July 19, 2025 • 30 mins
Original Release Date: May 8, 2023
Today's Mystery:
Sam is hired by a woman to help her fiancé, who has been charged with armed robbery.Rehearsal of Program that Aired May 28, 1950
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Starred Howard Duff as Sam Spade, Lurene Tuttle as EffieS
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Today's Mystery:
Sam is hired by a woman to help her fiancé, who has been charged with armed robbery.Rehearsal of Program that Aired May 28, 1950
Originated from Hollywood
Starred Howard Duff as Sam Spade, Lurene Tuttle as EffieS
upport the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net
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Mail a donation to: Adam Graham, PO Box 15913, Boise, Idaho 83715
Take the listener survey at http://survey.greatdetectives.net
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(00:28):
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Patreon dot Great Detectives dot net.Well, now it's time for this week's
episode of Sam Spade, which isanother rehearsal recording. It's a rehearsal of
a program that originally aired on Maythe twenty eighth of nineteen fifty and it's
The Honest Thiefcaper Fret Detective Agency.Me. It's you, I'm the Filter
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and in the flash any messages,phone calls, what is the telegram?
Just the usual? I built thelandlord and I notice from the telephone company.
Well, I'll dispose of them asusual. It's an awfully chipper.
Have you been on a case,don Did you make some money? Yes,
I've been on a case. OhI did not make any money.
Oh you cli't gotten murder before hecould pay you. Wrong again. My
client was a woman. She didnot get murdered, and she could pay
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me. And she did, butshe just said she didn't true. I
ain't true. Things that I wouldthey seem I would not confuse. You
just said it, and I meantevery word of it. Stop registering bewilderment.
All all is paradox. So shoppingyour pencils right in your seams,
get out your notebook, and prepareto be confounded by the contradictions. I
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shall contradictate to you doing my reporton the Honest Thief Caper. I'm not
looking over these like alert girl withmany things to do. You say the
strangest things on the phone. Idon't believe I claim this stood, but
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I'm actual misunderstanding. I didn't understandit myself. But date size and Frank
Nilga's robbery detailed San Francisco police.Oh you're fast, today subject to Ben
Kamiski Ben comiskey c O m Is k I. I went to Elbert
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High School with a boy named BenComisky. Is he the same one?
Very likely? Oh? Sam,tell me? Did you turn on bad?
Is it good? Did you getmarried down? This is one mystery
you're not going to solve by readingthe last chapter first, Dear Frank,
it was one of those days.The sky was black and it looked like
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rain. But when I put onmy trench coat the sun came out.
At breakfast, it looked like I'dordered fried eggs, and I wound up
with pancakes. Also, I discoveredI was wearing one blue sock and one
black one. After that, Igave a cab driver of five instead of
a one and let him ride offof the change. And there was one
other thing, damn than just you'reoverdrawn, nuts ef. I'm at a
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deposit two days ago. I check, Sam, you're nuts too. I
made out to slept my soffa.Oh give me, Sam, I'll take
it right down. Yeah, betterdo that, anel Oh can I help
you miss this? Mister Spain?All right, come right in, Miss
sit On, uh, Miss Buraniamay go and do that, instruct them,
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and if such a mistake occurs again, I shall take my account elsewhere.
Yes, please sit on this.My name's Louise Miller. Mister Spade,
I I want to hire you.How much will it cost? Well,
now, miss Milla, let's let'stalk about it. I have much
time, mister Spade. I haveto be at the office and a half
an hour and I have to crosstown. You see. Well, Mamma
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thinks I should forget all about him, but I can't. And I well,
here, I've I've got ninety fivedollars. Will you please do something,
just something? Come on, come, I'm sorry, I'm all right
now. Who is he? What'she done? And why does mama want
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you to forget him? Ben,Ben Msky, we were going to be
married pretty soon. We even pickedout our furniture room. It's all right
now, go on. What's hedone? Let mis say he held up
a store two nights ago. Hepicked him up on the street today.
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He isn't jail. Well, ifhe's innocent, I'm sure they'll find that
out. He won't even see me, missus Spader, or he won't see
anyone. Ben's good and kind andsweet and I love him and I want
to marry him, and I wantyou to find out why. What it's
all about? What Miss Moller right, I think you should be in the
office of a good lawyer. I'msure he doesn't want a lawyer. He
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wanted to see the public defender.He doesn't want anything. Oh please,
please, mister Spader. I justwant to die if Ben went the prisoner,
I just want to die. I'mno sentimentalist, but faith is the
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thing we're a little short on thesedays. So we came to terms.
It was a great She could payme after the job was done, if
there was any job to do.She left for work and I phoned you.
Was arching nil guess and find outBen Komiski had already been arraigned and
was being held in a city jail. And I dropped in. Twenty minutes
later. You walked me back toherself. What's all about, Sam?
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I don't know. I'm just lookingat either one. He won't tell you
anything, kept his trap shut allthe time he's been here. As far
as we've been able to find out, no previous record, no background.
Wow, maybe this is a badform of that first degree. Sam k
Usi propride him and named Potter overon Army Street, identified him in the
morning lineup just like that, pickedhim out of a dozen guys we hauled
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in. Anyone, always send acouple of the boys out to Komiski's room
and find all they're doing. TheUS A drawer. Nine hundred clans,
Now take it easy, Commisky,This is to Sam Spade. He wants
to talk to you. Ben Comiskiwas tall, dark complexioned, about twenty
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nine or thirty years old. Hishair was black, straight and closely cropped.
His features were regular, not good, not bad. I've seen plenty
of hold up man and gun totisin my day, and he wouldn't have
been cast on the part in mymovie. I didn't know what I expected
to say to him, what Iexpected him to say to me, But
I didn't expect what I got.What are you trying to do? Get
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out of here? He just gothere, man, Well you can just
leave. Hasn't a citizen got anyrights even in jail on they started to
lose him when they use a gunto make it limit. I don't want
any lectures. I haven't got anyto hand out. I'm a private detective.
