July 12, 2025 • 30 mins
Original Release Date: May 1, 2023
Today's Mystery:Sam is hired to serve as an alibi for a Mexican man but all bets are off when his daughter is shot right in front of him.
Rehearsal of Program that Original Aired on May 21, 1950
Originated from Hollywood
Starred Howard Duff as Sam Spade, Lurene Tuttle as Effie
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Today's Mystery:Sam is hired to serve as an alibi for a Mexican man but all bets are off when his daughter is shot right in front of him.
Rehearsal of Program that Original Aired on May 21, 1950
Originated from Hollywood
Starred Howard Duff 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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Well, now we get into thenineteen fifty episodes of Sam Spade, and
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in terms of the rest of HowardDuff's tenure on the program, pickings are
thin. We actually only have threeHoward Duff episodes from nineteen fifty, and
the first two of these are rehearsalrecordings. Today's program was a rehearsal of
a program that would air on Maythe twenty first of nineteen fifty and the
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title is The Red I'm a PolarCaper Fay Detectivagency. It's my f as
Carlos Salcida, the Mexican console calledn F Well, he will tell him
it's not what we thought it was. To hold everything. I'll get to
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him as soon as I can.Yes, then you sound so tired?
Are you all right? I am, and I'm not. There were too
many windmills to chase, too muchlanguage I didn't understand, and much too
much ven gonza which is Spanish forvendetta, which is English for vengeance,
and any language. It's dynamite witha short fuse. And you knew what
it was all about all along,Sam, it was It wasn't It wasn't.
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I'm afraid I don't understand. Whatabout the girl? Is she all
right? She is? And sheisn't? And confused exactly par for the
course. But don't worry if it'llstraighten out like star spaghetti when I come
down to say it, with Flowersdictating as I will, my report of
fury inferment on the red. I'ma polar caper. I'm a pole.
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My pretty little Poppy's our key asI'll be today. I told him what
you told me to tell him.For more. I couldn't ask. He
understood what you meant perfectly. Idon't understand this thing. You will.
You know I may have to tradethis stuff in for thee quelan. No
messing around as straight to the pointof virtue some people might do well to
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cultivate. Just tell me one thing, Sam, wasn't it. Let's not
tearry after the point. Remember padready, pencil, poised, knees crossed,
skirt a little bit higher. ButI want all right the date fill
it in too. Detective Lieutenant KelseyHomicide details San Francisco Police from Samuel Spade,
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license number one seventy five nine six, subject the red I'm a polar
Caper, the following as as yourequested, the detailed account of the thirty
one hours sixteen minutes I spent onthe case of a Ando Rios and daughter
I trusted will answer all your questions, solve your commissioner problems, and enable
you to speedily dispatch your duty.As one of the city's finest. I
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haven't helped our city, so I'llcome back with me to three pm yesterday,
the approximate time I stepped into myoffice and started standing nervously by the
window. A Mexican girl in herearly twenties. Her clothes, though Nathan
clean, were rummage sales specials whichhad seen better days. Her bare legs
were too thin, her face istoo drawn, but the midnight color of
her hair and the largeness of hereyes told me she could have been beautiful
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if things had gone another way.I'm glad you have come. I couldn't
have waited, my slunger. I'msorry I didn't know you were here.
My name is Andrea Rios. Iwould like to hire you, but I
do not have much money. Muchmoney may not be needed as reels.
What is it you want your time? Mister speed? You see, if
you acceave this job, I musthave all of your time from now until
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tomorrow morning. You cannot accept.You must tell me now so I can
get someone else. I see Ican only pay thirty dollars. I know
it's much to ask for thirty dollarsand ask for more for less. The
job may be difficult for you.You will not be able to sleep,
and I can make that up onsomebody else's time. Then you will help.
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Yes, I think so. Iwould like to hear more about it.
We will go to my father.You will learn more there. She
led me to the narrow street carheaded for south of a slot and paid
the fare. Twenty minutes later,we were walking through the San Francisco that's
left over, where the liquor ischeap and one cigarette is property. The
sounds of a jazzed up Spanish songcaught my ear, and the beer signs
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turned to surveys it. The buildingAndrea Rios picked to go into was old
enough to give the termites indigestion.The faded sign said la casa asoul.
She knocked on the door of roomtwelve, and the weather beaten face that
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stood in the doorway figured to besixty, but the age should have come
from concern. A black sweatshirt,pants to match, and a dirty white
sailor's cap. Inside. On thetables at a bottle of high art enjoy
juice that which hazel with a misnomerto kill it. The lemon and salt
stood alongside on a bad lay,a duffel bag with a black letters,
Santa Susannah Senior Spade. My fatherspeaks no English, I see. He
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asks if you are an honest man. It's a question no man can answer
with complete honesty. Andrea, myfather says, to sit down and have
a drinking. Tell father, Iwill, but I'd enjoy it more if
I knew why I was hired.Yes, of course, to spend the
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night here, mister speed with myfather, to keep an eye on him
all the time. Perfection. No, well, there must be more to
it. We want you to beable to tastify to my father's who whereabouts
this night if he should become necessary. What's going to happen this night?
I think you want your father inthe clear. Yes, well that sounds
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fair enough. That's all there is. I'll have that drink now, there'll
being up the last. The windowpane came flying in on the ugly muzzle
of a forty five silence are attachedstuck through. I yelled so than Andrea
with the gun yelled louder and withmore effect. The bullet st Andrea in
the sight. She looks crazy.We then folded in her father's arms.
