November 21, 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 (00:01):
The National Broadcasting Company presents the adventures of Sam Paid Detectives.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Come, Stay detweetheart. Oh it was very success. The office
dries all over the flocks in the row.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
I was just business going on as usual, doing all
occasions there.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Or what was it all about?
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Then they tried, Effie just tried to pluck my feathers
and cooked my goose.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
I thank siting too.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
How could they?
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Oh they were a mean lot. Hale ANDARTI every gibbling
in place and on a feather repos did you em?
And I thanks him?
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Oh it's heaven me mama had to take your dinner.
Pay second contact fastid of jazz.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Hide, exciting, hot, calm, clean Effie but hot.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Everyone was there, secn't gay you dwss missus flat. I
would take the problem and you didn't tell up from
rot that dinner?
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Sure say at the helping hand rescue mission where there's
party of free parking and never a cover charge. For
further details, consult the report, which I will presently be
down to dictate on a pasty chronicle of foul praise
that terrified Turkey caper for NBC. William Spear Radio's Outstanding
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Producer Director of mystery and crime drama brings you the
greatest private detective of them all in the Adventures of
Sam Fay.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
Sam Bay.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Oh, you were waiting for dinner at a rescue mission,
and now look at the purply.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Rank your mother for me.
Speaker 5 (01:45):
Tell her I'll be over to break wishbones.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
With her to night and to atone for my social indifferences.
Here's a little something I brought for.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
You.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Shouldn't have.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
A blunderby a blunder bust as in step to the
rear of oh well fund to you. It's a gun.
Our founding fathers use it in foraging for feathered food
when they settled its abundant continent. And it's not to
do is what you will? Where's the game, mens.
Speaker 6 (02:15):
Boy, Chad open.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
The Founding Faday, don't peek. Date November twenty fourth, nineteen
fifty two. Detective Reeutenant Ice Kelsey, Homicide detailed San Francisco
Police from Samuel State License number one three seven five
nine six budget Turkey. Dear Kelsey. This was a big
week for the cranberry pickers, the butchers, the sage makers,
and the stomach pilled people. But the private detectives it
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was prickly from hunger. My office door opened only twice
a day, once to let me in and once to
let me out. And when on Wednesday I heard a
knock on the door, I went into a piricysm of delight.
Come in, Come in, Come in, said I. When I
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ran out of languages, I got up from behind the desk,
walked to the door and opened it. Standing there was
a small, middle aged man with a pink bald head.
His blue serge suit needed pressing, and he was nervously
fingering a fullberry birthmark Andrea's left ears.
Speaker 6 (03:20):
Mister Samuel state, I am may, I may, I haven't moment.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
You may have several, but not in the corridor. It's
not in my lease.
Speaker 6 (03:29):
Oh I'll come in.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Good God, Well.
Speaker 7 (03:35):
You'll have to excuse me, mister Stade. I've had so
few dealings with pilate detectives.
Speaker 6 (03:40):
I find it hard to begin.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
Oh, perhaps I shouldn't have come at all.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Goodbye, No on, ill wait a minute, maybe I can
help you.
Speaker 6 (03:49):
What do you see?
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (03:52):
But see, you won't believe me. Nobody, don't I dreabout.
Speaker 5 (03:56):
Oh my weight?
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Wait, I don't believe you? Or I asked, is it now?
Let's start with your name. What my name is?
Speaker 6 (04:03):
Yes, yes, yes, my name to begin with. You won't
believe that, but I can verify it, Yes I can.
Speaker 7 (04:10):
It's on this registration book, the old Colony hotel, in
the nineteen forty three phone books, and on.
Speaker 6 (04:15):
My old River's license.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Well I'll have to know it before I can verify it.
Speaker 6 (04:19):
Yes, yes, of course you will. It's it's come.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
That's not so hard to believe.
Speaker 6 (04:26):
Oh, you haven't heard the rest of it. It's come, apparently,
you see. I told you you wouldn't believe it.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
I did. Now let me be the first to believe
you now, mister red palm or what's your problem?
Speaker 6 (04:43):
Oh dear, that's even harder to explain.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Well, now that I don't believe, but the take a
breath from.
Speaker 6 (04:50):
Jump into it thing. Yes, my name is Tom's Turkey and.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
They're going to killing me for Thanksgiving time.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Well, I had asked for it, and I have gotten it.
And I sat back wondering who had gone to all
the trouble to play this funny joke on her. I
was looking at my hand to see if there was
any issuing powder on it where he'd shaken it. When
my phone. Rang. I went to the receiver, swung around
in my swivel and gaze out out of a street.
It was Al Kuchu, calling a private eye whose reputation
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was shadier than a mushroom cellar high stree.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Wow, I haven't seen much of you lately, spready, and
you have to get together?
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Yeah, well so long?
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Wait wait, I'll tell you what I call it. I've
had a pest in my office keeps coming back. Thinks
she's a turkey. Somebody wants to dress. I brushed him,
but your name came up, and I just wanted to
warn yet he might be able.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
To see it. I'm confused now. I never knew you
to turn your back on our butt.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Oh, I don't want any of this one. His buttons
are loose. One of advice to you is to bouncey.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Wow, we've never traded advice before, Kuchu.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Why now, After all, we're in the same racket. If
we can't help.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Each other, oh sure, sure, I appreciate it, gimme a ring.
We've got to get together them don Yeah, when I
got a pre night, wrote Jimmy Parking Meter.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Yeah, uh oh, yeah, they're fucking me. There's a letter say.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
I turned back to the desk, and what I saw
in front of me was an empty chair. Tom Turkey
had taken wings. I got up and walked to the window,
and a minute later I saw him come out of
the building downstairs and start to cross the street. And
then I saw something else. The large four ton truck
was tearing down the street picking up seas. Instinctively, I
shot at the warning and at the last second Tom
Turkey studles from in front of the fucking disappeared into
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the alleyway. The truck crawled up the street non Its
side was printed in gold letters paines you'll drive it.
There was nothing to say. It wasn't coincidence, this near Mishaf,
But somehow I found myself in free wanting to hear
more of the little guy's story. He said the old
Colony hotel. On the way, I stopped at the library
found an old nineteen forty three phone book and looks
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he was listed romas Turkey. It says, honest churiosity. I
rang the number. Hello, I wonder if you can help me.
