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Speaker 1 (00:01):
The National Broadcasting Company presents the Adventures of Sam Spade Detective.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Sam se Ejective Agency.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
The Sweethearts. How was your vacation, Sam, who said it
was a vacation. I thought you said you were going
skiing for weekend with me. If it's always work. Do
you know you can get killed on skis?
Speaker 2 (00:26):
If you say so, Sam, Yes, most people just break.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
The most people picked some easy little slope, the cowards.
But I know a ski run up near a town
called Lucerne that's sudden death.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
I know a ski run called a backbreaker.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Really, I'll go.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
And when they named suicide, if they stopped trying to
top me, you just can't. This was the deadliest ski
country ever seen. You just sit there while I do
a Christiania swing down Market Street. A galinder sprung up
the stairs and a tail mark right through the door
with a tail I took out of.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
The deep freeze.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Only last night the Chateau McLoud Caper for NBC, William Spear,
Radio's outstanding producer director of mystery and crime Drama brings
you the greatest private detective of them all in the
Adventures of Sam Spade.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
I just wanted to prove I could do it.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
I did a herring bone up the stairs.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
I'll just that you've readed all those things and you
were never in the snow country at all.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
So you don't believe me.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Huh, Well, here, doubting ifie, I brought you proof, and
don't tell me.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
I rented this A snowball, yes, a real snowball. Yes.
I brought back two of them in a thermos spot.
The other one I threw it out a policeman. It
was a freezy soaked with water and Iceland.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
I can't believe that you had trouble this weekend.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Oh no, You cut that snowball and you'll find a
bloodstained bullet inside of it, and behind the bullet lies
a tail.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Ready.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
I'm always ready, sir.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Yes, they fill An in to Sierra County Sheriff's Office
was cern, California from Samuel Spade, San Francisco, license number
one three seven, five nine.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Six, subject the Chateau McCloud Caper.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Dear Sheriff, you run a neat little conedy up there
at Sierra and I hate to be smithed, but when
my train steamed into the coal mountain near of your
lovely little village, of Lucerne. I knew the chill of
death was afoot. It had to be. The place was
too beautiful to last. The background hills were right out
of the Alps, the snow from Grandma Moses, and the
rustic buildings that snuggled under the mantle of white was
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just too cute for words. It was abnormally perfect. Something
had to give.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Well, Yoni young man who got off the train, he's McCloud.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Well, I'm supposed to find a chateau. McCloud. Oh, what
do you know?
Speaker 2 (02:55):
I got the right man on the first try.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Rube has sent me down to pick you up, and
you could pick me up almost.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
That's him.
Speaker 5 (03:01):
A little kill off today, Still we go, Mush mush.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
We glided out of the station.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Munnery is squeaking on snow, the soft pad of hoofs
and the jangle of Merry Belle. We had a bear
skin lamp road. It was a short bear, so we
had to move close. Her cheeks were an apple red and
her silk brown hair flowed in a stinking breeze.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Oh. It was a scene that will forever be etched
in my memory.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Rosan shells me, you're an advertising game.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Well, I have placed a few ads in my day,
mostly help water.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Oh don't give me, he says, you're gonna put them
a cloud canaries right on top of the new campaign.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
You're supposed to have a big name, just state letters,
Sam Space.
Speaker 6 (03:48):
Oh well, I'm readA Parker.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
I'm supposed to be Rookie's girl friends.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Of course, I think it's only to make his.
Speaker 6 (03:54):
White mad fun up here.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
So this is my first trip.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
Oh and you're in.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
For a treat, that is, it's abnormal psychology appeals to you.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
What does that mean?
Speaker 2 (04:05):
The macoud guest register is always full of dynamite. For example,
this weekend reads Zuckley Rufus mccoud with half of the
money in the world, trying to get the other hat good.
His wife who has an inelocatory to Creed missus, Yes, sir,
boy friend Paul Endicott Higgelow type Charlie Allison coworker and
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friend to Rufer. He's a food technician or something dull.
And then there's Choser spenborg Ski instructor who comes down like.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
A wolf from the folds like that.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Yes, well, I'll never remember all the names I'm in
the ad game.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
You know it's initials.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
For me, I call people well rl ts NTG and lest.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
You know, well the names don't mean a thing. Just
remember this every thirty second, Duck, I beg your.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Predon the McCloud is.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
I say it was eight miles out of town, and
it seemed we were there in no time at all.
Rida Parker hustle Alpine buck board and mayor into a
stable while I went up to the shat Bow to
meet my employer Rufus McLeod.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
It was more of a Swiss chalet, you know, where
the second floor is larger than the first.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
And I guarantee that no one in Switzerland could have
reported this chalet, even with the second floor the same
size as the first. I walked in upon Rufus big
and red face standing in front of a fireplace. It
could easily have roasted a brace of oxen.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Rump to rump. Of course you're Sam Spade, I am,
mister maclown. You came into an opportune time. There's no
one around who overhear our conversation. I suppose you wonder
why I hired a detective for a place like this, Well,
not especially I go where the people go and the money.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
You'll be paid well for your time in trouble. I
must be quick. In essence, this is my situation. Earlier
this week I received an anonymous letter saying that if
I invited the guest list I had planned for this weekend,
there might be serious trouble. Here's the letter, and keep
it to yourself. So Los Angeles postmark. I see, well,
we might start point trace gown this typewriter through an.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
LA detective agency. Every one of my charming guests is
from Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
One of them wrote it, if you ask me, very
I wann't know who wrote it if I can. But
more than that, I wonder what serious trouble The writer
is referring to the girl you sent to pick me up,
said you had a very volatile group of people assembled.
Perhaps they're high strung individuals, but they're civilized. I'm sure
their conflict would never get beyond a cutting phrase or two,
or perhaps a punch thrown here or there.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Well, then you really don't believe you will have any trouble. Yeah,
I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
I thought it would be advisable to have a man
like yourself around, Yes, one who deals in trouble professionally,
perhaps if things do get out of line, you can
help prepare the damages or even prevent things from occurring. Well,
I'll do my best, mister McLeod, but it's not easy
to look for something when you don't know what you're
looking for.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Oh here they come straight, oh back from the ski runs.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Only I told them you were handling an advertising campaign
for my canaries.
Speaker 6 (06:50):
Well what.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
They came, stamping in, pulling off gloves on, zipping pokers.
And if it hadn't been for the grown up dialogue, looking.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
All over like a group of care.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Free children, it was hard to believe that the chill
of death was also in an even day.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
I couldn't keep my eyes off one of.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
The particular members of the group, Mosburg stea boots, Chinese vermilion,
downhill pants and a candy striped paca, which she now
pulled over her lovely head. The sweaters she wore underneath
was I'm sure designed for someone much smaller aduction for her?
