August 16, 2025 • 35 mins
Original Release Date: June 5, 2023
Today's Mystery: The owner of an investment firm hires Spade to shadow one of her clients whom she says may be involved in a racket.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 1, 1950
Originated from Hollywood
Starred Steven Dunne as Sam Spade, Lurene Tuttle as Effie
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Today's Mystery: The owner of an investment firm hires Spade to shadow one of her clients whom she says may be involved in a racket.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 1, 1950
Originated from Hollywood
Starred Steven Dunne as Sam Spade, Lurene Tuttle as Effie
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Mail a donation to: Adam Graham, PO Box 15913, Boise, Idaho 83715
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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 airdate is December the first of
nineteen fifty and the title is TheDogbed Caeper. The National Broadcasting Company presents
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the adventures of Sam Spade, DetectiveSam Stay Detective Agency Me, sweetheart,
would you mind telling me where youare? Not at all? If not
at all, let's see, I'mat the ill rig deniabi tile Seacrod I
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don't know sand is sand, ButI think I caught the word gross.
Oh you're shrewd, Effie. Yousee I'm on the inside and the lettering
is printed on the outside. Ifyou'll wait, I'll go outside and read
it the right way and then comeinside. And never mind, I've already
guessed you're a George's elite bar andgrills say after me, you promised me
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you wouldn't me? I promised me, you did, Sam, You promise
faithfully to stay away from bars.You know how hard television is on your
eyes? Have you got your glassesone in each hand? Fill them up?
George? Oh Sam, I heardthat? What will people think?
They'll never know? Effie? Ialways drink here under another name. Oh
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just a little of the hair ofthe dog that bit me, Effie.
But don't worry about me, althoughit's true I have been dogging it and
have been hounded from tree to tree. I am frisky as ever, and
will be in to unleash my caninechronicle, namely the dog Bedcaper, or
He'll Lie Down with Dogs, getsup with murder or condensed for easy reading
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or NBC William Spear Radio's Outstanding ProducerDirector of mystery and crime drama brings you
the greatest private detective of them all. In the Adventures of Sam Spade,
Effie, Here, I am Sam, Here, I am Sam Effie.
Did you ever write poetry in school? Well? Well, I was known
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as Emily Dickinson of Central High Ithought you had a touch of internal rhyme
scheme there at home about you today? Really? Well, Redoodle, there
was a detective named Spade with oodlesof brains and his hade clever clever.
When he took up drinking, heforgot about thinking. Now give me the
punchline. And Effie has stayed quiteunpaid, well a little rough, but
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choose to get the ideas he nevercould make any sense out of poetry.
Ready getting close to Christmas. Emmypencil porn, use my life pencil,
and I don't really have enough moneyto play, Zeffie, I have no
head for figures, all right?From Samuel Spay License number one, three,
seven, five, nine six,subject the dog Bed Capers. Oh
Sam, I hope this is goingto be all about dogs. I belong
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to the tail wagage. Yeah.I've read all the books by Jack Yeah,
yeah, yeah, yeah, Ithink strangely enough. You will not
meet a single dog in this story. Actually, this narrative has little indeed
to do with our four footed friendsor their beds. And I change the
title now, except that it's alreadygone out for publicity. They're dundee.
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It all started with a phone callto my secretary, Miss Effie Pirene,
a doll, requesting my inimitable servicesat the investment counseling firm of Cameron Incorporated,
clearing everything off my desk to shoeswith feet in him my own.
I went over. The firm ofCameron Incorporated was obviously not for the pushcart
set. It was plush ankle,deep ruggs, imported drapes, and the
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receptionist she had a plushness all ofher own. I said hello in my
plushiest voice. She liked it,she said, so oh, I like
the way you said that. Sayit again. Life is too short to
go back, even for a moment. The past is a dead thing,
the present dying. Only the futurealive and vibrant. However, Hello,
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is there something there is? CouldI ask a question? I will rephrase
the question, what time do youstop working? This evening? Care to
heaven? There's a little bar aroundthe corner. Okay, why not?
Why not? Indeed, bring yourown money, will come anyway. Your
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name mind, Sam Spade. Who'smister Briggs? He called Major? Well,
he's our chief account I just happenedto have my door open. Did
I hear someone inquiring about me?This is mister Spade, Major Bridge.
How do you do Major? It'sa pleasure to meet you in person,
mister Spade. I'm the man whocalled you. You know I'm grateful,
sir. Now what is that Ican do for you and mister Cameron?
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Or it's not for me that Icalled. I happened to worry in the
world and it's miss Cameron. OldCameron's been dead for many years now,
I see whatever she wants. MisterSpade, do a good job. We
are all counting on you. Willyou please announce mister Spade, Miss Roberts,
if you'd excuse me, nice tomet you Major, Miss Cameron.
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Yes, it's Spade here, sentimentplace your own Sam have fun? I
think I might. Why not?That girl had the most beautiful double on
tondre in tom Well they get on. Adella Cameron was a career woman around
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twenty nine. Although the tailored suitmade fine, detective work difficult, no
makeup severe hardo. And in spiteof all this chic, in fact,
as we shook hands in a mostbusinesslike manner, I had the feeling that
something warm might well spring up betweenus, something like a warm mutual dislike
maybe, but something most men simplycannot be told anything in confidence. They
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gossip. That's a switch. Idon't appreciate your humor, mister Spa.
I accept your apology. I willtolerate you because of your reputation. All
right, I'm going to give youa very difficult job to do with Miss
Cameron. What is it? Madehim? Sorry to interrupt you, but
Caughtney Pierces on the phone. MisterSpade, this is Major Briggs, our
chief a country we've already met,mister Speed, and now Adela Pierce wants
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us to unload his short term governmentsand buy American cattle. He's divid in
crazy am cats, declaring one inJanuary, and he wants it. Let
him do it. Oh, Ijust want to protect your interests. You
know what will happen to Amcat afterFebruary. That'll drop ten points and he'll
blame us. I went through thiswith your father when you and Greg were
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that's right, Major, Well tellhim we advise against it. But if
he persists, asking for a releasein writing, that's what I thought you'd
do, That's the way your fatherwould have handled it. I just want
to protect your interest, my dear. That's all I know, Major,
I know, I just want toprotect your interest. Don't worry about us.
You know we're our children anymore.All right, my dear, where
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were we? Oh? You weregiving me a difficult job. Oh yeah.
Here is the business address of misterI. J. Barco, the
wealthy manufacturer client of ours. Iwant you to find out everything about him,
especially anything unsavory. Sorry, Idon't do divorce or blackmail. Okay,
mister Spade, this is not adivorce investigation, all right? What
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is it then? Why do wewant a client shadowed? I believed the
expression that's it because we believe heis investing money through us for some racketeers.
If that were true, we wouldof course have to drop him.
