Dick Joy

Ep 163

A wealthy man hires Spade to protect him from his former employee, who is just out of prison after five years.

Ep 159

Murder occurs at an exclusive girls school...with formic acid! Most of the final commercial has been deleted.

Ep 154

The story title is also known as, "Effie's Folly" or "Who Put The Corpse In The Murphy Bed." Sam is hired by a beautiful lady to find her stolen $100,000 necklace before her husband finds out that it is missing. This of course leads to a corpse in the Murphy bed!

Ep 146

A house of horrors includes a butler who resembles Frankenstein, radioactive poisons and man-eating plants!

Ep 123

Spade is hired to protect a Halloween party, which is only slightly complicated by a witch and a murder!

Ep 119

The beautiful Sugar Kane is about to marry into the wealthy Cavanaugh family. Howard Duff cracks ups Lurene Tuttle, even before the story begins.

Ep 118

A fellow detective asks Spade to find Claude Spicer, who shortly thereafter is found dead. Sam finds himself floating in San Francisco Bay! The date is subject to correction.

Ep 117

A wealthy woman hires Spade to help her with her husband who is being blackmailed. Spade follows the husband to a casino where he loses $100,000 at the roulette wheel!

Ep 116

Mr. Lazarus hires Spade to "bring him back from the dead."

Ep 114

Johnny Lawless is just out of the pen. A dead body soon ends up in Spade's bed, and promptly vanishes!

Ep 112

Spade is hired to find Gabrielle Leggitt, who has disappeared. The author of murder mysteries plays an important part in the case. The story is also known as, "The Gabrielle Caper."

Ep 111

Ned Towers needs help with his sister. She's about to marry Jefferson Davis Calhoun, who's been married and widowed three times.

Ep 109

Raymond Fox is a famous but slightly insane inventor. He hires Spade to recover the secret formula for "Pentron." Sam promptly winds up in a hospital for the mentally deranged!