Is the advertising man you've been telling me about root
Oh mister Samuel's fate my half wife, Cora half Well,
(07:44):
how how.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Do you do it? Bg Kames? Sam You can always
use another sportment.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Out everybody shut up in producing the incomparable fabulous mister.
Speaker 6 (07:53):
Samuel, stay are you, sir? I'll give me a pass,
sam Me he's pulling the cock. Me to poker.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Charlie Allison, the sinball.
Speaker 5 (08:01):
Charlie is the one who doesn't see I'll take snowshoes
any day.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
I can't get anywhere. Snowshoe. You've heard perhaps the tortoise
and the hair ruver, Springs of some drinks.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Tom and Jerry top Dott, He's coffee, God's substance.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
We were having hot buttered rum. The stuff's warming in
the kitchen.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
We'll get it up, Get it up right away.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Cards for the.
Speaker 6 (08:17):
Rest of you.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Ready, I one, I, oh, oh yeah, oh, man shout rass.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Stand and drake a tall slamans again. Let every litter
me man say hello. He don't he don't.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
They took up a song with Augusto lifting imaginary drinks
into the air.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
And it was all very jolly.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
For a party that was supposed to be fought with danger,
this one certainly started out in just the opposite direction.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
The drinks came. When things got even merry, lunch was
served and.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Afterwards, I slipped into some outdoor gear and scrapped on
some ste Everybody scattered different directions. Rufus, Mcott and I
ski to a place three miles away called a halfway cabin.
Between the chateau and the cabin was a small lake
called Royal Lake, completely.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Closed him over.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Rufus stood in front of the cabin, firing a thirty
thirty at a target led up down in the woods
to the east. What do you see through the glasses, Spade?
Who bull's eyes? And nothing outside of the eight ring?
That's right off hand, shooting at this range and standing
on the ski.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Yeah, I can do much better than that. What's this?
See that silver tip on that big Norwegian fur over there? Yeah,
I'll cut it off. Hey, look at it. Well, they
came swooping out of nowhere, Spade. I swear right now,
I think he hit him. Who is it? That's Paul Undercott. No, No,
he's up. There's coral with him. You telling me nobody
was supposed to be skiing in that area. They're not. Well.
(09:43):
Here he comes and he looks plenty of man. Why
do I care about him? He just have to corral
for the money I give it that so right, Just
kill me, you stupid. You weren't supposed to be skiing
there under cut and it was an accident. Yeah, well
that was no accident.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
All right, all right, a drop off that you keep onter,
I'll throwing at you.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
Oh i'd love Oh that's shop at hand, rest of
you put acting my shoulder.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Your boyfriend threw a sucker punch at me, Cora, And
even if he is my guest, there's a limit to hospitality.
I don't call one punch and even trade for a
thirty thirty bullet. You know I did, so I don't
start crying.
Speaker 7 (10:14):
Ruper died the feeling you wouldn't mind if you were here,
You wouldn't.
Speaker 6 (10:17):
Mind at all, Paul.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
I've just decided I.
Speaker 6 (10:20):
Don't like you without a mustache.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Well, well then on, everybody's off the prefense and you
knew where you stood. And it was chilly too.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Later in the day, we're all back at the chateau again,
and Paul Endicott wove his delicate variation on his main theme.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
I'll knock your block off. I tell you, mister Andicott,
you have some delusion. I have no delusions.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Towsure I've seen the way you look at Cora, the
way you two are always trying to lose me on
the trail.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Some people's ski faster than the other. Yeah, well, let
me tell you something. The next time you try to
wolf this girl, it's going to be your last. Nobody's wolf.
I'm a ski instructor, that is what I was hat. Well,
I'll stick to what you were hired for, a knock off,
the extra curricular active. I don't have to take this
kind of talk from you. Anything you'd like to do
about it, that's another fat boy. Yes, you want me
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to stop on, Missus McLeod. No, I want you to
take me out of here.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
Oh all right, all right, let's put on our skeeze
and get out of here.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Okay, here, I'll help you. Oh no, thank you, good
sect you gentlemen.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Well even sir, I won't take a minute. Ready, Yes, yeah,
here we are. Now where are we heading, Missus McLeod.
Speaker 6 (11:41):
Oh, I thought we might go out to the boat house.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
It's on the southern tip of Royal Lake.
Speaker 6 (11:44):
Don't em all a half nothing?
Speaker 3 (11:46):
And my name is Cora.
Speaker 6 (11:48):
I'm not really missus McLeod anymore.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
And that's kind of rough on you.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Isn't bringing your new boyfriend around all of your ex
husband's friends.
Speaker 6 (11:54):
Well, I like it up here, Rufus likes to have me.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
They're out all against Paul. Please they weren't. But he's
on the defensive so much he's gonna make enemies of
all of them. Yes, he's off to a rousing start.
Speaker 5 (12:05):
I say, do you know something, cham I don't care
about Paul and the cot really, or Rufus, MacColl or
Tosius and Lords or anybody.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
I just care about Cora Mici's Well, now that's a
good honest answer. You know, most people wouldn't.
Speaker 6 (12:19):
Be that frank, But damn, I haven't known you long. Well,
I like your style. Style, I could care about you.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
It broke my heart not to stop right there on
the player and shiss her, because that's what she wanted
me to do. So that's why I didn't do it,
and I'll never turn down anything better. Well, next scene
a boat house, and when we got there it was
not at all the way I thought. Food technician and
close friend of Rupus MacLeod was there working on something
that baffled me at first, and I.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
Spoke missus space.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
That's what it is along as to rufus, Yeah, I
don't think I've ever seen one up before. I take
you for a ride, But this one needs a lot
of work before anybody could use it.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
I'm just squttering. What prompted you to come out here, Cora?
Speaker 4 (13:07):
Because Paul and.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Tosha Spinboar got in a fight over me and I
got tired of the whole thing, Sam, and I.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Went out with me here. Well glad you did.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
I was getting a bit lonesome, you see, Sam, They
always leave me in a cloud of snow on skis,
and I just plod along on snow shoes all by myself.
Well maybe we can go walking together sometimes. I used
to be able to shake a pretty.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Good snow shoe. Today. Tomorrow morning, i'll show you the place. Sam.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
I think I'll stick around here and help Charlie with
the iceboats.
Speaker 6 (13:33):
Oh, unless you're crazy about iceboats. Why don't you go
back to the chateau. We'll be there in time for dinner.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Well, I don't need any engraved in the expectation. I
hope you catch your common cool. The trouble with that
girl is that she only wanted one man at a
time around here. Back at the chateau. There was no
one but the cook, the Marjory main part's who's tall
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that's supper approached. Rufus came in, then Rita, then Cora,
then Allison and finally Tojuer in that order. And the
order is important because you see nowhere in the list
is the name of Paul Endicott. He didn't come in
for supper nor for the next three hours. It was
dark by then and Rupu's McLeod was worried about Endicott,
so we found out in a searching party. I was
alone when I found them. He was lying in the
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snow three hundred yards west of the halfway Kevin. There
was a thirty thirty slug in period, and of Paul Endicott.
