November 9, 2024 • 29 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The National Broadcasting Company presents the Adventures of Sam Spade, Detective.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Sam's Stay Detective Agency.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Hie, Sarah, who else.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Did you wind it upstairs?
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Is it all over?
Speaker 1 (00:20):
If you're talking about the usual happy ending with the
villains dead and buried and the lover's joining hands while
a camera does a slow fade, it is not all over, sweetheart.
What do you mean say? The villains in this piece
are for real still doing business at the same old
stand from one end of the country to the other.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Oh Sam, you sound so grim.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Only because I have a grim tail to tell little
one so worn all within earshot that if they seek
bluebirds of happiness, sweetness and light and love conquers all,
to try another detective, Because even now I am on
my way with something that might butt into your sleep
for the next few days. To it my report on
the Denny Shane.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
K for.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
NBC. William Spear Radio is outstanding producer, director of mystery
and crime Drama brings you the greatest private Detective of
them all, starring Stephen Dunn in the Adventures of Sam Spade.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Effie, didn't you you come in?
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Oh tired Sam? Yeah, you look pale. I guess maybe
I'm a little sick too, now.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Sam, I warned you about heavy lunches when you're on
a cane.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Not that kind of sick angel. This kind of starts
at your shoe tops, runs up your backbone, and kicks
around in your head till you're where's the book?
Speaker 4 (01:54):
Sam?
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Okay? To John Q. Public from Sam the Mules pay
license number one three, seven, five, nine six, subject the
Dennys Shane Caper. There John Chu. She was sprawled in
the corner chair when I got back from lunch, a
kid of sixteen or so, complete with Bobby socks, hair ribbons,
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and shoulder bag, the kind you see every afternoon in
the drug store near the high school, making jive talk
over a soda. But she looked up as I walked in,
and the eyes didn't look like jive talk of talk.
There was trouble at them.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
You miss the spade?
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Yep?
Speaker 2 (02:32):
A detective? Well, according to some people, fine, I need
a detective.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
You're sure now positive? What would you be doing with
a detective?
Speaker 2 (02:41):
You're adding the class five sections said you find people.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Well, sometimes they're not too badly lost. Annie's what do
you want to find?
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Could you ever hear of Denny Shane.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
You don't really want to find Denny's Shane, do you?
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Why not?
Speaker 1 (02:56):
For most people who want to lose him?
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Then you do know him. I'm glad. Here's twenty dollars.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
No, wait a minute, hold it, honey, don't get anxious.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
What's the matter. Don't you want to be paid for this?
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Not if I don't do it?
Speaker 2 (03:08):
What do you mean?
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Let's talk about you.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
What's your name, Mary Johnson? Does it make any difference?
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Mary Johnson? Where do you live? Mary?
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Well, I've never been in San Francisco before. I just
got in yesterday, staying with a friend out in the marina.
My home's in.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Denver, Denver, Colorado.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Two h two eight fourteenth Street.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Okay, here you are? You want to sign the contract?
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Oh? All right? Where do I sign?
Speaker 1 (03:37):
I'm the line here? Uh no, no, no, no? The
right name Sally Joan Michaels.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
How did you know that?
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Next time you use an as leave the identification bracelet home.
Don't tell people you're fresh shot at Denver when your
code label says it's fresh shot A ruse by the
San Francisco. Now let's try it again.
Speaker 5 (03:56):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
What about Denny Shane?
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Well, I want to find him, that's all. Oh, that's
a lot why I'd rather not say.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Well, in that case, Sally, I recommend another detective you
find there's an ad in the classifying section just below mine.
You mean you won't do it, Sally? If I may
get pontypical for just a moment, Denny Shane is not
the kind of character I would pick out for a
kid like you. He has a reputation for booking horses,
which is illegal, and welching his bets, which is worse.
He is associated at one time or another with almost
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every one in the files of the Key Father Committee.
And as for the girls, he runs around wish oh oh,
so that's it.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
No, that isn't it. I've never seen Denny Shane in
my life. If we do find him, you have to
point him out to me. Really, he's he's been good
to me, you see, all my life he's.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Been good to me, and you've never seen him.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
No, Danny Shane is my brother, mister Spade. My mother
died when I was born. I was adopted, but Denny
went to an orphanage, and I guess he's I sort
of ran wild after he got out.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Yeah, yeah, what do you mean he's been good to you?
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Sent me money on birthdays and Christmases sometimes in between.
He always said if I needed help, to tell him,
but I never knew where to find him. We need
help right now, mister Spade. My stepmother has to have
an operation, and I know Denny will give me the
money if I can find him.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Why did you tell me all those black lies?
Speaker 2 (05:24):
I was afraid you'd call my folks. They'd be horrified
if they found out.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Oh this is the truth, now, girls scouts on her. Yes,
mister Spade, Okay, you run home and study your algebra
and I'll look up Shane in court.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
No, no, I've got to talk to Danny myself.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
You're sure you want to come along?
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Yes, okay, but I'm going to have to leave you
outside while I talked to his friends. Let's go. I
hadn't seen Shane since three years ago, when he conned
client of mine out of three thousand dollars on a
phony mining stock deal. I knew it was waste motion,
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but I checked the hotel where he was living then
and found he was long gone. Came next in the
following order, one gambling joined in South City. One saloon
in the mission and one very dubious apartment on Turk
Street run by a charming wench wearing Wedgies, Coulotts and
peach brandy. She gave me a peachy smile.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Denny Shane, don't step on your lass.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
You've seen him lately, Honney.
Speaker 6 (06:31):
You asking about Denney? I saw him yesterday, first time
in two years. Coming out of AUGI Dano's.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Who's Augie Dono.
Speaker 6 (06:39):
Runs a gym exercise studio reducing setup on satur Street.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
You know, work a little loose the middle.
