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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:28):
One, Sam, Lieutenant Dundee of homicide. He wants you to
drop around so they can get your former statement. No, hurry,
not now tell me what happens, Sam. I'm sorry. Yes,
I guess he was one of your oldest friends, wasn't he?
Speaker 1 (00:40):
You don't make any friends in this business? Any You
can write that in your book.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Now.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
I'll give you the rest of it when I get there.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Some tired Sam, wouldn't you rather just what?
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Baby? Well?
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Go home? And you know we just put it off
until tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Yeah, maybe get it off my chest? Tonight, stand out
at the command ton and take ain't my report on
a Dick Foley Caper. Nashel Hammett's, America's leading detective fiction
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of them all in the Adventures Up Sam's bad. Why
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that's shaky? Just at the top of the glass? Do it?
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Yeah, Sam, what you said over the phone, not not
making any friends in this business, You didn't really mean that.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Forget it. You can label us oh file on Dick Foley.
They fellow. Then to Dundee at homicide. I guess from
Samuel's the license I went through seventy five ninety six.
The facts are all here. If you can dig a
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formal statement out of it, you're welcome. I'd known Dick
Foley ever since I took out my license. We've worked
several big capers together. Back in my days as a
continental lot. He and Mickey Linahan and I and he
and Mickey opened their own office fully in line Ahn
private investigations. Five years back. Mickey stopped the slug and
since then the sign on the door read Dick Foley
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Detective Ation Scene. I'd seen Dick maybe four or five
times in the last half a dozen years, just to
have a drink and shoe of the fat about the
good old days. He never talked about his private life.
I assumed he didn't have any, So when I went
to his office day before yesterday in response to his call,
I was surprised to find him in a clench with
one of the most beautiful nails I've ever seen. Oh oh, oh, Sam,
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I don't know. Shall I come back after lunch? Oh? Sam,
this is Maxine, my wife. You don't deserve it, and
I'm happy for you.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
I'll return the compliment. Sam, I've wanted to meet you
for years, but Dick wouldn't introduce me.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
Now you know why. Well you run along, honey. Sam's
here on business alright.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
You can bring Sam home to dinner if you like.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
There's plenty if he's not too busy. But don't count
on that.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
We'll try anyway, won't you, Sam.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
I will indeed draw a chair. Sam, mhm, sit down.
Oh what's on your mind?
Speaker 4 (04:30):
Then you remember Claude Spicer, that grifter I said over
for that jewelry store hiked back in forty three.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
You never told me you were married, deck and.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
Very happily married. Now please pay attention Claude Spicer.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Yeah, yeah, I remember the caper. Wasn't there a diamond involved? Well,
Spicer had a girlfriend, but the cops gave her a
good dollar health Spiser went up for a five year stretch.
They spun them last month. Whatever happened to that dame?
Now look about Spicer? He gunning for you. You hit it.
I'll scared of money. Well I have to ask you
for help. Say what's etman? Just revenge? Sam?
Speaker 4 (05:03):
I wouldn't tell this to anybody but you, But all
the facts of that caper didn't come out at that time.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
I uh, sort of it.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
I'll come well, I couldn't have stayed in business in
San Francisco. I had been generally known that my partner
was the inside man on that jewelry store heights. Nicky, Yeah,
Nicky Lenahan Ah, You and I are both great at
choosing partners.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Sam. They both deserved with a gun. Only one difference.
I sent up the killer that plugged my partner. Some
people thought the way he gave evidence that Spice's murder
trial wasn't so hard. Well, he was alibi and Sam.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
In fact, the robbery was his alibi for the murder.
I don't know how he managed it. I've been trying
for five years to figure it out. Spice is afraid
I might succeed someday. That's why he's out to get me.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
What's he waiting for?
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Oh, I don't know. He won't do it simple. He'll
have a fancy plan like the other time.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
He's tricky. Where's he staying at the Bilver There? Here's
his mugg.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
I kept a plan in the building for a couple
of days, but he stayed holed up in his room.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
I think he spotted me. Okay, that guy, give it
a buz. Wait minute, a cent. Yeah, I'm not asking
you to do this for love standard see twenty five
and whiskey money. Okay, so I get it. This one's
on me. In the elevator on my way out, I
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studied the picture of Claude Spicer and the old police
circular they had given me, but a picture in the
back of my mind kept getting them away. It was
Dick Foley's wife Maxine. When I hit the street, I
still saw her face before man, there was no picture,
only pretty.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
As I waited for you.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
I've got to talk to you my pleasure. Shall we
confer on an Jason caffee?
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Whatever you say? And I don't want to take to know?
Speaker 1 (06:39):
And you shouldn't have married the detective? Please? Now, how's
this black watch? What's talking up?
Speaker 2 (06:47):
That boots in the corner?
Speaker 4 (06:48):
Its secluded?
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Why not slide in? I don't know. The hair is
still but not facing the street.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Sorry, it's not much good at this sort of thing.
I'm I'm not asking you to tell me what it is,
but if he's in really bad trouble, I think I
have a right to know.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
What makes you think he's in trouble.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Well, I'm not blind. You can't live with a man.
I'm not sense it when something goes wrong.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
I never thought Dick was a sight to show it.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Oh, he's tried to hide it from me, and I
haven't said anything. I thought if he wanted me to know,
he'd tell me.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
It was a wise thought. Hold on to.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
It what I meant to, But then a terrible possibility
crossed my mind. Sam, it isn't me, is it?