You are listening to the weekly adventure of radio's most
famous detective, Sam Spain. This Sunday, Carrie granted Betsy Drake
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Starr in the second of the new Mister and Missus
Blandings series over most of these NBC stations, The delightful
tribulations of Jim Blandings and his wife Muriel as they
built their famous dream house entertained millions as a novel
and then as a motion picture, and now you can
follow the further adventures of mister and Missus Blandings every
Sunday on NBC and Sunday also means your weekly visit
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with the hilarious Harrises on The Phil Harris Alice Fay Show.
And now back to the Chateau McCloud caper tonight's adventure
with Sam Spade. There were no stea marks near the
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body of Paul Endicott, just as own. Somebody had drawn
a beat on him in the dust from some distance.
I started to look for the rest of the searching party,
and then changed my mind. If the body of Endicott
wasn't found, the murderer might wonder what happened to it,
get worried and make a mistake. So I picked him up,
carried him to a small cave I found, covered the
entrance with snow, brushed over the ste marks, and went
back to the chateau.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
One by one they all showed up. Discourage such you thought,
We want to keep looking. I know how you feel cooling,
it's so dark. We'll try tomorrow.
Speaker 6 (16:08):
Oh, don't worry about him, can take care of him?
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Can you take care of him? Says Miss Parker, if
you've got law who said he got lost? I am assuming.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
I think we're all assuming too much. I'm sure that
it's nothing to worry about it. If I know Paul,
he'll show up tomorrow with some tall tale to tell.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
What do you think, mister Spade, what does an advertising
executive know? Cora your manners? A sponsor might be listening.
Speaker 6 (16:29):
Oh well, I'm sorry, Sam, I'm not saying okay, okay.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Frankly, I don't know what to think. But if I
were a detective, I had hazard a guess that Paul
met with foul play. Oh nonsense, Spade, nonsense. Come on, everybody,
let's have a drink and have some fun.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Paul I'll be back. And even if he isn't, who
really cares.
Speaker 6 (16:47):
Scotch for me?
Speaker 3 (16:53):
And I guess nobody cares.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Rupus was a little more jolly than usual, and the
drinks began to dispel the gloom?
Speaker 3 (16:59):
And was it it? Paul Endicott never had existed. It
began to get laid, and the.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Bazaarre wake broke up. Everybody went to bed, including me.
I lay there fully dressed, looking up at the beans
ceiling for an hour. About then my doorknob turned and
the door slid open and shut. Someone moved quietly to
my bed as I was slidding my thirty eight out.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
Of its holster.
Speaker 6 (17:19):
Damn me, rita us.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
Are you awake?
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (17:22):
I wasn't even under the covers. Minded.
Speaker 6 (17:26):
Damn, I'm scared. I wish I could leave here.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
What's a manner?
Speaker 6 (17:30):
Paul's dead?
Speaker 3 (17:31):
I know he is.
Speaker 6 (17:32):
He didn't mean anything to me one way or the other,
but I know he's dead.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
Anything to back up your feeling, I guess not.
Speaker 6 (17:38):
It's it's just something.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
I'm sure. Why'd you come to me?
Speaker 6 (17:42):
Because you're really a detective and I know it?
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Oh me, Oh, now you.
Speaker 6 (17:46):
Handle a case for my father once. You just don't
remember me?
Speaker 3 (17:50):
All right, I'm a detective. Rup has hired me because
he expected trouble.
Speaker 6 (17:52):
Damn, I'll tell you something about Paul. Yeah, Corey didn't
really like him. They were always fighting.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
She only cares about herself, So she said, tell me
what kind of a car it is? Cold drive.
Speaker 6 (18:02):
It's a yellow convertible. But it's still in the garage.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
I checked any other cars missing.
Speaker 6 (18:06):
No, No, they're all there. Oh, and I found out
something else before supper. There was a gun missing from
Rufus's gun rack. It's back now.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
Anything else.
Speaker 6 (18:15):
That's all I know, Sam, except that Paul's dead. I
know it. I wish i'd never come up here.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
After she left, I dressed for outdoors and climbed through
the bedroom window.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
It was still and quiet, and there was a quarter moon.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
When I skiied away from the chateau, I wanted to
look the land over myself before the next day, when
the clues, if any, were trampled into the snow. When
I passed the northern tip of Royal Lake on the
trail of the halfway Cabin, I saw a new set
of ski tracks heading into the woods where I'd found
Endicott's body.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
I followed them, and they went right to the cave
where I'd hidden them, and he was gone.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
I was standing there pondering this when I thought I
saw something move in the tree so the west of me.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
I stood stocked still. That was a mistake.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
A bullet spunder a tree next to me, and I
shoved off as fast as I could. There was no
second shot. I circle around in the trees, trying to
catch sight of someone.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
Nothing.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
I kept in the shadows and made put a halfway cabin.
It was dark and quiet, at least until I opened
the door. I tried, but he had the advantage of
surprise and some kind of a club. I ended up
on the floor with someone sitting on my chest.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
All right, I have your gun. You make one wrong move, Spade,
and I just got bullets in it and a hair trigger.
So be careful. We quick years a little light. As
you see, there's Paul Anicut's body. Yeah, why did you
find them? Totier? They're only putting a noose around your neck. Sure,
the very perceiving men, mister Spade, How do you figure
I did it? I taught better on my feet. Just
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remember the gun.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
If you didn't kill him, how else would you know
where the body? Because I know this country like the
back of my hand.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
He had to be somewhere. You are the killer, mister Spade. Me,
why do not? No, you found the body before anyone
else could hit it, then clumsily tried to write your truck.
Don't be silly. Why would I come back I murder?
All wor about his crime? Did you forget something or
something left undone? It's a natural It sounds good, except
that isn't true. You couldn't pendent on me in a
mount of sundays, but somebody might just tie it on
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to you. That's what you think. Do you know what
I'm going to do now? I wouldn't want to guess.
The shops came pouring in through the window and told
your spend board went down.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
I saw the place of the place outside and was gone.
I kicked the lamp through the place in the darkness
and lay.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
On the floor. Then I crawled over the spinboorg and
took my gun back. Well, that was a surprise. It
hurts quite a bit. Where'd you get it?
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Oh, somewhere in the beck Let me see it's at
the shoulder level. And then he won't die anyway.
Speaker 7 (20:40):
I'm afraid. I'm afraid I misjudged you. Is the space
Go after him? Go off to him and catch whoever
it was. I can't leave you here as to care
for myself. Just leave me a gun for protection. No,
I'll say, go, please while there's time, or are you afraid?