In front of your has hired me. She thinks you're a pretty nice
guy. Why won't you say she'snut? Sure to have a head felt?
What's she worrying about? Anyway?I'd say she was worrying mostly about
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you. And I'd say it's thesick kind of worry that gets into a
girl. And she loves somebody sheshouldn't. She's nuts. You said,
then did you rob that store?The guy who runs it says I did.
I suppose I did, but laughs. The complaint says, you make
sixty five bucks a week in anarchitect's office. You can eat that man.
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Look, Spade, go back andtell her this. I didn't want
furniture at ten dollars a month forthe next eighty months. I didn't want
a car the same way. Ididn't want her working and me working and
getting nothing but wrinkles. Tell herI got caught in to go and find
a guy who can pay the way. Is that that's enough? It charres
with arms robbery in the first degree. That means not less than five years.
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I know it, and shut upabout it. Why don't you turn
down a lawyer? Hadn't you heardSpade? They're holding up my indictment.
I'm a prize pigeon. They thinkmaybe I knocked over ten or twelve other
places in town, did you sure? Sure, But don't worry about me,
and tell Louise not to worry aboutme. Got a million buck salted
away, and I'm gonna buy myway out through the DA's office. Okay,
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have it your way, Ben.But an hour later I found myself
strolling around ben Kamiski's old neighborhood.A man named Gabrini, who owned a
grocery store, remembered him and likedhim. A woman in a bakery shop
told me how he had gone intothe army as a private and been discharged
the first lieutenant. A phone callto a mister Henderson Allied Architects revealed that
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Ben Komiski was in line for araise and promotion. All in all,
I was getting a composite picture thatdidn't look quite right. I decided to
try his mother's place. It wason Lombard Avenue, a street that starts
on the waterfront. According to thepenciled note about the doorbell, it was
out of order. The slot onthe mailbox. Rappiness is Anastasia Komiski.
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Yes, missus Kemiski, I'm busynow. I fixed lunch for my son.
He'd come back from Cincinnati. Please. Oh well, well, missus
Kemeski, I'm here to talk toyou about Ben. He's your son,
too, isn't he? Yes?Ben is my son. Well, I'm
trying to help him, missus Kemiski. Why he has no money? I
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have no money. A friend ofLouise Moller hired me. Oh, she's
a foolish girl, very foolish.Her heart should not be with Ben.
I don't think he's a very luckyman to be loved by somebody like that.
If not for her, Ben wouldnot be in jail, in trouble.
Or you don't want to help myson. She don't want to help
him. She leave him alone ifyou want to help. Ben is bad,
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not good like my son James.James is always good times. He's
a way. He sends me money. From what I hear, Ben's always
been pretty good too, always onegood son, one bad son. Oh,
he's come to ask questions about Ben. I'm Jim Kenski. Bens.
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You run on in, mom,I'll talk to this gentleman, all right,
get out of here. Look,I'm just trying. You've got any
questions to ask about Ben, goto the police. They can give you
all the answers. And stop botheringmy mother. She's been throwing enough in
the last two days. If Icatch you around her again, I'll break
you in half. The man whoslammed the door in my face, I
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have the same angry look and thesame angry glare of Ben Komiskey. The
angry Komiski brothers definitely woanted nothing thatlooked remotely like help, it seemed to
this casual observer. I went backto my office away for six o'clock.
That's when I intended to call myclient, report my opinions and dropped the
case. But at five thirty shecalled me, Yeah, this is Louise
Miller. Oh, yes, Iwas just going to call you. I'm
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afraid I haven't been able to domuch. It looks like Spader. I
just telephoned downtown. Ben pleaded,then pleated gilly at the indictment this afternoon.
He's going to be sentenced tomorrow andback to all appearances side and nil.
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This was the crop. But twohours later, and for the second
time and one day, I foundmyself doing when I didn't think i'd be
doing, walking around a dull,gray, two story of popinghouse on Adam's
Place, my ex clients address tobe exact. I was wondering what a
lonely, distraught girl would be thinkingthe night before her boyfriend woul shipped the
way to prison. I found out. I got a whiff of it as
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I walked down the hall. It'scoming out from under her door. I
had to use my shoulder. Theroom was accurate and stinging with gas fuels,
and Louise Miller was stretched out onthe floor in a six foot kitchen.
When I picked her up and carriedher out, I wasn't sure whether
she was dead or not. Tenseconds after I had found Louise Miller,
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I'd called a police ambulance, andin a matter of minutes an intern was
working over with a pull motor.Her breathing became regular and her pulse picked
up, but she was still unconscious. Lieutenant Kelsey of homicide showed up and
said it was obviously a suicide attempt, which is his kind of ingenious thinking.
I thought, not, if shewere going to commit suicide, she
wouldn't have called first to pull meoff the caper. She'd have led an
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insignificant detail like that, take careof itself. Now. She was too
strong to pity herself, and toosure of what her intuition told her to
believe. Even ben Kamiski's confession,Well that kind of faith. I owed
it to her to poke around theashes while they were still hot. I
did, and turned up a livecoal in a faded blue shirt and wrinkled
brown pants. Bert single be bya name and by vocation, manager of
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the Greystone Arms apartments. What kindof a girl was she? Oh?
Nice clean? Since here the kindmothers always want their sons to marry boy
I wish hardly in the mine.Yeah, did you know her boyfriend ben
Kemiskey, Oh salt O dearth.I can't understand him pulling a hold up
like that, But then you know, the war did strange things. I
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almost stayed in Europe and married myselfup to a French doll myself. Yeah,
but Sandra, that's my wife.You'd hunted me down into bed.
It was easier to come home facingmusic. Yeah. Well about Louise,
you know what a raison? Whyshe might commit suicide? Frank no,
no. I met her in thehallway tonight and she said, mister Singleby,
she said, Ben didn't do that. Hold up, because I'm pretty
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sure I know who did. Well. I figure she just keeping up a
front. But if she did reallyknow that Ben didn't do it, she
wouldn't have turned on the gas,now, would you? She wouldn't.
