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Pat Novak: Georgie Lampson (EP1336) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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now it's Tom for this week's episode of Pat Novak for Hire. Georgie
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Lampson. That's what the sign out in front of my office says, Pat
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Novak for Higher. I was sure you can just got it fifteen different ways
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and put down on the waterfront in San Francisco. At all needs the same
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thing, ukay, and I'll do your customer's always right. We've got an
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open the wallet and I'll massage with an open mind. Have the murder and
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the fike get not arranged and down here. You're either high on your ses
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or flat on your vac because most of the time you get onto one kind
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of fish faster than inside, and you don't drive your foul because nobody cares.
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Even then, you can't complain during the summer the more for who was
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fucking town? Oh? I went boat and wrap up small skins and twenty
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dollars bills. The money stood and when you get it, but there's no
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retirement plan. You can't buy vaccination for trouble. I found that out last
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Wednesday night. I closed up shop about eight o'clock and my stat been walking
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home. The city was going it. Sanzanin was trying to crawl through one
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of those San Francisco hot spells. Was blast by every five years. Frow
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up on the hill with China town tell means blind up down below like sweaty
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little kids waiting for a shower, and was eating headaches all the way.
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But when I opened my front door and stepped inside, who wanted to talk
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about the weather. She was standing in the dark company cigarette and the simulator
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figure cut against the window was something you'd never believed. And she reached over
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turned on my lamp. It was a fast, dizzy trip. When I
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got around to her eyes, they really kind of means you think of hard
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work than the guys is deep warm. We needed to count from fast actions
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when they came to a boil. The smile was familiar, lips red and
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moist. I think nose will be She did lunch of nice things with him.
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Now he's talking as well. See welcome home. It's been a long
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time. Yeah, it's good to see you. Georgie on your mind.
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You can't you ever take your time? If not mine, it's borrowed.
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And then special easy business, got a drink? How is he just about
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rides? You can't get hurt. That's what they told the Spanish Armada,
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getting soft pats. No nothing their head and I look at the work.
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Let's talk otherwise. Let's just be cute, all right. The last time
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you saw me, it was a year ago. As far as you know,
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our no sound fine one. I'm not afraid of doing here can shanghai?
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Yes, that can't cut. I want to be on the welcoming committee.
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You can't. Nobody is. It's just going to enter in the stream.
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So I need a book. I need you. I'm not They don't
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go, lady. It's easy to falling downstairs. Come on, let's dealer
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drink all right, Patty, My stepfather's trying to leave the cal cut to
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she left. He likes the party. She likes the package she's gonna get
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from somebody aboards a cal cutter. That's a business. I'm sure she gets
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that package of all right. She doesn't even know Wrong Town. Who picks
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up the check? Yeah, I'm forty dollars covered. Too much for an
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easy job and none enough for a hard one. Where do I find you
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if I need bail? There's a time. I'm even call me to tomorrow.
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I'm Patsy. Thanks. I don't think get easy. Rush is scary.
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Patsy, you really scary? Do you remember the Yeah, the memories
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are like everything else. I wear out. A little later. I stop
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the door and watched them move down the hall for the stairs. A white
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dress she had on was plain enough, but it didn't have a mind of
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its own. I just did what it was cold, and tried to behave,
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but Georgie and the nature wouldn't let it. There was only one cat
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in, saying Georgie. She always left too soon, like a small bottle
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of flying horsebeeks. It must have been a good five minutes after she left
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when I heard the butter. I was looking for the white dress when I
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opened the door, but I was looking the wrong way. Something with an
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echo letter came down hard on the side of my head. I went down
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like the mercury in a quick breeze. The tip wasn't nice, but it
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was long. Half way there, I came up for breath, and I
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found the deck of one of my own boats underneath the bay bridge. Lights
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were still around him. That made it kind of cozy, but my eye
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had gotten focused. The smooth and bundle laid out next to me, shaped
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up like Georgie Lampson. She wasn't looking in best. I had just enough
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time to remember a pair of women shoes standing next to my face, and
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I almost have moved and mend my ticket for the return trip. The next
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time I opened my eyes, I was looking at the lights on Peer nineteen.
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Shoes were still there, but this time they were black and feed inside,
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squashed out, wide and black like tired. Beech State had met only
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one thing, Helman from homicide. He stopped playing Mount Novak Get up.
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Yeah, I thought they'd never go home. Your boyfriend here isn't talking bashful?
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Yeah Novak real shy? He did? Who is it? Because what
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you get paid for it? What about the girl? It was here?
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County Hospital? Your better price. You makes at Novak because you like blonde
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Helman, because nobody beats to murder rap Novaker. You talked fun him,
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so does the un The lead type printers all over it. Would that make
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me a plumber better than that Novack? The pipe fits the end and that
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guy still like a cruise there. Maybe he's the bubble goo smart Novak.