Speaker 7 (06:48):
Give us yeah, I got it, but anyway, thanks, So.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
We took off for Augie Dono's. We've been together two
and a half hours so far. In exchange, maybe two
and a half sentences. She just said quietly in her
corner of the cab, with her hands folded on her lap,
looking straight ahead, Sally, Hey, huh, it's a matter, honey nothing.
Oh now, come on, come on, you can tell your
uncle Sammy. Something's eating you. Now, what is it? I
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told you you're sure it has nothing to do with
Denny and you.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
We settled that.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
I don't know, did we? You know? I got an
ache in my bad knee, is that good? Nope, I
only get it when things are going sour on me. Well,
here's algae. Dono's come on, you can go into this place.
Looks respectable for a chack A gold lettering on the door,
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said Augustine Dono Messer Scientific Reducing. And inside was an
expensive looking reception room with birch paneling, potted palms, and
antique leather chairs, into one of which I stored sally
while I made bold went to a door at the
rear marked prior.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Oh no, look what you made me do?
Speaker 1 (08:13):
I am sorry?
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Oh, dear me, you should be my best persume.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
I'm sorry. I didn't mean to slam the door, lady
the draft this.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Is a private officer.
Speaker 8 (08:24):
There is a button outside clearly mocked ring and wait.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
That I did not see. And once again, I am
so sorry about spilling the purpose.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
My too, Sure, my regret TV twelve dollars an ounce.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Oh I regret TV too. Now look how about announcing
me to the professor.
Speaker 8 (08:43):
But now, if you mean mister Dan, he's quite busy
with another naked.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
The envelopes already.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Oh you've got me. My name's Spade, Spade, Spade, the detective. Yeah, oh, what.
Speaker 9 (08:59):
You have on your imagine in my back, I thought
you replied, all right, yes, right, neck, all right here
four bits now buy yourself another court away.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
I never this, I can believe. What do you want, spabe.
I'm looking for Denny Shane. Someone saw him walk out
of here yesterday, Shane. That's right.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
Well, what's the matter of some trouble or something.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
No, No, his kid's sister's trying to look him up.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
Oh that's funny. What well that's someone I'm coming out
of here.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
I never heard of the guy.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
Of course, we got people in here all the time,
you know, salesman, haiden, friends of clients, you know.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
But no, shame not that I know. What's he looked like?
Oh about my hight, blue eyes, pale complexion, too thin
to be coming here as a customer.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
Yeah, I wish I could help you, pal, But like
I say, so many people come in and out of here.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
You know. Sure? Thanks anyway, bye bye.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Any luck?
Speaker 1 (09:59):
No never him, come on, too bad?
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Were you? Now?
Speaker 1 (10:04):
There are a couple of more places after you.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Calb's gone, and I.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Told him not to wait. I thought we might have
something to eat across the street.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
I'm not hungry.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Thanks, look, you better call your parents. No, no, don't.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
I I told him I was spending the night with
a girlfriend. They wouldn't worry.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
That's another big black lie. I'm tired of playing this way.
I want it all. I told you, you're reading your
heart out over something and it's not Mama's operation. It's
something bigger and it hurts worse. And don't tell me
any different because it's written all over your face.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Please don't ask me anymore. Please, Ah, skip it.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Where's a cab?
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Don't take me home?
Speaker 1 (10:41):
That's just where you're going, honey. I'm well, what's the matter?
Look coming up the street. Yeah, Denny's shame you? Sure,
of course, I'm sure.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
I've got to be positive.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
I'll prove it to you. Denny, see yes, Denny kamimenter.
Oh Sam Spade, isn't it? Yeah? Yeah, Well I recognize
the kid now, he's your little sister.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Sister.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
What are you talking about? I am good. It all
happened in less than a second, so hard, so fast,
so horrible. It froze me in my tracks. The shoulder
bag flew open, there was an automatic in her hand,
and then Denny Shane was dead on the pavement. And
she was turning toward me, her face a sick gray color,
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handing me the gun handle first.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Yeah, it's done. Now you can take.
Speaker 10 (11:47):
Me to the police.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
You are listening to the weekly adventure of radio's most
famous detective, Sam Spade. Three chimes mean good times on NBC.
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Whether it's comedy, music or drama you're after, you'll find
it on the Big Show this Sunday. The Dynamic Talula
is your hostess, and her guests include Fred Allen, Jimmy Duranty,
Vivian Blaine, Jane Morgan, and Rudy Valley. You're invited every
Sunday to the Big Show, and this Sunday also brings
you a one hour adaptation of f. Scott Fitzgerald's exciting
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novel This Side of Paradise, presented by theod Guild on
the air and starring Richard Witmark and Nina Poche. Now
back to the Denny Shane Caper. Tonight's adventure with Dam'spade.
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I won't try to give you the play by play
for the hour of following the shots on Sutter Street,
because I was in no shape to remember things in sequence.
In less than a minute, we were in the center
of a million Crown cars jammed up, horns began to blow.
Then the Morgue wagon and a squad of homicide dicks
and flashbulbs going off like firecrackers, and Sally standing them
all off with a frozen gray expression on her face
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that never changed while I stood at her elbow, Me,
Sam Spade, who'd seen Lord knows how many murders, with
rubber in my knees and a feeling in my stomach
like I was going to be sick. Finally, the squad
car picked us up and headed for Dundee's office.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Spade, Yeah, I'd been waiting for you to ask me,
why did it?
Speaker 1 (13:43):
I thought i'd leave that for the professionals.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
He won't do any good to ask me, missus Spade,
prison there, will you. It'll save all of this a
lot of trouble.
Speaker 6 (13:53):
Everything I told.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
You was a lie.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
I had to make you take to meet you in
some way. I didn't know what he looked like.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
I hope you know what kind of a stew you
jumped in the selly, because from here on it's going
to be pretty tough.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
I don't care what they do to me. I've had
nothing to listen for for a long time.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Now, what do you mean?
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Sounds stupid, doesn't it? Sixteen years old, nothing to live for,
jem not to ask me any questions. Tell him I'm guilty,
sentence me to do whatever they do.
Speaker 6 (14:26):
I'll never tell him.
