Sam Spade Presented by the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio
Jul 11, 2026 · 30 min · 15 segments
Original Release Date: November 7, 2022 Today's Mystery: Sam is hired by a wealthy man to locate a stolen gun. He does so and brings the gun back to find it was used to kill his client. Original…
Sam's Bay Detective Agency.
It's me, sweetheart.
Back from resisting arrest.
Oh, Sam.
Oh, Sam, you better not talk.
The homicide people may be tapping our wires.
Let them tap, Effie.
I can take my medicine.
Perhaps it's better this way.
I'm strangely content.
I'll walk down that last mile with dignity and a plum.
A plum? You'll even be eating while you're going to your last...
Why not, Effie? Why not? If this cape was to be my last, then so be it.
It brought me everything.
A woman's passion and love.
The smell of salt air clean in my nostrils and...
But
you struck Lieutenant Dundee.
That was the best part.
It was glorious.
Glorious.
Now calm yourself, Effie.
Take a fortitude pill.
Pull down the shades.
Sam's Bay Detective Agency.
It's me, sweetheart.
Back from resisting arrest.
Oh, Sam.
Oh, Sam, you better not talk.
The homicide people may be tapping our wires.
Let them tap, Effie.
I can take my medicine.
Perhaps it's better this way.
I'm strangely content.
I'll walk down that last mile with dignity and a plum.
A plum? You'll even be eating while you're going to your last...
Why not, Effie? Why not? If this cape was to be my last, then so be it.
It brought me everything.
A woman's passion and love.
The smell of salt air clean in my nostrils and...
But
you struck Lieutenant Dundee.
That was the best part.
It was glorious.
Glorious.
Now calm yourself, Effie.
Take a fortitude pill.
Pull down the shades.
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