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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Sam Stage Detective Agency.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Are you still are?
Speaker 2 (00:29):
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has that girl we gained her facilities?
Speaker 1 (00:38):
I wouldn't all, but are a fang of aser as
good as ever, if you will pardon the expression, mister Stage.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Sometimes I think you're a regular philanthropist.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
You mean, Philander, how much.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Money did you make out about.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Case well prokaevon anyway, that's what I mean.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
You're a philanthropist. By the way, was that man really
murdered with the bust or was it a plica?
Speaker 1 (01:01):
He really?
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (01:03):
That just happened to be one line around.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
I don't mean that.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Why was it to for the wheel of life?
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (01:11):
You're not going to ask what that is, Centurio, Now
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Up Sam Spain. I went down as Saint James Ready, Bernady,
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little flower.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
I'm raw audio, keep it, queen, no more than three
a's just per pee.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Jasey jasey Oak, I mean dok, I mean date. Oh,
I'd love to July eleven, nineteen forty eight. So the
tectives Lieutenant Dundee homicide detailed San Francisco Police subject the
Wheel of Life Caper. I don't go away from it.
I don't know why these things always have to happen
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to me under private detectives in the San Francisco Classified Directly,
they are listed somewhere in the neighborhood of sixty agencies
suve with large display ads. But somehow she managed to
find me.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
It's also strange, mister State, I hardy nowhere to begin?
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Well are the beginning? It's always a pretty good place
to start, so far, Yes.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
The beginning. It was like waking out of a nightmare.
You can't remember. Everything seemed out of proportion.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Even the buildings along the street seemed to be leaning
at a crazy angle. And then I realized I was
traveling down a hill.
Speaker 5 (03:58):
I look wildly around.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
For something to help me get my There was a
street sign o' Pharaoh stuck in my mind, so I
gave it to your secretary when she asked for my name.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Uh huh, and what's your real name?
Speaker 5 (04:08):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
I don't know who I am, where I came from,
where I'm going, mister Spade, I'm still frightened.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
No, wait a minute. A lot of people suffer from
a temporary loss of memory. Most of them recover. But
amnesia is a sickness. And I am not a doctor.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
Oh and you won't even try to help me.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Well, I can give you the name of a good
head doctor right here in the building. There's also missing persons.
Speaker 5 (04:32):
But I'm not a missing person. I'm right here.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Yeah, I mean where you aren't. Somebody might be missing you, that's.
Speaker 5 (04:39):
By but the police. I'd rather not. I might be
wanted for some crime. How do I know?
Speaker 1 (04:44):
You sure you want to find out?
Speaker 5 (04:45):
Oh? Yes, I do.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
I do it.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
It's terrible not knowing, but I want to find out
for myself. Can't you understand that?
Speaker 1 (04:52):
What do you think I can do for you? I
might save my life from what I'll.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
Try to tell you exactly how it happened. First, I
looked at my much. It was three minutes past ten.
Speaker 5 (05:02):
The cable car stopped. The car and the man got on.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
I couldn't remember ever having seen him before, but then
I couldn't remember anything.
Speaker 5 (05:08):
He sat down beside me and he caught all my arm.
I tried to pull away. You can see the marks
where he Who was the actors?
Speaker 3 (05:17):
If I were?
Speaker 1 (05:17):
I think I know what Jamaine, did you find out
who he was?
Speaker 5 (05:20):
No? No, I was too frightened to speak.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
What did he say?
Speaker 4 (05:23):
He sort of growled out of the side of his mouth,
but it sounded as if he said, Lathrop.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
Wants to see you.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
M you remember anybody named lath I counted them.
Speaker 5 (05:31):
Anything before three minutes past ten this morning.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Well let's go on. Since then the guy grabbed just
said somebody named lather wanted to say it? And then what?
Speaker 5 (05:38):
I went into a panic, managed to jerk away from him,
and I jumped off the moving car.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
And then I looked in the crassified section.
Speaker 5 (05:44):
And I found you. Why me, I don't know the name.
I guess a faid. Dig up my.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Pet please myself? Ferrol.
Speaker 5 (05:55):
Do you think I'm ver Jilly?
Speaker 1 (05:57):
No, I think you're very beautiful. I wish you could
remember whether you married him?
Speaker 5 (06:00):
Oh no, but at least I have no wedding.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
N What have you got? I mean besides what's visible?
Speaker 5 (06:06):
Well, I couldn't find much of anything. What over my clothing?
There don't be seem to be any marked of.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Any con Well? You got any money?
Speaker 5 (06:13):
A little over three hundred dollars.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Let's have it the purse too, all right? Uh, let's
stick aspen, bobby pins, clean x. Nothing here that couldn't
have been bought in any drug store. Potter, Hey, what
kind of potter is it?
Speaker 5 (06:31):
Then? There was this in my coat pocket?
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Matchful the sailors rest by a hotel Calcutta eleven hundred
and parkeet Darrow A little number than sign. What's that
a room number?
Speaker 5 (06:44):
I don't know?
Speaker 2 (06:45):
My purse?
Speaker 5 (06:46):
You have to destroy it?
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Ten dollars to your own money by a milon. Wow?
Speaker 5 (06:50):
Do you find something?
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Coin? Chinese bit? Good luck beats, probably sewn in by
whoever made it? Maybe in China? That ring? Any bells?
Speaker 5 (07:00):
No? No, I'm freid.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Noa shoe? What you're right? Shoe? Let's see it? Take
it off?
Speaker 5 (07:07):
You are going to tear it up where you did?
Speaker 1 (07:08):
The person dust plans to dust.
Speaker 5 (07:12):
Is that a clue?