Didn't she tell you who she thoughtdidn't? That's all she said. It's
quiet girl, not like my wife. Now, sand Yeah, did you
see her here or anything that mighthave been suspicious around you as you round
her apartment to nine? Look,I don't want to go around breaking up
any home. Just spreading dirty gossiparound involves Sanders relative, mister Singleby.
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I promise you, sir, thatI will treat any information you give me
confidentially as long as I can,all right, Alison, Sandra told me
not say anything because it's you know, it's a lot easier to rent a
suicide apartment than a murder apartments.You know that, confidentially. I'm a
humanitarian. But if you tell anybodyI said this, I'll well, I'll
just lie about it. I'll nevertell a soul. Well, we were
out of butter, see, soI had to run down to the store.
Or when I passed the mailboxes outside, the guy is standing there.
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He asked me what you apartment LewisLouise Miller was in and I said,
twelve bat What do you look like? Oh we'll see now, five ten,
medium bill tam suit, dark shirts, sort of a wide brim hat,
kind of flashy. Or three orfour big rings diamonds. They look
like there's four big diamond rings oneach hand. Nice man, Why didn't
you tell all this to the police? Who are you talking? Don't you
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dare about that? That's why?That is why Sandra always says, keep
your mouth shut and you keep outof trouble. But me, I don't
know. I just love stop talkingtoo much and pull that door. Yes,
Sandra, dere, I'm closing it. The iceman had heard about him
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for years, a Chicago import,but I had never bumped into him before.
He'd been headquartering at the Red SpotCafe, the kind of a place
that skid roll Wino was visited whenthey want to slum. It was dark
inside, but I strode manfully tothe bar. Yeah something the iceman here,
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What do you want him for?He's a friend of mine. You're
a friend of the host. Whatare you giving me? You got bull
written all over you, from thetop of your stupid head to the bottom
of your flat feet. He hadthe tan suit, the flashy rings,
the dark shirt, and a widebrimmed hat. He stared at me with
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eyes that were icy and insolent.He rubbed the knuckles of one hand into
the palm of the other, asif he just ached for a chance to
bruise them, which I was surehe did. Four guys saunted over to
lean on the piano, and asugly as they were, I knew it
wasn't a bar of a shop forted two more. I left the bar
and stood behind him, and afew others got up from nearby tables and
joined the group. I should havebrought my team, but I hadn't.
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You're a friend of mine. Well, it isn't Claude Bettering the juvenile delink
WoT of nineteen forty? Is thatso you're a real brain? Who are
you? Brainy? Sam Spade?Oh? I aint that a pretty name.
You got some on your mind.I just wanted to talk with you
about what you did to a girlnamed Louise Miller to nine, never heard
of it? Sounds cute. Though, girls are a lot easier to push
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around, aunt, they Claude,Claude, Some guys are just as easy
as some dames. Where have Ibeen all night to night? Fellas?
You heard that spade? I've beenhere all night? And do you guys
ever hear of a Louise Miller?Sorry, nobody ever heard of hercy Well,
she has a lot of friends whohave the police, the people nine
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at Mercy Hospital and me and noneof us are going to forget her or
what happened to her and who didit? Got something you'd like to do
right now? Maybe? Yeah,But I'll pick my time all right over
this cheap chatting. I don't wantto be seen talking with you too long.
I got my reputation to think about. I'll blow before I take one
hand out of my pocket and pushyour stinking face back through that door.
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You'll need both hands, Samson,go on, you creep fellas. All
right. As I went rapidly throughthe door, Claude Bettering was standing oily,
smiling, all polishing a couple ofhis oversized rings on his lapel.
It was a picture I said Iwouldn't forget and I didn't. I went
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and rented myself a car pocket onthe block from the Red Spot Cafe and
waited almost all night. I knewthat Louise Miller was not the kind of
a girl who would have anything todo with a guy like Bettering, and
if he came to her apartment,this must have been for some unloving purpose,
probably to keep her from telling whoactually did the hold up Ben Kamiski
had confessed to if she found outthe truth. Finally, a bunch of
Pelucas came out. Bettering and Clotheclimbed into a car and drove off.
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ME after them. One by one. Bettering dropped his men off at their
hotels and apartments until he was finallyalone. He stopped at the Brownstone on
Hubart and I caught him just ashe opened the door of his apartment.
A tough guy, you're gonna findout. I don't think I'm easy,
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And he wasn't easy. He wasthree inches shorter and twenty five pounds lighter,
and wherever he had picked up hisreputation for toughness, he earned it.
But I never enjoyed a fight inmy life any more than that one.
I battled into his kneze and underthe floor, and he still wouldn't
give up, stinking up Louise Miller. I didn't. Why I didn't?
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Why I didn't? Why the apartmenthousemanager identifies you. He's a liar.
What did you tee it for?Nobody? Who? Nobody? Who do
you think it? Craig, I'llpush your face, push you face it.
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He went out quite a guy ofthe ice man. I used this
phone to call the police and tellhim to pick him up for attempted murder.
Then, with dawn coming up,in my energy going down, I
went back to the city jail,got to pass and woke up. Ben
Kamiski, why don't you stop messingaround at my business? Speed? Did
you ever really love that girl ofyours? Get out your statistic jerk.
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Well, she's in Mercy Hospital.Now you can send her a card,
write something nasty on it. Soon, Spade, Yeah, what's she
in the hospital to bar? Whatdo you care? Tell me? Please?
Somebody turned on the gas and heardapartment and try to kill her.
It's nothing, Rally, please,who did it? Who did it?
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Speed? I think it was aguy named Claude Bettering me call him the
iceman in certain circles. But why, that's what I'd like to know.
