 The adventures of Sam spade detective brought to you by wild root cream oil hair tonic the non-alcoholic hair tonic that contains Lanolin wild root cream oil again and again the choice of men who put good grooming first Sam sweetheart any calls only one Sam Lieutenant Dundee of homicide he wants you to drop around so they can get your formal statement No hurry not now. He told me what happened Sam. I'm sorry. Yeah, so am I I guess he was one of your oldest friends? Wasn't he you don't make any friends in this business? I mean you can write that in your book now, and I'll give you the rest of it when I get there You sound tired Sam. Wouldn't you rather just what baby? Well go home and you know, we just put it off until tomorrow Yeah, maybe I'll get it off my chest tonight. Stay there if he I'll come on down and dictate my report on the dick-fully caper Dashel Hammett America's leading detective fiction writer and creator of Sam spade the hard-boiled private eye and William Spear Radio's outstanding producer director of mystery and crime drama join their talents to make your hair stand on end with the adventures of Sam space Presented by the makers of wild root cream oil for the hair No two ways about it folks hair That's well groomed can make all the difference in the world to a person's overall appearance That's why so many men women boys and girls are turning to the famous non-alcoholic hair tonic with Lanolin wild root cream oil Wild root cream oil grooms your hair neatly and naturally relieves dryness removes loose dandruff If you haven't tried it before you'll want to get wild root cream oil in a new 25 cent get acquainted size Yes, get wild root cream oil again and again the choice of men and women and children too And now with Howard Duff starring a spade wild root brings to the air the greatest private detective of them all in the adventures of Sam spade And that shaky Just for the top of the glass Yeah, what you said over the phone about not making any friends in this business You didn't really mean that did you forget it you can label this file on dick Foley date fill it in to Dundee at homicide I guess from Samuel spade license number with these seven five nine six Facts are all here if you can dig a formal statement out of it, you're welcome I'd known dick Foley ever since I took out my license We'd worked several big capers together back in my days as a continental lot He and Mickey line a hand and I then he and Mickey opened their own office Foley and line a hand private investigations Five years back Mickey stopped the slug and since then the sign on the door read dick Foley detective agency I'd seen dick maybe four or five times in the last half a dozen years just to have a drink and chew the fat about the good old days You never talked about his private life. I assumed he didn't have any So when I went to his office day before yesterday in response to his call I was surprised to find him in a clinch with one of the most beautiful nails. I've ever seen oh Oh Sam Shall I come back after lunch? Oh Sam this is Maxine my wife Don't deserve it, but I'm happy for you I'll return the compliment Sam. I've wanted to meet you for years, but dick wouldn't introduce me now. You know why Well, uh You run along honey. Sam's here on business. All right dick You can bring Sam home to dinner if you like there's plenty if he's not too busy, but don't count on that We'll try anyway. Won't you Sam? I will indeed draw up a chair, Sam. Hmm sit down. Oh Oh What's on your mind dick you remember Claude Spicer that Grifter I sent over for that jewelry store hike back in 43 You never told me you were married dick. I'm very happily married now. Please pay attention. I Claude Spicer. Yeah. Yeah, I remember the caper wasn't there a damn involved Well Spicer had a girlfriend, but the cops gave her a good bill of health Spicer went up for a five-year stretch. They sprung him last month. Whatever happened to that day Now look about Spicer. He gun him for you You hit it How scared am I? Well enough to ask you for help Sam. What's eating them just revenge Sam I wouldn't tell us to anybody but you But all the facts of that caper didn't come out at that time. I Sort of that I'll come well I couldn't a state and business in San Francisco if it been generally known that my partner was the inside man on a jewelry store Heist Mickey. Yeah, Mickey Liner and You and I are both great at choosing partners Sam They both deserved what they got only one difference I sent up the killer that plugged my partner Some people thought the way you gave evidence at Spicer's murder trial wasn't so hot well He was alibi'd Sam. In fact, the robbery was his alibi for the murder. I don't know how he managed it I've been trying for five years to figure it out Spice is afraid I might succeed someday. That's why he's out to get me. What's he waiting for? Oh, I don't know He won't do it simple. He'll have a fancy plan like the other time. He's tricky Where's he staying at the Belvedere? Here's his mug. I Kept a plant on the building for a couple of days, but he stayed holed up in his room. I think he spotted me Okay, that guy give it a buzz. Oh wait a minute Sam. Yeah I'm not asking you to do this for love Standard fee 25 and whiskey money. Okay, forget it. This one's on me In the elevator on my way out I studied a picture of Claude Spicer on the old police circuit a dick had given me But a picture in the back of my mind kept getting in the way It was Dick Foley's wife Maxine When I hit the street, I still saw her face before me and it was no picture only pretty as Sam I waited for you. I've got to talk to you. My pleasure. Shall we confer in an adjacent cafe? Wherever you say only I don't want dick to know and you shouldn't have married a detective. Please