Speaker 1 (07:13):
I don't know, is it.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
I'm not a detective.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Well you are in this case. Baby. If it doesn't
mean anything to you, it doesn't mean anything.
Speaker 5 (07:19):
It doesn't that's everything. What am I going to do?
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Well? Let me see first, we're better give you a name. Oh,
Pharaoh's all right, you look like Lana would do. No,
that's in use. How about Poppy for forgetfulness?
Speaker 5 (07:40):
Poppy, you're fair? That's funny, you think so? I think
I like it. I think I like you too.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
I like her too. There may have been blanks in
her brain, but the rest of her figure in the
elevator I started adding it up, and by the time
we reached the street floor it came to quite a
tidy sun.
Speaker 5 (08:07):
Where are we going, Sam, far, I hope.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
But first we're going to find your place to stay.
Speaker 5 (08:12):
Oh, yes, we must be practical.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
I know you're siver doing it.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
Huh Oh no, Sam, I didn't.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Wait matter you remember something said man, the one.
Speaker 5 (08:19):
Who followed me this morning. He's standing right out there, waiting.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
One on a straw hat, leaning against the newstands.
Speaker 5 (08:24):
Where are you going there?
Speaker 1 (08:25):
You stay here? I just remembered something I hope I
could forget. Hell, I was Shaggy that brings you back
to town?
Speaker 5 (08:33):
Do I know you?
Speaker 1 (08:34):
That doesn't matter. I know you the name you were
using when you blew this time with Shaggy Bellows. You
wouldn't take the risk of showing your face here again
unless the caper was worth it. He's got a big nose,
caper clean. You've been saying on that girl all day?
Why damn what dame?
Speaker 3 (08:47):
It was?
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Lathrop? I remember, Okay, I'll give you a chance to
think it over. Hey, officer Daddy shamach Ellen giving you
trouble now? Yeah? What kind of a beat are you
piling here? Clans be letting a cheap drifter like this
walk around with an arm tip full of gun? Are
they handing out premise? The characters like these this day?
Speaker 5 (09:10):
We know?
Speaker 1 (09:11):
How about that? Son? Have you a permit? Now? Had
a gop copper? Oh s? What are them? Clever?
Speaker 3 (09:17):
Lats?
Speaker 5 (09:17):
You is?
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Come on? Who give you your lumps out? I'll tay,
I'm coming. I don't know what's obliged, mister s. I'll
pay you for this se And I goped to you too.
I was sure he would that I was also sure
that I wouldn't have to worry about him for the
rest of the night. I checked Poppy o'farroll in at
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the belvedere, locked him in the room and told Timey
store with a house stick to keep an eye on her,
and I left him. He was and he seemed to
be enjoying his work. Then I headed to the Embarcaderol.
I found a hotel Calcutta, but I couldn't find the
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lobby there wasn't that. It had been squeezed out by
the sailor's rest bar. So I tried the bosing type bartender.
Speaker 6 (10:13):
How they mate, you got business aboard?
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Yeah? Where do I find the person? They want to shore?
All the officers want to show uxcept the janitor. He's
passed out in this bunk. How about the passengers. You're
in the thick of him right now. They spend most
of their time and their money right here. Which one
belongs to one? Too old? You a dick? Yeah, but
I got ten bucks. Well, what I can tell you
ain't worth it? But thanks anyway, he stayed in this cabin.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
I only saw him at once. That's when he went ashore,
I says to the deck steer that's room.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Click to you. It was a general, he says, name
of Caralinko.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
I noticed him because he was a real creep.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Say, he's six foot four of solid brass.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
His head stuck up in me hair, and he didn't
move nothing from his stand to his shoulders.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
A real frankens time. And do I keep it ten? Yeah?
Do I get a look at his room?
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Sure, go ahead and stopping me? So I went. Nobody
stopped me until I opened the door of one too old.
Then I stopped myself. It was an inside room with
one small window on an airshaf It looked as if
the floor of snow had blown in the floor, and
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the rest of the flat surfaces were sprinkled with a fine,
dirty white powdy. It wasn't snow. It was dust, plaster, dust,
like the stuff I'd found in Poppy's handbag and on
his shoes. I shook the place down on, expecting to
find him. I didn't until I opened the wardrobe. It
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was the body of a well dressed ship surgeon, but
his uniform was rumpled, torn and bloodstained, and the look
out of his throat had been cut. I wondered if
Poppy would be able to jog a memory that far back.
When I found the murder weapon, I hoped she couldn't
he did. It was not a knife, It was not
even a razor. It was an electric buzz saw. That
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Sam Spade. Times being what they are, I could use
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a little publicity, and so could Jine. Lieutenant Danny, what
were the elections coming up? And you with no promotion
all these years? This one time I got it instead
of you, and wish they hadn't. The Morning papers call
it the buzz Song murder and went on shamelessly from there.
Horror killing related by private eye Stan Slade, ex Pinkett
and Man mum On Mystery Woman elderly sleuth dodges photographers
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de Nia's hotel Visit was in bed with apple and
good book, says Peeper. There wasn't a word of truth
in it, mainly because nobody could get at the facts.