Who's Bettering? I don't know yourgirl believed you ranison? Come ASKI,
but you said you weren't. Myguess is it's somebody figured she knews I
think and try to shut her up. I think Bettering was hired by somebody.
Sad. Look, I don't haveany dosy, but I want to
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get out of here for one day. You know, anybody could raise the
bail. I'm own skip and I'llpay back anything you want. Why I
gotta see somebody. I don't thinkI can. Who do you want to
see? My lousy, dirty,low down, no good brother? He
had Bettering? Who else? Hedid everything? He's always done everything wrong.
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He held up that liquor store.But he's on parole a two time
fell in the offender. One morerapid. He'd go up for twenty years.
I did this for him, Yeah, look at me. I did
it for him, and he tried. I used to kill my girl.
Mother said he was a good boy, hard working, lived in Cincinnati.
Me again, I told her allthat she believed it. I started the
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whole stupid lie and had to gothrough with it. I could explain two
years, three years to her,but not twenty. He promised he'd go
straight. He promised. See.I even set him money I earned and
said it was from him. Oh, you never saw anybody like me before,
did you. No, I haven'tget me out, Get me out,
salmon. I'll drag him in byhis black teeth. Thanks anyway,
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but I'll do it myself. Spake, let me do it, Let me
do it please. I drove overto missus Kemiski's house and knocked on her
door. She came out of ahousecoat, hair must and sleep still in
her eyes. Yeah, I'm sorryto Bobby at this hour, missus Kemisky,
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But is your son home? JimmyJim No, he winned last Nightly
he didn't come back yet. Isee when do you expect him? Well,
he didn't see. He didn't haveto because I saw a classic door
move, and I was in andacross the room. In a second.
I pulled the door back and JimKamiskey came out, gun and all.
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She hurried across the room, threwus off between Jimmy and man, started
wrestling the gun away from him.He put one hand flat on her face
and locked her halfway across the room. I went at him, he shot,
but it went into the ceiling.I didn't give him a chance to
do it again. Dog, youheld up the liquor shot and yeah,
and hired Bettery to kill Louise Miller. Yeah, and you're gonna take your
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own wrap from now on. Yeah, yes, I will. And he
did Harriet and the report the poorlady, Yeah, yeah, she lived
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in a dream world built by aSONO had too much heart and not enough
common sense. But Sam that thatman in the liquor store identified then as
a holdup man when he saw herboth brothers together, he realized he'd made
a mistake at night with a hatpulled on, and I call her up.
Anybody could have confused the comiskey brothers. Then why is the world so
cruel? Because people live in hernow? Going on type it on her?
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Well here, and if you don'tmind my saying so, it's a
lesson to everybody, if you sayso ever, under Sam, I'm just
infuriating. I don't go too farmisplace love devotion just isn't right. This
kind of thing could be going onall over the world. If a word
for people like you and take thingsin hand. Thank you, ms Bin.
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Honestly, Sam, just honestly,let's go. Have you finished well?
I have some sociological feelings too.I'm just not an automatic secretary.
You turned on and off. Comehere with each new case. I have
feelings. Effie, I just kissedyou. I know what I just kissed
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you. Oh, sir, delayedreaction must be the heat. Oh,
good night, sir, good night, sweetheart. Well come back. Well,
a very solemn case. I appreciatedSam's motivation and we got a little
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bit of Sam and Affy Keissie.Also, you have to love William Conrad.
He can play bowls other than toughguys, but I thought that he
was really a solid heavy in thisone. Well, listener comments and feedback.
Now, and we start with apostcard. And this is actually a
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postcard. It comes from listener Peter, who writes Adam when I listened to
episode four oh four to seven,which, if you will recall, referenced
a very long lake name that mostof us can't pronounce. It was familiar.
I have never visited the lake,but my parents must have years ago.
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This postcard is probably sixty years oldfrom my mother's collections, Best regards
from a patron and ps love FiloVance and it is a lovely postcard of
the lake which looks like a realnice reason. Of course, as Peter
said, it was sixty years ago, so I'm not certain if it looks
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the same today. It's a viewfrom Upper Gore Road which shows a section
of the lake in some of theislands. So very nice postcard. Thanks
for sending it. I did postit over on our Instagram account at instagram
dot com. Slash Great Detectives.Will Rights of the MOPSI Flopsy and Cottondale
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Caper hilarious episode, and I wouldagree. I think it would be one
of the most humorous of the SamSpade episodes. I think there are some
that lean more into drama, butin terms of humor, that one is
definitely right up there, says offRights. As a general remark over on
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YouTube, I find it ironic thata program that's sponsored by Wild Root Cream
hair oil would want to make ourhair stand on in It's an interesting point,
and I think that advertisers try aparticularly during this era, to find
a way to make their product fitwith the program, and sometimes if you
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think it through it doesn't make awhole lot of sense, but I guess
they've just been on folks not thinkingabout it too much, you know,
particularly when they're listening to something likesens Babe and just kind of relaxing and
the brain's not going in high yearanyway. Now, I want to go
ahead and think our Patreon supporter ofthe day. Thank you so much to
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George, Patreon supporter since October twentyfifteen, currently supporting the program at the
Detective Sergeant level of seven dollars andfourteen cents or more per month. Thank
you so much for your support,George, and that will do it for
today. If you are enjoying thispodcast, I encourage you to follow us
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to lock the video, subscribe tothe channel, and Martin notification bell all
those great things that help the channelto grow. We will be back next
Monday with our final Howard Duff episodeof Sam Spade, but join us back
here tomorrow for yours truly. Johnnydoll Or where I'm always get in cases
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like this, it's a kind theyalways put me on. Officially, it's
because I'm a college man and majoredin criminology. But actually it's because I'm
a Latin Mexican ancestry and they knowI get certain feelings about a case.
