October 11, 2025 • 36 mins
Original Release Date: August 7, 2023
Today's Mystery:Sam is hired by a man who received a threat after scheduling a ski weekend with a bunch of volatile guests.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: January 26, 1951
Originated from Hollywood
Starred Steven Dunne as Sam Spade, Lurene Tuttle as Effie, William Conrad, Jay Novello
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Today's Mystery:Sam is hired by a man who received a threat after scheduling a ski weekend with a bunch of volatile guests.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: January 26, 1951
Originated from Hollywood
Starred Steven Dunne as Sam Spade, Lurene Tuttle as Effie, William Conrad, Jay Novello
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Mail a donation to: Adam Graham, PO Box 15913, Boise, Idaho 83715
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month. Just go over to Patreondot Great Detectives dot net. While now
it is time for this week's episodeof Sam Spade. The original air date
is January twenty six, nineteen fiftyone, and the title is The Chateau
Mccleodkeeper. The National Broadcasting Company presentsthe adventures of Sam Spade Detective Sam Spade
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Detective Agency. Be sweetheart, howwas your vacation? Say? Who said
it was a vacation? Well,I thought you said you were going skiing
for a weekend with me. Ifit's always work. Do you know you
can get killed on skis? Ifyou say so, Sam, yes,
most people just break their leg.Most people pick some easy little slope the
cowards. But I know a skirun up near a town called Lucerne.
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That's sudden death. I know aski run called the Backbreaker. Really how
dull? And when they name suicidedrop, Effie stopped trying to top me.
You just can't. This was thedeadliest ski country ever seen. You
just sit there while I do aChristiania swing down Market Street, A galender
sprung up the stairs, and atellmark right through the door with a tail
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I took out of the deep freezeonly last night the Chateau McCloud Caper for
NBC, William Spear, Radio's outstandingproducer director of mystery and crime drama,
brings you the greatest private detective ofthem all in the Adventures of Sam Spade.
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Effie, Oh, I just wantedto prove I could do it.
I did a herring bone up thestairs. I'll just bet you've read it.
All those things same. You werenever in the snow country at all,
So you don't believe me. Huh, well, here doubting if he
I brought you proof, and don'ttell me I rented this a snowball,
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yes, a real snowball. Yes. I brought back two of them in
a thermos box. The other oneI threw it at a policeman. It
was a freezy soaked with water.An I can't believe that you had trouble
this weekend. Oh no, Youcut that snowball open and you'll find a
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blood stained bullet inside of it,and behind the bullet lies a tail.
Ready, I'm always ready saying yes, m hmm, they'd fill it in
two Sierra COTTI Sheriff's Office, Lucerin California, from Samuel Spade, San
Francisco, license number one three sevenfive nine sex subject the Chateau McCloud caper.
Dear Sheriff, you run a neatlittle county up there at Sierra,
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and I hate to be snide,but when my train steamed into the coal
mountain air of you're a lovely littlevillage of lucerne, I knew the chill
of death was afoot. It hadto be. The place was too beautiful.
The last the background hills were rightout of the Alps, The snow
from Grandma Moses, and the rusticbuildings that snuggled under the mantle of white
were just too cute for words.It was abnormally perfect. Something had to
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get well, you were the onlyyoung man who got off the train.
Are you from McLoud? Well,I'm supposed to find a chateau McCloud.
Oh, what do you know?I got the right man on the first
dry rub set me down to pickyou up. You could pick me up
almost anytime. That took a littlechill off the day. Shall we go,
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Mush Mush? We glided out ofthe station, runners squeaking on snow,
the soft pat of hoofs and thejangle of merry bells. We had
a bearskinned lap roll. It wasa short bear, so we had to
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move close. Her cheeks were applered and her silk brown hair flowed in
a spanking breeze. Oh. Itwas a scene that will forever be edged
in my memory. Rugan tells meyou're an advertising keen. Well, I
have placed a few ads in myday, hostly help wanting Aha, don't
give me, He says, you'regonna put the McLoud Tanneries right on top
with a new campaign. I'm top. You know you're supposed to have a
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big name, just state letters,Sam Space. Well, I'm Rita Parker.
I'm supposed to be Rufie's girlfriend.Of course, I think it's only
to make his wife mad. Butit's fun up here. Yeah, so
this is my first trip. Ohwell, then you're in for a treat,
that is, if abnormal psychology appealsto you. What does that mean?
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The McCloud guest register is always fullof dynamite. For example, this
weekend us Rufus McLoud with half ofthe money in the world, trying to
get the other half good his wifewho has an interlocutory to create missus endelocuser.
Yeah yeah, poor boyfriend Paul Endicott, gigglow type. Charlie Allison,
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co worker and friend to Rufus.He's a food technician of something dull.
And then there's Tozier spenborg Ski instructorwho comes down like a wolf, fum
of folds and people like that.Yes, well, I'll never remember all
the names. I'm in the adgame. You know, it's initials to
me. I call people well rl GS, NTG, and ros.
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You know well, the names don'tmean a thing. Just remember this every
thirty seconds, duck, I begyour pardon. The McLeod estate was eight
miles out of town, and itseemed we were there in no time at
all. Rita Parker hustlely Alpine buckLord and mayor into a stable while I
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went up to the chateau to meetmy employer, Rufus mcclough. It was
more of a Swiss shall ah.You know where. The second floor is
larger than the first, and Iguarantee that no one in Switzerland could have
afforded this shall ah, even withthe second floor the same size as the
first. I walked in and foundRufus big and red face, standing in
front of a fireplace that could easilyhave roasted a brace of oxen. Rump
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to rump. Of course you're SamSpade, I am, mister McCloud.
You came at an opportune time.There is no one around to overhear our
conversation. I suppose you wonder whyI hired a detective for a place like
this, Well, not especially Igo where the people go and the money.
You'll be paid well for your timeand trouble. I must be quick.
In essence, this is my situation. Earlier this week I received an
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anonymous letter saying that if I invitedthe guest list I had planned for this
weekend, I might be serious trouble. Here's the letter, and keep it
to yourself. So Los Angeles postward, I see, Well, we might
start by tracing down this typewriter throughan LA detective agency. Every one of
my charming guests is from Los Angeles. One of them wrote it, if
you ask me, very likely.I want to know who wrote it if
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I can. But more than that, I wonder what serious trouble the writer
is Referring to the girl you sendto pick me up, said you had
a very volatile group of people assembled. Yeah. Perhaps they're high strung individuals,
but they're civilized. I'm sure theirconflict would never get beyond a cutting
phrase or two, or perhaps apunch THROWNE here are they now? Then
you really don't believe you will haveany trouble? Yeah, I don't know.
I don't know. I thought itwould be advisable to have a man
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like yourself run, one who dealsin trouble professionally. Perhaps if things do
get out of line. You canhelp prepair the damages or even prevent things
from occurring. Well, I'll domy best, mister McCloud, but it's
not easy to look for something whenyou don't know what you're looking for.