I wasted most of the date on an headquarters trying
to find out what name Shuggy Bellows had been booked undered,
and I dropped in at the belted here Poppy and
checked out. I decided to get back to my office
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and drink poison. I hardly got the best drawer open
when a sobering influence walked. He was a mister six
feet four of solid brass. The Frankenstein who had been
described to me by the bartenders, the occupant of room
one two old, excuse me, I am Korbenko. Please I
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shall sit down. And I am so heavy. Thank yourself
at home.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
Oh, mister Swadelaide, excuse me, I am so heavy.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
I am Corleenko. So you told me I am really
Spaine myself.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
So why are she hiding from me? Who that girl,
miss Paget her? I am paying one month in advance,
three hundred dollars American me she have deserved. I am
not rich, only moderately wealthy, but you understand it's not
questioned for moggies alone. That ship's doctor, he was most
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kind to me. He cared to me even after I arrive.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Now he are dead for his pains. He's dorty three. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
I know. I feel now. If you'll take it a
little easy, I think we'll get father. You say, this
girl's name is Paget, and she traveled.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
With you from Macada, where she is the Florence Nightingale
for Portuguese hospitals, forcing me to employ her, all others
being Chinese nuns.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
That thing is you were sick.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
No, only I am so heavy. They are breaking my
back in traffic accident, a rickshaw collusion.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
You're wearing a plastic cast. Yes, like a tortelli.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
I am closed with my neck sticking out. Look, see
now it is better as before. The ship's doctor treamed
the rough edges with bars. Saw I can walk, but
he's like shot from arbor for which I alive.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Look. I looked again where I opened his shirt front,
exposing the gray white, shallow plaster that surrounded his trunk
from collar bond to hips in a six inch circle
over the left side of his chest. I counted four
bullet guards. I dug one of the slugs out and
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examined it. It was thirty two calibers. The plastic cast,
which was molded to the shape of his body, was
no more than an inch thick. I didn't see how
it had stopped the slugs, but it had about them.
The parts of coral anka that were not held rigid,
and the cast began to tremble violently. Why are they
doing this?
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Why do a virtually helpless man, Why, mister Spade, why
why why why did you have that cast?
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Pan? Don't I said Macaw? The Portuguese hospital.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
And the same they are hanging me up with the
neck and plastering me comes a great thing. They put
me to sleep from anesthetic. I are waking up an
ambulance arriving at shipboard. Why you wish I should tell
you my operation? More important things we should be disgusting?
Speaker 1 (17:27):
I think so too. I think miss Paget and her
friends had something they wanted to smuggle out of Macaw
and then the San Francisco And you're it.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
Oh, excuse me, I am not comprehensible.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Look, I mean while you were out with the anesthetic,
the planted the goods whatever they are in or under
your cast. Oh, oh, that is why I am so heavy.
The wheel, the wheel? What the wheel? Look? I'll show
you hal Manila envelope out of his overcoat pocket and
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waved it on my face. They get over to my
desk and fished out the contents. There's a set of
X ray films. Three of his spine showing the practice,
four of the skull, three I couldn't figure out, and
one of his rib cage. Only something newer than added
in silhouett It looked like the wheel off of the
child's wagon. We'll teach you this wheel, what to do?
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What to do?
Speaker 3 (18:22):
Six months. I must remain in this trade jacket. If
I remove it, I die.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
If I keep it down. They killed me to get
their smug. You look to me like the luckiest man alive.
That wheel or whatever it is, saved your life by
stopping four slugs. But still I shall die? How shall
I die?
Speaker 3 (18:39):
Then?
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Shall I die? Your best devices, please, Carolanko, I think
you'd better die right now. Excuse me, It's the only
safe place for you. The Morgue I called my friend
Mactually the morg Man gave him pitch number one, three, seven, five,
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nine six. He agreed to fly along. An hour later.
I stood on the curb, head bowed, hat in hand
as the word wagon drove away into the gathering miss.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
Start facing away.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
What do you want, Shuggy?
Speaker 3 (19:16):
I want to bless this gun straight through you, and
I wonder if you give me.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
An excuse at all. You sound like you mean, not Shuggy.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
You get them smile, Shamus, I got going where to
Mister laflf wants.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
To see you. Yes, yes, coming, Oh sug you dear boy.
Speaker 6 (19:45):
You've not failed me this time. This will be the
favor of mister Spade. Eh, come in, come in, Come in,
sit down, mister Spade.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
We'll talk and your guns only get that pistol out
of my rip.
Speaker 6 (19:55):
Oh yes, indeed, truth, you mustn't overdo it.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
And get him out of here. I'm tired and nervous,
and my the price goes up a thousand bucks every
minute he's in this room. And I get the ten thousand,
I kill him, then the price jumps to one hundred.
To take care of me on a murder rap. I
should ought to plug you downstairs. Comm Sugar, don't be ungracious.
Speaker 6 (20:10):
You wait in the other room.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Now, I ca at your party. I'd get mine later
heard it.
Speaker 6 (20:17):
It bites much worse than his boxes to speed.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Don't start boring me so early in the evening. I
came here to talk about the wheel.
Speaker 6 (20:23):
Oh so you know about the wheel.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
I do better than that.
Speaker 6 (20:26):
I've got it, that may well be, But do you
know what to do with it?
Speaker 1 (20:30):
I got two possibilities. I can turn it over to
the cops and you with it. Or I can sit
on it until it hatches.
Speaker 6 (20:36):
The Queen consita, round and round the little wheel goes,
and where you'll stop.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Nobody knows. That's where you're wrong. It stops right here,
so you better stop placing your bets.
Speaker 6 (20:44):
Just what do you mean by that'swer?
Speaker 1 (20:46):
There's part of it?
Speaker 2 (20:47):
What is it?
Speaker 1 (20:49):
It's one of the slugs your guns will through at
coral Anko. I got three more just like it that
I dug got him before he was carried to the morgue.
Speaker 6 (20:55):
Well, an advantage, i'll admit, but hardly worth.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Your while to take that job. I'll be too sure.
Just how much do you know about the wheels?
Speaker 3 (21:07):
So far?
Speaker 1 (21:07):
It's been worth two human lives to you at the
rescue your on That tells me all I need to know.
Oh no, not quite.
Speaker 6 (21:13):
Men have been killed in hold ups for a few
poverous overigns. But the wheel is a horse of another color.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Let's not change wheel horses and meant streamers the later.