I'm inquiring about a mister Turkey.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
Turkey this time is number no more. I know I've
many called for him for years.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Scrawl, yeah, I know, I know.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
No.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
A woman named Robert once missus.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Rabbits about Turkey. Could you remember what he looked like?
Speaker 4 (07:18):
I don't, Hey, Manny, what Turkey looks like? Oh yeah,
small man rond Turkey, nice teller, managers.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Graw Berry under his wet ears berry hear many.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Oh yes, yeah, strawberry under his left ear.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Well, thank you, madam for your information, and thanks to Manny.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Well you're welcome, but.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
I don't know what you're gonna do with it. Oh, man,
Turkey dead, good dad for yours.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
J churious the right thought they had this scribe, the
man who came to my office twenty minutes ago, and
now he'd been dead for years. I continued on to
the old Colony hotel room seventy five cents, It said
Tom's room. It's one fourteen, is it, Sam Spath?
Speaker 6 (08:08):
Oh, come in, mister Spade. I'm sorry right away. I
didn't think you really believed.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Well, I'm not sure I drew yet. Tell me what
that fucking accident? Oh?
Speaker 6 (08:17):
I don't think so.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
No.
Speaker 7 (08:18):
They they make three attempts before to kill me. Somebody
tried to push me in front of a train and then.
Speaker 6 (08:23):
A wheelchair full of cement wrapped off a building and
just missed me. And then I was shot at.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Who were very Why would they want to kill you?
Speaker 6 (08:30):
I don't know. I just don't know.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Look what's tax tax track? I dialed your old phone number,
and the people who answered that you're dead.
Speaker 6 (08:37):
Oh a lot of people think I'm dead.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Yeah? What do you still want me to work for you? Oh?
Speaker 6 (08:41):
Yes, yes, please.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Well, you'll have to tell me more than I can't.
Speaker 6 (08:44):
I guess i'd better tell you everything.
Speaker 7 (08:47):
Oh, it's it's hard to talk about mister Spade. It's
not easy to admit to someone she's been a foolish thing.
Speaker 6 (08:54):
You see. I just turned sisty. I was quite tired
of the life. I'd let proper dull and I'm fruitful.
It's set in money. My business was wearing, and so
was my wife, Henriette.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
This has a traditional ring.
Speaker 6 (09:05):
Anyway.
Speaker 7 (09:06):
To make it sure, I decided to run away. One
day I drove to work. I parked my car in
the middle of the Bay Bridge where the suicide note
left this and disappeared.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Where did you go? Oh?
Speaker 6 (09:15):
All over the world. I took a job on a boat.
Speaker 7 (09:17):
I did on a boat, and then I settled in
Saint Paulo, Brazil under another name.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Now you're back.
Speaker 7 (09:22):
Wise, maybe I got lonely, maybe I got wiser, Maybe
maybe I felt I take enough for mistakes.
Speaker 6 (09:29):
Let's you say I'm back. I wanted to do with Henrietta.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Have you seen her?
Speaker 7 (09:33):
I checked into this hotel and wrote her a letter,
so I wasn't dead. I was back in San Francisco,
and I wanted to come back to her if she
still would happen me. But I told her I wouldn't
bother her unless she wanted to see me, that she
could contact me here.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
That was a week ago, and you haven't heard Gunner.
Speaker 6 (09:50):
No no, And almost right away these attempts on my
life began.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
I say, now I want to address before.
Speaker 7 (09:56):
You won one eighth month rol. Oh, she's taken her
maiden name again, Henryetta proper.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Come on, let's go.
Speaker 6 (10:02):
Well, well, I'm not going to see her until she asks.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Look, you're going to my apartment.
Speaker 6 (10:06):
Nobody a body is there, and you're going to see Henriette.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
That's right.
Speaker 6 (10:10):
Oh, thank you, thank you, mister stage. You do be
loose me. I think Hungrulu ready to say swell again.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Now I deposited Tom in my apartment with instructions to
open the door for no one but me, and then
I proceeded through thirty one eighteen Monroe in the High
Rent District. I was ushered through a comely portico by
a Japanese maid who told me to wait in a
study heavy with mahogany. In a moment, two people came in.
The woman who wore a black vest, silver pendants, flat shoes,
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and a complexion the color of apple meat. She was
Miss Henrietta Black and or missus Tom Turkey. The man
turned out to be Leander Luce, the lady's attorney, business
manager and canastera partner.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
You say you have something important to discuss with me,
Miss State, I do. I hope you don't mind my
asking loves to.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Do her not at all, Missus Turkey, I just talked
to your husband Tom, mister Stade, if you'll please I
say something.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
A rather feeble attempt at commedy, Missus Staate, Oh.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
I wasn't trying for a last. You are, Missus Turkey,
aren't you? I was you undosedly still are?
Speaker 4 (11:16):
I'd expected to hear another one of these cruel jokes
about my names.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Thanks Giving time, mister Spade. Someone was always going to
stuff Tom, based him, gret him, slice him. This season,
they're going to kill him. They are not going to
kill him. He is already dead. He's not dead, Missus Turkey,
and you should not. I should.
Speaker 5 (11:33):
Yes, he sent you a letter saying he was back
in San Francisco and.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Wanted to see you, mister Shade. This has gone absolutely
far enough. Not quite. What about the letter I know of,
mister Leasure, I see, Well, thank you for your time.
I'm sorry I bought it. You was bad judgment and
gunning in the first place. Yes, maybe a rest. There
was falsehood in this someplace, lieutenant, and it stuck out
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like a fat girl in black. The only thing to
do was to go back to my apartment, get Tom
Turkey in confront Missus Tea with her husband in the fresh.
When I got back to my apartment building, I spotted,
in rapid succession one an ambulance, two a police car,
and upstairs outside my half open apartment door, I spotted
free you then expecting it. What's going on? Chelsea? Who's
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that bullheaded man moving around the apartment. That's McCracken, the
new medical examiner checking a stiff on your rug. I
stepped around you, lieutenant, and pushed the door all the
way open.
Speaker 5 (12:31):
I saw McCracken kneeling.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Over the body, and a couple of men from homicide
taking photos. I moved into the room, feeling nothing good.
