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Pat Novak: Joe Dineen (EP1342) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho. This
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Needed to Know and From Colombo. In this book, I take a look
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through audible, dot Com or iTunes. Well, now it is time for
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us to go ahead and take a listen to today's episode of Pat Novak for
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Hire. This one is entitled Joe Denine. Ladies and Gentlemen. The American
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Broadcasting Company brings to its entire network on the radio's most unusual programs. At
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Novak Higher. Sure, I'm at Novak or Hire. That's what the sign
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out in front of my office says, that Novak or Higher. You're trying
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to make a living down on the waterfront in San Francisco. You gotta run
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things like a smorgasboard. You take a little of everything you can get your
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hands on. Even then it's a bumpy ride because down here everybody tries the
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paddy part. Oh, I read boats and do anything else good men paid
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bad men to do. You don't get many gold stars any way that you
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pay the bar bill, and that's about as safe as a closet full of
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tigers. The only way you can make friends down in the waterfront is to
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die. I found that out Tuesday night. I went to the wrestling matches
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and watched gorgeous George. Saw some guy around like a poker chip in Tijuanna.
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I was in a little of the crowd on my way out of the
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place when this guy stepped up behind me and started talking, You got company
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in over, huh said, you got company on both sides. Did your
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friend get here his face with a fire sale too? Can't. I'll be
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pretty keep walking over beck. The gun in my bag's supposed to help.
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That's up to you. It's for the head and mouth beside door. You
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got the right growl, but the wrong guy. Mister. You keep working
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your mouth but nothing comes down. All right, this words, what are
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your plans? Shall we take the kids? The car? Right down here?
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I look a big shot in a drug store. I get all the
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mystery I want for two bits. Do you want things explained? Yeah,
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besides shovel head here, I don't understand a thing. We just want Joe
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to me or hurt of him either. We just want Jodnane. All right,
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you can have him. You're welcome, see his wife, see anybody
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alike. I don't even know the guy. You're full of talk. As
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soon as you want to make at the right time, you can go home.
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We are into the back seat. You'll drive Eddie. You boys run
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on. I'll grab a cab. I'm not gonna take a boat. That's
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good. Just be a good mouse. You've got a lot of time to
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waste it this way, mister, you're too gabby Novak and we're too tough
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Junior. And this noise is beginning to give me a headache. Let's go,
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Eddie. Novak's gonna soak a while. He could have taken three bases
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on that waller. I spread out on the back seat like a bowl of
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cake batter and tried to think of a guy named jo Denine. There was
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nobody on my list for that moon. But the way these two dentils acted,
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he was supposed to be a blood relative. I could hear him talking
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dimly, and I tried to follow the conversation, but it was like trying
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to put a smoke ring in your pocket. I don't know how long the
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tour lasted. It must have been about thirty or forty minutes when the car
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bowled up and the big gun up started to yank me. Wake up,
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we got swing right, Come on, it's time for your ten o'clock feeding.
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Yeah. Wait, I borrow some legs. Huh? Come on,
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you never looked better. All right down the dock here we're playing a new
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game or hunting a guy named Danien. That's right, good, now I
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know the rules. That's your boat, Novak. It's got my name on
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it. That's your boat, Novak. Well once it looks like the Normandy
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of course, it's my boat. Who threw the blood all over it?
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One of your friends maybe didn't even I look you at the back up and
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start a recamp. I never heard of Daneen, and from the size of
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his friends, I'm just about as happy he didn't run the boat off you.
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If he used that boat, he stole it, mister. I closed
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up to night at seven to make it sound good. It is good,
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and then off the waterfront four hours. In the meantime somebody takes my boat
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and get the chuck full of holes and sends you around a week. Who
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is Deman a friend? I don't blame either of your hanging on to one.
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It was supposed to meet him mature landing at ten. It was gonna
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rent one of your boats, and we were gonna meet him at ten.
