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Today's Mystery:Sam is hired by a waiter who leaves a photo in a sandwich and tells him to find the woman in it.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: November 6, 1949
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Today's Mystery:Sam is hired by a waiter who leaves a photo in a sandwich and tells him to find the woman in it.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: November 6, 1949
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to Patreon dot Great Detectives dot net. Well, now it is time for
this week's episode of Sam Spade.The original air date November six, nineteen
forty nine, and this one isthe Cheesecake Keeper. Yeah Sam, Stage
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Detective Steve Agency. Oh murder,Oh Sam, have you had a high
day? Murderous I in this morning, I grim through twenty five poses cought.
I'm all the dishes of all twentyfive varieties of Sanderson's succulent soup,
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a meal in a can. ThenI was imprisoned in a plush chair for
two hours and a glass in myhand. No, yes, a Grannigan's
park. The whiskey that smells likeOld Island. It wasn't. They wouldn't
let me dutch it till after Andfor the rest of the afternoon, I've
been pulling up my foss or aseries of leg eart shots which were bad.
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The legend Samuel Spade, Granda andSan Francisco detective says, my guardie
goes grip fight as the god afterme. Oh, he's damn how silly
to becoming? And he saw maybesaw but famous the sun time things,
sweetheart, just a flash pose inthe pan. As you will agree when
you have heard my report on thecheesecake caper, I ought to be in
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pettis. I'm beautiful, yes,And as it develop it was a slam.
Does that make you shut it?Oh? You got me photography,
Joe? All right? Then wejust say thirty seconds and right away,
Miss brain statistics crow that nine outof ten private secretaries have the pencil ready
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when the boss comes in? Right, do you always have to be number
ten? Well, I haven't stayinghere. Here's a better Joe Homicide Division,
Samrancisco Police Department. A pension thetone of Chelsea from Samuel Spade licens
number one to seventy five nine sixsubject for cheesecake taper. They're Chelsey cheesecake.
To me, it was something thatcosts twenty five cents on the alla
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cap side of a menu up untilnow. As a matter of fact,
the cheesecake came didn't make itself feltuntil sometime after the beginning of this,
which is a phone call at highnoon, just as I was wondering where
I'd eat, Sam Stade, whatare you doing about to go to?
Line? Was first point? Now, all right, do you want to
come to my office? Squirrel?I know where that is? Or I
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ask for nobody said, I justgo. Let me get this straight.
Now. Are you hiring me?Yeah? Yeah, but remember you don't
you just un Wednesday is when theyhave star brighton at the State of Pancakes
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that pun its defend. It hasbeen only that very morning that my secretary
miss Evie Farina looked at my figureof what he is usually and orderly fun
and mayde certain remarks for the effectof a few of my pounds made its
evaluating. So I decided understanding thebusiness crowd haven't arrived, So I said
into a vacant food ordered my sign, look and waited. There's nothing to
happen. Yeah right, still lastI heard you were in Cleveland. Yeah,
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I'm intent. Well, Cleveland's gameis our loss? I like it.
Maybe they had a hot spell inClayman. Huh he never boy the
name. Yeah, you ought tobe used to that by now let's talk
about you. Stay. How isdimplease? I'm eating? Yeah? Yea,
So I noticed your life bottom nI'm depending it all the time regularly
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the ways around. Just now,I was staying sure sure, yeah,
yeah, making a little deal.Yeah, who waits? Fine corns deep
on rye that's what corn? Thecup? Blast it up? So you
said, why didn't this week?That's all right here? No, no,
no, I'll fix it up.So only thick I get it.
I said, wait's all right now, how about a cup of cars here?
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And I'm outside at Denny. Yeah, I said, you were going
off du yeah, I know,I'm just finishing up a couple of orders.
Are I'll get my never mind theheck, come on, Dunny,
I'm popped out front. I hateto getting wrong with the tops. Yeah,
okay, let's cup of Boston.I already told the boys get going,
so just say then enjoy your yeah. Sold on a waiter, of
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course, of the guy who calledme a white faced young kid, sweating
with his black tie up under hisleft hand. They walked outside and got
into a car park in front ofthe restaurant of all things, a limousine
or deliveried shoulder. I watched throughthe front doors that pulled away, picked
under Risa's number, and all thedeparmit of motivating the car belong to Mike
Sheldon, none of the voters ofthe North Beach section of Uncle Mike,
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a white head, jolly faced gentlemanof dubious means and still more dubious methods,
who had something to do with politics. What he had to do with
a weasel like Freddie Mulloy. Howmuch I was a poor waiter boy at
Barney's was something to frind it.I sidled back in my booth and attacked
the corn beef on wheat my headteeth. Instead of going all the way
through the sandwich, which is theway I like it, struck something firm
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and unyielding. I pulled in betweenthe lettuce and the bread of wax favor
envelope. Inside was a fifty dollarbill and a small photograph of a blonde
then either way. He had scibbledthree words in the corner of it.
Finds this girl for some more coffeeshow I got, yeah, yeah,
yeah, I bring the pot withyou and waiter. Yes, that's Benny,
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the kid who was just here.What's his last name? Benny?
It's a Western anyway, Yeah,okay? Where does he live? You
know? Well, I'm not sure. I think he hasn't a proper out
around Locking Street somewhere. But I'mnot a funny kid. What's funny about
him? I mean working as awaiter and a joint like this, when
his sister had all that dough livingin that Nabula apartment and all his assisted
Monica Weston, you must have heardof her, used to be advancing.
