"Adventures of the Federated Tec"! A series of 8 initial episodes of 7 dramatized stories featuring Dashiell Hammett's nameless detective. We call him the Federated Tec, but you probably know him as something else. We've chosen Hammett's first few stories that have moved into the public domain, and have done our best to stay true to the originals -- and why not? The originals are just fine, as far as we're concerned. So here is episode four, "The Black Hat that Wasn't There", adapted by Mark Slade from Hammett's fourth published Op story, "IT", in 1923. We hope you enjoy it and will join us for future episodes.  ADVENTURES OF THE FEDERATED TEC WAS CONCEIVED BY PETE LUTZ AND DEVELOPED BY PETE LUTZ AND MARK SLADE. "The Black Hat that Wasn't There" was directed and produced by Pete Lutz. Mixing and post-production was by Daniel French of Fishbonius Productions. Our Cast consisted of the following players: ANNOUNCER: Darren Rockhold THE FEDERATED TEC: Pete Lutz ZUMWALT:  Jeff Moon MILDRED: Angela Young QUIMBY: Mark Kalita PULLMAN EMPLOYEE: Paul Arbisi TAXI CHAUFFEUR: John Bell  PHOTOGRAPHER/SODA JERK: Frank Guglielmelli CITY DETECTIVE: Jason D. Johnson EVA DUTHIE: Jessica Rainville MRS. EARNSHAW: Geri Elliff THE OLD MAN: Joe Stofko THEME/INCIDENTAL MUSIC: Dr. Ross Bernhardt Join us next time for episode five, "Bodies Piled Up"!