Speaker 6 (21:22):
Yes, humans understand that the wheel has no absolute finitive
value monetarily speaking, the British Museum. I'd take close on
to five thousand pounds hot as it is for the
privilege of returning it. Occidentals, aren't they pooka side that
they once were?
Speaker 1 (21:37):
In the audience? He left the wheel?
Speaker 6 (21:39):
If countenance by the Western powers would have most grave consequences.
Most grave is are you attending, sir?
Speaker 1 (21:47):
Wake me up when you get to the point. Ah, Oh,
the poison is this? That little wheel?
Speaker 6 (21:51):
That little wheel of gold is the wheel of life,
which the Buddha himself is said to have received into
his hands from paradise. Now, given such a relic, a
few old Buddhist monks can set up a shrine which,
even in the most miserable surroundings, can attract enough pilgrims
to outgross Radio City, Madison Square Garden, and Miami Beach.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
In seasons the same I think a higher layer, yes, quite.
Speaker 6 (22:14):
In short, we propose to act as booking agents for
the wheel on a royalty basis, with the percentage of
the house.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
Why did you bring it to San Francisco, cat, sir?
Speaker 6 (22:24):
Where we do bargain in the audience, we should be
hacked to pieces in our beds.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
I'll settle for a lump summon. Let you do the
bargaining and your price, sir. We can talk money later. First,
I got to give the cops somebody for the doctor's
murder and for Carol Ankah. That ought not to be
too difficult. When may I expect delivery. I'll check on it.
They went out with Saint James in Maxy Sam Spaydale's Okay,
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send it up up the addresses. Yeah sah, No more,
what happened?
Speaker 3 (23:06):
Somebody claimed a girl since she's his daughter?
Speaker 1 (23:09):
What did he do?
Speaker 3 (23:10):
What? I'm playing that like you told him to?
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Actually? Where does she send him? Able my mortuary corner?
Lynchenheit Okay, by the way, yes, and actually put some
clean sheets in that Markwagon size sixteen. I may be
your next passenger at the Avalon Mortuary. The night watchman
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let me in, he said. Mister carl Anko's daughter had
brought him over night bag and was keeping his vigil
by his beer and slimber Room number seven. I approached
on tiptoe. Just as I reached the door, I heard
the most terrible sound I've ever heard. It was a
buzzhof biting into plaster. How deep I didn't like to
think I did the first thing that popped into my head.
I grabbed up a lamp from a console, smashed the bulb,
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and plunged it into a vase of flowers. His luck
would have it, slumber Room number seven was on the
same fuse box. His luck would not have it. I
was facing a desperate woman in the dark. I hugged
the carpet while she emptied the gun. I hoped she
didn't have a spear. I forgot about the buzzsaw. Oh
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the room lighted up momentarily from the lights inside my head,
and I sag it back against the wall. I waited
for her to get her bearings again. There was no
hope of me getting mine, and I heard a big
hollow fun. The whole room shook and the lights went on.
Papi O'Farrell and or Paget lay on the floor under
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the stony weight of Cora Lenko plus sixty pounds of plastic.
Get out, help you, blessing me, my god, I am
so happy you uh you comfortable? Are Coral Anko.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
Comfortable in such situations? Do you ask the Purple? Are
you comfortable? His fake are on bed of nails. He's
equally here as elsewhere.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Yeah, okay, okay, just just hang there until I get
a statement, And he did. Item statement by the aforesaid
it was like.
Speaker 5 (25:08):
Waking out of a nightmare. You can't remember. Everything seemed
out of proportion.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
That was her story, and I had to admire the
way she's stuck to it. But if you keep trying,
I'm sure she'll get back enough of her man way
to confess that she planted the wheel of life in
Carolenko's turtle shell when she decided to double cross Sugar
and later they never tunneled they were hiding place. They
were gunning for carol Anko because they thought Poppy was
working with him, which was true in a way, but
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not the way that they thought. That's why they tortured
the doctor and an effort to learn Ka's whereabouts. I
understand your boys have picked up the rest of the trail,
and they can tell you everything except why I conceived
the brilliant idea of having carol Anko played dead between
you and me. Amnesia is a handy little gadget to
have her on dundee. I'm trying to draw a few
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strategic blanks myself, kiddod end of report the pardoning.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
Is to say, yes, just a few little coincidentals that
I do not find entirely reprehensible, such as, well, I
don't want to appear lucid or anything at that town.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
Believe me, you doesn't, I mean donut.
Speaker 4 (26:11):
Ha ha.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
You say the sweetest thing. But it's the wheel.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
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Speaker 2 (27:13):
I did you a certain to low down on the
wheel of life?
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Certainly didn't. Now we want to know about that for
six months because definitively, I mean definitely, that plastic cast
has to stay on them doctor's orders, you know.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
Oh, but I will be here six months from.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
Now, you can say that again, but I won't.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Be here six months from now.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
You're repeating yourself.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
But you just said you can say that again. Yeah,
just as distinctly as if I.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
Was sitting here.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
That's what I like about you, Brenandina. A woman of distinction,
that's what you are.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Well, if you want to take me dancing, whon't you
just say so? It's leap here? And I always say
discrimination is the better part of value.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
You are absolutely corrupt.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
Well, I'm glad I'm right about something.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
Good Night, missus, good night. Now say that it kills me, sweetheart.
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Are you still are?
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Sometimes I think you're a regular philanthropist.
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You mean, Philander, how much.
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Money did you make out about.
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Case well prokaevon anyway, that's what I mean.
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He really?
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Wow?
