Sam Spade
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The National Broadcasting Company presents The Adventures of Sam Spade, Detective.
You don't know what a hot guest that is, cherub.
In a black velvet gown with a veil, what chance would I have?
And in femme fatale, you have hit upon what might be called the keynote of the saga, which even now I am itching to tell you.
More, a tale, Effie, well calculated to keep you in...
Oh, no, we'd better put that another way.
But while I mull a subtitle for this oriental tapestry, find yourself a copy of something by Eric Ambler or E. Phillips Oppenheim and bone up on the ground rules of international intrigue.
The next 39 steps you hear will be me walking up to the door in my black Homburg in velvet color with my pockets bulging with plans for submarines, supersonic airplanes, and secret fortifications, and my tongue awag with a report which will echo around the embassies of the world as...
For NBC, William Spear, radio's outstanding producer-director of mystery and crime drama, brings you the greatest private detective of them all in The Adventures of Sam Spade.
But underneath the overcoat is... Same old Sam.
With the same old suit and the same old shreds.