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There's the boat. You want to pay the damages. We came early and
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found the boat piled up, blood all over and no Dineen. You got
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any ideas Maybe he cut himself shaving drag the bay. Mister. I don't
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know your guy, but somebody did. They met him out there in the
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bay and cut him down, and you sound happy. Now. Look,
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I don't care one way or another, except to use my boat. He
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wanted to die. He should have hired a Davenport. That's all I know.
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I never heard of Joe Denie. Yeah, you and your friend here,
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better go sap somebody else. Sure, Novak, we'll look around,
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but hanging under your cards because you've still got a hand in this game.
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Thanks mother, I'll remember that, Jod nice curve, no wreck, You're
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wrong, mister. My friends ride the table car. You made a pump
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pitch Novak. Oh you can't want to fight now? Why won't you for
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any Novak? Sorry? Follow, The water's gonna be cold. Hey,
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what's the trouble? Trouble going on? No? Whatever gave you that idea.
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I'm a night watchman over here. I fell a line on the dock
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there dead. I don't know if he's not, he's gonna catch cold.
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What about the other fella? Maybe he can't swim, but do you care
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he doesn't? Oh? They come here looking for something. Yeah, I
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guess they didn't find it. Huh. Somebody satisfied. They were trying to
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find the guy that came out of that boat down there. Oh you mean
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the funny looking guy. Huh? I guy got out of that boat a
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few hours ago, all banged up. I think he was in a fight.
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Yeah, sure, somebody shot him. I think he was in a
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fight. But he go down the dock toward the street. He asked about
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a fella and went down the dock. Oh, he asked about a fellow
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named Nova. Do you know him? Yeah, but I'll do my best
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to forget. It wasn't gonna be easy to forget. I knew there was
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a guy wandering around San Francisco waiting to jog my memory. And before long
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somebody was gonna find out. Those two dead guys were doing white house keeping
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down on the dock. Once homicide smell that red meat, they'd turn Inspector
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Helman loose. That's like pouring a bottle of cyanide in a wedding cake.
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Oh, he's a smart cop with a heart the size of a full grown
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pea. I got off the dock in a hurry, and I went home.
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When I left, the watchman was still standing there, waiting to check
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in the next murder and smiling like a vulture with the first option on a
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massacre. And I had to get home and look sweet in case Helman showed
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up. When I opened the door to my place. Helman was on the
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couch with a pencil in one hand and a movie magazine in the other.
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Hello, Mac, you busy? No, I'll just stand here and watch
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you a little more of that pencil and movie magazine routine and you'll break out
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in the cold sweat. Have you been staying out of the people's departments?
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I got an answer for that. You haven't got an answer for anything,
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Helman. You can't fill in the return address envelope that's on your mind?
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Can I make a cold no, not to play cat and mouse? You
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want to know about that blood bath down on the dock, Say so?
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Yeah, they're close strangers. I never saw either of them before. You're
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getting loose around them, Mountain know that? Huh? That's right. If
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some of your planemates stubbed their toes, it's news to me. You better
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tell me, though, It'll save time. Or what's the use if a
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fact walked up and set in your lap? You'd lose it? Eat yourself.
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Have a drink. Yeah, there's the bottle opener. Huh, the
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bottle opener. You've got teeth for it. I need a bottle opener,
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hell I, no, No, I try the kitchen, all right,
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drive a light, well, got this guy on the floor in the that
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don't tell him to move, because I don't think he can. When I
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looked down at the guy on the floor, I felt like a bir lapsed
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sack from the neck down. Who's a big guy lying on his back?
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And he got the idea. He took it hard. He didn't like the
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way the boat came in because he wasn't relaxed the way most people are when
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they're on the call for the harp. It was about as rigid as a
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coil of wet line on a steamer deck. His face was pock marked in
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the color of an old piece of abaloney. Helman was standing over him,
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and the shadow cut across the lower part of his face and almost blocked out
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the gun, A big thirty eight lying about four feet away. The rest
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of the kitchen with a mess was torn up worse than a Japanese lantern in
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a high wind. Helman was leaning against the cabinet and smiling like the banker
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in the crooked blackjack game. Does he belong to you? No? That
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No, he's not pretty enough. Roll him over. We'll find out who
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he is. I already been through his step. Wipe your hands. The
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green still shows. His name is Joe Denine the sure we're popular. Joe.