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little flower.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
I'm raw audio, keep it, queen, no more than three
a's just per pee.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Jasey jasey Oak, I mean dok, I mean date. Oh,
I'd love to July eleven, nineteen forty eight. So the
tectives Lieutenant Dundee homicide detailed San Francisco Police subject the
Wheel of Life Caper. I don't go away from it.
I don't know why these things always have to happen
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to me under private detectives in the San Francisco Classified Directly,
they are listed somewhere in the neighborhood of sixty agencies
suve with large display ads. But somehow she managed to
find me.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
It's also strange, mister State, I hardy nowhere to begin?
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Well are the beginning? It's always a pretty good place
to start, so far, Yes.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
The beginning. It was like waking out of a nightmare.
You can't remember. Everything seemed out of proportion.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Even the buildings along the street seemed to be leaning
at a crazy angle. And then I realized I was
traveling down a hill.
Speaker 5 (03:58):
I look wildly around.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
For something to help me get my There was a
street sign o' Pharaoh stuck in my mind, so I
gave it to your secretary when she asked for my name.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Uh huh, and what's your real name?
Speaker 5 (04:08):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
I don't know who I am, where I came from,
where I'm going, mister Spade, I'm still frightened.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
No, wait a minute. A lot of people suffer from
a temporary loss of memory. Most of them recover. But
amnesia is a sickness. And I am not a doctor.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
Oh and you won't even try to help me.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Well, I can give you the name of a good
head doctor right here in the building. There's also missing persons.
Speaker 5 (04:32):
But I'm not a missing person. I'm right here.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Yeah, I mean where you aren't. Somebody might be missing you, that's.
Speaker 5 (04:39):
By but the police. I'd rather not. I might be
wanted for some crime. How do I know?
Speaker 1 (04:44):
You sure you want to find out?
Speaker 5 (04:45):
Oh? Yes, I do.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
I do it.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
It's terrible not knowing, but I want to find out
for myself. Can't you understand that?
Speaker 1 (04:52):
What do you think I can do for you? I
might save my life from what I'll.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
Try to tell you exactly how it happened. First, I
looked at my much. It was three minutes past ten.
Speaker 5 (05:02):
The cable car stopped. The car and the man got on.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
I couldn't remember ever having seen him before, but then
I couldn't remember anything.
Speaker 5 (05:08):
He sat down beside me and he caught all my arm.
I tried to pull away. You can see the marks
where he Who was the actors?
Speaker 3 (05:17):
If I were?
Speaker 1 (05:17):
I think I know what Jamaine, did you find out
who he was?
Speaker 5 (05:20):
No? No, I was too frightened to speak.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
What did he say?
Speaker 4 (05:23):
He sort of growled out of the side of his mouth,
but it sounded as if he said, Lathrop.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
Wants to see you.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
M you remember anybody named lath I counted them.
Speaker 5 (05:31):
Anything before three minutes past ten this morning.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Well let's go on. Since then the guy grabbed just
said somebody named lather wanted to say it? And then what?
Speaker 5 (05:38):
I went into a panic, managed to jerk away from him,
and I jumped off the moving car.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
And then I looked in the crassified section.
Speaker 5 (05:44):
And I found you. Why me, I don't know the name.
I guess a faid. Dig up my.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Pet please myself? Ferrol.
Speaker 5 (05:55):
Do you think I'm ver Jilly?
Speaker 1 (05:57):
No, I think you're very beautiful. I wish you could
remember whether you married him?
Speaker 5 (06:00):
Oh no, but at least I have no wedding.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
N What have you got? I mean besides what's visible?
Speaker 5 (06:06):
Well, I couldn't find much of anything. What over my clothing?
There don't be seem to be any marked of.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Any con Well? You got any money?
Speaker 5 (06:13):
A little over three hundred dollars.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Let's have it the purse too, all right? Uh, let's
stick aspen, bobby pins, clean x. Nothing here that couldn't
have been bought in any drug store. Potter, Hey, what
kind of potter is it?
Speaker 5 (06:31):
Then? There was this in my coat pocket?
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Matchful the sailors rest by a hotel Calcutta eleven hundred
and parkeet Darrow A little number than sign. What's that
a room number?
Speaker 5 (06:44):
I don't know?
Speaker 2 (06:45):
My purse?
Speaker 5 (06:46):
You have to destroy it?
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Ten dollars to your own money by a milon. Wow?
Speaker 5 (06:50):
Do you find something?
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Coin? Chinese bit? Good luck beats, probably sewn in by
whoever made it? Maybe in China? That ring? Any bells?
Speaker 5 (07:00):
No? No, I'm freid.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Noa shoe? What you're right? Shoe? Let's see it? Take
it off?
Speaker 5 (07:07):
You are going to tear it up where you did?
Speaker 1 (07:08):
The person dust plans to dust.
Speaker 5 (07:12):
Is that a clue?
Speaker 1 (07:13):
I don't know, is it.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
I'm not a detective.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Well you are in this case. Baby. If it doesn't
mean anything to you, it doesn't mean anything.
Speaker 5 (07:19):
It doesn't that's everything. What am I going to do?
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Well? Let me see first, we're better give you a name. Oh,
Pharaoh's all right, you look like Lana would do. No,
that's in use. How about Poppy for forgetfulness?
Speaker 5 (07:40):
Poppy, you're fair? That's funny, you think so? I think
I like it. I think I like you too.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
I like her too. There may have been blanks in
her brain, but the rest of her figure in the
elevator I started adding it up, and by the time
we reached the street floor it came to quite a
tidy sun.
Speaker 5 (08:07):
Where are we going, Sam, far, I hope.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
But first we're going to find your place to stay.
Speaker 5 (08:12):
Oh, yes, we must be practical.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
I know you're siver doing it.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
Huh Oh no, Sam, I didn't.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Wait matter you remember something said man, the one.
