November 27, 2025 • 28 mins
The Adventures of Sam Spade (1946-1951) radio series was loosely based on the private detective character Sam Spade, created by writer Dashiell Hammett for The Maltese Falcon. Film star Howard Duff played Sam Spade (also played by Steve Dunne at the end). Lurene Tuttle played Effie, Spade's secretary. Spade's character was the prototypical "hard-boiled" detective - an introspective, sharp witted, tough guy.
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
In response to the grants representing Williams of Listening Friends,
the National Broadcasting Company is pleased, indeed to bring you
again the adventure is the Sam Fade Detective. Wait what
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number of I gots? Oh? Well, ma, sweet.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Call the Lad's life.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
The white Chip.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Look, I didn't know when you were in town.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
You didn't write to.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
This is me in the flesh, Sammy the Spade.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
No, what good ryefie, I'm in a play for my
Nichola is running out.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Hon't you be so cruel and say both for the time?
Speaker 4 (00:54):
Right there? Wait, wait, listen, are you listening?
Speaker 1 (00:57):
I am not dead. Don't believe everything reading the papers
or here on the radio.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
You are at my funeral? Is that what you're about
to say?
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Yes? Who don't believe that either?
Speaker 4 (01:08):
Say right where you are, sweetheart, because I'll be there,
alive and handsomer than ever. With an account of a
caper which proves you can kill some of the people
part of the time. My exaggerated report on the death
of Sam.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Space for MDC welcomes back to the era of character
who has captured the public imagination more completely than any
other since the birth of Sherlock Holmes. William Fear Radio's
outstanding producer director of history and crime drama brings you
the greatest private detective of them all in the Adventures
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of Sam faith Ay. It grands me brooman well dead,
candles at my feet, candles at my own business. I mean,
brother is closed right now because all wait, I'll wait,
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what's the move? Spay s P A D E space.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
I'm never total letter ring brother, he doesn't.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
I'm me Sam. Oh wait, come in, malib Oh, what's
the use? I'll never mind, never mind. I'll get your
pencil and paper and take it. Date November seventeenth, nineteen
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fifty two, Miss Fie Perrie, I'm Samuel Stay. That's me,
License number one three seven five nine.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
You make it becomes Fender see him the life you
tell me?
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Shut up subject my death, dear Ethie, he's the sight
of me in the flesh, breathing, hungering and living. Doesn't
convince you, maybe this report will think of the cam
Back to last Monday. If you recall, it was about
eleven o'clock when, on the whimsy pretense that we needed
stamps for the office, you drew two dollars some petty
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cash and stepped out to buy a pair of step
in and that's when my client materialized. He was small
and thin and carried with him the unmistakable odor of
sail flowers. His black outpack of suits, string bows, tie
elevator's shoes, and white glugs had no bearing on his conversation.
Speaker 5 (03:19):
Oh dear, my name is Chester Swan.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Are you sure he is? My name is Spade. What
can I do? I'll tell you, mister sad six feet
in my face? Wait one seventy eight.
Speaker 5 (03:28):
I always noticed a man's bone structure.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Don't you always open? Open?
Speaker 5 (03:33):
Let me see inside?
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Oh? Oh, all right, all right, fine, Oh well, now
that you know me this way, mister Swam, what can
I do for you?
Speaker 5 (03:41):
Oh dear, Perhaps I perhaps I shouldn't send you here.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Tall, I'm tired extreme well, Oh dear, Oh hello again,
mister Swam. You wanted to talk to me, he is,
but I I can't.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Talk now, idady buy sixteen trim Berkley.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
I'll be there old here.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
This time. As he made his exit, he bout fifty
dollars on the edge of my desk, And so stup
was me. I was at eighty five sixteen paramount of
the close of the dog. There was a snow white
cottage with green shutters and a white clicket fence. There
was a hill and back and a brook in front.
The sun was beginning to set on us, and it
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was all very picturesque, in fact, so much so that
a girl with red hair, blue jeans, purple smocks, oils
and canvas was making it immortals. She liked me immediately.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Here hold this, turtlers, this is my first landscape. I'm
a sprouting eyes obvious.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Make sure not that I can.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Get somebody to do it for me.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Who are you? Oh, I might see a fellow art.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Don't do that.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
You're a liar.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Your sands stayed. I saw your picture in a newspaper
clipping when I was helping Schuster came out his desk
before he moved in. Remember you don't know an easel
from the palace, O, I said, learn I take it too,
and so do I.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
I doubt it.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
You've never tried to get away, to stand off, to
throw off the shaffles, tad you.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
No, No, I'll have to admit that the urgency of living,
the pressure nearly existing, has had.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
The drop Sam. By the way, I name is good
rich cats. The world is full of our happy people.
Never try to get away from the I wanted to, honestly, Sam,
get away from everything. Leave dessive my heart. What are
you doing here?
Speaker 1 (05:30):
You see, mister Swan.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
He isn't telling yet, he tells is a wonderful subject,
looks Sam, colorful, moderate pleasant, That is until the sun
stops shining the picture. It is night in the fog
and crush. The band is full of death brooding. I'm
I'm trying to capture that too. It said. We've got
to get away.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
From his knits. Absolutely you and I am.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
As you start up the hill on Kerma. There's a
green apartment house on the right. I'm in four twenty.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Maybe we'll find a way out together.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Maybe.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
I waved to a farm farewell and sat on the
steps of my client holes until he showed up at
six fifteen. He took me inside, where the only furniture
was an army cut and a portable barbie.
Speaker 5 (06:12):
I'm so glad you kept our appointment, missus Stade. I'm
so frightened.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
I've been upset all week long.
Speaker 5 (06:18):
I didn't know what to do.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
I just didn't And what have you been so upset about?
Speaker 5 (06:22):
Mister Swan lately, mister strad infrequently. For the last week,
I've noticed a man. I think he's following me. At first,
I see him in a car following my bus when
I went downtown. Did he'd be baiting around at the
bus stopped in the evening When I came back, I
told my house and I'm ready to move. It's unnerved
me so much.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
But did he follow your homes? And I no? No?