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Why the scavenger hut? Every gun up in town's been looking for him.
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I figured June for the prize. Two of them picked me up and
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lugged me down to the waterfront. Yeah, I told you about him.
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They ran into bad weather. Why they thank you because I look like a
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bird dog. Maybe I don't know why, Elman, They just took me
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in the meantime, sunshine here took my boat out and got shot up,
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And he came up here to borrow your anethe of check. That's all I
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know, Helman. He must have figured me for a park. I got
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the same trouble. No fact that gun on the floor helps too. That
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gun second lead at best. I never before. It's a murder gun.
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How did you get here? I don't know. Maybe the scullery made left
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it. Come on, no Vactor in the spot, you better start digging.
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If I do any dig in, the dirt's gonna go in your face.
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Helmet. He's got a nice face. Two, No Vacer, you
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better buy a big shield helmet. He's gonna lot to hide behind. Stop
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beef, and you're the host. What about the safety deposit box? You're
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ahead of me on that one. You gotta have your picture taken. He
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was talking about a safety deposit box when I got here. It was alive
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when you got here. That's right, show more joy. The neighbors heard
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the shooting and phoned in. But who did it? What did he say?
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He said, tough luck copper. That's only said something about a safety
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deposit box and tough luck copper. Oh, that's real fine. You let
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him die, clammed up, your smart helming. You let him off with
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a third rate tagline. You're a lucky novact. This way, it's gonna
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take me twelve hours to wrap you up. I'm gonna run that gun through
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and check a couple of things, and I'll be on your tail. I
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want to see you follow something up helmet with that big nose of yours.
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You couldn't find a motion in the bathtop block. Novac. You're a small
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time waterfront punk. You've been lucky so far, but you're still a punk.
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I don't like him. I'm gonna hang you by your heels. I'm
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gonna get the last thing I ever do. I'm gonna get you. If
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I thought you were on the level about that, I'd give myself up.
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When Helman left, things were about as dim as a glow worm at high
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noon. All the lead were tucked away in the morgue. Those two stiffs
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on the dock checked out with nothing but a grunt, and the guy up
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in my place left a thirty eight and some mild regrets. I had the
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funny feeling that was a lead up there in that apartment, but I couldn't
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get a hold of it. Something waiting to be understood, the way a
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thing gets balanced on the edge of your brain, half in, half out,
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like the melody but not the words of an old song. Well,
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I didn't know where to turn. I was hunting for the shoreline on a
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dark night, so I looked up the only honest guy I know, an
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ex doctor and a boozer, but the name of Jack o'madigan. Oh he's
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all right, but he's got the idea that all liquid that isn't a hundred
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proof lax character. I finally foun him in a little bar down the Union
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Square. He was talking to a blonde girl and a sailor when I walked
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in. Ah, Patsy, you'll find me in the linked October of my
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life trying to recapture a few April moment. Yes, Jacko, I gotta
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talk to you. That's what I like about good whiskey. It makes you
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too sentimental to be mand at yourself for growing old. Look, I'm in
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a jam way off that stuff long after. Lesson, Patsy, you underrate
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the grape. It's a terrible mistake. It's thrown off the whole perspective of
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history, all right, Jacko. Like that story about young Washington and the
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cherry tree. They blame him for that, but actually it was his first
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hint of future greatness. Yeah. Yeah, They talk about vandalism, whereas
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the truth of the matter is he was just preparing a few Manhattans for the
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family. The whole perspective of history has been altered. Patsy, stop it,
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will you. I'm in trouble. Will you help me out? Yes,
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if you'll allow me to get a word in edgewise. What kind of
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trouble is a dead guy up in my place? I don't know why you're
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you're in trouble. Think of his bleak out look on things. Helman's nosing
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around and he thinks I did it? Did you? No? We got
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shocking relays. But he picked my place to quit. And there are two
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other dead guys down on the dock. What were their practices? They strong
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army about ten o'clock and took me down at the waterfront. We were supposed
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to find a guy named Jodanine, but they look too light to somebody.