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He began to mumble her name andcry I jumped to the window. Pulling
away was a black Buick Sanan withdriver unidentifiable so with the license places they
were covered tightly with a cloth.It was a pro job from beginning to
end and a clean getaway. Well, Andrea was still alive, but not
by much. I turned up aphone in the lobby. One Nickel got
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me the emergency hospital. The otherbrought me homicide and I got back to
the room. Andrea was still lyingthere, but she was alone a mon
Rios, her father had gone,and I thought I knew why exactly,
Lieutenant, I think Rios knows whoshot his daughter because I think the bullets
were meant for him, and shegot him by a mistake. I think,
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therefore that Rios has got revenge onhis mind. Now, let you
have Rios picked up before he doessomething he can't get out of. Yeah,
also make a notice follows, I, Lieutenant Kelsey, will check the
Mexican console for background on Rios,because I, Lieutenant Kelsey, believe Rios
is a Mexican national. Furthermore,I, Lieutenant Kelsey, will make a
close check of all incoming police callsfor the rest of the night because something
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is going to happen for which Rioswanted an alibi. When I find out
what same is, I will graciouslyinform Sam. Speed Sam, how do
you spell graciously? I went tothe officers of several Mexican language newspapers,
told them the story and asked themto give a place of prominence the fact
that Andrea was alive, asking AmandoRios to go directly to the nearest police
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station and wait until contacted. Ithen went to the Maritime Service and queried
about the Santa Susanna. I wastold it was a sport fishing vessel owned
by its captain, Jay Mortigan,with office in the Ocean building on the
Embarcadero. The name played on theTitian haired secretary's desk said Janus Odell.
Yes, could I hope you please? I thank so. That's the office
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of the Santa Susanna. Oh you'replanning a fishing trip, Well, then
you've come to the right place.Santa Susanna has excellent accommodations, is thoroughly
outfitted for an extended cruise in theBay of California, where as you know,
exists some of the greatest fishing watersin the world. It's the same
of you. Miss I'll do myfishing here. My name is Spade.
I'm a private detective. I amtrying to locate on the Mondo Rios.
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Rios, I said something. Youknow he's got a berth on the Santa
Susanna. Well he has, atleast he had. What's he done,
mister Space? Well let's say,what do you will that bothers me?
You say he had a birth.Would you explain please? I just a
moment, mister Space. Captain Morgandecrive a detective out here asking about a
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Mandaria's yo, send him in,Jannis, come on, move lively in
here, missus Spade, thank you. My name is Morgan. Captain Mortigan.
I ask Kippy the Santa Susanna tofind a sport fishing vessel ever to
touch salt water. Everybody's got acommercial. Miss O'Dell says, you're asking
about Ryos. I am. I'mtrying to locate, and so am I
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I've got steam up and a dozenpeople waiting. Rio's knows those Mexican fishing
waters like no one I've met.And where is he jumped ship? It
asked me, scampering around San Franciscoor dead drunk in some infamous din from
that cactus poison he drinks. Ifthe storm's over, Captain, I'd like
to ask you a few questions.Where does Rio's room when he's in San
Francisco stays right on the ship.Did you know he had a daughter?
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No, you don't have any idea. I suppose why Rio's jump ship.
It's a woman. That's my guess. It's always a woman. That is
just a guess. All right,Captain, I'll make a small sized deal
with you. If I find Riyos, I'll notify you. If you find
him first, notify me. Ileave you my card, Martin and a
grade. And I left, pausingonly long enough on the front of office
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to give Janas Odell my phone numberin case she saw Rios. She gave
me her phone number, and itwas a fair exchange. Twenty minutes later,
Lieutenant I was meeting with Carlos Salcedoof the Mexican Consul's office. A
wire he had sent to Mexico saidhe had brought results. Saw, mister
Spade, you have not yet foundAmando Rios, but are still desires of
preventing him from consummating his revenge.I fear perhaps you are too late.
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One information off you got first.Amando Rios was arrested in the Mexican state
of Sinalois for the growing of thered amapola. You are aware of what
that is. Amapola means poppy fromthe song of the same name, exactly
the red poppy grown for the productionof narcotics. The arrest occurred on August
nineteen, nineteen forty six. Rioserved three years in the penitentiary as a
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result, convicted mainly on the testimonyof an Ernesto Sabado, who Rios claimed,
as you say, framed him.Yeah. No, Look at this
an inquiry from the office of theDistrict Attorney of Marine County, California,
requesting information about a Mexican national whosedead body was discovered two hours ago washed
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the shore at Point Bonito, aMexican national whose name is Masto Sabato.
Yeah, and you think perhaps Rioskilled Sabato A distinct possibility, mister Spain,
since he had motive. That's exactlywhy I don't think he did it.
Rios knows about it, was goingto be killed sometime to night.
That's the reason Andrea hired me.So or a father's whereabouts could be accounted
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for, and so he could notbe accused. Now, holmst to South
said, oh, I don't thinkRios killed Sabato. Well, I hope
you are right, for his sakeand for his daughters, who we both
hope will get well. The onewho killed Sabato is probably the same one
who drives a black Duicks and andwho took those pot shots at Rios and
called Andrea instead, the same onewho Rios has now got a vendetta against
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Ganza. However, you say itas a sucker's play, But how do
you stop him if you can't findhim? Thank you, and mister Salzito.
I must admit, mister Speed,I do not fully understand your concern
over a reelers. It's a matterof fact. I'm not sure of it
myself. But you've got a rottenshuffle. I got a night's pace,
or I might as well work forit. Besides, well, I'll let
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you know what develops. The nextfour hours, dear Lieutenant was spent in
questioning the following a two members ofthe crew of the Santa Susannah, the
assorted residence of La Casa asoul seeInspector Gruber, the marine county days off
as a sign of the Zabato case, some total of information garnered concerning the
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whereabouts of Amando Rios and or theidentity of the gunman. He was after
zero. I was tired, Iwas depressed. I had a headache.
Five minutes to eleven, a coinof mine dropped into a payphone and a
booth by a gas station closed forthe night. My intention was to find
out if you had turned up anything, and to ask how Andria was.
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But you never got to hear myhoneyed voice. Hang it up, Spade.
It was a voice that wasn't familiar. The forty five with silence or
affixed, however was. It didn'ttake me long to start perspiring. Leave
the nickel, Spade, you won'tneed it. Good evening. I've been
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wondering about you. I'll bet youhave. You're sort of a novel,
you know, the only myoptic gunmanI've ever met. But set me you're
near sighted. You got the wrongperson back at La Casa a sou BOSL
have to send you out again forRios. I don't like your spade.
I don't know you, but Idon't like you anyway. Yes, I'll
kill you, so I'll never haveto take a chance of knowing you.
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Now, come on, step out, gum shoe. He urged me out
of the phone booth up the streeta few paces to the head of an
alley with a blind end. Nowhe parked himself in a fire plug.
