1 00:00:28,440 --> 00:00:34,159 Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho. This 2 00:00:34,320 --> 00:00:37,560 is your host, Adam Graham. If you have a comment, email at 3 00:00:37,679 --> 00:00:43,640 to me Box thirteen at Great Detectives dot net, follow us on Twitter at 4 00:00:43,759 --> 00:00:49,479 Radio Detectives, and check us out on Instagram, Instagram, dot com slash 5 00:00:49,520 --> 00:00:54,240 Great Detectives. If you are enjoying this podcast, please follow us using your 6 00:00:54,719 --> 00:01:00,679 favorite podcast software. Our listeners support campaign continues. You can and support the 7 00:01:00,679 --> 00:01:03,920 show on a one time basis by becoming one of our Patreon supporters for as 8 00:01:03,959 --> 00:01:10,040 little last two dollars per month. By going to Patreon dot Great Detectives dot 9 00:01:10,079 --> 00:01:15,799 net. You can also mail in a donation to Adam Graham peelbox one five 10 00:01:15,959 --> 00:01:22,359 nine one three. That's peelbox one pive nine thirteen Boise idahol eight three seven 11 00:01:22,480 --> 00:01:26,560 one five. Now it's time for this week's episode of Sam Spake. The 12 00:01:26,640 --> 00:01:33,799 original air date February twenty third, nineteen fifty one, and the title is 13 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:42,480 The Shot in the Dark Keeper. The National Broadcasting Company presents the adventures of 14 00:01:42,599 --> 00:01:59,640 Sam Spade, detective from Say Detective Agency, The Sweat Oh with you, 15 00:02:00,439 --> 00:02:02,760 What kind of a greeting is that? Oh? It's you. I may 16 00:02:02,760 --> 00:02:07,719 be only your secretary and all that, but I do have feelings. You 17 00:02:07,799 --> 00:02:12,360 know what have I done? Now? If you recall you were supposed to 18 00:02:12,400 --> 00:02:15,599 take me to the Geary Theater last night and you never showed up. Well, 19 00:02:15,680 --> 00:02:17,840 Effie, I oh, I know you'll make up some big story like 20 00:02:17,919 --> 00:02:22,120 you always do, always an excuse. No, I'll try to tell you 21 00:02:22,159 --> 00:02:24,719 the truth, and then truth. It'll probably be a story about at least 22 00:02:24,719 --> 00:02:29,479 two or three people being killed, how you had to be there to straighten 23 00:02:29,520 --> 00:02:34,039 the whole thing out, and there be beautiful women with hair like cards, 24 00:02:34,120 --> 00:02:38,800 smoke and crimson flashes for mouths. You would leave that out now that you 25 00:02:38,919 --> 00:02:42,879 mentioned it. I'm just going shooting and getting knocked out and glass keying your 26 00:02:42,879 --> 00:02:46,360 way into houses and anything else you can think of, Effie. Well, 27 00:02:46,360 --> 00:02:49,719 if you think that I'll fall for that, Effie, will you please? 28 00:02:50,360 --> 00:02:53,400 What's your big bat story? You've already told everything about it, but the 29 00:02:53,439 --> 00:02:58,719 title. I might as well add that. My big fat story is called 30 00:02:58,719 --> 00:03:07,919 a shot in the dark. Caper Transcribe for n DC. William Spear, 31 00:03:08,120 --> 00:03:14,639 Radio's outstanding producer director of History and crime Drama, brings you the greatest private 32 00:03:14,680 --> 00:03:28,439 detective of them All in the Adventures of Sam Spade. Yes, no, 33 00:03:28,919 --> 00:03:31,000 Iffie, don't be like this. I promise you tonight, right after this 34 00:03:31,080 --> 00:03:35,080 report, we'll go to the theater and we'll have dinner too, any place 35 00:03:35,120 --> 00:03:38,599 you want. So I'm good the employer. The faster we do the report, 36 00:03:38,639 --> 00:03:40,039 the fastor we get out. I won't even take time out for a 37 00:03:40,080 --> 00:03:49,719 drink. So come on, let's go, shall we? They'd fill it 38 00:03:49,759 --> 00:03:53,159 in two Managing Editor, San Francisco Evening Gazette City from Samuel Spade, Licensed 39 00:03:53,199 --> 00:03:57,960 number one three seventy five, nine six subject the shot in the doc caper 40 00:03:58,319 --> 00:04:02,400 or stop the presses Fate has his pants caught in him their news hawk. 41 00:04:04,319 --> 00:04:09,000 The next time you have a bright idea about a story, count me out. 42 00:04:09,319 --> 00:04:12,319 There's too much work for the money it pays, and the glory just 43 00:04:12,439 --> 00:04:15,960 doesn't exist. I don't mind being knocked on the head, shot at, 44 00:04:15,079 --> 00:04:19,600 lied to double cross, and otherwise treated cruelly by circumstance, But to do 45 00:04:19,639 --> 00:04:23,800 it all in one night, just so you can have a scoop and then 46 00:04:23,839 --> 00:04:29,000 be referred to in your columns as a gazette staff member, Well, my 47 00:04:29,079 --> 00:04:32,959 professional pride was severely injured. I am a detective, sir, and nobody's 48 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:38,480 staff member. Now that that's off my chest, here in journalistic pose, 49 00:04:38,680 --> 00:04:46,879 is what happened starting yesterday afternoon? Yes, what you say? I was 50 00:04:46,879 --> 00:04:53,000 taken, hears bade. That's just Woodrow Wilson. Really well, I'm sorry. 51 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:55,360 I have Teddy Roosevelt on the other phone. It might take some time. 52 00:04:55,399 --> 00:04:59,120 You better try me later, by fade. Somehow I thought you were 53 00:04:59,160 --> 00:05:01,120 above that sort of they Repartee. I am above nothing, sir, as 54 00:05:01,160 --> 00:05:05,480 long as it's ethical, which Woodrow Wilson is this. I'm the new managing 55 00:05:05,600 --> 00:05:09,120 editor of the Evening Gazette. We welcome to town. What can I do 56 00:05:09,160 --> 00:05:11,920 for I have a job you might like, an interesting job and interesting money. 