But why would anyone be following you, mister Swan?
Speaker 5 (06:46):
Would I don't know, missus Strait, I don't know, I
really don't.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
All right, I'll try another tech. What does this man
look like?
Speaker 5 (06:53):
He always wears dark clothes and a hat.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
I'd say it was about your height sixth straight, I
remember making heavier same bonso yeah, undone of the police.
Oh gad No, a man in my business, count Aford
off cutor publicity know what kind of business is that?
Speaker 5 (07:07):
The Bantan oh twenty five years paid locations when I
worked hot, it's very hot and to be something behind
all there's something that had stopped me from me made
the executive secretary the undertaker's breakfast up when they hold
their annual election next month. I don't know what I'll do,
mister beat I just don't.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Really know what all the world. Just don't go ahead,
mister swan, you'll feel better. Go splood it all out.
That just really dood, and he did. When he stopped crying,
I instructed him to go about his daily habits as
always and left, assuring him I get to the bottom
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of it all. I walked down to the corner I sentatiously,
which is a neat trick well calculated to throw natharious
observers off the track and roll them into full security.
And when the bus showed up ten minutes later, I
got on it, rode blacks, walked back and took a
planet across the street, a clever roofs as you see,
to invite a showdown. Two hours later, a man about
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my size and dark clothes appeared over the hill and
crept salthily to the front of my client's tunnage. He
had his eyes glued to the window, and I walked
up behind him. Hey, let let go on, come on,
you're going inside and I'm peeping. No, no, you're the
butthound type. I'm inviting you in for a real sniff.
Oh no, you don't I well, all writes, and I'll
go quietly. No, okay, that's better. I was just to
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walk home. The Kiki landed on me, wasn't the According
to Queensberry, I couldn't move for three or four minutes,
and by that time he disappeared. When I recovered my faculty,
as I reported the incident of my client, who cried
himself to sleep. That's till I bolted him in for
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the night. I stopped on my way down the hill
at the apartment four twenty in the Little Green apartment house.
He was still wearing the blue jeans and a purple smile,
and she still had the same ideas.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Come in, Sam, you said you were serious about getting
away from it all, and a whole day has said.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
It was a pressure of living. I'm here to apologize.
I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
I love to be food. Sam, You're forgiving.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
How's the painting coming? They're the one of Swan's cutter.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
So fog is always tough.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
That's nice, though, I don't even been honest, and you've
had a pretty good plan. I'm like, huh see. Everyone
was a tall, broad shouldered guy in a dark suit
tasing the place.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Tom god shoulder pretty much fog me could Arnold's battery
be pretty much like to say.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
No, yeah, son, is it something wrong? No?
Speaker 3 (09:42):
So then don't stand there doing nothing.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Ooh. Amy fixed me a small dinner which had a
strong surfing time taped to it, and then we mixed
oils and painted made five. Next afternoon at the Hall
of Records, I did a little spade work on Chester
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Swan its application empyramid the practice undertaking in the city
of San Francisco, where dated nineteen thirty eight details unmarried,
fifty two years of age, graduated from mortician school in Ohio.
Lifted one living relative, nephew, Theodore J. Swan, Toledo, Ohio.
I was gathering the above information and I smelled whiskey
over my shoulder, which is always good luck. It was
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Al Torrington, I was also in the private investigation racket
in the city, and he was leaning tearing for my
face to the time when I held in my hands.
He overone got over to mel Kim. That's Simney with
the tears. What's his name in my eyes? The Swan
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Al Chester Swan mor Titian, Yeah, yeah, that's him, say
the same one exactly. Came to my office two weeks
complaining about somebody to hollow and he did nothing about it,
that I was too fat? Oh you are? Are you sure?
I'm sure? And some other of the boys said he
was around there too, one of the private eye, but
one of the men who looked just right, all right,
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obviously as right as you are, Sam, because it looks
like he picked you. Eh, yes, if it did look
like he pigged me. And I thought that over and
I didn't like it, and I called my client. I've
owned the seller who was fired, but he didn't give
me a chance.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
Oh dear, I'm so glad you called, mister Spade, I
really am.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
I called for a reason, mister Swan, I'm resigning this case.
Oh dear, mister Strad you can't do that. You really
can't up. I don't think you've been quite honest with me,
mister Oh oh dear, pears will get you nowhere and
had a roll team chuck on your reasons for hiring me,
and they don't quite fit with the reasons you gave.
They really just don't quite mister Swat.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
He's no game, mis Stade.
Speaker 5 (11:54):
Believe me, he's back tonight right now. He's standing beneath
the lamp post outside my.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
I'm fighting to death.
Speaker 5 (12:01):
Please a way over, missus street, and let's get this
the street and out, please please.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
And stupid, stupid me, I went over and I found
that little white cottage on the hill looking grim and dawn.
In that heavy song, Amy's words about a being crushed
with barrenness, full of brooding and death came back to me,
and mister Swan's fighting words about a mysterious man in
dark clothes waiting beneath the street light also came back
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to me, particularly when I know that there was no
street light near the house. However, there was a light
somewhere in the rear of the house, and the front
door was a jar. Oh, mister Swan, let's just Swan.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Are you here?
Speaker 5 (12:44):
Oh it's the Swan.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
It's me Sam Stray.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Are you hear it's the same that you are you
out there?
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Way? Things happen fart. So I turned around the plane,
the front door a full with a man in a
dark streep. You had something in a Swan like the
wasp candy, but it felt different, he said to me.
But it made me said jumping easy, say easy, doesn't
there It wasn't down to the floor gently. I could
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still segn was swimming in the back of our house,
and I could learn fucking me way or I can't.
