Detective and Mystery – Retro Radio Podcast

The first thing Sam Spade needs to do is sober up his client. The distraught architect has had his building project sabotaged. Who had it out for him? Sam’s investigation leads to a dame. Does her boss, Albert Mitchell, know something about the building that collapsed? Sam might never learn what Mitchell knows, because he discovers the building inspector just moments after being gunshot.

After a night of questioning by the police, Sam gets an audience with the mayor. Sam learns that both the architect and inspector had good reputations in town. Who is the third party who might want to ruin them? Who else is in this story? Will the dame have something to do with the case? Shady business contacts? Someone else? Sam learns deadly secrets about the inferior building project.

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Or the Revenge of Monty Cristoff.

A man of high social circles, Gosden, is losing ground regarding his public reputation. The millionaire hires Sam to investigate Monty Cristoff to see why he has been ruining hin. Cristoff has got word of the investigation, and calls Sam to his lavish home to share his side of the story.

Taken for a ride, Sam is given the option to be bought off, or be thumped on the head. Not to give much away, but Sam must be short a thump or two on his head this week. Getting the upper hand, Sam confronts the high society folk in his recent past to get a few things straight. True identities are discovered, but why the game of revenge, and the parallel to the tale of the Count of Monte Cristo?

A sell out by Gosden’s own wife could be the final blow that ruins him. Confronting Cristoff again, Sam learns deep, and long running family secrets. Will tempers flare? Can Sam stop a murder from needlessly going down?

Working for an insurance company, Sam is hired to be security guard for Kimberly Cross. Who is she? Well… it’s not a she… It’s actually jewels, that are valued at $250k, a nice sum for today, but huge for 1951. I already see a problem. When private detectives get hired to be security, or a body guard, the thing or person comes up missing or dead as soon as the writers can put words on paper.

Distracted by a dame going into a near by drug store, Sam keeps company with the other security guards, until a burglar alarm is sounded. One guard ends up dead, the jewels gone, but Sam is sure the suspicious blonde didn’t have time to pull off the job.

Sam easily pegs a known gangster to the job. He just has to follow the trail to find him. He finds the dame behind the business end of a gun, and the story that his gangster is the fall guy for someone else. Sam needs to find out who is double crossing who, before he finds himself dead. He does, but stay tuned to the final report for the details.

Sent to a fashion show, Archie explains in voiceover it’s his first, and he’s a little embarrassed to be there. The show organizer is worried about her brother, a dress maker. In Nero’s office, she tells her story about a woman who has her claws in him. Her troubles will have to get worse than that, or Nero will reject the case of romantic entanglements. Humoring Miss Gallante, Nero phones the shrew of a woman just in time to hear a murder being committed.

Taking the case, with full transcript of the evening and phone call to Inspector Kraemer, the police detective hashes out the details and timeline of the crime. The pieces don’t all seem to fit. Was the sounds of the murder faked to skew the timeline? After a good night’s rest, Nero and Archie get busy on the investigation. What will Archie learn from Mr Gallante and the others involved at the fashion show? Any motives for jealousy, or reasons for foul play?

The trip to fish for information finds the big question among the suspects is: Who hired Nero Wolfe? Archie shares his jackpot with his boss, and is amazed to learn that Nero already knows details about the fake murder, and the phone number that was actually called.

Tempers flare when Kraemer finds out Nero has been poking around, but he may be in the right place at the right time. All the suspects have shown up on Nero’s door step to grumble about his questioning. While the police detective stands by, Nero calls his suspects onto his carpet for a full confrontation, and a big reveal.

Despite being his secretary, Effie is jealous over seeing Sam out with another woman. He soon returns to the office to deliver the report on his latest case. The weather had been bad, and the same for business. Donald O Stryker comes from an old English family, and wants to hire Sam. A dieing man warns him to beware of a siren, and gives him a picture. Is it just a wacko, or is there real concern?

Checking on leads,Sam finds an out of tune boarding house matron, singing to an also out of tune piano. Sam isn’t in time to stop a murder, but he lets the cops handle the matter. His next step is to track down the siren in the picture. Murder seems to be a step ahead of Sam, as his trail grows closer to the red headed dame in the picture.

Visiting the morgue, Sam discovers more clues about the murders connected to the dame. Though he tries to warn Dundee, the cop can’t do much about crimes that haven’t happened yet. Sam is sure the dame isn’t the killer, but that she’s working with someone. What’s the motive behind it all?

Tailing a contact, Sam is led to the dame, and a connection to a plan that was hatched from prison, and is now playing out. Will he ever catch up to the evasive dame? Will he Figure out a trap to catch his bad guys? You know he will, and the truth will be exposed.

The wife of a public relations man comes to Nero Wolfe to turn a gun over to him. She tells the rotund detective her plan, and how easy it would be to kill the man she no longer loves. Her mind has been constantly working out to kill her husband in her mind, and the temptation grows. Will simply handing the gun over to Nero ensure she won’t be blamed if her husband should be killed? Is that all it will take to hire Nero to represent her in all confidence and shield her from the police?

Examining the gun, Archie can’t prove conclusively it hadn’t been fired recently. No smell of gun powder, and no empty chambers, but it doesn’t mean it hadn’t been cleaned and reloaded. Sure enough Barry ends up dead, and Nero needs to get more details from the victim’s wife. Where was she? What was the timeline of the where abouts of her husband… the maid? Frustrated, and barely convinced of her story, Nero sets Archie on the street to find out all he can, and stay a step ahead of the cops.