Speaker 1 (07:27):
In what way? Well?
Speaker 2 (07:29):
You know what I mean. He's been away from home
nights so much lately, and he questions me so closely
about where I go and who I see and so on,
And well, I may as well ask you right out.
Did he hire you to check up on me? Then
that is it? No, you're not lying to me, Sir.
Dick says, you're almost his oldest friend.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
He's talked so much about you, and he must have
told you I don't do that type of work.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Why do you keep looking at me?
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Sorry, trying to place you, Mike saying, I keep thinking
I seen you someplace before.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Oh it must have been my picture. I was an actress.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Yeah picture, Yeah, maybe that was it.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
What do you say it like that, like what was
if you were angry with me?
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Because I just got the caption on the pictures that
wait come back. Yes I had, and the caption was
from a newspaper circa nineteen forty three and then read
actress Lovely cleared and lanahand slaying. I flashed my tin
star at the room clerk at the bell that they
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learned that Claude Spicing was in, and stuck around to
make sure the clerk didn't buzz the room to set
them off. Around four and a pm, Spicer went out,
very dressed up, umbrella gloves and all. He walked down
Gary to Grant and turned north. A cold San Francisco
bristle started blowing up in the bay. I wish I'd
brought my overcoat. A half a block up from California,
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he entered Grayson's jewelry store. I picked through the rain
street show and go after him, side pawing eagerly through
a tray full of diamond clips while the long suffering
clerk eyed her hopelessly. From his side of the corner
was the actress Lovely Maxine. Shot Spice her a quick
glance of recognition as he ended, but they didn't speak.
He took up a pose of gentlemanly patient, shrugged his
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eyebrows sympathetically at the clerk, and leaned elegantly and his umbrella,
while Maxine bound fault with every piece of jewelry that
was shoved in front of it. The broad expression left
his face only once. That was when the clerk opened
the vault and brought out some unset stones. Their act
may have been pulling the clerk, but it was as
plain as the nose on Splash's face. As very plain nose.
It was that they were sizing up the giant for
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a pushover. Maxine left first. He stayed long enough to
buy a cigarette ladder, and then followed her out. As
I took out after him, I stopped to read a
sticker on the endside of the glass door. It said
these premises protected by Dick Cooley Detective Agency. Maxine was
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waiting for him at the corner. I grabbed up a
Chinese newspaper and used it the list behind him. But
I need in the bottle. They didn't seem to care well.
They are happy, ought to be about a million bucks.
Why are you so disagreeable? You ought to be feeling good,
feeling good. Five year stretch. I come out to find
my girl married to the joker that sent me up.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
We didn't think it was such a bad idea at
the time.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Well I do know. Well after tonight, we'll go east,
you and me together, baby, do you catch up with this?
Wherever we go? Oh? You should live so long?
Speaker 2 (10:25):
How do you mean that?
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Just like it sounds?
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Baby? Bye, I'm going to get some sleep. I'll need
a clear head.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
I don't want to be alone.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Oh not even tonight.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
I don't want to be alone.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
See you later. Bye bye. He went straight back to
the belve there and those stops picked up his key
at the desk. No messages, but the elevator of the
eighth floor. Ut himself in the room eight all nine,
hung out the do not disturb sign, closed, and locked
the door behind him. I kept a plan on it
till around midnight, when I listed to do not disturbed
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card from the doorknob and wedged it into the crack
of the door. It was a crafty move, and I
had just finished doing a crass that lay when the
door opened again in my face. Huh boy, what are
you doing here? Nothing, sir, I'm making a survey. I'm
from the Trotterpole, Trotapol. It's like the gallup pole, but
we're not in so much of a hurry. Yeah, just
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kindly answer this question as a Democrat? Do you believe?
Do we? I picked up the do Not Disturbed card
and wedged it back into the crack at his door.
There's any house stick nos except of course tiny store
it the night paper at the velvet there. If anybody
opens the door like that, the card will fall out,
and somebody will always hang it on the knob. Another
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thing Diny doesn't know is never to draw to an
inside straight. We played nine different times of poker until
five am, when I thought I'd go up and have
another look all. It was quiet on the eighth floor.
From the elevator bank, I could see a room eight
or nine in the morning table was shoved under his door,
and might do not Disturb sign was apparently where I
had planted it. I slipped though it up to make sure.
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Huh boy, what do you want me? The paper boy? Sir,
your morning paper? You get a round? Well, well, good
news in the papers. Interesting interesting jewelry store housed up
on Grant Avenue. Oh yeah, sir, our paper only what
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I grabbed the paper from under eight oh five. It
was the headline I could have expected if Spicer had
left his room without my knowing it. Grayson's jewelry store,
the shopping and Maxine in case that afternoon had been
taken for unestimated million bucks in uncut gems. But Spice's
door hadn't been opened, and there was no other exit.