I was?
Speaker 3 (21:00):
So I gave him my gun and left outside.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
There were many ski tracks, but a fresh set led
left from the halfway cabin down. They went right to
the edge of Royal lake and then stopped. There were
no marks of skiapoles on the ice, so I followed
the shoreline looking for some kind of a clue. It
wasn't until I reached the southern tip of Royal.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
Lake that my effort was rewarded.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
Leading up from the ice were a set of footprints,
then a set of ski marks.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
They led to the boat house.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Inside I found two interesting items, one of dismantled ice
boat with fresh ice on the runners, two a pair
of skis with snow in the grooves. I made my
way along the beaten pack back to the chateau.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
Circle at once found interesting item number three and went in,
What were you doing up state? Did you hear the shots? So? Yeah?
I put on cool fluk me out of a sound
sleet set.
Speaker 6 (21:52):
Why did you know?
Speaker 1 (21:53):
I didn't find out about the first shot, Missus McCleod
that was fired at me.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
For the next three were fired on a man named
Toozure Spendboard. Oh no, how did it happen? Space? What's
it all about? He found Endicott's body in the woods dead.
Speaker 4 (22:05):
I told you, Sam, I told you told him.
Speaker 6 (22:07):
What what do you know about it?
Speaker 3 (22:08):
Nothing?
Speaker 6 (22:09):
I just had the ceiling that's all.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
You know something, I'll tell us her. I'll swept the
rents right.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Out of your head.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
I don't know anything, anything at all.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
I just had a ceiling shot Tosha Spade and why
I don't know. I was standing with them in a halfway, Kevin.
Somebody shouts through the window. Didn't you see them? Don't
you know who it was?
Speaker 3 (22:24):
I was too busy ducking the look. Just answer me
one thing. Have any of you been out?
Speaker 4 (22:28):
Of course?
Speaker 3 (22:28):
Not?
Speaker 6 (22:29):
No, I haven't. And mister Allison's in bed, of course.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
They all lied. A cloud shirt was seen with sweats.
He'd been moving fast somewhere. The ski pants sticking out
from under Kora's robe were wet, and Rita Parker was
now dressed when she wasn't before.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
I was trying to figure out something to say.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
When Charlie Allison came out from his bedroom, rolling asleep
out of his eyes and pulling a robe on.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
What's going on here? What's the real excitement about?
Speaker 4 (22:55):
They found Paul dead, somebody shot Tosia.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
No where is to in the halfway, Kevin. Well, let's
get into a doctor. I'll call one from Tom.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Why don't you go up and get towsy' I'll have
a car ready and we'll take him right into the
Lucerne hospital.
Speaker 6 (23:07):
Wait a minute, what about the murderer who did the shooting?
Speaker 3 (23:10):
Nobody's getting out of my sight.
Speaker 6 (23:11):
It had to be one of us, why, Coral, Oh,
it wasn't just anybody. We're the only ones left walking.
Why didn't you ask Sam he's the detective. Detective?
Speaker 3 (23:21):
Yes, I had him because somebody sent me an anonymous
letter saying that be trouble. You knew there was going
to be trouble rufus. Somebody else knew? Then why did
you let people come up here? Why did you wait
a minute? Spade? What did you find out? But if
you'll all wait here a minute, I'll tell you.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
When I circled the chateau before I came in, I'd
seen footprints leading to a window not mine. That meant
somebody else here was the back way in and out too.
I wanted to find out whose window it was, And
of course, when I was looking, I remember the apparently
dismantled ice boat and the fact that a set of
skis were in the boat house. It took me about
a minute to find the right room. But somebody knew it,
all right, Spade, stand where you Allison. You might be
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a great food technician, but you're a lousy killer.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
Yeah. Well, at least he didn't get her god in Spade,
all right? Come on, sap you sap Cora, huh you
think you could get her by killing somebody? Shut up
with me along. I'm sorry for you, sorry for anyone
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that ever knew. I'm sorry for myself.
Speaker 6 (24:28):
She loves me a fool.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
We found our killer, missus McCleod. Surely, yes, baby, Oh ruthless.
It's been a long day. I need a drink.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
And that goes to show you how cold it can
get in the snow country period and a report.
Speaker 4 (24:58):
Why would then do anything like that when he knew
he couldn't get away with.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
Him because he was stupid.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
If people must have told him a million times as
they told him once, crime just doesn't pay.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
I'll go type that up, will you go on? Scamper, scamper.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
Three chimes mean good times on NBC. Here's news of
two important musical events this Saturday. Our Toro Toscanini begins
a new Saturday series of concerts with the NBC Symphony
and for his premiere the celebrated Maestro Toscanini will present
a special hour and a half performance of verdi Is Requiem,
and beginning next Monday, you can hear the first in
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a new series by the Boston Pops Orchestra.
Speaker 4 (25:52):
As page that is what PS page?
Speaker 3 (25:57):
Why should it need a PS? And you know that
this report to borrow a phrase and you is full
of holes? My phrase I wish I'd never said it.
Speaker 4 (26:06):
For instance, who sent the note to Rupen Paul Endicott?
Speaker 3 (26:09):
He expected trouble. Answerya was so belligerent to everybody.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
All Right, I'm gonna come right out and ask you good,
why did Alison kill him?
Speaker 3 (26:18):
Well?
Speaker 1 (26:18):
I thought it was rather obvious Cora was leaving Rupus
McCleod for Allison. Because Allison worked for McCloud until Cora's
divorce was final. They didn't want Rupus to know about it,
so they used Paul Endicott as a decoy love affair.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
That Endicott didn't want to get Cora up.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
I'll bet that was it, say Effie, I don't know
how you ever guessed. Endicott saw another chance to pick
up a buck.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
With a little blackmail.
Speaker 4 (26:38):
It was just a wild guest. Yes, And of course
Alison did.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
Ski didn't he? What do you think?
Speaker 1 (26:43):
Well?
Speaker 2 (26:43):
How else could he get around so fast?
Speaker 4 (26:46):
And he made such a plight about those snow shoes.
Speaker 6 (26:49):
Stand.
Speaker 4 (26:49):
Yes, if I'd written the caper, I just covered that up.
A little camilla profession there.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
You certainly should not have. You know, there's only one
thing around here. You're supposed to say, I know, magot fast,
I came.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
Good night sweet.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
The Adventures of Sam Spade are produced, edited and directed
by William Spears. Sam Spade was played by Stephen Dunn.
Loreen Tuttle is Effie strip for tonight's adventure by John
Michael Hayes. Musical scoring by lud Gluskin, conducted by Robert Armbrwster.
(27:43):
Join us again next week, same time for another adventure
with Sam Spade.
