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Golden Radio Hour
Lurene Tuttle was one of network radio's busiest and most versatile performers. As Sam Spade's devoted secretary Effie Perrine, she created a warm comic counterpoint to the detective's hardboiled cases.
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After Bernard Gilmore is reported murdered and robbed, Sam is hired by Gilmore's business partner to recover a stolen Guiana Sovereign. The search uncovers a web of suspects, blackmail and double-crosses, including…
Sam's investigation draws him into a case involving a psychoanalyst, blackmail and a trail of deaths. As he follows the evidence through conflicting stories and hidden motives, the mystery expands to include…
A surviving Sam Spade recording identified as “The Death Dr. Denhoff Caper.”
Constance Pendleton's sister hires Sam when Constance plans to marry Andreyev Brodnick, a Bulgarian with a sinister reputation. Sam's attempt to protect her sends the case toward India and into a dangerous…
Miss Estrada hires Sam to recover a stolen convertible, then admits that she stole the car herself. The automobile's extraordinary value points Sam toward a much larger criminal scheme involving what is…
Sam is taken to a wealthy invalid's estate with a deceptively simple assignment: keep the old man alive. Gunshots, screams and suspicious people around the house quickly turn the bodyguard job into…
A hit-and-run killing pulls Sam into a case involving a Dutch cigarette case, counterfeiting and a bullet apparently meant for him. With only a short window to work, he follows the clues…
A mysterious gold key leads Sam into a case involving an old robbery, half a million dollars, murder and machine-gun violence. The key's real significance becomes central to finding the money and…
Dan Starbuck asks Sam to witness the statement of his dying brother, only for the dying man to accuse Dan of murder. A second deathbed statement complicates the case, forcing Sam to…
Sam's former flame Vivian asks him to protect her husband, bail bondsman and ex-con Leo Scarlotti. Leo is being drawn into a dangerous criminal scheme connected with a fortune in bearer bonds,…
Sam is hired to guard a valuable diamond intended for a wedding. When murder strikes the bride and groom's circle, the supposedly cursed gem becomes the center of a case filled with…
An amnesiac woman named Poppy O'Farrell hires Sam while trying to recover her identity and understand the strange people around her. The trail leads to a bizarre object called the Wheel of…
Sam is hired to find a missing crusading newspaper reporter who has been investigating organized crime. His search eventually points back toward the newspaper itself and raises disturbing questions about the publisher's…
Inventor Raymond Fox hires Sam to recover the formula for his creation, the Penatron. Fox's increasingly strange behavior and the people surrounding his invention send the investigation in an unexpected direction that…
After a wealthy corporation chief is shot in broad daylight, Sam follows a carefully laid trail of clues. The investigation reveals that the victim had arranged an elaborate scheme of his own,…
Ned Towers asks Sam to investigate his sister Sylvia's fiancé, a man whose previous wives have died under suspicious circumstances and whose finances benefited from their deaths. Sam must determine whether Sylvia…
After Gabrielle Leggitt disappears following her father's funeral, her stepmother hires Sam to find her. The investigation brings Sam into the orbit of a murder-mystery author and a family whose literary and…
Sam is entrusted with transporting a priceless ancient Greek gold cup by train to a buyer in Los Angeles. With an enormous sum at stake, the trip becomes a contest of murder,…
Lorraine Chilcourse hires Sam to follow her husband Leonard, whom she believes is being blackmailed. Leonard carries one hundred thousand dollars to a casino and loses it, leaving Sam to uncover why…
Sam becomes involved with the wealthy Cavanaugh family as an impending marriage reopens an old scandal with ties to murder. Family secrets, greed and a suspicious death make the proposed union far…
Sam is hired to provide security at a Halloween masquerade celebrating an engagement. The party's costumes and confusion provide cover for murder when Wilma is killed, leaving Sam to sort the real…
Patricia Pearce asks Sam to help manufacture evidence of adultery for a divorce. He refuses, but the attempted setup soon expands into blackmail, murder and an effort to place Sam himself in…
The self-styled 'Gumball King' hires Sam to discover who is sabotaging his vending machines. When the businessman is murdered, the investigation shifts from petty vandalism to homicide, with a rare quarter-eagle gold…
Sam goes undercover as a chauffeur at a wealthy estate after repeated attempts are made on Kathy McGraw's life. Protecting her means identifying which member of the household has a reason to…
A neighbor's request for help pulls Sam into a domestic scandal in Bumpus Hell. What begins with suspicions inside a troubled household develops into a case of adultery, blackmail and murder.
Rowena Raven is receiving threatening letters at the gloomy Ravenswood estate, where poisonous plants and an unsettling habit of stopped watches add to the atmosphere. Sam's investigation of the threats leads into…
A psychoanalyst brings Sam into the case of Mrs. Hamilton, whose trauma centers on the mysterious death of her son and her feelings toward his widow. Sam searches for the truth behind…
Sam visits Belvedere Island after eccentric artist Jonathan Battle expresses fear of an old enemy. A seemingly impossible locked-room murder follows, forcing Sam to untangle the relationships and deceptions surrounding Battle and…
Theft at an exclusive girls' school puts suspicion on student Glorie Thomas despite the lack of evidence against her. Sam's effort to clear her becomes a murder investigation when someone is killed…
Sam investigates the claim of an escaped prisoner convicted of a bludgeoning murder who insists he was framed. The surviving recording contains only the first half of the broadcast, so the available…