But we don't want to lose hisbusiness just on suspicion. I see,
find out anything you can about him. I'll give you fifty dollars a day
and expenses one week guarantee, willyou consider the job. I have considered
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and taken the job. By thetime I reached the door, she had
already forgotten me and was hard atwork on some papers. Outside. I
planned a dally a few moments,an idle chitchat with Celeste. But before
I had the chance, I wasaccosted by a husky young chap whom I'm
afraid was a Princeton man. Orwere you're talking about in this, babe?
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Or you had the advantage sir?Will you Gregory Cameron? Now come
on? What was it? Dellatelling him, well, if you step
to one side, you can walkaround me and ask her. Look,
don't pull that kg private detective routineon me. I pack a little weight
myself. We'll pack it somewhere else. I asked you a question. I
expect an answer. There's your answer. Any more questions. He didn't feel
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much like talking then, and Iwas so irritated I walked out without saying
goodbye to Celeste. When I reachedthe street, the white haired old gentleman
Major Briggs hurried out behind me.Mister Spade, please don't think too badly
of that boy. I've known himfrom the cradle. He's in a difficult
emotional state. Yeah, sure,sure, sure, As far as I'm
concerned, Major had never happened.You're a kind man, mister Spade.
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I could tell that when I firstsaw you. You're just the sort of
man Miss Cameron needs. Well,I hadn't looked at it that way.
If you require anything, don't hesitateto ask me. I've been with this
company forty years before those two childrenthey were born, and I know how
difficult life can be at times.I just want things to go willful.
I'll do my little part. Major. Bless you, son, bless you.
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I started to work the card aDella Cameron had given me revealed at
my quarry mister I. J.Barcour was, of all things, a
manufacturer of dog beds. I satdown on hydrant to think this over,
and then followed the scent of horsemadon over to his factory on South Dolores.
It was built in the shape ofa large dog house, and outside
stood a billboard with a message Asurvey of independent dog tracks, kennels and
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canine corps proves that dogs choose barcobeds two to one. I had to
get a look at Barco himself,and so ruffling up the hair on the
back of my neck, I trottedinto the building, snipping and wagging my
tail in a very friendly manner.It was very easy to see mister Barco
after I lied a little about myconnection. What was that name again,
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Senior Don Jose Martinez, Sada Morales. But you may call me Sad and
you represent a group of retail outletteens how of America? Oh I do.
Indeed, we have our eye onyour dog beds, mister Barker.
Well, now let's take a lookat our catalog here. Now, say
you had a great Dane, you'dwant something regal like this Louis fourteen.
Have you see a more beautiful bed? Not lately? But mister Barker,
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down, boy down. Now here'sa number that's very big this season with
English bulldogs that sheded to net wouldfinish lovely him. And of course,
if it's an Irish terrier, he'sa purely gag present for his sense of
humor. A Murphy bed get it, sam Irish terrier, of course?
Would We wouldn't ask a doctor sleepinga Murphy mister Bacle, I'm afraid I
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don't see anything here? I like, what's this? Do I understand you?
Sir? You are refusing this smallspeck of comfort to the one unselfish
friend that man can have in thisselfish world. I'm not refusing anything.
I just don't unselfish friend who,if fortune drives you forth, an outcast
into the world homeless, will askno higher privilege than to be at your
side to guard against damon. Justthe bacay full unto death. There By
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your graveside will be found the nobledog, his head between his paws,
his eyes tad but watchful, faithful. We shook paws and I felt his
nose to be sure it was cold. It was, and I left.
I rented a car and took upa station outside the Barco factory. About
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four o'clock, he hurried out,jumped into a long, low vehicle shaped
like a duck sun, then mushedoff. I followed. An hour later,
I was phoning my first report toAdela, Cameron's secretary, Celeste,
you enter the city hall. Whatdo you do there? License bureau?
Marriage? Not dog? Really?Where'd he go there? Grocery store where
he bought one bottle of olives,one bottle of remooth and one bottle gin.
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I wonder what he's going to make. What recipe is that? Well?
Now he's in an apartment house onPostry, just across from the drug
store. I'men and judging from thegroceries and tends to stay awhile he has
laid in provision. Ah, well, I guess that's all we wanted to
know. What Miss Cameron just toldme to call you off the case.
You'll still get your guarantee, though, Major Briggs of Singer Check. Well,
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it doesn't make sense, Sam ordersorder. All right, all right,
what about tonight? I'm fraid no, some other time? You you
mean? It's all over the halfdaring, half shy kisses on the Oakland
Ferry, that the warm, passionatespring nights at Fisherman's War feeding abalone,
the hello well puzzle as who wouldn'tbe. I walked solely back to my
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car, But before I had achance to get in, I saw I
J Barco hurry out of his apartmenthouse. But he didn't enter his car.
He came right for me. Hey, Hey, so sorry, my
name is Don jose manz sidamo Ally'syet don't kid me speed, I'm not
as stupid diactor today. Look,I know why Adela Cameron is following me,
and you don't, and you'll neverfind out any more than the other
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four detectives did. I was thefifth choice. Well, I shall speak
with my agent about this. I'mgoing to tell her in person that this
foolishness has to stop. If itdoesn't, she lived to regret it.
One more thing. I presume you'regoing to follow me, Well, I'm
turning right on Market and heading outto twelve seventeen Ridgewood Place. You shouldn't
have any trouble. And with that, he spun on one heel and trotted
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to his car. He took off, But when I went to my car,
it wouldn't turn over. And whenI lifted the hood, I found
out why all my spark plugs weregone. I picked up a new set
at a service station, looked upAdela Cameron's address in the phone book.
It was twelve seventeen Ridgewood Place,and about a half hour later I got
there. Barco's car was out infront. No one answered the door,
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but it was opened. Adela Cameronwas a crumpled heap on the living room
sofa. So help me, please, all right, all right, miss
Cameron, let me look at you. You hurt? No, no,
him, alright, it's him wherebar I hurried into the bar and was
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met with a strong odor of scotch. A bottle of it had been broken,
and holding the neck of the bottlein one hand was I J Barco.
He was on the floor. Hishand slowly opened, the glass rolled
out, and he died. Youare listening to the weekly adventure of radio's
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most famous detective, Sam Spade,Act two of tonight's Sam Spade. In
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Tonight's adventure with Sam's bade. Ittook three bullets in the chest to
finish off by J Barko. He'dapparently been standing there pouring a drink.