A little guy had given me a job and thought
I was jacking with his wife. Somebody got to him
and in my apartment where I'd flashed him. McCracken stood up,
and I looked down at the body. Then I looked again.
Who I saw wasn't Tom Turkey at all. It was
a late private eye. Al Kusho are listening to the
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your MC as usual this Sunday, It's the Big Show
on NBC. And now back to the terrified Turkey Caper
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to Night's adventure with Sam's faith. While the men from
homicide were taking pictures, et cetera, you and I lieutenants
were going round and round on the question if I
didn't kill a man found in my room, who did?
And you were sufficiently impressed with my insult, Chelsea not
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to hold me for the murder. We bowed to each
other and I left, thinking back to the truck that
had almost run Turkey down. I went to the Hanges
you drive truck rental garage. Hey, what do you want?
I'm a detective. Could you give me a list of
names for everybody who rendered the truck from you during
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the past few days? Here He handed me a big
registration book and I read every name for the pants
for the first five days. They all seem to be nice, normal,
abnormal names and then under the rentals for the day
before was the name of John Smith. John had given
his address as seventy two hundred Turney, and I happen
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to know that Jurney only goes up to twenty hundred.
The despatcher said that Smith had returned the truck about
three hours before, and he remembered them as an ugly,
heavy sets and rough voice character who looked like an
ex long shoreman. They had already washed the truck, so
their fingerprints were all out stuff. Yell, mister trader, Ja, look,
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I'd like to speak with missus Turks, missus Black gifshoe
non buy it? Come in, Come in, Thank you, Pa
swift way into the desk right. Well, I was sure
you'd look into this affair a little more and realize
that it was just a blind alley a hope for
some time. Where's miss Black? Oh, she's upstairs, lying down.
The whole affair is upset her, and she asked not
to be dissurbed. I think the wisest cause of action
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to you, Missus Spade, is just too lets the matter, dup.
You can't let our murder just drop mis fillers. The
police wouldn't hear it huh murder who an untracked private
detective named al Kucho. Well, what does this have to
do with Henrietta Blank? Al Kucher called me earlier today
and said that Tom Turkey was a crackpot, a little
man with delusion. He tried to tap me or taking
his case, he un was a perceiving man. Well he
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didn't perceive ending up in my apartment with a bullet
in his head. That's too bad. But I still do
let Tom Turkey in my apartment for safe keeping. And
when I returned, he was gone and Kucho was dead. Well,
let's explain itself. Obviously, this detective knew that Tom Turkey
was a phomy and Turkey killed him. The can figure
that way and a number of other ways. It's afraid
I have no desire to sit here taking subtled it
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with you. As yet, no one has demonstrated that the
real Tom Turkey actually exists alive. Now, until you do
have something more concrete and less mythological, Miss Black requests
that you do not come around opening up old wounds.
You've made an eloquence twice, So tell me one thing
if I can. When did Tom turkeypre I mean, what month?
What day it was? Oh, yes, nineteen forty three November,
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but I'm not sure the exact day. I think it
was in the third week. Could it have been on Thanksgiving?
Very possibly? Very possibly. I returned thoughtfully to my office
and then a little rapid mental arithmetic and came up
with a number seven for November twenty third, nineteen forty three.
So November twenty third, nineteen fifty was seven years for
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the day, and I pondered this, what did the number
seven mean to the life or death of Tom Cookie.
I had just hit upon the answer and was crying
eureka when my office door open, I'm not and a
visitor came in unannounced. It was ugly, heavy set and
looked like an ex long shoreman. I waited to see
if her voice checked ill spread. Who shall I say?
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Is calling here.
Speaker 5 (17:52):
Cape John Smith?
Speaker 1 (17:54):
And here's my calling card? The foot The first bullet
grazed my shoulder and told a potting out of my coat.
The second bullet hit the water cooler and it.
Speaker 5 (18:06):
Crashed over the water and all on top of me,
or the third bullet hit.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
I wasn't sure if the time because dock can't say
muching through my head like a quite When I opened
my eyes again, I expected to see Saint Peter checking
my ID card. But all I saw with the dust
falls under my desk and a fly vathing himself in
a pool of water spreading slowly over the floor. There
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was blood in my hand, but it came from a
glass cut. I was in shambles, but alive. Captain John
Smith had shoved off, obviously thinking his bullets had done
their work.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
On the side.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Look, keln Kelsey, if you found anything more about pond tricky,
doesn't Sam?
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Frankly, I'm beginning to wonder if.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
There is such a gud well clever Kelsey a few
minutes ago, like a roller by the name it or not,
Captain John Smith just tried to kill me in my office.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
Oh go on, Sam, I find it hard to think.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
You find it hard to think? Period? Really, Sam, did
you get him? No?
Speaker 6 (19:10):
All?
Speaker 1 (19:10):
But my office is a wreck, and there's a whole
blasket in my wall big enough to put a basketball in.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
What are they hues of Berzuoka?
Speaker 1 (19:16):
I figured, dumb, dumb bullet um dumb.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
That's illegal, ain't it?
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Kelsey? Doesn't it strike you as significant? But every attempt on.
Turkey's life has been vicious, as if someone not only
wanted to kill him but also mutilate him. Yeah, yeah,
now that you mention it, somebody probably wanted to make
identification difficult even dead. They didn't want anybody to know
who he was. Now listen carefully, Kelsey, this is real deep.
Tom Turkey disappeared on Thanksgiving of nineteen forty three. A
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person has to be missing seven years before he can
be legally dead and his insurance collected. Now, if someone
had Turkey insured, they could collect the day after this Thanksgiving.
If Turkey didn't show up before.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
You mean somebody's trying to kill him for the insurance.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
I would say so, Kelsey, I would say so. Now
hurry up and find him. When I put down the
pole and I heard a heavy pounding for a minute,
I thought it was in my head until I turned
to face the door and standing there was a small
pilgrim with bandy legs and black stockings, pantaloons, white collared coat,
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and silver pipe hot. He wore silver buckles and what
he was pounding on the floor was an eighteenth century bunderbus.