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How about Janine? He's that guy up at my place. When Helman got
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there, was muttering about a safety deposit box and staring at a big thirty
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eighth Oh, come on, you gotta help me, Jacko. Yes,
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sir, where would you like me to spread the ashes? I want you
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to get down and find out everything you can about Jodanine. He's your house,
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jas Why don't you go hit the chronicle and the examiner Morgues and trying
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to find out if he has a safety deposit box in any of the banks.
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Huh? Where are you going before prison? I mean I'm going down
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and lion Helm and Shadow until something turns up. I need every minute,
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Jacko, so hurry well, I need a quick one for the road first.
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You'll get going right now, Jacko. Pets, you have a defiant
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attitude for a man on the doorstep to the next world, trying to be
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sweeter until you discuss. But your normal disposition will do. You can start
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by paying my barber, All right, will you hurry? How much to
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you about eleven dollars? What have you been doing all now? You're crazy?
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I may on eleven dollars, Patsy, but so far I've had a
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better night than you have. Good night, lover. I had to get
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started on some answers, because once Helman checked on those two guys at the
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dock, he'd go to work on me and keep hacking away and finally cut
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me down like a piece of flint and a cigarette lighter. Well after I
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left Jocko, I started down at headquarters. Was a little after midnight,
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and the streets were wept and silence. Now and then you can hear a
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woman's laughter coming out of the dark as you passed along. That's the only
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sound the night keeps whole. Well. I was cutting down Leavenworth Street when
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it came to me. I knew what my leave was up in that apartment.
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It didn't hit me suddenly. It kept shoving in like a piece of
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old seaweed on the water, moving in and out and finally brushing up against
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you. If that guy was alive when Hellman got there, that meant that
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maybe he could have phoned somebody, and if he did, then they'd have
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a record. I look down at the desk. Well. I got back
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to my place and asked the operator, Well, it feels good when you
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got the right sweepstakes ticket. She said A call had been put in for
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my place at ten fifteen to the Ambrose Hotel, room two o four.
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But the last things were beginning to make sense. It must have made sense
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for about five seconds, because Hellman called. The girl, handed me the
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phone and he started in. I got notice for your Novak. We checked
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the prince on that murder gun. They don't add take your trouble to the
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chapel helm and I got my quarta. Yeah, he got fancy friends too,
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and Novac. The prince belonged to Jake Fidello. Yeah, how do
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you spell that? If I did you kill you? No? Back to
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Jake Fidello on nothing. Who is he? She'd funk like U Novak.
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He's working on a twenty year stretch in alkatriz h Yeah, Alchatriz, So
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there's no time between the murder gun and the murder. Maybe Fidello bought himself
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a two day furlow. We already checked god Tom and it heel at eleven
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o'clock tonight reading the guards paid a rent to Helman. My boat was out
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in that data night and it came back full of bullets and blood. Now
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you're trying to tell me there's no connection. You better find out if a
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guy can skip Alcatraz for a few hours, I'll wait, no, bec
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if you can tell me how it's done. The fulllock, Well, nothing
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mats Now it was like the chorus, girl's legs and a cheap night club.
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If Jake Fidela was smart enough to beat Alcatraz for a couple of hours,
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then he wasn't dumb enough to leave that murder a gun behind. And
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what was the connection between the nan and Jake Fidela and who lived at the
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Ambrose Hotel? Well, I went up there to find out. It was
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a small place up near the top of Telegraph Hill, And when I rode
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by, I could see Alcatraz sitting out on the bay on Lonely Island full
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of birthdays. The Ambrose turned out to be a high toned little joint,
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the sort of place with a welcome matt splended in old English. I went
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up to two O four and card in the door, said Frederica Simms.
