1 00:00:28,280 --> 00:00:35,399 Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho. This 2 00:00:35,640 --> 00:00:39,479 is your host, Adam Graham. If you have a comment, email it 3 00:00:39,520 --> 00:00:46,000 to me Box thirteen at Great Detectives dot net, Follow me on Twitter at 4 00:00:46,119 --> 00:00:51,280 Radio Detectives, and check us out on Instagram, Instagram, dot com, 5 00:00:51,439 --> 00:00:56,320 slash Great Detectives. Today's episode is brought to you in part by the financial 6 00:00:56,320 --> 00:01:00,960 support of our listeners. You can support the show on a one basis support 7 00:01:00,039 --> 00:01:06,480 dot Great Detectives dot net, or become one of our ongoing Patreon supporters for 8 00:01:06,719 --> 00:01:11,840 as little as two dollars per month at Patreon dot Great Detectives dot net. 9 00:01:12,040 --> 00:01:17,599 Now it's time for us to bring you this week's episode of Sam Spade, 10 00:01:18,200 --> 00:01:23,959 and this one is from a home recording disc Now we've heard about these in 11 00:01:23,159 --> 00:01:30,200 some radio plots. There were a couple of different detective programs, including Patnovak 12 00:01:30,239 --> 00:01:36,519 for Hire, that involved people going to a record store where you could record 13 00:01:36,599 --> 00:01:42,680 your own record in a booth, and there were also some involving home recorded 14 00:01:42,760 --> 00:01:48,000 records. My favorite of these was probably the Nick Carter episode Records of Death, 15 00:01:48,200 --> 00:01:53,760 about a guy finding ten records that chronicle a murder and Nick has to 16 00:01:53,840 --> 00:02:00,480 find the murderer and what happened just from what's on the record. If you 17 00:02:00,599 --> 00:02:05,599 go on to YouTube and you do a search for home recording disc, you'll 18 00:02:05,640 --> 00:02:09,599 get some interesting results. Not many of these survive, so if a record 19 00:02:09,639 --> 00:02:14,360 collector finds one, it's a bit of a find. Most of the ones 20 00:02:14,479 --> 00:02:21,400 I listen to online were family recordings, kind of like how people would use 21 00:02:21,560 --> 00:02:28,599 camcorders back in the nineteen eighties. Occasionally you'd find some disc with a song 22 00:02:28,680 --> 00:02:31,800 that was recorded off the radio, and someone did note that many of these 23 00:02:31,840 --> 00:02:38,240 machines had an option to change your input from microphone to radio, so it 24 00:02:38,360 --> 00:02:44,879 was possible to record off the radio, but it's a bit tricky for recording 25 00:02:45,120 --> 00:02:52,000 a long form program onto a home recording disc. We'll hear that today this 26 00:02:52,159 --> 00:02:59,039 episode of Sam Spade is missing the opening. It's also missing the closing commercial 27 00:02:59,280 --> 00:03:04,479 and final scene with Effie, and in addition to that, there's a ten 28 00:03:04,639 --> 00:03:09,719 second gap while the person doing the recording flipped over the disc, as again 29 00:03:09,840 --> 00:03:15,360 you had a limited recording space on each side of the disc. But the 30 00:03:15,479 --> 00:03:22,560 story is actually complete. This episode was released prior to the caper with two 31 00:03:22,800 --> 00:03:29,680 Deathbeds, which began the longest streak of available episodes of Sam Spade in the 32 00:03:29,759 --> 00:03:34,960 series. So now let's go ahead and we'll bring you today's episode of Sam 33 00:03:35,120 --> 00:03:38,800 Spade. The original air at eight May thirtieth, nineteen forty eight, and 34 00:03:38,840 --> 00:03:49,240 the title is the Prisoner of Zenda Caper. I had not made it squeeze 35 00:03:49,240 --> 00:03:59,719 in sideways in the sixty foot high entrance all of Zenda. I heard music. 