Speaker 10 (14:27):
Why why give me a cigarette?
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Same? Yeah? Why did I have.
Speaker 11 (14:49):
To grow up to be a homicide dick?
Speaker 1 (14:52):
No dice with him? No dice.
Speaker 11 (14:54):
That's your old man's gun. Hooked it out of his
drawer this morning before she left for school. I she
still think she's mixed up with Shane somewhere.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Dundee believed me. That's one thing I can guarantee. She
didn't know Shane from Hopolo on Cassidy.
Speaker 11 (15:07):
Well, I'm only falling back on the standard answer to
this kind of a clam bake sham. This is not
a standard clambank you're telling me, you know?
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Same?
Speaker 11 (15:17):
It kind of scares you. What the same Hill's happening.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
To our kids? A sixteen year old girl still.
Speaker 11 (15:24):
In high school walking up to someone on the street.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Dude, Oh, I'm sorry, it's got me too.
Speaker 11 (15:33):
She's resting on the cutch in there, stick around like
it back. I gotta go down and wait for her.
Speaker 12 (15:37):
Four oh excuse me, I saw the lautent.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Go out and come on and sit down.
Speaker 5 (15:56):
I'm a friend of Sally's. Do you think I could
talk to her from minute?
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Well? I don't think she feels like talking.
Speaker 5 (16:03):
Look I got to mister, I got to talk to her.
What's your name, Eddie Tucker? I go to school with Sally.
I've been waiting for three hours outside for a chance
to talk to her, can't I please?
Speaker 1 (16:17):
What's it about?
Speaker 5 (16:17):
It's kind of personal?
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Okay? Through the door there? Oh, thanks, and I'll leave
it open, yes, sir. The minute he went in, I
slid along the wall into a corner between the door jam.
I'm in a firecase, and through the doorway I could
see them both in a mirror on the far wall
of the inner office.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Sally, What are you doing here?
Speaker 1 (16:43):
I had to see you, Sally. I heard about it
and I had to see you. That's all.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
You're wasting your time any It's all.
Speaker 5 (16:51):
Over, and you know it shouldn't have done it, Sally.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
You know what I promised you.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
I know what you promised me all the other times too.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
This was for keeps honest.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
So are the other times all right?
Speaker 11 (17:04):
Look Look at this?
Speaker 5 (17:06):
See out the window. Watch now, now, do you believe me, Eddie?
Speaker 2 (17:15):
It's not your fault anymore? I don't blame you, honest,
follow us.
Speaker 5 (17:20):
Promise you'll keep this one, Sally, honest, I will.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
No, you're a zombie, Eddie. You know what a zombie is.
Someone who moves and walks around, but who's dead inside. Goay,
no go.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
He got off slowly and walked past me out the door,
rosy cheeked seventeen with a tired old man look in
his eyes. A few minutes later, the matron came by
and I left her with Sally. The window in Dundee's
office opened onto a second floor roof below, and directly
beneath it, I picked up what Eddie had tossed off,
a set of car keys and a leather case. Was
a third one that looked like it belonged to a
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school locker, with a number three three nine on it
and written in ink on the leather inside like a memo,
was Denny Shane seven seven eight Turk Street, Apartment four.
Speaker 6 (18:28):
Ha kids, Well let's you get yeah? Wow, Jack? Are
you going to wait for an invitation?
Speaker 1 (18:36):
You've done me wrong this morning?
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Honey about Denny?
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Yeah, said you hadn't seen him in two years?
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Ah, I told.
Speaker 6 (18:44):
You about aid.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Anyone told you about Denny Shane? Ah?
Speaker 6 (18:49):
No, great loss packs for biscuits.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
Would you like a dream? Thank you? No? Oh? What about?
Speaker 6 (18:58):
I had it coming to him sooner later?
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Never made it on his.
Speaker 6 (19:01):
Buck in his life?
Speaker 1 (19:02):
Oh did he have it coming to him? Like he
got it? Like they all get it? What was his
record numbers?
Speaker 2 (19:08):
You know how it works?
Speaker 6 (19:10):
You buy a number?
Speaker 1 (19:11):
How do you know?
Speaker 2 (19:12):
All this curiosity?
Speaker 6 (19:14):
Intellectual curiosity? I don't know things all the time.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
I want to know things.
Speaker 6 (19:19):
Follow So one day when Danny leaves his suit to
be cleaned, and I find a book in his pocket,
I asked the questions.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
One book his numbers book?
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Stupid? What's that?
Speaker 9 (19:29):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (19:30):
You know, with the names the numbers of.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
All his customers.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
You wouldn't know where it is? Would you? Perhaps? Perhaps?
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Up?
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Oh? Yes, yes? How does five bucks look? Bourbon is awful?
Speaker 2 (19:44):
High?
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Yeah, you probably drink it straight? Ten?
Speaker 10 (19:48):
Better?
Speaker 8 (19:48):
Come on, I think it's in I think it's in
his top drawer. Let me see now, high, very fellow,
black books.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
See all the.
Speaker 13 (20:04):
Names, all the numbers, all the names, all the numbers,
and one other feature It was divided into sections label.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Galileo Balboa, Lowell, George Washington, and a couple of more
fellows who passed on long before the numbers record was invented.
Under each was a list of names. Eddie Tucker's was
on the page, headed Thomas Jefferson. An effort was number
three thirty nine dashed Seventh Street. At this point, several
bells rang. The odd key in Eddie's case didn't belong
to a Lucker. It went with a Bucks and the
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main post office on Seventh Street.
Speaker 5 (20:38):
And now, look, fellow, it's eleven o'clock.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
A name spade clerk. Look see the license.
Speaker 5 (20:44):
I don't care about the license, the rules and regulations
of the United States postal signe.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
I know, through rain and sleet and snow and hail.
