Louise Miller asks Sam to help after her fiancé, Ben Comiskey, abruptly confesses to an armed robbery and breaks off their relationship. Sam investigates why an apparently decent man would claim responsibility for the crime and uncovers a family conflict involving two very different brothers.

This The Adventures of Sam Spade broadcast aired on May 28, 1950. NBC Radio Network carried the broadcast. The cast includes Howard Duff and Lurene Tuttle.

Characters credited in this version include Sam Spade and Effie Perrine. The broadcast is also associated with Wildroot Cream-Oil.

Dashiell Hammett's private detective Sam Spade, played most famously by Howard Duff, recounts hard-boiled cases filled with murder, deception, eccentric suspects, and sharply comic dialogue.