I's going up stuck. The neither went somewhere in my
left ron, but not before somebody pulled my coat off,
and but no reason I could think of at the moment,
also tried to pull my finger off, so I couldn't
gwell on it. By that time, the stuff in my
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arm was going other places, and I was going with it,
even though there was option all around me.
Speaker 5 (13:38):
My mouse stay away from the gut here.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Very day shun where somebody was shooting Roman candles or
having blowouts or playing d box. I just didn't care
at all. I just didn't. The first thing I saw
was sunlight, was the kind you see in a picture.
There was a picture of a little white cottage with
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green shutters. Dear Gustus, I was an Amy's apartment where
we made pubs together. I got to my feet somehow.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
The thing to do.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
I knew that that thing that there was me. There
was a fire astakee in a window. I got out
there and I weaved against the wall. Well, you mean straw.
He couldn't have gotten.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Away without load.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
He was saying, Oh, I don't know he was unconscious.
Well don't We're gonna do something, and I'd.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
Be tame a lot of people.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
I didn't wait to find out what they're gonna do.
I made my way down the fire escape and started
working for the street. And and that's when I noticed
my shoes didn't fit me anymore. They weren't nine. Neither
was a gray flannel soup with a lady in my
tip cheese. Neither was the blue shirt when I was
at at the ring on my finger and graved them.
Were some high on nineteen thirty sixersand nine either my
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new belt, but I had a big letter tea on it,
which is not my initial. It really isn't. And I
didn't have any usefully eyeglasses in my cool pocket either.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
You were out.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
When I walked in the office of but you've been there.
There was a black crate down up in a white
satin ribbon hanging on the door. The dusk watter is
wrenched with salt sears and say the folding back to
page thirteen, and I'll see the chronicle on this. If
that the last thing I do. Gave me a two
inch spread item November fifteenth, nineteen fifty fifteen. What Happened
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to the thirteenth from the fourteenth Detectives Parishes in Berkeley Fire.
I read it through once and twice. It was my obituary.
You are listening to the verse in a new series
of adventures and darting Radio's most famous detective damned Fade.
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better listening, where the three chimes always means good times.
Nake it a Friday evening habit tatoone early and stay
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Cape Over My Dead Body, The Night's Adventure with Tom Stade.
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I left the crape on the door and went out
to buy a new desk clatter and the more newssakers.
The whole Born News had the best story, which wasn't much.
Samuel State licensed carbon investigator perish Wednesday night in a
fire in a vacant house in Berkeley. His warm friends
will feel regret at the passing of a man who
was always kind to the poor. None of us ever
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asked Sam safe for a handout without receiving a kind
word and unlock as he turned us down. This is nice,
but I wanted more. Figured I was poorly safe to
wander about unrecognized. My ill fitting attire acquired for my
unknown benefactor would be the size enough. Then, combined with
my two day by Engine Company sixteen Berkeley Division had
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handled the fire, and half a block away was a
grodden shop called the Shammock. I waited for a fireman,
will come in backender, far tender? What kind of a
bait you're running now, I've been here five minutes. I
shut up, Patty, ad just a way bide a week
with more than gid. That's enough for you, Patty, you're
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still on. I am not. I'm off now. The chief
said I could be off. Received such a shock to me,
says you received your shot three days ago and sick combat. Oh,
the sight of him was terrible, terrible hours. His black
is a good saint's beard. I'm twisted and horrible. And
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Jack he was probably dead drunk and didn't know what
happened to him.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
And were you there fighting the flames and finding them
like me?
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (18:33):
It was terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible. It wasn't that bad.
And you've had your limits and who said so? I
say so, and hold you your brother in law. But
now whatever I can start you one play never drink
was strangers what's your name? Oh? Doing?
Speaker 2 (18:51):
And you had then a go ahead poor.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Here Yeah for herman, you had a terrible experience.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
For you, that idol that they indeed that I've heard
it a dozen times. Abby at the other three nice
to almost throw doolans And we get to cause the
house and Claremont is the fire, don't him when we
get parents about all runs can't under stand white and
flame sebasto. It was the funeral fire of a man
who lived in sin He detect your fellow Sam Staide,
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He was identified ad Oh one moment fireman.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
I've heard fine things about him, as some of.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Those are, but he pore. These fellows from the Division
of Homicide said he was a nice fellow. But some
of the boys with the policition, and myself, well, we got.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Our own ideas about that. What kind of idea is
suddy me boy?
Speaker 2 (19:43):
What kind of good can any man be accomplishing in them?
The host late at night Hessum was snow doolan he
was done to attorney was when I bost in the
dold me up, says, sit in the tudle Charles, Then
he must keep up scattered all the boat sin sin,
he's gone to sleep with a smoke and cigarette.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
That set the whole place off race limp. From there
I went downtown to the telegraph office, where I sent
a wire to Toledo on a long shot. When I
was waiting for an answer on a not so long chance,
I swunk into a bon con sumery power to pay
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my respects to the departed, I stood in the back
of that dimly lit shackle and scammed the sea. Three
of the boys from Homicide, with their blowing their noses.
Two chorus girls I thought had long since forgotten me,
were there in black deep being next. My insurance man
was there, looking awful worry. One chronicle reporter with photographer
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and shoe sham, both from our building and the failt
from the courthouse. Just to mention a few I could make.
And you were the face I bought near a closed casket.
I made out a bottle of flowers from lobberries. Detail
It said that my sec and the city more was
the only one who looked at these.
Speaker 5 (21:10):
All right, is anyone wished to with unan.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Men? Was called him Salmons, but I called him sand Oh.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
And this my turn through, I was touched ay, and
I would have shot the whole thing done in there,
but I had to find out who was in that castle.
I reeled out the front door with tears in my eyes,
and slid around to the back door. And then it
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set the swan's private office, and there I made a
phone call and got an answer to my telegram, which
caused me to make another call to his bank. By
that time most of it was writing place. I searched
through his desk to hear nothing, and I say, standing
in the corner the same, But then my answer walked
right in the door.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
Oh Sandon, and you were still worries. When I found
he'd left there, I saw your consumer, and I thought
she was here and the guy was waving with the word,
and that was doctor Grislin. Tenny's been on for two days,
and I, oh send he got away from the life.
