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The Adventures of Sam Spade
The Cheesecake Caper.
The Cheesecake Caper, a 27-minute recording from The Adventures of Sam Spade, available to hear on Heritage Radio Vault.
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About this programme.
Sam Spade has a case to dictate and his secretary Effie has questions of her own. Dashiell Hammett's San Francisco detective becomes a radio character whose sardonic reports turn murder investigations into a lively exchange between danger, memory and office banter.
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Sources and recording notes.
Modern recording information:
Official Heritage Radio Vault recording ↗Heritage Radio Vault publication: 17 April 2026. This is the modern Spreaker publication, not an original broadcast date. Recording lengths come from the public catalogue; advertising can change the time heard in the player.
An original broadcast date, story synopsis and cast have not been independently established for this recording. The programme guide provides the wider history. Missing episode details are left open rather than inferred from the title.
Recording references
- Recording 1
- Sam Spade - The Cheesecake Caper · Spreaker reference 71412821 · 27:17 · Published 17 April 2026
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