Marko broke the bottle as he fell. I couldn't find any other signs of
violence or any guns, so Iwent back to Adela Cameron. She was
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beginning to calm down. I don'tknow who did it. I just don't
know. It couldn't have happened morethan a minute ago. And you were
in the house, weren't you.No. No. After I left,
my officer stopped in the store forsome things and came home. When I
was driving down Ridgewood, I heardsome sounds and you thought they were a
car backfiring. How did you know? I've heard this script before. Don't
you dare accuse me of killing thatman. It's not what I think that
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counts, but what the police accuseyou of. Sam. I heard those
sounds came in the house. WhenI went into the bar, you didn't
notice Barco's car out in front.Oh I suppose I did. I don't
know, I don't remember. Whatare you calling homicide? Can wait a
minute, Justine, please wait forwhat I want to tell you some things,
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all right, go on. Ikind of get the feeling I was
hired to put the finger on thedog's best friend. That's not the way
it was. The last thing inthe world I wanted was for him to
be killed murdered any all right,what did you want? I'll tell you
the truth. Why I really hadyou watching Barco? I'd be curious.
We handled his investment account, mybrother Greg Race. We ran into each
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other. I heard, well,Greg took one hundred and fifty thousand dollars
Barco's money and invested it without myknowledge in the television company. I hear
that medium's making money. But itturned out this company was just a front
for some men who wanted to builda gambling sid to get up. No,
you mean your brother didn't know that. He knew, but there was
supposed to be big money in it. He was going to give Barco a
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good profit and take the rest ofhimself, and Barco found out and threatened
suit or something. He never wouldhave known. But the deal fell through
and the gambler said the money wasgone. Then he asked about the investment.
What could Gregory and I tell him? What did you? Unfortunately the
truth. We said we'd make upthe money with interest, but he only
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gave us ninety days. We couldn'tget it by then. Oh you didn't
shoot him, your brother did?Ain't? No, Sam, No,
he couldn't have. I know greghe'd have more sense. In my brief
meeting with him, I didn't thinkhe had any sense. Just one more
thing before I call the police,and don't call them. Help me get
him out of here somewhere, Sam, Sam, do and my whole life
stop it? Stop it. Youset me on Barco to find some blackmailing
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material. Yes, yes, Andthen why did you suddenly call me off
a job tonight? Didn't? Yoursecretary said you did? I didn't.
I didn't tell her anything of thesort. Can I have that phone now?
So I called you, Dundee.Before you arrived, I looked through
Barco's pockets for something to do andcame up with a picture of him and
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a girl taken outside a marriage chapelin Las Vegas. The girl was Celeste
Cameron Incorporated. It's plushy secretary,several years younger and two shades less voluptuous.
Her address six two seven Finley wassupplied by a now hysterical at Della
Cameron. No one answered Celeste's store, but I heard a shower going inside,
so I took the liberty of entering. For soona non grutta there is
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come out and see no false moves. Now keep that tone where it is.
Am I doing here detective work?And I must say I've already found
out a great deal. I didexpress some interest in you, but if
you recall I told you not tonight. It's my only night off. Please
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live. I don't want any difficultthing. All right, we knock off
the cute touches and get down tobusiness. You were married to I J.
Barko, right or wrong? Wrong? It's right. You were married
in Las Vegas at the chapel ofthe Flamingo Hotel, the towel. I
was only married one day. Myparents had it a null that was under
age. Well you don't have toworry about him anymore. He's dead shot
three times at close range in AdelaCameron's house. Not by you, of
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course, although on the other hand, as you would say, why not,
I didn't do it? Suppose youspill he wanted me to marry him
again? Why I know all aboutthe money that Cameron's misused. He found
out greg and I were in love. I should have known, he said,
he forget about the entire hundred andfifty thousand and five. Marry him
for sixty years twenty five thousand ayear. That's a good price. Can
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you talk like the practice? Iguess so Gregory had another good reason for
killing He didn't stam. I knowhe didn't anything. It would stand up
in court, I don't think so. Suppose we say you called me off
Barco's tales so Gregory could get atit. I didn't. I called her
off because I was supposed to meetI Jay's apartment tonight and give him his
answer. I couldn't do it withyou there. Flimsy, flimsy, but
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it might hold the truth. Iwas going to see him, but I
changed my mind. Any particular reasonyou saw him, would he be the
kind of man i'd marry? Youdid once? Well, it looks bad
for Greg because someone that Cameron Incorporatedknew Barco was going to be at Adela's
house. Emily doing me a favor, Maybe give me an hour, then
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I'll go wherever you want. I'lltell you anything you want to know.
Why an hour because if I'm goingto live with myself is something I have
to do, well please him.If you do, I'll give you some
information you might want. For example, there was someone at Cameron Incorporated and
knew that Barco was going to Adela'shouse. She must have known I was
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going to wait outside and Taylor,but she didn't, because without once looking
over her shoulders, she emerged fromher apartment house, slithered into her car,
and led me directly down to therailroad station. She met a man
in the waiting room, threw herarms around him, whispered something in his
ear, and they hurried out toTrack seven. There was a transcontinental train
getting up steam. She kissed himand he climbed quickly up into a pullman
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named Aurora Falls, and almost asquickly I climbed in the other end.
We met in the middle. Whatare you doing here? I came to
take you off the train, dregbefore you made a bidden big mistake and
left Tom. Look here, let'snot go through the intercollegiate tup talk again.
Are you coming off or am Igoing to carry off? Gonna carry
me off? And I did.Celeste was gone and he revived when he
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hit the cool air. Led himout of the station as unobtrusively as possible.
Then we went down a side streetto where my car was part That's
where he began to show signs oflife. Spade, Look, you're all
wrong. Guy's got a right toleave town when he wants to. I'm
gonna sue you from here to thecity hall and back. Shut up and
get in the car. So let'sjust tell me about Barco. You don't
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think I did that to you?As I get it. You and Celeste
we're leaving Tom together, right.Yeah. She told me to go on
and she come later. That wasunwise of both of you. Come on,
get in, Spade. I didn'tkill Bark. Nobody said you did.
If you'll kindly get in the carand give me an address I want,
and you know, we'll go seewho did kill I J Barco.
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He gave me the address I wantedand said I was crazy. I told
him why I wasn't, and hebegan to see the reason of it.
Never have I gone to pick upa murderer with more distastes. When we
knocked at the door, I hada gun in my hand, but it
wasn't necessary. Oh, come in, mister Spade. I knew you'd be
a long student or later. Idon't like what I have to do.
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Major major can't be true. Itjust can't be. Come in, Gregory,
my boy, come in a littlemadeira first, before we start to
talk, Deira, How can youtalk about wine when a man's accusing you
of murdering? Why don't think it'sso unreasonable, Greg, After all,
I did kill the unfortunate mister Barko, and this might be the last Madeira
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I shall ever have. Mister Spade, thank you, sir, Greg.
I don't want any wine. Spade. He's out of his mind, and
so are you. I'm afraid not, Gregor. Oh that was a vintage
nineteen hundred madeira. You've wasted Gregtwice as old as you stop at stop.
I'm sorry about what happened. Greg. I would have spared you and
your sister this unhappiness if I couldhave, but destiny was against us.
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All. You knew he was goingto Miss Cameron's house, didn't you.