Here they come, spain back fromthe ski runs. I told them you
were handling an advertising campaign for mycanneries. Well, they came stamping in,
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pulling off gloves, unzipping pocas.And if it hadn't been for the
grown up dialogue, looking all awaylike a group of carefree children, it
was hard to believe that the chillof death was also in beneath them.
Death. I couldn't keep my eyesoff one of the particular members of the
group, mossburg Ski boots, Chineseverminion downhel pants and a candy striped coca
which she now pulled over her lovelyhead. The sweater she wore underneath was
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I'm sure designed for someone much smallera dock Soon. Perhaps this is the
advertising man you've been telling me about, Ruth. Oh, mister Samuel Spade,
my half wife ka half. Well, how how are you doing?
Glade, came Sam. We canalways use another sport in the crowd.
Everybody shut up in producing the incomparablefabulous mister Samuel Baby, I'll fastham me
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pauling de Cottley to Parker, CharlieAllison told spin Born, Charlie's the one
who doesn't ski. I'll take snowshoesany day. I can't get anywhere in
snowshoes. You've heard perhaps of thetortoise and the hair roofers. Rank with
some drinks, Tom and Jerry's hotTotty's coffee, goront something who were having
hot buttered rum. The stuff's warmingin the kitchen. We'll get it out,
get it up right away. Andas for the rest of you,
ready one, oh yeah, oldman shout till the rafters r stand and
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drink a tolls fans again, letevery loyal may man say, although he
don't don't. They took up thesong with Augusto lifting imaginary drinks into the
air, and it was all veryjolly. For a party that was supposed
to be fought with danger, thisone certainly started out in just the opposite
direction. The drinks came and thingsgot even merried. Lunch was served,
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and afterwards I slipped into some outdoor gear and strapped on some ski.
Everybody scattered different directions. Rufus,McLeod and I skied to a place three
miles away called the Halfway Cabin.Between the chateau and the cabin was a
small lake called Royal Lake, completelyfrozen over. Rufus stood in front of
the cabin firing a thirty thirty ata target led up down in the woods
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to the east. What do yousee through the glasses? Fade to bull's
eyes and nothing outside of the aidring. That's great off hand shooting at
this range and standing on a skihI can do much better than that.
What's this? You see that silvertip on that big Norwegian fur over there?
Yeah, I'll cut it off.Hey, look well, he came
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swooping out of nowhere fade. Iswear it. I think he hit him.
Who is it? It's Paul Endicott. No, No, he's up
good. There's Cora with him.You tell me nobody was supposed to be
skiing in that area. They're notwell. Here he comes in. He
looks plenty of man. What doI care about him? He just after
Cora for the money I give it. That's to show me a stupid You're
want supposed to be skiing there,Endicott, and it was an accident.
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Well that was no accident, alright, alright, oh my jock, I'll
throw one at you. Oh thatI love that shopping and the rest of
you quit acting like children. Yourboyfriend threw a sucker punch at me,
Cara, and even if he ismy guest, there's a limit to hospitality.
I don't call one punch and eventrade for a thirty thirty bullet.
You aren't hit, So I don'tstop crying, rufus. I've the feeling
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you wouldn't mind if he were here. You wouldn't mind at all, Paul,
I've just decided I don't like youwithout a mustache. Well well then
on everybody dropped the pretense and youknew where you stood. And it was
chilly too. Later in the day, we're all back in the chateau again,
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and Paul Endicott wolve his delicate variationon his main theme. I'll knock
your block off. I tell you, mister Endicott, you have some delusion.
I have no delusions. Tell usyour I've seen the way you look
at Carra, the way you tooare always to lose me. On the
trails. Some people ski faster thanother. Yeah, well let me tell
you something. The next time youtry to wolf this girl, it's going
to be your last. Nobody's wolf. I'm a ski instructor, that is
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what I was hird, Well,I'll stick to what you were hired for.
A knockoff the extracurricular active. Anyonehas to take this kind of talk
from you. Anything you'd like todo about it? Some fact? This
boy stop yow again? Yes youwant me to stop on, Missus McLoud.
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No, I want you to takeme out of here. Oh all
right, all right, let's puton our skeys and get out of here.
Okay, here, I'll help you, thank you. Yes, that's
a gentleman. Well even so,I won't take a minute. Ready,
Yes, yere we are Now whereare we heading, missus McLoud? Oh?
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I thought we might go out tothe boathouse. It's on the southern
tip of Royal Lake. Sony momhad nothing and my name miss Cora.
I'm not really missus McLeod anymore.Perhaps kind of rough on youism bringing your
new boyfriend around all of your exhusband's friends. Well I like it up
here, Rufus likes to have me. They're not all against Paul, at
least they weren't, but he's onthe defensive so much he's gonna make enemies
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of all of them. Yes,he's off to a rousing starts. I'd
say, you know something, Sam, I don't care about Paul and Thecott
really, or Rufus, McLeod ora Toojia Sinboud or anybody. I just
care about Cora McCloud. Well,now that's a good, honest answer.
You know, most people wouldn't bethat frank, But Sam, I haven't
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known you long. Well, Ilike your style, style, I could
care about you. It broke myheart not to stop right there on the
trail and kiss her, because that'swhat she wanted me to do. So
that's why I didn't do it,and I'll never turn down anything better.
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Well, next scene, old house, and when we got there, it
was not an all the way Ithought. Food technician and close friend of
Rufus m claude was there working onsomething that baffled me at first. It's
an ice boat, mister Spade,that's what it is. Alongs to Rufus.
Yeah, I don't think I've everseen one up close before. I
take you for a ride, butthis one needs a lot of work before
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anybody could use it. I'm justputtering what prompted you to come out here,
Cora? Because Paul and Tojia Spinborggott in a fight over me and
I got tired of the whole thing, Sam, and I went out for
me here. Well glad you did. I was getting a bit lonesome,
you see, Sam, They alwaysleave me in a cloud of snow on
their skis, and I just plodalong on snowshoes all by myself. Well
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maybe we can go walking together sometime. I used to be able to shake
a pretty good snowshoe. It's adeal. Tomorrow morning, I'll show you
the place. Sam. I thinki'll stick around here and up Charlie with
the ice boats. Oh, unlessyou're crazy about ice boats. Why don't
you go back to the chateau.We'll be there in time for dinner.
Well, I don't need any engravedin the expectation. I hope you catch
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a common cool. The trouble withthat girl was that she only wanted one
man at a time round her.Back at the chateau, there was no
one but the cook, the mergerremained part Ah too tall. As supper
time approached, Rufus came in,then Rita, then Cora, then Allison,
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and finally Tosier in that order.And the order is important because you
see nowhere in the list is thename of Paul Endicott. He didn't come
in for supper nor for the nextthree hours. It was dark by then,
and Rufus MacLeod was worried about Endicott, so we found out in a
searching party. I was alone whenI found them. He was lying in
the snow three hundred yards west ofthe halfway cabin. There was a thirty
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thirty slug in him period and ofPaul Endicot. You are listening to the
weekly adventure of radio's most famous detective, Sam Spade. This Sunday, Carrie
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granted Betsy Drake Starr in the secondof the new Mister and Missus Blandings series.