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Knock, and from the door open it was like shaking hands in the flamesraw.
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She was a tall number, and she screamed finn edition all over.
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She stood in the doorway for a minute and swayed in a manx contented away,
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like a snake on the right diet. Then she said hello, you
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wanted to handle your arm and say twist good evening. Yeah, my name's
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Novak. I'll remember. Why don't you come in? It'll save an argument.
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I help you. Don't mind crowds, she means me, mister Novak,
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and I Mike cover and I'm pretty thin. Well, that brings us
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up to date. Drink woul jokes so much more. You need to drink
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this. To Novak, you look a little dusty. Don't mind her to
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know that she addresses old people and pitt All right now, I suppose you
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two landowners tell me who killed Joe Deannin. You don't, Mike, I
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don't think he wants to drink. We'll all celebrate and you get around to
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Danie. I don't think we know a mander the name of Deneen, particularly
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if he's dead. Yes, I'm sure we wouldn't like him. Come on,
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let's drop the smart talk. Come on back in the saloon. A
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guy for the name of Jodanine died all over my kitchen the night. Don't
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get tough. No there. If you miss your dinner, all right,
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but don't come up here screaming about your dead friend. Now. Look,
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I'm about ten feet behind a phone call. Then he ain't put in a
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call for this number just before he died. Then it was whimsy, novak
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or anything else you'd like to call it. We don't know the man.
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You can mull it over on your way downstairs. Yeah, and you can
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use the time to think over that safety department box? What safety department wile
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you're jumping your queue, lady, make it more casual. Huh do you
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know what you're talking about? Novay? Do you think so? I'll tell
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you what I'll do, Norah, I'll buy that key from you. You
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got a deal, unless you want to pay it off with the money you
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mean, Joe DENI, that's right, I'm running front on the murder rap.
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You want that key. If you want it bad enough, come on
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down a headquarters and we'll make a trade. No, thanks, Novak.
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You didn't look right, but I thought you might be hiding your brain somewhere.
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This way, you lose money, you lose even more, Trevor.
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I was going to ease you into that murder rap. But the offer's out.
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You'll have to struggle in and you'll be too tired to get out.
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Can I allow neither you boys to pick axe? Well, I'm going to
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run along. Can I drop you anyplace? Mother, I'll stay. You
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know, I didn't think I could drop you any place. Mob. You
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ought to sell that gleam in your eyes. Some airport could use it.
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Good night, buddy, be careful. Good night, Mike. I can
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take care of myself if you prop That's all I was worried about the friendly
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the wrong books. I'll bet you never wanted to do a time that way.
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Why don't you sit down on the couch here and have a dream passy
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now, is the argument of it. At least we need a dream.
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Yeah, sure, that'll make the talk so easy about that key? Do
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you think I want the key like nothing else in the world. That's a
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little rash passy, But I do want to I want to bary that lead.
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That was the famous last words. Lady. You heard the odd with
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much prices haven't changed. That's too expensive to pick a dan. What are
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you looking at? You? The way you slide around on that couch.
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Yeah, you belong to the Everglades. If I with you, a Patsy,
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I think you're the kind of a guy who will be right around and
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extend you. Sound pretty sure that's a good way to lose the shirt.
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I am sure, Patsy, I know that about it. He belongs one.
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Yeah, we belong together because we're the same kind. Send me the
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good and the bad. It gets aw that has to do. Make it
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sound corny, baby, try to hide garden. But I can see you
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picking through your fingers. I can see you all secos from me. You,
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Patsy, watch out, you're backing into a corner. Angel. I
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got you with me. Make some more noise, man, I like it.
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It's true. I've got you with me. You haven't got Patsy.
