Sam Spade

Now go and pipe that up while I figure this out.

Scoot, scoot.

Three chimes mean good times on NBC.

There's mystery and music every Saturday on NBC.

For mystery tomorrow, Herbert Marshall stars as the man called X. The man called X is a man without a name who travels the world over combating the forces of international espionage and intrigue.

For music tomorrow, your hit parade brings you the top tunes in the land played by Raymond Scott's orchestra and with vocals by Snooki Lanson and Eileen Wilson.

Thank you, dear one.

I see by the pearls in your brow that you have not as yet solved the matter of the missing child.

How to approach this?

You realize Norgaard cut a hunk out of the tape, removing Biddle's eyewitness account, setting him up as a suicide, right?

But Sam... Don't make me change my grip.

Though Biddle, by his own statement...

made the recording at the time of the murder of Carol Stevens to wit 11 o'clock.

Now, in cutting out the crucial words, Norgaard also had to cut out eight chimes.

This, he realized, would be noticed.

So he set the clock ahead to make the number of chimes jive.

Chimes jive.

Chimes jive.

Nice ring.

Sure, sweetheart.