Over most of these NBC stations.The delightful tribulations of Jim Blandings and
his wife Muriel as they built theirfamous dream house entertained millions as a novel
and then as a motion picture.And now you can follow the further adventures
of mister and Missus Blandings every Sundayon NBC and Sunday also means your weekly
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visit with the hilarious Harresses on ThePhil Harris Alice Faye Show. And now
back to the Chateau McCloud caper tonight'sadventure with Sam Spade. There were no
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scheme marks near the body of allEndicot, just his own. Somebody had
drawn a bead on him in thedust from some distance. I started a
look for the rest of the searchingparty, and then changed my mind.
If the body of Endicott wasn't found, the murderer might wonder what happened to
it, get worried and make amistake. So I picked him up,
carried him to a small cave Ifound, covered the entrance with snow,
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brushed over the ski marks, andwent back to the chateau. One by
one they all showed up discouraged.We can't we have to keep looking.
I know how you feel, Couragoing, it's too dark. We'll try
tomorrow. Oh, don't worry abouthim. Well, can take care of
himself. How can you take careof himself, Missus Parker, if he
got lost, said he got lost? I am assuming. I think we're
all assuming too much. I'm surethat it's nothing to worry about. If
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I know Paul, he'll show uptomorrow with some tall tale to tell.
What do you think, mister Spaden? What is an advertising executive? Know?
Cora your manners? A sponsor mightbe listening. Oh well, I'm
sorry saying okay, okay. Frankly, I don't know what to think.
But if I were a detective,i'd hazard a guess Paul met with foul
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play. Oh nonsense, made nonsense. Come on, everybody, let's have
a drink, have some fun.Paul I'll be back. And even if
he isn't, who really cares Scotchfor me? And I guess nobody cared.
Rufus was a little more jolly thanusual, and the drinks began to
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dispel the gloom. It was asif Paul Endicott never had existed. It
began to get late, and thebizarre wake broke up. Everybody went to
bed, including me. I laythere fully dressed, looking up at the
beam's ceiling for an hour. Aboutthen my door knob turned and the door
slid open and shut. Someone movedquietly into my bed as I was slatting
my thirty eight out of its holster. Sam, it's me, Rita.
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Are you away? Yeah? Iwasn't even under the covers, mind befo,
I said, Sam, I'm scared. I wish I could leave here.
What's the matter. Paul's dead.I know he is. He didn't
mean anything to me one way orthe other, but I know he's dead.
Anything to back up your feeling,I guess not. It's it's just
something I'm sure of. Why'd youcome to me? Because you're really a
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detective and I know it. Oh? Oh, now you handle a case
for my father once. You justdon't remember me, all right, I'm
a detective. Rufus harving it becausehe expected trouble. Dam I'll tell you
something about Paul. Yeah, Coreydidn't really like him. They were always
fighting. She only cares about herself, so she said, telling me,
what kind of a card is pauled? Right? It's a yellow convertible.
But it's still in the garage.I checked. Any other car's missing?
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No, No, they're all there. Oh, and I found out something
else before supper. There was agun missing from Rufus's gun rack. It's
back now. Anything else that's allI know, Sam, except that Paul's
dead. I know it. Iwish i'd never come up here. After
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she left, I dressed for outdoorsand climbed through the bedroom window. Was
still in quiet, and it wasa quarter moon. When I skid away
from the chateau. I wanted tolook the land over myself before the next
day, when the clues, ifany, were trampled into the snow.
When I passed the northern tip ofRoyal Lake on the trail to the Halfway
Cabin, I saw a new setof ski tracks heading into the woods where
I had found Endicott's body. Ifollowed them, and they went right to
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the cave where I had hidden him, and he was gone. I was
standing there pondering this when I thoughtI saw something move in the trees to
the west of me. I stoodstock still. That was a mistake.
The bullets spunded a tree next tome, and I shoved off as fast
as I could. There was nosecond shot. I circled around in the
trees, trying to catch sight ofsomeone. Nothing. I kept in the
shadows and made for the Halfway cabin. It was dark and quiet, at
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least until I opened the door.I tried, but he had the advantage
of surprise and some kind of aclub. I ended up on the floor
with someone sitting on my chest.All right, I have your gun.
You make one wrong, moose beit and it's got bullets in it and
a hair trigger, so be careful. We quick use a little light as
you see this Paul Endicott's buddy.Yeah, why did you find him?
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Tosier? They're only putting a noosearound you. You're a very perceiving men,
mister Spade. How do you figureI did it? I taught better
on my feet. Just remember thegun. If you didn't kill him,
how else would you know where thebody? Because I know this country like
the back of my hand. Hehad to be somewhere. You are the
killer, mister Spade. Me whyI do not know? You found the
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body before anyone else could hit it, then clumsily tried to hide your track.
Don't be silly. Why would Icome back and murder? Always worries
about his crime? Did you forgetsomething? Was something left undone? It's
a natural It sounds good, exceptthat isn't true. You couldn't pen it
on me on a mother's Sundays.But somebody might just tie it onto you.
That's what you think. Do youknow what I'm going to do now?
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I wouldn't want to guess. Theshots came pouring in through the window
and told your Spendborg went down.I saw the flash of a face outside
and was gone. I checked outthe lamp through the place in the darkness
and lay on the floor. ThenI crawled over the Spendbourg and took my
gun back. Well, that wasa surprise. It hurts quite a bit.
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Where'd you get it? Somewhere inthe back? Let me see it's
at the shoulder level. He won'tdie anywhere. I'm afraid. I'm afraid
I misjudged you as the spit.Go off to him, Go off to
him and catch who if it was. I can't leave you here. I
decare for myself. Just leave mea gun for protection. No, I'll
stay, go please while yes time? Or are you afraid? I was?
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When I gave him my gun andleft outside? There were many ski
tracks, but a fresh set ledleft from the halfway cabin down. They
went right to the edge of RoyalLake and then stopped. There were no
marks of ski poles on the ice, so I followed the shoreline looking for
some kind of a clue. Itwasn't until I reached the southern tip of
Royal Lake that my effort was rewarded. Leading up from the ice were a
set of footprints, then a setof ski marks. They led to the
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boat house. Inside I found twointeresting items, one a dismantled ice boat
with fresh ice on the runners,two a pair of skis with snow in
the grooves. I made my wayalong the beaten pack back to the chateau
circle at once found interesting item numberthree and went in. What were you
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doing up? Spade? Did youhear the shots? So? Yeah,
I thought, Karan, it's cold. Woke me out of a sum sweep,
Sam, What was it? Youknow? I didn't find out about
the first shot, missus McCloud thatwas fired at me, But the next
three were fired at a man namedTozier Spendboard. Oh no, Tosia.
How did it happen? Spade?What's it all about? He found Endicott's
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body in the woods dead. VeryI told you, Sam, I told
you told him. What What doyou know about it? Nothing? I
just had the feeling, that's all, you know? Something now I'll tell
us, or I'll slap the rentsright out of your head. I don't
know anything, anything at all.I just had a feeling. Who shot
Tosia Spade and why? I don'tknow. I was standing with them in
the halfway, Kevin, somebody shotthrough the window. Didn't you say them?