Yes. Just before I left forthe bank with a weekly deposit, he
called for Miss Cameron and I tookthe call. I told him she was
gone, and he said he wasgoing to her house. It was to
be an ultimatum, the money intwenty four hours or exposure. But you
didn't have to kill him, certainlynot. It was a crime of passion.
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I take the weekly deposit to thebank every Friday, and I always
carry a gun. Silly me carryinga gun, never had to use it,
but the bonding company requires I carryit. Well, I went directly
from the bank to Miss Cameron's house. I wanted to help her face Barko.
Was she there? Oh? No, mister Spadeheet apparently stop downtown to
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do some shopping. So I facedBarko alone. I asked him point blank
to give these young people more time, but he just laughed at me.
He said the only time laid Gatewould be in jail. So it happened.
Well. I hadn't intended to,but I became angry, suddenly found
the gun in my hand, andthe thought crossed my mind, my life
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is just about over, and yours, Gregg is just beginning. It was
easy, easier to pull the triggerthan I would have realized. Oh Lord,
morma, dear on, mister speed, Thank you Major, but no,
well, allow me to present thebottle to you as a gift.
I'll get my head and coat.Greg my boy, I'm sorry, You're
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sorry. Major. I wish i'dnever been born, period, And of
report, I wish I hadn't either, hadn't been born that poor poor man.
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Yes, our reckon and poor Gregory. You'll have to go to jail
for something too. He will anthyabout typing it up. I hate too.
I guess it's my duty. Threechimes mean good times on NBC.
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There's no cover charge at Duffy's Tavern. Just keep your dial on this NBC
station this evening as Archie, themanager played by Ed Gardner, and his
remarkable friends serve up another blueplate specialof grilled English language, fresh laughs and
whimsie all amode. Another Friday Funfavorite is the Delightful Life of Riley,
starring William Bendix as the beleaguered chesterA Riley. Oh here it is,
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let me see ha murders all inplace, gunshots, indicated Dundee's grammar.
Editors may astuteness emphasize you've learned yourjob. Well if oh, I'm glad
you're please wait a minute, Waita minute, what's this? Ps done?
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The hands off? Celeste Robert,she's mine, Effie. What's the
meaning of that? Well? Well, you are going back to see her,
aren't you, after the way shethrow herself at you? No?
Do you think she's my type ofwoman? Oh? Sam, I think
every woman's your type, every womanwith me? No, Effie, come
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here? Would I have you workingin this office? If you weren't my
type? Does not? Well,then let that thought be your comfort.
The world can have all the CelesteRobert said once as far as oh,
I can't go through it, yousee, then you can have her if
you want to. But in theend, I know you'll come back to
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me. I never doubted it once. You don't know how much you mean?
Yes, I do, Effie.Three weeks back, Salary, Oh
you can, good night, sweetheart. The Adventures of Sam Spade are produced,
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edited, and directed by William Spear. Sam Spade was played by Stephen
Dunn. Loreene Tuttle is Effie.Script for Tonight's adventure by John Michael Hayes
and Dick Powell. Musical scoring byBlood Gluskin, conducted by Robert Armbrister.
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Join us again next week, sametime for another adventure with Sam Spade here
the Magnificent Montague, then visit Duffy'stown Welcome back. A couple of bits
of deja vous in this episode.The solution and motive for the murderer cultimind
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the bouncing Betty Caper, and Spadesgiving the story alternate titles reminded me a
bit of Charles Russell in the originalJohnny doll Or from the previous year.
Other than that, I thought thiswas a perfectly serviceable episode, though I
was expecting it to have more todo with dogs when I read the title.
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Listener comments and feedback. Now andwe start out with Emmett, who
writes over on Facebook. I knowI'll get used to the new Sam,
but my first reaction is that hisvoice is too smooth, not enough snarl
to it. But as is alwaysthe case, if I heard this Verston
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Howard duff is the replacement, I'dprobably complain that the news Sam is too
snarly. Well, thanks so much, Emma, and yeah, I think
that there's definitely some truth in that, and Don definitely has a very different
performance that has its own merits,and to be honest, I am still
adjusting to him at this point.Obviously Duff was better us, like Bob
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Bailey was better than Bob Reddick andMandel Kramer, but those guys both had
their own merits and it just doestake a while. Now it's time to
thank our Patreon supporter of the day, and I want to go ahead and
thanks Stephen. Stephen has been oneof our Patreon supporters since July of twenty
twenty, currently supporting the program atthe Detective Sergeant level of seven dollars and
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stand aside to celebrate that great radiodetective actor Bob Bailey on the occasion of
the one hundred and tenth anniversary ofhis birth. But speaking of Bob Bailey,
you'll hear him tomorrow on yours truly, Johnny doll Or where be a
good amount in charge up there,Junior Romero, you'd meet him later.
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I'm sending another jeep up there ina few minutes, and you can go
along if you want to. Thanksso well. My company figures sabotage any
chanced they're wrong. Could it havebeen accidental equipment failure, personnel failure,
something like that. Well, ifI thought so, i'd be up there,
I recom He said, that'd bemy kind of job, But this
one's different. It's detective work,your kind of job, and general Romeros.
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Now he talks soft as a girlout of finishing school. It looks
a little like one, in fact, but underneath it he's as sharp as
attack and tougher than an old bootfulof nails. What actually happened when the
plane went down? All I've heardis that it blow up in midair.
That's right. Well, a fewIndians were on the only ones who saw
it. They were burning charcoal upon a slope about nine thousand feet yeah,
watching the plane circle gaining altitude.Then one big flash, the tail
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blew off pilot didn't have a chance. He wrote it straight into the side
of the mountain. The tail thatsounds like the baggage compartment, that's the
way I figure it, and explosiveof some kind of time bomb smuggled on
board before the take off. I'mcovering that anger from this end of rounding
up every one of the baggage,ganging, the maintenance crew, anybody who
had a chance to get near thatplane before it left the field out there,
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and what have you found out rightso far? Nothing. We're trying
to check back too, and theindividual passengers, the plane crew, trying
to find out who might benefit byhaving any one of them dead. Well,
I guess that would be your angertoo. Yeah, yeah, at
least as far as insurances concerned.Well, there were three flight policies issued
and the names are in the reportshere, so yeah, I know I've
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got them. The Home Office gavethem to me, along with the names
of the beneficiaries. I haven't talkedto any of them yet. I figured
that you know how to go aboutit better than I would. And there's
another possible insurance angle, and that'sthe cargo. You know, if there
was anything valuable on board worth destroyingfor the insurance. You mean no,
it was done by somebody had deliberatelyset out to kill one of the ten
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people on board that plane. Itwouldn't mind killing nine others to get that
one. It was premeditated, coldblooded. You get him, Johnny,
get him for me, and thenjust leave me alone with him for about
I hope you'll be with us then. In the meantime, do send your
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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 airdate is December the first of
nineteen fifty and the title is TheDogbed Caeper. The National Broadcasting Company presents
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the adventures of Sam Spade, DetectiveSam Stay Detective Agency Me, sweetheart,
would you mind telling me where youare? Not at all? If not
at all, let's see, I'mat the ill rig deniabi tile Seacrod I
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don't know sand is sand, ButI think I caught the word gross.
