Welcome to Episode 61 of The Polish Dragon P. I. Show, where I Steve Zimcosky share with you old radio shows from the 1930s, 40s, and 50s pertaining to the Private Detective genre with a few spy thrillers and insurance investigators thrown in to mix it up.
This episode features The Adventures of Sam Spade in The Rushlight Diamond Caper. The Adventures of Sam Spade was a radio series based loosely on the private detective character Sam Spade, created by writer Dashiell Hammett for The Maltese Falcon. The show ran for 13 episodes on ABC in 1946, for 157 episodes on CBS in 1946-1949, and finally for 51 episodes on NBC in 1949-1951.
Several of the Polish Dragon books are now available at the Cuyahoga County Library for all of you the local listeners. Remember if you are interested in any of the Polish Dragon P. I. books they are available at www.polishdragon.com