Speaker 5 (08:19):
Who followed me this morning. He's standing right out there, waiting.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
One on a straw hat, leaning against the newstands.
Speaker 5 (08:24):
Where are you going there?
Speaker 1 (08:25):
You stay here? I just remembered something I hope I
could forget. Hell, I was Shaggy that brings you back
to town?
Speaker 5 (08:33):
Do I know you?
Speaker 1 (08:34):
That doesn't matter. I know you the name you were
using when you blew this time with Shaggy Bellows. You
wouldn't take the risk of showing your face here again
unless the caper was worth it. He's got a big nose,
caper clean. You've been saying on that girl all day?
Why damn what dame?
Speaker 3 (08:47):
It was?
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Lathrop? I remember, Okay, I'll give you a chance to
think it over. Hey, officer Daddy shamach Ellen giving you
trouble now? Yeah? What kind of a beat are you
piling here? Clans be letting a cheap drifter like this
walk around with an arm tip full of gun? Are
they handing out premise? The characters like these this day?
Speaker 5 (09:10):
We know?
Speaker 1 (09:11):
How about that? Son? Have you a permit? Now? Had
a gop copper? Oh s? What are them? Clever?
Speaker 3 (09:17):
Lats?
Speaker 5 (09:17):
You is?
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Come on? Who give you your lumps out? I'll tay,
I'm coming. I don't know what's obliged, mister s. I'll
pay you for this se And I goped to you too.
I was sure he would that I was also sure
that I wouldn't have to worry about him for the
rest of the night. I checked Poppy o'farroll in at
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the belvedere, locked him in the room and told Timey
store with a house stick to keep an eye on her,
and I left him. He was and he seemed to
be enjoying his work. Then I headed to the Embarcaderol.
I found a hotel Calcutta, but I couldn't find the
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lobby there wasn't that. It had been squeezed out by
the sailor's rest bar. So I tried the bosing type bartender.
Speaker 6 (10:13):
How they mate, you got business aboard?
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Yeah? Where do I find the person? They want to shore?
All the officers want to show uxcept the janitor. He's
passed out in this bunk. How about the passengers. You're
in the thick of him right now. They spend most
of their time and their money right here. Which one
belongs to one? Too old? You a dick? Yeah, but
I got ten bucks. Well, what I can tell you
ain't worth it? But thanks anyway, he stayed in this cabin.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
I only saw him at once. That's when he went ashore,
I says to the deck steer that's room.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Click to you. It was a general, he says, name
of Caralinko.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
I noticed him because he was a real creep.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Say, he's six foot four of solid brass.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
His head stuck up in me hair, and he didn't
move nothing from his stand to his shoulders.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
A real frankens time. And do I keep it ten? Yeah?
Do I get a look at his room?
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Sure, go ahead and stopping me? So I went. Nobody
stopped me until I opened the door of one too old.
Then I stopped myself. It was an inside room with
one small window on an airshaf It looked as if
the floor of snow had blown in the floor, and
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the rest of the flat surfaces were sprinkled with a fine,
dirty white powdy. It wasn't snow. It was dust, plaster, dust,
like the stuff I'd found in Poppy's handbag and on
his shoes. I shook the place down on, expecting to
find him. I didn't until I opened the wardrobe. It
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was the body of a well dressed ship surgeon, but
his uniform was rumpled, torn and bloodstained, and the look
out of his throat had been cut. I wondered if
Poppy would be able to jog a memory that far back.
When I found the murder weapon, I hoped she couldn't
he did. It was not a knife, It was not
even a razor. It was an electric buzz saw. That
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Sam Spade. Times being what they are, I could use
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a little publicity, and so could Jine. Lieutenant Danny, what
were the elections coming up? And you with no promotion
all these years? This one time I got it instead
of you, and wish they hadn't. The Morning papers call
it the buzz Song murder and went on shamelessly from there.
Horror killing related by private eye Stan Slade, ex Pinkett
and Man mum On Mystery Woman elderly sleuth dodges photographers
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de Nia's hotel Visit was in bed with apple and
good book, says Peeper. There wasn't a word of truth
in it, mainly because nobody could get at the facts.
I wasted most of the date on an headquarters trying
to find out what name Shuggy Bellows had been booked undered,
and I dropped in at the belted here Poppy and
checked out. I decided to get back to my office
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and drink poison. I hardly got the best drawer open
when a sobering influence walked. He was a mister six
feet four of solid brass. The Frankenstein who had been
described to me by the bartenders, the occupant of room
one two old, excuse me, I am Korbenko. Please I
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shall sit down. And I am so heavy. Thank yourself
at home.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
Oh, mister Swadelaide, excuse me, I am so heavy.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
I am Corleenko. So you told me I am really
Spaine myself.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
So why are she hiding from me? Who that girl,
miss Paget her? I am paying one month in advance,
three hundred dollars American me she have deserved. I am
not rich, only moderately wealthy, but you understand it's not
questioned for moggies alone. That ship's doctor, he was most
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kind to me. He cared to me even after I arrive.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Now he are dead for his pains. He's dorty three. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
I know. I feel now. If you'll take it a
little easy, I think we'll get father. You say, this
girl's name is Paget, and she traveled.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
With you from Macada, where she is the Florence Nightingale
for Portuguese hospitals, forcing me to employ her, all others
being Chinese nuns.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
That thing is you were sick.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
No, only I am so heavy. They are breaking my
back in traffic accident, a rickshaw collusion.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
You're wearing a plastic cast. Yes, like a tortelli.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
I am closed with my neck sticking out. Look, see
now it is better as before. The ship's doctor treamed
the rough edges with bars. Saw I can walk, but
he's like shot from arbor for which I alive.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Look. I looked again where I opened his shirt front,
exposing the gray white, shallow plaster that surrounded his trunk
from collar bond to hips in a six inch circle
over the left side of his chest. I counted four
bullet guards. I dug one of the slugs out and
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examined it. It was thirty two calibers. The plastic cast,
which was molded to the shape of his body, was
no more than an inch thick. I didn't see how
it had stopped the slugs, but it had about them.