57 00:05:12,199 --> 00:05:14,680 How interesting? If you find out what I want, you can almost 58 00:05:14,759 --> 00:05:15,879 name your own price. Can you get over here in three minutes with any 59 00:05:15,920 --> 00:05:19,279 sort of a tailwind, I'll make it in two a new track record, 60 00:05:31,560 --> 00:05:35,959 I guess, ee, Spade, Now what is this interesting job? First, 61 00:05:36,199 --> 00:05:39,839 let me say I don't know much about your personally, but you come 62 00:05:39,879 --> 00:05:43,600 well recommended. I've tried. Second, this is a confidential matter, and 63 00:05:43,639 --> 00:05:46,319 I wanted to remain that way. Of course, I'm going to trust you 64 00:05:46,360 --> 00:05:48,480 as I would one of my own staff members. The police have to find 65 00:05:48,480 --> 00:05:53,240 out about it until it's all over, and if any other newspaper gets it, 66 00:05:53,319 --> 00:05:55,800 you might as well leave town. Woody, old boy, the man 67 00:05:55,879 --> 00:05:59,240 doesn't live. Who can say I ever double crust him for money or love 68 00:05:59,399 --> 00:06:01,360 or anything else. I had to say it so we'd understand each other. 69 00:06:02,319 --> 00:06:04,920 I'll take a look at this newest photo. Yes, one of our boys 70 00:06:04,959 --> 00:06:09,399 snapped it. What do you say a street intersection, old final I'd say 71 00:06:09,480 --> 00:06:12,399 two automobiles hit head on an ambulance. A couple of people will injure the 72 00:06:12,560 --> 00:06:15,079 sordid crowd. We took that picture three days ago, Tuesday night, routine 73 00:06:15,079 --> 00:06:18,279 accident picture. But this morning, when we were filing it, I looked 74 00:06:18,319 --> 00:06:23,279 at it again and I noticed something startling. Look at it, it's a 75 00:06:23,279 --> 00:06:26,439 shop in the dock. But I smell a story. Well maybe I have 76 00:06:26,519 --> 00:06:29,959 a cool but whatever it is escapes. On the right side of the pictures 77 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:33,040 an apartment house now caught up six floors. And look at the fourth window. 78 00:06:33,079 --> 00:06:39,439 Ah, cross the left here, use this magnifying glass. Oh, 79 00:06:39,519 --> 00:06:41,759 what do you know? Is somebody just fired off a gun? That's it? 80 00:06:42,480 --> 00:06:45,240 Or you can see is a hand and the smoking gun. He can't 81 00:06:45,279 --> 00:06:47,879 even tell whether the hands mail a female. But somebody shot at something, 82 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:50,759 probably a person, just a second before that picture was taken. You want 83 00:06:50,839 --> 00:06:56,199 me to find out why this calls for a detective not a reporter. There 84 00:06:56,240 --> 00:06:59,680 hasn't been a single homicide, suicide, or gunshot wound reported in the city 85 00:06:59,720 --> 00:07:02,920 since it happened. Now I want sorry, get it okay, chief, 86 00:07:03,199 --> 00:07:15,639 get ready to rip out page. What the apartment house was? The Graystone 87 00:07:15,959 --> 00:07:19,000 was actually an apartment hotel and a little chabby. I entered an hour later 88 00:07:19,079 --> 00:07:24,160 with a suitcase and an out of colown look. The name plates on the 89 00:07:24,199 --> 00:07:28,720 mailboxes showed about five vacancies, including one on the sixth floor. I rang 90 00:07:28,800 --> 00:07:33,800 the manager's door, Buttter, I'd like to rent an apartment if I could, 91 00:07:34,160 --> 00:07:40,800 clip Clint drop your suitcase anyplace? My name said Barry. How are 92 00:07:40,879 --> 00:07:46,839 there your suitcases leaking? We charge one price one seventy five per night. 93 00:07:47,279 --> 00:07:51,480 Well, I don't have that kind of cash with me or my checkbook. 94 00:07:51,879 --> 00:08:00,839 Could I pay you tomorrow? Sure thing? Your name my coumboat Mark Bolt? 95 00:08:01,240 --> 00:08:03,160 Yes, that's it. Where you're from? Stumble the New York Boy 96 00:08:03,399 --> 00:08:09,639 New York forty eightiest fifty first three. They're Broadway next to kin, any 97 00:08:09,759 --> 00:08:13,000 family or relatives? No, no, you own a car. Look, 98 00:08:13,079 --> 00:08:16,279 I'm just running an apartment, not taking our life insurance. Well, you 99 00:08:16,319 --> 00:08:20,720 see, there's a state law here requires us to get this sort of information. 100 00:08:20,800 --> 00:08:22,879 I'm sorry, but there's nothing I can do. No car, bank 101 00:08:22,920 --> 00:08:26,399 account, corn Exchange bank. Do you own any property? Yes, yes 102 00:08:26,560 --> 00:08:31,759 I do, Albany, New York. Just how much would you say? 103 00:08:31,959 --> 00:08:35,360 Six feet in a cemetery? I expect to be buried there, ha ha. 104 00:08:37,799 --> 00:08:41,200 Yeah, well I guess that about takes care of. Then anything on 105 00:08:41,320 --> 00:08:45,919 the sixth floor? Why the sixth, particularly my lucky number. Oh well, 106 00:08:45,919 --> 00:08:48,559 I'm sorry, maybe later, Right now, we got nothing on the 107 00:08:48,639 --> 00:08:58,799 sixth Come on, I'll show you around in a few minutes. I was 108 00:09:00,039 --> 00:09:03,320 ensconced in room five one two as he stood in the doorway. Yet during 109 00:09:03,360 --> 00:09:07,879 the manager scanned my luggage, my clothes, my ring and wrist watch as 110 00:09:07,919 --> 00:09:09,679 if he were trying to estimate what he could get for me from a fence. 111 00:09:11,399 --> 00:09:13,039 After he went back to his apartment, I took a stroll up to 112 00:09:13,080 --> 00:09:18,279 the sixth floor. Woody Wilson and I figured the gun incident took place an 113 00:09:18,279 --> 00:09:20,399 apart from six o eight, so I cut it back from the end of 114 00:09:20,440 --> 00:09:24,879 the corridor and found we were right. Six oh eighth was silent. I 115 00:09:26,039 --> 00:09:28,639 knocked, but no one answered, so I sprang the lock and went in. 116 00:09:31,480 --> 00:09:35,840 The place was absolutely empty, no furniture, no nothing. In fact, 117 00:09:35,919 --> 00:09:41,919 it was being completely remodeled. Huh, I said, well, well, 118 00:09:43,080 --> 00:09:46,200 where did you come from? I guess maybe I startled you little. 119 00:09:46,320 --> 00:09:48,279 I was just coming down the hall, you know, taking some of these 120 00:09:48,320 --> 00:09:52,639 groceries, and I saw you standing there. You're new here, huh huh 121 00:09:52,000 --> 00:09:54,639 yeah, huh yeah, here, let me carry some of those things. 122 00:09:54,960 --> 00:10:00,320 Say say, you know you're the con man a girl should ever? Well, 123 00:10:00,360 --> 00:10:03,000 I've tried to convince several of them. Oh, who are you kidding? 