He was stooped down.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Yeah, they're burying me right now. I'm dead.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
It's a wonderful thing.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Only one thing. Where do you fit the caper? I
was supposed to burn up in that fire? And what
was like was supposed to looking at like Theodore J.
Swan Classes nineteen thirty six to Lito Ohu to let
beneficiary Chester Swan collect a nice pilot insurance money.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
So let me tell you about who is Theodore J?
What did you say?
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Chester is only living reality. They're burying them right now.
Somebody lost his caper. You want to tell me, Ronny.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
I was at the house and night of the fire,
working on my sad and pictures. You didn't when you
run in another one, you didn't come out.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
And I went over and I was on the floor
and the man was bending over me.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
He changed over with you, Sannah, and I screamed and
he put out of that and I went him to
the howe and I.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
Got you out of and then what happened.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
I put you in my contact.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
You home.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
I was going to find the police, but I decided
it was something you were working on him.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
I went back to the hiking it and it was burning,
and you knew the man you'd hit on the head
with him there, believed.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
Me, saying I didn't know the house was going to
burn down. I wouldn't kill anybody, said, I.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
Only wanted you only wanted to help me, and you're
good light angel. That's all right. I knew him. You
didn't start the fire.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Somebody really sad tested.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
He thought it was me lying on the floor in there.
The don tells me he's about the gold busted. He
figured this went out with his neck to scare up
some insurance. Though I'm about the same. Hold me hist him, hobble.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
This is the kind of thing I was trying to paint.
Now I'm smack dad up as if I'm sick. I'm
skipsing easy, easy, damn.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
He really did seeze.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
I went out same, just leave now, let it go.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
The lady.
Speaker 4 (23:54):
They're all sense you did.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Oh yeah, huh, but don't we miss the shade. He
was holding a Navy Colt revolver in front of him
with both hands. I couldn't make up my mind a
Russian and count on his bad aim or Sam's stalling
the a pepic target while I tried to talk him
out of it. Either way, he was a crazy man
with a gun. He was getting ready to use it. Sam,
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He's gonna tell me why pay?
Speaker 5 (24:21):
Because my nephew was stupid enough to wear your watch
and your suit when he exchanged clothes with.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
You, I'm going to lose the vantage, and that puts
you in quite a spot, does miss missus wine?
Speaker 5 (24:31):
Until a moment ago, yes, But now it's just say
the newspapers all say you're dead.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
The death certificate says the same thing. All of your
friends are following your tasket and my nephew's cops to
the secretary. At this very moment, everybody expects you to
be dead, mister Spade, thanks to you, Missus, but now
nobody'd miss you if I kill you, I'd missed your
sad but I'd have to kill you too. Oh did
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you notice you're still wearing Todo's clothes? Even news a ringer? Why,
Missus Steed, I could kill you and put you in
the fires somewhere and connect my insurance on see your
door knock. Goodness, No, why that's a terrible thing to think.
Uh oh, you're not reasoning properly, Chester, You really aren't.
How would you explain to me you just said you'd
have to kill her? And what about the colonel's office,
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you know, how could you? And don't forget the medical
examiner's got something to say too. Not then the fact
that you'd have to really burn me up to tub
up the board her. And furthermore, Chester, when you shoot me,
if you happen to hit a rib and chip off
some bonemaids and I was shocked before, and then I'm
a site of being honest, stops up.
Speaker 5 (25:34):
Nothing worse for me, I will hear you.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Go ahead, mister Swan, let it all out. You'll see
you back. And he did, and he still crying, and
his cell downtown carry it under the port o.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
Stam, you're so brave. You absolutely sit there and talk
that crazy man out of reading. You'll one true.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
Essie Amy thinks so too. She's gonna do me in
oils when they let her out of the pokey a
technical charge of an involuntary manslaughter and springers soon as
the corner's Inquest is completed day Amy.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
Which she makes good fight things.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
Oh that was the least of it. Oh after the
flight Hopper Balucci, Oh boy, oh boy, say good fight
that up, sweet hight Well. I see if there's any
mention of my miraculous resuscitation on the radio page.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Go Go.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Thtaly is the mention of fam Fade on the radio
page for Friday. Fam Fade is one more in the
list of great shows to join up in NBC's Parade
of the Stars. Have you heard the Big Show? This Sunday?
The Big Show comes away once again on MBC. Listen
to just a few of the star names that will
be appearing this week. Bob Hope, Jimmy Durandy Perry, Cobbo Hose, Perere,
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Mindy Carson, Chatter, Meredith Wilson and the Orchestra, and many
many more. And of course your MC once again will
be the ladies who invented the snappy retort to Lula Bankhead. Yes,
it's the Big Show. It's big, and music's big, and
drama and big in comedy. Be sure to hear the
Big Show Sunday. Here good, I will sign it and
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you will keep it always to remind you that I'm
still here, living, breathing, brave and handsome. A paradigm son.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
What you do that to maya?
Speaker 1 (27:32):
Mayl? What's may Oh?
Speaker 3 (27:33):
The letters and post guys and telegrams, now that chillman
and keep us out to.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Be enough tonight it ossume, it's so.
Speaker 5 (27:43):
Big to happy do the same as your arms.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
Well, I'm going to try it, because when the.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
Time helps me, like they say, the greatest private detective
of them all will see good night, good night s.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
The Adventures of Sam Spade are produced, edited and directed
by William Spear. Sam Spade was played by Stephen Dunn Marene.
Title is Uffy. Script for the Night's Adventure by E.
Jack Newman, musical scarring by lud Gluskin, conducted by Frank Wort.
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Join us again next week, same time for another adventure
with Sam Spade here the Magnificent Montague. Then visit Duffy
Tavern on MBC.