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I can still struggle. I'll bet you don't struggle good. I'll bet you
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don't struggle good at all. Patsy, I still get the key, Baby,
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it stays at my place. I pay Yeah, he never naming my
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kink at the end of the table. Sure, that's it. It doesn't
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pay much to fall in love. I spent enough time on her rug to
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work my way into the design, and when I finally came to it was
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morning. There was nobody around the place, so I started for home.
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On the way, I tried to fill in the blind spots, but it
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was like trying to match pearls in the dark. Somebody had killed the name
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for the key to that safety deposit box, but where was the key?
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If the girl or Mike Trevor did it, then why were they still on
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the trail? Well? When I got to my apartment, the place was
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torn apart. Looks something like a mop flatherdecker. New Year's Eve party.
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Jacko was sitting in the middle of a room listening to the water fayz good
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morning, you get the bump on the head romance. How'd you find out?
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Jacko? Jeanen has lots of friends and enemies. Yeah, one of
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them's Jake Fidelo. He's number one on the list. Deneen had a brawl
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with Fidelo two years ago. Jake promised to square the beef. Isn't a
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bad spot for it? Now? Maybe Demen has no safety deposit box.
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Oh that was my out. Perhaps you can take up folk dancing in prison.
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I'll send you diagrams of new steps from time to time. Fidelo has
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a safety deposit box, though. Yeah, he's got a lot of money
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floating around somewhere well well, and a lot of woman doing the same thing
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or doing a better shuffle. Now is the girl's name, Freddy Simms?
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That's shy. Fidelo loves him like the last fifteen minutes of life. That's
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why you won't like it to get to the point. She's supposed to be
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waiting for him, but she's got married in Mexico to a guy named Mike
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Trevor, Fidello's best friend. Does it make sense, No, it doesn't.
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Suppose Jake's found out about his sweetheart and best friend, why would he
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kill Deneen? I don't know, except you'll find out, Patsy that sometimes
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the difference between your best friend and your worst end in knee is only a
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metric opportunity. Yeah, no, that tarking. How's a dent in your
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forehead? Oh? You get around. Helman. Yeah, we picked her
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up at your apopment. Can you tell you about that tea? Oh?
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That'll She made a confession too. He's generous not to Mike Trevor. She
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spends the whole thing on him. Go and signed the statement. We're gonna
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have to pick him up now, ifee in ten minutes. Why Katie wants
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to shoot somebody, I'm offering you things were moving fast now. I sent
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Jack o'donna start repair work on the boat, and Helman picked me up.
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Five minutes later. We drove out Gary and turned on Van Ass. Helman
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was real subtle. He stopped right in front of the rooming house where Mike
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Trevor was living. The girl had napped that out for him. Trevor was
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in the first floor room. It was a quiet neighborhood, but as we
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opened the front door and started in, I got the idea it was gonna
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be a tough place to get him his sleep for the next few minutes.
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Down on the right side him, stay ahead of me. No, Beck,
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you're one copper who will die in bed. Helman, I'm the haul
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of be quiet. Yeah, as you did on this lap, you go
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first, stand back when I throw it open, God empty, Helman.
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Jo Setti was here. What's that? Your boy's up at the top of
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the stairs. You see him. He's not wearing me on pants. Go
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up and get him. Come on down, Trevor, your girl talk,
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Come on down and sign a confession. All right back, move over,
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Helman. He's gonna argue. He's heading for the roof. Let's go pull
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it, helmet that girl up. There's a lot. We'll run right through
26:04
the barrel. You get one more chance, Trevor, tver and down that
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roof. Doors locked. Now you got your whole Trevor. Yeah, no,
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n better get to that safety depomit box. Get there in a hurry
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me part the girl, oh city. Other than that a helmet. Let's
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get to that safety deposit box. Hever have the key. What do you
26:45
tear notes? Actually, Fidela's girl. No, there's a queer twist here
26:49
somewhere. How do you know what's in that box? Soda? In love
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with the girl. He's grateful. What do you care? That's what makes
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it good. That's the way it is with love and gratitude. The love
26:57
goes on, Helman, but the gratitude as well. The way things stood
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there was only one place that he could be. I got to a phone
27:12
and called Jacko. I told him to check out on the boat for a
27:15
key somewhere on the floorboards. Jacko seemed happy when he said that some girl
27:19
had come by fifteen minutes ago and rosed around the boat for a while.