I sat down and thought, and what I thought of
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was that sticker on the front door of Grayson's said
these promises protected by Dick Foley Detective Agency. On the
six am Oakland Ferry boat fell his way blindly out
of the slip cloud. Spiser was aboard, and so was
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I should have been getting lighter, but it wasn't. The
fog was thickening over the harbor, and most of the
passengers were inside drinking coffee. Spicer didn't go in. He
climbed up to the boat deck and stood at the
rail under the pilot's house. I planted between two wet
paint signs and waited, not for long. I couldn't make
out any features on the man who came up and
joined them. They stood face to face, not more than
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to put apart and talked and voices that couldn't get
to me through the racket of the fog horns on
the harbor. What spoke loud enough for me to hear
was a gun. They seemed to fall into each other's
arms and collapsed in a heap on the deck. But
when I got to the spot, only the dead one
was there. It was spicy. The other man had disappeared
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around the corner of the deck house. A ray of
light from the pilot's windows swept over, and I saw
gun metal shine on his hand and then spin out
over the rail as he threw it. What how is
your sad? How has the fidget lost him? What did
you do it for it? Dick? I had my reason, Sam,
Now trust me, I'll keep you in the clear. How
long as long as I go on playing suckerd for you?
What do you think I hired you for it? Mabe.
I was supposed to say you killed him in self defense.
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Maybe I was supposed to see him making passes at
your wife if you needed best. And you've got worked
the killers before. I've even worked for thieves, but not
for a detective. But notched over the place he's supposed
to a protectics. Damn, it's hard to sell it for
that cop stick. I'm turnning you in when we got
to open. No, you're not come back here. Call me.
I'm going over the side to try to stop me.
You're going with me. He fought away from me, got
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one foot out of the rail and kicked out at
me with the other that caught me on the point
of the chin. I stumbled forward and grabbed off Bran
must have caught him by a belt just as heach ounge,
remember something, pulling me halfway over the rail and trying
to get free of it. I did, but not soon enough.
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And now back to the dick Fully Caper The Night's
Adventure with Sam Spade. I've found myself mechanically keeping a
quote somehow and trying to get out of my coat.
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I felt heavy and walk swad jallenge of water, murk
on lone, sick, nothing else to be seen anywhere. I
swallowed what felt like several more gallons before I got
rid of the coat from out of the mysty fog
blanket from every direction, and a dozen different keys from
near and fire fog horn sound it. I stopped swimming
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and floated on my back blind at the time of
my whereabouts. After a while I figured out the moaning,
evenly spaced blast of the alcatrazz silent, but they came
out of the fog without direction, seemed to beat down
on me and straight above. I was somewhere in San
Francisco Bay and that was all I knew, and I
suspected the count was sweeping the outdoor of the Golden Gate,
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and a light up ahead of me starting shouting.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
I knew the out away.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
I lift at my head and.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Strained them both silent, cying us warning found out my
shouts went on past, and the fog closed in behind it.
When I heard a new song seago, I swam closet
and it seemed to get lighter. Part of it was
the darn light beginning to cut through the fog wagon
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And there was also a strange looking man standing on
the water and waving a green lantern back and forth.
I yelled at him to wait for him in A
seagull got off his hat and flew away.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
When I got closer I followed was some man with only.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
A bully tero typer. I used all the once I
had left that dragged myself up on the blaze and
let it rock me the se Hey, hey me question
one of the Brandy and Humes.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
Yeah, here, get some of these done. Wow, then heaven
you can tell that. But it's met.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Oh. Session was for Yeah, take it easy.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
We got ambulance coming.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
You're going to the hospital. No, no, I'll be okay.
They give me a hand, Yeah, okay, eh you do.
It's a favor.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
Will you don't fall down until you get out of sight?
This time we're tired of picking you up.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
I thanked the two kindly old fisher folks for they're
interested in my welfare, flirted up the pier, fell into
a taxi and went home. Well. I soaked out some
of my aches and pains and shells. I did some
stewing about the caper so far, and stood up. And
I ain't get to carry me through to the finish.
I checked the coast Guard the news of Big Fully,
they told me his body hadn't been recovered yet. I
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got dressed and went over to his office. The cops
hadn't been there. And went through the file cabin, and
when I found on the fully pirate had me so
interested that I didn't hear Maxine come in until she
closed the door. What are you looking for, you, baby?
I'm for you. Came here nice. I don't be mad, Maxine.
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That gun makes a woman's bulge in the wrong place.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
It's not my gud.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
We'll see. Shut up now, Starting with a wrap, Spicer
went up for the same pattern. The way you work
this one tells me how you worked it the first
time you get something on a private detective. The first
time five years ago, it was Dick's partner, Mickey Lanahan.
I don't know what Spicer had on him, but I
do know he forced Dick to knock over at Grayson's
jewelry store last night. You okay, I'll talk to myself.
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I'm not saying you killed Mickey Lanahan. But Dick did
frame an alibi for you, didn't He didn't. I good
five spending a night swimming around in circles in the
middle of the harvest sometimes. See how you like that?
All right?
Speaker 2 (20:31):
It's true Dick did help me out of that old gem.
I'm not ashamed of it. I'm proud I love was
that important to him?
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Oh spicy, that same old double cross, only this time
I'm standing where Dick did five years ago. Dick was
set up as a patsy the same way Mickey Lanahan was,
but he got smart and pulled the trigger first. Where
did that hurt you? I loved it? Yeah, I loved him.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
That's something you can't understand. But it happens that way
no matter.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
What people are. You sound as if you really mean that,
But you're a little late.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Actual, he's not dead, I'm sure.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
If he's not, he's really in trouble.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
What do you mean by that?