124 00:10:03,279 --> 00:10:07,440 A big handsome guy like you wouldn't have any trouble getting a girl. 125 00:10:07,720 --> 00:10:13,960 Well please not if I was a girl. Well do you know my place 126 00:10:13,120 --> 00:10:18,159 is down? Here? Shall we go? The wine up? My name's 127 00:10:18,200 --> 00:10:24,559 Honey Kane, Mark Humbolt. See what a fascinating oh not half as fascinating 128 00:10:24,600 --> 00:10:35,399 as yours, really says A wonderful how they just throw two people together the 129 00:10:35,480 --> 00:10:39,559 bags of groceries we were carrying, had a layer of dust on them, 130 00:10:39,559 --> 00:10:41,639 and the bags looked as if they'd made fifty trips to the grocery store. 131 00:10:43,000 --> 00:10:45,799 No one had to hit me on the head. Sam's faye, detective. 132 00:10:46,200 --> 00:10:50,000 She was small in peroxide and if you like them, stupid small in peroxide. 133 00:10:50,240 --> 00:10:54,559 She lived in apartment six twenty with a roommate who was quite a bit 134 00:10:54,720 --> 00:11:00,679 different, prettier, smarter and quieter. Way shouldn't meet this very nice gentleman, 135 00:11:00,720 --> 00:11:03,600 mister mark Umberg. Come both, Oh sure, I remember the Mark 136 00:11:03,679 --> 00:11:07,399 Fartherer. This is Sandels Lynn. How do you do, miss Slim? 137 00:11:07,679 --> 00:11:15,559 Hello, nice day, great, well, just for the rosy down here 138 00:11:15,600 --> 00:11:20,480 house. Oh yeah, let's have some fun, like fun, mister Humbold, 139 00:11:20,600 --> 00:11:24,799 wouldn't be without it. You're priceless. But let's start with a drink. 140 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:28,799 How about your fun? No, no, you kids, have you 141 00:11:28,840 --> 00:11:37,240 all fun. I'm going out for the wall tumble. You're supposed to be 142 00:11:37,320 --> 00:11:46,799 looking at me. An hour later, under the pretext of going out for 143 00:11:46,919 --> 00:11:50,159 some snuff, I shook her off and left. The next half hour, 144 00:11:50,159 --> 00:11:52,600 I went to giving the apartment house a thorough casing. I looked at all 145 00:11:52,639 --> 00:11:56,639 the names on the mailboxes and The only one that rang a bell was one 146 00:11:56,799 --> 00:12:01,360 Max Barstool, a former heavyweight whenever got pasted up. Buddy, I inquired 147 00:12:01,360 --> 00:12:05,879 about him, a charming ed Berry, a manager, Max Barstow. Yeah, 148 00:12:05,919 --> 00:12:07,039 I tried his apartment. He isn't home. Yeah, well, you 149 00:12:07,120 --> 00:12:09,720 see, he won't be home for some time. You see, he took 150 00:12:09,720 --> 00:12:15,240 a vacation, went to visit his family in the Portland or Wendy Leaves last 151 00:12:15,279 --> 00:12:18,600 Tuesday night. I remember him saying, Ed, I won't be back for 152 00:12:18,679 --> 00:12:20,320 a while. Look after things, William. You have a good memory, 153 00:12:20,600 --> 00:12:26,279 yew. Can you tell me something about those two girls in six twenty why 154 00:12:26,799 --> 00:12:30,960 one of them made a pass at me? Well, mister, I feel 155 00:12:31,039 --> 00:12:35,039 this way. I rend apartments to responsible adults. What they do is their 156 00:12:35,159 --> 00:12:37,320 business. He won't get any trouble from me. Now, that isn't what 157 00:12:37,399 --> 00:12:41,240 I asked. I always like to be sure. Now aren't they honest, 158 00:12:41,720 --> 00:12:46,759 hard working girls? I don't know nothing about them, but let me tell 159 00:12:46,759 --> 00:12:50,480 you something confidential, mistess. Why look a gift horse in the mouth? 160 00:12:56,879 --> 00:12:58,679 Well, I gum shoot around the apartment house some more. And one thing 161 00:12:58,799 --> 00:13:03,600 was sure. They were making a number of extensive all durations. For example, 162 00:13:03,639 --> 00:13:07,320 in the basement there was a new cement floor. Said cement floor had 163 00:13:07,320 --> 00:13:09,720 been late, I was told by the janitor Wednesday morning, the morning after 164 00:13:09,799 --> 00:13:13,960 a gun was fired in six o eight, the same morning on which Max 165 00:13:13,039 --> 00:13:16,600 Barstow suddenly left to visit his parents. And about here in the part it 166 00:13:16,679 --> 00:13:20,240 was dramatically correct to wonder if Max might be sleeping under the furnace with a 167 00:13:20,320 --> 00:13:24,279 new cement overcoat covering. I went back to my apartment for a couple of 168 00:13:24,399 --> 00:13:28,519 long ones and some thoughts. It was getting along about supper time when there 169 00:13:28,559 --> 00:13:33,120 was a feminine knot. I guess it to be miss room Service herself. 170 00:13:33,159 --> 00:13:39,399 Honey came, but no better, much better? May I come in you 171 00:13:39,559 --> 00:13:43,000 may? Shall I leave the door o them? Why'd rather you clothed? 172 00:13:43,000 --> 00:13:48,960 Anything to make you feel at home? Drink? No talk? Oh? 173 00:13:48,559 --> 00:13:52,039 What are you doing here? Saying? The name's Humbolt Mark Humboldt All. 174 00:13:52,120 --> 00:13:56,519 I've paid anyway you want, d can urad? I know who you are. 175 00:13:56,919 --> 00:13:58,720 You move in to day and half hour later you find our apartment. 176 00:14:00,240 --> 00:14:03,720 Your apartment found me at least half of it. Did the gift horse part 177 00:14:03,159 --> 00:14:07,240 maybe so, But I figured you helped a little somewhere. What are you 178 00:14:07,320 --> 00:14:09,840 trying to get on us? Nothing? Nothing. I just moved in here 179 00:14:09,879 --> 00:14:13,519 to a place to live with one suitcase in a bottle. I'm an actor. 180 00:14:13,000 --> 00:14:16,159 Look whatever it is, lay off. Well, y'all had enough trouble 181 00:14:16,200 --> 00:14:18,720 in my life. Things are just starting to go right, Sandra. I 182 00:14:18,799 --> 00:14:20,440 don't know what's on your mind, but as far as I'm concerned, you're 183 00:14:20,519 --> 00:14:24,600 clean. Right. Maybe I made a mistake. I try to make it 184 00:14:24,679 --> 00:14:28,720 up to you sometime, or maybe you can start right now. All open 185 00:14:28,799 --> 00:14:33,000 the door again. Just a question seeing anything of Max Barstow lately? I 186 00:14:33,120 --> 00:14:35,559 knew it was something. I knew it. No, I haven't seen Max 187 00:14:35,639 --> 00:14:37,080 Barstow lately. You went somewhere to visit his family, and I'm telling you, 188 00:14:37,159 --> 00:14:39,879 I believe me alone. What happened to you? You will write? 