36 00:04:00,560 --> 00:04:03,159 It's seemed to be seeping down from one of the upper floors. This 37 00:04:03,319 --> 00:04:08,039 particular music. Didn't see the ft with the suits of armor and heraldic flags 38 00:04:08,080 --> 00:04:11,080 that were gathering dusts around the joint. I was just going to ask the 39 00:04:11,120 --> 00:04:13,960 proll who the jedibug was. When there's double doors at the end of the 40 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:18,600 carridor were thrown violently open, Johnny, how would you what do you expect? 41 00:04:19,079 --> 00:04:21,480 You gotta have everything you want? You're on. I'll look here, 42 00:04:21,519 --> 00:04:31,279 Johnny. Yes, it's a spade. Oh yeah, good morning, My 43 00:04:31,439 --> 00:04:36,279 check things up there. I'm rocking again in the spade. This is my 44 00:04:36,360 --> 00:04:42,279 major domoment to me taking a drink, Johnny, what it mean anything at 45 00:04:42,279 --> 00:04:45,639 all? There's some gin in the kitchen. That's gin in the kitchen. 46 00:04:45,680 --> 00:04:47,800 What's the two hundred room house? And you tell me that chin in the 47 00:04:47,879 --> 00:04:49,959 kitchen? You told me to lock up the liquor and put the keys in 48 00:04:49,959 --> 00:04:55,720 the safety posit because you're knowell a line. Well, so you're a private 49 00:04:55,720 --> 00:05:00,879 detective. I didn't remember sending for you. You didn't who sent for your 50 00:05:00,879 --> 00:05:05,600 Shamus? The letter is signed Laila McGannon Lda impossible. What does the letter 51 00:05:05,720 --> 00:05:11,199 say? Shamas? That's between my client and me and mister Shamus to you? 52 00:05:11,800 --> 00:05:15,600 What why you she's trans some peoper major domo with two hundred rooms? 53 00:05:15,600 --> 00:05:18,519 Can't you afford better than that? Miss mcgahnon. I'll kill you, you'll 54 00:05:18,519 --> 00:05:24,439 get that. What's the scar? Mister mcgahnon. My wife is not a 55 00:05:24,439 --> 00:05:29,519 well woman. Mister sade, doctor has forbidden all this well she sent me 56 00:05:29,519 --> 00:05:31,879 a retainer one hundred and fifty bucks, one hundred and fifty dollars. Where 57 00:05:31,879 --> 00:05:36,439 did she get? Johnny? Do you hear it? Start? Look at 58 00:05:36,519 --> 00:05:41,360 me? You say you locked up all the liquor. That's what I said, 59 00:05:41,800 --> 00:05:45,040 very well, you and your boys have been running things in this house. 60 00:05:45,079 --> 00:05:47,319 We see the results detectives and that that that rocket. I want all 61 00:05:47,319 --> 00:05:50,199 the servants reports to be here immediately. I'm just charting them all. What 62 00:05:50,360 --> 00:05:55,600 about our detective friend here? I leave that to you. Deed with that 63 00:05:55,839 --> 00:06:00,000 you that's my pleasure. Shall I kill that music first? And never mind 64 00:06:00,079 --> 00:06:03,959 that I look after my wife personally work, mister McGannon, I'm sorry your 65 00:06:03,959 --> 00:06:08,879 wife is sick. Anything you may have heard of the contrary private detectives don't 66 00:06:08,920 --> 00:06:11,399 go looking for trouble. All I want to do is to turn this money 67 00:06:11,399 --> 00:06:16,800 to it. So if you just show me the who the rabbit funds? 68 00:06:16,879 --> 00:06:19,639 That first one, very illegal, very expert. I was on my feet, 69 00:06:19,639 --> 00:06:23,319 but I couldn't straighten up. I moved around in front of me and 70 00:06:23,399 --> 00:06:26,879 let me have two punishing cuts in the midsections. I doubled up and tried 71 00:06:26,879 --> 00:06:30,160 to fall down, but I couldn't. Then I realized it was because two 72 00:06:30,160 --> 00:06:32,839 more members of mister mcgannon's strong arm squad had grabbed my arms and were hustling 73 00:06:32,839 --> 00:06:38,079 me down that long passageway. Then I heard a fund of clap twice as 74 00:06:38,160 --> 00:06:41,160 loud as nothing i'd ever heard before. And that was all, brother, 75 00:06:41,439 --> 00:06:55,360 that was all what happened in there. Oh you're dead worse for this forgot 76 00:06:55,519 --> 00:07:02,199 more. Your head cut here and let me let me help you. Thanks. 