About this episode
Get this and get it straight. Crime is a sucker's road and those who travel it wind up in the gutter, the prison or the grave. Philip Marlowe was Los Angeles's toughest detective in the groundbreaking series by Raymond Chandler that helped establish the "hard-boiled" detective subgenre. The Eager Witness : Marlowe tracks down the real killer after a witness at a trial seems to be too eager to testify. Originally aired August 27th,1949 . Support the show