I wished him, also, it'sa bad luck, and he told me
to start walking into the alley.Mine was small choice. As I moved
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away from the guns loo toward thealley's end, my eyes searched the means
of escape. All that's far enough. Now I'm gonna pick your eyes out.
I stood frozen for a moment andspun and looked like Gunzo had pitched
onto the sidewalk, but the fortyfive was still in his hand. I
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moved up to him slowly, witha maximum of caution, and took a
closer look. He was as deadas he could get. A knife in
his back, had done the job. That's when I looked up the street
and saw a figure and fast withfree. It wore a black sweatshirt,
pants the match, and a dirtywhite sailor cap. It looked very much
like the ven Gonza of Amando Rioswas accomplished. You arrived at the scene
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of the crime, Lieutenant, whereyou took over in your own masterly way.
By the adroit maneuver of looking intothe dead man's wallet, you uncovered
the fact that he was a LosAngeles import named Max Rapper. You've then
examined the knife in his back anddiscovered, as I had previously, the
initials a R for Amando Rios cutinto the handle. That, plus the
fact that I and other witness hadseen Amando Rios plea the scene, made
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it open and shut. Rios wasnow wanted for murder. When we got
to your office, the message hadbeen received by SiGe and Paul Huns from
doctor Pennington of General Hospital. It'ssaid one Andrea Rios was going to live
too. She wanted to see SamSpade. Was it all right? You
had no objection? But I hada problem what to say to her?
Could I say it was nice shewas going to get well, and oh,
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by the way, your father justkilled Max Rapper and the state will
do likewise to him or what?My mind still hadn't live on anything.
It liked when Pennington walked me downthe hospital corridor toward her room, because
she's a lucky girl, mister Spadecould have gone the other way would have
been unlucky. I'll wait outside.Don't stay too long. The jet black
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of her hair gave contrast to thewhite us of the room. Her face
had lost much of its color,but none of the anxiety had gone out
of her eyes. We talked ChaChad for a while. It was easy
to say she had a question shewanted to ask, but had trouble getting
it out. Finally it came,mister Speed, have you heard, I
mean, is there any news ofthe death of a man called Er.
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Yes, the police found his bodywashed to show us some hours ago.
My father isn't a killing him.Oh, it's clear on that I can
testify. Oh, that is whatI was worrying about. Now, mister
Speed, I can tell you whatyou do not know about my father and
Ernesto Savard. I already know.Carlo Salcedo, the Mexican consul, told
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me. Yeah. It was anunfortunate affair for a great many people,
mister Speed. Buyers from the UnitedStates came to Sinaloa with the money.
The peasants were lured into the puppy. Many knew no better, Many did
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not know what it was for.They knew simply to grow the red flower
brought more money than to grow food. When the police came, they suffered.
The buyers were nowhere to be found. Anyway, It's all right now.
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My father did not kill him afterSabato, No all lieutenants. She
did not learn about Max Rapper's killingfrom me that her father was now a
fugitive wanted for murder. I alsodidn't ask her some questions I could have
asked, like how did she knowZabata was going to be killed, that
Rapper do it? And why?Somehow, it didn't matter. It turned
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sour all the way down the line, and besides, Sabado was inspected.
Gruber's problem, not mine. Twentyminutes later, I walked into my apartment,
uncocked a live one, and startedat the top four fingers down.
The phone began ring, but Ididn't pay any attention. The sky was
just beginning to light up with morning, and I remember saying to myself,
I was still technically on the rio'scase, but actually there was no case
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to be on. When I couldn'tstand the phone rings any longer, I
looked at the receiver off the hook. Dam Sam, Hello, Sam,
Missus Janis ad I just saw Wow, I was going to kill Captain Morgan
Mortigan. Why, I'm more?Went to the Santa Susanna after him,
Peter thirty two, Rios is wild? Stop him? Sam? Why call
me? Call a cop? Hello? Hello? Twelve minutes later, I
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was moving through the early fog atthe waterfront looking for the Santa Susanna.
Black letters on a bobbing white barled me to it, but no signs
of life came from a board ship. A quick tour had me believing it
was deserted and that either Rios hadcaught up with Mortigans someplace else for what
reason I didn't know but could guess, or the Janis had given me wrong
information. Moments later, however,in the boiler room, it was clear
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she hadn't. The furnace was open, Coles was spread on the floor,
and so was a dead Captain Mortiganslouched in a chair with his eyes closed,
and the days was a one outof mindo Rios. He should have
been. He'd had a busy night, Rios, wake up Rio time,
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Simos and any language is dead.If that's what you mean, you couldn't
be any clearer, he said,You know concer too much from Conzer.
You fixed it fine, Andrea isgonna feel swell about it? What's the
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use? Come on? Rios?Oh what are you doing here? Got
a call from a girl named Bellesomething odell? Oh? Yeah, is
this raios? I don't what ifyou got to say for yourself? You're
ready to sign a statement? Doesn'tunderstand you? Kelsey, Oh, dummying
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up. He doesn't speak English.I he won't get off that easily,
will sweat it out of him.Yeah, that's what they all say.
Whoa look at this, he's carryinga gun. Gun? Why would he
use a knife if he had agun? Dot asked me. I don't
speak Spanish. Then what's all thiscoal doing on the floor? It's messy,
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looks bad and photographs? Yeah,well wait a minute, lieutenant,
you've done it again. I pickedup a lump of the coal. There
was a small hole bored into thecenter. Examination of others revealed the same
thing. Curious, you'd say,not so when you start thinking about one,
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the red Almipola two, the factthat the bottle's killing still remain unexplained
and free and Bengo narcotic smuggling aphone book gave me an address line Jackson,
and a rap on the door gotme a quick reply, M M
every morning, Janis, I didn'twake up, did I? Well?
If so, you might sleep inyour clothes and that suitcase on the bed
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must make it kind of cramped.Are you doing here? Sam? Heavy?
Old packed? It's going on alittle vacation for a few days.
Where too? Well about a planetaken on addressing Las Vegas? Hot there
this time of the year. Ofcourse, it's hot here too for some
of us. What do you want? I want you to open your suitcase?