Speaker 6 (20:25):
Hellelujah, and they got the right place.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Four off pandised face. Though, if you're looking for Captain
John Smith, he just let pokemontis is expected any minute.
Don't you go trying to confuse me.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
I'm too thirsty.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
What's on your mind? Well, I'm looking for a fellow
named Dan. Oh, I'm so thirsty. I forgot Sam space.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
That's it. Oh, you broke your water bottle? Huh yeah
good that stuff pointing anyway, hallelujis halleluis.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
Hey, say, do you happen to have any hard cider.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Around or shot fair?
Speaker 3 (20:59):
And I've kind of thirsty.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Yeah, any type of corn squeezes here? Try this dad?
Yeah good?
Speaker 6 (21:10):
Huh you like that?
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Huh? Fun of me. But before we go, he explored
he could have an interceptor for the road. It's pretty cold.
I gave him a little, but not too much because
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I didn't want him to lose his way. He walked
me right down Market Street so we could look in
the liquor store windows. He said it gave him a
comfortable feelings, you know, there was so much good in
the world. And then we turned right a few blocks
until we came to the Helping Hand Mission across this
great front of banner spunseil holiday food and comfort to
the unfortunate, and I'm a suit in front of it.
It was a pas fan sending out signals to the vicinity.
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At any minute, but great piece of Thanksgiving would begin.
The band members another of our deer workers were all
versus children, but points couldn't see. My pilgrim led me
to a god corner of the problem, and sitting there
unhappily with one other than Tom perky Hellos said, Oh Tom,
what happened to my apartment? Why did you run away?
Speaker 6 (22:15):
I was a said, He told me that the house
of the door until he came back. Well, somebody knocked
on the door and said it was you, So I
opened it and two men came home. It was one
of the male.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Kuchul, yes, the detective.
Speaker 6 (22:26):
The other man was a spoof ugly looking fellow, and when.
Speaker 5 (22:29):
They saw I was alone, they start it ugly about what.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
Well.
Speaker 6 (22:32):
The detective said that now that he brought the ugly
man there, he wanted his money.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
The ugly man pulled a gun and.
Speaker 6 (22:37):
Then started the fight.
Speaker 7 (22:38):
Oh did I set out the door, But when I
was halfway downstairs, I heard a shot and keeps on running.
Speaker 5 (22:45):
Well, El Kochel is dead.
Speaker 6 (22:47):
Oh my, I thought so. This was the only place
I could think I could hide.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
Oh.
Speaker 6 (22:53):
When Henrietta finds out I've.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Been mixed up in the murder, chill. I I take
me back and we're real. Hey told me otherwise. Ever
had any insurance on you before.
Speaker 6 (23:02):
I've gotten away? She did a fifty thousand dollar policyer.
Oh that would have latched.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
I learned didn't have a suicide clause in it, said
rather long.
Speaker 6 (23:14):
No, it's didn't I remember.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Yeah, Yeah, you'd like to talk to Henrietta, wouldn't you.
All right, here's your phone number, call her up and
tell her where you are.
Speaker 6 (23:21):
Oh, you know, I don't think I could.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
I want to fun if you've got to do something
to help yourself. If you don't, I that you might
be a cold turkey. I'm sorry, just slip up, all right,
I'll do it. Ellen went and made the call. When
he returned, he said that a man had answered. He
said Henrietta would come down and pick Tom up. He
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didn't want to wait, but I sat on him. The
pilgrim brought up a dish of turkey dinner, saying he
couldn't sand food, and fell and we months to sell.
In a little while, a lembergine pulled up in front
of a nation with someone in back whom I couldn't see.
Let your first stepped out and came in inquiring for
Tom Turkey. It was Captain John Smith himself. When he
saw me, a look of shocked surprise came over. He's
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on the handsome face hoping to kick him off balance.
I did about him, but of the liveliest thing that
has happened with a holding hand listen in years and
we have what I do money was even thinking hands.
When I heard the odds starting to go again with me,
I realized I better come up with something. You're a
j and I did the bandy leg pilgramself.
Speaker 5 (24:23):
This wonder works, ripe my hands and I slunk.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Sliffed up like posons on the wing. I looked up.
The passenger from the limousine was just coming in. What's
the meaning of this? It means, Leander Luce that you
are not going to carve Tom Turkey up for your
Thanksgiving insurance policy. Helia is dumb sick anyone pood and
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the report how am saying? It's as plain as the
cranber staying on your dress loose as Henrietta's business manager
had her power of attorney, and secretly he kept making
the payments on Tom Turkey's insurance policy.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
Oh and then he collects fire and I'll hit the
money himself.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Sometimes your lightning mind frightens me. I'll go tight that up.
Three chimes mean good times on MDC. There's fun and
laugh with the chimes later tonight, when Ed Gardner stars
in Duffy's tavern. As usual, Duffy won't be there, but Archie,
the manager will definitely be on hand to serve his
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and the stars include Fred Allen, Jack Carson Edwin, Meredith Wilson,
and many many more. It's the Big Show Sunday on MDCN.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
The miner slid acut and tried to kill you was his?
No really, Captain John Smith?
Speaker 1 (26:07):
No wy, could we have a Thanksgiving caper without a
Captain John Smith? It wouldn't be right. Rather well, if you.
Speaker 5 (26:14):
Promised not to tell any o his real name was Michael.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
Giuseppe Yubronsky Smith, I called him John for sure.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
You're so kind are.
Speaker 5 (26:22):
We going over to your mother's? The cold turkey snacks?
Speaker 4 (26:25):
Well, all right, but I don't go, said be much more,
oh my cousin's.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
We couldn't find a little boy my mother's phone and
said to find him. He was s tied the turkey
using his way out.
Speaker 5 (26:38):
Effie, is there no way to occur?
Speaker 6 (26:40):
That tongue of your line.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
Says anyway? Well, come here, good night, good night. For
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the Adventures of Sam Spade are produced, edited and directed
by William Spear. Sam Spade was played by Stephen Dunn.
Loreene Turtle is Effie. Script for the Night's Adventure by
Larry Roman and John Michael Hayes. Musical storing by lud Gluskin,
conducted by Robert Armbristers. Join us again next week, same
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time for another adventure with Sam Stade e the Magnificent Montague.