Speaker 1 (21:07):
I found something here in the files that they left
just in case Spicer got the him first? What is
it a confession that Mickey Linehan's murder?
Speaker 2 (21:15):
That's impossible.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Were you there? What are you going to do with it?
Turn it over to the police. He still counts unless
he shows and revokes. But I don't think he will.
Why because I won't back up a self defense play
on the Spicer shooting.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
But you were Dick's friend, you were fish.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
I wouldn't ask him to do it for me.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Then what can I do from I'll do anything, anything,
anything at all.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Well, if he stays the ways as good as dead,
he comes back, you'll get a jury trial, and if
there are more men than women in the panel, he'd
probably be acquitted on your testimony alone.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Do you really think he might have a chance for
the jury.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
There's always a chance. But where is he?
Speaker 2 (21:49):
How can I get word to him?
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Well, if he's not fish food by now, there's one
sure way of smoking him out, something I can do
nobody else.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Please tell me anything, sign.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
A confession of your own confession, not Mickey Lenahan's murder,
or anything that might need you for swear that she
shot Spicy. Now you can always runneg make both of
you look good sacrificing for each other. How about it? Hi?
Speaker 2 (22:15):
All right, tell me what to write?
Speaker 1 (22:21):
I did. She signed it. I had happy dispatch it
to all the papers and news services, and then I
brought it down to the hall. Naturally, you didn't believe
a word of her confession, Bendi, But when I took
you aside and explained my stratagem, you endorsed it heartily
and had her book. She pressed my hand and thanked me.
A look of resignation on her face was so real
it was hard to believe she was faking. When she
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turned her back to follow the matron down the corridor,
I saw why. On the back of her coat there
was a smear of white paint. I remembered the wet
the wet paint signs on the Oakland Ferry boat. Dick
Foley gave himself up an hour after her can fashion
hit the street, screamed and yelled at everybody in Hormisi,
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trying to convince them that Maxine was innocent. He should
take the full wrap. And I'm afraid I queered that
when we confronted him with the autopsy surgeon's report, he
tried the bluff even then when he read it.
Speaker 4 (23:13):
Kell it a ended right side between third and fourth ribs,
penetrated left lung. Tell it, d puur a membrane side
room punched it well, So wat Sam.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
All three on the right side angling up. You see. No,
I don't know why you even saw me on that boat.
You saw me throw the gun over or cut it out, Dick.
What I saw was in the dark. You two men
were facing each other directly. If I were going to
drop a man faster close range, face to face like that,
I would not put the gun in my left hand,
pushed it around, straining my wrist in the process, and
pulled the trigger with my thumb. Unless I were left handed,
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double joined, and the trickiest shot than you are, I'd
blast him straight through the middle. All right, all right,
Yes it was Maxine. Well that's good. Maybe you can
get cured now unless you open up some more. Let
me put it down like it was business, all right.
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Number One, Maxine killed your partner Mickey Lanahan five years ago.
Probable motive to eliminate him and send Spicer up for it. Yeah,
she didn't figure on Spicer being smart enough to consess
to the robbery and that alibi for the murder. Two,
you purjured yourself to clear Maxine of the murder, motive
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to prevent the truth about your partner from coming out,
and Maxine was motive enough for anything.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
Got it out, will you?
Speaker 1 (24:32):
Sorry? Three Spyser forced you to team up with him
and the jewelry heights ow.
Speaker 4 (24:39):
Well, he threatened to make a full confession his accessory
as Mickey's killing. I would have put the whole works
on Maxine and leave him in the clear.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Yeah. Can't be tried twice for the same crime. For you,
decided to rub out Spicer whether you could beat the
rapper out and clear the books once and for all.
So you pretended to play along with him, told Maxine
to do the same, and called me in his umpire. Yeah, Sam,
I'm sorry. Why couldn't you lay off Maxine?
Speaker 3 (25:06):
Why did you have to?
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Oh? I thought you were my friends and that's about it,
period and the friendship.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
Oh you mean the concession that you tricked her into
making turned.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
Off to.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
What will happen to him?
Speaker 1 (25:34):
Mm? Hmmm? What about Dick Poley Dick? They got him
in a number of things. I suppose I may take
some time out of him, but I think you'll be
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Speaker 2 (26:30):
Well, I thought, then, well you know how you feel?
Speaker 1 (26:33):
What sweetheart? Dick Poley was a private dick?
Speaker 2 (26:36):
So what I mean you continue yourself to talk about it?
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Sure? Go ahead try me.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Well it seems terribly complicated, I suppose because mister Foley
was in the profession and.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
Thinks like you do up to a point. Evan, what's bothering?
Why did he call you in?
Speaker 2 (26:51):
You another private detective? And you how smart you are?
Speaker 3 (26:55):
Not?
Speaker 1 (26:57):
I don't know. Maybe man, i've turned off anything. I'd
look the other way.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Do you think that could ever happen to you?
Speaker 1 (27:04):
Sir?
Speaker 2 (27:06):
That's a clever Phraseer dictated. He called me in his umpire.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
That's baseball. But if he's so clever, why didn't you
His mistake? Effie was trying a quadruple play, which has
never been heard of in the history of baseball or crime.