Oh you're shrewd, Effie. Yousee I'm on the inside and the lettering
is printed on the outside. Ifyou'll wait, I'll go outside and read
it the right way and then comeinside. And never mind, I've already
guessed you're a George's elite bar andgrills say after me, you promised me
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you wouldn't me? I promised me, you did, Sam, You promise
faithfully to stay away from bars.You know how hard television is on your
eyes? Have you got your glassesone in each hand? Fill them up?
George? Oh Sam, I heardthat? What will people think?
They'll never know? Effie? Ialways drink here under another name. Oh
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just a little of the hair ofthe dog that bit me, Effie.
But don't worry about me, althoughit's true I have been dogging it and
have been hounded from tree to tree. I am frisky as ever, and
will be in to unleash my caninechronicle, namely the dog Bedcaper, or
He'll Lie Down with Dogs, getsup with murder or condensed for easy reading
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or NBC William Spear Radio's Outstanding ProducerDirector of mystery and crime drama brings you
the greatest private detective of them all. In the Adventures of Sam Spade,
Effie, Here, I am Sam, Here, I am Sam Effie.
Did you ever write poetry in school? Well? Well, I was known
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as Emily Dickinson of Central High Ithought you had a touch of internal rhyme
scheme there at home about you today? Really? Well, Redoodle, there
was a detective named Spade with oodlesof brains and his hade clever clever.
When he took up drinking, heforgot about thinking. Now give me the
punchline. And Effie has stayed quiteunpaid, well a little rough, but
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choose to get the ideas he nevercould make any sense out of poetry.
Ready getting close to Christmas. Emmypencil porn, use my life pencil,
and I don't really have enough moneyto play, Zeffie, I have no
head for figures, all right?From Samuel Spay License number one, three,
seven, five, nine six,subject the dog Bed Capers. Oh
Sam, I hope this is goingto be all about dogs. I belong
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to the tail wagage. Yeah.I've read all the books by Jack Yeah,
yeah, yeah, yeah, Ithink strangely enough. You will not
meet a single dog in this story. Actually, this narrative has little indeed
to do with our four footed friendsor their beds. And I change the
title now, except that it's alreadygone out for publicity. They're dundee.
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It all started with a phone callto my secretary, Miss Effie Pirene,
a doll, requesting my inimitable servicesat the investment counseling firm of Cameron Incorporated,
clearing everything off my desk to shoeswith feet in him my own.
I went over. The firm ofCameron Incorporated was obviously not for the pushcart
set. It was plush ankle,deep ruggs, imported drapes, and the
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receptionist she had a plushness all ofher own. I said hello in my
plushiest voice. She liked it,she said, so oh, I like
the way you said that. Sayit again. Life is too short to
go back, even for a moment. The past is a dead thing,
the present dying. Only the futurealive and vibrant. However, Hello,
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is there something there is? CouldI ask a question? I will rephrase
the question, what time do youstop working? This evening? Care to
heaven? There's a little bar aroundthe corner. Okay, why not?
Why not? Indeed, bring yourown money, will come anyway. Your
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name mind, Sam Spade. Who'smister Briggs? He called Major? Well,
he's our chief account I just happenedto have my door open. Did
I hear someone inquiring about me?This is mister Spade, Major Bridge.
How do you do Major? It'sa pleasure to meet you in person,
mister Spade. I'm the man whocalled you. You know I'm grateful,
sir. Now what is that Ican do for you and mister Cameron?
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Or it's not for me that Icalled. I happened to worry in the
world and it's miss Cameron. OldCameron's been dead for many years now,
I see whatever she wants. MisterSpade, do a good job. We
are all counting on you. Willyou please announce mister Spade, Miss Roberts,
if you'd excuse me, nice tomet you Major, Miss Cameron.
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Yes, it's Spade here, sentimentplace your own Sam have fun? I
think I might. Why not?That girl had the most beautiful double on
tondre in tom Well they get on. Adella Cameron was a career woman around
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twenty nine. Although the tailored suitmade fine, detective work difficult, no
makeup severe hardo. And in spiteof all this chic, in fact,
as we shook hands in a mostbusinesslike manner, I had the feeling that
something warm might well spring up betweenus, something like a warm mutual dislike
maybe, but something most men simplycannot be told anything in confidence. They
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gossip. That's a switch. Idon't appreciate your humor, mister Spa.
I accept your apology. I willtolerate you because of your reputation. All
right, I'm going to give youa very difficult job to do with Miss
Cameron. What is it? Madehim? Sorry to interrupt you, but
Caughtney Pierces on the phone. MisterSpade, this is Major Briggs, our
chief a country we've already met,mister Speed, and now Adela Pierce wants
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us to unload his short term governmentsand buy American cattle. He's divid in
crazy am cats, declaring one inJanuary, and he wants it. Let
him do it. Oh, Ijust want to protect your interests. You
know what will happen to Amcat afterFebruary. That'll drop ten points and he'll
blame us. I went through thiswith your father when you and Greg were
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that's right, Major, Well tellhim we advise against it. But if
he persists, asking for a releasein writing, that's what I thought you'd
do, That's the way your fatherwould have handled it. I just want
to protect your interest, my dear. That's all I know, Major,
I know, I just want toprotect your interest. Don't worry about us.
You know we're our children anymore.All right, my dear, where
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were we? Oh? You weregiving me a difficult job. Oh yeah.
Here is the business address of misterI. J. Barco, the
wealthy manufacturer client of ours. Iwant you to find out everything about him,
especially anything unsavory. Sorry, Idon't do divorce or blackmail. Okay,
mister Spade, this is not adivorce investigation, all right? What
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is it then? Why do wewant a client shadowed? I believed the
expression that's it because we believe heis investing money through us for some racketeers.
If that were true, we wouldof course have to drop him.
But we don't want to lose hisbusiness just on suspicion. I see,
find out anything you can about him. I'll give you fifty dollars a day
and expenses one week guarantee, willyou consider the job. I have considered
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and taken the job. By thetime I reached the door, she had
already forgotten me and was hard atwork on some papers. Outside. I
planned a dally a few moments,an idle chitchat with Celeste. But before
I had the chance, I wasaccosted by a husky young chap whom I'm
afraid was a Princeton man. Orwere you're talking about in this, babe?
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Or you had the advantage sir?Will you Gregory Cameron? Now come
on? What was it? Dellatelling him, well, if you step
to one side, you can walkaround me and ask her. Look,
don't pull that kg private detective routineon me. I pack a little weight
myself. We'll pack it somewhere else. I asked you a question. I
expect an answer. There's your answer. Any more questions. He didn't feel
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much like talking then, and Iwas so irritated I walked out without saying
goodbye to Celeste. When I reachedthe street, the white haired old gentleman
Major Briggs hurried out behind me.Mister Spade, please don't think too badly
of that boy. I've known himfrom the cradle. He's in a difficult
emotional state. Yeah, sure,sure, sure, As far as I'm
concerned, Major had never happened.You're a kind man, mister Spade.