But there's been a murder. You see murder? Yeah? Oh well,
in that case, I suppose we great, great, where's the
mail for the boxes on a table over there? But
it isn't distributed. If you'll wait a shake, I'll wait
a shake. It took more than a shake, but we
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got to it just before midnight. A scented envelope. It
was addressed simply to Eddie tucker box three three nine.
And then it was the answer to everything, the tired
old man, eyes on the kid, Eddie the zombie, and
Sally who figured her life was over at sixteen because
Eddie was through. But who had sent it to him?
Was something else again? Just a plain white envelope, the
kind you get front nicola pack in the dime store.
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I looked at it a little closer, wondering what manner
of stationer would deem it fitting a sprinkled perfume on
the kind of envelope most people made like bills in. Finally,
a possible explanation took shape in my mind. You don't
have to hit Spade on the head with a baseball bat.
Any large sized mallet will do.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
Not just a minute, Spade, I deserve an explos get it,
you'll get it, Aggie, I'm in bed asleep.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
What do you get off busing my this time of night? Patience? Patience?
Speaker 4 (22:02):
But look, yeah, good, good, yeah, Well what are you
taking your coat off for?
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Just relax, Orga, there's a coat tie now the shoulder holster.
Put a minute and out? What is all that? Well,
you know the old sage work a little lose the middle.
What I need is exercise. Great?
Speaker 4 (22:26):
All right, you come around to the studio sometimes.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Smarting with you.
Speaker 4 (22:32):
Are you crazy?
Speaker 5 (22:33):
Yeah?
Speaker 10 (22:34):
Get up?
Speaker 1 (22:34):
I want to try it with a right hand. Look, spade,
I got ground rules over at headquarters. Now again, no
white lights, no rubber hoses, but they don't apply to
private dicks.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
Get up.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
If you're looking for trouble, the right's even better. Okay, up,
you're going up, Come up against the wall now.
Speaker 10 (22:52):
Hey, go space.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Let's talk talk yeah about Denny Shane, About the kids
he's smeared with his filthy hands, high school little kids
from Belbo High and Lowell and George Washington, good kids,
straight kids.
Speaker 4 (23:04):
I don't know nothing about.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
You're outside man, wasn't it You're roper turning up in
drug stores and give joints with those dirty little packets
of heroin. He passed out his headache. Cloulders. No, I
don't know nothing. Got them hooked hard up, there was
no more. And then they got a mailbox number and
a key. Then they raised money anyway they could.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
I have nothing to do with it.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
My studio, your studios up front, does the name down
there know what's in those envelopes? Emails every day or
does she think their statements?
Speaker 11 (23:33):
Come on, talk ton, Oh.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Yeah, okay, okay, I'll talk, which he did, a full
hour's worth, and Dundee's office and a harrowing tailor. It
was I feel like putting up a million copies and
mailing it out to every father and mother in the country.
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They taking him downstairs. When I happened to glance out
of Dundee's window and down on the second floor roof,
a point of life was moving back and forth slowly
from one end to the other. Eddie, where are they?
Where are those keys? I've got to have him here.
Speaker 12 (24:30):
Oh thanks, my car. I couldn't get home in my car.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
You see, I know all about it.
Speaker 14 (24:40):
Oh I I can't do anything about myself, mister Spade,
I'm helpless. What she said, stop me.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
You're not helpless. You can't hand a little love maybe,
but you're not helpless. Other guys have lifted and you
can too. Don't wonder that enough, that's what you need.
We'll take care of the rest. Let's go. Like I said,
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this one doesn't have bluebirds at the end, not yet anyway.
The ball fact is that Sally Joan Michaels is facing
the juvenile version of a murder rat. However, the best
criminal lawyer in town is volunteered to defend her, and
the state will be represented by the most half hearted
prosecution that ever set foot in the courtroom. Eddie Tucker
is entering a sanitarium tomorrow, making him luckier than some
of the other kids in that little black book. What
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about yours? John Q period end of report. Well, I
don't know what to.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Say, Sam, I feel so awful. I guess i'd better
don't make any.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Comments, May too, sweetheart. Let us lose ourselves in our work.
Me and this cheap novel you were reading, and you
and the merry chatter of that nineteen o six model
Oliver Scoot Three chimes mean good times. On NBC this Sunday,
(26:22):
there's fun for you with two delightful families, The Blandings
and the Harrises. Mister and Missus Blandings stars Carry Grant
and Betsy Drake as the troubled but proud owners of
the famous dream House. And the Phil Harris Alice Face
Show brings you Phil and Alice plus brother William Darling,
child Julius and the ever present Frankie Ramley.
Speaker 6 (26:51):
Amazing, Oh not really, Sam, it's nothing amazing.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
I don't sell yourself.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
Sure now, I'm just the playing garden secretary said, look
at that immaculate not a mistake, oh Sa, And in
twenty six seconds flat, and just the time it took
that man to read a short announcement, you type out
five copies of a twenty eight page report in my book.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
That is amazing.
Speaker 9 (27:16):
All right, Hi minute, Sam, I'm amazing, good good And
another thing, what's that?
Speaker 2 (27:22):
I'm hungry?
Speaker 1 (27:24):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (27:24):
And tonight is solid rotten night as Schroders and Max
me she's letting girls.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
In that shruff as you may have gathered. I didn't
collect the feee off this one.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
Oh but Sam, I still have ten dollars you gave
me last week to cover my back salary from six
weeks before that, so we Shroders.
Speaker 9 (27:40):
It is yes. Let me go home and put on
my other shirt and I'll get my side rotten hat.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Good night there, Good night, Sweeter. She is amazing. The
Adventures of Sam Spade are produced, edited, and directed by
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William Spear. Sam Spade is played by Stephen Dunn. Loreen
Tuttle is Effie. Also in the cast, where Kathy lewis
Paul Freese, Kathleen Freeman, Lou Merrill, Bill Tracy, and Jerry Hausner.
Script Fortnite's Adventure by Harold Swanton, Musical scoring by lud Gluskin,
conducted by Robert Armbruster. Join us again next week, same
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The National Broadcasting Company presents the Adventures of Sam Spade, Detective.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Sam's Stay Detective Agency.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Hie, Sarah, who else.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Did you wind it upstairs?