Then visit Duffy's Tavern on NBC
The National Broadcasting Company presents the adventures of Sam Paid Detectives.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Come, Stay detweetheart. Oh it was very success. The office
dries all over the flocks in the row.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
I was just business going on as usual, doing all
occasions there.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Or what was it all about?
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Then they tried, Effie just tried to pluck my feathers
and cooked my goose.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
I thank siting too.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
How could they?
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Oh they were a mean lot. Hale ANDARTI every gibbling
in place and on a feather repos did you em?
And I thanks him?
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Oh it's heaven me mama had to take your dinner.
Pay second contact fastid of jazz.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Hide, exciting, hot, calm, clean Effie but hot.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Everyone was there, secn't gay you dwss missus flat. I
would take the problem and you didn't tell up from
rot that dinner?
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Sure say at the helping hand rescue mission where there's
party of free parking and never a cover charge. For
further details, consult the report, which I will presently be
down to dictate on a pasty chronicle of foul praise
that terrified Turkey caper for NBC. William Spear Radio's Outstanding
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Speaker 4 (01:36):
Sam Bay.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Oh, you were waiting for dinner at a rescue mission,
and now look at the purply.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Rank your mother for me.
Speaker 5 (01:45):
Tell her I'll be over to break wishbones.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
With her to night and to atone for my social indifferences.
Here's a little something I brought for.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
You.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Shouldn't have.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
A blunderby a blunder bust as in step to the
rear of oh well fund to you. It's a gun.
Our founding fathers use it in foraging for feathered food
when they settled its abundant continent. And it's not to
do is what you will? Where's the game, mens.
Speaker 6 (02:15):
Boy, Chad open.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
The Founding Faday, don't peek. Date November twenty fourth, nineteen
fifty two. Detective Reeutenant Ice Kelsey, Homicide detailed San Francisco
Police from Samuel State License number one three seven five
nine six budget Turkey. Dear Kelsey. This was a big
week for the cranberry pickers, the butchers, the sage makers,
and the stomach pilled people. But the private detectives it
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was prickly from hunger. My office door opened only twice
a day, once to let me in and once to
let me out. And when on Wednesday I heard a
knock on the door, I went into a piricysm of delight.
Come in, Come in, Come in, said I. When I
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ran out of languages, I got up from behind the desk,
walked to the door and opened it. Standing there was
a small, middle aged man with a pink bald head.
His blue serge suit needed pressing, and he was nervously
fingering a fullberry birthmark Andrea's left ears.
Speaker 6 (03:20):
Mister Samuel state, I am may, I may, I haven't moment.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
You may have several, but not in the corridor. It's
not in my lease.
Speaker 6 (03:29):
Oh I'll come in.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Good God, Well.
Speaker 7 (03:35):
You'll have to excuse me, mister Stade. I've had so
few dealings with pilate detectives.
Speaker 6 (03:40):
I find it hard to begin.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
Oh, perhaps I shouldn't have come at all.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Goodbye, No on, ill wait a minute, maybe I can
help you.
Speaker 6 (03:49):
What do you see?
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (03:52):
But see, you won't believe me. Nobody, don't I dreabout.
Speaker 5 (03:56):
Oh my weight?
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Wait, I don't believe you? Or I asked, is it now?
Let's start with your name. What my name is?
Speaker 6 (04:03):
Yes, yes, yes, my name to begin with. You won't
believe that, but I can verify it, Yes I can.
Speaker 7 (04:10):
It's on this registration book, the old Colony hotel, in
the nineteen forty three phone books, and on.
Speaker 6 (04:15):
My old River's license.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Well I'll have to know it before I can verify it.
Speaker 6 (04:19):
Yes, yes, of course you will. It's it's come.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
That's not so hard to believe.
Speaker 6 (04:26):
Oh, you haven't heard the rest of it. It's come, apparently,
you see. I told you you wouldn't believe it.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
I did. Now let me be the first to believe
you now, mister red palm or what's your problem?
Speaker 6 (04:43):
Oh dear, that's even harder to explain.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Well, now that I don't believe, but the take a
breath from.
Speaker 6 (04:50):
Jump into it thing. Yes, my name is Tom's Turkey and.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
They're going to killing me for Thanksgiving time.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Well, I had asked for it, and I have gotten it.
And I sat back wondering who had gone to all
the trouble to play this funny joke on her. I
was looking at my hand to see if there was
any issuing powder on it where he'd shaken it. When
my phone. Rang. I went to the receiver, swung around
in my swivel and gaze out out of a street.
It was Al Kuchu, calling a private eye whose reputation
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was shadier than a mushroom cellar high stree.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Wow, I haven't seen much of you lately, spready, and
you have to get together?
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Yeah, well so long?
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Wait wait, I'll tell you what I call it. I've
had a pest in my office keeps coming back. Thinks
she's a turkey. Somebody wants to dress. I brushed him,
but your name came up, and I just wanted to
warn yet he might be able.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
To see it. I'm confused now. I never knew you
to turn your back on our butt.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Oh, I don't want any of this one. His buttons
are loose. One of advice to you is to bouncey.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Wow, we've never traded advice before, Kuchu.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Why now, After all, we're in the same racket. If
we can't help.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Each other, oh sure, sure, I appreciate it, gimme a ring.
We've got to get together them don Yeah, when I
got a pre night, wrote Jimmy Parking Meter.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Yeah, uh oh, yeah, they're fucking me. There's a letter say.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
I turned back to the desk, and what I saw
in front of me was an empty chair. Tom Turkey
had taken wings. I got up and walked to the window,
and a minute later I saw him come out of
the building downstairs and start to cross the street. And
then I saw something else. The large four ton truck
was tearing down the street picking up seas. Instinctively, I
shot at the warning and at the last second Tom
Turkey studles from in front of the fucking disappeared into
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the alleyway. The truck crawled up the street non Its
side was printed in gold letters paines you'll drive it.
There was nothing to say. It wasn't coincidence, this near Mishaf,
But somehow I found myself in free wanting to hear
more of the little guy's story. He said the old
Colony hotel. On the way, I stopped at the library
found an old nineteen forty three phone book and looks
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he was listed romas Turkey. It says, honest churiosity. I
rang the number. Hello, I wonder if you can help me.
