Sam Spade Presented by the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio
Oct 24, 2026 · 36 min · 16 segments
Original Release Date: January 16, 2023 Today's Mystery: Sam is hired to protect a wealthy young woman who claims her life is endangered by her mentally unstable brother and their scheming…
Very funny.
Certainly took you long enough.
Oh, thank you, Sam.
Well, do you like them? The girls?
I guess so.
It's your own hair, I trust.
Oh, yes, Sam.
When it's brushed out, you'll never know anything happens.
Whenever you're ready, Curly.
Oh,
gee, you like it that well?
Yeah, very cute.
Well! It's
a business.
To Detective Lieutenant Dundee, Homicide Detail, San Francisco Police, from Samuel Spade, License Number 137596, Subject, The Bouncing Betty Caper.
Dear Dundee.
It all began on a Wednesday.
My secretary, Miss Effie Perrine, tiptoed into my office and laid an engraved calling card on the desk in front of me.
The name on it was Randall Carruthers.
She said he looked like money, so I said show her in.
Or him in.
She did.
Good morning, sir.
Do you wish the morning
Very funny.
Certainly took you long enough.
Oh, thank you, Sam.
Well, do you like them? The girls?
I guess so.
It's your own hair, I trust.
Oh, yes, Sam.
When it's brushed out, you'll never know anything happens.
Whenever you're ready, Curly.
Oh,
gee, you like it that well?
Yeah, very cute.
Well! It's
a business.
To Detective Lieutenant Dundee, Homicide Detail, San Francisco Police, from Samuel Spade, License Number 137596, Subject, The Bouncing Betty Caper.
Dear Dundee.
It all began on a Wednesday.
My secretary, Miss Effie Perrine, tiptoed into my office and laid an engraved calling card on the desk in front of me.
The name on it was Randall Carruthers.
She said he looked like money, so I said show her in.
Or him in.
She did.
Good morning, sir.
Do you wish the morning
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