189 00:14:46,799 --> 00:14:50,360 He stormed out, looking lovely all the way, and I sat very quietly 190 00:14:50,440 --> 00:14:54,200 for a minute. It was the second time somebody said it, Max Barstow 191 00:14:54,360 --> 00:14:58,960 is visiting his family. That was very interesting, because you see, Max 192 00:14:58,120 --> 00:15:03,000 Barstow didn't have any family when he first started fighting. He was under the 193 00:15:03,080 --> 00:15:07,799 aegis of the Saint John's orphanings. So what was all this rehearsed account of 194 00:15:07,840 --> 00:15:11,960 his absence. I watched at the window to see if Sandra Lynn went anywhere, 195 00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:13,960 and she appeared on the street. I was out of the room and 196 00:15:13,039 --> 00:15:16,240 down the stairs. Presto. Ten blocks later she turned in at a brownstone 197 00:15:16,279 --> 00:15:20,879 on Polk Street when in the first apartment on the first floor. Fifteen minutes 198 00:15:20,960 --> 00:15:22,159 later, she hurried out, and I went up to the apartment and knocked 199 00:15:22,879 --> 00:15:26,639 the door opened cautiously. Yes, what is it? If you want? 200 00:15:26,960 --> 00:15:30,679 Is mister Fairchild in nobody here by that name? You've got wrong address? 201 00:15:30,759 --> 00:15:33,000 Now just a minute. He used to live here, No more he does. 202 00:15:33,039 --> 00:15:35,919 Well, could you tell me where I could find him? Mister Chase, 203 00:15:35,240 --> 00:15:43,840 I don't know, trys a minute. On the way out, I 204 00:15:43,919 --> 00:15:48,480 looked at the card on his door brother and listed his apartment belonging to a 205 00:15:48,519 --> 00:15:50,600 mister Rothschild. At the moment, there was nothing to be made out of 206 00:15:50,639 --> 00:15:52,879 it, so I went back to the Graystone, and when I got to 207 00:15:54,000 --> 00:15:58,240 my room it was very obvious that I had been visited during my absence. 208 00:15:58,720 --> 00:16:03,600 Oh it's you. What happened to my suitcase? I'm sorry, mister Humble, 209 00:16:03,679 --> 00:16:07,120 but I didn't realize it before. You see that apartment was already rented, 210 00:16:07,200 --> 00:16:08,320 so I guess you'll have to find one someplace out. Look, you 211 00:16:08,399 --> 00:16:11,000 have four other vacant ones in this apartment house. Give me one of those. 212 00:16:11,200 --> 00:16:15,919 Sorry, no vacant. Well, then give me my suitcase. Uh 213 00:16:17,240 --> 00:16:18,639 yeah, that's the one the leaks. Just a minute, I'll bring it 214 00:16:18,679 --> 00:16:22,759 out, mister. I'll go in and get it myself. Stay off, 215 00:16:23,000 --> 00:16:30,879 I said, I'll go in and get it, right you will. He 216 00:16:32,039 --> 00:16:33,759 swung at me. I blocked and stepped into him. He gave way and 217 00:16:33,840 --> 00:16:37,440 I followed in. And then as I moved into the apartment, someone stepped 218 00:16:37,440 --> 00:16:38,879 out from behind the door. I turned, but it was too late. 219 00:16:40,440 --> 00:16:42,519 I was a sandbag and a face behind the arm that swung it, looking 220 00:16:42,600 --> 00:16:48,519 awful lot like that of Max Barstore. I remember asking myself as I went 221 00:16:48,639 --> 00:16:52,600 down, if Max Barstore wasn't shot in room six h eight, who was 222 00:16:59,320 --> 00:17:03,000 You are listening to the weekly adventure of radio's most famous detective Sam Spade. 223 00:17:18,119 --> 00:17:23,480 Three Chimes Mean Good Times on NDC On Sunday, March fourth, that's one 224 00:17:23,519 --> 00:17:27,960 week from this Sunday, Theater Guild on the Air will present radio's most exciting 225 00:17:29,079 --> 00:17:33,000 dramatic event. It's a full hour and a half presentation of Shakespeare's Immortal Hamlet. 226 00:17:33,519 --> 00:17:37,880 John Gielgud will portray Hamlet, Pamela Brown the Queen, and Dorothy McGuire 227 00:17:37,960 --> 00:17:42,559 will appear as Ophelia. The intrigue, beauty and romance of Hamlet come to 228 00:17:42,640 --> 00:17:53,440 life Sunday, March fourth, on Theater Guild on the Air. And now 229 00:17:53,599 --> 00:18:04,799 back to the shot in the Dark caper Tonight's adventure with Sam Spade. I 230 00:18:04,960 --> 00:18:07,359 was not prolonged, but it was long enough to have been carried out of 231 00:18:07,400 --> 00:18:11,880 the apartment manager's place and dumped in an alley. I sat up and rubbed 232 00:18:11,920 --> 00:18:14,799 the back of my head and discovered the boys had a sense of humor. 233 00:18:15,359 --> 00:18:18,079 Pinned on my chest was a note that said beat it this time. When 234 00:18:18,079 --> 00:18:22,240 I went back, I had my gun handy to hand. Nobody was home 235 00:18:22,279 --> 00:18:25,440 at mister Baring's apartment, so for something to do, I looked in on 236 00:18:25,559 --> 00:18:29,720 Max Barstow's diggings four thirteen. I glanced, keyed in and turned on the 237 00:18:29,839 --> 00:18:33,000 lights, and a search revealed items a rent receipt showing Max was paid up 238 00:18:33,039 --> 00:18:37,319 for two months and intended to stay put. But more interesting were two phony 239 00:18:37,400 --> 00:18:44,160 detective badges a policeman's uniform and a flash camera. Couple these with a dustcier 240 00:18:44,400 --> 00:18:47,839 on a man named Sigmund Polcus, and I knew just what Max had been 241 00:18:47,920 --> 00:18:52,480 doing since the Fight Game stopped paying his bills. It read Sigmund Polcus, 242 00:18:52,079 --> 00:18:56,839 sixty years old, Minneapolis, just sold two restaurants for one hundred and seventy 243 00:18:56,880 --> 00:19:03,160 five thousand dollars. Intends to retire and settle down in San Francisco. That's 244 00:19:03,200 --> 00:19:06,720 as far as I got when Honey poured herself on me again. Oh, 245 00:19:07,559 --> 00:19:11,559 mister hum, what are you doing in mister Barstow's apartment? Come in, 246 00:19:11,839 --> 00:19:15,039 Come in nice. You shouldn't be here, mister Barstow ever found out? 247 00:19:15,240 --> 00:19:18,640 