Hunches, and how do you feelabout this? One? Is hocky real
hockey and it's murder, not anaccident. But beyond that, Ken savvy,
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why don't you poke into a littlesee what you can find. Then
maybe we can talk it out somewhereover a bottom Muscatel. Yeah, where
can I find missus Callen? Well? The widow. Well, that's a
good starting point. She's out oftheir apartment. There's the addressing. Okay,
thanks, Oh, just one otherthings, Sergeant Raino soon when you
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gained access to the apartment, Iassume the door was locked, Yeah,
it took a little effort. Whatkind of a lock automatic night lunch spring
cylinder? No, it was anold fashioned warden boat had to be locked
with a key. What are yougetting at, mister doller or hunch of
my own? Sergeant. Let's saveit for the muscatel. See you later.
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Patreon dot Great Detectives dot net.Well, now it's time for this week's
episode of Sam Spade, which isanother rehearsal recording. It's a rehearsal of
a program that originally aired on Maythe twenty eighth of nineteen fifty and it's
The Honest Thiefcaper Fret Detective Agency.Me. It's you, I'm the Filter
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and in the flash any messages,phone calls, what is the telegram?
Just the usual? I built thelandlord and I notice from the telephone company.
Well, I'll dispose of them asusual. It's an awfully chipper.
Have you been on a case,don Did you make some money? Yes,
I've been on a case. OhI did not make any money.
Oh you cli't gotten murder before hecould pay you. Wrong again. My
client was a woman. She didnot get murdered, and she could pay
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me. And she did, butshe just said she didn't true. I
ain't true. Things that I wouldthey seem I would not confuse. You
just said it, and I meantevery word of it. Stop registering bewilderment.
All all is paradox. So shoppingyour pencils right in your seams,
get out your notebook, and prepareto be confounded by the contradictions. I
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shall contradictate to you doing my reporton the Honest Thief Caper. I'm not
looking over these like alert girl withmany things to do. You say the
strangest things on the phone. Idon't believe I claim this stood, but
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I'm actual misunderstanding. I didn't understandit myself. But date size and Frank
Nilga's robbery detailed San Francisco police.Oh you're fast, today subject to Ben
Kamiski Ben comiskey c O m Is k I. I went to Elbert
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High School with a boy named BenComisky. Is he the same one?
Very likely? Oh? Sam,tell me? Did you turn on bad?
Is it good? Did you getmarried down? This is one mystery
you're not going to solve by readingthe last chapter first, Dear Frank,
it was one of those days.The sky was black and it looked like
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rain. But when I put onmy trench coat the sun came out.
At breakfast, it looked like I'dordered fried eggs, and I wound up
with pancakes. Also, I discoveredI was wearing one blue sock and one
black one. After that, Igave a cab driver of five instead of
a one and let him ride offof the change. And there was one
other thing, damn than just you'reoverdrawn, nuts ef. I'm at a
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deposit two days ago. I check, Sam, you're nuts too. I
made out to slept my soffa.Oh give me, Sam, I'll take
it right down. Yeah, betterdo that, anel Oh can I help
you miss this? Mister Spain?All right, come right in, Miss
sit On, uh, Miss Buraniamay go and do that, instruct them,
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and if such a mistake occurs again, I shall take my account elsewhere.
Yes, please sit on this.My name's Louise Miller. Mister Spade,
I I want to hire you.How much will it cost? Well,
now, miss Milla, let's let'stalk about it. I have much
time, mister Spade. I haveto be at the office and a half
an hour and I have to crosstown. You see. Well, Mamma
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thinks I should forget all about him, but I can't. And I well,
here, I've I've got ninety fivedollars. Will you please do something,
just something? Come on, come, I'm sorry, I'm all right
now. Who is he? What'she done? And why does mama want
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you to forget him? Ben,Ben Msky, we were going to be
married pretty soon. We even pickedout our furniture room. It's all right
now, go on. What's hedone? Let mis say he held up
a store two nights ago. Hepicked him up on the street today.
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He isn't jail. Well, ifhe's innocent, I'm sure they'll find that
out. He won't even see me, missus Spader, or he won't see
anyone. Ben's good and kind andsweet and I love him and I want
to marry him, and I wantyou to find out why. What it's
all about? What Miss Moller right, I think you should be in the
office of a good lawyer. I'msure he doesn't want a lawyer. He
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wanted to see the public defender.He doesn't want anything. Oh please,
please, mister Spader. I justwant to die if Ben went the prisoner,
I just want to die. I'mno sentimentalist, but faith is the
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thing we're a little short on thesedays. So we came to terms.
It was a great She could payme after the job was done, if
there was any job to do.She left for work and I phoned you.
Was arching nil guess and find outBen Komiski had already been arraigned and
was being held in a city jail. And I dropped in. Twenty minutes
later. You walked me back toherself. What's all about, Sam?
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I don't know. I'm just lookingat either one. He won't tell you
anything, kept his trap shut allthe time he's been here. As far
as we've been able to find out, no previous record, no background.
Wow, maybe this is a badform of that first degree. Sam k
Usi propride him and named Potter overon Army Street, identified him in the
morning lineup just like that, pickedhim out of a dozen guys we hauled
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in. Anyone, always send acouple of the boys out to Komiski's room
and find all they're doing. TheUS A drawer. Nine hundred clans,
Now take it easy, Commisky,This is to Sam Spade. He wants
to talk to you. Ben Comiskiwas tall, dark complexioned, about twenty
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nine or thirty years old. Hishair was black, straight and closely cropped.
His features were regular, not good, not bad. I've seen plenty
of hold up man and gun totisin my day, and he wouldn't have
been cast on the part in mymovie. I didn't know what I expected
to say to him, what Iexpected him to say to me, But
I didn't expect what I got.What are you trying to do? Get
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out of here? He just gothere, man, Well you can just
leave. Hasn't a citizen got anyrights even in jail on they started to
lose him when they use a gunto make it limit. I don't want
any lectures. I haven't got anyto hand out. I'm a private detective.
In front of your has hired me. She thinks you're a pretty nice
guy. Why won't you say she'snut? Sure to have a head felt?