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I'm joint over a north Beat.I don't get around with anyone. When
you saw the papers, didn't youShe was in the papers. Yes,
committed suicide. Then he nearly wentoff his rocket. Wait a minute,
Wait a minute, look is let'shere, insisted, I don't see nah
no, no, Monica was aredhead. This here's a blonde. Well,
I'm gonna get you that coffee.I examined my sandwich for protect clothes
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part. I'm having accept cornb soI put it back together and how to
eat it while I scrutinized the pictureof the blond, a nice looking girl
in her twenties, no scars,birthmarks, luck see, or anything else
to set her apart from roughly twentyfive thousand other blonds in San Francisco.
There were a couple of points thoughthe picture was about two inches square,
showing her head and shoulders, andher hand was up to her face,
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that she was surprised to something nearthe camera. I'm one of the think
this was a ring which I couldn'tquite make up. In the back of
the picture with the letters lashed page, this is probably the credit stamp of
some professional photographer. I abandoned mystandwhich comes through the yellow section of the
phone book, and stifle the cryof crime. As I discovered the firm
of Lennard and Perkins photographer, butan office on Bush Straight where forthwith I
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went n slim mister state, Idon't think we did back here. You're
sure that's notice your mark on theback of the lendable positive and anyway,
that's not the kind of work wedo. Looks like an outdoor flash shot
ours. There's old studio stuff,funny trimming it down like that, running
it down. Yeah, it's justprobably a standard at eight by ten.
Someone just caught the shit out ofit, Thanks very much. By So
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I went to the telephone buck again, but instead of rugging for the l
dash he is the front of messagewith the FIM, I looked for them
in the middles and both ends ofthe photographer's credits bam with krim Dog and
I ran across an outfits called calTextures on Harrison. Yes, I like
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to speak to Prida player. There'sthree of them. Murphy, so very
un mister Brenne's take the Murphy.How about so very up with mister Brennan's
where they fied up first Stardia right, that's the main studio. Do not
enter if the red light is onHeaven be four, friend, I have
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seen photographers at work in my time, but not like this I saw him.
They were tied up, they werefit to be tide. In the
middle of the studio as a massiveequipment that looked like a cross between the
Powermoise tell Us government on atom smasherwith what seemed to be had stretched out
accordion on the bottom. All ofit pointed at something with up by front
rights on a small table. Igot a post I found up, but
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it was ran Us and so veryhere we're photographing. I played a farking
bean crying Rob look at that point? What is the matter with that port?
What's the matter with it? Itjust lies there? What do you
expected? N excuse me fellers winas we hire you. You didn't.
I only want to do there?Come on, come on, vocal,
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Why wake the shot? You knowyou know what he said? The port?
Get up and yeah, gotta looking. I don't look married to those
beings. What do you want meto do? Frank lit with orange?
Know what's that? Gonna run underthe shot? Don't you loose? Fombs?
New England farking being married in acat and I be best man?
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Okay, what do you want?I'm only Sam stay a private dettective trying
to locate this girl. Ever seenit? Sure? Sure? Where?
Well this is our shot. Rememberyou remember Ali's takes out the other Knight
because oh yeah, she's taken atthe railroad. Yeah, that was for
Norby's nifty nylons. I mean thisgirl's a model. Gon No, she
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walked in front of the camera justthe wrong time, allow us up to
shot. We had to shoot itover. Yeah. We we had a
model with a pair of Norby's nylonson see, well known brand of stocking,
and the idea was the standard upnext to it, cream coming down
at the Then what we tried todo was get a shot of affecting a
god a ley you know, sure, with a lot of admiring glances from
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the crowd. Brand new idea,real playing, real station, a real
human documentary. Yeah, l I'llset up the camera and the model makes
with a god and I whistle it. Get the crowd guy and we set
off the flash. But the dayhe walked in front of the camp,
however, it was not first fullNo, that was an awful night.
The fire would give her the shot? Great, well, right, what's
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the name? I don't know?Did she come by. Yeah, a
couple of mornings ago. I gaveit a print and the negative too got
me other coffees better. I don'tknow, take us for a while to
check the file. Yeah, wellright, well that and if you're playing
anything, here's my phone numb.Yeah yeah, Now, as I was
seeing about that sports again, yoursport. There is nothing you can do
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to glamor, right, So Ibrought an afternoon's favor and went back to
the office to take a load offmy faith and moll it's latest time of
event. I mowed, decided tocontact Denny Weshm. My client found his
phone number, and the book wasabout the call, and the phone went
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off in my hand, Sam said, water on the night. Yeah,
yeah, I know, I wasabout the call. You don't understand.
You don't wait a minute now,I've been chasing that brind all afternoon.
No matter's studdy standing there with agun at your back. Okay, then
let's talk about your system, Moniker, and maybe there's Brinds. You're stuck
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in my corn beef sandwich. Anddon't let Puddy throw a scare any here.
Hello, hello Danny. So thatleft me with a set of brim
suspicions, a fifty dollar bill andno client. I put my feet up
in the desk and open the paper. Then I put my feet back down
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on the floor. On the frontpage was a picture of my brind with
a caption over of reading you knowthis girl. I took the other picture
out of my pocket and pad them. They were the same except for one
thing. The picture in the paperwas taken on a slab in the city
Morgue. While putting my shoes backon, I read the article under the
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picture of my brind. It wassimple and actually turned up in the bay
and the yacht harbor in an armbefore with a board in a fact paper
said nothing about identification. It didn'thave to knowing you was like the lieutenant.