Honey, Honey, you can drop the egg. You know who I am, 248 00:19:18,680 --> 00:19:22,160 and I know who you are. You're part of the bay for one 249 00:19:22,200 --> 00:19:27,160 of the oldest rackets in the world, the Badger Game. You all right, 250 00:19:27,279 --> 00:19:32,079 Sam, I didn't know who you were at first until Sandra told me. 251 00:19:32,519 --> 00:19:34,799 Now, you tell me what are you doing in Max's role? A 252 00:19:34,960 --> 00:19:37,720 number of things, First of all, getting enough evidence on him to give 253 00:19:37,759 --> 00:19:41,920 him a free vacation on the States. Second, I wanted to see who 254 00:19:41,000 --> 00:19:45,960 would show up and why what's your story? I just dropped tennessee if Max 255 00:19:47,119 --> 00:19:49,839 was here? Try again, Sam? If I tell you anything, will 256 00:19:49,839 --> 00:19:53,519 you leave me alone? If I can bear it? I came over to 257 00:19:53,599 --> 00:19:57,359 get some things from Max. You where's he staying? Right across the street 258 00:19:57,400 --> 00:20:03,400 in the Arlington three fourteen ed bearing manages both apartment house. Why doesn't Max 259 00:20:03,480 --> 00:20:07,200 stay here? Who are you working for? Sam? I'm just asking a 260 00:20:07,359 --> 00:20:11,000 client, not the police. No, Sam, I don't have a thing 261 00:20:11,079 --> 00:20:15,480 to do with the mark Max is working on now, Sigmund Pocus, some 262 00:20:15,680 --> 00:20:18,759 old man. Do you hear any shooting here last Tuesday night in apartment six 263 00:20:18,839 --> 00:20:21,920 zero eight? Oh Sam, I didn't hear a thing, not a single 264 00:20:22,039 --> 00:20:23,839 thing. All right, get whatever you came for. But remember this. 265 00:20:25,279 --> 00:20:27,400 You tell Max I was here, and I'll tie you into something that'll get 266 00:20:27,440 --> 00:20:37,680 you Taataphia. But the last thing I do, Oh sure. I knew 267 00:20:37,720 --> 00:20:41,920 she'd be impressed with that type of threat, because her kind of girl lives 268 00:20:41,960 --> 00:20:45,519 by playing tag with the law. They want to be it as seldom as 269 00:20:45,559 --> 00:20:49,480 possible. I finished the dossier on Pocus and bought them all business like visits 270 00:20:49,480 --> 00:20:55,279 that the old man was an order. What is it? Oh you? 271 00:20:55,640 --> 00:20:57,200 I want to talk with you. Mister Polcus, come in. I want 272 00:20:57,279 --> 00:21:04,240 to talk to you now. Now stand right where you are. He was 273 00:21:04,319 --> 00:21:07,319 pointing a gun in one shaking hand, right at my chests, and as 274 00:21:07,359 --> 00:21:11,319 close as I could tell, it looked very much like the gun I'd seen 275 00:21:11,359 --> 00:21:14,440 in your picture, Wilson, and the hand that held it was the very 276 00:21:14,680 --> 00:21:18,079 same hand. I tried to think of something clever to say. It's the 277 00:21:18,200 --> 00:21:21,759 stage of my life. It would be very easy to shoot you, mister. 278 00:21:21,920 --> 00:21:23,440 Look, I came here maybe to help save you a lot of trouble, 279 00:21:23,519 --> 00:21:26,000 if you'll listen to me. I don't know why you came here because 280 00:21:26,039 --> 00:21:30,920 I killed Max Bousto. I'll give you a choice. Will you take money 281 00:21:30,000 --> 00:21:33,079 or will I will I shoot you right here. I'd take the money, 282 00:21:33,200 --> 00:21:37,720 but you didn't kill Max Barton. Tell me what I did when I know 283 00:21:37,880 --> 00:21:41,559 what I did. Sandra told me one of his gun members was looking for 284 00:21:41,680 --> 00:21:45,559 me, but she doesn't understand the power of money. How much will you 285 00:21:45,680 --> 00:21:49,359 take to leave us alone to our happiness? What is much Foster to you 286 00:21:49,519 --> 00:21:52,799 now that he's dead. Look, I don't want any money, I just 287 00:21:52,880 --> 00:21:59,000 want it. I felt like a ghost. The gun was pontied directly at 288 00:21:59,079 --> 00:22:02,519 me, but nothing hip. I'm surprised, I'll be it gratify. The 289 00:22:02,599 --> 00:22:06,079 little man must have thought I was wearing a bulletproof vest. He didn't look 290 00:22:06,160 --> 00:22:08,400 surprised, though, he just folded. I disarmed him and pushed him down 291 00:22:08,440 --> 00:22:14,160 into a chair. I had to do it. I had to. I 292 00:22:14,279 --> 00:22:18,559 couldn't let you spot the only bit of happiness I had left in my life. 293 00:22:18,640 --> 00:22:21,160 Mister Polkas, who tried to shoot me, and I'm grateful, had 294 00:22:21,200 --> 00:22:23,319 told both of us something to begin with. You can't kill anybody with blanks, 295 00:22:23,359 --> 00:22:26,119 and you're I don't know blank. Why did you get the gun? 296 00:22:26,440 --> 00:22:30,519 I always have gun always, and you don't know the difference between real bullets 297 00:22:30,559 --> 00:22:34,200 and blanks. You got it from Sandra and she loaded it right to Maybe 298 00:22:34,440 --> 00:22:38,680 you should know guns. Look, I'm a private detective name of Sam Spade. 299 00:22:38,720 --> 00:22:41,240 Now, if you'll help me, I'll help you. When did Sandra 300 00:22:41,359 --> 00:22:45,480 give you this gun last Tuesday? Yes? Did you use it to shoot 301 00:22:45,519 --> 00:22:48,880 Barstow? Yes? Then he couldn't be dead, could he? This gun 302 00:22:48,880 --> 00:22:52,119 wouldn't kill a flying Besides, I met Max Barstow tonight. Alie saw him 303 00:22:52,720 --> 00:22:57,039 to the floor and blood came out of his coat with my own eyes. 304 00:22:57,200 --> 00:23:02,359 Mister Polkas, you just came from Minneapolis with a hundred and seventy five thousand 305 00:23:02,400 --> 00:23:04,079 dollars, you walked into a shakedown gang. They're after your money. That 306 00:23:04,200 --> 00:23:08,640 girl, Sandra's just baked. Don't speak about Sandra that way. Sure she 307 00:23:08,799 --> 00:23:14,160 tried to shake me up for money, but only because that mean that bounstill 308 00:23:14,240 --> 00:23:18,119 make her. She was a slave. She couldn't get away from him. 309 00:23:18,160 --> 00:23:21,480 Why did she stage a phony murder with you killing Barstow? Oh I don't 310 00:23:21,759 --> 00:23:25,359 know. I'm so confused. Tell me how it happened. Oh, barb 