Hello, and welcome to another episode of Nostologic Mystery Radio.

I'm your host Stevie Kay, 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 Hail and Farewell Caper,

originally aired April 27, 1951, where a strange little man tries to kill himself

while Willie Johnson is scheduled to die at San Quentin tonight. He was framed. So sit back

and relax, and I hope you enjoy this nostalgic mystery radio. Thank you for listening.

The National Broadcasting Company presents the adventures of Sam Spade Detective. Sam Sp Bay Detective Agency?

Me, sweetheart.

Sam...

Now take it easy.

The papers are on the street.

I saw them.

So did I.

There'll be some red-faced editors ducking behind their green eyeshades tomorrow.

What do you mean, Sam?

You don't print up the score until the returns are all in, F. This applies to presidential elections, boxing matches, and executions at San Quentin prison. Sam, you mean really? I mean Willie. Batten down the hatches and turn over your foam rubber cushion wonder girl, for even now I'm homeward bond with a stride-by-stride account of a 12-hour marathon, which I shall call for obvious reasons the hail and farewell caper.

Transcribe for NBC, William Spear, radio's outstanding producer-director of mystery and crime drama,

brings you the greatest private detective of them all, starring Stephen Dunn, in the Adventures of Sam Spade.

I've been robbed.

Heffy?

Brought in here this minute. Oh, yes, sir. Have I done something? That's what I was about to ask. Have you been sticking your delightful, freckled, cupboard, upturned little nose into my schnapp's bottle? Well, answer me, girl. Sam, you know I don't do it. All right, then, who? Well, the nervous little man who was here did open the drawer to find a pencil and paper and leave a note.

Okay. Answer me, girl. Sam, you know I don't do it. All right, then, who? Well, the nervous little man who was here did open the drawer to find a pencil and paper and leave a note. Okay, you're clear. Oh, Sam, what about the little man? A good and leading question, if, shall we attempt an answer? Oh, I'm at the ready, Sam. Shoot. Date, fill it in. And two, Justice Edward Benjamin, State Supreme Court from Samuel Spade License No. 137-596.

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