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Is it all over?
Speaker 1 (00:20):
If you're talking about the usual happy ending with the
villains dead and buried and the lover's joining hands while
a camera does a slow fade, it is not all over, sweetheart.
What do you mean say? The villains in this piece
are for real still doing business at the same old
stand from one end of the country to the other.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Oh Sam, you sound so grim.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Only because I have a grim tail to tell little
one so worn all within earshot that if they seek
bluebirds of happiness, sweetness and light and love conquers all,
to try another detective, Because even now I am on
my way with something that might butt into your sleep
for the next few days. To it my report on
the Denny Shane.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
K for.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
NBC. William Spear Radio is outstanding producer, director of mystery
and crime Drama brings you the greatest private Detective of
them all, starring Stephen Dunn in the Adventures of Sam Spade.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Effie, didn't you you come in?
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Oh tired Sam? Yeah, you look pale. I guess maybe
I'm a little sick too, now.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Sam, I warned you about heavy lunches when you're on
a cane.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Not that kind of sick angel. This kind of starts
at your shoe tops, runs up your backbone, and kicks
around in your head till you're where's the book?
Speaker 4 (01:54):
Sam?
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Okay? To John Q. Public from Sam the Mules pay
license number one three, seven, five, nine six, subject the
Dennys Shane Caper. There John Chu. She was sprawled in
the corner chair when I got back from lunch, a
kid of sixteen or so, complete with Bobby socks, hair ribbons,
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and shoulder bag, the kind you see every afternoon in
the drug store near the high school, making jive talk
over a soda. But she looked up as I walked in,
and the eyes didn't look like jive talk of talk.
There was trouble at them.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
You miss the spade?
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Yep?
Speaker 2 (02:32):
A detective? Well, according to some people, fine, I need
a detective.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
You're sure now positive? What would you be doing with
a detective?
Speaker 2 (02:41):
You're adding the class five sections said you find people.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Well, sometimes they're not too badly lost. Annie's what do
you want to find?
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Could you ever hear of Denny Shane.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
You don't really want to find Denny's Shane, do you?
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Why not?
Speaker 1 (02:56):
For most people who want to lose him?
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Then you do know him. I'm glad. Here's twenty dollars.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
No, wait a minute, hold it, honey, don't get anxious.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
What's the matter. Don't you want to be paid for this?
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Not if I don't do it?
Speaker 2 (03:08):
What do you mean?
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Let's talk about you.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
What's your name, Mary Johnson? Does it make any difference?
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Mary Johnson? Where do you live? Mary?
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Well, I've never been in San Francisco before. I just
got in yesterday, staying with a friend out in the marina.
My home's in.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Denver, Denver, Colorado.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Two h two eight fourteenth Street.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Okay, here you are? You want to sign the contract?
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Oh? All right? Where do I sign?
Speaker 1 (03:37):
I'm the line here? Uh no, no, no, no? The
right name Sally Joan Michaels.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
How did you know that?
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Next time you use an as leave the identification bracelet home.
Don't tell people you're fresh shot at Denver when your
code label says it's fresh shot A ruse by the
San Francisco. Now let's try it again.
Speaker 5 (03:56):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
What about Denny Shane?
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Well, I want to find him, that's all. Oh, that's
a lot why I'd rather not say.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Well, in that case, Sally, I recommend another detective you
find there's an ad in the classifying section just below mine.
You mean you won't do it, Sally? If I may
get pontypical for just a moment, Denny Shane is not
the kind of character I would pick out for a
kid like you. He has a reputation for booking horses,
which is illegal, and welching his bets, which is worse.
He is associated at one time or another with almost
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every one in the files of the Key Father Committee.
And as for the girls, he runs around wish oh oh,
so that's it.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
No, that isn't it. I've never seen Denny Shane in
my life. If we do find him, you have to
point him out to me. Really, he's he's been good
to me, you see, all my life he's.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Been good to me, and you've never seen him.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
No, Danny Shane is my brother, mister Spade. My mother
died when I was born. I was adopted, but Denny
went to an orphanage, and I guess he's I sort
of ran wild after he got out.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Yeah, yeah, what do you mean he's been good to you?
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Sent me money on birthdays and Christmases sometimes in between.
He always said if I needed help, to tell him,
but I never knew where to find him. We need
help right now, mister Spade. My stepmother has to have
an operation, and I know Denny will give me the
money if I can find him.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Why did you tell me all those black lies?
Speaker 2 (05:24):
I was afraid you'd call my folks. They'd be horrified
if they found out.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Oh this is the truth, now, girls scouts on her. Yes,
mister Spade, Okay, you run home and study your algebra
and I'll look up Shane in court.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
No, no, I've got to talk to Danny myself.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
You're sure you want to come along?
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Yes, okay, but I'm going to have to leave you
outside while I talked to his friends. Let's go. I
hadn't seen Shane since three years ago, when he conned
client of mine out of three thousand dollars on a
phony mining stock deal. I knew it was waste motion,
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but I checked the hotel where he was living then
and found he was long gone. Came next in the
following order, one gambling joined in South City. One saloon
in the mission and one very dubious apartment on Turk
Street run by a charming wench wearing Wedgies, Coulotts and
peach brandy. She gave me a peachy smile.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Denny Shane, don't step on your lass.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
You've seen him lately, Honney.
Speaker 6 (06:31):
You asking about Denney? I saw him yesterday, first time
in two years. Coming out of AUGI Dano's.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Who's Augie Dono.
Speaker 6 (06:39):
Runs a gym exercise studio reducing setup on satur Street.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
You know, work a little loose the middle.
Speaker 7 (06:48):
Give us yeah, I got it, but anyway, thanks, So.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
We took off for Augie Dono's. We've been together two
and a half hours so far. In exchange, maybe two
and a half sentences. She just said quietly in her
corner of the cab, with her hands folded on her lap,
looking straight ahead, Sally, Hey, huh, it's a matter, honey nothing.