I'm inquiring about a mister Turkey.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
Turkey this time is number no more. I know I've
many called for him for years.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Scrawl, yeah, I know, I know.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
No.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
A woman named Robert once missus.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Rabbits about Turkey. Could you remember what he looked like?
Speaker 4 (07:18):
I don't, Hey, Manny, what Turkey looks like? Oh yeah,
small man rond Turkey, nice teller, managers.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Graw Berry under his wet ears berry hear many.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Oh yes, yeah, strawberry under his left ear.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Well, thank you, madam for your information, and thanks to Manny.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Well you're welcome, but.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
I don't know what you're gonna do with it. Oh, man,
Turkey dead, good dad for yours.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
J churious the right thought they had this scribe, the
man who came to my office twenty minutes ago, and
now he'd been dead for years. I continued on to
the old Colony hotel room seventy five cents, It said
Tom's room. It's one fourteen, is it, Sam Spath?
Speaker 6 (08:08):
Oh, come in, mister Spade. I'm sorry right away. I
didn't think you really believed.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Well, I'm not sure I drew yet. Tell me what
that fucking accident? Oh?
Speaker 6 (08:17):
I don't think so.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
No.
Speaker 7 (08:18):
They they make three attempts before to kill me. Somebody
tried to push me in front of a train and then.
Speaker 6 (08:23):
A wheelchair full of cement wrapped off a building and
just missed me. And then I was shot at.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Who were very Why would they want to kill you?
Speaker 6 (08:30):
I don't know. I just don't know.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Look what's tax tax track? I dialed your old phone number,
and the people who answered that you're dead.
Speaker 6 (08:37):
Oh a lot of people think I'm dead.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Yeah? What do you still want me to work for you? Oh?
Speaker 6 (08:41):
Yes, yes, please.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Well, you'll have to tell me more than I can't.
Speaker 6 (08:44):
I guess i'd better tell you everything.
Speaker 7 (08:47):
Oh, it's it's hard to talk about mister Spade. It's
not easy to admit to someone she's been a foolish thing.
Speaker 6 (08:54):
You see. I just turned sisty. I was quite tired
of the life. I'd let proper dull and I'm fruitful.
It's set in money. My business was wearing, and so
was my wife, Henriette.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
This has a traditional ring.
Speaker 6 (09:05):
Anyway.
Speaker 7 (09:06):
To make it sure, I decided to run away. One
day I drove to work. I parked my car in
the middle of the Bay Bridge where the suicide note
left this and disappeared.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Where did you go? Oh?
Speaker 6 (09:15):
All over the world. I took a job on a boat.
Speaker 7 (09:17):
I did on a boat, and then I settled in
Saint Paulo, Brazil under another name.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Now you're back.
Speaker 7 (09:22):
Wise, maybe I got lonely, maybe I got wiser, Maybe
maybe I felt I take enough for mistakes.
Speaker 6 (09:29):
Let's you say I'm back. I wanted to do with Henrietta.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Have you seen her?
Speaker 7 (09:33):
I checked into this hotel and wrote her a letter,
so I wasn't dead. I was back in San Francisco,
and I wanted to come back to her if she
still would happen me. But I told her I wouldn't
bother her unless she wanted to see me, that she
could contact me here.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
That was a week ago, and you haven't heard Gunner.
Speaker 6 (09:50):
No no, And almost right away these attempts on my
life began.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
I say, now I want to address before.
Speaker 7 (09:56):
You won one eighth month rol. Oh, she's taken her
maiden name again, Henryetta proper.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Come on, let's go.
Speaker 6 (10:02):
Well, well, I'm not going to see her until she asks.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Look, you're going to my apartment.
Speaker 6 (10:06):
Nobody a body is there, and you're going to see Henriette.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
That's right.
Speaker 6 (10:10):
Oh, thank you, thank you, mister stage. You do be
loose me. I think Hungrulu ready to say swell again.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Now I deposited Tom in my apartment with instructions to
open the door for no one but me, and then
I proceeded through thirty one eighteen Monroe in the High
Rent District. I was ushered through a comely portico by
a Japanese maid who told me to wait in a
study heavy with mahogany. In a moment, two people came in.
The woman who wore a black vest, silver pendants, flat shoes,
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and a complexion the color of apple meat. She was
Miss Henrietta Black and or missus Tom Turkey. The man
turned out to be Leander Luce, the lady's attorney, business
manager and canastera partner.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
You say you have something important to discuss with me,
Miss State, I do. I hope you don't mind my
asking loves to.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Do her not at all, Missus Turkey, I just talked
to your husband Tom, mister Stade, if you'll please I
say something.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
A rather feeble attempt at commedy, Missus Staate, Oh.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
I wasn't trying for a last. You are, Missus Turkey,
aren't you? I was you undosedly still are?
Speaker 4 (11:16):
I'd expected to hear another one of these cruel jokes
about my names.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Thanks Giving time, mister Spade. Someone was always going to
stuff Tom, based him, gret him, slice him. This season,
they're going to kill him. They are not going to
kill him. He is already dead. He's not dead, Missus Turkey,
and you should not. I should.
Speaker 5 (11:33):
Yes, he sent you a letter saying he was back
in San Francisco and.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Wanted to see you, mister Shade. This has gone absolutely
far enough. Not quite. What about the letter I know of,
mister Leasure, I see, Well, thank you for your time.
I'm sorry I bought it. You was bad judgment and
gunning in the first place. Yes, maybe a rest. There
was falsehood in this someplace, lieutenant, and it stuck out
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like a fat girl in black. The only thing to
do was to go back to my apartment, get Tom
Turkey in confront Missus Tea with her husband in the fresh.
When I got back to my apartment building, I spotted,
in rapid succession one an ambulance, two a police car,
and upstairs outside my half open apartment door, I spotted
free you then expecting it. What's going on? Chelsea? Who's
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that bullheaded man moving around the apartment. That's McCracken, the
new medical examiner checking a stiff on your rug. I
stepped around you, lieutenant, and pushed the door all the
way open.
Speaker 5 (12:31):
I saw McCracken kneeling.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Over the body, and a couple of men from homicide
taking photos. I moved into the room, feeling nothing good.