77 00:07:02,279 --> 00:07:06,839 Oh Lee, what a miss I get an? Oh, well that's 78 00:07:06,879 --> 00:07:12,439 my card. You think it's naked? Lean on me. It's all right. 79 00:07:12,480 --> 00:07:23,399 I'm wiry. Oh tell me if you feel like it. Tell you 80 00:07:23,519 --> 00:07:28,120 what I'm jail Borden. I'm a friend of Johnny May. Then you're a 81 00:07:28,120 --> 00:07:32,240 friend of mine. Let me have it. I can see that. Oh 82 00:07:32,480 --> 00:07:35,920 please trust me. What did they say about? What about Leela? What's 83 00:07:35,959 --> 00:07:42,240 your she's my idea? You know about it, don't You's an actress? 84 00:07:42,240 --> 00:07:46,240 Oh not just an actress. She was a little lorrange. She was a 85 00:07:46,279 --> 00:07:51,319 big dog. Camille Trilby, old prisoner of Zender McGannon. He broke this 86 00:07:51,480 --> 00:07:56,399 castle for her, just like in the movie of the pre married him for 87 00:07:56,560 --> 00:08:00,480 a castle. He wasn't a big love of a life. He died. 88 00:08:01,160 --> 00:08:05,439 Who was the first? You know? Who was the name? Kind of 89 00:08:05,519 --> 00:08:11,879 rings a belt? Played? Tom Boom, one of the best, the 90 00:08:11,920 --> 00:08:15,360 experts say, only it's hard to play. You can't get any of his 91 00:08:15,480 --> 00:08:22,120 records. He needs hundreds. But something happened to them. Hello, what 92 00:08:22,160 --> 00:08:26,199 do you want Johnny? I didn't know you had companies state. I'm sorry 93 00:08:26,240 --> 00:08:28,759 we had to rought you up. We'll talk about that later. What's his 94 00:08:28,759 --> 00:08:33,200 ankle doing, Brook, sweetheart, Johnny here is definitely not your sight. 95 00:08:33,600 --> 00:08:37,320 What do you want from me? I don't want I know what you've been 96 00:08:37,320 --> 00:08:39,200 playing this for. You want me to get into that house. You figure 97 00:08:39,240 --> 00:08:43,879 on finding out something about Leela. It'll be good for the shakedown. Well, 98 00:08:43,960 --> 00:08:46,080 let's forget it. As long as you're going to take the shamathan within 99 00:08:46,080 --> 00:08:52,360 instead of making you're both wasted your time. So far as Joe Kenyon's concerned. 100 00:08:52,399 --> 00:08:54,600 Even if your hunt is right, he's been dead for nineteen years, 101 00:08:54,799 --> 00:08:58,480 and New York commer side is busy end up with current stuff, even so 102 00:08:58,639 --> 00:09:05,840 with Lee. But now you won't get into see Leliz. Nobody will Why 103 00:09:05,879 --> 00:09:11,960 not Leli gad I. It'll be in the morning's papers. But whether he 104 00:09:13,519 --> 00:09:24,759 can sup your look over there, it won't help any Come on, I'll 105 00:09:24,840 --> 00:09:37,919 drive you home. I've come so long, I've waited so long. I 106 00:09:37,960 --> 00:09:41,039 wondered just how far she had come, or how far she'd gone. What's 107 00:09:41,080 --> 00:09:45,000 the grief on her face? Told me how long she'd waited. With all 108 00:09:45,000 --> 00:09:48,600 her life, I couldn't see her for the kind of woman that put flowers 109 00:09:48,600 --> 00:09:52,600 on Rudolph Valentino's grave. But I couldn't quite see her as a blackmailer either. 110 00:09:52,200 --> 00:09:54,840 As far as I was concerned, what had her had not happened tonight 111 00:09:54,879 --> 00:09:58,639 wouldn't make any sense until I could find out what had happened on another night 112 00:10:00,159 --> 00:10:05,039 nineteen years ago. I had an idea that the subtitle and the silent fiction 113 00:10:05,279 --> 00:10:15,600 might read murder. 