Oh now, come on, come on, you can tell your
uncle Sammy. Something's eating you. Now, what is it? I
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told you you're sure it has nothing to do with
Denny and you.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
We settled that.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
I don't know, did we? You know? I got an
ache in my bad knee, is that good? Nope, I
only get it when things are going sour on me. Well,
here's algae. Dono's come on, you can go into this place.
Looks respectable for a chack A gold lettering on the door,
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said Augustine Dono Messer Scientific Reducing. And inside was an
expensive looking reception room with birch paneling, potted palms, and
antique leather chairs, into one of which I stored sally
while I made bold went to a door at the
rear marked prior.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Oh no, look what you made me do?
Speaker 1 (08:13):
I am sorry?
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Oh, dear me, you should be my best persume.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
I'm sorry. I didn't mean to slam the door, lady
the draft this.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Is a private officer.
Speaker 8 (08:24):
There is a button outside clearly mocked ring and wait.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
That I did not see. And once again, I am
so sorry about spilling the purpose.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
My too, Sure, my regret TV twelve dollars an ounce.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Oh I regret TV too. Now look how about announcing
me to the professor.
Speaker 8 (08:43):
But now, if you mean mister Dan, he's quite busy
with another naked.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
The envelopes already.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Oh you've got me. My name's Spade, Spade, Spade, the detective. Yeah, oh, what.
Speaker 9 (08:59):
You have on your imagine in my back, I thought
you replied, all right, yes, right, neck, all right here
four bits now buy yourself another court away.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
I never this, I can believe. What do you want, spabe.
I'm looking for Denny Shane. Someone saw him walk out
of here yesterday, Shane. That's right.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
Well, what's the matter of some trouble or something.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
No, No, his kid's sister's trying to look him up.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
Oh that's funny. What well that's someone I'm coming out
of here.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
I never heard of the guy.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
Of course, we got people in here all the time,
you know, salesman, haiden, friends of clients, you know.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
But no, shame not that I know. What's he looked like?
Oh about my hight, blue eyes, pale complexion, too thin
to be coming here as a customer.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
Yeah, I wish I could help you, pal, But like
I say, so many people come in and out of here.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
You know. Sure? Thanks anyway, bye bye.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Any luck?
Speaker 1 (09:59):
No never him, come on, too bad?
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Were you? Now?
Speaker 1 (10:04):
There are a couple of more places after you.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Calb's gone, and I.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Told him not to wait. I thought we might have
something to eat across the street.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
I'm not hungry.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Thanks, look, you better call your parents. No, no, don't.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
I I told him I was spending the night with
a girlfriend. They wouldn't worry.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
That's another big black lie. I'm tired of playing this way.
I want it all. I told you, you're reading your
heart out over something and it's not Mama's operation. It's
something bigger and it hurts worse. And don't tell me
any different because it's written all over your face.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Please don't ask me anymore. Please, Ah, skip it.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Where's a cab?
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Don't take me home?
Speaker 1 (10:41):
That's just where you're going, honey. I'm well, what's the matter?
Look coming up the street. Yeah, Denny's shame you? Sure,
of course, I'm sure.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
I've got to be positive.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
I'll prove it to you. Denny, see yes, Denny kamimenter.
Oh Sam Spade, isn't it? Yeah? Yeah, Well I recognize
the kid now, he's your little sister.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Sister.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
What are you talking about? I am good. It all
happened in less than a second, so hard, so fast,
so horrible. It froze me in my tracks. The shoulder
bag flew open, there was an automatic in her hand,
and then Denny Shane was dead on the pavement. And
she was turning toward me, her face a sick gray color,
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handing me the gun handle first.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Yeah, it's done. Now you can take.
Speaker 10 (11:47):
Me to the police.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
You are listening to the weekly adventure of radio's most
famous detective, Sam Spade. Three chimes mean good times on NBC.
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Whether it's comedy, music or drama you're after, you'll find
it on the Big Show this Sunday. The Dynamic Talula
is your hostess, and her guests include Fred Allen, Jimmy Duranty,
Vivian Blaine, Jane Morgan, and Rudy Valley. You're invited every
Sunday to the Big Show, and this Sunday also brings
you a one hour adaptation of f. Scott Fitzgerald's exciting
(12:38):
novel This Side of Paradise, presented by theod Guild on
the air and starring Richard Witmark and Nina Poche. Now
back to the Denny Shane Caper. Tonight's adventure with Dam'spade.
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I won't try to give you the play by play
for the hour of following the shots on Sutter Street,
because I was in no shape to remember things in sequence.
In less than a minute, we were in the center
of a million Crown cars jammed up, horns began to blow.
Then the Morgue wagon and a squad of homicide dicks
and flashbulbs going off like firecrackers, and Sally standing them
all off with a frozen gray expression on her face
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that never changed while I stood at her elbow, Me,
Sam Spade, who'd seen Lord knows how many murders, with
rubber in my knees and a feeling in my stomach
like I was going to be sick. Finally, the squad
car picked us up and headed for Dundee's office.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Spade, Yeah, I'd been waiting for you to ask me,
why did it?
Speaker 1 (13:43):
I thought i'd leave that for the professionals.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
He won't do any good to ask me, missus Spade,
prison there, will you. It'll save all of this a
lot of trouble.
Speaker 6 (13:53):
Everything I told.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
You was a lie.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
I had to make you take to meet you in
some way. I didn't know what he looked like.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
I hope you know what kind of a stew you
jumped in the selly, because from here on it's going
to be pretty tough.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
I don't care what they do to me. I've had
nothing to listen for for a long time.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Now, what do you mean?
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Sounds stupid, doesn't it? Sixteen years old, nothing to live for,
jem not to ask me any questions. Tell him I'm guilty,
sentence me to do whatever they do.
Speaker 6 (14:26):
I'll never tell him.
Speaker 10 (14:27):
Why why give me a cigarette?
