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This week’s hour of mystery begins with The Adventures Of Sam Spade. We’ll hear The SQP Caper<\/em>, his story from November 7, 1948.<\/p>\n

(25:03) Our second story is The Impolite Corpse<\/em>, the December 8, 1950, episode of The New Adventures Of Nero Wolfe.<\/p>\n

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