Don't you know who it was?I was too busy, duck,
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and look, just answer me onething. Have any of you been out?
Of course? Not? No,I haven't. And mister Allison's in
bed, of course They all lied. A cloud shirt was stained with sweat.
He'd been moving fast somewhere. Theskipands sticking out from under Cora's robe
were wet, and Rita Parker wasnow dressed when she wasn't before. I
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was trying to figure out something tosay when Charlie Allison came out from his
bedroom, rubbing a sleep out ofhis eyes and pulling a robe on.
What's going on here? What's allexcitement about? They found Paul dead?
Somebody shot Tojia? No where isToji in the halfway, Kevin. Well,
let's get him to a doctor.I'll call one from tom Ah.
Why don't you go up and gettoes you. I'll have a car ready
and we'll take him right into thelucier In hospital. Wait a minute,
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what about the murderer who did theshooting? Nobody's getting out of my sight.
It had to be one of us, why, Cora, Oh,
it wasn't just anybody. We're theonly ones left walking. Why don't you
ask Sam he's the detective. Detective, Yeah, I heard him because somebody
sent me an anonymous letter saying that'dbe trouble. You knew it was gonna
be trouble rufus. Somebody else knew. Then why did you let people come
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up here? Wait a minute,spade, why did you find out?
Well, if you'll all wait herea minute, I'll tell you. When
I circled a chateau before I camein, I had seen footprints leading to
a window, not mine. Thatmeant somebody else he was the backway in
and out too. I wanted tofind out whose window it was, And
of course, while I was looking, I remember the apparently dismantled ice boat
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and the fact that a set ofskis were in the boathouse. It took
me about a minute to find theright room. But somebody knew it all
right, Spade, stand where youare, Allison. You might be a
great food technician, but you're alousy killer. Yeah. Well, at
least he didn't get her neither willyou. I'm got him, Spade,
all right, come on, standup, Come on you, sap Cora.
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Huh do you think you could getup by killing somebody? Shut up
for me. I'm sorry for you, sorry for anyone that ever knew her.
I'm sorry for myself. She lovesme a force. We found our
killer and missus McCloud Charlie, Yes, baby, Oh rufus. It's been
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a long day. I need adrink. And that goes to show you
how cold it can get in thesnow country. Yeah. Period, end
of report. Why would a mando anything like that when he knew he
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couldn't get away with it because hewas stupid? Effie. People must have
told him a million times. Ifthey told him once, crime just doesn't
pay. Oh go take that up, will you go on? Scampering?
Scamper three times mean good times?On NBC, here's news of two important
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musical events this Saturday. Are ToroToscanini begins a new Saturday series of concerts
with the NBC Symphony, and forhis premiere, the celebrated Maestro Toscanini will
present a special hour and a halfperformance of Verdi's Requiem, And beginning next
Monday, you can hear the firstin a new series by the Boston Pops
Orchestra. Tight Up all but thepage? What PS? Page? Why
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should it need a PS? Andyou know that this report to borrow a
phrase from you is full of holes. My phrase, I wish I'd never
said it now. For instance,who sent the note to Rufus Paul Endicott.
He expected trouble. That's why Iwas so belligerent to everybody. Right,
Yes, I'm going to come rightout and ask you him good.
Why did Alison kill him? Well? I thought it was rather obvious,
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Effie. Cora was leaving Rubus McLoudfor Allison, But because Alison worked for
McCloud until Cora's divorce was final,they didn't want Rubus to know about it,
so they used Paul Endicott as adecoy love affair. But Albert Endicott
didn't want to give Cora up.But that was it, saying Effie,
I don't know how you ever,guessed Endicott saw and had a chance to
pick up a buck with a littleblack man, just a wild guess.
Yes, And of course Alison didski didn't he? What do you think?
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Well? How else could he getaround so fast? And he made
such a point about those snow shoesfan. Yes, if I'd written the
caper, I'd have covered that upa little calm here. I'm sorry,
Sam, because I shouldn't have sitthere. You certainly should not have.
You know, there's only one thingaround here. You're supposed to say,
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I know, I know, goodfash? Did I say him? Good
night? The Adventures of Sam Spadeare produced, edited, and directed by
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William Spears. Sam Spade was playedby Stephen Dunn. Loreene Tuttle is Effie.
Script for Tonight's adventure by John MichaelHayes, musical scarring by lud Gluskin,
conducted by Robert Armbrewster. Join usagain next week, same time for
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explanation for why the murder did itbecause he was stupid. That explains a
lot of criminal activity. And it'salso possible to be stupid and also ingenious
in some other way, but toact completely unreasonably an illogically. Also,
the references to a potential sponsor continue. Don't think I've heard a sustained program
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make this many references, Satelly.It's proved that just by asking for a
sponsor and hinting at a sponsor doesn'tnecessarily mean you'll get one. All right,
listener comments and back now and feedbacknow. And we have a YouTube
comment on the Red Star Caper viathe Prodigal Panda Caper and we arrives yesterday.
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Nine. I heard the July twentyfourth, twenty three episode Adam I
really loved listening to your show beforegoing to bed. I was listening on
my bedside. The show was SamSpade and the Red Starkeeper. Your commentary
mentioned the guy having a red starin his hand, and also the place
was so crowded, and Sam statedhe hadn't seen a crowd that lard since
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the Margaret Sanger meeting. Why wouldSam attend a woman who started the birth
control movement? That you started talkingabout Sam being paid with jelly beans.
I didn't remember any child and anypanda bear, so I would played to
see what you were talking about it. I didn't hear anything about jelly beans.
I went to the YouTube program andit was the Panda Bear jelly Bean
Keeper. Now I get it.You were talking about two different episodes.
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Okay, well, thank you somuch. I apologize for any confusion.
After I finished commenting on an episode, get into listener comments and feedback that
often go into previous episodes, andI try to preface those by saying that
this was in regards to that previousepisode. I'm sorry that wasn't clear enough,
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and I hope I don't get anyemail saying Margaret Sanger there was no
reference to Margaret Sanger in this episode, What were you talking about in regards
to the Red Star keeper? Sangerwas and is a controversial figure. Not
going to get into any opinions onthat, but I would not read anything
into that statement. We don't knowwhy Sam attended. It could have been
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in some working capacity. He couldhave been taken along with someone on a
date. He could have just beencurious, because people often, particularly back
in the twenties, will go toevent where someone has been very controversial or
there a lot of people talking abouta particular person just to see what they
have to say. And Sanger's bigevents in San Francisco or in the mid
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nineteen tens, and then she hada big event at the Oakland Civic Auditorium
in nineteen twenty eight. So ifyou use that later day, which I
think makes more sense, then Samis just saying that he's not attended any
public lecture since nineteen twenty eight.As to why he was there, you'd
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I am, But it is nice, isn't it? Ohol gown and
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it is time for this week's episodeof Sam Spade. The original air date
is January twenty six, nineteen fiftyone, and the title is The Chateau
Mccleodkeeper. The National Broadcasting Company presentsthe adventures of Sam Spade Detective Sam Spade
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Detective Agency. Be sweetheart, howwas your vacation? Say? Who said
it was a vacation? Well,I thought you said you were going skiing
for a weekend with me. Ifit's always work. Do you know you
can get killed on skis? Ifyou say so, Sam, yes,
most people just break their leg.Most people pick some easy little slope the
cowards. But I know a skirun up near a town called Lucerne.