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Now, come on, who's the guy? And who is the Dame?
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Georgie lamps for the guy? I don't know, will Novak? You take
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care of it all. You try hard, got your hell when you move
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your lips, when you're use your fingers when you conquer. You never get
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the right answer. Don't tell me no back. I'm not my cherry bets
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in the morning. You don't have a best Helvin. You start taking once,
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but it gave you a headache. Now when you get on the swee
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you have I pound your way out and your best I warned you no back
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talk, knife and save teeth. Yeah, I'll talk when that blonde tells
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her story. If she makes the grade, how does she fig it?
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She met me in my apartment last night on the business five minutes after she
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left the doorbell wrong. When I answered that somebody snapping. Now you take
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it from there. Yeah, I will da go ahead, Helen, but
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don't look hurt when the case blows up on your face. Are you giving?
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That's all I'm giving, Helen, You figure it. I took the
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gall on this girl I don't even know for a ride at three in the
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morning. We had a party and I killed a guy. The gal.
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I only messed up good because I like the wish she talked sounds scared.
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I'm not, Helen, but you are because it doesn't add Why did they
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think my spell with that same hunk of pipe? And how did I drive
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back here to meet you? Keep your mouth helping for my boy? They
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got a little green room of a tan Quinton gets awful stuffy when they close
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the door. About where I left Helm and I figured I'd had a bumper
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common trouble for one day. The sun was just beginning to stagger up over
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the Berkeley Hills when they caught a cap uptown on the way. I stopped
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off for coffee and a six am chronic on one of the little grief joints
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off Jury Street. The windows were flying with grease and my light was bad,
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but the reading was money from home. The story made me stop counting
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the lumps on my head. Professor Burton Lampson got himself murdered in the Shanghai
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hotel them a month ago, and they were sending his body back on the
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FS Calcutta. It was due to anchor in the bay that night, like
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Georgie said, but the shipping page didn't agree. Calcutta was lifted inside the
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gate at seven point thirty the night before out of that checktot What about that
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package that had everybody worried? Well, when I got back to my apart,
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when I called the hospital to check on Georgie, we're still giving odds
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a long thinning kind. A little later, I was in the middle of
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a cold shower, adding up rows of zeros and getting different answers every round.
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On the phone. Rail was Helm and he was selling nothing to smile,
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did you an I'll tell me you're worried. The dead guy named Hayes
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local coach to let you know him. Yeah, I'm an old friend of
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the family, the guy from one of the old families in town, the
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important kind. His blood wasn't blue, No, but we are. We're
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feeling the pressure already, so I'm calling you in today for a little talk.
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A great job, Helen, he got on smacking your fat list,
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because you've got to get more answer than questioning. Monny Novac. I didn't
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think he was a different I hung up the phone. I was seeing more
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red than the bleachers at a bull fight. I probably would have walked like
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by him. He didn't know his mouth even then. It wasn't much more
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than a last week. It was a skinny guy, and he against the
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do with a half smile, twisting his mouth and a bright wild look in
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his eyes. As your invitation, mister, all right, really again,
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what happens now? None snowback? I do was the gun much? Would
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hand up the pack? Sorry, mister, you're in the wrong, wrong
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group. Snowback. I couldn't cough want to, I don't intend would happened
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twice? The fact? Could you look you? I'm going to spell it
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again. I don't know what you're talking about. And I think that count
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on your pointing, and I think you realize I'm a bunch of unity has
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done the snowback for the most time. A right find it right over there
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now here, right next to come. He stood there for a minute shaking
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his head as if he wanted to go back in life, five minutes from
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his life. All of a sudden, he jerked around in his tracks and
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stumbled to the door like a timid drunk when you're telling me that enough,
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and he pulled it up hard against the wall on his knees. It was
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a little too late for prayers. I stood there for a minute, trying
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to think of a good lawyer who owed me money. But I liked he
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was a courtroom and a picture of helm and smiled when he was into the
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verdict, well accident or not. If Helman dropped in with a body on
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the floor, bearings of deep and sandpointin, you'd be bringing the air and
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paper bag. When a knot in my stomach on tied. I dragged the
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little guy away from the door, and I rode him on his back.
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His eyes were still asking for the pack, and the rest of his didn't
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care outside of a few bucks, as while it was empty, not even
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a Londern tag. I got dressed, and I pulled the blindes and locked
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the place up, and then I went out to look for the only honest
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guy I know. A next doctor the name of Jack o'maanagan, who was
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a fine surgeon, while something made him decide life was temporary at the best.