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We're just survide what you'd expect on a famous actress who were 130 00:11:56,799 --> 00:12:01,320 sired many years ago to marry a rich and famous man. McGannon was described 131 00:12:01,320 --> 00:12:05,279 as a promoter, political leader, and spinning fears. The late missus McGannon 132 00:12:05,320 --> 00:12:07,440 was described as one of the great beauties of her generation, as indeed she 133 00:12:07,679 --> 00:12:11,759 was where pictures of Billy Dove, Mary Silbn, Clara Bow, Marilyn Miller, 134 00:12:11,879 --> 00:12:18,200 Gene Eagles, Leneada A Lillian and Dorothy get and the fullcast of Scaramus 135 00:12:18,000 --> 00:12:24,279 film pioneers who were her contemporary friends of Lovely Leela Lorraine. But in the 136 00:12:24,360 --> 00:12:28,200 mission in the otherwise fulsome account was provocative to me. There was no mention 137 00:12:28,279 --> 00:12:33,679 of Lela Lorraine's first husband, Joe Kenyon. Pete Day knows all of this 138 00:12:33,799 --> 00:12:37,279 and all about young men with horns, and Pete gave me some information. 139 00:12:37,639 --> 00:12:41,399 Joe Kenyon fran Bonneman. Yeah, the first time I heard that cat, 140 00:12:41,440 --> 00:12:45,960 I was just a little kitten. I'd tell you how to style something like 141 00:12:46,240 --> 00:12:48,600 mis mole, only more legit, you know, two bad. He killed 142 00:12:48,679 --> 00:12:54,240 himself. I had a couple of his side men, barking dog blues, 143 00:12:54,320 --> 00:12:58,879 sweet Lorraine. They were fine, real gone. You know. I kind 144 00:12:58,879 --> 00:13:01,039 of hated the plot with those as some hip collector offered me. Took the 145 00:13:01,080 --> 00:13:03,759 skins of peace for him, so why not. It's hard to name the 146 00:13:03,960 --> 00:13:11,480 McGannon. You know, I blew fifteen bucks in a phone call in New 147 00:13:11,559 --> 00:13:15,679 York. That's when you gave me the run down, Lieutenant on the Joe 148 00:13:15,759 --> 00:13:20,480 Kenyan suicide. He'd taken a long walk on a short tear because of death's 149 00:13:20,720 --> 00:13:24,559 drowning, but the sap wound on the back of his head was never explained. 150 00:13:24,559 --> 00:13:28,159 There was no record as ever having been married to anybody named Leila Lorraine, 151 00:13:28,440 --> 00:13:31,600 but there was a marriage pacific. It made out to Joseph Kenyan and 152 00:13:31,639 --> 00:13:39,840 one Leela Borden Damn, Hold are you okay? Then I'll come in. 153 00:13:41,519 --> 00:13:43,120 Where'd you been looking for? Some answers? I should have come here and 154 00:13:43,200 --> 00:13:46,240 shaken them out of you. What are you talking? Why didn't you tell 155 00:13:46,240 --> 00:13:50,399 me Leyla was your mother? Oh? Well, what difference does it make? 156 00:13:50,480 --> 00:13:52,960 Now? McGannon will get away with it, just the way he got 157 00:13:52,960 --> 00:13:56,200 away with killing my father. And what did your mother send for me? 158 00:13:58,600 --> 00:14:01,399 I don't know, lie number one? You wrote that letter and signed her 159 00:14:01,480 --> 00:14:03,600 name to it? Why? But it's not what the sinstern. It wasn't 160 00:14:03,600 --> 00:14:07,759 a blackmail. I wanted to see my mother after nineteen years, you suddenly 161 00:14:07,759 --> 00:14:11,000 wanted to see your mother. But I didn't know. I'd always been told 162 00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:15,440 my mother was dead. Who told you? Differ? I ant? She 163 00:14:15,519 --> 00:14:18,960 brought me up and he was a sick six months ago. They told her 164 00:14:18,960 --> 00:14:22,759 what she was doing. So she told me about my mother. Why did 165 00:14:22,799 --> 00:14:26,919 you say about McGannon him? Her mother told me how he managed your wife 166 00:14:26,960 --> 00:14:30,320 out nearly every trace of my father, so that it almost seemed he never 167 00:14:30,559 --> 00:14:33,039 visited at all. Her mother has been a prisoner in that castle ever since 168 00:14:33,039 --> 00:14:39,279 he married mus I wanted to help to him. Now he's did. How 169 00:14:39,320 --> 00:14:43,320 did you meet Johnny Mace? Well, he caught me trying to climb over 170 00:14:43,320 --> 00:14:46,840 the wall. At first it was very stern, and then he started laughing. 