Do it and I will Sam,don't do it? What's this?
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Janis? No, I've already guessedhow much worth. Zabao was killed by
a rapper on Captain Mortigan's orders becausehe knew this was coming in on the
Santa Susanna and probably wanted to cutto keep his mouth shut. Rapper and
Mortigan got theirs, not by Riosbut by you, so you could fall
out of this. For old Riosold and watted, he might have muffed
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his revenge. So you took nochances did them in yourself? With riosha
nice fat convey in pigeons. Butthe police are gonna find it harder and
harder to get a case against Rios, and easier and easier to get one
against you. These n iconics inyour possession will go a long way.
Listen to me. As long asI've got a gun in my hand,
I'll listen to you. Baby.There's over a hundred thousand dollars worth here,
and I know who to unloaded andwhat's in it for me and something
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else? Yeah, me, uhhuh, that would seemed to be worth
considering. Woodman, sam my chanceto make something out of yourself and not
grab around for a few lousy bucksall your life. Turn me over the
cops, not just any old cop, Jannis. I want something befitting your
character. I am going to turnyou over to Lieutenant Kelsey, and that
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lieutenant brings you up to date periodand the report that's awful good. We'll
talk about it later a later later. Go type it up here, this
man, can we talk about itnow? We can? How could that
girl talker one single moment she couldturn a man like you under her accomplice?
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Very poor judgment? Self dope?Yet yes, do I look the
time I should say that you're upstandingand clean cut oh, thank you.
Maybe she wasn't near sighted too.Anyway, I'm glad it's over and had
a happy envy. Well, i'mglad if you're glad. Now rush that
over to Kelsey so he can lookgood in the eyes of the commissioner,
and following us to sell STO.I'm telling the Lieutenant's got all the facts.
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And one thing more, I havethe floris sound a bouquet of flowers
to Andrey at the hospital. Oh, Sam, that's very nice of you.
Thanks, So one thing still more, close your eyes and have the
floors sound of bouquet of flowers toYouTube. Easy. Yeah, how do
you know it's not coming out ofyour salary? That's true too. Good
Night, good night, sweetheart,welcome back. I don't care whether you're
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talking about a laugh in your handsor Johnny Doller or Sam Spade. These
rehearsal recordings definitely make me appreciate theimportance of music and the full sound effects.
I mean, there were some effectsin this rehearsal, but they were
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not up to par. I mean, the little gunshot effect was just pathetic.
Still, I think Howard Duff doesa good job with this with his
charisma. Really carrying the day.It helps it. I think that this
is a pretty clean recording, evenif it is missing some key elements.
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Well listener comments and feedback now,and as I mentioned a few weeks ago,
this was actually the last episode I'mprerecording because of some issues with the
availability of certain episodes. So Idid get a couple of emails on that
episode with the very long name.Listeners will remember which one I'm talking about,
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so I don't have to say it. Rich emails in, Hello Adam
your comments at the end of todaySam Spade episode We're spot on the name
of the lake in Webster, Massachusettsused to be like the name of that
episode that was in that episode afew weeks ago, but most people here
just refer to it as Webster Lakefor obvious reasons. I really got a
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kick out of that episode and appreciatedyour research comments at the end. Enjoy
your bank and congratulations again on yourswitch to being a full time podcaster.
Well, thank you so much,appreciate it. Rich Bill writes in that
the episode was personal to him ashe lived on the lake in Webster,
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Massachusetts. It was the home ofthe Nipmuck tribe. The show isn't exactly
accurate. The Nipmucks and the lakeare about one hundred miles from the Berkshires.
The lake and their tribal lands arein the area where Massachusetts, Connecticut,
and Rhode Island come together, aboutforty five miles southwest of Boston.
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Back when Sam Spade was popular,the lake had several resorts in camps.
It was a very popular vacation locationfor people from New York and Boston.
If you're wondering, no, Icannot pronounce the name of the lake.
Most call it Webster Lake. Legendhas it that the Mohegan tribe from the
Connecticut coastal area would come up tothe lake and it's supposed to mean you
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fish on your side, we fishon our side, and no one fishes
on the middle. Thanks Bell,well, thank you so much. Bell.
I appreciate your comment. And nowit's time to thank our Patreon supporter
of the day. I want togo ahead and thank Vincent. Vincent has
been one of our Patreon supporters sinceJune of twenty nineteen, currently supporting the
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program at the rookie level of twodollars or more per month. Thank you
so much, Vincent, and thatwill do it for today. If you
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wherever you download us from. We'llbe back next Monday with another adventure with
Sam Spade, but join us backhere tomorrow for yours truly, Johnny Dollar.
Where to help you out of thismess if you'll let me. It's
funny, not a bit. Whyshould you want to help me? Well,
it's not because I haven't a usefor you, mister. You're nothing
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to me but a guy who's stolea pile of money. My job is
to get it back. Four thytwo hundred and eighty five dollars. Oh
yes, that, how about itforbus? Isn't it enough that I'm in
jail, that I'll go to prison. That's enough for the police, but
not for my insurance company. Oh, it's to bad about your insurance company.
It's too bad about you. You'rebeing foolish. A whole or partial
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recovery can have a great deal todo with what happens to you from now
on three years is the minimum sentence, you know, twelve years maximum?
I was it worth it? Sure? Sure, it's worth it. And
I don't want to be foolish anymore. But I have been foolish. I
took it nice, bed it,every diamond it There's no way to pay
it back. What did you spendit on? Doesn't make any difference.
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They make a lot of difference.You can redeem it, turn it back.
I can't. Why did you takethe money? All right? Look,
your salary is close to one hundreda week. You're single. Wasn't
that enough to live on? Whydon't you get out of here? I
don't have anything to tell. You'veever been in trouble before under another name
and another state. They consider backgroundslike that when a man comes up to
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be sentenced forbes. This is yourfirst offense. I know. Are you
trying to shield someone? Why don'tyou go away? Even trying the market?
Did you gamble? No? No, just leave me alone. I
will tell you a thing. Ifyou bought something with it, or give
it to someone if it can berecovered in some part. Oh, no,
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go away and leave me alone.I'd like to believe me. I
would. You're a thief Forbes andyou're gonna get what's coming to you.