In response to the grants representing Williams of Listening Friends,
the National Broadcasting Company is pleased, indeed to bring you
again the adventure is the Sam Fade Detective. Wait what
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number of I gots? Oh? Well, ma, sweet.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Call the Lad's life.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
The white Chip.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Look, I didn't know when you were in town.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
You didn't write to.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
This is me in the flesh, Sammy the Spade.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
No, what good ryefie, I'm in a play for my
Nichola is running out.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Hon't you be so cruel and say both for the time?
Speaker 4 (00:54):
Right there? Wait, wait, listen, are you listening?
Speaker 1 (00:57):
I am not dead. Don't believe everything reading the papers
or here on the radio.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
You are at my funeral? Is that what you're about
to say?
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Yes? Who don't believe that either?
Speaker 4 (01:08):
Say right where you are, sweetheart, because I'll be there,
alive and handsomer than ever. With an account of a
caper which proves you can kill some of the people
part of the time. My exaggerated report on the death
of Sam.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Space for MDC welcomes back to the era of character
who has captured the public imagination more completely than any
other since the birth of Sherlock Holmes. William Fear Radio's
outstanding producer director of history and crime drama brings you
the greatest private detective of them all in the Adventures
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of Sam faith Ay. It grands me brooman well dead,
candles at my feet, candles at my own business. I mean,
brother is closed right now because all wait, I'll wait,
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what's the move? Spay s P A D E space.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
I'm never total letter ring brother, he doesn't.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
I'm me Sam. Oh wait, come in, malib Oh, what's
the use? I'll never mind, never mind. I'll get your
pencil and paper and take it. Date November seventeenth, nineteen
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fifty two, Miss Fie Perrie, I'm Samuel Stay. That's me,
License number one three seven five nine.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
You make it becomes Fender see him the life you
tell me?
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Shut up subject my death, dear Ethie, he's the sight
of me in the flesh, breathing, hungering and living. Doesn't
convince you, maybe this report will think of the cam
Back to last Monday. If you recall, it was about
eleven o'clock when, on the whimsy pretense that we needed
stamps for the office, you drew two dollars some petty
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cash and stepped out to buy a pair of step
in and that's when my client materialized. He was small
and thin and carried with him the unmistakable odor of
sail flowers. His black outpack of suits, string bows, tie
elevator's shoes, and white glugs had no bearing on his conversation.
Speaker 5 (03:19):
Oh dear, my name is Chester Swan.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Are you sure he is? My name is Spade. What
can I do? I'll tell you, mister sad six feet
in my face? Wait one seventy eight.
Speaker 5 (03:28):
I always noticed a man's bone structure.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Don't you always open? Open?
Speaker 5 (03:33):
Let me see inside?
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Oh? Oh, all right, all right, fine, Oh well, now
that you know me this way, mister Swam, what can
I do for you?
Speaker 5 (03:41):
Oh dear, Perhaps I perhaps I shouldn't send you here.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Tall, I'm tired extreme well, Oh dear, Oh hello again,
mister Swam. You wanted to talk to me, he is,
but I I can't.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Talk now, idady buy sixteen trim Berkley.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
I'll be there old here.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
This time. As he made his exit, he bout fifty
dollars on the edge of my desk, And so stup
was me. I was at eighty five sixteen paramount of
the close of the dog. There was a snow white
cottage with green shutters and a white clicket fence. There
was a hill and back and a brook in front.
The sun was beginning to set on us, and it
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was all very picturesque, in fact, so much so that
a girl with red hair, blue jeans, purple smocks, oils
and canvas was making it immortals. She liked me immediately.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Here hold this, turtlers, this is my first landscape. I'm
a sprouting eyes obvious.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Make sure not that I can.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Get somebody to do it for me.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Who are you? Oh, I might see a fellow art.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Don't do that.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
You're a liar.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Your sands stayed. I saw your picture in a newspaper
clipping when I was helping Schuster came out his desk
before he moved in. Remember you don't know an easel
from the palace, O, I said, learn I take it too,
and so do I.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
I doubt it.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
You've never tried to get away, to stand off, to
throw off the shaffles, tad you.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
No, No, I'll have to admit that the urgency of living,
the pressure nearly existing, has had.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
The drop Sam. By the way, I name is good
rich cats. The world is full of our happy people.
Never try to get away from the I wanted to, honestly, Sam,
get away from everything. Leave dessive my heart. What are
you doing here?
Speaker 1 (05:30):
You see, mister Swan.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
He isn't telling yet, he tells is a wonderful subject,
looks Sam, colorful, moderate pleasant, That is until the sun
stops shining the picture. It is night in the fog
and crush. The band is full of death brooding. I'm
I'm trying to capture that too. It said. We've got
to get away.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
From his knits. Absolutely you and I am.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
As you start up the hill on Kerma. There's a
green apartment house on the right. I'm in four twenty.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Maybe we'll find a way out together.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Maybe.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
I waved to a farm farewell and sat on the
steps of my client holes until he showed up at
six fifteen. He took me inside, where the only furniture
was an army cut and a portable barbie.
Speaker 5 (06:12):
I'm so glad you kept our appointment, missus Stade. I'm
so frightened.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
I've been upset all week long.
Speaker 5 (06:18):
I didn't know what to do.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
I just didn't And what have you been so upset about?
Speaker 5 (06:22):
Mister Swan lately, mister strad infrequently. For the last week,
I've noticed a man. I think he's following me. At first,
I see him in a car following my bus when
I went downtown. Did he'd be baiting around at the
bus stopped in the evening When I came back, I
told my house and I'm ready to move. It's unnerved
me so much.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
But did he follow your homes? And I no? No?
But why would anyone be following you, mister Swan?
Speaker 5 (06:46):
Would I don't know, missus Strait, I don't know, I
really don't.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
All right, I'll try another tech. What does this man
look like?