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Speaker 3 (27:59):
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The National Broadcasting Company presents the Adventures of Sam Spade Detective.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Sam se Ejective Agency.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
The Sweethearts. How was your vacation, Sam, who said it
was a vacation. I thought you said you were going
skiing for weekend with me. If it's always work. Do
you know you can get killed on skis?
Speaker 2 (00:26):
If you say so, Sam, Yes, most people just break.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
The most people picked some easy little slope, the cowards.
But I know a ski run up near a town
called Lucerne that's sudden death.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
I know a ski run called a backbreaker.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Really, I'll go.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
And when they named suicide, if they stopped trying to
top me, you just can't. This was the deadliest ski
country ever seen. You just sit there while I do
a Christiania swing down Market Street. A galinder sprung up
the stairs and a tail mark right through the door
with a tail I took out of.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
The deep freeze.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Only last night the Chateau McLoud Caper for NBC, William Spear,
Radio's outstanding producer director of mystery and crime Drama brings
you the greatest private detective of them all in the
Adventures of Sam Spade.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
I just wanted to prove I could do it.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
I did a herring bone up the stairs.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
I'll just that you've readed all those things and you
were never in the snow country at all.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
So you don't believe me.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Huh, Well, here, doubting ifie, I brought you proof, and
don't tell me.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
I rented this A snowball, yes, a real snowball. Yes.
I brought back two of them in a thermos spot.
The other one I threw it out a policeman. It
was a freezy soaked with water and Iceland.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
I can't believe that you had trouble this weekend.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Oh no, You cut that snowball and you'll find a
bloodstained bullet inside of it, and behind the bullet lies
a tail.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Ready.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
I'm always ready, sir.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Yes, they fill An in to Sierra County Sheriff's Office
was cern, California from Samuel Spade, San Francisco, license number
one three seven, five nine.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Six, subject the Chateau McCloud Caper.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Dear Sheriff, you run a neat little conedy up there
at Sierra and I hate to be smithed, but when
my train steamed into the coal mountain near of your
lovely little village, of Lucerne. I knew the chill of
death was afoot. It had to be. The place was
too beautiful to last. The background hills were right out
of the Alps, the snow from Grandma Moses, and the
rustic buildings that snuggled under the mantle of white was
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just too cute for words. It was abnormally perfect. Something
had to give.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Well, Yoni young man who got off the train, he's McCloud.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Well, I'm supposed to find a chateau. McCloud. Oh, what
do you know?
Speaker 2 (02:55):
I got the right man on the first try.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Rube has sent me down to pick you up, and
you could pick me up almost.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
That's him.
Speaker 5 (03:01):
A little kill off today, Still we go, Mush mush.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
We glided out of the station.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Munnery is squeaking on snow, the soft pad of hoofs
and the jangle of Merry Belle. We had a bear
skin lamp road. It was a short bear, so we
had to move close. Her cheeks were an apple red and
her silk brown hair flowed in a stinking breeze.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Oh. It was a scene that will forever be etched
in my memory.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Rosan shells me, you're an advertising game.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Well, I have placed a few ads in my day,
mostly help water.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Oh don't give me, he says, you're gonna put them
a cloud canaries right on top of the new campaign.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
You're supposed to have a big name, just state letters,
Sam Space.
Speaker 6 (03:48):
Oh well, I'm readA Parker.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
I'm supposed to be Rookie's girl friends.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Of course, I think it's only to make his.
Speaker 6 (03:54):
White mad fun up here.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
So this is my first trip.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
Oh and you're in.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
For a treat, that is, it's abnormal psychology appeals to you.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
What does that mean?
Speaker 2 (04:05):
The macoud guest register is always full of dynamite. For example,
this weekend reads Zuckley Rufus mccoud with half of the
money in the world, trying to get the other hat good.
His wife who has an inelocatory to Creed missus, Yes, sir,
boy friend Paul Endicott Higgelow type Charlie Allison coworker and
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friend to Rufer. He's a food technician or something dull.
And then there's Choser spenborg Ski instructor who comes down like.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
A wolf from the folds like that.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Yes, well, I'll never remember all the names I'm in
the ad game.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
You know it's initials.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
For me, I call people well rl ts NTG and lest.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
You know, well the names don't mean a thing. Just
remember this every thirty second, Duck, I beg your.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Predon the McCloud is.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
I say it was eight miles out of town, and
it seemed we were there in no time at all.
Rida Parker hustle Alpine buck board and mayor into a
stable while I went up to the shat Bow to
meet my employer Rufus McLeod.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
It was more of a Swiss chalet, you know, where
the second floor is larger than the first.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
And I guarantee that no one in Switzerland could have
reported this chalet, even with the second floor the same
size as the first. I walked in upon Rufus big
and red face standing in front of a fireplace. It
could easily have roasted a brace of oxen.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Rump to rump. Of course you're Sam Spade, I am,
mister maclown. You came into an opportune time. There's no
one around who overhear our conversation. I suppose you wonder
why I hired a detective for a place like this, Well,
not especially I go where the people go and the money.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
You'll be paid well for your time in trouble. I
must be quick. In essence, this is my situation. Earlier
this week I received an anonymous letter saying that if
I invited the guest list I had planned for this weekend,
there might be serious trouble. Here's the letter, and keep
it to yourself. So Los Angeles postmark. I see, well,
we might start point trace gown this typewriter through an.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
LA detective agency. Every one of my charming guests is
from Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
One of them wrote it, if you ask me, very
I wann't know who wrote it if I can. But
more than that, I wonder what serious trouble The writer
is referring to the girl you sent to pick me up,
said you had a very volatile group of people assembled.
Perhaps they're high strung individuals, but they're civilized. I'm sure
their conflict would never get beyond a cutting phrase or two,
or perhaps a punch thrown here or there.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Well, then you really don't believe you will have any trouble. Yeah,
I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
I thought it would be advisable to have a man
like yourself around, Yes, one who deals in trouble professionally,
perhaps if things do get out of line, you can
help prepare the damages or even prevent things from occurring. Well,
I'll do my best, mister McLeod, but it's not easy
to look for something when you don't know what you're
looking for.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Oh here they come straight, oh back from the ski runs.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Only I told them you were handling an advertising campaign
for my canaries.
Speaker 6 (06:50):
Well what.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
They came, stamping in, pulling off gloves on, zipping pokers.
And if it hadn't been for the grown up dialogue, looking.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
All over like a group of care.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Free children, it was hard to believe that the chill
of death was also in an even day.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
I couldn't keep my eyes off one of.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
The particular members of the group, Mosburg stea boots, Chinese vermilion,
downhill pants and a candy striped paca, which she now
pulled over her lovely head. The sweaters she wore underneath
was I'm sure designed for someone much smaller aduction for her?