But I can't leave you alone.Let's tell you listen to me. If
I don't get the information I wantfrom you, I'll get it elsewhere.
I hope you'll be with us then. In the meantime, do send your
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Well, now we get into thenineteen fifty episodes of Sam Spade, and
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in terms of the rest of HowardDuff's tenure on the program, pickings are
thin. We actually only have threeHoward Duff episodes from nineteen fifty, and
the first two of these are rehearsalrecordings. Today's program was a rehearsal of
a program that would air on Maythe twenty first of nineteen fifty and the
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title is The Red I'm a PolarCaper Fay Detectivagency. It's my f as
Carlos Salcida, the Mexican console calledn F Well, he will tell him
it's not what we thought it was. To hold everything. I'll get to
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him as soon as I can.Yes, then you sound so tired?
Are you all right? I am, and I'm not. There were too
many windmills to chase, too muchlanguage I didn't understand, and much too
much ven gonza which is Spanish forvendetta, which is English for vengeance,
and any language. It's dynamite witha short fuse. And you knew what
it was all about all along,Sam, it was It wasn't It wasn't.
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I'm afraid I don't understand. Whatabout the girl? Is she all
right? She is? And sheisn't? And confused exactly par for the
course. But don't worry if it'llstraighten out like star spaghetti when I come
down to say it, with Flowersdictating as I will, my report of
fury inferment on the red. I'ma polar caper. I'm a pole.
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My pretty little Poppy's our key asI'll be today. I told him what
you told me to tell him.For more. I couldn't ask. He
understood what you meant perfectly. Idon't understand this thing. You will.
You know I may have to tradethis stuff in for thee quelan. No
messing around as straight to the pointof virtue some people might do well to
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cultivate. Just tell me one thing, Sam, wasn't it. Let's not
tearry after the point. Remember padready, pencil, poised, knees crossed,
skirt a little bit higher. ButI want all right the date fill
it in too. Detective Lieutenant KelseyHomicide details San Francisco Police from Samuel Spade,
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license number one seventy five nine six, subject the red I'm a polar
Caper, the following as as yourequested, the detailed account of the thirty
one hours sixteen minutes I spent onthe case of a Ando Rios and daughter
I trusted will answer all your questions, solve your commissioner problems, and enable
you to speedily dispatch your duty.As one of the city's finest. I
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haven't helped our city, so I'llcome back with me to three pm yesterday,
the approximate time I stepped into myoffice and started standing nervously by the
window. A Mexican girl in herearly twenties. Her clothes, though Nathan
clean, were rummage sales specials whichhad seen better days. Her bare legs
were too thin, her face istoo drawn, but the midnight color of
her hair and the largeness of hereyes told me she could have been beautiful
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if things had gone another way.I'm glad you have come. I couldn't
have waited, my slunger. I'msorry I didn't know you were here.
My name is Andrea Rios. Iwould like to hire you, but I
do not have much money. Muchmoney may not be needed as reels.
What is it you want your time? Mister speed? You see, if
you acceave this job, I musthave all of your time from now until
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tomorrow morning. You cannot accept.You must tell me now so I can
get someone else. I see Ican only pay thirty dollars. I know
it's much to ask for thirty dollarsand ask for more for less. The
job may be difficult for you.You will not be able to sleep,
and I can make that up onsomebody else's time. Then you will help.
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Yes, I think so. Iwould like to hear more about it.
We will go to my father.You will learn more there. She
led me to the narrow street carheaded for south of a slot and paid
the fare. Twenty minutes later,we were walking through the San Francisco that's
left over, where the liquor ischeap and one cigarette is property. The
sounds of a jazzed up Spanish songcaught my ear, and the beer signs
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turned to surveys it. The buildingAndrea Rios picked to go into was old
enough to give the termites indigestion.The faded sign said la casa asoul.
She knocked on the door of roomtwelve, and the weather beaten face that
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stood in the doorway figured to besixty, but the age should have come
from concern. A black sweatshirt,pants to match, and a dirty white
sailor's cap. Inside. On thetables at a bottle of high art enjoy
juice that which hazel with a misnomerto kill it. The lemon and salt
stood alongside on a bad lay,a duffel bag with a black letters,
Santa Susannah Senior Spade. My fatherspeaks no English, I see. He
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asks if you are an honest man. It's a question no man can answer
with complete honesty. Andrea, myfather says, to sit down and have
a drinking. Tell father, Iwill, but I'd enjoy it more if
I knew why I was hired.Yes, of course, to spend the
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night here, mister speed with myfather, to keep an eye on him
all the time. Perfection. No, well, there must be more to
it. We want you to beable to tastify to my father's who whereabouts
this night if he should become necessary. What's going to happen this night?
I think you want your father inthe clear. Yes, well that sounds
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fair enough. That's all there is. I'll have that drink now, there'll
being up the last. The windowpane came flying in on the ugly muzzle
of a forty five silence are attachedstuck through. I yelled so than Andrea
with the gun yelled louder and withmore effect. The bullet st Andrea in
the sight. She looks crazy.We then folded in her father's arms.
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He began to mumble her name andcry I jumped to the window. Pulling
away was a black Buick Sanan withdriver unidentifiable so with the license places they
were covered tightly with a cloth.It was a pro job from beginning to
end and a clean getaway. Well, Andrea was still alive, but not
by much. I turned up aphone in the lobby. One Nickel got
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me the emergency hospital. The otherbrought me homicide and I got back to
the room. Andrea was still lyingthere, but she was alone a mon
Rios, her father had gone,and I thought I knew why exactly,
Lieutenant, I think Rios knows whoshot his daughter because I think the bullets
were meant for him, and shegot him by a mistake. I think,
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therefore that Rios has got revenge onhis mind. Now, let you
have Rios picked up before he doessomething he can't get out of. Yeah,
also make a notice follows, I, Lieutenant Kelsey, will check the
Mexican console for background on Rios,because I, Lieutenant Kelsey, believe Rios
is a Mexican national. Furthermore,I, Lieutenant Kelsey, will make a
close check of all incoming police callsfor the rest of the night because something
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is going to happen for which Rioswanted an alibi. When I find out
what same is, I will graciouslyinform Sam. Speed Sam, how do
you spell graciously? I went tothe officers of several Mexican language newspapers,
told them the story and asked themto give a place of prominence the fact
that Andrea was alive, asking AmandoRios to go directly to the nearest police
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station and wait until contacted. Ithen went to the Maritime Service and queried
about the Santa Susanna. I wastold it was a sport fishing vessel owned
by its captain, Jay Mortigan,with office in the Ocean building on the
Embarcadero. The name played on theTitian haired secretary's desk said Janus Odell.