171 00:14:46,600 --> 00:14:50,200 He said I was hum my boy. He said I had some kind 172 00:14:50,200 --> 00:14:52,919 of a blackmail plan and I met him. Think so because he was my 173 00:14:52,919 --> 00:14:56,200 only name to the people in that house. But he kept putting me off. 174 00:14:58,120 --> 00:15:01,919 Well that's why I find the sink of that letter. I guess I 175 00:15:01,039 --> 00:15:11,879 must have been crazy. Look as you told me what. Well, well, 176 00:15:11,960 --> 00:15:20,159 Johnnie, I don't know. I'm just listen, honey. You know 177 00:15:20,240 --> 00:15:24,759 I do anything in the world for you. You don't really go for that 178 00:15:24,879 --> 00:15:28,120 genrece to you? What, Johnny, I can't hear you. Let's space, 179 00:15:28,799 --> 00:15:31,639 I said, you don't really go for that. Wait a minute, 180 00:15:31,639 --> 00:15:35,559 wait, I'll fix that racket. Don't go away now. You stay right 181 00:15:35,600 --> 00:15:39,399 on the phone there, don't hang up. Damn are you still on the 182 00:15:39,440 --> 00:15:43,320 wire? Yeah? I can't I please hang up. Oh, it's sweet 183 00:15:43,600 --> 00:15:54,399 shut up. Hello, Hello, it's okay, sweet on. I've heard 184 00:15:54,399 --> 00:15:58,360 all I need to, in fact, a little more than I expected. 185 00:16:06,559 --> 00:16:08,559 Then the castle was hideous enough in the daytime if you should have caught it 186 00:16:08,600 --> 00:16:12,919 his knife. The rain stopped about ten minutes before I clambered down from a 187 00:16:14,000 --> 00:16:17,879 bus and slogged up the winding mountain road to the dead end. I took 188 00:16:17,919 --> 00:16:21,960 a plant in the traditional shrubbery and waited. It wasn't long, maybe twenty 189 00:16:21,960 --> 00:16:23,519 minutes. The station wagon shot up in front of the gate. Somebody got 190 00:16:23,519 --> 00:16:26,639 out to open it, and while that was happening, I hitched on and 191 00:16:26,679 --> 00:16:32,639 rode the rear bumper in. We came to rest in a dungeon type garage. 192 00:16:33,960 --> 00:16:36,960 Oh boy, another day, another a half a dollar? Pay any 193 00:16:37,000 --> 00:16:41,080 cribic trool? Ooh ooh, no, not to night. I'm gonna pound 194 00:16:41,120 --> 00:16:44,120 the pill. Are you locking up? Yeah? Yeah, I got it? 195 00:16:45,919 --> 00:16:48,759 Hey, how do you like that? Look? What that depictive done 196 00:16:48,759 --> 00:16:55,120 to my knuckles? Hey? Who's been using this? Uh? Oh oh? 197 00:16:55,279 --> 00:16:56,919 May? I started to having a look, But it was done? 198 00:16:57,679 --> 00:17:00,759 How long since they use that? I never did? What's it for? 199 00:17:02,320 --> 00:17:07,200 It was built according to oarsandic castle specification and it's supposed to be kept locked 200 00:17:07,720 --> 00:17:15,359 locket. Uh what that see? Stupid me? It's hanging in the storeroom. 201 00:17:15,519 --> 00:17:19,039 Well, stupid, you go get it in the storeroom. I'm going 202 00:17:19,119 --> 00:17:37,839 to bed lock a pipe now for no all right, hey, what good 203 00:17:37,920 --> 00:17:53,079 night, sweet trolls. It was real silent pictures stuff, all right. 204 00:17:53,759 --> 00:17:56,799 There were things like it in the Cat in the Canary playing into the opera. 205 00:17:56,920 --> 00:18:04,079 The bat Old Time Fellow was complete without a secret passageway. About halfway 206 00:18:04,119 --> 00:18:07,079 I completely lost my sense of direction. All I knew was that I was 207 00:18:07,119 --> 00:18:12,480 going up, and it was cold, damp, cobwebby and creepy. But 208 00:18:12,559 --> 00:18:15,519 the last five minutes I knew I was going in the right direction. After 209 00:18:15,559 --> 00:18:19,119 all three steps from the top, I felt a sudden rush of warm air 210 00:18:19,160 --> 00:18:22,599 as a door open and a slot of light stabbed down at me. A 211 00:18:22,720 --> 00:18:29,000 robe figure was framed in the doorway. So you've come for me, A 212 00:18:29,160 --> 00:18:33,920 lost eh, Well, I'm ready, come on, Llia, I said, 213 00:18:33,960 --> 00:18:41,240 don't keep me waiting. I followed her and there was dim cavern of 214 00:18:41,279 --> 00:18:45,160 a room. It was all done up and oriental drapes and beaded lampshades. 