A little guy had given me a job and thought
I was jacking with his wife. Somebody got to him
and in my apartment where I'd flashed him. McCracken stood up,
and I looked down at the body. Then I looked again.
Who I saw wasn't Tom Turkey at all. It was
a late private eye. Al Kusho are listening to the
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on NBC. And now back to the terrified Turkey Caper
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to Night's adventure with Sam's faith. While the men from
homicide were taking pictures, et cetera, you and I lieutenants
were going round and round on the question if I
didn't kill a man found in my room, who did?
And you were sufficiently impressed with my insult, Chelsea not
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to hold me for the murder. We bowed to each
other and I left, thinking back to the truck that
had almost run Turkey down. I went to the Hanges
you drive truck rental garage. Hey, what do you want?
I'm a detective. Could you give me a list of
names for everybody who rendered the truck from you during
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the past few days? Here He handed me a big
registration book and I read every name for the pants
for the first five days. They all seem to be nice, normal,
abnormal names and then under the rentals for the day
before was the name of John Smith. John had given
his address as seventy two hundred Turney, and I happen
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to know that Jurney only goes up to twenty hundred.
The despatcher said that Smith had returned the truck about
three hours before, and he remembered them as an ugly,
heavy sets and rough voice character who looked like an
ex long shoreman. They had already washed the truck, so
their fingerprints were all out stuff. Yell, mister trader, Ja, look,
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I'd like to speak with missus Turks, missus Black gifshoe
non buy it? Come in, Come in, Thank you, Pa
swift way into the desk right. Well, I was sure
you'd look into this affair a little more and realize
that it was just a blind alley a hope for
some time. Where's miss Black? Oh, she's upstairs, lying down.
The whole affair is upset her, and she asked not
to be dissurbed. I think the wisest cause of action
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to you, Missus Spade, is just too lets the matter, dup.
You can't let our murder just drop mis fillers. The
police wouldn't hear it huh murder who an untracked private
detective named al Kucho. Well, what does this have to
do with Henrietta Blank? Al Kucher called me earlier today
and said that Tom Turkey was a crackpot, a little
man with delusion. He tried to tap me or taking
his case, he un was a perceiving man. Well he
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didn't perceive ending up in my apartment with a bullet
in his head. That's too bad. But I still do
let Tom Turkey in my apartment for safe keeping. And
when I returned, he was gone and Kucho was dead. Well,
let's explain itself. Obviously, this detective knew that Tom Turkey
was a phomy and Turkey killed him. The can figure
that way and a number of other ways. It's afraid
I have no desire to sit here taking subtled it
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with you. As yet, no one has demonstrated that the
real Tom Turkey actually exists alive. Now, until you do
have something more concrete and less mythological, Miss Black requests
that you do not come around opening up old wounds.
You've made an eloquence twice, So tell me one thing
if I can. When did Tom turkeypre I mean, what month?
What day it was? Oh, yes, nineteen forty three November,
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but I'm not sure the exact day. I think it
was in the third week. Could it have been on Thanksgiving?
Very possibly? Very possibly. I returned thoughtfully to my office
and then a little rapid mental arithmetic and came up
with a number seven for November twenty third, nineteen forty three.
So November twenty third, nineteen fifty was seven years for
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the day, and I pondered this, what did the number
seven mean to the life or death of Tom Cookie.
I had just hit upon the answer and was crying
eureka when my office door open, I'm not and a
visitor came in unannounced. It was ugly, heavy set and
looked like an ex long shoreman. I waited to see
if her voice checked ill spread. Who shall I say?
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Is calling here.
Speaker 5 (17:52):
Cape John Smith?
Speaker 1 (17:54):
And here's my calling card? The foot The first bullet
grazed my shoulder and told a potting out of my coat.
The second bullet hit the water cooler and it.
Speaker 5 (18:06):
Crashed over the water and all on top of me,
or the third bullet hit.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
I wasn't sure if the time because dock can't say
muching through my head like a quite When I opened
my eyes again, I expected to see Saint Peter checking
my ID card. But all I saw with the dust
falls under my desk and a fly vathing himself in
a pool of water spreading slowly over the floor. There
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was blood in my hand, but it came from a
glass cut. I was in shambles, but alive. Captain John
Smith had shoved off, obviously thinking his bullets had done
their work.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
On the side.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Look, keln Kelsey, if you found anything more about pond tricky,
doesn't Sam?
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Frankly, I'm beginning to wonder if.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
There is such a gud well clever Kelsey a few
minutes ago, like a roller by the name it or not,
Captain John Smith just tried to kill me in my office.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
Oh go on, Sam, I find it hard to think.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
You find it hard to think? Period? Really, Sam, did
you get him? No?
Speaker 6 (19:10):
All?
Speaker 1 (19:10):
But my office is a wreck, and there's a whole
blasket in my wall big enough to put a basketball in.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
What are they hues of Berzuoka?
Speaker 1 (19:16):
I figured, dumb, dumb bullet um dumb.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
That's illegal, ain't it?
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Kelsey? Doesn't it strike you as significant? But every attempt on.
Turkey's life has been vicious, as if someone not only
wanted to kill him but also mutilate him. Yeah, yeah,
now that you mention it, somebody probably wanted to make
identification difficult even dead. They didn't want anybody to know
who he was. Now listen carefully, Kelsey, this is real deep.
Tom Turkey disappeared on Thanksgiving of nineteen forty three. A
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person has to be missing seven years before he can
be legally dead and his insurance collected. Now, if someone
had Turkey insured, they could collect the day after this Thanksgiving.
If Turkey didn't show up before.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
You mean somebody's trying to kill him for the insurance.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
I would say so, Kelsey, I would say so. Now
hurry up and find him. When I put down the
pole and I heard a heavy pounding for a minute,
I thought it was in my head until I turned
to face the door and standing there was a small
pilgrim with bandy legs and black stockings, pantaloons, white collared coat,
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and silver pipe hot. He wore silver buckles and what
he was pounding on the floor was an eighteenth century bunderbus.
Speaker 6 (20:25):
Hellelujah, and they got the right place.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Four off pandised face. Though, if you're looking for Captain
John Smith, he just let pokemontis is expected any minute.