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That's sudden death. I know aski run called the Backbreaker. Really how
dull? And when they name suicidedrop, Effie stopped trying to top me.
You just can't. This was thedeadliest ski country ever seen. You
just sit there while I do aChristiania swing down Market Street, A galender
sprung up the stairs, and atellmark right through the door with a tail
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I took out of the deep freezeonly last night the Chateau McCloud Caper for
NBC, William Spear, Radio's outstandingproducer director of mystery and crime drama,
brings you the greatest private detective ofthem all in the Adventures of Sam Spade.
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Effie, Oh, I just wantedto prove I could do it.
I did a herring bone up thestairs. I'll just bet you've read it.
All those things same. You werenever in the snow country at all,
So you don't believe me. Huh, well, here doubting if he
I brought you proof, and don'ttell me I rented this a snowball,
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yes, a real snowball. Yes. I brought back two of them in
a thermos box. The other oneI threw it at a policeman. It
was a freezy soaked with water.An I can't believe that you had trouble
this weekend. Oh no, Youcut that snowball open and you'll find a
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blood stained bullet inside of it,and behind the bullet lies a tail.
Ready, I'm always ready saying yes, m hmm, they'd fill it in
two Sierra COTTI Sheriff's Office, Lucerin California, from Samuel Spade, San
Francisco, license number one three sevenfive nine sex subject the Chateau McCloud caper.
Dear Sheriff, you run a neatlittle county up there at Sierra,
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and I hate to be snide,but when my train steamed into the coal
mountain air of you're a lovely littlevillage of lucerne, I knew the chill
of death was afoot. It hadto be. The place was too beautiful.
The last the background hills were rightout of the Alps, The snow
from Grandma Moses, and the rusticbuildings that snuggled under the mantle of white
were just too cute for words.It was abnormally perfect. Something had to
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get well, you were the onlyyoung man who got off the train.
Are you from McLoud? Well,I'm supposed to find a chateau McCloud.
Oh, what do you know?I got the right man on the first
dry rub set me down to pickyou up. You could pick me up
almost anytime. That took a littlechill off the day. Shall we go,
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Mush Mush? We glided out ofthe station, runners squeaking on snow,
the soft pat of hoofs and thejangle of merry bells. We had
a bearskinned lap roll. It wasa short bear, so we had to
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move close. Her cheeks were applered and her silk brown hair flowed in
a spanking breeze. Oh. Itwas a scene that will forever be edged
in my memory. Rugan tells meyou're an advertising keen. Well, I
have placed a few ads in myday, hostly help wanting Aha, don't
give me, He says, you'regonna put the McLoud Tanneries right on top
with a new campaign. I'm top. You know you're supposed to have a
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big name, just state letters,Sam Space. Well, I'm Rita Parker.
I'm supposed to be Rufie's girlfriend.Of course, I think it's only
to make his wife mad. Butit's fun up here. Yeah, so
this is my first trip. Ohwell, then you're in for a treat,
that is, if abnormal psychology appealsto you. What does that mean?
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The McCloud guest register is always fullof dynamite. For example, this
weekend us Rufus McLoud with half ofthe money in the world, trying to
get the other half good his wifewho has an interlocutory to create missus endelocuser.
Yeah yeah, poor boyfriend Paul Endicott, gigglow type. Charlie Allison,
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co worker and friend to Rufus.He's a food technician of something dull.
And then there's Tozier spenborg Ski instructorwho comes down like a wolf, fum
of folds and people like that.Yes, well, I'll never remember all
the names. I'm in the adgame. You know, it's initials to
me. I call people well rl GS, NTG, and ros.
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You know well, the names don'tmean a thing. Just remember this every
thirty seconds, duck, I begyour pardon. The McLeod estate was eight
miles out of town, and itseemed we were there in no time at
all. Rita Parker hustlely Alpine buckLord and mayor into a stable while I
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went up to the chateau to meetmy employer, Rufus mcclough. It was
more of a Swiss shall ah.You know where. The second floor is
larger than the first, and Iguarantee that no one in Switzerland could have
afforded this shall ah, even withthe second floor the same size as the
first. I walked in and foundRufus big and red face, standing in
front of a fireplace that could easilyhave roasted a brace of oxen. Rump
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to rump. Of course you're SamSpade, I am, mister McCloud.
You came at an opportune time.There is no one around to overhear our
conversation. I suppose you wonder whyI hired a detective for a place like
this, Well, not especially Igo where the people go and the money.
You'll be paid well for your timeand trouble. I must be quick.
In essence, this is my situation. Earlier this week I received an
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anonymous letter saying that if I invitedthe guest list I had planned for this
weekend, I might be serious trouble. Here's the letter, and keep it
to yourself. So Los Angeles postward, I see, Well, we might
start by tracing down this typewriter throughan LA detective agency. Every one of
my charming guests is from Los Angeles. One of them wrote it, if
you ask me, very likely.I want to know who wrote it if
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I can. But more than that, I wonder what serious trouble the writer
is Referring to the girl you sendto pick me up, said you had
a very volatile group of people assembled. Yeah. Perhaps they're high strung individuals,
but they're civilized. I'm sure theirconflict would never get beyond a cutting
phrase or two, or perhaps apunch THROWNE here are they now? Then
you really don't believe you will haveany trouble? Yeah, I don't know.
I don't know. I thought itwould be advisable to have a man
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like yourself run, one who dealsin trouble professionally. Perhaps if things do
get out of line. You canhelp prepair the damages or even prevent things
from occurring. Well, I'll domy best, mister McCloud, but it's
not easy to look for something whenyou don't know what you're looking for.
Here they come, spain back fromthe ski runs. I told them you
were handling an advertising campaign for mycanneries. Well, they came stamping in,
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pulling off gloves, unzipping pocas.And if it hadn't been for the
grown up dialogue, looking all awaylike a group of carefree children, it
was hard to believe that the chillof death was also in beneath them.
Death. I couldn't keep my eyesoff one of the particular members of the
group, mossburg Ski boots, Chineseverminion downhel pants and a candy striped coca
which she now pulled over her lovelyhead. The sweater she wore underneath was
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I'm sure designed for someone much smallera dock Soon. Perhaps this is the
advertising man you've been telling me about, Ruth. Oh, mister Samuel Spade,
my half wife ka half. Well, how how are you doing?
Glade, came Sam. We canalways use another sport in the crowd.