311 00:23:25,440 --> 00:23:29,640 still posted as a policeman. He found me in Sundra's apartment. I was 312 00:23:29,680 --> 00:23:33,000 supposed to pay him five thousand dollars, but Sandra taught me she loved me 313 00:23:33,119 --> 00:23:37,440 and Barns. There was a rocketeer we went to meet an apartment six or 314 00:23:37,559 --> 00:23:41,799 eight for to pay him. She gave me a gun to frighten him. 315 00:23:41,799 --> 00:23:47,000 Whisper instead, I kill nuts five thousand. They knew how much money you 316 00:23:47,079 --> 00:23:48,160 had, and they wanted to get all of it away from yon a phony 317 00:23:48,279 --> 00:23:52,440 murder. Scare undred doesn't want my money away from me? She loves me, 318 00:23:52,599 --> 00:23:56,599 mister Polkas. I'm sorry disillusionment should come to you so late in life. 319 00:23:56,839 --> 00:24:02,000 I say she loved me, and I can prove it Tom This morning 320 00:24:02,640 --> 00:24:12,720 she became missus Siegwan Focus. That made me sit down and think things through 321 00:24:12,759 --> 00:24:17,359 a little more carefully. She could have gotten his money, or most of 322 00:24:17,400 --> 00:24:19,599 it, without marrying him. Maybe she did love him, or maybe they 323 00:24:19,680 --> 00:24:22,799 felt he was too dumb to pay off, or maybe she married him so 324 00:24:22,920 --> 00:24:26,640 she could murder him, and maybe a dozen other things. His suitcases were 325 00:24:26,680 --> 00:24:30,759 packed, and he said that he and Sondra planned to leave town tonight. 326 00:24:30,079 --> 00:24:33,839 He'd been waiting for when I came in, but she was already two hours 327 00:24:33,960 --> 00:24:36,880 late. I could think of only one place she could be, so I 328 00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:41,480 left poor mister Polkas and went to the Farlington three one four, the address 329 00:24:41,519 --> 00:24:45,279 Honey Kane had given me, and she was there. Oh, I'm I'm 330 00:24:45,319 --> 00:24:48,599 glad you can't. I was scared. I didn't know what to do. 331 00:24:49,480 --> 00:24:52,319 I'm scared. No, no, Honey, flied down and tell me what 332 00:24:52,440 --> 00:25:00,960 you're scared about. The bad room, Max, he said, hold up, 333 00:25:00,519 --> 00:25:06,319 a nice job. When'd you find him? Five minutes ago? I 334 00:25:06,519 --> 00:25:10,039 was with him before and then I would offer some Chinese food when I came 335 00:25:10,079 --> 00:25:12,240 back. All right, all right, who else was here tonight? Didn't 336 00:25:12,359 --> 00:25:18,319 anybody? But what he was awful mad at Sanders said she was double crossing 337 00:25:18,400 --> 00:25:26,640 him, and he wouldn't let her get away with it. I went back 338 00:25:26,680 --> 00:25:30,160 to Focus's place. He was gone, but his bags were still there, 339 00:25:30,240 --> 00:25:33,440 so I figured he'd be back. I put out the lights and sat in 340 00:25:33,519 --> 00:25:41,039 a chair. Go ahead, go ahead, ask me what I'm doing here, 341 00:25:41,519 --> 00:25:45,039 Pocus. If he's smart, he's on a train back to Minneapolis. 342 00:25:45,759 --> 00:25:47,880 I'm going to look for him. You're not going anywhere. Sit down, 343 00:25:48,839 --> 00:25:52,680 I said, You're not going anywhere unless it's the jail. What are you 344 00:25:52,799 --> 00:25:56,240 playing, miss at District Attorney four? Because you killed Max Barstone. I'll 345 00:25:56,279 --> 00:25:59,400 tell me why. A joker Max Bosso's alive as you are. I'm not 346 00:25:59,440 --> 00:26:02,759 talking about the phony murder stage for the benefit of Polkas. Barstow was stabbed 347 00:26:02,759 --> 00:26:04,200 at at a half hour ago. He wasn't he was. I saw him, 348 00:26:04,839 --> 00:26:10,119 you damn I didn't. I didn't. I saw him earlier day before. 349 00:26:10,119 --> 00:26:11,839 He was all right, you married Polkas to double crosshim. Didn't sure 350 00:26:11,839 --> 00:26:14,759 you were going to skip time? With the mark. I'm sure I was. 351 00:26:14,880 --> 00:26:17,279 So Why would I kill Mac? Because he knew what you were gonna 352 00:26:17,359 --> 00:26:19,680 do? That's why I didn't. I couldn't kill anybody. Why did you? 353 00:26:21,799 --> 00:26:23,920 What did you have planned for Pocus? I shove over the Grand Canyon? 354 00:26:25,279 --> 00:26:30,799 No, I I love the old girl. We'll dropping a police headquarters 355 00:26:30,279 --> 00:26:37,359 him. No nothing. I wouldn't take you with a us ment thrown in? 356 00:26:37,799 --> 00:26:40,759 Will you let me go if I tell you what happened? If I 357 00:26:40,799 --> 00:26:42,319 tell you who killed Barstow? If you didn't do it, nobody could hold 358 00:26:42,359 --> 00:26:45,960 you for murder anyway, bearing it bearing did it? We plan the whole 359 00:26:45,960 --> 00:26:48,359 thing together. It was a freeze out on Barstow's come on, he found 360 00:26:48,400 --> 00:26:51,279 out it had to take care of it than I didn't have anything to do 361 00:26:51,319 --> 00:26:52,359 with it. I tried to tell him nothing right and tell him not to 362 00:26:52,480 --> 00:26:56,720 what. I've got a gun in my hand bearing so have I Which one 363 00:26:56,759 --> 00:27:10,039 of us has gonna shoot? First? You wouldn't shoot, but he did? 364 00:27:10,839 --> 00:27:15,519 Period end of report? Is that all? Well? What do you 365 00:27:15,640 --> 00:27:18,519 want on that? No? But he shot you and you're all right? 366 00:27:19,240 --> 00:27:22,640 Were they blink like the other guns? But you were not. They were 367 00:27:22,720 --> 00:27:26,279 genuine steel jacketed bullets. You didn't listen carefully enough, Effie. I figured 368 00:27:26,279 --> 00:27:30,920 he'd shoot right away. He did once, just as I jumped sideways and 369 00:27:30,039 --> 00:27:34,160 fired two shots back. No, no, but he's done with a little 370 00:27:34,200 --> 00:27:41,279 case of lead poisoning though under police guard. You're wonderful. It's true, 371 00:27:41,119 --> 00:27:52,200 all right, go type it up off with him three times, mean good 372 00:27:52,279 --> 00:27:56,279 times. On NBC Tomorrow, you're invited to a one hour concert by the 373 00:27:56,359 --> 00:28:03,000 renowned NBC Symphony under the direction of Runo Valter. Featured zoloist for tomorrow's performance 374 00:28:03,079 --> 00:28:07,880 is celebrated violinist Joseph Saghetti, who will be heard in Mozart's brilliant Concerto for 375 00:28:07,119 --> 00:28:12,359 Violin an Orchestra. It's the very finest in musical listening every Saturday with the 376 00:28:12,599 --> 00:28:29,240 NBC Symphony. But it's something I don't understand to what happened to nice Oh 377 00:28:29,279 --> 00:28:32,759 mister pocus. Why wasn't he in a department waiting to stand? Well? 378 00:28:32,799 --> 00:28:34,119 He did just when I thought he should have done. He walked down to 379 00:28:34,160 --> 00:28:37,839 the railroad depot and got on the first train from Minneapolis. Who knows, 380 00:28:38,200 --> 00:28:42,759 maybe he's opened a new restaurant. Yeah, and what happened to Sanda. 