The parts of coral anka that were not held rigid,
and the cast began to tremble violently. Why are they
doing this?
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Why do a virtually helpless man, Why, mister Spade, why
why why why did you have that cast?
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Pan? Don't I said Macaw? The Portuguese hospital.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
And the same they are hanging me up with the
neck and plastering me comes a great thing. They put
me to sleep from anesthetic. I are waking up an
ambulance arriving at shipboard. Why you wish I should tell
you my operation? More important things we should be disgusting?
Speaker 1 (17:27):
I think so too. I think miss Paget and her
friends had something they wanted to smuggle out of Macaw
and then the San Francisco And you're it.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
Oh, excuse me, I am not comprehensible.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Look, I mean while you were out with the anesthetic,
the planted the goods whatever they are in or under
your cast. Oh, oh, that is why I am so heavy.
The wheel, the wheel? What the wheel? Look? I'll show
you hal Manila envelope out of his overcoat pocket and
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waved it on my face. They get over to my
desk and fished out the contents. There's a set of
X ray films. Three of his spine showing the practice,
four of the skull, three I couldn't figure out, and
one of his rib cage. Only something newer than added
in silhouett It looked like the wheel off of the
child's wagon. We'll teach you this wheel, what to do?
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What to do?
Speaker 3 (18:22):
Six months. I must remain in this trade jacket. If
I remove it, I die.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
If I keep it down. They killed me to get
their smug. You look to me like the luckiest man alive.
That wheel or whatever it is, saved your life by
stopping four slugs. But still I shall die? How shall
I die?
Speaker 3 (18:39):
Then?
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Shall I die? Your best devices, please, Carolanko, I think
you'd better die right now. Excuse me, It's the only
safe place for you. The Morgue I called my friend
Mactually the morg Man gave him pitch number one, three, seven, five,
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nine six. He agreed to fly along. An hour later.
I stood on the curb, head bowed, hat in hand
as the word wagon drove away into the gathering miss.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
Start facing away.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
What do you want, Shuggy?
Speaker 3 (19:16):
I want to bless this gun straight through you, and
I wonder if you give me.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
An excuse at all. You sound like you mean, not Shuggy.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
You get them smile, Shamus, I got going where to
Mister laflf wants.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
To see you. Yes, yes, coming, Oh sug you dear boy.
Speaker 6 (19:45):
You've not failed me this time. This will be the
favor of mister Spade. Eh, come in, come in, Come in,
sit down, mister Spade.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
We'll talk and your guns only get that pistol out
of my rip.
Speaker 6 (19:55):
Oh yes, indeed, truth, you mustn't overdo it.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
And get him out of here. I'm tired and nervous,
and my the price goes up a thousand bucks every
minute he's in this room. And I get the ten thousand,
I kill him, then the price jumps to one hundred.
To take care of me on a murder rap. I
should ought to plug you downstairs. Comm Sugar, don't be ungracious.
Speaker 6 (20:10):
You wait in the other room.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Now, I ca at your party. I'd get mine later
heard it.
Speaker 6 (20:17):
It bites much worse than his boxes to speed.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Don't start boring me so early in the evening. I
came here to talk about the wheel.
Speaker 6 (20:23):
Oh so you know about the wheel.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
I do better than that.
Speaker 6 (20:26):
I've got it, that may well be, But do you
know what to do with it?
Speaker 1 (20:30):
I got two possibilities. I can turn it over to
the cops and you with it. Or I can sit
on it until it hatches.
Speaker 6 (20:36):
The Queen consita, round and round the little wheel goes,
and where you'll stop.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Nobody knows. That's where you're wrong. It stops right here,
so you better stop placing your bets.
Speaker 6 (20:44):
Just what do you mean by that'swer?
Speaker 1 (20:46):
There's part of it?
Speaker 2 (20:47):
What is it?
Speaker 1 (20:49):
It's one of the slugs your guns will through at
coral Anko. I got three more just like it that
I dug got him before he was carried to the morgue.
Speaker 6 (20:55):
Well, an advantage, i'll admit, but hardly worth.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Your while to take that job. I'll be too sure.
Just how much do you know about the wheels?
Speaker 3 (21:07):
So far?
Speaker 1 (21:07):
It's been worth two human lives to you at the
rescue your on That tells me all I need to know.
Oh no, not quite.
Speaker 6 (21:13):
Men have been killed in hold ups for a few
poverous overigns. But the wheel is a horse of another color.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Let's not change wheel horses and meant streamers the later.
Speaker 6 (21:22):
Yes, humans understand that the wheel has no absolute finitive
value monetarily speaking, the British Museum. I'd take close on
to five thousand pounds hot as it is for the
privilege of returning it. Occidentals, aren't they pooka side that
they once were?
Speaker 1 (21:37):
In the audience? He left the wheel?
Speaker 6 (21:39):
If countenance by the Western powers would have most grave consequences.
Most grave is are you attending, sir?
Speaker 1 (21:47):
Wake me up when you get to the point. Ah, Oh,
the poison is this? That little wheel?
Speaker 6 (21:51):
That little wheel of gold is the wheel of life,
which the Buddha himself is said to have received into
his hands from paradise. Now, given such a relic, a
few old Buddhist monks can set up a shrine which,
even in the most miserable surroundings, can attract enough pilgrims
to outgross Radio City, Madison Square Garden, and Miami Beach.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
In seasons the same I think a higher layer, yes, quite.