Speaker 5 (06:53):
He always wears dark clothes and a hat.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
I'd say it was about your height sixth straight, I
remember making heavier same bonso yeah, undone of the police.
Oh gad No, a man in my business, count Aford
off cutor publicity know what kind of business is that?
Speaker 5 (07:07):
The Bantan oh twenty five years paid locations when I
worked hot, it's very hot and to be something behind
all there's something that had stopped me from me made
the executive secretary the undertaker's breakfast up when they hold
their annual election next month. I don't know what I'll do,
mister beat I just don't.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Really know what all the world. Just don't go ahead,
mister swan, you'll feel better. Go splood it all out.
That just really dood, and he did. When he stopped crying,
I instructed him to go about his daily habits as
always and left, assuring him I get to the bottom
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of it all. I walked down to the corner I sentatiously,
which is a neat trick well calculated to throw natharious
observers off the track and roll them into full security.
And when the bus showed up ten minutes later, I
got on it, rode blacks, walked back and took a
planet across the street, a clever roofs as you see,
to invite a showdown. Two hours later, a man about
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my size and dark clothes appeared over the hill and
crept salthily to the front of my client's tunnage. He
had his eyes glued to the window, and I walked
up behind him. Hey, let let go on, come on,
you're going inside and I'm peeping. No, no, you're the
butthound type. I'm inviting you in for a real sniff.
Oh no, you don't I well, all writes, and I'll
go quietly. No, okay, that's better. I was just to
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walk home. The Kiki landed on me, wasn't the According
to Queensberry, I couldn't move for three or four minutes,
and by that time he disappeared. When I recovered my faculty,
as I reported the incident of my client, who cried
himself to sleep. That's till I bolted him in for
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the night. I stopped on my way down the hill
at the apartment four twenty in the Little Green apartment house.
He was still wearing the blue jeans and a purple smile,
and she still had the same ideas.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Come in, Sam, you said you were serious about getting
away from it all, and a whole day has said.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
It was a pressure of living. I'm here to apologize.
I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
I love to be food. Sam, You're forgiving.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
How's the painting coming? They're the one of Swan's cutter.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
So fog is always tough.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
That's nice, though, I don't even been honest, and you've
had a pretty good plan. I'm like, huh see. Everyone
was a tall, broad shouldered guy in a dark suit
tasing the place.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Tom god shoulder pretty much fog me could Arnold's battery
be pretty much like to say.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
No, yeah, son, is it something wrong? No?
Speaker 3 (09:42):
So then don't stand there doing nothing.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Ooh. Amy fixed me a small dinner which had a
strong surfing time taped to it, and then we mixed
oils and painted made five. Next afternoon at the Hall
of Records, I did a little spade work on Chester
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Swan its application empyramid the practice undertaking in the city
of San Francisco, where dated nineteen thirty eight details unmarried,
fifty two years of age, graduated from mortician school in Ohio.
Lifted one living relative, nephew, Theodore J. Swan, Toledo, Ohio.
I was gathering the above information and I smelled whiskey
over my shoulder, which is always good luck. It was
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Al Torrington, I was also in the private investigation racket
in the city, and he was leaning tearing for my
face to the time when I held in my hands.
He overone got over to mel Kim. That's Simney with
the tears. What's his name in my eyes? The Swan
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Al Chester Swan mor Titian, Yeah, yeah, that's him, say
the same one exactly. Came to my office two weeks
complaining about somebody to hollow and he did nothing about it,
that I was too fat? Oh you are? Are you sure?
I'm sure? And some other of the boys said he
was around there too, one of the private eye, but
one of the men who looked just right, all right,
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obviously as right as you are, Sam, because it looks
like he picked you. Eh, yes, if it did look
like he pigged me. And I thought that over and
I didn't like it, and I called my client. I've
owned the seller who was fired, but he didn't give
me a chance.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
Oh dear, I'm so glad you called, mister Spade, I
really am.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
I called for a reason, mister Swan, I'm resigning this case.
Oh dear, mister Strad you can't do that. You really
can't up. I don't think you've been quite honest with me,
mister Oh oh dear, pears will get you nowhere and
had a roll team chuck on your reasons for hiring me,
and they don't quite fit with the reasons you gave.
They really just don't quite mister Swat.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
He's no game, mis Stade.
Speaker 5 (11:54):
Believe me, he's back tonight right now. He's standing beneath
the lamp post outside my.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
I'm fighting to death.
Speaker 5 (12:01):
Please a way over, missus street, and let's get this
the street and out, please please.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
And stupid, stupid me, I went over and I found
that little white cottage on the hill looking grim and dawn.
In that heavy song, Amy's words about a being crushed
with barrenness, full of brooding and death came back to me,
and mister Swan's fighting words about a mysterious man in
dark clothes waiting beneath the street light also came back
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to me, particularly when I know that there was no
street light near the house. However, there was a light
somewhere in the rear of the house, and the front
door was a jar. Oh, mister Swan, let's just Swan.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Are you here?
Speaker 5 (12:44):
Oh it's the Swan.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
It's me Sam Stray.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Are you hear it's the same that you are you
out there?
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Way? Things happen fart. So I turned around the plane,
the front door a full with a man in a
dark streep. You had something in a Swan like the
wasp candy, but it felt different, he said to me.
But it made me said jumping easy, say easy, doesn't
there It wasn't down to the floor gently. I could
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still segn was swimming in the back of our house,
and I could learn fucking me way or I can't.
I's going up stuck. The neither went somewhere in my
left ron, but not before somebody pulled my coat off,
and but no reason I could think of at the moment,
also tried to pull my finger off, so I couldn't
gwell on it. By that time, the stuff in my
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arm was going other places, and I was going with it,
even though there was option all around me.
Speaker 5 (13:38):
My mouse stay away from the gut here.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Very day shun where somebody was shooting Roman candles or
having blowouts or playing d box. I just didn't care
at all. I just didn't. The first thing I saw
was sunlight, was the kind you see in a picture.
