What happens
Sam Spade and his partner Miles Archer, San Francisco private detectives, take a case from Miss Wonderly, who wants her sister brought home from Floyd Thursby. Thursby is shot dead outside his hotel, and Spade is questioned by the police. Spade meets Bridget O'Shaughnessy, who gives a false name and offers money. Joel Cairo and Casper Gutman also seek a black statuette of a bird, and a second meeting with them is set up. Mary Astor, Humphrey Bogart, Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre star in this Screen Guild Theater radio adaptation of the Maltese Falcon, broadcast on September 20, 1943.
San Francisco, 1940s
Characters: Sam Spade, Miles Archer, Miss Wonderly, Floyd Thursby, Bridget O'Shaughnessy, Joel Cairo, Casper Gutman, Lieutenant Dundee
Listen for: Spade's exchanges with Bridget O'Shaughnessy and the tense confrontation with Gutman and Cairo
Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.