It doesn’t take long for Inspector Kraemer to come knocking on Nero’s door. Though he thinks Nero is with holding information, Nero is prepared to tell all if a ballistics report links the gun to the murder. More suspects emerge. How does the employee of the dead man fit into the mystery? Is he privy to screwy business relations? A part of a love triangle with his wife? Nero has his work cut out as he investigates the new developments, and interviews the players.

The strange, and wealthy business clients are caught by Archie, and along with a secret lock box, he wrangles them all to Nero’s office. Cutting to the chase, Nero identifies a motive of black mail. He’s sure his client didn’t kill her husband, but will he wring out the information he needs to expose a killer? It means turning up the fire under the feet of the business partners, and applying some extortion of his own. Frustrations come to a boil for Kraemer,

and Nero still has loose ends to work out, but stand by for the big reveal with all the suspects brought together in Nero’s office.

Effie Perine is in tears, but is it over something she did wrong? Sam comforts her, and dictates his report to her. He had gone to a client who needs help locating her long lost husband. Sam is familiar with her story, and the scam she has fallen into. Though she is amazed he knows about it before she can tell it, it’s an old con that Sam knows all about.

It doesn’t take much for Effie to pull out the records that Sam needs, although she seems to be having trouble knitting argyle socks. Pedro Rodriguez is tied to other gangsters who claim a Spanish prisoner needs help getting bailed out. In return, treasure troves of gold will be repaid to the one helping him. Sam convinces the not so bright gangsters he wants to be in on the scam too. Sam has one problem, he looks too honest to satisfy Lola that’s he’s a real crook.

Suspicions break out in fist fights, which means Sam wakes up from a thump on the head. Getting hold of his cop friend, Dundee, Sam tries to turn the matter over to the bunko squad. Things escalate fast when murder enters the picture. When Effie tells how she grabbed the wrong file, Sam learns he’s not dealing with a simple con game, but with counterfeiters. Not one to take being conned, Sam manages to turn the tables for justice.

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In the third day of the trial, Nero Wolfe is called on to take the witness stand. First, the manager of a boarding house tells how the policy works to accept callers. What are the other events of the evening that Mr Bagby witnessed on that crucial night of the murder? Stepping out of the court room, Nero shares to Archie why he thinks the testimony is preposterous. Taking the opportunity outside the court, Nero does his own investigating of the impudent creatures.

Is there evidence of tampering with witness testimony? Who had motive? Who else are players in the mystery? Philanthropists, women in a love triangle, secrets, and cover ups abound. Nero is determined enough that he actually has been outside the office, and tramping the streets, in the fresh air, with Archie Goodwin. Wading through hostile suspects, Archie finds some that are friendly, and even oppressed by some big players in the mystery. With the cops on the look out for Nero, who ducked out of court, he and Archie have to evade their usual stomping grounds. Where will Nero go to lay his head? Will he have the evidence he needs by the next day’s session in court?

Nero finds himself in a tricky situation, where he needs to speak with the witness for the opposition, but do it without being arrested. Time for swearing in at court, and Nero takes the stand. Relying on his genius, Nero evades being trapped by the law as he presents the facts. Facing charges of contempt of court, taking the law into his own hands, and possibly worse, Nero Laying out all the details, Nero has his big reveal in court.

Audio is good, maybe a little muffled, but still good.

Nero and Archie bicker over looking at the comics page. Sent out on messenger duty, Archie visits a room full of temperamental writers. The frustrations with the eccentrics are alleviated for Archie when a dame, and executive secretary fills him in on the meeting. A theft of a gun, and a list of people who had access to the desk where it was stored are revealed. Will it be so easy to figure out who the surprised burger was? Archie is detained, since the artists can’t be rushed, and their quirks be disturbed. Battling radios at full volume, drafty windows, breakfast after noon, and more.

As he passes time, the quirks won’t stop. Hours pass, but the creative juices of art seem to be shutting his questions off. Archie has enough of being jerked around, and though the original gun has shown up, his is missing. It’s enough to make him swear… just a little bit. What do you think? Isn’t it about time a body makes the scene?

Inspector Kramer is called, but the cop thinks Archie is telling lies when he explains what happened. Suddenly, the artists tell conflicting stories as to why they hired Nero, and what Archie was supposed to be doing.

The other artists and writers seem to have stories to put Archie on the hot seat. Why are they lying, and setting Archie up? What part does the monkey have in the weird crime? Back in the office, Archie tells Nero all the details. The scandal soon spreads to threaten to take down Nero’s detective business as well. Dirt is dug up on the artists and writers. Confrontations made. You know how this ends… Nero cuts through the twisted mess of a mystery.

Get ready for the big reveal, and the truth behind the vendetta against the rotund detective.

As Archie sets the stage, Nero steps out for some shopping, with the complaining Fritz. A customer pops in to tell Archie her story. Has she seen a rival business woman in cahoots with someone in her firm? Will Nero take well to being interrupted from his private time to learn of the case? When the woman ends up strangled in Archie’s absence, Nero has little choice, but to be forced to get involved?

Inspector Kramer is on hand, and is sure that Archie is holding back information. The upset Nero is ready to call out all the operatives he has at his disposal, but twists keep showing themselves in the matter. Nero is dead set on solving the crime before the cops, and gets more information from the head of the company. Let the betrayals and parade of lies begin.

Nero tears into the rival reputations between the companies. He spares no expense to find out names. The investigators are being investigated, but the tables will soon be turned as clues and motive begin to materialize. Alibi’s, possible love triangles, and the uphill battle to learn the killer’s identity may only come after the cops have won this one,