There was a picture of a little white cottage with
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green shutters. Dear Gustus, I was an Amy's apartment where
we made pubs together. I got to my feet somehow.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
The thing to do.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
I knew that that thing that there was me. There
was a fire astakee in a window. I got out
there and I weaved against the wall. Well, you mean straw.
He couldn't have gotten.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Away without load.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
He was saying, Oh, I don't know he was unconscious.
Well don't We're gonna do something, and I'd.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
Be tame a lot of people.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
I didn't wait to find out what they're gonna do.
I made my way down the fire escape and started
working for the street. And and that's when I noticed
my shoes didn't fit me anymore. They weren't nine. Neither
was a gray flannel soup with a lady in my
tip cheese. Neither was the blue shirt when I was
at at the ring on my finger and graved them.
Were some high on nineteen thirty sixersand nine either my
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new belt, but I had a big letter tea on it,
which is not my initial. It really isn't. And I
didn't have any usefully eyeglasses in my cool pocket either.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
You were out.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
When I walked in the office of but you've been there.
There was a black crate down up in a white
satin ribbon hanging on the door. The dusk watter is
wrenched with salt sears and say the folding back to
page thirteen, and I'll see the chronicle on this. If
that the last thing I do. Gave me a two
inch spread item November fifteenth, nineteen fifty fifteen. What Happened
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to the thirteenth from the fourteenth Detectives Parishes in Berkeley Fire.
I read it through once and twice. It was my obituary.
You are listening to the verse in a new series
of adventures and darting Radio's most famous detective damned Fade.
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Later tonight on most NBC stations, Duffy's Tavern comes your
way with another merry half hour session starring Ed Gardiner
as Archie the Manager. There's a full serving of lasts
joannish with chuckles and whipped up by Archie and his
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It's just one of the many great Friday evening entertainment
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better listening, where the three chimes always means good times.
Nake it a Friday evening habit tatoone early and stay
late at your favorite NBC station. And now back to
Cape Over My Dead Body, The Night's Adventure with Tom Stade.
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I left the crape on the door and went out
to buy a new desk clatter and the more newssakers.
The whole Born News had the best story, which wasn't much.
Samuel State licensed carbon investigator perish Wednesday night in a
fire in a vacant house in Berkeley. His warm friends
will feel regret at the passing of a man who
was always kind to the poor. None of us ever
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asked Sam safe for a handout without receiving a kind
word and unlock as he turned us down. This is nice,
but I wanted more. Figured I was poorly safe to
wander about unrecognized. My ill fitting attire acquired for my
unknown benefactor would be the size enough. Then, combined with
my two day by Engine Company sixteen Berkeley Division had
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handled the fire, and half a block away was a
grodden shop called the Shammock. I waited for a fireman,
will come in backender, far tender? What kind of a
bait you're running now, I've been here five minutes. I
shut up, Patty, ad just a way bide a week
with more than gid. That's enough for you, Patty, you're
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still on. I am not. I'm off now. The chief
said I could be off. Received such a shock to me,
says you received your shot three days ago and sick combat. Oh,
the sight of him was terrible, terrible hours. His black
is a good saint's beard. I'm twisted and horrible. And
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Jack he was probably dead drunk and didn't know what
happened to him.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
And were you there fighting the flames and finding them
like me?
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (18:33):
It was terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible. It wasn't that bad.
And you've had your limits and who said so? I
say so, and hold you your brother in law. But
now whatever I can start you one play never drink
was strangers what's your name? Oh? Doing?
Speaker 2 (18:51):
And you had then a go ahead poor.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Here Yeah for herman, you had a terrible experience.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
For you, that idol that they indeed that I've heard
it a dozen times. Abby at the other three nice
to almost throw doolans And we get to cause the
house and Claremont is the fire, don't him when we
get parents about all runs can't under stand white and
flame sebasto. It was the funeral fire of a man
who lived in sin He detect your fellow Sam Staide,
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He was identified ad Oh one moment fireman.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
I've heard fine things about him, as some of.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Those are, but he pore. These fellows from the Division
of Homicide said he was a nice fellow. But some
of the boys with the policition, and myself, well, we got.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Our own ideas about that. What kind of idea is
suddy me boy?
Speaker 2 (19:43):
What kind of good can any man be accomplishing in them?
The host late at night Hessum was snow doolan he
was done to attorney was when I bost in the
dold me up, says, sit in the tudle Charles, Then
he must keep up scattered all the boat sin sin,
he's gone to sleep with a smoke and cigarette.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
That set the whole place off race limp. From there
I went downtown to the telegraph office, where I sent
a wire to Toledo on a long shot. When I
was waiting for an answer on a not so long chance,
I swunk into a bon con sumery power to pay
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my respects to the departed, I stood in the back
of that dimly lit shackle and scammed the sea. Three
of the boys from Homicide, with their blowing their noses.
Two chorus girls I thought had long since forgotten me,
were there in black deep being next. My insurance man
was there, looking awful worry. One chronicle reporter with photographer
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and shoe sham, both from our building and the failt
from the courthouse. Just to mention a few I could make.
And you were the face I bought near a closed casket.
I made out a bottle of flowers from lobberries. Detail
It said that my sec and the city more was
the only one who looked at these.
Speaker 5 (21:10):
All right, is anyone wished to with unan.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Men? Was called him Salmons, but I called him sand Oh.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
And this my turn through, I was touched ay, and
I would have shot the whole thing done in there,
but I had to find out who was in that castle.
I reeled out the front door with tears in my eyes,
and slid around to the back door. And then it
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set the swan's private office, and there I made a
phone call and got an answer to my telegram, which
caused me to make another call to his bank. By
that time most of it was writing place. I searched
through his desk to hear nothing, and I say, standing
in the corner the same, But then my answer walked
right in the door.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
Oh Sandon, and you were still worries. When I found
he'd left there, I saw your consumer, and I thought
she was here and the guy was waving with the word,
and that was doctor Grislin. Tenny's been on for two days,
and I, oh send he got away from the life.