215 00:18:45,480 --> 00:18:48,799 It smelled of incense. She didn't look quite as dead as her obituary as 216 00:18:48,799 --> 00:18:52,799 it claimed she was. She looked enough like the beautiful Leela Lorraine is twenty 217 00:18:52,880 --> 00:18:56,519 years ago to be your grandmother. But there was no mistaking the grand manner. 218 00:18:57,240 --> 00:19:00,079 She flung herself on a couch in a turkey corner, poured us off 219 00:19:00,119 --> 00:19:03,160 a hooker of gems, down it in one gulp, and took up a 220 00:19:03,200 --> 00:19:08,000 feet of bar. I pause, well, what are you waiting for? 221 00:19:08,920 --> 00:19:15,200 I don't know I do. You're from New York. Foom. You want 222 00:19:15,240 --> 00:19:22,359 me to talk about joking? Well, he plays that horn like the end 223 00:19:22,440 --> 00:19:29,240 of the world, and that's all I just happened. I have a record 224 00:19:29,279 --> 00:19:34,599 here we were rings. I heard it. I was a beeg. Yeah, 225 00:19:36,400 --> 00:19:45,160 the biggest, biggest, biggest ju when Joe made that recording. You 226 00:19:45,319 --> 00:19:53,480 can't see me anymore, but you can still hear him. I guess you 227 00:19:53,599 --> 00:19:57,759 were. I guess you were pretty much in love with them. I hated 228 00:19:57,920 --> 00:20:04,079 him. He used to come home when when he don't love It was some 229 00:20:04,079 --> 00:20:11,200 some weed pat somewhere and I hate laughing men all. It was like a 230 00:20:11,279 --> 00:20:27,599 crazy head. He had green eyes by jealousy, he said, he said 231 00:20:29,559 --> 00:20:37,880 Ross mcdonna. He said, the beauty and the men over and they just 232 00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:42,160 kill his body with him. I killed him to killed my baby. Will 233 00:20:42,200 --> 00:20:53,880 I hit him. He's a wonder. I just haven't ever let here we 234 00:20:55,160 --> 00:21:11,640 right, I was a very start. That's the mgannon. I it's gonna 235 00:21:12,279 --> 00:21:27,359 forget it. Where again? I don't Oh, I really well, you've 236 00:21:27,359 --> 00:21:30,680 seen what you came to see. You like it? Can we talk here? 237 00:21:30,720 --> 00:21:33,279 I don't want to disturb it. Don't worry. I get very an 238 00:21:33,319 --> 00:21:38,119 apology with the McGannon. I think you owe me one too. I suppose 239 00:21:38,160 --> 00:21:41,759 the feeding I took is no more than a hundred and fifty dollars. Well, 240 00:21:41,799 --> 00:21:44,599 I had gotten such a stake of the time you arrived here. We 241 00:21:44,640 --> 00:21:48,519 thought this girl was kind of blackmailers and weak. Well, anyway, i'd 242 00:21:48,599 --> 00:21:52,599 start, Yeah, well what I don't guess. Why did you make thanks 243 00:21:52,640 --> 00:21:56,039 for tough for yourself? Your wife could have told her story to any jury 244 00:21:56,079 --> 00:21:59,079 eighteen years ago and walked out a free woman and let the world know the 245 00:21:59,119 --> 00:22:02,640 sordid truth about her life at Kenyans. No, I had to do what 246 00:22:02,680 --> 00:22:04,319 I did. I had to protect her. Don't you see what she meant? 247 00:22:04,400 --> 00:22:08,160 Not only to be, but so you you told that the baby had 248 00:22:08,240 --> 00:22:11,519 died, she wasn't fit to raise a child. She was already on the 249 00:22:11,599 --> 00:22:19,599 road the way she is. It's all right, it's all right, Lea, 250 00:22:21,960 --> 00:22:26,559 it's all right, it's going to be home too. No. No, 251 00:22:26,720 --> 00:22:29,640 she wasn't fit to raise a child. She was only fit to live 252 00:22:29,640 --> 00:22:33,880 in a place like this where someone like me die too. You wretched that 253 00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:37,920 part of it. Why did you decide her and answered that yesterday we found 254 00:22:37,920 --> 00:22:41,559 out who that girl is, Leela's