I realized that there had been anythingon the body to identify the picture
wouldn't have been in the paper.It's a spade, got anything on that
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front of the blind were still yeah, well, prumpat for now. We
didn't check the files. And ifyou find the prince, sit on it
or put it in the safe orsomething, understand the pork and beans will
have to wait until we find whoput the lady in the bay. I
had a pretty good idea. Whoput the lady in the bay? But
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why? And how to prove itwas something else? Again? So I
turned back to the picture, gotout fifteen cents store magnifying glass, and
it's like a closer look at thering in her hands. It seemed to
be black, shaped like a shieldof a gold center. It looked like
a dagger in a mask. Friedtelephone calls later, I found the company
that's made it for an honor societyat the University of California, Blowing Gold
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Office. Is that the cannabis yearboththe blue and gold. You probably perspect
you to the members of the Maskand Daggers Society. My name is State.
I am trying to locate one ofthe members of the society. If
you got the yearbook files in yearoffice, well good, get out to
Bush from about nineteen forty one.Will Ya'll be over in a half hour.
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He's found during the class of nineteenforty one. Her name was Helen
mckelby. I understand them as HelenKelby lives here. No, no,
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I never heard the girl. Wait, I'm not gonna hurt you. You're
the land any here, aren't you? I don't know when Mikelby listen to
they directly listen this addressed. Idon't I don't remember anything I said.
Do you good to get it offyour mind. I don't know anything that's
not gonna help me. I toldyou I'm on your side, Sam State,
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I'm a private effective. Now youknow where Helen Mkelby is right now?
I suppose well, I'm trying tofind out who put her there and
why. Then I'll hang it onhim if I can. That's why I'm
here. I'll tell me what Ihell I happened to? Was Mike Sheldon?
Come on, I don't know muchabout it. She lovely girl,
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trerself mostly what kind of things shewas doing, some kinds of political work
in the North Beach, and shewas working for Mike Sheldon ogas trying to
deceive and exposed rackets and his gamblingand having those buds. He was involved,
and she took it also seriously.The piition leave liston telephone cause telling
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she is working too hard. Itwas silt with gold and the last election
times she's been the weak in thehospital to get me all you was too
children, was too big, toopowerful. He never even heard of her.
Guarant you didn't know my sight.I know then I had to be
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a strange thing. I was inin the wakeing with my sister in Para,
and she came that Monday ten toexcuted at it last she had a
weapon against Mike Sheldon. I don'tknow. Doesn't just shelve them logan.
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She sounded crazy that she was goingto tackle the Morrow buyers. Then after
some hostels, he wouldn't stay where. I was worried about it. I
looked when I found this clicking lastThursday's chronicle, Police SEK Motive and Showgirl
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Suicide investigate in the circumstances rounding thesuicide of Monica Weston nightclub fans moved into
its third day without the dosing thereason why the girl apparently took her own
life Friday night by leaping from asoftbound train right I took off the headquarters.
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Whereas your recall, Telsey, wewent over the pier on the Showgirl
caper, if you also a recall, we came up with nothing. It
wasn't in the newspaper. The girlhad apparently climbed the board the brain at
Fredy Town. He's down the realityend of the car or a porter of
rupt the door open and pulling himselfover in a straight away, stretching their
soft city for the prayer hits itup around seventy miles an hour. You've
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been pretty unaccountably prosperous and hardly acandidate for suicide. But nothing had turned
up in her background and set orup as a candidate for murder either.
So that's where it stood. Twodead young ladies and a missing cheesecake photograph.
I'm Nordy nifting my line, feelingthis is enough for a day.
I limped back to my apoper.I tossed my hat on the bed and
started to pour myself a drink.Uh oh, Freddie, I'm step cushing
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hat on the bat. That's notso bad, Freddy, Well, hor
I expect to go home to acold, empty apoper and I find you
how about a drink? Didn't cometo drink? Get didn't walk under the
door. A gad ain't you.I'm a cheerful guy, a busy day,
all ran a few errands and say, you know, there's an ugly
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rumor running around on Freddy. They'resaying uncle Mike Sheldon played soccer for this
Monica westing Day that he was shakinghim down and he got tired of it,
what with the election coming up andall the fact. And they say
she didn't from that suicide at all? What you mean in Union Square while
I was feeding the pigeons, Ithink I'm kitting here. I think I'm
kicking our way. You know whathappens to boys who played with guns?
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Freddie go on at you all?Yeah, jist about that. Oh,
I'm now, Luella. Don't takeon So I didn't mean it that way,
will h No, No, I'mtalking about the Luella. Honey.
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The girl is only a good friend. It's all your imagination. It's just
my imagination. We found the printin the file and it's here, the
checkertary. Whatever do you mean theyplayed shoot him? She told him that
weak headed now he no, no, listen a while, don't do it.
I'll be right down. Sorry.Freddie ain't going nowhere. Let's Freddy.
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This girl she's all worked up aboutnothing. I am you want to
know what you were doing things?One thirty pm. Went through the doctors
on head three TM, across tothe campus a president and after four to
a looming house on ba See andfrom five thirty to seven at headquarters,
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eating the just likely while I Freddy, your imagination is running away. Come
on, have an all right churgy. I don't want to drink. The
bottle was half fall, but thesame of your good investment. Freddy Tucker
just going to left this side andsat on the floor. I dragged him
into the closet rocker to go offfor technic right out. I have a
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way. Well you lose the bombNew England being account don't comes from me.
Where's the fiction? Oh? Comeon now, focus down on it.
Let's get the things. Who daysworking? What's the big idea?
I'm sorry, I'm sorry if Iwas accidentally hit it with my elbow.
