shows up on Marlowe’s doorstep. She isn’t the bright, promising young woman anyone remembers. She’s sick, emotionally shattered, and hiding from the people who love her most. Dom and Carl have been secretly covering for her, writing letters to Alex so he won’t worry, and trying desperately to help her without breaking the old man’s heart. Marlowe steps in, arranges care for Helena at a private sanitarium, and helps Dom create a gentler story to protect Alex—a father whose whole world rests on his children. In the end, Dom isn’t a delinquent at all. He’s a scared kid carrying far more than he can handle, trying to save his sister the only way he knows how. A tender, human story where the mystery isn’t about crime—it’s about the hidden battles families fight behind closed doors, and the quiet heroism of a young man’s love.
Welcome to The Marlow Files, a show that brings you classic noir detective stories from the golden age of radio. Rediscover the hard-boiled world of Raymond Chandler's iconic private eye...
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Welcome to The Marlow Files, a show that brings you classic noir detective stories from the golden age of radio. Rediscover the hard-boiled world of Raymond Chandler's iconic private eye through these re-broadcasts of the beloved radio program. First airing in 1947, The Adventures of Philip Marlowe became one of radio's most celebrated detective series, known for its sharp dialogue, atmospheric storytelling, and compelling mysteries. Follow Philip Marlowe, brought to life by talented radio actors, as he navigates the mean streets of Los Angeles, solving cases that take him from penthouses to dive bars, uncovering secrets, lies, and deadly schemes along the way. What sets Philip Marlowe apart is its noir atmosphere, witty narration, and complex plots that keep you guessing until the very end. Each episode delivers a complete mystery filled with memorable characters, dangerous dames, and the kind of tough-talking detective work that defined the genre. Whether you're a longtime fan of old-time radio or discovering these classic mysteries for the first time, The Adventures of Philip Marlowe promises to deliver suspenseful entertainment and a nostalgic journey through one of radio's most iconic detective series. Tune in and let the mysteries of Philip Marlowe captivate your imagination.
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