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I could tell that when I firstsaw you. You're just the sort of
man Miss Cameron needs. Well,I hadn't looked at it that way.
If you require anything, don't hesitateto ask me. I've been with this
company forty years before those two childrenthey were born, and I know how
difficult life can be at times.I just want things to go willful.
I'll do my little part. Major. Bless you, son, bless you.
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I started to work the card aDella Cameron had given me revealed at
my quarry mister I. J.Barcour was, of all things, a
manufacturer of dog beds. I satdown on hydrant to think this over,
and then followed the scent of horsemadon over to his factory on South Dolores.
It was built in the shape ofa large dog house, and outside
stood a billboard with a message Asurvey of independent dog tracks, kennels and
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canine corps proves that dogs choose barcobeds two to one. I had to
get a look at Barco himself,and so ruffling up the hair on the
back of my neck, I trottedinto the building, snipping and wagging my
tail in a very friendly manner.It was very easy to see mister Barco
after I lied a little about myconnection. What was that name again,
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Senior Don Jose Martinez, Sada Morales. But you may call me Sad and
you represent a group of retail outletteens how of America? Oh I do.
Indeed, we have our eye onyour dog beds, mister Barker.
Well, now let's take a lookat our catalog here. Now, say
you had a great Dane, you'dwant something regal like this Louis fourteen.
Have you see a more beautiful bed? Not lately? But mister Barker,
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down, boy down. Now here'sa number that's very big this season with
English bulldogs that sheded to net wouldfinish lovely him. And of course,
if it's an Irish terrier, he'sa purely gag present for his sense of
humor. A Murphy bed get it, sam Irish terrier, of course?
Would We wouldn't ask a doctor sleepinga Murphy mister Bacle, I'm afraid I
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don't see anything here? I like, what's this? Do I understand you?
Sir? You are refusing this smallspeck of comfort to the one unselfish
friend that man can have in thisselfish world. I'm not refusing anything.
I just don't unselfish friend who,if fortune drives you forth, an outcast
into the world homeless, will askno higher privilege than to be at your
side to guard against damon. Justthe bacay full unto death. There By
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your graveside will be found the nobledog, his head between his paws,
his eyes tad but watchful, faithful. We shook paws and I felt his
nose to be sure it was cold. It was, and I left.
I rented a car and took upa station outside the Barco factory. About
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four o'clock, he hurried out,jumped into a long, low vehicle shaped
like a duck sun, then mushedoff. I followed. An hour later,
I was phoning my first report toAdela, Cameron's secretary, Celeste,
you enter the city hall. Whatdo you do there? License bureau?
Marriage? Not dog? Really?Where'd he go there? Grocery store where
he bought one bottle of olives,one bottle of remooth and one bottle gin.
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I wonder what he's going to make. What recipe is that? Well?
Now he's in an apartment house onPostry, just across from the drug
store. I'men and judging from thegroceries and tends to stay awhile he has
laid in provision. Ah, well, I guess that's all we wanted to
know. What Miss Cameron just toldme to call you off the case.
You'll still get your guarantee, though, Major Briggs of Singer Check. Well,
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it doesn't make sense, Sam ordersorder. All right, all right,
what about tonight? I'm fraid no, some other time? You you
mean? It's all over the halfdaring, half shy kisses on the Oakland
Ferry, that the warm, passionatespring nights at Fisherman's War feeding abalone,
the hello well puzzle as who wouldn'tbe. I walked solely back to my
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car, But before I had achance to get in, I saw I
J Barco hurry out of his apartmenthouse. But he didn't enter his car.
He came right for me. Hey, Hey, so sorry, my
name is Don jose manz sidamo Ally'syet don't kid me speed, I'm not
as stupid diactor today. Look,I know why Adela Cameron is following me,
and you don't, and you'll neverfind out any more than the other
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four detectives did. I was thefifth choice. Well, I shall speak
with my agent about this. I'mgoing to tell her in person that this
foolishness has to stop. If itdoesn't, she lived to regret it.
One more thing. I presume you'regoing to follow me, Well, I'm
turning right on Market and heading outto twelve seventeen Ridgewood Place. You shouldn't
have any trouble. And with that, he spun on one heel and trotted
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to his car. He took off, But when I went to my car,
it wouldn't turn over. And whenI lifted the hood, I found
out why all my spark plugs weregone. I picked up a new set
at a service station, looked upAdela Cameron's address in the phone book.
It was twelve seventeen Ridgewood Place,and about a half hour later I got
there. Barco's car was out infront. No one answered the door,
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but it was opened. Adela Cameronwas a crumpled heap on the living room
sofa. So help me, please, all right, all right, miss
Cameron, let me look at you. You hurt? No, no,
him, alright, it's him wherebar I hurried into the bar and was
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met with a strong odor of scotch. A bottle of it had been broken,
and holding the neck of the bottlein one hand was I J Barco.
He was on the floor. Hishand slowly opened, the glass rolled
out, and he died. Youare listening to the weekly adventure of radio's
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most famous detective, Sam Spade,Act two of tonight's Sam Spade. In
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just a moment. Meanwhile, here'snews of other goings on on NBC.
There's no doubt about it. It'sthe Big Show, not just any big
show, but the Big Show,brought to you every Sunday night over most
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It's the Big Show. Saturday Nighton NBC means Mystery with the Man
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and every Saturday evening on NBC.And now back to the dog Bed Caper.
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Tonight's adventure with Sam's bade. Ittook three bullets in the chest to
finish off by J Barko. He'dapparently been standing there pouring a drink.
Marko broke the bottle as he fell. I couldn't find any other signs of
violence or any guns, so Iwent back to Adela Cameron. She was
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beginning to calm down. I don'tknow who did it. I just don't
know. It couldn't have happened morethan a minute ago. And you were
in the house, weren't you.No. No. After I left,
my officer stopped in the store forsome things and came home. When I
was driving down Ridgewood, I heardsome sounds and you thought they were a
car backfiring. How did you know? I've heard this script before. Don't
you dare accuse me of killing thatman. It's not what I think that
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counts, but what the police accuseyou of. Sam. I heard those
sounds came in the house. WhenI went into the bar, you didn't
notice Barco's car out in front.Oh I suppose I did. I don't
know, I don't remember. Whatare you calling homicide? Can wait a
minute, Justine, please wait forwhat I want to tell you some things,
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all right, go on. Ikind of get the feeling I was
hired to put the finger on thedog's best friend. That's not the way
it was. The last thing inthe world I wanted was for him to
be killed murdered any all right,what did you want? I'll tell you
the truth. Why I really hadyou watching Barco? I'd be curious.