I'll buy a new cand tomorrow.Where's the fiction on the table there?
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I brought it over the front lightand looked at it. The brind was
in the foreground blocking out the modelof the guard if the shop wasn't entirely
worth listence. Directly behind her aboutto get on the train, looking squarely
into the camera was Monica Western,the dead show girl. And where they
were this white man of flying wasyou know who? I ducked out of
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the circle of light as they camein Shelton first and three overs. The
gun in my hand made me feelbetter, but not much better. They
closed the door. In the roomwas picktock again, except for the part
of life and Senate Okay, okay, where is it? I know you're
in there. You're a little lateshell. And we sent up the headquarters.
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H Well, I think you've doneit right here. You had a
negative you know, nailed him aroundlike postcard. I'm not worried about the
others. Well, now let's haveit. You know what I said,
say, Yeah, I'm gonna getit. Okay, hold it, boys,
Okay, staithe I'll come and getit. No knock of a life
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span And we were all a min. I brought my way through the dark
shelf with somebody around me on theserve shelf for Howard like a huge guy
in battlement ouver. I hit thedoor and a rush all at his except
Sheldon, whom we find We finallygot the lights bag on trying to untaggle
himself from a the floodlightstand be thetable that have held the parking beans and
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c dusty feet of lights table.So Barry I was sitting in the middle
of everything sobbing softly and great orhardred and fifty first was a plan,
and the last chan and nust bonesparking, And I tell you Poph plus
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Michael Sheldon was fairly solid. Andof course it's a family solid ammunition Barry
and any report I make an extracopy of that. The Denny Weston at
the winning ever comes out of thatholy dec into when Sheldon started making it
a prec oh, I got theleast notion you were in hell. I'd
been way to the peril. Didn'tshot until the next day. Sweet,
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the next that's when Branis looked atMiss Squints and said that, you know,
Alice, guys got just the facefor Brannigan's box. The whi pe
that smells like old Island. Oh, how awful faith worse than that?
Sweet, I'm athets all behind me, while directly in front of you was
of course, I haven't rot awaythe bon Why would you trying to do
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with the picture of Uncle Mike?But he had to deal a station.
I mean, why didn't you goto the voice like any normal human beings,
I had to say after she wasreally a sincere performer. Here it
looks like she was trying to workout a partnership with the dead show girls,
the brothers. He put the squeezeon Uncle Mike Enforce and to come
across with name numbers and salaries andthe members of this graph machine. So
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I had been there was a woman, I'm ye, I'm mad, unpredictable,
logical o Effie Prey, even nonalcoholic secretary that contains a lowance ers
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front Jersiah, and I seen goodNight Adventures of Sam stage stars Horrid Duff
as Spade with Lorene Tuttle as Ef. This is the United States Enforces Radio
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Service, a voice of information andeducation. Welcome back. I love the
setup of the envelope and photograph beingin the sandwich. That was good thinking
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and certainly made it more justified thanusual for Sam not to have the full
details of the case. And youhave to feel for those poor photographers with
things getting really messed up in fictionthese days, there can be some messy
superhero fights, but I think inthe nineteen forties and fifties some of these
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detectives could make right mass of theirown and it was nice to have the
consequences of that portrait. All right, Well, now it is time for
me to thank our Patreon supporter ofthe day. Thank you to Nancy,
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But join us back here tomorrow foryours truly, Johnny Doll or where
I think this whole thing is justtoo exciting for words? Don't you think
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it's too exciting for words? Well? I know who you are. Of
course, you're mister Johnny Doller,and you're supposed to protect those fabulous jewels.
And I'm Laura Deane, and Ithink we ought to call each other
Laura and Johnny because, after all, it's a party, isn't it.
Up Till now I was having doubts. You're obviously not one of missus Cronin's
friends from the old days. No, I just met her back there at
the station. Well, I talkedto her on the phone. Of course.
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She sent an invitation to my aunt, who was a very dear friend
of who's only they had seen eachother for years, and she didn't know
my aunt at past oh over ayear ago. So I phoned her and
told her, told missus Cronan Imean, and she said for me to
come to the party. She likedto meet me, and I wouldn't have
missed it for anything. Yeah,Johnny, do you think they really have
champagne in bathtubs like they used toback in her time? If they do,
it'll get awful wet out there areonly six of us to drink it.
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Oh gosh, I don't see howyou can call six people a party.
Well, the thing is, we'llall be in there trying hard.
Now you're joking me. I'll betyou are fun at a party. Oh
where do you see the act Ido with a lamp shade? Who did
you say your aunt was? Idon't think, I said, who When
did they start serving the champagne?Johnny? When they see the whites of
your eyes? That's cute. Ilike that. Thanks. Now about your
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aunt, poor old soul, she'dhave loved this too. You ought to
hear about some of the party sheand Missus Cronan used to go to.
Yeah, imagine they used to goevery place together back in those days.
The newspapers called them the Siamese twins, the Simon Siamese twins. That was
just an expression. Fritzie Morrel.Is that what you're saying? That's your
Fritzie Morrel's ne Sure? Did youknow it? Johnny? No? I
(30:03):
never met her. Oh, you'dhave liked her. She was a lot
of fun, love, departy,Gosh. She kept babbling on, and
I listened to her and tried tofigure her out. The chatter was smokescreen.
Underneath it, she was cool,sharp and shrewd. I didn't know
what she was up to, knowwhy she was here, But I didn't
know one thing. Fritzie Morrell haddied about a year ago, true enough,
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but she'd left no surviving family andno nice. Laura Deane was alone.