daughter, little Gail. Well, what 255 00:22:41,599 --> 00:22:47,000 are you going to tell her? Yeah, I'll have to think. Yeah, 256 00:22:47,079 --> 00:22:52,200 your poor little baby, she cried, She cried, Oh to sleep, 257 00:22:52,319 --> 00:22:57,200 Lela. No, No, it's all right, I'm right away now. 258 00:22:59,440 --> 00:23:03,640 I just saw something, DROs. We should take a small house some 259 00:23:03,799 --> 00:23:07,680 morn and Ross. I think I'd like to be pictures of a game, 260 00:23:07,359 --> 00:23:15,519 not those dull based heroines like Princess lazy about Goomom. No, I could 261 00:23:15,559 --> 00:23:26,440 do characters. Ross, Let's read some place small. J McGannon turned slowly 262 00:23:26,480 --> 00:23:30,759 around in his chair and looked at There was happiness and amazement and disbelief in 263 00:23:30,839 --> 00:23:34,400 his grave babies. Then he must have detected something about it that I am 264 00:23:34,480 --> 00:23:37,759 missed. He rushed out of the room, and when he came back he 265 00:23:37,799 --> 00:23:45,240 brought the doctor with him. He lived for about twenty minutes without regaining concious. 266 00:23:45,200 --> 00:23:51,319 Her death. It was fairly accurate after all heart failure through the alcoholism. 267 00:23:52,039 --> 00:23:55,799 It was just date of the day too soon. When I went back 268 00:23:55,799 --> 00:24:00,160 and saw Dale at night, my story went something like this, I have 269 00:24:00,200 --> 00:24:04,559 a diet of natural debt. Her imprison and was voluntary. Her grief over 270 00:24:04,599 --> 00:24:08,000 the loss of her husband and her child had made her secret firement. The 271 00:24:08,079 --> 00:24:12,319 years of delgently with her and her great beauty had only become more delicate and 272 00:24:12,480 --> 00:24:19,400 fragile if she neared the end period and a report. Well, I have 273 00:24:19,559 --> 00:24:25,359 no questions, no, Sam, no questions, and I'd like to say 274 00:24:25,400 --> 00:24:30,119 that I think you're the nicest, most wonderful both of the time. Cursons 275 00:24:30,279 --> 00:24:36,400 don't support the sweetsh not just yet all type. Don't let me forget now, 276 00:24:36,720 --> 00:24:41,200 don't let you forget what? Oh? Of course, yes, indeed, 277 00:24:48,480 --> 00:24:53,720 welcome back. Well, this represents a solid dramatic episode. It's a 278 00:24:53,799 --> 00:25:00,759 case where both Sam and probably most listeners arrived at the wrong judgment and we 279 00:25:00,839 --> 00:25:07,480 got to see that sort of compassionate side of Spade, which Duff did a 280 00:25:07,519 --> 00:25:14,839 great job portraying in a really understated way. I definitely missed the opening and 281 00:25:14,920 --> 00:25:21,720 concluding remarks between Sam and Effie Martin Graham's notes in his book The Radio Adventures 282 00:25:21,720 --> 00:25:27,000 of Sam Spade that the close was actually interesting because, according to the script, 283 00:25:27,119 --> 00:25:32,599 Sam tells Effie good night sweetheart before she can say good night Sam. 284 00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:37,319 So she says good night Sam after that, and then Duff repeats good night's 285 00:25:37,319 --> 00:25:41,920 sweetheart and says, don't forget I always have the last line. Now, 286 00:25:41,960 --> 00:25:48,240 most listeners would think this was a blooper. However, that was actually in 287 00:25:48,400 --> 00:25:52,839 the script. It was written in a way to make it seem like there 288 00:25:52,960 --> 00:25:56,200 was a blooper, like Duff had made a mistake. Pre Planning a blooper 289 00:25:56,359 --> 00:26:00,359 is kind of an odd move, Graham suggition. It was to keep the 290 00:26:00,359 --> 00:26:04,839 closing fresh, And I can't think of any better explanation for messing with the 291 00:26:04,880 --> 00:26:10,519 audience's mind like that. What I would like to know is if Tuttle and 292 00:26:10,640 --> 00:26:15,440 Duff actually made a real blooper when they got to the recording by doing it 293 00:26:15,559 --> 00:26:19,160 the correct way. At any rate, we're unlikely to ever know. Still, 294 00:26:19,200 --> 00:26:23,599 I'm grateful for the recording we have. I also have to say that 295 00:26:23,680 --> 00:26:30,279 whoever recorded this chose a perfect time for the record flip, as that time 296 00:26:30,400 --> 00:26:34,200 when she was on the phone that ten seconds, we didn't have to guess 297 00:26:34,240 --> 00:26:40,960 what happened. Well, not the ideal way for these programs to be preserved. 