He was stooped down.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Yeah, they're burying me right now. I'm dead.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
It's a wonderful thing.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Only one thing. Where do you fit the caper? I
was supposed to burn up in that fire? And what
was like was supposed to looking at like Theodore J.
Swan Classes nineteen thirty six to Lito Ohu to let
beneficiary Chester Swan collect a nice pilot insurance money.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
So let me tell you about who is Theodore J?
What did you say?
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Chester is only living reality. They're burying them right now.
Somebody lost his caper. You want to tell me, Ronny.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
I was at the house and night of the fire,
working on my sad and pictures. You didn't when you
run in another one, you didn't come out.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
And I went over and I was on the floor
and the man was bending over me.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
He changed over with you, Sannah, and I screamed and
he put out of that and I went him to
the howe and I.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
Got you out of and then what happened.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
I put you in my contact.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
You home.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
I was going to find the police, but I decided
it was something you were working on him.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
I went back to the hiking it and it was burning,
and you knew the man you'd hit on the head
with him there, believed.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
Me, saying I didn't know the house was going to
burn down. I wouldn't kill anybody, said, I.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
Only wanted you only wanted to help me, and you're
good light angel. That's all right. I knew him. You
didn't start the fire.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Somebody really sad tested.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
He thought it was me lying on the floor in there.
The don tells me he's about the gold busted. He
figured this went out with his neck to scare up
some insurance. Though I'm about the same. Hold me hist him, hobble.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
This is the kind of thing I was trying to paint.
Now I'm smack dad up as if I'm sick. I'm
skipsing easy, easy, damn.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
He really did seeze.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
I went out same, just leave now, let it go.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
The lady.
Speaker 4 (23:54):
They're all sense you did.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Oh yeah, huh, but don't we miss the shade. He
was holding a Navy Colt revolver in front of him
with both hands. I couldn't make up my mind a
Russian and count on his bad aim or Sam's stalling
the a pepic target while I tried to talk him
out of it. Either way, he was a crazy man
with a gun. He was getting ready to use it. Sam,
(24:19):
He's gonna tell me why pay?
Speaker 5 (24:21):
Because my nephew was stupid enough to wear your watch
and your suit when he exchanged clothes with.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
You, I'm going to lose the vantage, and that puts
you in quite a spot, does miss missus wine?
Speaker 5 (24:31):
Until a moment ago, yes, But now it's just say
the newspapers all say you're dead.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
The death certificate says the same thing. All of your
friends are following your tasket and my nephew's cops to
the secretary. At this very moment, everybody expects you to
be dead, mister Spade, thanks to you, Missus, but now
nobody'd miss you if I kill you, I'd missed your
sad but I'd have to kill you too. Oh did
(24:57):
you notice you're still wearing Todo's clothes? Even news a ringer? Why,
Missus Steed, I could kill you and put you in
the fires somewhere and connect my insurance on see your
door knock. Goodness, No, why that's a terrible thing to think.
Uh oh, you're not reasoning properly, Chester, You really aren't.
How would you explain to me you just said you'd
have to kill her? And what about the colonel's office,
(25:18):
you know, how could you? And don't forget the medical
examiner's got something to say too. Not then the fact
that you'd have to really burn me up to tub
up the board her. And furthermore, Chester, when you shoot me,
if you happen to hit a rib and chip off
some bonemaids and I was shocked before, and then I'm
a site of being honest, stops up.
Speaker 5 (25:34):
Nothing worse for me, I will hear you.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Go ahead, mister Swan, let it all out. You'll see
you back. And he did, and he still crying, and
his cell downtown carry it under the port o.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
Stam, you're so brave. You absolutely sit there and talk
that crazy man out of reading. You'll one true.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
Essie Amy thinks so too. She's gonna do me in
oils when they let her out of the pokey a
technical charge of an involuntary manslaughter and springers soon as
the corner's Inquest is completed day Amy.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
Which she makes good fight things.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
Oh that was the least of it. Oh after the
flight Hopper Balucci, Oh boy, oh boy, say good fight
that up, sweet hight Well. I see if there's any
mention of my miraculous resuscitation on the radio page.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Go Go.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Thtaly is the mention of fam Fade on the radio
page for Friday. Fam Fade is one more in the
list of great shows to join up in NBC's Parade
of the Stars. Have you heard the Big Show? This Sunday?
The Big Show comes away once again on MBC. Listen
to just a few of the star names that will
be appearing this week. Bob Hope, Jimmy Durandy Perry, Cobbo Hose, Perere,
(26:59):
Mindy Carson, Chatter, Meredith Wilson and the Orchestra, and many
many more. And of course your MC once again will
be the ladies who invented the snappy retort to Lula Bankhead. Yes,
it's the Big Show. It's big, and music's big, and
drama and big in comedy. Be sure to hear the
Big Show Sunday. Here good, I will sign it and
(27:23):
you will keep it always to remind you that I'm
still here, living, breathing, brave and handsome. A paradigm son.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
What you do that to maya?
Speaker 1 (27:32):
Mayl? What's may Oh?
Speaker 3 (27:33):
The letters and post guys and telegrams, now that chillman
and keep us out to.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Be enough tonight it ossume, it's so.
Speaker 5 (27:43):
Big to happy do the same as your arms.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
Well, I'm going to try it, because when the.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
Time helps me, like they say, the greatest private detective
of them all will see good night, good night s.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
The Adventures of Sam Spade are produced, edited and directed
by William Spear. Sam Spade was played by Stephen Dunn Marene.
Title is Uffy. Script for the Night's Adventure by E.
Jack Newman, musical scarring by lud Gluskin, conducted by Frank Wort.
(28:36):
Join us again next week, same time for another adventure
with Sam Spade here the Magnificent Montague. Then visit Duffy
Tavern on MBC.
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