I hope you'll be with us.Then. In the meantime, do
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this week's episode of Sam Spade.The original air date November six, nineteen
forty nine, and this one isthe Cheesecake Keeper. Yeah Sam, Stage
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Detective Steve Agency. Oh murder,Oh Sam, have you had a high
day? Murderous I in this morning, I grim through twenty five poses cought.
I'm all the dishes of all twentyfive varieties of Sanderson's succulent soup,
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a meal in a can. ThenI was imprisoned in a plush chair for
two hours and a glass in myhand. No, yes, a Grannigan's
park. The whiskey that smells likeOld Island. It wasn't. They wouldn't
let me dutch it till after Andfor the rest of the afternoon, I've
been pulling up my foss or aseries of leg eart shots which were bad.
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The legend Samuel Spade, Granda andSan Francisco detective says, my guardie
goes grip fight as the god afterme. Oh, he's damn how silly
to becoming? And he saw maybesaw but famous the sun time things,
sweetheart, just a flash pose inthe pan. As you will agree when
you have heard my report on thecheesecake caper, I ought to be in
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pettis. I'm beautiful, yes,And as it develop it was a slam.
Does that make you shut it?Oh? You got me photography,
Joe? All right? Then wejust say thirty seconds and right away,
Miss brain statistics crow that nine outof ten private secretaries have the pencil ready
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when the boss comes in? Right, do you always have to be number
ten? Well, I haven't stayinghere. Here's a better Joe Homicide Division,
Samrancisco Police Department. A pension thetone of Chelsea from Samuel Spade licens
number one to seventy five nine sixsubject for cheesecake taper. They're Chelsey cheesecake.
To me, it was something thatcosts twenty five cents on the alla
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cap side of a menu up untilnow. As a matter of fact,
the cheesecake came didn't make itself feltuntil sometime after the beginning of this,
which is a phone call at highnoon, just as I was wondering where
I'd eat, Sam Stade, whatare you doing about to go to?
Line? Was first point? Now, all right, do you want to
come to my office? Squirrel?I know where that is? Or I
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ask for nobody said, I justgo. Let me get this straight.
Now. Are you hiring me?Yeah? Yeah, but remember you don't
you just un Wednesday is when theyhave star brighton at the State of Pancakes
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that pun its defend. It hasbeen only that very morning that my secretary
miss Evie Farina looked at my figureof what he is usually and orderly fun
and mayde certain remarks for the effectof a few of my pounds made its
evaluating. So I decided understanding thebusiness crowd haven't arrived, So I said
into a vacant food ordered my sign, look and waited. There's nothing to
happen. Yeah right, still lastI heard you were in Cleveland. Yeah,
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I'm intent. Well, Cleveland's gameis our loss? I like it.
Maybe they had a hot spell inClayman. Huh he never boy the
name. Yeah, you ought tobe used to that by now let's talk
about you. Stay. How isdimplease? I'm eating? Yeah? Yea,
So I noticed your life bottom nI'm depending it all the time regularly
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the ways around. Just now,I was staying sure sure, yeah,
yeah, making a little deal.Yeah, who waits? Fine corns deep
on rye that's what corn? Thecup? Blast it up? So you
said, why didn't this week?That's all right here? No, no,
no, I'll fix it up.So only thick I get it.
I said, wait's all right now, how about a cup of cars here?
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And I'm outside at Denny. Yeah, I said, you were going
off du yeah, I know,I'm just finishing up a couple of orders.
Are I'll get my never mind theheck, come on, Dunny,
I'm popped out front. I hateto getting wrong with the tops. Yeah,
okay, let's cup of Boston.I already told the boys get going,
so just say then enjoy your yeah. Sold on a waiter, of
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course, of the guy who calledme a white faced young kid, sweating
with his black tie up under hisleft hand. They walked outside and got
into a car park in front ofthe restaurant of all things, a limousine
or deliveried shoulder. I watched throughthe front doors that pulled away, picked
under Risa's number, and all thedeparmit of motivating the car belong to Mike
Sheldon, none of the voters ofthe North Beach section of Uncle Mike,
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a white head, jolly faced gentlemanof dubious means and still more dubious methods,
who had something to do with politics. What he had to do with
a weasel like Freddie Mulloy. Howmuch I was a poor waiter boy at
Barney's was something to frind it.I sidled back in my booth and attacked
the corn beef on wheat my headteeth. Instead of going all the way
through the sandwich, which is theway I like it, struck something firm
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and unyielding. I pulled in betweenthe lettuce and the bread of wax favor
envelope. Inside was a fifty dollarbill and a small photograph of a blonde
then either way. He had scibbledthree words in the corner of it.
Finds this girl for some more coffeeshow I got, yeah, yeah,
yeah, I bring the pot withyou and waiter. Yes, that's Benny,
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the kid who was just here.What's his last name? Benny?
It's a Western anyway, Yeah,okay? Where does he live? You
know? Well, I'm not sure. I think he hasn't a proper out
around Locking Street somewhere. But I'mnot a funny kid. What's funny about
him? I mean working as awaiter and a joint like this, when
his sister had all that dough livingin that Nabula apartment and all his assisted
Monica Weston, you must have heardof her, used to be advancing.
