Hello, and welcome to another episode of nostalgic mystery radio. I'm your host Stevie Kay, and it's my honor to bring you the radio shows of yesteryear.

For this episode, I bring you The Adventures of Sam Spade, episode titled The Crabb Louis Caper, originally aired March 2nd, 1951, where Sam is hired to find out how an Italian crab fisherman was killed.

Was an accident or murder?

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 Spade Detective Agency.

Buono, buono.

I beg your pardon?

Swannato il Campanello.

Sam, what are you... Nothing at all, sweetheart.

I just happen to have the tourist lists of handy Italian phrases before me.

North Beach never did that too before, Sam. North Beach never did anybody like it just did me, F. But I thought you said, oh, Bartolomeo just wanted you to drop by for a friendly talk. And some garlic bread and red wine. But does that explain the knife gash on my coat? Your new tweet! My old tweet now, cherub. You see, it was never meant to be swum in. The bay? Yes. Not again. What else? By now, your keen feminine instinct should tell you this is not the social call, Wondergirl. As a matter of fact, I plan to drop by, presto presto, with words and entil little something I call, view of fisherman's wharf from the water, or the crab

Louis caper.

Transcribed for NBC, William Spear, Radio's outstanding producer-director of mystery and crime

drama, brings you the greatest private detective

of them all in The Adventures of Sam Spade.

Zing, zing, zing, d'a-ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, zing.

Bawong, oh, Sam.

Well, baloning up, huh?

Let me see now.

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