Everybody shut up in producing the incomparablefabulous mister Samuel Baby, I'll fastham me
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pauling de Cottley to Parker, CharlieAllison told spin Born, Charlie's the one
who doesn't ski. I'll take snowshoesany day. I can't get anywhere in
snowshoes. You've heard perhaps of thetortoise and the hair roofers. Rank with
some drinks, Tom and Jerry's hotTotty's coffee, goront something who were having
hot buttered rum. The stuff's warmingin the kitchen. We'll get it out,
get it up right away. Andas for the rest of you,
ready one, oh yeah, oldman shout till the rafters r stand and
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drink a tolls fans again, letevery loyal may man say, although he
don't don't. They took up thesong with Augusto lifting imaginary drinks into the
air, and it was all veryjolly. For a party that was supposed
to be fought with danger, thisone certainly started out in just the opposite
direction. The drinks came and thingsgot even merried. Lunch was served,
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and afterwards I slipped into some outdoor gear and strapped on some ski.
Everybody scattered different directions. Rufus,McLeod and I skied to a place three
miles away called the Halfway Cabin.Between the chateau and the cabin was a
small lake called Royal Lake, completelyfrozen over. Rufus stood in front of
the cabin firing a thirty thirty ata target led up down in the woods
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to the east. What do yousee through the glasses? Fade to bull's
eyes and nothing outside of the aidring. That's great off hand shooting at
this range and standing on a skihI can do much better than that.
What's this? You see that silvertip on that big Norwegian fur over there?
Yeah, I'll cut it off.Hey, look well, he came
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swooping out of nowhere fade. Iswear it. I think he hit him.
Who is it? It's Paul Endicott. No, No, he's up
good. There's Cora with him.You tell me nobody was supposed to be
skiing in that area. They're notwell. Here he comes in. He
looks plenty of man. What doI care about him? He just after
Cora for the money I give it. That's to show me a stupid You're
want supposed to be skiing there,Endicott, and it was an accident.
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Well that was no accident, alright, alright, oh my jock, I'll
throw one at you. Oh thatI love that shopping and the rest of
you quit acting like children. Yourboyfriend threw a sucker punch at me,
Cara, and even if he ismy guest, there's a limit to hospitality.
I don't call one punch and eventrade for a thirty thirty bullet.
You aren't hit, So I don'tstop crying, rufus. I've the feeling
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you wouldn't mind if he were here. You wouldn't mind at all, Paul,
I've just decided I don't like youwithout a mustache. Well well then
on everybody dropped the pretense and youknew where you stood. And it was
chilly too. Later in the day, we're all back in the chateau again,
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and Paul Endicott wolve his delicate variationon his main theme. I'll knock
your block off. I tell you, mister Endicott, you have some delusion.
I have no delusions. Tell usyour I've seen the way you look
at Carra, the way you tooare always to lose me. On the
trails. Some people ski faster thanother. Yeah, well let me tell
you something. The next time youtry to wolf this girl, it's going
to be your last. Nobody's wolf. I'm a ski instructor, that is
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what I was hird, Well,I'll stick to what you were hired for.
A knockoff the extracurricular active. Anyonehas to take this kind of talk
from you. Anything you'd like todo about it? Some fact? This
boy stop yow again? Yes youwant me to stop on, Missus McLoud.
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No, I want you to takeme out of here. Oh all
right, all right, let's puton our skeys and get out of here.
Okay, here, I'll help you, thank you. Yes, that's
a gentleman. Well even so,I won't take a minute. Ready,
Yes, yere we are Now whereare we heading, missus McLoud? Oh?
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I thought we might go out tothe boathouse. It's on the southern
tip of Royal Lake. Sony momhad nothing and my name miss Cora.
I'm not really missus McLeod anymore.Perhaps kind of rough on youism bringing your
new boyfriend around all of your exhusband's friends. Well I like it up
here, Rufus likes to have me. They're not all against Paul, at
least they weren't, but he's onthe defensive so much he's gonna make enemies
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of all of them. Yes,he's off to a rousing starts. I'd
say, you know something, Sam, I don't care about Paul and Thecott
really, or Rufus, McLeod ora Toojia Sinboud or anybody. I just
care about Cora McCloud. Well,now that's a good, honest answer.
You know, most people wouldn't bethat frank, But Sam, I haven't
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known you long. Well, Ilike your style, style, I could
care about you. It broke myheart not to stop right there on the
trail and kiss her, because that'swhat she wanted me to do. So
that's why I didn't do it,and I'll never turn down anything better.
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Well, next scene, old house, and when we got there, it
was not an all the way Ithought. Food technician and close friend of
Rufus m claude was there working onsomething that baffled me at first. It's
an ice boat, mister Spade,that's what it is. Alongs to Rufus.
Yeah, I don't think I've everseen one up close before. I
take you for a ride, butthis one needs a lot of work before
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anybody could use it. I'm justputtering what prompted you to come out here,
Cora? Because Paul and Tojia Spinborggott in a fight over me and
I got tired of the whole thing, Sam, and I went out for
me here. Well glad you did. I was getting a bit lonesome,
you see, Sam, They alwaysleave me in a cloud of snow on
their skis, and I just plodalong on snowshoes all by myself. Well
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maybe we can go walking together sometime. I used to be able to shake
a pretty good snowshoe. It's adeal. Tomorrow morning, I'll show you
the place. Sam. I thinki'll stick around here and up Charlie with
the ice boats. Oh, unlessyou're crazy about ice boats. Why don't
you go back to the chateau.We'll be there in time for dinner.
Well, I don't need any engravedin the expectation. I hope you catch
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a common cool. The trouble withthat girl was that she only wanted one
man at a time round her.Back at the chateau, there was no
one but the cook, the mergerremained part Ah too tall. As supper
time approached, Rufus came in,then Rita, then Cora, then Allison,
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and finally Tosier in that order.And the order is important because you
see nowhere in the list is thename of Paul Endicott. He didn't come
in for supper nor for the nextthree hours. It was dark by then,
and Rufus MacLeod was worried about Endicott, so we found out in a
searching party. I was alone whenI found them. He was lying in
the snow three hundred yards west ofthe halfway cabin. There was a thirty
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thirty slug in him period and ofPaul Endicot. You are listening to the
weekly adventure of radio's most famous detective, Sam Spade. This Sunday, Carrie
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granted Betsy Drake Starr in the secondof the new Mister and Missus Blandings series.
Over most of these NBC stations.The delightful tribulations of Jim Blandings and
his wife Muriel as they built theirfamous dream house entertained millions as a novel
and then as a motion picture.And now you can follow the further adventures
of mister and Missus Blandings every Sundayon NBC and Sunday also means your weekly
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visit with the hilarious Harresses on ThePhil Harris Alice Faye Show. And now
back to the Chateau McCloud caper tonight'sadventure with Sam Spade. There were no
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scheme marks near the body of allEndicot, just his own. Somebody had
drawn a bead on him in thedust from some distance. I started a
look for the rest of the searchingparty, and then changed my mind.
If the body of Endicott wasn't found, the murderer might wonder what happened to
it, get worried and make amistake. So I picked him up,
carried him to a small cave Ifound, covered the entrance with snow,
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brushed over the ski marks, andwent back to the chateau. One by
one they all showed up discouraged.We can't we have to keep looking.