Speaker 6 (22:14):
In short, we propose to act as booking agents for
the wheel on a royalty basis, with the percentage of
the house.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
Why did you bring it to San Francisco, cat, sir?
Speaker 6 (22:24):
Where we do bargain in the audience, we should be
hacked to pieces in our beds.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
I'll settle for a lump summon. Let you do the
bargaining and your price, sir. We can talk money later. First,
I got to give the cops somebody for the doctor's
murder and for Carol Ankah. That ought not to be
too difficult. When may I expect delivery. I'll check on it.
They went out with Saint James in Maxy Sam Spaydale's Okay,
(22:59):
send it up up the addresses. Yeah sah, No more,
what happened?
Speaker 3 (23:06):
Somebody claimed a girl since she's his daughter?
Speaker 1 (23:09):
What did he do?
Speaker 3 (23:10):
What? I'm playing that like you told him to?
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Actually? Where does she send him? Able my mortuary corner?
Lynchenheit Okay, by the way, yes, and actually put some
clean sheets in that Markwagon size sixteen. I may be
your next passenger at the Avalon Mortuary. The night watchman
(23:35):
let me in, he said. Mister carl Anko's daughter had
brought him over night bag and was keeping his vigil
by his beer and slimber Room number seven. I approached
on tiptoe. Just as I reached the door, I heard
the most terrible sound I've ever heard. It was a
buzzhof biting into plaster. How deep I didn't like to
think I did the first thing that popped into my head.
I grabbed up a lamp from a console, smashed the bulb,
(23:56):
and plunged it into a vase of flowers. His luck
would have it, slumber Room number seven was on the
same fuse box. His luck would not have it. I
was facing a desperate woman in the dark. I hugged
the carpet while she emptied the gun. I hoped she
didn't have a spear. I forgot about the buzzsaw. Oh
(24:17):
the room lighted up momentarily from the lights inside my head,
and I sag it back against the wall. I waited
for her to get her bearings again. There was no
hope of me getting mine, and I heard a big
hollow fun. The whole room shook and the lights went on.
Papi O'Farrell and or Paget lay on the floor under
(24:38):
the stony weight of Cora Lenko plus sixty pounds of plastic.
Get out, help you, blessing me, my god, I am
so happy you uh you comfortable? Are Coral Anko.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
Comfortable in such situations? Do you ask the Purple? Are
you comfortable? His fake are on bed of nails. He's
equally here as elsewhere.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Yeah, okay, okay, just just hang there until I get
a statement, And he did. Item statement by the aforesaid
it was like.
Speaker 5 (25:08):
Waking out of a nightmare. You can't remember. Everything seemed
out of proportion.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
That was her story, and I had to admire the
way she's stuck to it. But if you keep trying,
I'm sure she'll get back enough of her man way
to confess that she planted the wheel of life in
Carolenko's turtle shell when she decided to double cross Sugar
and later they never tunneled they were hiding place. They
were gunning for carol Anko because they thought Poppy was
working with him, which was true in a way, but
(25:33):
not the way that they thought. That's why they tortured
the doctor and an effort to learn Ka's whereabouts. I
understand your boys have picked up the rest of the trail,
and they can tell you everything except why I conceived
the brilliant idea of having carol Anko played dead between
you and me. Amnesia is a handy little gadget to
have her on dundee. I'm trying to draw a few
(25:54):
strategic blanks myself, kiddod end of report the pardoning.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
Is to say, yes, just a few little coincidentals that
I do not find entirely reprehensible, such as, well, I
don't want to appear lucid or anything at that town.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
Believe me, you doesn't, I mean donut.
Speaker 4 (26:11):
Ha ha.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
You say the sweetest thing. But it's the wheel.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Ah, yes, the wheel. Well, I'll tell you what you do.
You type that up. I've got a call in about
that now tonight, when you're making out your must do
list for tomorrow, why not include a reminder to get
wild Root cream oil for the hair. Honestly, man, you'll
be delighted with a neat natural way. Wild root cream
(26:37):
oil grooms your hair the way it relieves that annoying
dryness and removes loose, ugly dandrovs. Just try it and say,
if I'm not giving you a good steer, make a
note right now to call it your drug or toilet
goods counter. For wild root cream oil. Get the big
economy bottle and the hand in you tube that's easy
to pack when you travel. Also ask your barber for
(26:58):
a professional application of wild Brute cream oil heratonic. Again
and again, the choice of men who put good grooming verse.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
I did you a certain to low down on the
wheel of life?
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Certainly didn't. Now we want to know about that for
six months because definitively, I mean definitely, that plastic cast
has to stay on them doctor's orders, you know.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
Oh, but I will be here six months from.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
Now, you can say that again, but I won't.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Be here six months from now.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
You're repeating yourself.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
But you just said you can say that again. Yeah,
just as distinctly as if I.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
Was sitting here.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
That's what I like about you, Brenandina. A woman of distinction,
that's what you are.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Well, if you want to take me dancing, whon't you
just say so? It's leap here? And I always say
discrimination is the better part of value.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
You are absolutely corrupt.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
Well, I'm glad I'm right about something.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
Good Night, missus, good night. Now say that it kills me, sweetheart.
The Adventures of Sam Spade, Dashall Hammett's famous private detective,
are produced and directed by William Spear. Sam Spade is
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played by Howard Dove. The Adventures of Sam Spade are
written for radio by Bob Tolman and Gil Daud, with
musical direction by lud Gluskin. Gil Daud directed to Night's
broadcast in William Spear's absence. Join us again next Sunday
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