All he wanted was the Batmaxine home safe, but usually
figures when three men around the side retired.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Well, I don't understand baseball, Sam.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
That's sorry. Football will be here soon anyway. But the
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One, Sam, Lieutenant Dundee of homicide. He wants you to
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not now tell me what happens, Sam. I'm sorry. Yes,
I guess he was one of your oldest friends, wasn't he?
Speaker 1 (00:40):
You don't make any friends in this business? Any You
can write that in your book.
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I'll give you the rest of it when I get there.
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Some tired Sam, wouldn't you rather just what?
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Baby? Well?
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Go home? And you know we just put it off
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that's shaky? Just at the top of the glass? Do it?
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Yeah, Sam, what you said over the phone, not not
making any friends in this business, You didn't really mean that.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Forget it. You can label us oh file on Dick Foley.
They fellow. Then to Dundee at homicide. I guess from
Samuel's the license I went through seventy five ninety six.
The facts are all here. If you can dig a
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formal statement out of it, you're welcome. I'd known Dick
Foley ever since I took out my license. We've worked
several big capers together. Back in my days as a
continental lot. He and Mickey Linahan and I and he
and Mickey opened their own office fully in line Ahn
private investigations. Five years back. Mickey stopped the slug and
since then the sign on the door read Dick Foley
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Detective Ation Scene. I'd seen Dick maybe four or five
times in the last half a dozen years, just to
have a drink and shoe of the fat about the
good old days. He never talked about his private life.
I assumed he didn't have any, So when I went
to his office day before yesterday in response to his call,
I was surprised to find him in a clench with
one of the most beautiful nails I've ever seen. Oh oh, oh, Sam,
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I don't know. Shall I come back after lunch? Oh? Sam,
this is Maxine, my wife. You don't deserve it, and
I'm happy for you.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
I'll return the compliment. Sam, I've wanted to meet you
for years, but Dick wouldn't introduce me.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
Now you know why. Well you run along, honey. Sam's
here on business alright.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
You can bring Sam home to dinner if you like.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
There's plenty if he's not too busy. But don't count
on that.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
We'll try anyway, won't you, Sam.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
I will indeed draw a chair. Sam, mhm, sit down.
Oh what's on your mind?
Speaker 4 (04:30):
Then you remember Claude Spicer, that grifter I said over
for that jewelry store hiked back in forty three.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
You never told me you were married, deck and.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
Very happily married. Now please pay attention Claude Spicer.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Yeah, yeah, I remember the caper. Wasn't there a diamond involved? Well,
Spicer had a girlfriend, but the cops gave her a
good dollar health Spiser went up for a five year stretch.
They spun them last month. Whatever happened to that dame?
Now look about Spicer? He gunning for you. You hit it.
I'll scared of money. Well I have to ask you
for help. Say what's etman? Just revenge? Sam?
Speaker 4 (05:03):
I wouldn't tell this to anybody but you, But all
the facts of that caper didn't come out at that time.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
I uh, sort of it.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
I'll come well, I couldn't have stayed in business in
San Francisco. I had been generally known that my partner
was the inside man on that jewelry store heights. Nicky, Yeah,
Nicky Lenahan Ah, You and I are both great at
choosing partners.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Sam. They both deserved with a gun. Only one difference.
I sent up the killer that plugged my partner. Some
people thought the way he gave evidence that Spice's murder
trial wasn't so hard. Well, he was alibi and Sam.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
In fact, the robbery was his alibi for the murder.
I don't know how he managed it. I've been trying
for five years to figure it out. Spice is afraid
I might succeed someday. That's why he's out to get me.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
What's he waiting for?
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Oh, I don't know. He won't do it simple. He'll
have a fancy plan like the other time.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
He's tricky. Where's he staying at the Bilver There? Here's
his mugg.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
I kept a plan in the building for a couple
of days, but he stayed holed up in his room.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
I think he spotted me. Okay, that guy, give it
a buz. Wait minute, a cent. Yeah, I'm not asking
you to do this for love standard see twenty five
and whiskey money. Okay, so I get it. This one's
on me. In the elevator on my way out, I
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studied the picture of Claude Spicer and the old police
circular they had given me, but a picture in the
back of my mind kept getting them away. It was
Dick Foley's wife Maxine. When I hit the street, I
still saw her face before man, there was no picture,
only pretty.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
As I waited for you.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
I've got to talk to you my pleasure. Shall we
confer on an Jason caffee?
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Whatever you say? And I don't want to take to know?
Speaker 1 (06:39):
And you shouldn't have married the detective? Please? Now, how's
this black watch? What's talking up?
Speaker 2 (06:47):
That boots in the corner?
Speaker 4 (06:48):
Its secluded?
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Why not slide in? I don't know. The hair is
still but not facing the street.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Sorry, it's not much good at this sort of thing.
I'm I'm not asking you to tell me what it is,
but if he's in really bad trouble, I think I
have a right to know.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
What makes you think he's in trouble.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Well, I'm not blind. You can't live with a man.
I'm not sense it when something goes wrong.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
I never thought Dick was a sight to show it.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Oh, he's tried to hide it from me, and I
haven't said anything. I thought if he wanted me to know,
he'd tell me.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
It was a wise thought. Hold on to.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
It what I meant to, But then a terrible possibility
crossed my mind. Sam, it isn't me, is it?