I know how you feel, Couragoing, it's too dark. We'll try
tomorrow. Oh, don't worry abouthim. Well, can take care of
himself. How can you take careof himself, Missus Parker, if he
got lost, said he got lost? I am assuming. I think we're
all assuming too much. I'm surethat it's nothing to worry about. If
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I know Paul, he'll show uptomorrow with some tall tale to tell.
What do you think, mister Spaden? What is an advertising executive? Know?
Cora your manners? A sponsor mightbe listening. Oh well, I'm
sorry saying okay, okay. Frankly, I don't know what to think.
But if I were a detective,i'd hazard a guess Paul met with foul
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play. Oh nonsense, made nonsense. Come on, everybody, let's have
a drink, have some fun.Paul I'll be back. And even if
he isn't, who really cares Scotchfor me? And I guess nobody cared.
Rufus was a little more jolly thanusual, and the drinks began to
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dispel the gloom. It was asif Paul Endicott never had existed. It
began to get late, and thebizarre wake broke up. Everybody went to
bed, including me. I laythere fully dressed, looking up at the
beam's ceiling for an hour. Aboutthen my door knob turned and the door
slid open and shut. Someone movedquietly into my bed as I was slatting
my thirty eight out of its holster. Sam, it's me, Rita.
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Are you away? Yeah? Iwasn't even under the covers, mind befo,
I said, Sam, I'm scared. I wish I could leave here.
What's the matter. Paul's dead.I know he is. He didn't
mean anything to me one way orthe other, but I know he's dead.
Anything to back up your feeling,I guess not. It's it's just
something I'm sure of. Why'd youcome to me? Because you're really a
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detective and I know it. Oh? Oh, now you handle a case
for my father once. You justdon't remember me, all right, I'm
a detective. Rufus harving it becausehe expected trouble. Dam I'll tell you
something about Paul. Yeah, Coreydidn't really like him. They were always
fighting. She only cares about herself, so she said, telling me,
what kind of a card is pauled? Right? It's a yellow convertible.
But it's still in the garage.I checked. Any other car's missing?
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No, No, they're all there. Oh, and I found out something
else before supper. There was agun missing from Rufus's gun rack. It's
back now. Anything else that's allI know, Sam, except that Paul's
dead. I know it. Iwish i'd never come up here. After
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she left, I dressed for outdoorsand climbed through the bedroom window. Was
still in quiet, and it wasa quarter moon. When I skid away
from the chateau. I wanted tolook the land over myself before the next
day, when the clues, ifany, were trampled into the snow.
When I passed the northern tip ofRoyal Lake on the trail to the Halfway
Cabin, I saw a new setof ski tracks heading into the woods where
I had found Endicott's body. Ifollowed them, and they went right to
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the cave where I had hidden him, and he was gone. I was
standing there pondering this when I thoughtI saw something move in the trees to
the west of me. I stoodstock still. That was a mistake.
The bullets spunded a tree next tome, and I shoved off as fast
as I could. There was nosecond shot. I circled around in the
trees, trying to catch sight ofsomeone. Nothing. I kept in the
shadows and made for the Halfway cabin. It was dark and quiet, at
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least until I opened the door.I tried, but he had the advantage
of surprise and some kind of aclub. I ended up on the floor
with someone sitting on my chest.All right, I have your gun.
You make one wrong, moose beit and it's got bullets in it and
a hair trigger, so be careful. We quick use a little light as
you see this Paul Endicott's buddy.Yeah, why did you find him?
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Tosier? They're only putting a noosearound you. You're a very perceiving men,
mister Spade. How do you figureI did it? I taught better
on my feet. Just remember thegun. If you didn't kill him,
how else would you know where thebody? Because I know this country like
the back of my hand. Hehad to be somewhere. You are the
killer, mister Spade. Me whyI do not know? You found the
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body before anyone else could hit it, then clumsily tried to hide your track.
Don't be silly. Why would Icome back and murder? Always worries
about his crime? Did you forgetsomething? Was something left undone? It's
a natural It sounds good, exceptthat isn't true. You couldn't pen it
on me on a mother's Sundays.But somebody might just tie it onto you.
That's what you think. Do youknow what I'm going to do now?
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I wouldn't want to guess. Theshots came pouring in through the window
and told your Spendborg went down.I saw the flash of a face outside
and was gone. I checked outthe lamp through the place in the darkness
and lay on the floor. ThenI crawled over the Spendbourg and took my
gun back. Well, that wasa surprise. It hurts quite a bit.
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Where'd you get it? Somewhere inthe back? Let me see it's
at the shoulder level. He won'tdie anywhere. I'm afraid. I'm afraid
I misjudged you as the spit.Go off to him, Go off to
him and catch who if it was. I can't leave you here. I
decare for myself. Just leave mea gun for protection. No, I'll
stay, go please while yes time? Or are you afraid? I was?
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When I gave him my gun andleft outside? There were many ski
tracks, but a fresh set ledleft from the halfway cabin down. They
went right to the edge of RoyalLake and then stopped. There were no
marks of ski poles on the ice, so I followed the shoreline looking for
some kind of a clue. Itwasn't until I reached the southern tip of
Royal Lake that my effort was rewarded. Leading up from the ice were a
set of footprints, then a setof ski marks. They led to the
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boat house. Inside I found twointeresting items, one a dismantled ice boat
with fresh ice on the runners,two a pair of skis with snow in
the grooves. I made my wayalong the beaten pack back to the chateau
circle at once found interesting item numberthree and went in. What were you
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doing up? Spade? Did youhear the shots? So? Yeah,
I thought, Karan, it's cold. Woke me out of a sum sweep,
Sam, What was it? Youknow? I didn't find out about
the first shot, missus McCloud thatwas fired at me, But the next
three were fired at a man namedTozier Spendboard. Oh no, Tosia.
How did it happen? Spade?What's it all about? He found Endicott's
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body in the woods dead. VeryI told you, Sam, I told
you told him. What What doyou know about it? Nothing? I
just had the feeling, that's all, you know? Something now I'll tell
us, or I'll slap the rentsright out of your head. I don't
know anything, anything at all.I just had a feeling. Who shot
Tosia Spade and why? I don'tknow. I was standing with them in
the halfway, Kevin, somebody shotthrough the window. Didn't you say them?
Don't you know who it was?I was too busy, duck,
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and look, just answer me onething. Have any of you been out?
Of course? Not? No,I haven't. And mister Allison's in
bed, of course They all lied. A cloud shirt was stained with sweat.
He'd been moving fast somewhere. Theskipands sticking out from under Cora's robe
were wet, and Rita Parker wasnow dressed when she wasn't before. I
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was trying to figure out something tosay when Charlie Allison came out from his
bedroom, rubbing a sleep out ofhis eyes and pulling a robe on.
What's going on here? What's allexcitement about? They found Paul dead?
Somebody shot Tojia? No where isToji in the halfway, Kevin. Well,
let's get him to a doctor.I'll call one from tom Ah.
Why don't you go up and gettoes you. I'll have a car ready
and we'll take him right into thelucier In hospital. Wait a minute,
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what about the murderer who did theshooting? Nobody's getting out of my sight.
