Sam Spade Presented by the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio
Oct 10, 2026 · 31 min · 16 segments
Original Release Date: January 2, 2023 Today's Mystery: Sam refers a divorce case to a hotel house detective, but Sam because involved when the supposed subject of the investigation ends up dead…
I'm looking over...
Sam, I stepped
up the broken glass, but there's something terribly wrong with my typewriter.
Looks okay to me.
Those old models stand up, Ep.
They don't make them like that nowadays.
I should hope they don't.
Somebody shot it.
SQP.
No, the alphabet is all right, Sam.
It's just the one key.
One missing?
No, but it's Ben.
Listen right here, Sam.
Look at this.
The at and sent.
That makes sense.
You won't need it for this one.
Come on in.
Oh.
Sam, wasn't I smart? I got the answer right away.
The answer to what?
That which you referred to, Sam, as the whole ghastly riddle.
SQP, to be exact.
I'm looking over...
Sam, I stepped
up the broken glass, but there's something terribly wrong with my typewriter.
Looks okay to me.
Those old models stand up, Ep.
They don't make them like that nowadays.
I should hope they don't.
Somebody shot it.
SQP.
No, the alphabet is all right, Sam.
It's just the one key.
One missing?
No, but it's Ben.
Listen right here, Sam.
Look at this.
The at and sent.
That makes sense.
You won't need it for this one.
Come on in.
Oh.
Sam, wasn't I smart? I got the answer right away.
The answer to what?
That which you referred to, Sam, as the whole ghastly riddle.
SQP, to be exact.
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