Hello and welcome to another episode of Nostologic Mystery Radio. I'm your host Stevie K. And it's my

honor to bring you the radio shows of yesterday year. For this episode, I bring you the Adventures of Sam Spade,

episode titled The Will of Life Caper, originally aired July 11, 1948,

where Sam meets a mystery woman with no memory and a corpse that's been killed by a buzzsaw.

So sit back and relax,

and I hope you enjoy this nostalgic mystery radio.

Thank you for listening.

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Sam Spade Detective Agency. Are you still there?

I believe that interpolation is hardly rhetorical, Mr. Spade.

To what have you been up if you'll pardon the expression?

And has that girl regained her facilities?

I wouldn't know, but her faculties are as good as ever if you'll pardon the expression.

Mr. Spade, sometimes I think you're a regular philanthropist.

Don't you mean philandra?

How much money did you make out of that case? Well, I, uh, broke even anyway. That's what I mean. You're a philanthropist. Well, you know best, Bernardine. By the way, was that man really murdered with the bus saw, or was that just publicity? He really was, Bernardine. Why? There just happened to be one lying around. Oh, I don't mean that. Why was he killed? For the Wheel of Life. Oh. You're not going to ask what that is? Some Curio, no doubt. Listen, Bernardine, the Wheel of Life is... Oh, well... I suppose I don't have to tell you to stay where you are, just sit quietly with your book in your hand,

and I'll be right down to dictate my report on the Wheel of Life, Caper.

Dashel Hammett, America's leading detective fiction writer and creator of Sam Spade, the hardboiled private eye,

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