Speaker 1 (07:27):
In what way? Well?
Speaker 2 (07:29):
You know what I mean. He's been away from home
nights so much lately, and he questions me so closely
about where I go and who I see and so on,
And well, I may as well ask you right out.
Did he hire you to check up on me? Then
that is it? No, you're not lying to me, Sir.
Dick says, you're almost his oldest friend.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
He's talked so much about you, and he must have
told you I don't do that type of work.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Why do you keep looking at me?
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Sorry, trying to place you, Mike saying, I keep thinking
I seen you someplace before.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Oh it must have been my picture. I was an actress.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Yeah picture, Yeah, maybe that was it.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
What do you say it like that, like what was
if you were angry with me?
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Because I just got the caption on the pictures that
wait come back. Yes I had, and the caption was
from a newspaper circa nineteen forty three and then read
actress Lovely cleared and lanahand slaying. I flashed my tin
star at the room clerk at the bell that they
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learned that Claude Spicing was in, and stuck around to
make sure the clerk didn't buzz the room to set
them off. Around four and a pm, Spicer went out,
very dressed up, umbrella gloves and all. He walked down
Gary to Grant and turned north. A cold San Francisco
bristle started blowing up in the bay. I wish I'd
brought my overcoat. A half a block up from California,
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he entered Grayson's jewelry store. I picked through the rain
street show and go after him, side pawing eagerly through
a tray full of diamond clips while the long suffering
clerk eyed her hopelessly. From his side of the corner
was the actress Lovely Maxine. Shot Spice her a quick
glance of recognition as he ended, but they didn't speak.
He took up a pose of gentlemanly patient, shrugged his
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eyebrows sympathetically at the clerk, and leaned elegantly and his umbrella,
while Maxine bound fault with every piece of jewelry that
was shoved in front of it. The broad expression left
his face only once. That was when the clerk opened
the vault and brought out some unset stones. Their act
may have been pulling the clerk, but it was as
plain as the nose on Splash's face. As very plain nose.
It was that they were sizing up the giant for
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a pushover. Maxine left first. He stayed long enough to
buy a cigarette ladder, and then followed her out. As
I took out after him, I stopped to read a
sticker on the endside of the glass door. It said
these premises protected by Dick Cooley Detective Agency. Maxine was
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waiting for him at the corner. I grabbed up a
Chinese newspaper and used it the list behind him. But
I need in the bottle. They didn't seem to care well.
They are happy, ought to be about a million bucks.
Why are you so disagreeable? You ought to be feeling good,
feeling good. Five year stretch. I come out to find
my girl married to the joker that sent me up.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
We didn't think it was such a bad idea at
the time.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Well I do know. Well after tonight, we'll go east,
you and me together, baby, do you catch up with this?
Wherever we go? Oh? You should live so long?
Speaker 2 (10:25):
How do you mean that?
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Just like it sounds?
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Baby? Bye, I'm going to get some sleep. I'll need
a clear head.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
I don't want to be alone.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Oh not even tonight.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
I don't want to be alone.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
See you later. Bye bye. He went straight back to
the belve there and those stops picked up his key
at the desk. No messages, but the elevator of the
eighth floor. Ut himself in the room eight all nine,
hung out the do not disturb sign, closed, and locked
the door behind him. I kept a plan on it
till around midnight, when I listed to do not disturbed
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card from the doorknob and wedged it into the crack
of the door. It was a crafty move, and I
had just finished doing a crass that lay when the
door opened again in my face. Huh boy, what are
you doing here? Nothing, sir, I'm making a survey. I'm
from the Trotterpole, Trotapol. It's like the gallup pole, but
we're not in so much of a hurry. Yeah, just
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kindly answer this question as a Democrat? Do you believe?
Do we? I picked up the do Not Disturbed card
and wedged it back into the crack at his door.
There's any house stick nos except of course tiny store
it the night paper at the velvet there. If anybody
opens the door like that, the card will fall out,
and somebody will always hang it on the knob. Another
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thing Diny doesn't know is never to draw to an
inside straight. We played nine different times of poker until
five am, when I thought I'd go up and have
another look all. It was quiet on the eighth floor.
From the elevator bank, I could see a room eight
or nine in the morning table was shoved under his door,
and might do not Disturb sign was apparently where I
had planted it. I slipped though it up to make sure.
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Huh boy, what do you want me? The paper boy? Sir,
your morning paper? You get a round? Well, well, good
news in the papers. Interesting interesting jewelry store housed up
on Grant Avenue. Oh yeah, sir, our paper only what
(12:28):
I grabbed the paper from under eight oh five. It
was the headline I could have expected if Spicer had
left his room without my knowing it. Grayson's jewelry store,
the shopping and Maxine in case that afternoon had been
taken for unestimated million bucks in uncut gems. But Spice's
door hadn't been opened, and there was no other exit.