381 00:28:42,920 --> 00:28:47,079 Well, she's being held as an accesstrator, murderer, among other things. 382 00:28:47,599 --> 00:28:49,200 If they will marry, that's enough, Iffie, that's enough. Do you 383 00:28:49,279 --> 00:28:52,440 want me to make everything so simple that everybody will be able to figure it 384 00:28:52,519 --> 00:28:59,599 out? But you what, I guess? So confused sometime? That's most 385 00:28:59,759 --> 00:29:03,440 of your charm, Effie. You know if you were brisk and efficient and 386 00:29:03,640 --> 00:29:07,039 cold, we'd never have any fun, would win? I get nuts? 387 00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:11,359 We do have a good time at time, don't Yes, we'd do in 388 00:29:11,480 --> 00:29:18,480 the like right now, coming fire in a man's veins, maddening. That's 389 00:29:18,559 --> 00:29:22,359 what. Don't say anymore. Sam, I don't know what I might do. 390 00:29:22,839 --> 00:29:25,200 I love it, whatever it was, I better say good night, 391 00:29:25,279 --> 00:29:42,440 Sam, good Night, Sam, good night Sweetheart. To Night's transcribed Adventure 392 00:29:42,519 --> 00:29:47,440 of Sam Spade was produced, edited, and directed by William Spear. Sam 393 00:29:47,599 --> 00:29:52,079 Spade was played by Stephen Dunn. Laurene Tuttle is Effie. Script for Tonight's 394 00:29:52,119 --> 00:29:56,119 adventure by John Michael Hayes, Musical scoring by Lud Blaskin, conducted by Robert 395 00:29:56,200 --> 00:30:25,240 arm Brewster. Join us again next week, same time for another adventure with 396 00:30:25,400 --> 00:30:33,079 Sam's fade. Sam's fade lives a life of peril. Well, in these 397 00:30:33,200 --> 00:30:36,599 days we all live in the time of peril. Each of us is contributing 398 00:30:36,680 --> 00:30:40,319 something to help meet the emergencies that we face as a nation. There is 399 00:30:40,359 --> 00:30:42,920 one definite thing that every one of us can do to help. February twenty 400 00:30:42,960 --> 00:30:48,279 eighth is being celebrated as Red Cross Day. Supported by the people and schooled 401 00:30:48,319 --> 00:30:52,279 by years of experience in war and peace. In times of disaster, the 402 00:30:52,400 --> 00:30:56,079 Red Cross has now been assigned unprecedented tasks and the interest of national security in 403 00:30:56,160 --> 00:31:00,519 world peace. You can help mobilize the forces of mercy for the protection and 404 00:31:00,559 --> 00:31:04,759 defense of your family, your community, and the nation through general support of 405 00:31:04,839 --> 00:31:11,039 the nineteen fifty one Red Cross fund campaign going to Magnificent Montague. Then it's 406 00:31:11,119 --> 00:31:27,680 Duffy's tavern on in DC Welcome Back. It's worth noting that Sam's alias of 407 00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:34,160 Mark Humboldt, which is a bit of a running gag across the work of 408 00:31:34,359 --> 00:31:41,480 William Spear. There was actually an episode of suspense from July the twenty sixth, 409 00:31:41,720 --> 00:31:47,839 nineteen fifty one that became a bit of a roast of Spear and one 410 00:31:47,920 --> 00:31:52,799 of the actors, Jack Eddard Words, was credited under the name Mark Humboldt. 411 00:31:53,079 --> 00:31:59,519 Jerry Heindigus wrote about this in twenty twenty and noted that there were at 412 00:31:59,599 --> 00:32:06,400 least three separate scripts where Spade used the pseudonym Mark Humbolt, although only one 413 00:32:06,480 --> 00:32:09,559 of them is in circulation. This one wasn't on the list, so I 414 00:32:09,599 --> 00:32:15,799 guess this is the fourth, and Hinnigan's notes that it's was possible that Spear 415 00:32:15,039 --> 00:32:20,880 also used Mark Humboldt in other things he worked on, Just that we don't 416 00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:24,599 have the scripts now. Of course, as you're sitting in your car or 417 00:32:24,839 --> 00:32:29,200 running, you may wonder, okay, well, who was Mark Humboldt? 418 00:32:29,480 --> 00:32:32,240 What did this joke means? And I've got an answer. The answer is 419 00:32:32,319 --> 00:32:36,759 I don't know, and neither does anyone else, or if they do know, 420 00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:40,599 they're not talking. Was Mark Humboldt or real person? A combination of 421 00:32:40,799 --> 00:32:45,000 family names, a little leprechn that came to Williams Spear in the night and 422 00:32:45,160 --> 00:32:50,559 whispered ideas for radio shows. Now I should note Humboldt is not an Irish 423 00:32:50,680 --> 00:32:57,000 name. It's a German or Croatian nickname German Croatian lepricn. Maybe regardless, 424 00:32:57,200 --> 00:33:02,240 it is a mystery that bafflesdeo historians to this day, and leaving behind an 425 00:33:02,319 --> 00:33:08,519 unsolved mystery is definitely appropriate given how many mystery programs mister Spear worked on. 426 00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:17,480 Now listener comments and feedback over on Facebook, Marty and Joanne hosted appreciation for 427 00:33:19,279 --> 00:33:23,720 the episode The Sure Thing Paper, and over on YouTube, Michael rights, 428 00:33:24,119 --> 00:33:30,119 thank you Adam for a good podcast. Eric writes in regarding the Filo Vance 429 00:33:30,160 --> 00:33:35,200 series on Facebook. Did I especially enjoy the series Finlo Vance? No? 430 00:33:35,359 --> 00:33:39,359 I did not, but did I actively dislike it? Also? For me, 431 00:33:39,519 --> 00:33:44,920 it was the definition of middle of the road and maybe just a hair 432 00:33:45,039 --> 00:33:50,920 below that. I won't necessarily miss Vance world, where there are always two 433 00:33:51,039 --> 00:33:54,279 moons, one smart with a high register and one who ain't quick with a 434 00:33:54,400 --> 00:34:00,160 low voice. Where guy with the vocal tick always did it. And it 435 00:34:00,200 --> 00:34:04,200 doesn't matter if you are a boxer or strong man. Our hero never goes 436 00:34:04,279 --> 00:34:07,440 down in a fight. He may be the least can cost detective in old 437 00:34:07,480 --> 00:34:12,440 time radio. So cheers Vance. Though I won't miss you, I'm still 438 00:34:12,519 --> 00:34:15,679 glad I met you. Well. I think that's a fair enough summary. 