What's she worrying about? Anyway?I'd say she was worrying mostly about
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you. And I'd say it's thesick kind of worry that gets into a
girl. And she loves somebody sheshouldn't. She's nuts. You said,
then did you rob that store?The guy who runs it says I did.
I suppose I did, but laughs. The complaint says, you make
sixty five bucks a week in anarchitect's office. You can eat that man.
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Look, Spade, go back andtell her this. I didn't want
furniture at ten dollars a month forthe next eighty months. I didn't want
a car the same way. Ididn't want her working and me working and
getting nothing but wrinkles. Tell herI got caught in to go and find
a guy who can pay the way. Is that that's enough? It charres
with arms robbery in the first degree. That means not less than five years.
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I know it, and shut upabout it. Why don't you turn
down a lawyer? Hadn't you heardSpade? They're holding up my indictment.
I'm a prize pigeon. They thinkmaybe I knocked over ten or twelve other
places in town, did you sure? Sure, But don't worry about me,
and tell Louise not to worry aboutme. Got a million buck salted
away, and I'm gonna buy myway out through the DA's office. Okay,
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have it your way, Ben.But an hour later I found myself
strolling around ben Kamiski's old neighborhood.A man named Gabrini, who owned a
grocery store, remembered him and likedhim. A woman in a bakery shop
told me how he had gone intothe army as a private and been discharged
the first lieutenant. A phone callto a mister Henderson Allied Architects revealed that
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Ben Komiski was in line for araise and promotion. All in all,
I was getting a composite picture thatdidn't look quite right. I decided to
try his mother's place. It wason Lombard Avenue, a street that starts
on the waterfront. According to thepenciled note about the doorbell, it was
out of order. The slot onthe mailbox. Rappiness is Anastasia Komiski.
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Yes, missus Kemiski, I'm busynow. I fixed lunch for my son.
He'd come back from Cincinnati. Please. Oh well, well, missus
Kemeski, I'm here to talk toyou about Ben. He's your son,
too, isn't he? Yes?Ben is my son. Well, I'm
trying to help him, missus Kemiski. Why he has no money? I
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have no money. A friend ofLouise Moller hired me. Oh, she's
a foolish girl, very foolish.Her heart should not be with Ben.
I don't think he's a very luckyman to be loved by somebody like that.
If not for her, Ben wouldnot be in jail, in trouble.
Or you don't want to help myson. She don't want to help
him. She leave him alone ifyou want to help. Ben is bad,
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not good like my son James.James is always good times. He's
a way. He sends me money. From what I hear, Ben's always
been pretty good too, always onegood son, one bad son. Oh,
he's come to ask questions about Ben. I'm Jim Kenski. Bens.
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You run on in, mom,I'll talk to this gentleman, all right,
get out of here. Look,I'm just trying. You've got any
questions to ask about Ben, goto the police. They can give you
all the answers. And stop botheringmy mother. She's been throwing enough in
the last two days. If Icatch you around her again, I'll break
you in half. The man whoslammed the door in my face, I
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have the same angry look and thesame angry glare of Ben Komiskey. The
angry Komiski brothers definitely woanted nothing thatlooked remotely like help, it seemed to
this casual observer. I went backto my office away for six o'clock.
That's when I intended to call myclient, report my opinions and dropped the
case. But at five thirty shecalled me, Yeah, this is Louise
Miller. Oh, yes, Iwas just going to call you. I'm
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afraid I haven't been able to domuch. It looks like Spader. I
just telephoned downtown. Ben pleaded,then pleated gilly at the indictment this afternoon.
He's going to be sentenced tomorrow andback to all appearances side and nil.
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This was the crop. But twohours later, and for the second
time and one day, I foundmyself doing when I didn't think i'd be
doing, walking around a dull,gray, two story of popinghouse on Adam's
Place, my ex clients address tobe exact. I was wondering what a
lonely, distraught girl would be thinkingthe night before her boyfriend woul shipped the
way to prison. I found out. I got a whiff of it as
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I walked down the hall. It'scoming out from under her door. I
had to use my shoulder. Theroom was accurate and stinging with gas fuels,
and Louise Miller was stretched out onthe floor in a six foot kitchen.
When I picked her up and carriedher out, I wasn't sure whether
she was dead or not. Tenseconds after I had found Louise Miller,
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I'd called a police ambulance, andin a matter of minutes an intern was
working over with a pull motor.Her breathing became regular and her pulse picked
up, but she was still unconscious. Lieutenant Kelsey of homicide showed up and
said it was obviously a suicide attempt, which is his kind of ingenious thinking.
I thought, not, if shewere going to commit suicide, she
wouldn't have called first to pull meoff the caper. She'd have led an
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insignificant detail like that, take careof itself. Now. She was too
strong to pity herself, and toosure of what her intuition told her to
believe. Even ben Kamiski's confession,Well that kind of faith. I owed
it to her to poke around theashes while they were still hot. I
did, and turned up a livecoal in a faded blue shirt and wrinkled
brown pants. Bert single be bya name and by vocation, manager of
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the Greystone Arms apartments. What kindof a girl was she? Oh?
Nice clean? Since here the kindmothers always want their sons to marry boy
I wish hardly in the mine.Yeah, did you know her boyfriend ben
Kemiskey, Oh salt O dearth.I can't understand him pulling a hold up
like that, But then you know, the war did strange things. I
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almost stayed in Europe and married myselfup to a French doll myself. Yeah,
but Sandra, that's my wife.You'd hunted me down into bed.
It was easier to come home facingmusic. Yeah. Well about Louise,
you know what a raison? Whyshe might commit suicide? Frank no,
no. I met her in thehallway tonight and she said, mister Singleby,
she said, Ben didn't do that. Hold up, because I'm pretty
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sure I know who did. Well. I figure she just keeping up a
front. But if she did reallyknow that Ben didn't do it, she
wouldn't have turned on the gas,now, would you? She wouldn't.
