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Old Time Radio Detective — Sam Spade: "The Rushlight Diamond Caper" (1948) | Full Episode
The Adventures of Sam Spade brought Dashiell Hammett's wisecracking San Francisco private eye to the air every week, with Howard Duff dictating each new "caper" to his long-suffering secretary Effie Perine — snappy banter and dry humor laid over real menace. In "The Rushlight Diamond Caper" (4 July 1948), Sam takes what looks like easy money: one night guarding a pile of society wedding presents, the prize among them the fabled Rushlight Diamond. The stone doesn't stay put, a body turns up before morning, and Sam finds himself working a murder inside the polished world of San Francisco's…
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