Sam Spade Presented by the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio
Sep 6, 2026 · 34 min · 10 segments
Original Release Date: December 12, 2022 Today's Mystery: Sam goes to get a good night's sleep and instead gets dragged into a murder case by a neighbor. Original Radio Broadcast Date:October 24…
Detective.
I saw some able on the phone.
She works in the sleep shop, you know, next to the knobby knit.
Yeah.
And she says they advise their nightmare customers to put a heating pad under the kidney.
And a set of milk toast, just a little beef broth and some warm wine.
And pine oil.
In the wine?
No, in the broth.
I mean the brass.
A bass, Sam.
Oh, Sam, look at you.
Black eyes and scratches.
Your lips caught.
You didn't go home at all.
I did so.
When you promised me you were going straight home to that much-needed rest, and all the time you knew you were going straight to some sordid bar and get into a brawl.
I even bought these things from the sleep shop.
Next door to the knobby net.
To Detective Lieutenant Dundee, Homicide Detail, San Francisco Police.
Medical authorities agree that lost sleep can never be made up.
1-2-7-5-9-6.
Detective.
I saw some able on the phone.
She works in the sleep shop, you know, next to the knobby knit.
Yeah.
And she says they advise their nightmare customers to put a heating pad under the kidney.
And a set of milk toast, just a little beef broth and some warm wine.
And pine oil.
In the wine?
No, in the broth.
I mean the brass.
A bass, Sam.
Oh, Sam, look at you.
Black eyes and scratches.
Your lips caught.
You didn't go home at all.
I did so.
When you promised me you were going straight home to that much-needed rest, and all the time you knew you were going straight to some sordid bar and get into a brawl.
I even bought these things from the sleep shop.
Next door to the knobby net.
To Detective Lieutenant Dundee, Homicide Detail, San Francisco Police.
Medical authorities agree that lost sleep can never be made up.
1-2-7-5-9-6.
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