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Same? Yeah? Why did I have.
Speaker 11 (14:49):
To grow up to be a homicide dick?
Speaker 1 (14:52):
No dice with him? No dice.
Speaker 11 (14:54):
That's your old man's gun. Hooked it out of his
drawer this morning before she left for school. I she
still think she's mixed up with Shane somewhere.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Dundee believed me. That's one thing I can guarantee. She
didn't know Shane from Hopolo on Cassidy.
Speaker 11 (15:07):
Well, I'm only falling back on the standard answer to
this kind of a clam bake sham. This is not
a standard clambank you're telling me, you know?
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Same?
Speaker 11 (15:17):
It kind of scares you. What the same Hill's happening.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
To our kids? A sixteen year old girl still.
Speaker 11 (15:24):
In high school walking up to someone on the street.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Dude, Oh, I'm sorry, it's got me too.
Speaker 11 (15:33):
She's resting on the cutch in there, stick around like
it back. I gotta go down and wait for her.
Speaker 12 (15:37):
Four oh excuse me, I saw the lautent.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Go out and come on and sit down.
Speaker 5 (15:56):
I'm a friend of Sally's. Do you think I could
talk to her from minute?
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Well? I don't think she feels like talking.
Speaker 5 (16:03):
Look I got to mister, I got to talk to her.
What's your name, Eddie Tucker? I go to school with Sally.
I've been waiting for three hours outside for a chance
to talk to her, can't I please?
Speaker 1 (16:17):
What's it about?
Speaker 5 (16:17):
It's kind of personal?
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Okay? Through the door there? Oh, thanks, and I'll leave
it open, yes, sir. The minute he went in, I
slid along the wall into a corner between the door jam.
I'm in a firecase, and through the doorway I could
see them both in a mirror on the far wall
of the inner office.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Sally, What are you doing here?
Speaker 1 (16:43):
I had to see you, Sally. I heard about it
and I had to see you. That's all.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
You're wasting your time any It's all.
Speaker 5 (16:51):
Over, and you know it shouldn't have done it, Sally.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
You know what I promised you.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
I know what you promised me all the other times too.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
This was for keeps honest.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
So are the other times all right?
Speaker 11 (17:04):
Look Look at this?
Speaker 5 (17:06):
See out the window. Watch now, now, do you believe me, Eddie?
Speaker 2 (17:15):
It's not your fault anymore? I don't blame you, honest,
follow us.
Speaker 5 (17:20):
Promise you'll keep this one, Sally, honest, I will.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
No, you're a zombie, Eddie. You know what a zombie is.
Someone who moves and walks around, but who's dead inside. Goay,
no go.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
He got off slowly and walked past me out the door,
rosy cheeked seventeen with a tired old man look in
his eyes. A few minutes later, the matron came by
and I left her with Sally. The window in Dundee's
office opened onto a second floor roof below, and directly
beneath it, I picked up what Eddie had tossed off,
a set of car keys and a leather case. Was
a third one that looked like it belonged to a
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school locker, with a number three three nine on it
and written in ink on the leather inside like a memo,
was Denny Shane seven seven eight Turk Street, Apartment four.
Speaker 6 (18:28):
Ha kids, Well let's you get yeah? Wow, Jack? Are
you going to wait for an invitation?
Speaker 1 (18:36):
You've done me wrong this morning?
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Honey about Denny?
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Yeah, said you hadn't seen him in two years?
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Ah, I told.
Speaker 6 (18:44):
You about aid.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Anyone told you about Denny Shane? Ah?
Speaker 6 (18:49):
No, great loss packs for biscuits.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
Would you like a dream? Thank you? No? Oh? What about?
Speaker 6 (18:58):
I had it coming to him sooner later?
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Never made it on his.
Speaker 6 (19:01):
Buck in his life?
Speaker 1 (19:02):
Oh did he have it coming to him? Like he
got it? Like they all get it? What was his
record numbers?
Speaker 2 (19:08):
You know how it works?
Speaker 6 (19:10):
You buy a number?
Speaker 1 (19:11):
How do you know?
Speaker 2 (19:12):
All this curiosity?
Speaker 6 (19:14):
Intellectual curiosity? I don't know things all the time.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
I want to know things.
Speaker 6 (19:19):
Follow So one day when Danny leaves his suit to
be cleaned, and I find a book in his pocket,
I asked the questions.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
One book his numbers book?
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Stupid? What's that?
Speaker 9 (19:29):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (19:30):
You know, with the names the numbers of.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
All his customers.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
You wouldn't know where it is? Would you? Perhaps? Perhaps?
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Up?
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Oh? Yes, yes? How does five bucks look? Bourbon is awful?
Speaker 2 (19:44):
High?
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Yeah, you probably drink it straight? Ten?
Speaker 10 (19:48):
Better?
Speaker 8 (19:48):
Come on, I think it's in I think it's in
his top drawer. Let me see now, high, very fellow,
black books.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
See all the.
Speaker 13 (20:04):
Names, all the numbers, all the names, all the numbers,
and one other feature It was divided into sections label.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Galileo Balboa, Lowell, George Washington, and a couple of more
fellows who passed on long before the numbers record was invented.
Under each was a list of names. Eddie Tucker's was
on the page, headed Thomas Jefferson. An effort was number
three thirty nine dashed Seventh Street. At this point, several
bells rang. The odd key in Eddie's case didn't belong
to a Lucker. It went with a Bucks and the
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main post office on Seventh Street.
Speaker 5 (20:38):
And now, look, fellow, it's eleven o'clock.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
A name spade clerk. Look see the license.
Speaker 5 (20:44):
I don't care about the license, the rules and regulations
of the United States postal signe.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
I know, through rain and sleet and snow and hail.
But there's been a murder. You see murder? Yeah? Oh well,
in that case, I suppose we great, great, where's the
mail for the boxes on a table over there? But
it isn't distributed. If you'll wait a shake, I'll wait
a shake. It took more than a shake, but we
(21:11):
got to it just before midnight. A scented envelope. It
was addressed simply to Eddie tucker box three three nine.