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I'm joint over a north Beat.I don't get around with anyone. When
you saw the papers, didn't youShe was in the papers. Yes,
committed suicide. Then he nearly wentoff his rocket. Wait a minute,
Wait a minute, look is let'shere, insisted, I don't see nah
no, no, Monica was aredhead. This here's a blonde. Well,
I'm gonna get you that coffee.I examined my sandwich for protect clothes
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part. I'm having accept cornb soI put it back together and how to
eat it while I scrutinized the pictureof the blond, a nice looking girl
in her twenties, no scars,birthmarks, luck see, or anything else
to set her apart from roughly twentyfive thousand other blonds in San Francisco.
There were a couple of points thoughthe picture was about two inches square,
showing her head and shoulders, andher hand was up to her face,
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that she was surprised to something nearthe camera. I'm one of the think
this was a ring which I couldn'tquite make up. In the back of
the picture with the letters lashed page, this is probably the credit stamp of
some professional photographer. I abandoned mystandwhich comes through the yellow section of the
phone book, and stifle the cryof crime. As I discovered the firm
of Lennard and Perkins photographer, butan office on Bush Straight where forthwith I
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went n slim mister state, Idon't think we did back here. You're
sure that's notice your mark on theback of the lendable positive and anyway,
that's not the kind of work wedo. Looks like an outdoor flash shot
ours. There's old studio stuff,funny trimming it down like that, running
it down. Yeah, it's justprobably a standard at eight by ten.
Someone just caught the shit out ofit, Thanks very much. By So
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I went to the telephone buck again, but instead of rugging for the l
dash he is the front of messagewith the FIM, I looked for them
in the middles and both ends ofthe photographer's credits bam with krim Dog and
I ran across an outfits called calTextures on Harrison. Yes, I like
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to speak to Prida player. There'sthree of them. Murphy, so very
un mister Brenne's take the Murphy.How about so very up with mister Brennan's
where they fied up first Stardia right, that's the main studio. Do not
enter if the red light is onHeaven be four, friend, I have
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seen photographers at work in my time, but not like this I saw him.
They were tied up, they werefit to be tide. In the
middle of the studio as a massiveequipment that looked like a cross between the
Powermoise tell Us government on atom smasherwith what seemed to be had stretched out
accordion on the bottom. All ofit pointed at something with up by front
rights on a small table. Igot a post I found up, but
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it was ran Us and so veryhere we're photographing. I played a farking
bean crying Rob look at that point? What is the matter with that port?
What's the matter with it? Itjust lies there? What do you
expected? N excuse me fellers winas we hire you. You didn't.
I only want to do there?Come on, come on, vocal,
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Why wake the shot? You knowyou know what he said? The port?
Get up and yeah, gotta looking. I don't look married to those
beings. What do you want meto do? Frank lit with orange?
Know what's that? Gonna run underthe shot? Don't you loose? Fombs?
New England farking being married in acat and I be best man?
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Okay, what do you want?I'm only Sam stay a private dettective trying
to locate this girl. Ever seenit? Sure? Sure? Where?
Well this is our shot. Rememberyou remember Ali's takes out the other Knight
because oh yeah, she's taken atthe railroad. Yeah, that was for
Norby's nifty nylons. I mean thisgirl's a model. Gon No, she
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walked in front of the camera justthe wrong time, allow us up to
shot. We had to shoot itover. Yeah. We we had a
model with a pair of Norby's nylonson see, well known brand of stocking,
and the idea was the standard upnext to it, cream coming down
at the Then what we tried todo was get a shot of affecting a
god a ley you know, sure, with a lot of admiring glances from
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the crowd. Brand new idea,real playing, real station, a real
human documentary. Yeah, l I'llset up the camera and the model makes
with a god and I whistle it. Get the crowd guy and we set
off the flash. But the dayhe walked in front of the camp,
however, it was not first fullNo, that was an awful night.
The fire would give her the shot? Great, well, right, what's
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the name? I don't know?Did she come by. Yeah, a
couple of mornings ago. I gaveit a print and the negative too got
me other coffees better. I don'tknow, take us for a while to
check the file. Yeah, wellright, well that and if you're playing
anything, here's my phone numb.Yeah yeah, Now, as I was
seeing about that sports again, yoursport. There is nothing you can do
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to glamor, right, So Ibrought an afternoon's favor and went back to
the office to take a load offmy faith and moll it's latest time of
event. I mowed, decided tocontact Denny Weshm. My client found his
phone number, and the book wasabout the call, and the phone went
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off in my hand, Sam said, water on the night. Yeah,
yeah, I know, I wasabout the call. You don't understand.
You don't wait a minute now,I've been chasing that brind all afternoon.
No matter's studdy standing there with agun at your back. Okay, then
let's talk about your system, Moniker, and maybe there's Brinds. You're stuck
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in my corn beef sandwich. Anddon't let Puddy throw a scare any here.
Hello, hello Danny. So thatleft me with a set of brim
suspicions, a fifty dollar bill andno client. I put my feet up
in the desk and open the paper. Then I put my feet back down
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on the floor. On the frontpage was a picture of my brind with
a caption over of reading you knowthis girl. I took the other picture
out of my pocket and pad them. They were the same except for one
thing. The picture in the paperwas taken on a slab in the city
Morgue. While putting my shoes backon, I read the article under the
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picture of my brind. It wassimple and actually turned up in the bay
and the yacht harbor in an armbefore with a board in a fact paper
said nothing about identification. It didn'thave to knowing you was like the lieutenant.