Yes, could I hope you please? I thank so. That's the office
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of the Santa Susanna. Oh you'replanning a fishing trip, Well, then
you've come to the right place.Santa Susanna has excellent accommodations, is thoroughly
outfitted for an extended cruise in theBay of California, where as you know,
exists some of the greatest fishing watersin the world. It's the same
of you. Miss I'll do myfishing here. My name is Spade.
I'm a private detective. I amtrying to locate on the Mondo Rios.
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Rios, I said something. Youknow he's got a berth on the Santa
Susanna. Well he has, atleast he had. What's he done,
mister Space? Well let's say,what do you will that bothers me?
You say he had a birth.Would you explain please? I just a
moment, mister Space. Captain Morgandecrive a detective out here asking about a
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Mandaria's yo, send him in,Jannis, come on, move lively in
here, missus Spade, thank you. My name is Morgan. Captain Mortigan.
I ask Kippy the Santa Susanna tofind a sport fishing vessel ever to
touch salt water. Everybody's got acommercial. Miss O'Dell says, you're asking
about Ryos. I am. I'mtrying to locate, and so am I
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I've got steam up and a dozenpeople waiting. Rio's knows those Mexican fishing
waters like no one I've met.And where is he jumped ship? It
asked me, scampering around San Franciscoor dead drunk in some infamous din from
that cactus poison he drinks. Ifthe storm's over, Captain, I'd like
to ask you a few questions.Where does Rio's room when he's in San
Francisco stays right on the ship.Did you know he had a daughter?
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No, you don't have any idea. I suppose why Rio's jump ship.
It's a woman. That's my guess. It's always a woman. That is
just a guess. All right,Captain, I'll make a small sized deal
with you. If I find Riyos, I'll notify you. If you find
him first, notify me. Ileave you my card, Martin and a
grade. And I left, pausingonly long enough on the front of office
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to give Janas Odell my phone numberin case she saw Rios. She gave
me her phone number, and itwas a fair exchange. Twenty minutes later,
Lieutenant I was meeting with Carlos Salcedoof the Mexican Consul's office. A
wire he had sent to Mexico saidhe had brought results. Saw, mister
Spade, you have not yet foundAmando Rios, but are still desires of
preventing him from consummating his revenge.I fear perhaps you are too late.
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One information off you got first.Amando Rios was arrested in the Mexican state
of Sinalois for the growing of thered amapola. You are aware of what
that is. Amapola means poppy fromthe song of the same name, exactly
the red poppy grown for the productionof narcotics. The arrest occurred on August
nineteen, nineteen forty six. Rioserved three years in the penitentiary as a
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result, convicted mainly on the testimonyof an Ernesto Sabado, who Rios claimed,
as you say, framed him.Yeah. No, Look at this
an inquiry from the office of theDistrict Attorney of Marine County, California,
requesting information about a Mexican national whosedead body was discovered two hours ago washed
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the shore at Point Bonito, aMexican national whose name is Masto Sabato.
Yeah, and you think perhaps Rioskilled Sabato A distinct possibility, mister Spain,
since he had motive. That's exactlywhy I don't think he did it.
Rios knows about it, was goingto be killed sometime to night.
That's the reason Andrea hired me.So or a father's whereabouts could be accounted
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for, and so he could notbe accused. Now, holmst to South
said, oh, I don't thinkRios killed Sabato. Well, I hope
you are right, for his sakeand for his daughters, who we both
hope will get well. The onewho killed Sabato is probably the same one
who drives a black Duicks and andwho took those pot shots at Rios and
called Andrea instead, the same onewho Rios has now got a vendetta against
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Ganza. However, you say itas a sucker's play, But how do
you stop him if you can't findhim? Thank you, and mister Salzito.
I must admit, mister Speed,I do not fully understand your concern
over a reelers. It's a matterof fact. I'm not sure of it
myself. But you've got a rottenshuffle. I got a night's pace,
or I might as well work forit. Besides, well, I'll let
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you know what develops. The nextfour hours, dear Lieutenant was spent in
questioning the following a two members ofthe crew of the Santa Susannah, the
assorted residence of La Casa asoul seeInspector Gruber, the marine county days off
as a sign of the Zabato case, some total of information garnered concerning the
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whereabouts of Amando Rios and or theidentity of the gunman. He was after
zero. I was tired, Iwas depressed. I had a headache.
Five minutes to eleven, a coinof mine dropped into a payphone and a
booth by a gas station closed forthe night. My intention was to find
out if you had turned up anything, and to ask how Andria was.
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But you never got to hear myhoneyed voice. Hang it up, Spade.
It was a voice that wasn't familiar. The forty five with silence or
affixed, however was. It didn'ttake me long to start perspiring. Leave
the nickel, Spade, you won'tneed it. Good evening. I've been
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wondering about you. I'll bet youhave. You're sort of a novel,
you know, the only myoptic gunmanI've ever met. But set me you're
near sighted. You got the wrongperson back at La Casa a sou BOSL
have to send you out again forRios. I don't like your spade.
I don't know you, but Idon't like you anyway. Yes, I'll
kill you, so I'll never haveto take a chance of knowing you.
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Now, come on, step out, gum shoe. He urged me out
of the phone booth up the streeta few paces to the head of an
alley with a blind end. Nowhe parked himself in a fire plug.
I wished him, also, it'sa bad luck, and he told me
to start walking into the alley.Mine was small choice. As I moved
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away from the guns loo toward thealley's end, my eyes searched the means
of escape. All that's far enough. Now I'm gonna pick your eyes out.