Is the advertising man you've been telling me about root
Oh mister Samuel's fate my half wife, Cora half Well,
(07:44):
how how.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Do you do it? Bg Kames? Sam You can always
use another sportment.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Out everybody shut up in producing the incomparable fabulous mister.
Speaker 6 (07:53):
Samuel, stay are you, sir? I'll give me a pass,
sam Me he's pulling the cock. Me to poker.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Charlie Allison, the sinball.
Speaker 5 (08:01):
Charlie is the one who doesn't see I'll take snowshoes
any day.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
I can't get anywhere. Snowshoe. You've heard perhaps the tortoise
and the hair ruver, Springs of some drinks.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Tom and Jerry top Dott, He's coffee, God's substance.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
We were having hot buttered rum. The stuff's warming in
the kitchen.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
We'll get it up, Get it up right away.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Cards for the.
Speaker 6 (08:17):
Rest of you.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Ready, I one, I, oh, oh yeah, oh, man shout rass.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Stand and drake a tall slamans again. Let every litter
me man say hello. He don't he don't.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
They took up a song with Augusto lifting imaginary drinks
into the air.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
And it was all very jolly.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
For a party that was supposed to be fought with danger,
this one certainly started out in just the opposite direction.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
The drinks came. When things got even merry, lunch was
served and.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Afterwards, I slipped into some outdoor gear and scrapped on
some ste Everybody scattered different directions. Rufus, Mcott and I
ski to a place three miles away called a halfway cabin.
Between the chateau and the cabin was a small lake
called Royal Lake, completely.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Closed him over.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Rufus stood in front of the cabin, firing a thirty
thirty at a target led up down in the woods
to the east. What do you see through the glasses, Spade?
Who bull's eyes? And nothing outside of the eight ring?
That's right off hand, shooting at this range and standing
on the ski.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Yeah, I can do much better than that. What's this?
See that silver tip on that big Norwegian fur over there? Yeah,
I'll cut it off. Hey, look at it. Well, they
came swooping out of nowhere, Spade. I swear right now,
I think he hit him. Who is it? That's Paul Undercott. No, No,
he's up. There's coral with him. You telling me nobody
was supposed to be skiing in that area. They're not. Well.
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Here he comes and he looks plenty of man. Why
do I care about him? He just have to corral
for the money I give it that so right, Just
kill me, you stupid. You weren't supposed to be skiing
there under cut and it was an accident. Yeah, well
that was no accident.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
All right, all right, a drop off that you keep onter,
I'll throwing at you.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
Oh i'd love Oh that's shop at hand, rest of
you put acting my shoulder.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Your boyfriend threw a sucker punch at me, Cora, And
even if he is my guest, there's a limit to hospitality.
I don't call one punch and even trade for a
thirty thirty bullet. You know I did, so I don't
start crying.
Speaker 7 (10:14):
Ruper died the feeling you wouldn't mind if you were here,
You wouldn't.
Speaker 6 (10:17):
Mind at all, Paul.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
I've just decided I.
Speaker 6 (10:20):
Don't like you without a mustache.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Well, well then on, everybody's off the prefense and you
knew where you stood. And it was chilly too.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Later in the day, we're all back at the chateau again,
and Paul Endicott wove his delicate variation on his main theme.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
I'll knock your block off. I tell you, mister Andicott,
you have some delusion. I have no delusions.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Towsure I've seen the way you look at Cora, the
way you two are always trying to lose me on
the trail.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Some people's ski faster than the other. Yeah, well, let
me tell you something. The next time you try to
wolf this girl, it's going to be your last. Nobody's wolf.
I'm a ski instructor, that is what I was hat. Well,
I'll stick to what you were hired for, a knock off,
the extra curricular active. I don't have to take this
kind of talk from you. Anything you'd like to do
about it, that's another fat boy. Yes, you want me
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to stop on, Missus McLeod. No, I want you to
take me out of here.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
Oh all right, all right, let's put on our skeeze
and get out of here.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Okay, here, I'll help you. Oh no, thank you, good
sect you gentlemen.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Well even sir, I won't take a minute. Ready, Yes, yeah,
here we are. Now where are we heading, Missus McLeod.
Speaker 6 (11:41):
Oh, I thought we might go out to the boat house.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
It's on the southern tip of Royal Lake.
Speaker 6 (11:44):
Don't em all a half nothing?
Speaker 3 (11:46):
And my name is Cora.
Speaker 6 (11:48):
I'm not really missus McLeod anymore.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
And that's kind of rough on you.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Isn't bringing your new boyfriend around all of your ex
husband's friends.
Speaker 6 (11:54):
Well, I like it up here, Rufus likes to have me.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
They're out all against Paul. Please they weren't. But he's
on the defensive so much he's gonna make enemies of
all of them. Yes, he's off to a rousing start.
Speaker 5 (12:05):
I say, do you know something, cham I don't care
about Paul and the cot really, or Rufus, MacColl or
Tosius and Lords or anybody.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
I just care about Cora Mici's Well, now that's a
good honest answer. You know, most people wouldn't.
Speaker 6 (12:19):
Be that frank, But damn, I haven't known you long. Well,
I like your style. Style, I could care about you.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
It broke my heart not to stop right there on
the player and shiss her, because that's what she wanted
me to do. So that's why I didn't do it,
and I'll never turn down anything better. Well, next scene
a boat house, and when we got there it was
not at all the way I thought. Food technician and
close friend of Rupus MacLeod was there working on something
that baffled me at first, and I.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
Spoke missus space.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
That's what it is along as to rufus, Yeah, I
don't think I've ever seen one up before. I take
you for a ride, But this one needs a lot
of work before anybody could use it.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
I'm just squttering. What prompted you to come out here, Cora?
Speaker 4 (13:07):
Because Paul and.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Tosha Spinboar got in a fight over me and I
got tired of the whole thing, Sam, and I.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Went out with me here. Well glad you did.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
I was getting a bit lonesome, you see, Sam, They
always leave me in a cloud of snow on skis,
and I just plod along on snow shoes all by myself.
Well maybe we can go walking together sometimes. I used
to be able to shake a pretty.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Good snow shoe. Today. Tomorrow morning, i'll show you the place. Sam.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
I think I'll stick around here and help Charlie with
the iceboats.
Speaker 6 (13:33):
Oh, unless you're crazy about iceboats. Why don't you go
back to the chateau. We'll be there in time for dinner.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Well, I don't need any engraved in the expectation. I
hope you catch your common cool. The trouble with that
girl is that she only wanted one man at a
time around here. Back at the chateau. There was no
one but the cook, the Marjory main part's who's tall
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that's supper approached. Rufus came in, then Rita, then Cora,
then Allison and finally Tojuer in that order. And the
order is important because you see nowhere in the list
is the name of Paul Endicott. He didn't come in
for supper nor for the next three hours. It was
dark by then and Rupu's McLeod was worried about Endicott,
so we found out in a searching party. I was
alone when I found them. He was lying in the
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snow three hundred yards west of the halfway Kevin. There
was a thirty thirty slug in period, and of Paul Endicott.