How's this black watch? Yeah looks dark enough. Oh that booth in the corner. It's secluded. Why not? Slide in no over here still but not facing the street. Sorry. I'm not much good at this sort of thing Sam I'm not asking you to tell me what it is. But if he's in really bad trouble, I think I have a right to know What makes you think he's in trouble? Well, I'm not blind You can't live with a man and not sense it when something goes wrong. I never thought dick was the type to show it Oh, he's he's tried to hide it for me and I haven't said anything I thought if he wanted me to know he'd tell me it was a wise thought hold on to it Well, I meant to but then a terrible possibility crossed my mind Sam it isn't me is it in what way? Well, you know what I mean He's been away from home nights so much lately and he questions me so closely about where I go and who I see and so on and I Well, I may as well ask you right out did he hire you to check up on me Then that is it No You're not lying to me say why should I Dick says you're almost as old as friend. He's talked so much about you and he must have told you I don't do that type of work Why do you keep looking at me if sorry trying to place you Maxine? I keep thinking I've seen you someplace before Must have been my picture. I was an actress. Yeah picture Yeah, maybe that was it Why do you say it like that like what was if you were angry with me because I just got the caption on the picture Yes, I had and the caption was from a newspaper circa 1943 and it read Actress lovely cleared in Lannaghan sling. I Flashed my 10 star at the room clerk at the Belvedere learned that Claude Spicer was in and stuck around to make sure the clerk didn't buzz the room to tip him off Around four in the p.m. Spicer went out very dressed up umbrella gloves and all he walked down Gary to Grant and turned north Cold San Francisco drizzle started blowing up from the bay. I wish they'd brought my overcoat a Half a block up from California. He entered Grayson's jewelry store. I peeked through the rainstreak show window after Inside pouring eagerly through a tray full of diamond clips while a long-suffering clerk I had her hopelessly from his side of the counter was the actress lovely Maxine shot Spicer a quick glance of recognition as he entered but they didn't speak He took up a pose of gentlemanly patience shrugged his eyebrows sympathetically at the clerk And leaned elegantly on his umbrella while Maxine found fault with every piece of jewelry that was shoved in front of it The board expression left his face only once that was when the clerk opened the vault and brought out some unset stones Their act may have been fooling the clerk But it was as plain as the nose on Spicer's face a very plain nose It was that they were sizing up the joint for a pushover Maxine left first he stayed long enough to buy a cigarette lighter and then followed her out As I took out after him I stopped to read the sticker on the inside of the glass door It said these premises protected by Dick Foley detective agency Maxine was waiting for him at the corner I grabbed up a Chinese newspaper and used it to listen behind but I need them to bother They didn't seem to care ought to be about a million bucks. Why are you so disagreeable you ought to be feeling good feeling good Five years stretch I come out to find my girl married to the Joker that sent me up You didn't think it was such a bad idea at the time. Well, I do now Well after tonight will go east you and me together baby. He'll catch up with us wherever we go Oh, you should live so long. How do you mean that just like it sounds baby? Bye. Oh, don't leave. I'm gonna get some sleep. I'll need a clear head. I don't want to be alone. Oh Not even tonight. I don't want to be alone. See you later He went straight back to the Belvedere no stops picked up his key at the desk No messages took the elevator to the eighth floor let himself in the room 809 hung out the do not disturb sign closed and locked the door behind I Kept a plan on it till around midnight Then I lifted the do not disturb card from the doorknob and wedged it into the crack of the door It was a crafty move and I just finished doing it craftily when the door opened again in my face Huh boy, what are you doing here? Uh, nothing, sir. I I'm making a survey What I'm from the trotter pole trotter pole. It's like the gallop pole, but we're not in so much of a hurry Yeah, just kindly answer this question as a Democrat. Do you believe do we huh? I picked up the do not disturb card and wedged it back into the crack of his door There's any how stick knows except of course tiny stove with a night paper at the Belvedere If anybody opens the door like that the card will fall out and somebody will always hang it on the knob Another thing tiny doesn't know is never to draw to an inside straight We played nine different kinds of poker until 5 a.m. When I thought I'd go up and have another look All was quiet on the eighth floor from the elevator bank. I could see room 809 The morning paper was shoved under his door and my do not disturb sign was apparently where I had planted it I tip-toed up to make sure Huh boy, what do you want me paper boy, sir your morning paper you get around Good news in the paper sir interesting interesting Jewelry store heist up on Grand Avenue. Oh, yes, sir. Our paper only comes what I grabbed the paper from under 805 It was the headline I could have expected if Spicer had left his room without my knowing it Grayson's jewelry store the sharpie and Maxine at case that afternoon had been taken for an estimated million bucks in uncut gems But Spicer's door hadn't been opened and there was no other exit. I Sat down and fought and what I thought of was that that sticker on the front