Didn't she tell you who she thoughtdidn't? That's all she said. It's
quiet girl, not like my wife. Now, sand Yeah, did you
see her here or anything that mighthave been suspicious around you as you round
her apartment to nine? Look,I don't want to go around breaking up
any home. Just spreading dirty gossiparound involves Sanders relative, mister Singleby.
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I promise you, sir, thatI will treat any information you give me
confidentially as long as I can,all right, Alison, Sandra told me
not say anything because it's you know, it's a lot easier to rent a
suicide apartment than a murder apartments.You know that, confidentially. I'm a
humanitarian. But if you tell anybodyI said this, I'll well, I'll
just lie about it. I'll nevertell a soul. Well, we were
out of butter, see, soI had to run down to the store.
Or when I passed the mailboxes outside, the guy is standing there.
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He asked me what you apartment LewisLouise Miller was in and I said,
twelve bat What do you look like? Oh we'll see now, five ten,
medium bill tam suit, dark shirts, sort of a wide brim hat,
kind of flashy. Or three orfour big rings diamonds. They look
like there's four big diamond rings oneach hand. Nice man, Why didn't
you tell all this to the police? Who are you talking? Don't you
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dare about that? That's why?That is why Sandra always says, keep
your mouth shut and you keep outof trouble. But me, I don't
know. I just love stop talkingtoo much and pull that door. Yes,
Sandra, dere, I'm closing it. The iceman had heard about him
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for years, a Chicago import,but I had never bumped into him before.
He'd been headquartering at the Red SpotCafe, the kind of a place
that skid roll Wino was visited whenthey want to slum. It was dark
inside, but I strode manfully tothe bar. Yeah something the iceman here,
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What do you want him for?He's a friend of mine. You're
a friend of the host. Whatare you giving me? You got bull
written all over you, from thetop of your stupid head to the bottom
of your flat feet. He hadthe tan suit, the flashy rings,
the dark shirt, and a widebrimmed hat. He stared at me with
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eyes that were icy and insolent.He rubbed the knuckles of one hand into
the palm of the other, asif he just ached for a chance to
bruise them, which I was surehe did. Four guys saunted over to
lean on the piano, and asugly as they were, I knew it
wasn't a bar of a shop forted two more. I left the bar
and stood behind him, and afew others got up from nearby tables and
joined the group. I should havebrought my team, but I hadn't.
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You're a friend of mine. Well, it isn't Claude Bettering the juvenile delink
WoT of nineteen forty? Is thatso you're a real brain? Who are
you? Brainy? Sam Spade?Oh? I aint that a pretty name.
You got some on your mind.I just wanted to talk with you
about what you did to a girlnamed Louise Miller to nine, never heard
of it? Sounds cute. Though, girls are a lot easier to push
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around, aunt, they Claude,Claude, Some guys are just as easy
as some dames. Where have Ibeen all night to night? Fellas?
You heard that spade? I've beenhere all night? And do you guys
ever hear of a Louise Miller?Sorry, nobody ever heard of hercy Well,
she has a lot of friends whohave the police, the people nine
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at Mercy Hospital and me and noneof us are going to forget her or
what happened to her and who didit? Got something you'd like to do
right now? Maybe? Yeah,But I'll pick my time all right over
this cheap chatting. I don't wantto be seen talking with you too long.
I got my reputation to think about. I'll blow before I take one
hand out of my pocket and pushyour stinking face back through that door.
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You'll need both hands, Samson,go on, you creep fellas. All
right. As I went rapidly throughthe door, Claude Bettering was standing oily,
smiling, all polishing a couple ofhis oversized rings on his lapel.
It was a picture I said Iwouldn't forget and I didn't. I went
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and rented myself a car pocket onthe block from the Red Spot Cafe and
waited almost all night. I knewthat Louise Miller was not the kind of
a girl who would have anything todo with a guy like Bettering, and
if he came to her apartment,this must have been for some unloving purpose,
probably to keep her from telling whoactually did the hold up Ben Kamiski
had confessed to if she found outthe truth. Finally, a bunch of
Pelucas came out. Bettering and Clotheclimbed into a car and drove off.
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ME after them. One by one. Bettering dropped his men off at their
hotels and apartments until he was finallyalone. He stopped at the Brownstone on
Hubart and I caught him just ashe opened the door of his apartment.
A tough guy, you're gonna findout. I don't think I'm easy,
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And he wasn't easy. He wasthree inches shorter and twenty five pounds lighter,
and wherever he had picked up hisreputation for toughness, he earned it.
But I never enjoyed a fight inmy life any more than that one.
I battled into his kneze and underthe floor, and he still wouldn't
give up, stinking up Louise Miller. I didn't. Why I didn't?
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Why I didn't? Why the apartmenthousemanager identifies you. He's a liar.
What did you tee it for?Nobody? Who? Nobody? Who do
you think it? Craig, I'llpush your face, push you face it.
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He went out quite a guy ofthe ice man. I used this
phone to call the police and tellhim to pick him up for attempted murder.
Then, with dawn coming up,in my energy going down, I
went back to the city jail,got to pass and woke up. Ben
Kamiski, why don't you stop messingaround at my business? Speed? Did
you ever really love that girl ofyours? Get out your statistic jerk.
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Well, she's in Mercy Hospital.Now you can send her a card,
write something nasty on it. Soon, Spade, Yeah, what's she
in the hospital to bar? Whatdo you care? Tell me? Please?
Somebody turned on the gas and heardapartment and try to kill her.
It's nothing, Rally, please,who did it? Who did it?
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Speed? I think it was aguy named Claude Bettering me call him the
iceman in certain circles. But why, that's what I'd like to know.
Who's Bettering? I don't know yourgirl believed you ranison? Come ASKI,
but you said you weren't. Myguess is it's somebody figured she knews I
think and try to shut her up. I think Bettering was hired by somebody.