And then it was the answer to everything, the tired
old man, eyes on the kid, Eddie the zombie, and
Sally who figured her life was over at sixteen because
Eddie was through. But who had sent it to him?
Was something else again? Just a plain white envelope, the
kind you get front nicola pack in the dime store.
(21:33):
I looked at it a little closer, wondering what manner
of stationer would deem it fitting a sprinkled perfume on
the kind of envelope most people made like bills in. Finally,
a possible explanation took shape in my mind. You don't
have to hit Spade on the head with a baseball bat.
Any large sized mallet will do.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
Not just a minute, Spade, I deserve an explos get it,
you'll get it, Aggie, I'm in bed asleep.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
What do you get off busing my this time of night? Patience? Patience?
Speaker 4 (22:02):
But look, yeah, good, good, yeah, Well what are you
taking your coat off for?
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Just relax, Orga, there's a coat tie now the shoulder holster.
Put a minute and out? What is all that? Well,
you know the old sage work a little lose the middle.
What I need is exercise. Great?
Speaker 4 (22:26):
All right, you come around to the studio sometimes.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Smarting with you.
Speaker 4 (22:32):
Are you crazy?
Speaker 5 (22:33):
Yeah?
Speaker 10 (22:34):
Get up?
Speaker 1 (22:34):
I want to try it with a right hand. Look, spade,
I got ground rules over at headquarters. Now again, no
white lights, no rubber hoses, but they don't apply to
private dicks.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
Get up.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
If you're looking for trouble, the right's even better. Okay, up,
you're going up, Come up against the wall now.
Speaker 10 (22:52):
Hey, go space.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Let's talk talk yeah about Denny Shane, About the kids
he's smeared with his filthy hands, high school little kids
from Belbo High and Lowell and George Washington, good kids,
straight kids.
Speaker 4 (23:04):
I don't know nothing about.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
You're outside man, wasn't it You're roper turning up in
drug stores and give joints with those dirty little packets
of heroin. He passed out his headache. Cloulders. No, I
don't know nothing. Got them hooked hard up, there was
no more. And then they got a mailbox number and
a key. Then they raised money anyway they could.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
I have nothing to do with it.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
My studio, your studios up front, does the name down
there know what's in those envelopes? Emails every day or
does she think their statements?
Speaker 11 (23:33):
Come on, talk ton, Oh.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Yeah, okay, okay, I'll talk, which he did, a full
hour's worth, and Dundee's office and a harrowing tailor. It
was I feel like putting up a million copies and
mailing it out to every father and mother in the country.
(24:10):
They taking him downstairs. When I happened to glance out
of Dundee's window and down on the second floor roof,
a point of life was moving back and forth slowly
from one end to the other. Eddie, where are they?
Where are those keys? I've got to have him here.
Speaker 12 (24:30):
Oh thanks, my car. I couldn't get home in my car.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
You see, I know all about it.
Speaker 14 (24:40):
Oh I I can't do anything about myself, mister Spade,
I'm helpless. What she said, stop me.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
You're not helpless. You can't hand a little love maybe,
but you're not helpless. Other guys have lifted and you
can too. Don't wonder that enough, that's what you need.
We'll take care of the rest. Let's go. Like I said,
(25:22):
this one doesn't have bluebirds at the end, not yet anyway.
The ball fact is that Sally Joan Michaels is facing
the juvenile version of a murder rat. However, the best
criminal lawyer in town is volunteered to defend her, and
the state will be represented by the most half hearted
prosecution that ever set foot in the courtroom. Eddie Tucker
is entering a sanitarium tomorrow, making him luckier than some
of the other kids in that little black book. What
(25:44):
about yours? John Q period end of report. Well, I
don't know what to.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Say, Sam, I feel so awful. I guess i'd better
don't make any.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Comments, May too, sweetheart. Let us lose ourselves in our work.
Me and this cheap novel you were reading, and you
and the merry chatter of that nineteen o six model
Oliver Scoot Three chimes mean good times. On NBC this Sunday,
(26:22):
there's fun for you with two delightful families, The Blandings
and the Harrises. Mister and Missus Blandings stars Carry Grant
and Betsy Drake as the troubled but proud owners of
the famous dream House. And the Phil Harris Alice Face
Show brings you Phil and Alice plus brother William Darling,
child Julius and the ever present Frankie Ramley.
Speaker 6 (26:51):
Amazing, Oh not really, Sam, it's nothing amazing.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
I don't sell yourself.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
Sure now, I'm just the playing garden secretary said, look
at that immaculate not a mistake, oh Sa, And in
twenty six seconds flat, and just the time it took
that man to read a short announcement, you type out
five copies of a twenty eight page report in my book.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
That is amazing.
Speaker 9 (27:16):
All right, Hi minute, Sam, I'm amazing, good good And
another thing, what's that?
Speaker 2 (27:22):
I'm hungry?
Speaker 1 (27:24):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (27:24):
And tonight is solid rotten night as Schroders and Max
me she's letting girls.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
In that shruff as you may have gathered. I didn't
collect the feee off this one.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
Oh but Sam, I still have ten dollars you gave
me last week to cover my back salary from six
weeks before that, so we Shroders.
Speaker 9 (27:40):
It is yes. Let me go home and put on
my other shirt and I'll get my side rotten hat.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Good night there, Good night, Sweeter. She is amazing. The
Adventures of Sam Spade are produced, edited, and directed by
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William Spear. Sam Spade is played by Stephen Dunn. Loreen
Tuttle is Effie. Also in the cast, where Kathy lewis
Paul Freese, Kathleen Freeman, Lou Merrill, Bill Tracy, and Jerry Hausner.
Script Fortnite's Adventure by Harold Swanton, Musical scoring by lud Gluskin,
conducted by Robert Armbruster. Join us again next week, same
(28:32):
time for another adventure with Sam Spade. You can help
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