You are listening to the weekly adventure of radio's most
famous detective, Sam Spain. This Sunday, Carrie granted Betsy Drake
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Starr in the second of the new Mister and Missus
Blandings series over most of these NBC stations, The delightful
tribulations of Jim Blandings and his wife Muriel as they
built their famous dream house entertained millions as a novel
and then as a motion picture, and now you can
follow the further adventures of mister and Missus Blandings every
Sunday on NBC and Sunday also means your weekly visit
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with the hilarious Harrises on The Phil Harris Alice Fay Show.
And now back to the Chateau McCloud caper tonight's adventure
with Sam Spade. There were no stea marks near the
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body of Paul Endicott, just as own. Somebody had drawn
a beat on him in the dust from some distance.
I started to look for the rest of the searching party,
and then changed my mind. If the body of Endicott
wasn't found, the murderer might wonder what happened to it,
get worried and make a mistake. So I picked him up,
carried him to a small cave I found, covered the
entrance with snow, brushed over the ste marks, and went
back to the chateau.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
One by one they all showed up. Discourage such you thought,
We want to keep looking. I know how you feel cooling,
it's so dark. We'll try tomorrow.
Speaker 6 (16:08):
Oh, don't worry about him, can take care of him?
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Can you take care of him? Says Miss Parker, if
you've got law who said he got lost? I am assuming.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
I think we're all assuming too much. I'm sure that
it's nothing to worry about it. If I know Paul,
he'll show up tomorrow with some tall tale to tell.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
What do you think, mister Spade, what does an advertising
executive know? Cora your manners? A sponsor might be listening.
Speaker 6 (16:29):
Oh well, I'm sorry, Sam, I'm not saying okay, okay.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Frankly, I don't know what to think. But if I
were a detective, I had hazard a guess that Paul
met with foul play. Oh nonsense, Spade, nonsense. Come on, everybody,
let's have a drink and have some fun.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Paul I'll be back. And even if he isn't, who
really cares.
Speaker 6 (16:47):
Scotch for me?
Speaker 3 (16:53):
And I guess nobody cares.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Rupus was a little more jolly than usual, and the
drinks began to dispel the gloom?
Speaker 3 (16:59):
And was it it? Paul Endicott never had existed. It
began to get laid, and the.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Bazaarre wake broke up. Everybody went to bed, including me.
I lay there fully dressed, looking up at the beans
ceiling for an hour. About then my doorknob turned and
the door slid open and shut. Someone moved quietly to
my bed as I was slidding my thirty eight out.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
Of its holster.
Speaker 6 (17:19):
Damn me, rita us.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
Are you awake?
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (17:22):
I wasn't even under the covers. Minded.
Speaker 6 (17:26):
Damn, I'm scared. I wish I could leave here.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
What's a manner?
Speaker 6 (17:30):
Paul's dead?
Speaker 3 (17:31):
I know he is.
Speaker 6 (17:32):
He didn't mean anything to me one way or the other,
but I know he's dead.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
Anything to back up your feeling, I guess not.
Speaker 6 (17:38):
It's it's just something.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
I'm sure. Why'd you come to me?
Speaker 6 (17:42):
Because you're really a detective and I know it?
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Oh me, Oh, now you.
Speaker 6 (17:46):
Handle a case for my father once. You just don't
remember me?
Speaker 3 (17:50):
All right, I'm a detective. Rup has hired me because
he expected trouble.
Speaker 6 (17:52):
Damn, I'll tell you something about Paul. Yeah, Corey didn't
really like him. They were always fighting.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
She only cares about herself, So she said, tell me
what kind of a car it is? Cold drive.
Speaker 6 (18:02):
It's a yellow convertible. But it's still in the garage.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
I checked any other cars missing.
Speaker 6 (18:06):
No, No, they're all there. Oh, and I found out
something else before supper. There was a gun missing from
Rufus's gun rack. It's back now.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
Anything else.
Speaker 6 (18:15):
That's all I know, Sam, except that Paul's dead. I
know it. I wish i'd never come up here.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
After she left, I dressed for outdoors and climbed through
the bedroom window.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
It was still and quiet, and there was a quarter moon.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
When I skiied away from the chateau, I wanted to
look the land over myself before the next day, when
the clues, if any, were trampled into the snow. When
I passed the northern tip of Royal Lake on the
trail of the halfway Cabin, I saw a new set
of ski tracks heading into the woods where I'd found
Endicott's body.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
I followed them, and they went right to the cave
where I'd hidden them, and he was gone.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
I was standing there pondering this when I thought I
saw something move in the tree so the west of me.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
I stood stocked still. That was a mistake.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
A bullet spunder a tree next to me, and I
shoved off as fast as I could. There was no
second shot. I circle around in the trees, trying to
catch sight of someone.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
Nothing.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
I kept in the shadows and made put a halfway cabin.
It was dark and quiet, at least until I opened
the door. I tried, but he had the advantage of
surprise and some kind of a club. I ended up
on the floor with someone sitting on my chest.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
All right, I have your gun. You make one wrong move, Spade,
and I just got bullets in it and a hair trigger.
So be careful. We quick years a little light. As
you see, there's Paul Anicut's body. Yeah, why did you
find them? Totier? They're only putting a noose around your neck. Sure,
the very perceiving men, mister Spade, How do you figure
I did it? I taught better on my feet. Just
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remember the gun.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
If you didn't kill him, how else would you know
where the body? Because I know this country like the
back of my hand.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
He had to be somewhere. You are the killer, mister Spade. Me,
why do not? No, you found the body before anyone
else could hit it, then clumsily tried to write your truck.
Don't be silly. Why would I come back I murder?
All wor about his crime? Did you forget something or
something left undone? It's a natural It sounds good, except
that isn't true. You couldn't pendent on me in a
mount of sundays, but somebody might just tie it on
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to you. That's what you think. Do you know what
I'm going to do now? I wouldn't want to guess.
The shops came pouring in through the window and told
your spend board went down.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
I saw the place of the place outside and was gone.
I kicked the lamp through the place in the darkness
and lay.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
On the floor. Then I crawled over the spinboorg and
took my gun back. Well, that was a surprise. It
hurts quite a bit. Where'd you get it?
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Oh, somewhere in the beck Let me see it's at
the shoulder level. And then he won't die anyway.
Speaker 7 (20:40):
I'm afraid. I'm afraid I misjudged you. Is the space
Go after him? Go off to him and catch whoever
it was. I can't leave you here as to care
for myself. Just leave me a gun for protection. No,
I'll say, go, please while there's time, or are you afraid?