27:23
Well, Helman and I rushed down to the bank. When we got downstairs,
27:26
Freddie was just starting into the vault. You're on your way to that
27:32
deposit box. You better think it over. Can he stop me coping?
27:33
No, though, they can hold the door and until they check with Padello.
27:37
Go ahead. I don't think he's gonna like it. I'll be back.
27:41
Let's go No back, we can hold the door upstairs while to hang
27:42
around. I just want to see eighteen cariggree those he opens that box.
27:51
That's strategy. Help me. I got the key. Yeah, you got
28:00
everything. Yeah. He diap you over the lawn by twenty minute. The
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next I'll try again. Because you don't do it a nice name, You're
28:17
not anything hand. It's thought about it. I couldn't, Oh, God,
28:23
one thing then I think I wouldn't like this. I don't do well.
28:30
Yeah. Padella was a thorough guy the way he told out, but
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the an Fdello found out about the girl and might the he go. He
29:04
pulled the slips. He hired his enemy and Joe the Nan to do the
29:08
job. Nian stand at the bomb and apace to the page's box and just
29:14
to fill it with a spare pick. Adella gave them the knee. Was
29:18
supposed to kill the girl and leave the chief or Mike to blow his head
29:22
off. He's just gonna make the pin. Adello got him tet. He
29:26
told him to look up the mean. If anything happened to the girl that
29:30
way, he figured to knop up all three of them that night. A
29:33
jump the gun. He started killing the Nan and sat enough out on the
29:37
bank. He followed him to my place and killed him. If the gun
29:42
the meaning was killing an, he was lost, and he called the girl
29:47
and held it with a lot of men and let's sake to the Pope of
29:48
Fop. After the baby, find a couple clock Mike's get and turn him
29:53
in. Trevor killed those two guys in the pier. He lost the leaning
29:57
the fog, and then he go about a couple of dump the blows.
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That's scary, good question, what could that girl have said to Jacko to
30:07
nickim let her walk in and breeze out with that key. I meant to
30:12
let to Jacko, but he just smiled. It brought your Pat Novak for
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Hire, starring Jack Webb. Pat Novak is directed and produced by William de
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its ABC, the American Broadcasting Company. Welcome back. Well. This was
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one of the weaker outings, I thought, mainly with the ending. The
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reason that Hellman and had Novak at the scene of the taking the suspect into
31:30
Costady doesn't make as much sense as usual, and Hellman definitely not making a
31:37
positive impression for police inspectors, to say the least. Now we turn to
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some listener comments and feedback regarding the episode Agnes Bolton and regarding Novak's line she
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was at least fifty because you can't get that ugly without years of practice.
31:59
An he said, as I love that line. He's the best, and
32:04
Ross also highlighted the line even at the carnival she was no prize. I
32:08
did also share that link to the American Radio Theater adaptation of Lola Madden,
32:15
and Debbie was not a fan of that, saying well, Jack Webb and
32:22
Raymond Bird definitely spoiled me. I thought this version was horrible. This Pat
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Novak was too clean sounding, not hard boiled, yuck. Disliked Well,
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I can definitely understand the viewpoint, and I would agree that you didn't get
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somebody who could pull off hard bitten though I guess just American Radio Theater didn't
32:45
have that available. But I'm still glad they did the adaptation, so at
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least we have something out there. Well, let's see. The only other
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thing I do have to announce is next week is the last episode of Patnovak
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for Hire, and it's going to be different than the last time. We
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have a different version which is going to sound better and have a little bit
33:08
more in it, so I'll let you know all about that next Tuesday when
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we bring you the last episode of Pat Novak. Tomorrow it's Philip Marlow,
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