We handled his investment account, mybrother Greg Race. We ran into each
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other. I heard, well,Greg took one hundred and fifty thousand dollars
Barco's money and invested it without myknowledge in the television company. I hear
that medium's making money. But itturned out this company was just a front
for some men who wanted to builda gambling sid to get up. No,
you mean your brother didn't know that. He knew, but there was
supposed to be big money in it. He was going to give Barco a
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good profit and take the rest ofhimself, and Barco found out and threatened
suit or something. He never wouldhave known. But the deal fell through
and the gambler said the money wasgone. Then he asked about the investment.
What could Gregory and I tell him? What did you? Unfortunately the
truth. We said we'd make upthe money with interest, but he only
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gave us ninety days. We couldn'tget it by then. Oh you didn't
shoot him, your brother did?Ain't? No, Sam, No,
he couldn't have. I know greghe'd have more sense. In my brief
meeting with him, I didn't thinkhe had any sense. Just one more
thing before I call the police,and don't call them. Help me get
him out of here somewhere, Sam, Sam, do and my whole life
stop it? Stop it. Youset me on Barco to find some blackmailing
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material. Yes, yes, Andthen why did you suddenly call me off
a job tonight? Didn't? Yoursecretary said you did? I didn't.
I didn't tell her anything of thesort. Can I have that phone now?
So I called you, Dundee.Before you arrived, I looked through
Barco's pockets for something to do andcame up with a picture of him and
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a girl taken outside a marriage chapelin Las Vegas. The girl was Celeste
Cameron Incorporated. It's plushy secretary,several years younger and two shades less voluptuous.
Her address six two seven Finley wassupplied by a now hysterical at Della
Cameron. No one answered Celeste's store, but I heard a shower going inside,
so I took the liberty of entering. For soona non grutta there is
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come out and see no false moves. Now keep that tone where it is.
Am I doing here detective work?And I must say I've already found
out a great deal. I didexpress some interest in you, but if
you recall I told you not tonight. It's my only night off. Please
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live. I don't want any difficultthing. All right, we knock off
the cute touches and get down tobusiness. You were married to I J.
Barko, right or wrong? Wrong? It's right. You were married
in Las Vegas at the chapel ofthe Flamingo Hotel, the towel. I
was only married one day. Myparents had it a null that was under
age. Well you don't have toworry about him anymore. He's dead shot
three times at close range in AdelaCameron's house. Not by you, of
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course, although on the other hand, as you would say, why not,
I didn't do it? Suppose youspill he wanted me to marry him
again? Why I know all aboutthe money that Cameron's misused. He found
out greg and I were in love. I should have known, he said,
he forget about the entire hundred andfifty thousand and five. Marry him
for sixty years twenty five thousand ayear. That's a good price. Can
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you talk like the practice? Iguess so Gregory had another good reason for
killing He didn't stam. I knowhe didn't anything. It would stand up
in court, I don't think so. Suppose we say you called me off
Barco's tales so Gregory could get atit. I didn't. I called her
off because I was supposed to meetI Jay's apartment tonight and give him his
answer. I couldn't do it withyou there. Flimsy, flimsy, but
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it might hold the truth. Iwas going to see him, but I
changed my mind. Any particular reasonyou saw him, would he be the
kind of man i'd marry? Youdid once? Well, it looks bad
for Greg because someone that Cameron Incorporatedknew Barco was going to be at Adela's
house. Emily doing me a favor, Maybe give me an hour, then
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I'll go wherever you want. I'lltell you anything you want to know.
Why an hour because if I'm goingto live with myself is something I have
to do, well please him.If you do, I'll give you some
information you might want. For example, there was someone at Cameron Incorporated and
knew that Barco was going to Adela'shouse. She must have known I was
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going to wait outside and Taylor,but she didn't, because without once looking
over her shoulders, she emerged fromher apartment house, slithered into her car,
and led me directly down to therailroad station. She met a man
in the waiting room, threw herarms around him, whispered something in his
ear, and they hurried out toTrack seven. There was a transcontinental train
getting up steam. She kissed himand he climbed quickly up into a pullman
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named Aurora Falls, and almost asquickly I climbed in the other end.
We met in the middle. Whatare you doing here? I came to
take you off the train, dregbefore you made a bidden big mistake and
left Tom. Look here, let'snot go through the intercollegiate tup talk again.
Are you coming off or am Igoing to carry off? Gonna carry
me off? And I did.Celeste was gone and he revived when he
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hit the cool air. Led himout of the station as unobtrusively as possible.
Then we went down a side streetto where my car was part That's
where he began to show signs oflife. Spade, Look, you're all
wrong. Guy's got a right toleave town when he wants to. I'm
gonna sue you from here to thecity hall and back. Shut up and
get in the car. So let'sjust tell me about Barco. You don't
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think I did that to you?As I get it. You and Celeste
we're leaving Tom together, right.Yeah. She told me to go on
and she come later. That wasunwise of both of you. Come on,
get in, Spade. I didn'tkill Bark. Nobody said you did.
If you'll kindly get in the carand give me an address I want,
and you know, we'll go seewho did kill I J Barco.
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He gave me the address I wantedand said I was crazy. I told
him why I wasn't, and hebegan to see the reason of it.
Never have I gone to pick upa murderer with more distastes. When we
knocked at the door, I hada gun in my hand, but it
wasn't necessary. Oh, come in, mister Spade. I knew you'd be
a long student or later. Idon't like what I have to do.
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Major major can't be true. Itjust can't be. Come in, Gregory,
my boy, come in a littlemadeira first, before we start to
talk, Deira, How can youtalk about wine when a man's accusing you
of murdering? Why don't think it'sso unreasonable, Greg, After all,
I did kill the unfortunate mister Barko, and this might be the last Madeira
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I shall ever have. Mister Spade, thank you, sir, Greg.
I don't want any wine. Spade. He's out of his mind, and
so are you. I'm afraid not, Gregor. Oh that was a vintage
nineteen hundred madeira. You've wasted Gregtwice as old as you stop at stop.
I'm sorry about what happened. Greg. I would have spared you and
your sister this unhappiness if I couldhave, but destiny was against us.
(25:48):
All. You knew he was goingto Miss Cameron's house, didn't you.
Yes. Just before I left forthe bank with a weekly deposit, he
called for Miss Cameron and I tookthe call. I told him she was
gone, and he said he wasgoing to her house. It was to
be an ultimatum, the money intwenty four hours or exposure. But you
didn't have to kill him, certainlynot. It was a crime of passion.
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I take the weekly deposit to thebank every Friday, and I always
carry a gun. Silly me carryinga gun, never had to use it,
but the bonding company requires I carryit. Well, I went directly
from the bank to Miss Cameron's house. I wanted to help her face Barko.