door of Grayson's Said these promises protected by Dick Foley detective agency On the 6 a.m. Oakland ferry boat fell this way blindly out of a slip Claude Spicer was aboard and so was I Should have been getting lighter, but it wasn't the fog was thickening over the harbor and most of the passengers were inside drinking coffee Spicer didn't go in he climbed up to the boat deck and stood at the rail under the pilots house I planted between two wet paint signs and waited not for long I couldn't make out any features on the man who came up and joined them They stood face-to-face not more than a foot apart and talking voices that couldn't get to me through the racket of the Foghorns on the harbor what spoke loud enough for me to hear was a gun They seem to fall into each other's arms then collapsed in a heap on the deck When I got to the spot only the dead one was there it was Spicer The other man had disappeared around the corner of the deck house a ray of light from the pilots window swept over him And I saw a gun that'll shine in his hand and then spin out over the rail as he threw it What oh, it's you Sam. Oh, it's a fridge. You'd lost him. What did you do it for dick? I had my reason Sam not trust me I'll keep you in the clear how long as long as I go on playing sucker for you What do you think I hired you for maybe I was supposed to say you killed him in self-defense Maybe I was supposed to see him making passes at your wife if you needed that Sam you've got I've worked for killers before I've even worked for thieves but not for a detective that knocks over a place He's supposed to be protecting Sam. It's not a servant for the cop stick. I'm turning in when we get to open No, you're not saying that come back. Let go me I'm going over the side if you try to stop you're going with me Waterway from he got one foot over the rail and kicked out at me with the other it caught me on the point of the chin Stumbled forward and grabbed out flying Mr. Caught him by the belt just as he jumped I remember something pulling me halfway over the rail and trying to get free of it I did but not soon enough. 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I Was somewhere in San Francisco Bay, and that was all I knew I suspected the current was sweeping me out toward the golden gate And a light came up ahead of me suddenly A boat passing a few yards away. I lifted my head and screamed The boat siren crying as warning drowned out my shots went on past and the fog closed in behind it Then I heard a new song See girls I swam towards it and it seemed to get lighter Part of it was the dawn light beginning to cut through the fog blanket But there was also a strange-looking man standing on the water and waving a green lantern back and forth I Yelled at him to wait for me in a seagull got off his hat and flew away I got closer. I thought it was not a man, but only a buoy channel type I used all the strength I had left to drag myself up in the base of it and let it rock me to see Hey me What's the word the brandy into Auguste? Yeah here get some of these done It ain't heaven you can tell that by the smell Fisherman's war. Yeah, take it easy. We got ambulance coming you go into the hospital. No, no, I'll be okay. Give me a hand. Yeah, okay Hey, you do us a favor, will you don't fall down till you get out of sight this time. We're tired of picking you up. I Thank the two kindly old Fisher folk for their interest in my welfare taught it up the pier fell into a taxi and went home Well, I soaked out some of my aches and pains and chills I did some stewing about the caper so far and stood up in a banger to carry me through to the finish. I Checked the Coast Guard the news of Dick Foley. They told me his body hadn't been recovered yet I got dressed and went over to his office the cops hadn't been there and went through the file cabinet And what I found under Foley private had me so interested that I didn't hear Maxine come in until she closed the door What are you looking for? You baby I'm for you Sam. Come here Who you dirty now, don't be mad Maxine a gun makes a woman bulge in the wrong place It's not my gun. We'll see Sam shut up Now starting with a wrap spice I went up for the same pattern the way you work This one tells me how you worked at the first time you get something on a private detective the first time five years ago It was Dick's partner Mickey Liner hand I don't know what spice I had on him But I do know we forced dick to knock over Grayson's jewelry store last night. I won't listen to you. Okay. I'll talk to myself I'm not saying you killed Mickey Liner hand, but dick did frame an alibi for you. Didn't he? Good try spending a night swimming around in circles in the middle of the harbor sometime see how you like that All right, it's true. Dick did help me out of that old jam. I'm not ashamed of it I'm proud our love was that important to him. Oh spicy that same old double cross only this time I'm standing where dick did five years ago. Dick was set up as a patsy the same way Mickey Liner hand was but he got Smart and pulled the trigger first stop it. Where did that hurt you fool? I love dick Yeah, I loved him That's something you can't understand, but it happens that way no matter what people are you sound as if you really mean that But you're a little late aren't you? He's not dead. I'm sure he isn't if he's not he's really in trouble. What do you mean by that? I found something here in the files that dick left just in case Spicer got to him first. What is it a Confession to Mickey Liner hands murder. That's impossible. Were you there? What are you gonna do with it turn it over to the police? But if he's still alive still counts unless he shows and revokes it, but I don't think he will why because I won't back up a