Welcome to the Great

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patreon.greatdetectives.net. Well now it's time for this week's episode of Sam Spade, which is

another rehearsal recording. It's a rehearsal of a program that originally aired on May the 28th of

1950 and it's the honest thief paper. Sam Spade Detective Agency, me! Sam, it's you! I'm the

folder and in the flesh. Any messages, phone calls, letters, telegrams? Just the usual,

a bill for the landlord and a notice from the telephone company. Well, the spoils of them is

usual. You sound awfully chipper. Have you been on a case, Sam? Did you make some money? Yes,

I've been on a case. No, I did not make any money. Oh, your client got murdered before he could

pay you. Wrong again, my client was a woman. She did not get murdered and she could pay me.

Huh? And she did. But you just said she didn't. True, I think true, things in

operation. I'm a little confused. You just said it. And I meant every word of it. Stop registering

the wilderness. All, all is paradox. So, uh, shop in your pencils, right in your seams, get out

your notebook and prepare to be confounded by the contradictions I shall contradict to you during

my report on the honest thief's caper. I'm not looking over for this. I'll leave. Oh, Sam. Hello.

Legal word, girl. We've many things to do. Up. Up. Yes.

You say the strangest things on the phone. I don't believe I quite understood what it was all about.

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