Was she there? Oh? No, mister Spadeheet apparently stop downtown to
(26:33):
do some shopping. So I facedBarko alone. I asked him point blank
to give these young people more time, but he just laughed at me.
He said the only time laid Gatewould be in jail. So it happened.
Well. I hadn't intended to,but I became angry, suddenly found
the gun in my hand, andthe thought crossed my mind, my life
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is just about over, and yours, Gregg is just beginning. It was
easy, easier to pull the triggerthan I would have realized. Oh Lord,
morma, dear on, mister speed, Thank you Major, but no,
well, allow me to present thebottle to you as a gift.
I'll get my head and coat.Greg my boy, I'm sorry, You're
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sorry. Major. I wish i'dnever been born, period, And of
report, I wish I hadn't either, hadn't been born that poor poor man.
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Yes, our reckon and poor Gregory. You'll have to go to jail
for something too. He will anthyabout typing it up. I hate too.
I guess it's my duty. Threechimes mean good times on NBC.
(28:07):
There's no cover charge at Duffy's Tavern. Just keep your dial on this NBC
station this evening as Archie, themanager played by Ed Gardner, and his
remarkable friends serve up another blueplate specialof grilled English language, fresh laughs and
whimsie all amode. Another Friday Funfavorite is the Delightful Life of Riley,
starring William Bendix as the beleaguered chesterA Riley. Oh here it is,
(28:41):
let me see ha murders all inplace, gunshots, indicated Dundee's grammar.
Editors may astuteness emphasize you've learned yourjob. Well if oh, I'm glad
you're please wait a minute, Waita minute, what's this? Ps done?
(29:03):
The hands off? Celeste Robert,she's mine, Effie. What's the
meaning of that? Well? Well, you are going back to see her,
aren't you, after the way shethrow herself at you? No?
Do you think she's my type ofwoman? Oh? Sam, I think
every woman's your type, every womanwith me? No, Effie, come
(29:25):
here? Would I have you workingin this office? If you weren't my
type? Does not? Well,then let that thought be your comfort.
The world can have all the CelesteRobert said once as far as oh,
I can't go through it, yousee, then you can have her if
you want to. But in theend, I know you'll come back to
(29:47):
me. I never doubted it once. You don't know how much you mean?
Yes, I do, Effie.Three weeks back, Salary, Oh
you can, good night, sweetheart. The Adventures of Sam Spade are produced,
(30:18):
edited, and directed by William Spear. Sam Spade was played by Stephen
Dunn. Loreene Tuttle is Effie.Script for Tonight's adventure by John Michael Hayes
and Dick Powell. Musical scoring byBlood Gluskin, conducted by Robert Armbrister.
(30:51):
Join us again next week, sametime for another adventure with Sam Spade here
the Magnificent Montague, then visit Duffy'stown Welcome back. A couple of bits
of deja vous in this episode.The solution and motive for the murderer cultimind
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the bouncing Betty Caper, and Spadesgiving the story alternate titles reminded me a
bit of Charles Russell in the originalJohnny doll Or from the previous year.
Other than that, I thought thiswas a perfectly serviceable episode, though I
was expecting it to have more todo with dogs when I read the title.
(31:40):
Listener comments and feedback. Now andwe start out with Emmett, who
writes over on Facebook. I knowI'll get used to the new Sam,
but my first reaction is that hisvoice is too smooth, not enough snarl
to it. But as is alwaysthe case, if I heard this Verston
(32:00):
Howard duff is the replacement, I'dprobably complain that the news Sam is too
snarly. Well, thanks so much, Emma, and yeah, I think
that there's definitely some truth in that, and Don definitely has a very different
performance that has its own merits,and to be honest, I am still
adjusting to him at this point.Obviously Duff was better us, like Bob
(32:25):
Bailey was better than Bob Reddick andMandel Kramer, but those guys both had
their own merits and it just doestake a while. Now it's time to
thank our Patreon supporter of the day, and I want to go ahead and
thanks Stephen. Stephen has been oneof our Patreon supporters since July of twenty
twenty, currently supporting the program atthe Detective Sergeant level of seven dollars and
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fourteen cents or more per month.Thanks so much for your support, Stephen,
and that will do it for today. If you are enjoying the podcast,
please follow us using your favorite podcastsoftware, and please be sure to
rate and review the podcast wherever youdownload us from. Sam Spade will be
back in two weeks because in oneweek most of our regularly scheduled programs will
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stand aside to celebrate that great radiodetective actor Bob Bailey on the occasion of
the one hundred and tenth anniversary ofhis birth. But speaking of Bob Bailey,
you'll hear him tomorrow on yours truly, Johnny doll Or where be a
good amount in charge up there,Junior Romero, you'd meet him later.
(33:37):
I'm sending another jeep up there ina few minutes, and you can go
along if you want to. Thanksso well. My company figures sabotage any
chanced they're wrong. Could it havebeen accidental equipment failure, personnel failure,
something like that. Well, ifI thought so, i'd be up there,
I recom He said, that'd bemy kind of job, But this
one's different. It's detective work,your kind of job, and general Romeros.
(33:58):
Now he talks soft as a girlout of finishing school. It looks
a little like one, in fact, but underneath it he's as sharp as
attack and tougher than an old bootfulof nails. What actually happened when the
plane went down? All I've heardis that it blow up in midair.
That's right. Well, a fewIndians were on the only ones who saw
it. They were burning charcoal upon a slope about nine thousand feet yeah,
watching the plane circle gaining altitude.Then one big flash, the tail
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blew off pilot didn't have a chance. He wrote it straight into the side
of the mountain. The tail thatsounds like the baggage compartment, that's the
way I figure it, and explosiveof some kind of time bomb smuggled on
board before the take off. I'mcovering that anger from this end of rounding
up every one of the baggage,ganging, the maintenance crew, anybody who
had a chance to get near thatplane before it left the field out there,
(34:44):
and what have you found out rightso far? Nothing. We're trying
to check back too, and theindividual passengers, the plane crew, trying
to find out who might benefit byhaving any one of them dead. Well,
I guess that would be your angertoo. Yeah, yeah, at
least as far as insurances concerned.Well, there were three flight policies issued
and the names are in the reportshere, so yeah, I know I've
(35:07):
got them. The Home Office gavethem to me, along with the names
of the beneficiaries. I haven't talkedto any of them yet. I figured
that you know how to go aboutit better than I would. And there's
another possible insurance angle, and that'sthe cargo. You know, if there
was anything valuable on board worth destroyingfor the insurance. You mean no,
it was done by somebody had deliberatelyset out to kill one of the ten
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people on board that plane. Itwouldn't mind killing nine others to get that
one. It was premeditated, coldblooded. You get him, Johnny,
get him for me, and thenjust leave me alone with him for about
I hope you'll be with us then. In the meantime, do send your
comments to Box thirteen at Great Detectivesdot and yet, follow us on Twitter
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