I stood frozen for a moment andspun and looked like Gunzo had pitched
onto the sidewalk, but the fortyfive was still in his hand. I
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moved up to him slowly, witha maximum of caution, and took a
closer look. He was as deadas he could get. A knife in
his back, had done the job. That's when I looked up the street
and saw a figure and fast withfree. It wore a black sweatshirt,
pants the match, and a dirtywhite sailor cap. It looked very much
like the ven Gonza of Amando Rioswas accomplished. You arrived at the scene
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of the crime, Lieutenant, whereyou took over in your own masterly way.
By the adroit maneuver of looking intothe dead man's wallet, you uncovered
the fact that he was a LosAngeles import named Max Rapper. You've then
examined the knife in his back anddiscovered, as I had previously, the
initials a R for Amando Rios cutinto the handle. That, plus the
fact that I and other witness hadseen Amando Rios plea the scene, made
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it open and shut. Rios wasnow wanted for murder. When we got
to your office, the message hadbeen received by SiGe and Paul Huns from
doctor Pennington of General Hospital. It'ssaid one Andrea Rios was going to live
too. She wanted to see SamSpade. Was it all right? You
had no objection? But I hada problem what to say to her?
Could I say it was nice shewas going to get well, and oh,
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by the way, your father justkilled Max Rapper and the state will
do likewise to him or what?My mind still hadn't live on anything.
It liked when Pennington walked me downthe hospital corridor toward her room, because
she's a lucky girl, mister Spadecould have gone the other way would have
been unlucky. I'll wait outside.Don't stay too long. The jet black
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of her hair gave contrast to thewhite us of the room. Her face
had lost much of its color,but none of the anxiety had gone out
of her eyes. We talked ChaChad for a while. It was easy
to say she had a question shewanted to ask, but had trouble getting
it out. Finally it came,mister Speed, have you heard, I
mean, is there any news ofthe death of a man called Er.
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Yes, the police found his bodywashed to show us some hours ago.
My father isn't a killing him.Oh, it's clear on that I can
testify. Oh, that is whatI was worrying about. Now, mister
Speed, I can tell you whatyou do not know about my father and
Ernesto Savard. I already know.Carlo Salcedo, the Mexican consul, told
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me. Yeah. It was anunfortunate affair for a great many people,
mister Speed. Buyers from the UnitedStates came to Sinaloa with the money.
The peasants were lured into the puppy. Many knew no better, Many did
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not know what it was for.They knew simply to grow the red flower
brought more money than to grow food. When the police came, they suffered.
The buyers were nowhere to be found. Anyway, It's all right now.
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My father did not kill him afterSabato, No all lieutenants. She
did not learn about Max Rapper's killingfrom me that her father was now a
fugitive wanted for murder. I alsodidn't ask her some questions I could have
asked, like how did she knowZabata was going to be killed, that
Rapper do it? And why?Somehow, it didn't matter. It turned
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sour all the way down the line, and besides, Sabado was inspected.
Gruber's problem, not mine. Twentyminutes later, I walked into my apartment,
uncocked a live one, and startedat the top four fingers down.
The phone began ring, but Ididn't pay any attention. The sky was
just beginning to light up with morning, and I remember saying to myself,
I was still technically on the rio'scase, but actually there was no case
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to be on. When I couldn'tstand the phone rings any longer, I
looked at the receiver off the hook. Dam Sam, Hello, Sam,
Missus Janis ad I just saw Wow, I was going to kill Captain Morgan
Mortigan. Why, I'm more?Went to the Santa Susanna after him,
Peter thirty two, Rios is wild? Stop him? Sam? Why call
me? Call a cop? Hello? Hello? Twelve minutes later, I
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was moving through the early fog atthe waterfront looking for the Santa Susanna.
Black letters on a bobbing white barled me to it, but no signs
of life came from a board ship. A quick tour had me believing it
was deserted and that either Rios hadcaught up with Mortigans someplace else for what
reason I didn't know but could guess, or the Janis had given me wrong
information. Moments later, however,in the boiler room, it was clear
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she hadn't. The furnace was open, Coles was spread on the floor,
and so was a dead Captain Mortiganslouched in a chair with his eyes closed,
and the days was a one outof mindo Rios. He should have
been. He'd had a busy night, Rios, wake up Rio time,
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Simos and any language is dead.If that's what you mean, you couldn't
be any clearer, he said,You know concer too much from Conzer.
You fixed it fine, Andrea isgonna feel swell about it? What's the
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use? Come on? Rios?Oh what are you doing here? Got
a call from a girl named Bellesomething odell? Oh? Yeah, is
this raios? I don't what ifyou got to say for yourself? You're
ready to sign a statement? Doesn'tunderstand you? Kelsey, Oh, dummying
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up. He doesn't speak English.I he won't get off that easily,
will sweat it out of him.Yeah, that's what they all say.
Whoa look at this, he's carryinga gun. Gun? Why would he
use a knife if he had agun? Dot asked me. I don't
speak Spanish. Then what's all thiscoal doing on the floor? It's messy,
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looks bad and photographs? Yeah,well wait a minute, lieutenant,
you've done it again. I pickedup a lump of the coal. There
was a small hole bored into thecenter. Examination of others revealed the same
thing. Curious, you'd say,not so when you start thinking about one,
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the red Almipola two, the factthat the bottle's killing still remain unexplained
and free and Bengo narcotic smuggling aphone book gave me an address line Jackson,
and a rap on the door gotme a quick reply, M M
every morning, Janis, I didn'twake up, did I? Well?
If so, you might sleep inyour clothes and that suitcase on the bed
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must make it kind of cramped.Are you doing here? Sam? Heavy?
Old packed? It's going on alittle vacation for a few days.
Where too? Well about a planetaken on addressing Las Vegas? Hot there
this time of the year. Ofcourse, it's hot here too for some
of us. What do you want? I want you to open your suitcase?
Do it and I will Sam,don't do it? What's this?