I realized that there had been anythingon the body to identify the picture
wouldn't have been in the paper.It's a spade, got anything on that
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front of the blind were still yeah, well, prumpat for now. We
didn't check the files. And ifyou find the prince, sit on it
or put it in the safe orsomething, understand the pork and beans will
have to wait until we find whoput the lady in the bay. I
had a pretty good idea. Whoput the lady in the bay? But
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why? And how to prove itwas something else? Again? So I
turned back to the picture, gotout fifteen cents store magnifying glass, and
it's like a closer look at thering in her hands. It seemed to
be black, shaped like a shieldof a gold center. It looked like
a dagger in a mask. Friedtelephone calls later, I found the company
that's made it for an honor societyat the University of California, Blowing Gold
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Office. Is that the cannabis yearboththe blue and gold. You probably perspect
you to the members of the Maskand Daggers Society. My name is State.
I am trying to locate one ofthe members of the society. If
you got the yearbook files in yearoffice, well good, get out to
Bush from about nineteen forty one.Will Ya'll be over in a half hour.
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He's found during the class of nineteenforty one. Her name was Helen
mckelby. I understand them as HelenKelby lives here. No, no,
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I never heard the girl. Wait, I'm not gonna hurt you. You're
the land any here, aren't you? I don't know when Mikelby listen to
they directly listen this addressed. Idon't I don't remember anything I said.
Do you good to get it offyour mind. I don't know anything that's
not gonna help me. I toldyou I'm on your side, Sam State,
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I'm a private effective. Now youknow where Helen Mkelby is right now?
I suppose well, I'm trying tofind out who put her there and
why. Then I'll hang it onhim if I can. That's why I'm
here. I'll tell me what Ihell I happened to? Was Mike Sheldon?
Come on, I don't know muchabout it. She lovely girl,
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trerself mostly what kind of things shewas doing, some kinds of political work
in the North Beach, and shewas working for Mike Sheldon ogas trying to
deceive and exposed rackets and his gamblingand having those buds. He was involved,
and she took it also seriously.The piition leave liston telephone cause telling
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she is working too hard. Itwas silt with gold and the last election
times she's been the weak in thehospital to get me all you was too
children, was too big, toopowerful. He never even heard of her.
Guarant you didn't know my sight.I know then I had to be
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a strange thing. I was inin the wakeing with my sister in Para,
and she came that Monday ten toexcuted at it last she had a
weapon against Mike Sheldon. I don'tknow. Doesn't just shelve them logan.
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She sounded crazy that she was goingto tackle the Morrow buyers. Then after
some hostels, he wouldn't stay where. I was worried about it. I
looked when I found this clicking lastThursday's chronicle, Police SEK Motive and Showgirl
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Suicide investigate in the circumstances rounding thesuicide of Monica Weston nightclub fans moved into
its third day without the dosing thereason why the girl apparently took her own
life Friday night by leaping from asoftbound train right I took off the headquarters.
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Whereas your recall, Telsey, wewent over the pier on the Showgirl
caper, if you also a recall, we came up with nothing. It
wasn't in the newspaper. The girlhad apparently climbed the board the brain at
Fredy Town. He's down the realityend of the car or a porter of
rupt the door open and pulling himselfover in a straight away, stretching their
soft city for the prayer hits itup around seventy miles an hour. You've
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been pretty unaccountably prosperous and hardly acandidate for suicide. But nothing had turned
up in her background and set orup as a candidate for murder either.
So that's where it stood. Twodead young ladies and a missing cheesecake photograph.
I'm Nordy nifting my line, feelingthis is enough for a day.
I limped back to my apoper.I tossed my hat on the bed and
started to pour myself a drink.Uh oh, Freddie, I'm step cushing
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hat on the bat. That's notso bad, Freddy, Well, hor
I expect to go home to acold, empty apoper and I find you
how about a drink? Didn't cometo drink? Get didn't walk under the
door. A gad ain't you.I'm a cheerful guy, a busy day,
all ran a few errands and say, you know, there's an ugly
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rumor running around on Freddy. They'resaying uncle Mike Sheldon played soccer for this
Monica westing Day that he was shakinghim down and he got tired of it,
what with the election coming up andall the fact. And they say
she didn't from that suicide at all? What you mean in Union Square while
I was feeding the pigeons, Ithink I'm kitting here. I think I'm
kicking our way. You know whathappens to boys who played with guns?
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Freddie go on at you all?Yeah, jist about that. Oh,
I'm now, Luella. Don't takeon So I didn't mean it that way,
will h No, No, I'mtalking about the Luella. Honey.
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The girl is only a good friend. It's all your imagination. It's just
my imagination. We found the printin the file and it's here, the
checkertary. Whatever do you mean theyplayed shoot him? She told him that
weak headed now he no, no, listen a while, don't do it.
I'll be right down. Sorry.Freddie ain't going nowhere. Let's Freddy.
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This girl she's all worked up aboutnothing. I am you want to
know what you were doing things?One thirty pm. Went through the doctors
on head three TM, across tothe campus a president and after four to
a looming house on ba See andfrom five thirty to seven at headquarters,
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eating the just likely while I Freddy, your imagination is running away. Come
on, have an all right churgy. I don't want to drink. The
bottle was half fall, but thesame of your good investment. Freddy Tucker
just going to left this side andsat on the floor. I dragged him
into the closet rocker to go offfor technic right out. I have a
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way. Well you lose the bombNew England being account don't comes from me.
Where's the fiction? Oh? Comeon now, focus down on it.
Let's get the things. Who daysworking? What's the big idea?
I'm sorry, I'm sorry if Iwas accidentally hit it with my elbow.
I'll buy a new cand tomorrow.Where's the fiction on the table there?