I sat down and thought, and what I thought of
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was that sticker on the front door of Grayson's said
these promises protected by Dick Foley Detective Agency. On the
six am Oakland Ferry boat fell his way blindly out
of the slip cloud. Spiser was aboard, and so was
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I should have been getting lighter, but it wasn't. The
fog was thickening over the harbor, and most of the
passengers were inside drinking coffee. Spicer didn't go in. He
climbed up to the boat deck and stood at the
rail under the pilot's house. I planted between two wet
paint signs and waited, not for long. I couldn't make
out any features on the man who came up and
joined them. They stood face to face, not more than
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to put apart and talked and voices that couldn't get
to me through the racket of the fog horns on
the harbor. What spoke loud enough for me to hear
was a gun. They seemed to fall into each other's
arms and collapsed in a heap on the deck. But
when I got to the spot, only the dead one
was there. It was spicy. The other man had disappeared
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around the corner of the deck house. A ray of
light from the pilot's windows swept over, and I saw
gun metal shine on his hand and then spin out
over the rail as he threw it. What how is
your sad? How has the fidget lost him? What did
you do it for it? Dick? I had my reason, Sam,
Now trust me, I'll keep you in the clear. How
long as long as I go on playing suckerd for you?
What do you think I hired you for it? Mabe.
I was supposed to say you killed him in self defense.
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Maybe I was supposed to see him making passes at
your wife if you needed best. And you've got worked
the killers before. I've even worked for thieves, but not
for a detective. But notched over the place he's supposed
to a protectics. Damn, it's hard to sell it for
that cop stick. I'm turnning you in when we got
to open. No, you're not come back here. Call me.
I'm going over the side to try to stop me.
You're going with me. He fought away from me, got
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one foot out of the rail and kicked out at
me with the other that caught me on the point
of the chin. I stumbled forward and grabbed off Bran
must have caught him by a belt just as heach ounge,
remember something, pulling me halfway over the rail and trying
to get free of it. I did, but not soon enough.
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And now back to the dick Fully Caper The Night's
Adventure with Sam Spade. I've found myself mechanically keeping a
quote somehow and trying to get out of my coat.
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I felt heavy and walk swad jallenge of water, murk
on lone, sick, nothing else to be seen anywhere. I
swallowed what felt like several more gallons before I got
rid of the coat from out of the mysty fog
blanket from every direction, and a dozen different keys from
near and fire fog horn sound it. I stopped swimming
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and floated on my back blind at the time of
my whereabouts. After a while I figured out the moaning,
evenly spaced blast of the alcatrazz silent, but they came
out of the fog without direction, seemed to beat down
on me and straight above. I was somewhere in San
Francisco Bay and that was all I knew, and I
suspected the count was sweeping the outdoor of the Golden Gate,
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and a light up ahead of me starting shouting.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
I knew the out away.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
I lift at my head and.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Strained them both silent, cying us warning found out my
shouts went on past, and the fog closed in behind it.
When I heard a new song seago, I swam closet
and it seemed to get lighter. Part of it was
the darn light beginning to cut through the fog wagon
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And there was also a strange looking man standing on
the water and waving a green lantern back and forth.
I yelled at him to wait for him in A
seagull got off his hat and flew away.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
When I got closer I followed was some man with only.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
A bully tero typer. I used all the once I
had left that dragged myself up on the blaze and
let it rock me the se Hey, hey me question
one of the Brandy and Humes.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
Yeah, here, get some of these done. Wow, then heaven
you can tell that. But it's met.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Oh. Session was for Yeah, take it easy.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
We got ambulance coming.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
You're going to the hospital. No, no, I'll be okay.
They give me a hand, Yeah, okay, eh you do.
It's a favor.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
Will you don't fall down until you get out of sight?
This time we're tired of picking you up.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
I thanked the two kindly old fisher folks for they're
interested in my welfare, flirted up the pier, fell into
a taxi and went home. Well. I soaked out some
of my aches and pains and shells. I did some
stewing about the caper so far, and stood up. And
I ain't get to carry me through to the finish.
I checked the coast Guard the news of Big Fully,
they told me his body hadn't been recovered yet. I
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got dressed and went over to his office. The cops
hadn't been there. And went through the file cabin, and
when I found on the fully pirate had me so
interested that I didn't hear Maxine come in until she
closed the door. What are you looking for, you, baby?
I'm for you. Came here nice. I don't be mad, Maxine.
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That gun makes a woman's bulge in the wrong place.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
It's not my gud.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
We'll see. Shut up now, Starting with a wrap, Spicer
went up for the same pattern. The way you work
this one tells me how you worked it the first
time you get something on a private detective. The first
time five years ago, it was Dick's partner, Mickey Lanahan.
I don't know what Spicer had on him, but I
do know he forced Dick to knock over at Grayson's
jewelry store last night. You okay, I'll talk to myself.
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I'm not saying you killed Mickey Lanahan. But Dick did
frame an alibi for you, didn't He didn't. I good
five spending a night swimming around in circles in the
middle of the harvest sometimes. See how you like that?
All right?
Speaker 2 (20:31):
It's true Dick did help me out of that old gem.
I'm not ashamed of it. I'm proud I love was
that important to him?
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Oh spicy, that same old double cross, only this time
I'm standing where Dick did five years ago. Dick was
set up as a patsy the same way Mickey Lanahan was,
but he got smart and pulled the trigger first. Where
did that hurt you? I loved it? Yeah, I loved him.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
That's something you can't understand. But it happens that way
no matter.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
What people are. You sound as if you really mean that,
But you're a little late.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Actual, he's not dead, I'm sure.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
If he's not, he's really in trouble.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
What do you mean by that?
Speaker 1 (21:07):
I found something here in the files that they left
just in case Spicer got the him first? What is
it a confession that Mickey Linehan's murder?