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Now he's got a permanent post on a bar stool, looking for ants
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at the bottom of whiskey bottles. It's hard on the liver that way,
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which you're never short on dreams. I finally found him with a bourbon hail
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and a musty little Italian joined over in the North Beach. It was a
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long stretch from Easter Monday, but he was still celebrating Irish independence. He
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looked like he was on the wrong side because his nose was a bright orange.
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Let's see, my boy, you're just in time. These simplement on
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his Sicilians have agreed to embark with me on a crusade, and this underwrite
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Hush incident of the Sounds of Saint Patrick, the Power Street chapter. I
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invite you to join us. I got to talk to you about to fittingly
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observe the eccasion of Old Area's joyful victory. We're first fortifying ourselves with grappa
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and pushminows. Then we sally fort to chase all the snakes out of Long
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Beach and the cockroaches out of Chinatown. How does that strike to Petsy,
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and why aren't you smiling? She's a glorious day, because I'm in a
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germ and I want to talk to Jack on a pets. You remind me
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of the You're sitting on the curb and pouting just because they won't let you
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march in front of the Bend in the victory for Reade. You're sa Patsy,
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admitted Jack, and I'm in big trouble. You're always in trouble,
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Pepsi. You're a child of adversity, a son of storm. The faith
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spit in your eye and you try to Retelli, but the wind's always glowing
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in the wrong direction. You're a last sleep in the model storm. Petsy,
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you're a febbro shaking a tiny fist of the mountain. You would like
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to fight with some strange fantastic course, wouldn't you, Patchy, But you
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can't fight anybody in your size. Men are too small and the gods are
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too big. Hatsi, you're lost when you are through? Yeah, what
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kind of trouble? The pair of bumer the wraps, Jackal. Somebody sat
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me in my apartment last night and I woke up this morning with a dead
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guy that sounds interesting. What was it you were drinking? Helmet dot depends
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on me or a dubious honor. You were mentioned to murders. The guy
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came in my apartment, this boy waiting a gun and passing for a package
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that I never heard of. He started wrestling for the gun, mildly exciting.
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Now who got a k there? Right? And it's yes, Tretsy,
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you have absolutely do it. Used for losing your temper? Why you're
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not even Irish? Still, you're always getting hot headed at the wrong time.
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Go to the jackal. I didn't even know the guy. I'm sorry
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if I can't try. Sure, that's what the British general said. Actually
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hung Robert Emmitt the duck, but he didn't straighten out the Marcelle and his
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mate. What's you doing out of jail off jack? Well? Did you
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ever hear of a missus Sheila Lampson? Certainly I'm very offended with her.
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In the past year she set up drinks for every eligible and non eligible in
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San Francisco except me. Not much, but I often wonder what that poor
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old professor she married us with his evenings. He stopped worrying Jaco. He's
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dead now, Look, will you have to own to the chronicle Morgan,
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check with Steve Nagel, and then they got all the old puts on the
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professor and missus Lampsoia. And while you're there, check on a guy with
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the name of one Haynes. You got there, Yes, but what do
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I do for my behalf a buck for carper and nothing for booze. Surely
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your Jestyato will have quick clarle and get going, say o, pet,
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but you've broken of a beautiful party. My Sicilian frems have gone to sleep,
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and I'm thirsty again. Mitch, have four or five for the road,
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shout player Jack, Oh right, Patchy, but only for you,
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by the way, where can I find you? I'm gonna take you by
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the County hospital, and I work of Sheila Lamson. If I remember the
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story directly, Patsy, he will better reduce your scheduled food mount job.
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When I left Joco, I tagged by Mama Lupo's on Turney Street and I
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called the hospital with them. Georgie was a little better. At least the
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undertakers would stop bidding. Mama Luco crought it up for a storm and I
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asked to borrow a new car for a couple of hours. But a few
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paths and the paint and she was all giggled and carfe. Ten minutes later,
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I was fighting traffic on Propero Avenue. The south wind out there a
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brought the slaughterhouses right under your front seat. I found a hospital out on
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the fire edge, and it's a nice looking pile of dirty red brick.
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The nurse in the war didn't believe I was Georgie's brother until I asked her
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if she was busy Saturday night, and then she saw the resemblance right away.
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I found Georgie buying a couple of screens at the end of the war,
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and for a dying woman, she looked pretty good. She smiled a
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little, and she saw me like she was saving in for a bigger try.
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Later on, Got see, I'm FACTI made it. I'm gonna keep
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a show a baby. Who was it last night? Sorry? Got you
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can't tell her your w Yeah. Later in that package, the same deal.
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Well, I got a deal to Geordie and murder Ram. They want
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to hang it on me. Who warn Hanes? You know I remember,
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good course, I'm like you're slicing it off of thin for forty bucks,
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Georgie, no choice. Maybe you're driving, don't go through any red lights,
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yea, I said, Georgie. I've seen you later. Yeah,
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having a good time, Novak, you know any phone numbers? Was I
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mine? Human? Not to day brad boy, and you're near a street
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car and I had the show. But what's your beef? Novak? We
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got to get fine to be paid at the visit. So sorry, Helman
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books solid come on perform in to Novak, I wouldn't at the point.