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I brought it over the front lightand looked at it. The brind was
in the foreground blocking out the modelof the guard if the shop wasn't entirely
worth listence. Directly behind her aboutto get on the train, looking squarely
into the camera was Monica Western,the dead show girl. And where they
were this white man of flying wasyou know who? I ducked out of
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the circle of light as they camein Shelton first and three overs. The
gun in my hand made me feelbetter, but not much better. They
closed the door. In the roomwas picktock again, except for the part
of life and Senate Okay, okay, where is it? I know you're
in there. You're a little lateshell. And we sent up the headquarters.
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H Well, I think you've doneit right here. You had a
negative you know, nailed him aroundlike postcard. I'm not worried about the
others. Well, now let's haveit. You know what I said,
say, Yeah, I'm gonna getit. Okay, hold it, boys,
Okay, staithe I'll come and getit. No knock of a life
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span And we were all a min. I brought my way through the dark
shelf with somebody around me on theserve shelf for Howard like a huge guy
in battlement ouver. I hit thedoor and a rush all at his except
Sheldon, whom we find We finallygot the lights bag on trying to untaggle
himself from a the floodlightstand be thetable that have held the parking beans and
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c dusty feet of lights table.So Barry I was sitting in the middle
of everything sobbing softly and great orhardred and fifty first was a plan,
and the last chan and nust bonesparking, And I tell you Poph plus
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Michael Sheldon was fairly solid. Andof course it's a family solid ammunition Barry
and any report I make an extracopy of that. The Denny Weston at
the winning ever comes out of thatholy dec into when Sheldon started making it
a prec oh, I got theleast notion you were in hell. I'd
been way to the peril. Didn'tshot until the next day. Sweet,
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the next that's when Branis looked atMiss Squints and said that, you know,
Alice, guys got just the facefor Brannigan's box. The whi pe
that smells like old Island. Oh, how awful faith worse than that?
Sweet, I'm athets all behind me, while directly in front of you was
of course, I haven't rot awaythe bon Why would you trying to do
(25:30):
with the picture of Uncle Mike?But he had to deal a station.
I mean, why didn't you goto the voice like any normal human beings,
I had to say after she wasreally a sincere performer. Here it
looks like she was trying to workout a partnership with the dead show girls,
the brothers. He put the squeezeon Uncle Mike Enforce and to come
across with name numbers and salaries andthe members of this graph machine. So
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I had been there was a woman, I'm ye, I'm mad, unpredictable,
logical o Effie Prey, even nonalcoholic secretary that contains a lowance ers
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front Jersiah, and I seen goodNight Adventures of Sam stage stars Horrid Duff
as Spade with Lorene Tuttle as Ef. This is the United States Enforces Radio
(26:37):
Service, a voice of information andeducation. Welcome back. I love the
setup of the envelope and photograph beingin the sandwich. That was good thinking
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and certainly made it more justified thanusual for Sam not to have the full
details of the case. And youhave to feel for those poor photographers with
things getting really messed up in fictionthese days, there can be some messy
superhero fights, but I think inthe nineteen forties and fifties some of these
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detectives could make right mass of theirown and it was nice to have the
consequences of that portrait. All right, Well, now it is time for
me to thank our Patreon supporter ofthe day. Thank you to Nancy,
Patreon supporter since March of twenty sixteen, currently supporting the program at the shamess
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But join us back here tomorrow foryours truly, Johnny Doll or where
I think this whole thing is justtoo exciting for words? Don't you think
(28:33):
it's too exciting for words? Well? I know who you are. Of
course, you're mister Johnny Doller,and you're supposed to protect those fabulous jewels.
And I'm Laura Deane, and Ithink we ought to call each other
Laura and Johnny because, after all, it's a party, isn't it.
Up Till now I was having doubts. You're obviously not one of missus Cronin's
friends from the old days. No, I just met her back there at
the station. Well, I talkedto her on the phone. Of course.
(28:56):
She sent an invitation to my aunt, who was a very dear friend
of who's only they had seen eachother for years, and she didn't know
my aunt at past oh over ayear ago. So I phoned her and
told her, told missus Cronan Imean, and she said for me to
come to the party. She likedto meet me, and I wouldn't have
missed it for anything. Yeah,Johnny, do you think they really have
champagne in bathtubs like they used toback in her time? If they do,
it'll get awful wet out there areonly six of us to drink it.
(29:18):
Oh gosh, I don't see howyou can call six people a party.
Well, the thing is, we'llall be in there trying hard.
Now you're joking me. I'll betyou are fun at a party. Oh
where do you see the act Ido with a lamp shade? Who did
you say your aunt was? Idon't think, I said, who When
did they start serving the champagne?Johnny? When they see the whites of
your eyes? That's cute. Ilike that. Thanks. Now about your
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aunt, poor old soul, she'dhave loved this too. You ought to
hear about some of the party sheand Missus Cronan used to go to.
Yeah, imagine they used to goevery place together back in those days.
The newspapers called them the Siamese twins, the Simon Siamese twins. That was
just an expression. Fritzie Morrel.Is that what you're saying? That's your
Fritzie Morrel's ne Sure? Did youknow it? Johnny? No? I
(30:03):
never met her. Oh, you'dhave liked her. She was a lot
of fun, love, departy,Gosh. She kept babbling on, and
I listened to her and tried tofigure her out. The chatter was smokescreen.
Underneath it, she was cool,sharp and shrewd. I didn't know
what she was up to, knowwhy she was here, But I didn't
know one thing. Fritzie Morrell haddied about a year ago, true enough,
(30:27):
but she'd left no surviving family andno nice. Laura Deane was alone.
I hope you'll be with us.Then. In the meantime, do
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