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When it comes to hard-boiled crime fiction, fewer did wrote it better than Raymond Chandler. One of the titans of the genre, Chandler penned dozens of pulp stories before he introduced his signature character of private eye Philip Marlowe. We\\u2019ll hear a pair of Marlowe\\u2019s radio adventures starring Gerald Mohr \\u2013 \\u201cThe Baton Sinister\\u201d (originally aired on CBS on September 17, 1949) and \\u201cThe Long Way Home\\u201d (originally aired on CBS on August 4, 1951). Then we\\u2019ll hear \\u201cPearls are a Nuisance,\\u201d an adaptation of a Chandler short story and originally aired on Suspense (originally aired on CBS on April 19, 1945).