Self-defense play on the spicer shooting, but you were dick's friend. You were his friend. I wouldn't ask him to do it for me Then what can I do for him? I'll do anything anything anything at all. Well if he stays away is as good as dead Becomes back you get a jury trial There are more men than women in the panel. He'd probably be acquitted on your testimony alone Do you really think he might have a chance with a jury? There's always a chance, but where is he? How can I get word to him? Well if he's not fish food by now There's one sure way of smoking them out something I can do nobody else. Please tell me anything sign a confession of your own Confession not Mickey Liner hands murder or anything that might nail you for swear that you shot Spicer You can always run neg make both of you look good sacrificing for each other How about it? All right Tell me what to write. I Did she signed it. I had every dispatcher to all the papers and new services and then I brought it down to the hall Naturally, you didn't believe a word of her confession Bendy But when I took you aside and explained my stratagem you endorsed it hardly and had her booked She pressed my hand and thanked me the look of resignation on her face was so real it was hard to believe she was faking When she turned her back to follow the matron down the corridor I saw why on the back of her coat. There was a smear of white paint. I Remembered the what the wet paint signs on the Oakland ferry boat Dick Foley gave himself up an hour after her confession hit the street Screamed and yelled at everybody in homicide trying to convince them that Maxine was innocent He should take the full rap and I'm afraid I cleared that when we confronted him with the autopsy surgeon's report He tried to bluff even then when he read it Pelladay ended right side between third and fourth ribs penetrated left lung Pelladay plural membrane side won't punch it. Well, so what Sam all three in the right side angling up. You see no I don't know why you even saw me on that boat. You saw me throw the gun over. Oh, cut it out dick What I saw was in the dark, but you two men were facing each other directly if I were gonna drop a man fast At close range face-to-face like that I would not put the gun in my left hand twisted around straining my wrist in the process and pull the trigger with my thumb Unless I were left-handed double jointed and a trickiest shot than you are I'd blast him straight through the middle all right All right. Yes, it was Maxine That's good Maybe you can get cured now Why don't you open up some more? Let me put it down like it was business All right, sir number one Maxine killed your partner Mickey line of hand five years ago probable motive to eliminate him and send spicer up for it Yeah, she Didn't figure on spicer being smart enough to confess to the robbery in that Alibot him for the murder to You purges yourself to clear Maxine of the murder motive to prevent the truth about your partner from coming out and Maxine Was motive enough for anything cut it out. Will you? sorry Three spicer forced you to team up with him in the jewelry heist. How? Well, he threatened to make a full confession his accessory to Mickey's killing I would have put the whole works on Maxine and leave him in the clear Can't be tried twice for the same crime for You decided to rub out spicer whether you could beat the rap and out and clear the books once and for all So you pretended to play along with him told Maxine to do the same and called me in a zampire. Yeah Sam I'm sorry. I Couldn't you lay off Maxine? Why did you have to? Oh, I thought you were my friend And that's about it Period and the friendship You mean the confession that you tricked her into making Turned out to that's it. I think what'll happen to him. Hmm. What about dick foley dick? Well, they got him on a number of things I suppose They take some time out of them But I think you'll be an okay guy again with her out of the way with her out of the way Sam go and type it up. Well, it's late. I'm gonna get out of here And now listen to this When it comes to hair tonics the best friend of the family is wild root cream oil Wild root cream oil grooms the hair neatly and naturally relieves dryness removes loose dandruff Now you can get America's leading hair tonic in the new 25 cent get acquainted size Also, ask your barber for a professional application of wild root cream oil hair tonic again and again The choice of men and women and children to I know how you must feel so I won't you hurry Well, I thought well, you know how you always feel like sweetheart dick foley was a private dick So what I mean you can bring yourself to talk about it sure go ahead try me Well Sam, it seems terribly complicated. I Suppose because mr. Foley was in the profession and thinks like you do up to a point Effie. What's bothering you? Why did he call you in you another private detective and he knew how smart you are and all and yeah, I Don't know maybe thought Well, if I turned up anything, I'd look the other way Do you think that could ever happen to you Sam? That's a clever phrase you dictated he called me in his umpire That's baseball But if he was so clever, why didn't he win Sam? His mistake Effie was trying a quadruple play which has never been heard of in the history of baseball or crime All he wanted was to bat Maxine home safe But it usually figures when three men are out the side with tires Well, I don't understand baseball Sam and that's all right football will be here soon anyway, but I don't know night levy Good night sweetheart The adventures of Sam spade national Hammett's famous private detective are produced and directed by William Spear Sam spade is played by Howard Duff. 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