439 00:34:15,159 --> 00:34:19,679 Now, Vance did go down, you know, two or three times, 440 00:34:19,920 --> 00:34:24,719 But compared to the likes of Sam Spade and Pat Novak and Barry Craig. 441 00:34:25,039 --> 00:34:30,119 He definitely comes out with the better fighting record. And then we have a 442 00:34:30,199 --> 00:34:36,840 review from TJ on our Forgotten Detective's feed and TJ riots. This is another 443 00:34:37,880 --> 00:34:40,920 in the Great Detectives in the Old Time Radio podcast by Adam Graham. This 444 00:34:42,199 --> 00:34:46,199 one focuses on minor or forgotten detective series from the golden ays of radio. 445 00:34:46,599 --> 00:34:52,280 As is the case with everything that Adam produces, each episode is well created 446 00:34:52,400 --> 00:34:54,719 and worth a lesson. Well, thank you so much, TJ. And 447 00:34:54,960 --> 00:34:59,559 if you've not heard of it before, it contains all the series for which 448 00:34:59,639 --> 00:35:07,159 we have between three and nine episodes in circulation and aren't attached to anything else 449 00:35:07,360 --> 00:35:14,639 like the Hummers, and we've got one hundred and eighteen episodes currently and it 450 00:35:14,760 --> 00:35:19,679 covers a lot of ground, a lot of interesting programs, things like Public 451 00:35:19,800 --> 00:35:24,480 Defender, Easy Money, Doctor Kim Detective, and of course the Airmail Mystery 452 00:35:24,760 --> 00:35:30,599 is over there, so you can check that out wherever you get your podcast 453 00:35:30,760 --> 00:35:34,280 from. Well, now it's time to thank our Patreon supporter of the day, 454 00:35:34,400 --> 00:35:37,000 and I want to thank Robert. Robert's been one of our Patreon supporters 455 00:35:37,039 --> 00:35:43,320 since July twenty twenty currently supporting the program at the Detective Sergeant level of seven 456 00:35:43,400 --> 00:35:46,360 dollars and fourteen cents or more per month. Thank you once again for your 457 00:35:46,360 --> 00:35:50,920 support, Robert, and that will do it for today. If you are 458 00:35:51,079 --> 00:35:55,000 enjoying this podcast, please follow us using your favorite podcast software and be sure 459 00:35:55,079 --> 00:36:00,239 to rate and review the podcast wherever you download it from way back next Monday 460 00:36:00,320 --> 00:36:06,119 with another adventure Sam Spade. But join us back here tomorrow for the start 461 00:36:06,159 --> 00:36:10,320 of another Yours truly Johnny Doller serial. Where look are you serious? Johnny 462 00:36:10,519 --> 00:36:15,719 serious? Well, I don't get it. A young guy with your looks 463 00:36:15,800 --> 00:36:19,760 and I bet you're selling something. No. No, As a matter of 464 00:36:19,800 --> 00:36:22,760 fact, I just got in town and I'm trying to locate a certain fellow. 465 00:36:22,840 --> 00:36:25,039 I I was told he's a member of your club. Oh well, 466 00:36:25,079 --> 00:36:29,079 why didn't you say so? What's his name? Jonathan Wells? Probably got 467 00:36:29,159 --> 00:36:32,440 his address? Jonathan? Well? Yeah? Have you got a file on 468 00:36:32,599 --> 00:36:38,400 him? Who are you? You're with the police? Police? No, 469 00:36:38,639 --> 00:36:45,000 what gives you that idea? Well, I don't know anything about the man 470 00:36:45,079 --> 00:36:49,400 you're looking for. No, well, I suppose we check through the file. 471 00:36:49,719 --> 00:36:52,800 It's not here. We don't keep the files. Where do you keep 472 00:36:52,840 --> 00:36:57,840 them they're not here. Well, maybe they're in the next office through that 473 00:36:57,960 --> 00:37:00,079 door there. No, you can't go in there like snow. Take it 474 00:37:00,159 --> 00:37:05,599 easy. We have no ride in there. I won't let you stop. 475 00:37:05,840 --> 00:37:07,119 Now, you just stand right up there on that desk and stay out of 476 00:37:07,199 --> 00:37:15,719 tarble. Let me down. Who do you think you are? Anyhow you 477 00:37:15,840 --> 00:37:17,800 get out of here, you go get a warrant if you want to be 478 00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:21,840 Who was in here? Nobody? You smoke cigar? Of course? I 479 00:37:21,880 --> 00:37:24,679 don't smoke. Sah right there on the ashtray, still burning. Somebody just 480 00:37:24,719 --> 00:37:29,039 sneaked out through that door in the hall. Who was he? What's your 481 00:37:29,119 --> 00:37:35,480 name? Tepler? Annie Tippler? How long have you worked here? Hey, 482 00:37:35,559 --> 00:37:37,119 I've got a hunch you're not a police. I didn't say I was. 483 00:37:37,199 --> 00:37:39,760 What about Wells? Have you got a file on him? Know what 484 00:37:39,880 --> 00:37:43,400 happened to it? I don't know what you're talking about. Mabel Burke, 485 00:37:44,639 --> 00:37:45,639 you got a file on her? Of course? Not? What do you 486 00:37:45,719 --> 00:37:49,800 mean? Of course not? She and Wells met through this club. Look, 487 00:37:49,880 --> 00:37:52,599 buster, Mabel Burke owns this club. I hope you'll be with us. 488 00:37:52,679 --> 00:37:57,639 Then in the meantime, do you send your comments to box thirteen at 489 00:37:57,719 --> 00:38:01,360 Great Detectives, Thought and Yeah. Fallow us on Twitter at Radio Detectives, 490 00:38:01,440 --> 00:38:07,679 and check us out on Instagram, Instagram, dot com, slash Great Detectives 491 00:38:07,840 --> 00:38:12,639 From Boise, Idaho, this is your host, Adam Grahamson and all