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Janis? No, I've already guessedhow much worth. Zabao was killed by
a rapper on Captain Mortigan's orders becausehe knew this was coming in on the
Santa Susanna and probably wanted to cutto keep his mouth shut. Rapper and
Mortigan got theirs, not by Riosbut by you, so you could fall
out of this. For old Riosold and watted, he might have muffed
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his revenge. So you took nochances did them in yourself? With riosha
nice fat convey in pigeons. Butthe police are gonna find it harder and
harder to get a case against Rios, and easier and easier to get one
against you. These n iconics inyour possession will go a long way.
Listen to me. As long asI've got a gun in my hand,
I'll listen to you. Baby.There's over a hundred thousand dollars worth here,
and I know who to unloaded andwhat's in it for me and something
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else? Yeah, me, uhhuh, that would seemed to be worth
considering. Woodman, sam my chanceto make something out of yourself and not
grab around for a few lousy bucksall your life. Turn me over the
cops, not just any old cop, Jannis. I want something befitting your
character. I am going to turnyou over to Lieutenant Kelsey, and that
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lieutenant brings you up to date periodand the report that's awful good. We'll
talk about it later a later later. Go type it up here, this
man, can we talk about itnow? We can? How could that
girl talker one single moment she couldturn a man like you under her accomplice?
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Very poor judgment? Self dope?Yet yes, do I look the
time I should say that you're upstandingand clean cut oh, thank you.
Maybe she wasn't near sighted too.Anyway, I'm glad it's over and had
a happy envy. Well, i'mglad if you're glad. Now rush that
over to Kelsey so he can lookgood in the eyes of the commissioner,
and following us to sell STO.I'm telling the Lieutenant's got all the facts.
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And one thing more, I havethe floris sound a bouquet of flowers
to Andrey at the hospital. Oh, Sam, that's very nice of you.
Thanks, So one thing still more, close your eyes and have the
floors sound of bouquet of flowers toYouTube. Easy. Yeah, how do
you know it's not coming out ofyour salary? That's true too. Good
Night, good night, sweetheart,welcome back. I don't care whether you're
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talking about a laugh in your handsor Johnny Doller or Sam Spade. These
rehearsal recordings definitely make me appreciate theimportance of music and the full sound effects.
I mean, there were some effectsin this rehearsal, but they were
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not up to par. I mean, the little gunshot effect was just pathetic.
Still, I think Howard Duff doesa good job with this with his
charisma. Really carrying the day.It helps it. I think that this
is a pretty clean recording, evenif it is missing some key elements.
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Well listener comments and feedback now,and as I mentioned a few weeks ago,
this was actually the last episode I'mprerecording because of some issues with the
availability of certain episodes. So Idid get a couple of emails on that
episode with the very long name.Listeners will remember which one I'm talking about,
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so I don't have to say it. Rich emails in, Hello Adam
your comments at the end of todaySam Spade episode We're spot on the name
of the lake in Webster, Massachusettsused to be like the name of that
episode that was in that episode afew weeks ago, but most people here
just refer to it as Webster Lakefor obvious reasons. I really got a
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kick out of that episode and appreciatedyour research comments at the end. Enjoy
your bank and congratulations again on yourswitch to being a full time podcaster.
Well, thank you so much,appreciate it. Rich Bill writes in that
the episode was personal to him ashe lived on the lake in Webster,
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Massachusetts. It was the home ofthe Nipmuck tribe. The show isn't exactly
accurate. The Nipmucks and the lakeare about one hundred miles from the Berkshires.
The lake and their tribal lands arein the area where Massachusetts, Connecticut,
and Rhode Island come together, aboutforty five miles southwest of Boston.
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Back when Sam Spade was popular,the lake had several resorts in camps.
It was a very popular vacation locationfor people from New York and Boston.
If you're wondering, no, Icannot pronounce the name of the lake.
Most call it Webster Lake. Legendhas it that the Mohegan tribe from the
Connecticut coastal area would come up tothe lake and it's supposed to mean you
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fish on your side, we fishon our side, and no one fishes
on the middle. Thanks Bell,well, thank you so much. Bell.
I appreciate your comment. And nowit's time to thank our Patreon supporter
of the day. I want togo ahead and thank Vincent. Vincent has
been one of our Patreon supporters sinceJune of twenty nineteen, currently supporting the
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program at the rookie level of twodollars or more per month. Thank you
so much, Vincent, and thatwill do it for today. If you
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wherever you download us from. We'llbe back next Monday with another adventure with
Sam Spade, but join us backhere tomorrow for yours truly, Johnny Dollar.
Where to help you out of thismess if you'll let me. It's
funny, not a bit. Whyshould you want to help me? Well,
it's not because I haven't a usefor you, mister. You're nothing
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to me but a guy who's stolea pile of money. My job is
to get it back. Four thytwo hundred and eighty five dollars. Oh
yes, that, how about itforbus? Isn't it enough that I'm in
jail, that I'll go to prison. That's enough for the police, but
not for my insurance company. Oh, it's to bad about your insurance company.
It's too bad about you. You'rebeing foolish. A whole or partial
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recovery can have a great deal todo with what happens to you from now
on three years is the minimum sentence, you know, twelve years maximum?
I was it worth it? Sure? Sure, it's worth it. And
I don't want to be foolish anymore. But I have been foolish. I
took it nice, bed it,every diamond it There's no way to pay
it back. What did you spendit on? Doesn't make any difference.
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They make a lot of difference.You can redeem it, turn it back.
I can't. Why did you takethe money? All right? Look,
your salary is close to one hundreda week. You're single. Wasn't
that enough to live on? Whydon't you get out of here? I
don't have anything to tell. You'veever been in trouble before under another name
and another state. They consider backgroundslike that when a man comes up to
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be sentenced forbes. This is yourfirst offense. I know. Are you
trying to shield someone? Why don'tyou go away? Even trying the market?
Did you gamble? No? No, just leave me alone. I
will tell you a thing. Ifyou bought something with it, or give
it to someone if it can berecovered in some part. Oh, no,
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go away and leave me alone.I'd like to believe me. I
would. You're a thief Forbes andyou're gonna get what's coming to you.
But I can't leave you alone.Let's tell you listen to me. If
I don't get the information I wantfrom you, I'll get it elsewhere.
I hope you'll be with us then. In the meantime, do send your
comments to Box thirteen at Great Detectivesdot net, follow us on Twitter at
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