I was?
Speaker 3 (21:00):
So I gave him my gun and left outside.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
There were many ski tracks, but a fresh set led
left from the halfway cabin down. They went right to
the edge of Royal lake and then stopped. There were
no marks of skiapoles on the ice, so I followed
the shoreline looking for some kind of a clue. It
wasn't until I reached the southern tip of Royal.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
Lake that my effort was rewarded.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
Leading up from the ice were a set of footprints,
then a set of ski marks.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
They led to the boat house.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Inside I found two interesting items, one of dismantled ice
boat with fresh ice on the runners, two a pair
of skis with snow in the grooves. I made my
way along the beaten pack back to the chateau.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
Circle at once found interesting item number three and went in,
What were you doing up state? Did you hear the shots? So? Yeah?
I put on cool fluk me out of a sound
sleet set.
Speaker 6 (21:52):
Why did you know?
Speaker 1 (21:53):
I didn't find out about the first shot, Missus McCleod
that was fired at me.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
For the next three were fired on a man named
Toozure Spendboard. Oh no, how did it happen? Space? What's
it all about? He found Endicott's body in the woods dead.
Speaker 4 (22:05):
I told you, Sam, I told you told him.
Speaker 6 (22:07):
What what do you know about it?
Speaker 3 (22:08):
Nothing?
Speaker 6 (22:09):
I just had the ceiling that's all.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
You know something, I'll tell us her. I'll swept the
rents right.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Out of your head.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
I don't know anything, anything at all.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
I just had a ceiling shot Tosha Spade and why
I don't know. I was standing with them in a halfway, Kevin.
Somebody shouts through the window. Didn't you see them? Don't
you know who it was?
Speaker 3 (22:24):
I was too busy ducking the look. Just answer me
one thing. Have any of you been out?
Speaker 4 (22:28):
Of course?
Speaker 3 (22:28):
Not?
Speaker 6 (22:29):
No, I haven't. And mister Allison's in bed, of course.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
They all lied. A cloud shirt was seen with sweats.
He'd been moving fast somewhere. The ski pants sticking out
from under Kora's robe were wet, and Rita Parker was
now dressed when she wasn't before.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
I was trying to figure out something to say.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
When Charlie Allison came out from his bedroom, rolling asleep
out of his eyes and pulling a robe on.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
What's going on here? What's the real excitement about?
Speaker 4 (22:55):
They found Paul dead, somebody shot Tosia.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
No where is to in the halfway, Kevin. Well, let's
get into a doctor. I'll call one from Tom.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Why don't you go up and get towsy' I'll have
a car ready and we'll take him right into the
Lucerne hospital.
Speaker 6 (23:07):
Wait a minute, what about the murderer who did the shooting?
Speaker 3 (23:10):
Nobody's getting out of my sight.
Speaker 6 (23:11):
It had to be one of us, why, Coral, Oh,
it wasn't just anybody. We're the only ones left walking.
Why didn't you ask Sam he's the detective. Detective?
Speaker 3 (23:21):
Yes, I had him because somebody sent me an anonymous
letter saying that be trouble. You knew there was going
to be trouble rufus. Somebody else knew? Then why did
you let people come up here? Why did you wait
a minute? Spade? What did you find out? But if
you'll all wait here a minute, I'll tell you.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
When I circled the chateau before I came in, I'd
seen footprints leading to a window not mine. That meant
somebody else here was the back way in and out too.
I wanted to find out whose window it was, And
of course, when I was looking, I remember the apparently
dismantled ice boat and the fact that a set of
skis were in the boat house. It took me about
a minute to find the right room. But somebody knew it,
all right, Spade, stand where you Allison. You might be
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a great food technician, but you're a lousy killer.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
Yeah. Well, at least he didn't get her god in Spade,
all right? Come on, sap you sap Cora, huh you
think you could get her by killing somebody? Shut up
with me along. I'm sorry for you, sorry for anyone
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that ever knew. I'm sorry for myself.
Speaker 6 (24:28):
She loves me a fool.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
We found our killer, missus McCleod. Surely, yes, baby, Oh ruthless.
It's been a long day. I need a drink.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
And that goes to show you how cold it can
get in the snow country period and a report.
Speaker 4 (24:58):
Why would then do anything like that when he knew
he couldn't get away with.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
Him because he was stupid.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
If people must have told him a million times as
they told him once, crime just doesn't pay.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
I'll go type that up, will you go on? Scamper, scamper.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
Three chimes mean good times on NBC. Here's news of
two important musical events this Saturday. Our Toro Toscanini begins
a new Saturday series of concerts with the NBC Symphony
and for his premiere the celebrated Maestro Toscanini will present
a special hour and a half performance of verdi Is Requiem,
and beginning next Monday, you can hear the first in
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a new series by the Boston Pops Orchestra.
Speaker 4 (25:52):
As page that is what PS page?
Speaker 3 (25:57):
Why should it need a PS? And you know that
this report to borrow a phrase and you is full
of holes? My phrase I wish I'd never said it.
Speaker 4 (26:06):
For instance, who sent the note to Rupen Paul Endicott?
Speaker 3 (26:09):
He expected trouble. Answerya was so belligerent to everybody.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
All Right, I'm gonna come right out and ask you good,
why did Alison kill him?
Speaker 3 (26:18):
Well?
Speaker 1 (26:18):
I thought it was rather obvious Cora was leaving Rupus
McCleod for Allison. Because Allison worked for McCloud until Cora's
divorce was final. They didn't want Rupus to know about it,
so they used Paul Endicott as a decoy love affair.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
That Endicott didn't want to get Cora up.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
I'll bet that was it, say Effie, I don't know
how you ever guessed. Endicott saw another chance to pick
up a buck.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
With a little blackmail.
Speaker 4 (26:38):
It was just a wild guest. Yes, And of course
Alison did.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
Ski didn't he? What do you think?
Speaker 1 (26:43):
Well?
Speaker 2 (26:43):
How else could he get around so fast?
Speaker 4 (26:46):
And he made such a plight about those snow shoes.
Speaker 6 (26:49):
Stand.
Speaker 4 (26:49):
Yes, if I'd written the caper, I just covered that up.
A little camilla profession there.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
You certainly should not have. You know, there's only one
thing around here. You're supposed to say, I know, magot fast,
I came.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
Good night sweet.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
The Adventures of Sam Spade are produced, edited and directed
by William Spears. Sam Spade was played by Stephen Dunn.
Loreen Tuttle is Effie strip for tonight's adventure by John
Michael Hayes. Musical scoring by lud Gluskin, conducted by Robert Armbrwster.
(27:43):
Join us again next week, same time for another adventure
with Sam Spade.
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