298 00:26:41,200 --> 00:26:45,480 Given that there are nearly two hundred episodes of this iconic series missing, 299 00:26:45,720 --> 00:26:52,359 I'd gladly welcome any other recordings like this, if only more people had gone 300 00:26:52,400 --> 00:26:57,200 to this trouble. But I do think that recording this much radio was not 301 00:26:57,400 --> 00:27:03,920 what these expensive homework recording machines were built for. And that does conclude our 302 00:27:04,039 --> 00:27:10,759 listen through the adventures of Sam's Spade. However, we do have one more 303 00:27:10,920 --> 00:27:15,599 Maltese Falcon adaptation coming up next week, and so we'll bring you that before 304 00:27:15,640 --> 00:27:21,240 we get into the adventures of the Falcon. Now it's time to thank our 305 00:27:21,359 --> 00:27:25,720 Patreon supporter of the day, and I want to go ahead and thank Robert's 306 00:27:25,799 --> 00:27:30,960 been one of our Patreon supporters since March of twenty nineteen, currently supporting the 307 00:27:30,039 --> 00:27:34,640 podcast at the rookie level of two dollars or more per month. Thank you 308 00:27:34,799 --> 00:27:38,440 so much for your support, Robert, and that will do it for today. 309 00:27:38,519 --> 00:27:44,160 If you're enjoying the podcast, please follow us using your favorite podcast software. 310 00:27:44,519 --> 00:27:48,519 If you're enjoying the podcast on YouTube, be sure to lock the video, 311 00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:52,480 subscribe to the channel, mark the notification bell and leave a comment. 312 00:27:52,720 --> 00:27:56,960 All those great things that help the channel to grow. We'll be back next 313 00:27:57,000 --> 00:28:02,440 Monday with an adaptation of the moment Tease Falcon. But join us back here 314 00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:08,960 tomorrow for the start of another Yours truly, Johnny Dollar Cereal Where Johnny Dellar, 315 00:28:10,279 --> 00:28:12,759 Pat mccrekan, Universal Adjustment PUREIAU. Oh hi, Patty, this is 316 00:28:12,799 --> 00:28:15,440 my third call where you've been. I'm buying some tackle. I want to 317 00:28:15,480 --> 00:28:18,960 go fishing fish. Yeah, I'm heading down to New York State is Sopus 318 00:28:19,039 --> 00:28:22,519 River, maybe the beaver Kill. Try to snag myself a nice trout and 319 00:28:22,640 --> 00:28:26,079 Patsy, my fishing is one thing you aren't going to interfere with. Wouldn't 320 00:28:26,160 --> 00:28:30,960 think of it? Why don't you try link Mohaffi? Where is that along 321 00:28:30,960 --> 00:28:34,680 the Colorado River up between Nevada and Arizona? What sure be the guest at 322 00:28:34,680 --> 00:28:38,200 Greater Southwest Insurance and my ability? What are you talking about? I don't 323 00:28:38,200 --> 00:28:41,920 know how you'd value those in Shoppers River trout. There's a fish out there 324 00:28:41,920 --> 00:28:45,400 that maybe worth three million bucks. I hope you'll be with us then. 325 00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:52,119 In the meantime, do send your comments to Box thirteen at Great Detectives dot 326 00:28:52,240 --> 00:28:56,880 net, follow us on Twitter at Radio Detectives, and check us out on 327 00:28:56,920 --> 00:29:03,000 Instagram, Instagram dot com. Last Great Detectives from Boise, Idaho. This 328 00:29:03,200 --> 00:29:06,880 is your host, Adam Graham, signing off.