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The Adventures of Sam Spade Detective presents “Bluebeard Caper,” originally broadcast on CBS on August 8, 1948. Commonly listed as episode 98, this archival installment stars Howard Duff as hard-boiled San Francisco detective Sam Spade, with Lurene Tuttle as Effie Perrine.

Ned Towers fears for his sister Sylvia’s future when she prepares to marry Jefferson Davies Calhoon, whose earlier marriages ended in unsettling circumstances. As a sizable insurance policy raises the stakes, Spade follows the case into a shadowy carnival world. The episode was written by Bob Tallman and Gil Doud and directed by William Spier.

The Adventures of Sam Spade Detective presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:43 Original Broadcast
30:18 Closing

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The Adventures of Sam Spade Detective presents “Rowdy Dowser Caper,” originally broadcast April 20, 1951. In this penultimate episode of the 1950–51 NBC season, Stephen Dunne stars as Sam Spade, with Lurene Tuttle as Effie Perrine.

Called from San Francisco to North Takaloma, California, by former client Wendell Wisby, Spade investigates the disappearance of a bank cashier and $53,000. With suspicion falling on Wisby’s uncle, Percy “Purse” Snatcher, Sam finds a small-town mystery tangled with a recent civic disaster and missing financial records. Written by Harold Swanton and directed by William Spier.

The Adventures of Sam Spade Detective presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned and mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:47 Original Broadcast
30:44 Closing

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The Adventures of Sam Spade Detective presents “Sam and the Psyche,” originally broadcast on August 2, 1946. Episode 4 of the series’ initial ABC run stars Howard Duff as private detective Sam Spade and Lurene Tuttle as Effie Perrine.

Spade is drawn into a $10,000 blackmail arrangement involving a psychiatrist’s confidential patient records, then finds the case complicated by suspicious associates, missing evidence, and a trail that leads across San Francisco. This original radio story was written by Bob Tallman and Jo Eisinger and directed by William Spier.

The Adventures of Sam Spade Detective presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:54 Original Broadcast
30:26 Closing

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The Adventures of Sam Spade Detective presents “Indian Caper,” originally broadcast September 25, 1949. Commonly cataloged as episode 170, this installment is also known by the longer title “The Chargogagogmanchogagogchabunamungamog Caper.”

In San Francisco, Sam Spade is hired by Chief Black Cloud to find a missing engineer involved with negotiations over Oklahoma oil wells—and to protect a valuable wampum belt. When a warning suggests the belt carries a dangerous secret, Sam’s routine assignment becomes a more complicated case. Howard Duff stars as Sam, with Lurene Tuttle as Effie Perrine; the episode was directed and produced by William Spier.

The Adventures of Sam Spade Detective presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:44 Original Broadcast
28:10 Closing

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The Adventures of Sam Spade Detective presents “Missing Newshawk Caper,” originally broadcast on CBS on July 18, 1948. Episode 108 stars Howard Duff as Sam Spade and Lurene Tuttle as Effie Perrine.

Newspaper publisher A. M. Youngblood hires Spade to find Ray McCully, the paper’s star crime reporter, who has disappeared while pursuing the newspaper’s anti-racketeering campaign. Keeping the police out of the matter, Spade follows McCully’s trail from the city room into the underworld. Written and directed by Gil Doud, with Robert Tallman.

The Adventures of Sam Spade Detective presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:46 Original Broadcast
30:19 Closing

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The Adventures of Sam Spade Detective presents “Dog Bed Caper,” originally broadcast December 1, 1950. Cataloged as episode 224, this NBC sustaining-run installment stars Stephen Dunne as private detective Sam Spade, with Lurene Tuttle as Effie Perrine.

Sam is hired by Adela Cameron of Cameron Incorporated to discreetly follow I. J. Barco, a dog-bed manufacturer suspected of being tied to a racket. Written by John Michael Hayes and produced and directed by William Spier, the case leads from a polished investment office to Barco’s conspicuous South Dolores factory—though, as Sam makes clear, it is not really a story about dogs or dog beds.

The Adventures of Sam Spade Detective presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:49 Original Broadcast
30:41 Closing

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The Adventures of Sam Spade Detective presents “Dick Foley Caper,” originally broadcast on September 26, 1948. Episode 118 of the CBS series stars Howard Duff as Sam Spade, with Lurene Tuttle as Effie Perrine and Frank Lovejoy as fellow detective Dick Foley.

When Dick Foley asks his old friend Sam to find a recently released convict with a grudge, the search leads to San Francisco’s Belvedere hotel and a tense case tied to an old jewelry-robbery conviction. Written by Gil Doud and Bob Tallman, this hard-boiled installment brings the Dashiell Hammett character Dick Foley into Sam Spade’s radio world.

The Adventures of Sam Spade Detective presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:49 Original Broadcast
30:18 Closing

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The Adventures of Sam Spade Detective presents “Tears of Night Matter,” originally broadcast July 24, 1949. This installment is identified in episode logs as episode 161, also known as “The Tears of Night Caper.”

When Sam Spade is asked to return the costly Tears of Night necklace to its owner after a gambling dispute, a routine delivery turns into a suspicious case involving duplicate jewels and high-stakes deception. Howard Duff stars as Spade, with Lurene Tuttle as Effie Perrine; the CBS series was sponsored by Wildroot Cream-Oil.

The Adventures of Sam Spade Detective presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:47 Original Broadcast
28:45 Closing

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The Adventures of Sam Spade Detective presents “Death Bed Caper,” originally broadcast on June 20, 1948. This CBS-era mystery stars Howard Duff as private detective Sam Spade, with Lurene Tuttle as Effie Perrine.

Spade is called to witness a dying statement from the injured Gordon Starbuck—but the declaration casts suspicion in an unexpected direction. The case leads from San Francisco Bay’s fogbound docks to a yacht-bound deathbed, where last words may not be as trustworthy as they seem. The episode was written by Bob Tallman and Gil Doud and is also known as “The Caper With Two Death Beds.”

The Adventures of Sam Spade Detective presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:49 Original Broadcast
30:17 Closing

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The Adventures of Sam Spade Detective presents “Denny Shane Caper,” originally broadcast on NBC on April 6, 1951. This is C021, the 21st episode of the 1950–1951 NBC run, starring Steve Dunne as San Francisco private investigator Sam Spade and Lurene Tuttle as Effie.

A sixteen-year-old girl asks Spade to find Denny Shane, the criminal she calls her estranged brother. Her account does not quite add up, and Spade’s inquiries through Shane’s old San Francisco haunts lead him into an unusually somber case. Written by Harold Swanton and produced and directed by William Spear.

The Adventures of Sam Spade Detective presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned and mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:51 Original Broadcast
30:27 Closing

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