Don't you go trying to confuse me.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
I'm too thirsty.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
What's on your mind? Well, I'm looking for a fellow
named Dan. Oh, I'm so thirsty. I forgot Sam space.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
That's it. Oh, you broke your water bottle? Huh yeah
good that stuff pointing anyway, hallelujis halleluis.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
Hey, say, do you happen to have any hard cider.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Around or shot fair?
Speaker 3 (20:59):
And I've kind of thirsty.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Yeah, any type of corn squeezes here? Try this dad?
Yeah good?
Speaker 6 (21:10):
Huh you like that?
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Huh? Fun of me. But before we go, he explored
he could have an interceptor for the road. It's pretty cold.
I gave him a little, but not too much because
(21:33):
I didn't want him to lose his way. He walked
me right down Market Street so we could look in
the liquor store windows. He said it gave him a
comfortable feelings, you know, there was so much good in
the world. And then we turned right a few blocks
until we came to the Helping Hand Mission across this
great front of banner spunseil holiday food and comfort to
the unfortunate, and I'm a suit in front of it.
It was a pas fan sending out signals to the vicinity.
(21:55):
At any minute, but great piece of Thanksgiving would begin.
The band members another of our deer workers were all
versus children, but points couldn't see. My pilgrim led me
to a god corner of the problem, and sitting there
unhappily with one other than Tom perky Hellos said, Oh Tom,
what happened to my apartment? Why did you run away?
Speaker 6 (22:15):
I was a said, He told me that the house
of the door until he came back. Well, somebody knocked
on the door and said it was you, So I
opened it and two men came home. It was one
of the male.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Kuchul, yes, the detective.
Speaker 6 (22:26):
The other man was a spoof ugly looking fellow, and when.
Speaker 5 (22:29):
They saw I was alone, they start it ugly about what.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
Well.
Speaker 6 (22:32):
The detective said that now that he brought the ugly
man there, he wanted his money.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
The ugly man pulled a gun and.
Speaker 6 (22:37):
Then started the fight.
Speaker 7 (22:38):
Oh did I set out the door, But when I
was halfway downstairs, I heard a shot and keeps on running.
Speaker 5 (22:45):
Well, El Kochel is dead.
Speaker 6 (22:47):
Oh my, I thought so. This was the only place
I could think I could hide.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
Oh.
Speaker 6 (22:53):
When Henrietta finds out I've.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Been mixed up in the murder, chill. I I take
me back and we're real. Hey told me otherwise. Ever
had any insurance on you before.
Speaker 6 (23:02):
I've gotten away? She did a fifty thousand dollar policyer.
Oh that would have latched.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
I learned didn't have a suicide clause in it, said
rather long.
Speaker 6 (23:14):
No, it's didn't I remember.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Yeah, Yeah, you'd like to talk to Henrietta, wouldn't you.
All right, here's your phone number, call her up and
tell her where you are.
Speaker 6 (23:21):
Oh, you know, I don't think I could.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
I want to fun if you've got to do something
to help yourself. If you don't, I that you might
be a cold turkey. I'm sorry, just slip up, all right,
I'll do it. Ellen went and made the call. When
he returned, he said that a man had answered. He
said Henrietta would come down and pick Tom up. He
(23:45):
didn't want to wait, but I sat on him. The
pilgrim brought up a dish of turkey dinner, saying he
couldn't sand food, and fell and we months to sell.
In a little while, a lembergine pulled up in front
of a nation with someone in back whom I couldn't see.
Let your first stepped out and came in inquiring for
Tom Turkey. It was Captain John Smith himself. When he
saw me, a look of shocked surprise came over. He's
(24:06):
on the handsome face hoping to kick him off balance.
I did about him, but of the liveliest thing that
has happened with a holding hand listen in years and
we have what I do money was even thinking hands.
When I heard the odds starting to go again with me,
I realized I better come up with something. You're a
j and I did the bandy leg pilgramself.
Speaker 5 (24:23):
This wonder works, ripe my hands and I slunk.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Sliffed up like posons on the wing. I looked up.
The passenger from the limousine was just coming in. What's
the meaning of this? It means, Leander Luce that you
are not going to carve Tom Turkey up for your
Thanksgiving insurance policy. Helia is dumb sick anyone pood and
(24:56):
the report how am saying? It's as plain as the
cranber staying on your dress loose as Henrietta's business manager
had her power of attorney, and secretly he kept making
the payments on Tom Turkey's insurance policy.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
Oh and then he collects fire and I'll hit the
money himself.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Sometimes your lightning mind frightens me. I'll go tight that up.
Three chimes mean good times on MDC. There's fun and
laugh with the chimes later tonight, when Ed Gardner stars
in Duffy's tavern. As usual, Duffy won't be there, but Archie,
the manager will definitely be on hand to serve his
(25:34):
blue plate special of grilled English Language. This Sunday, the
Big Show comes your way again. Talula will be your hostess,
and the stars include Fred Allen, Jack Carson Edwin, Meredith Wilson,
and many many more. It's the Big Show Sunday on MDCN.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
The miner slid acut and tried to kill you was his?
No really, Captain John Smith?
Speaker 1 (26:07):
No wy, could we have a Thanksgiving caper without a
Captain John Smith? It wouldn't be right. Rather well, if you.
Speaker 5 (26:14):
Promised not to tell any o his real name was Michael.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
Giuseppe Yubronsky Smith, I called him John for sure.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
You're so kind are.
Speaker 5 (26:22):
We going over to your mother's? The cold turkey snacks?
Speaker 4 (26:25):
Well, all right, but I don't go, said be much more,
oh my cousin's.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
We couldn't find a little boy my mother's phone and
said to find him. He was s tied the turkey
using his way out.
Speaker 5 (26:38):
Effie, is there no way to occur?
Speaker 6 (26:40):
That tongue of your line.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
Says anyway? Well, come here, good night, good night. For
(27:09):
the Adventures of Sam Spade are produced, edited and directed
by William Spear. Sam Spade was played by Stephen Dunn.
Loreene Turtle is Effie. Script for the Night's Adventure by
Larry Roman and John Michael Hayes. Musical storing by lud Gluskin,
conducted by Robert Armbristers. Join us again next week, same
(28:00):
time for another adventure with Sam Stade e the Magnificent Montague.
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