Sad. Look, I don't haveany dosy, but I want to
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get out of here for one day. You know, anybody could raise the
bail. I'm own skip and I'llpay back anything you want. Why I
gotta see somebody. I don't thinkI can. Who do you want to
see? My lousy, dirty,low down, no good brother? He
had Bettering? Who else? Hedid everything? He's always done everything wrong.
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He held up that liquor store.But he's on parole a two time
fell in the offender. One morerapid. He'd go up for twenty years.
I did this for him, Yeah, look at me. I did
it for him, and he tried. I used to kill my girl.
Mother said he was a good boy, hard working, lived in Cincinnati.
Me again, I told her allthat she believed it. I started the
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whole stupid lie and had to gothrough with it. I could explain two
years, three years to her,but not twenty. He promised he'd go
straight. He promised. See.I even set him money I earned and
said it was from him. Oh, you never saw anybody like me before,
did you. No, I haven'tget me out, Get me out,
salmon. I'll drag him in byhis black teeth. Thanks anyway,
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but I'll do it myself. Spake, let me do it, Let me
do it please. I drove overto missus Kemiski's house and knocked on her
door. She came out of ahousecoat, hair must and sleep still in
her eyes. Yeah, I'm sorryto Bobby at this hour, missus Kemisky,
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But is your son home? JimmyJim No, he winned last Nightly
he didn't come back yet. Isee when do you expect him? Well,
he didn't see. He didn't haveto because I saw a classic door
move, and I was in andacross the room. In a second.
I pulled the door back and JimKamiskey came out, gun and all.
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She hurried across the room, threwus off between Jimmy and man, started
wrestling the gun away from him.He put one hand flat on her face
and locked her halfway across the room. I went at him, he shot,
but it went into the ceiling.I didn't give him a chance to
do it again. Dog, youheld up the liquor shot and yeah,
and hired Bettery to kill Louise Miller. Yeah, and you're gonna take your
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own wrap from now on. Yeah, yes, I will. And he
did Harriet and the report the poorlady, Yeah, yeah, she lived
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in a dream world built by aSONO had too much heart and not enough
common sense. But Sam that thatman in the liquor store identified then as
a holdup man when he saw herboth brothers together, he realized he'd made
a mistake at night with a hatpulled on, and I call her up.
Anybody could have confused the comiskey brothers. Then why is the world so
cruel? Because people live in hernow? Going on type it on her?
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Well here, and if you don'tmind my saying so, it's a
lesson to everybody, if you sayso ever, under Sam, I'm just
infuriating. I don't go too farmisplace love devotion just isn't right. This
kind of thing could be going onall over the world. If a word
for people like you and take thingsin hand. Thank you, ms Bin.
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Honestly, Sam, just honestly,let's go. Have you finished well?
I have some sociological feelings too.I'm just not an automatic secretary.
You turned on and off. Comehere with each new case. I have
feelings. Effie, I just kissedyou. I know what I just kissed
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you. Oh, sir, delayedreaction must be the heat. Oh,
good night, sir, good night, sweetheart. Well come back. Well,
a very solemn case. I appreciatedSam's motivation and we got a little
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bit of Sam and Affy Keissie.Also, you have to love William Conrad.
He can play bowls other than toughguys, but I thought that he
was really a solid heavy in thisone. Well, listener comments and feedback.
Now, and we start with apostcard. And this is actually a
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postcard. It comes from listener Peter, who writes Adam when I listened to
episode four oh four to seven,which, if you will recall, referenced
a very long lake name that mostof us can't pronounce. It was familiar.
I have never visited the lake,but my parents must have years ago.
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This postcard is probably sixty years oldfrom my mother's collections, Best regards
from a patron and ps love FiloVance and it is a lovely postcard of
the lake which looks like a realnice reason. Of course, as Peter
said, it was sixty years ago, so I'm not certain if it looks
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the same today. It's a viewfrom Upper Gore Road which shows a section
of the lake in some of theislands. So very nice postcard. Thanks
for sending it. I did postit over on our Instagram account at instagram
dot com. Slash Great Detectives.Will Rights of the MOPSI Flopsy and Cottondale
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Caper hilarious episode, and I wouldagree. I think it would be one
of the most humorous of the SamSpade episodes. I think there are some
that lean more into drama, butin terms of humor, that one is
definitely right up there, says offRights. As a general remark over on
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YouTube, I find it ironic thata program that's sponsored by Wild Root Cream
hair oil would want to make ourhair stand on in It's an interesting point,
and I think that advertisers try aparticularly during this era, to find
a way to make their product fitwith the program, and sometimes if you
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think it through it doesn't make awhole lot of sense, but I guess
they've just been on folks not thinkingabout it too much, you know,
particularly when they're listening to something likesens Babe and just kind of relaxing and
the brain's not going in high yearanyway. Now, I want to go
ahead and think our Patreon supporter ofthe day. Thank you so much to
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Monday with our final Howard Duff episodeof Sam Spade, but join us back
here tomorrow for yours truly. Johnnydoll Or where I'm always get in cases
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like this, it's a kind theyalways put me on. Officially, it's
because I'm a college man and majoredin criminology. But actually it's because I'm
a Latin Mexican ancestry and they knowI get certain feelings about a case.
Hunches, and how do you feelabout this? One? Is hocky real
hockey and it's murder, not anaccident. But beyond that, Ken savvy,
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why don't you poke into a littlesee what you can find. Then
maybe we can talk it out somewhereover a bottom Muscatel. Yeah, where
can I find missus Callen? Well? The widow. Well, that's a
good starting point. She's out oftheir apartment. There's the addressing. Okay,
thanks, Oh, just one otherthings, Sergeant Raino soon when you
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gained access to the apartment, Iassume the door was locked, Yeah,
it took a little effort. Whatkind of a lock automatic night lunch spring
cylinder? No, it was anold fashioned warden boat had to be locked
with a key. What are yougetting at, mister doller or hunch of
my own? Sergeant. Let's saveit for the muscatel. See you later.
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