Speaker 2 (21:15):
That's impossible.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Were you there? What are you going to do with it?
Turn it over to the police. He still counts unless
he shows and revokes. But I don't think he will.
Why because I won't back up a self defense play
on the Spicer shooting.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
But you were Dick's friend, you were fish.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
I wouldn't ask him to do it for me.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Then what can I do from I'll do anything, anything,
anything at all.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Well, if he stays the ways as good as dead,
he comes back, you'll get a jury trial, and if
there are more men than women in the panel, he'd
probably be acquitted on your testimony alone.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Do you really think he might have a chance for
the jury.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
There's always a chance. But where is he?
Speaker 2 (21:49):
How can I get word to him?
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Well, if he's not fish food by now, there's one
sure way of smoking him out, something I can do
nobody else.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Please tell me anything, sign.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
A confession of your own confession, not Mickey Lenahan's murder,
or anything that might need you for swear that she
shot Spicy. Now you can always runneg make both of
you look good sacrificing for each other. How about it? Hi?
Speaker 2 (22:15):
All right, tell me what to write?
Speaker 1 (22:21):
I did. She signed it. I had happy dispatch it
to all the papers and news services, and then I
brought it down to the hall. Naturally, you didn't believe
a word of her confession, Bendi, But when I took
you aside and explained my stratagem, you endorsed it heartily
and had her book. She pressed my hand and thanked me.
A look of resignation on her face was so real
it was hard to believe she was faking. When she
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turned her back to follow the matron down the corridor,
I saw why. On the back of her coat there
was a smear of white paint. I remembered the wet
the wet paint signs on the Oakland Ferry boat. Dick
Foley gave himself up an hour after her can fashion
hit the street, screamed and yelled at everybody in Hormisi,
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trying to convince them that Maxine was innocent. He should
take the full wrap. And I'm afraid I queered that
when we confronted him with the autopsy surgeon's report, he
tried the bluff even then when he read it.
Speaker 4 (23:13):
Kell it a ended right side between third and fourth ribs,
penetrated left lung. Tell it, d puur a membrane side
room punched it well, So wat Sam.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
All three on the right side angling up. You see. No,
I don't know why you even saw me on that boat.
You saw me throw the gun over or cut it out, Dick.
What I saw was in the dark. You two men
were facing each other directly. If I were going to
drop a man faster close range, face to face like that,
I would not put the gun in my left hand,
pushed it around, straining my wrist in the process, and
pulled the trigger with my thumb. Unless I were left handed,
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double joined, and the trickiest shot than you are, I'd
blast him straight through the middle. All right, all right,
Yes it was Maxine. Well that's good. Maybe you can
get cured now unless you open up some more. Let
me put it down like it was business, all right.
(24:04):
Number One, Maxine killed your partner Mickey Lanahan five years ago.
Probable motive to eliminate him and send Spicer up for it. Yeah,
she didn't figure on Spicer being smart enough to consess
to the robbery and that alibi for the murder. Two,
you purjured yourself to clear Maxine of the murder, motive
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to prevent the truth about your partner from coming out,
and Maxine was motive enough for anything.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
Got it out, will you?
Speaker 1 (24:32):
Sorry? Three Spyser forced you to team up with him
and the jewelry heights ow.
Speaker 4 (24:39):
Well, he threatened to make a full confession his accessory
as Mickey's killing. I would have put the whole works
on Maxine and leave him in the clear.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Yeah. Can't be tried twice for the same crime. For you,
decided to rub out Spicer whether you could beat the
rapper out and clear the books once and for all.
So you pretended to play along with him, told Maxine
to do the same, and called me in his umpire. Yeah, Sam,
I'm sorry. Why couldn't you lay off Maxine?
Speaker 3 (25:06):
Why did you have to?
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Oh? I thought you were my friends and that's about it,
period and the friendship.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
Oh you mean the concession that you tricked her into
making turned.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
Off to.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
What will happen to him?
Speaker 1 (25:34):
Mm? Hmmm? What about Dick Poley Dick? They got him
in a number of things. I suppose I may take
some time out of him, but I think you'll be
an okay guy again. Go and type it up, but
it's late. I want to get out of here and
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your hurry?
Speaker 2 (26:30):
Well, I thought, then, well you know how you feel?
Speaker 1 (26:33):
What sweetheart? Dick Poley was a private dick?
Speaker 2 (26:36):
So what I mean you continue yourself to talk about it?
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Sure? Go ahead try me.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Well it seems terribly complicated, I suppose because mister Foley
was in the profession and.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
Thinks like you do up to a point. Evan, what's bothering?
Why did he call you in?
Speaker 2 (26:51):
You another private detective? And you how smart you are?
Speaker 3 (26:55):
Not?
Speaker 1 (26:57):
I don't know. Maybe man, i've turned off anything. I'd
look the other way.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Do you think that could ever happen to you?
Speaker 1 (27:04):
Sir?
Speaker 2 (27:06):
That's a clever Phraseer dictated. He called me in his umpire.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
That's baseball. But if he's so clever, why didn't you
His mistake? Effie was trying a quadruple play, which has
never been heard of in the history of baseball or crime.
All he wanted was the Batmaxine home safe, but usually
figures when three men around the side retired.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Well, I don't understand baseball, Sam.
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