It had to be one of us, why, Cora, Oh,
it wasn't just anybody. We're theonly ones left walking. Why don't you
ask Sam he's the detective. Detective, Yeah, I heard him because somebody
sent me an anonymous letter saying that'dbe trouble. You knew it was gonna
be trouble rufus. Somebody else knew. Then why did you let people come
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up here? Wait a minute,spade, why did you find out?
Well, if you'll all wait herea minute, I'll tell you. When
I circled a chateau before I camein, I had seen footprints leading to
a window, not mine. Thatmeant somebody else he was the backway in
and out too. I wanted tofind out whose window it was, And
of course, while I was looking, I remember the apparently dismantled ice boat
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and the fact that a set ofskis were in the boathouse. It took
me about a minute to find theright room. But somebody knew it all
right, Spade, stand where youare, Allison. You might be a
great food technician, but you're alousy killer. Yeah. Well, at
least he didn't get her neither willyou. I'm got him, Spade,
all right, come on, standup, Come on you, sap Cora.
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Huh do you think you could getup by killing somebody? Shut up
for me. I'm sorry for you, sorry for anyone that ever knew her.
I'm sorry for myself. She lovesme a force. We found our
killer and missus McCloud Charlie, Yes, baby, Oh rufus. It's been
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a long day. I need adrink. And that goes to show you
how cold it can get in thesnow country. Yeah. Period, end
of report. Why would a mando anything like that when he knew he
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couldn't get away with it because hewas stupid? Effie. People must have
told him a million times. Ifthey told him once, crime just doesn't
pay. Oh go take that up, will you go on? Scampering?
Scamper three times mean good times?On NBC, here's news of two important
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musical events this Saturday. Are ToroToscanini begins a new Saturday series of concerts
with the NBC Symphony, and forhis premiere, the celebrated Maestro Toscanini will
present a special hour and a halfperformance of Verdi's Requiem, And beginning next
Monday, you can hear the firstin a new series by the Boston Pops
Orchestra. Tight Up all but thepage? What PS? Page? Why
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should it need a PS? Andyou know that this report to borrow a
phrase from you is full of holes. My phrase, I wish I'd never
said it now. For instance,who sent the note to Rufus Paul Endicott.
He expected trouble. That's why Iwas so belligerent to everybody. Right,
Yes, I'm going to come rightout and ask you him good.
Why did Alison kill him? Well? I thought it was rather obvious,
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Effie. Cora was leaving Rubus McLoudfor Allison, But because Alison worked for
McCloud until Cora's divorce was final,they didn't want Rubus to know about it,
so they used Paul Endicott as adecoy love affair. But Albert Endicott
didn't want to give Cora up.But that was it, saying Effie,
I don't know how you ever,guessed Endicott saw and had a chance to
pick up a buck with a littleblack man, just a wild guess.
Yes, And of course Alison didski didn't he? What do you think?
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Well? How else could he getaround so fast? And he made
such a point about those snow shoesfan. Yes, if I'd written the
caper, I'd have covered that upa little calm here. I'm sorry,
Sam, because I shouldn't have sitthere. You certainly should not have.
You know, there's only one thingaround here. You're supposed to say,
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I know, I know, goodfash? Did I say him? Good
night? The Adventures of Sam Spadeare produced, edited, and directed by
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William Spears. Sam Spade was playedby Stephen Dunn. Loreene Tuttle is Effie.
Script for Tonight's adventure by John MichaelHayes, musical scarring by lud Gluskin,
conducted by Robert Armbrewster. Join usagain next week, same time for
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Then it's stuff. He's Tavern onNBC. Welcome back. I appreciate Sam's
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explanation for why the murder did itbecause he was stupid. That explains a
lot of criminal activity. And it'salso possible to be stupid and also ingenious
in some other way, but toact completely unreasonably an illogically. Also,
the references to a potential sponsor continue. Don't think I've heard a sustained program
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make this many references, Satelly.It's proved that just by asking for a
sponsor and hinting at a sponsor doesn'tnecessarily mean you'll get one. All right,
listener comments and back now and feedbacknow. And we have a YouTube
comment on the Red Star Caper viathe Prodigal Panda Caper and we arrives yesterday.
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Nine. I heard the July twentyfourth, twenty three episode Adam I
really loved listening to your show beforegoing to bed. I was listening on
my bedside. The show was SamSpade and the Red Starkeeper. Your commentary
mentioned the guy having a red starin his hand, and also the place
was so crowded, and Sam statedhe hadn't seen a crowd that lard since
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the Margaret Sanger meeting. Why wouldSam attend a woman who started the birth
control movement? That you started talkingabout Sam being paid with jelly beans.
I didn't remember any child and anypanda bear, so I would played to
see what you were talking about it. I didn't hear anything about jelly beans.
I went to the YouTube program andit was the Panda Bear jelly Bean
Keeper. Now I get it.You were talking about two different episodes.
(33:00):
Okay, well, thank you somuch. I apologize for any confusion.
After I finished commenting on an episode, get into listener comments and feedback that
often go into previous episodes, andI try to preface those by saying that
this was in regards to that previousepisode. I'm sorry that wasn't clear enough,
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and I hope I don't get anyemail saying Margaret Sanger there was no
reference to Margaret Sanger in this episode, What were you talking about in regards
to the Red Star keeper? Sangerwas and is a controversial figure. Not
going to get into any opinions onthat, but I would not read anything
into that statement. We don't knowwhy Sam attended. It could have been
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in some working capacity. He couldhave been taken along with someone on a
date. He could have just beencurious, because people often, particularly back
in the twenties, will go toevent where someone has been very controversial or
there a lot of people talking abouta particular person just to see what they
have to say. And Sanger's bigevents in San Francisco or in the mid
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nineteen tens, and then she hada big event at the Oakland Civic Auditorium
in nineteen twenty eight. So ifyou use that later day, which I
think makes more sense, then Samis just saying that he's not attended any
public lecture since nineteen twenty eight.As to why he was there, you'd
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have to ask Sam. Well,now it's time to thank our Patreon supporter
of the day. Thank you toHaskell Patreon supporter thens August twenty fifteen,
currently supporting the program at the SHAMASlevel. Of four dollars or more per
month. Thank you so much foryour support, Haskell and that will do
it for today. If you areenjoying this podcast, please follow us with
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your favorite podcast software where and besure to rate and review the podcast wherever
you download us from. We'll beback next Monday with another adventure Sam Spade,
but join us back here tomorrow oryours truly, Johnny at all or
where? Oh, I make anybones about it. I'm a sucker for
romance, and believe me, itwasn't hard to be serious with money,
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Johnny. Yeah, this is nice, isn't it. M I I don't
believe in love at first sight?Do you? Uh? No? No,
I am, But it is nice, isn't it? Ohol gown and
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it'll be much too easy to fallin love with you, Monny, and
I mean the forever kind. Ihope you'll be with us then. In
the meantime, do send your commentsto Box thirteen That Great Detectives dot and
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your host, Adam Graham, signand off
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