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What's the matter, Helman? You wanted what I told you. I don't
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know anything about last night. I never saw Hayes before. You got me
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wrong, Novak. This want about the nine. We just found it in
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your office down on the water front. Fine you yourself and a half and
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keep busy. You'd better come down. No rob a knife and some guys
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back. Budini couldn't get out of that one in two hours with both hands
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and a cannon olive oil. It was like chasing Sinai with a bucket of
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brandy from it tastes blake, but it's only a matter of time. Well.
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I headed for Sheila Lampson's place and on the way I pulled up by
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a drugstore out on the hate Stoep Jungles and called the chronicle. More they
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said Jocko had just left, so I called the nearest bar and actually they
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had a customer with a bright orange nose. They did Jack speaking novack,
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what'd you find out? A joying a smaller pressure upbeat? For instance,
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Howard drops she stopped seeing the Professor. Forty six there was a skin movie
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The Nasty Child. The Professor's first wife, Bober jumped off the brake and
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go on on she man in the Professor. Shila was mentioned in every gossip
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column in town. I'm sure the profession took golf and designed to pick from
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d China. On ago, he was murdered in a Shanghai hotel and a
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handful of emperors were stolen. The authorities figured that the murder was privature.
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The Professor had three major operations, and at the time of the murder he
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had less than a week ago. James is one of those black sheep that
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wealthy families had got off without a penny. He's one of Sila Lambson's discords,
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and he's now one is made back from the Oriente on the s stercutter.
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Anything else you stick to the lane and iron stick to Mine was still
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a sack full of holes in question marks, but at least Jacko's leaves had
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a little juice in them. I found the Lampson House the best part of
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the seat Cliff district. It was one of those big nervous joints, hanging
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by its shutters to the side of a steep drop that slid down shop into
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the Pacific, all green trim and stuck over the color of mortgages. The
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front doorbell was wearing out in my hand when the maid showed up, and
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then she was tongue tied. She didn't know a thing except good money when
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it was offered. And then she told me i'd find Missus Lampson in the
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second floor sitting room. She went away. I found the sitting room all
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right, but Missus Lampson wasn't there, so I followed on through like came
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to a bedroom and a bright red ceiling, and I lived in feeling reminded
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you of something Henry h m had ordered for a bridal sweep. She was
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sitting next to the couch, holding a my opini and making noises like a
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leopard on her honeymoon. Wow, yeah, you always wear handkerchief of parties
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takes time? Yeshing, you and I have a dank fix? Oh you
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are? And I what's j Novak? What's yours? Movie? Got a
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name of a game? You're just like Mike. He's my new boyfriend.
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This is off. He went downstairs. Women. Hey, you picked a
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nice drink, mister Novac? Yeah, you feed or something must be the
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weather. Mister, you're a big spender. But I don't like watching smile.
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How about Sheila? You're picking a drink? Yes, a lot of
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questions don't like because I like answers. Now what about Sheila? Hey,
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you're gonna get rap of coma? Alright, all right, I'm feel like
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sister much better when you're nice to me. All I'm gonna start being nice.
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Oh mister, what was that for? I'm a big spender to here
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have another drink? I think maybe I'll have another you, mister? You
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know? Back start Mike coming up stairs? Baby, Now come on,
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where is she? Who cares? She's down tom anyway, she won't know
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you. Sorlly, Baby, I got a date. Mike does He's gonna
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walk through me. I'm sorry, baby, he's not my type. Mike
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was a tall, white pack, so I gave him a bargain offer.
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He didn't fold after too, but he had a kind of hurt look in
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his eye when I hit him the third time, like I didn't know he
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could take a hint. Well, he wound up and hit the floor.
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Every window in the house rattled, and I figured the Berkeley size mcgraft got
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a cheap thrill. I made it asprise the front door when I heard a
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car pull up on the driveway. When I got to the window, a
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dame and a guy. We're getting out of a new Nash and heading to
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the door. The guy was a middle class a gun, but at the
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gal with Sheila Lampson. She made a nice opposition. I couldn't wait around
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to see. I finally managed to make my apartment without having one of Helman's
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men picked me up, And when I got in, Jacko was just pulling
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himself another glass of Green Dreams and closing in the mirror like a man of
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distinctions. The stiff was still there on the floor next to a glass of
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ice water. Actually, I don't approve of your choice of body. Yes,
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the guy's dead Jackal were at opened up. She is the friends you
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were telling me about when you do the cash chamber patch Any phone calls now,
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did you mention it? Yes, Helman regularly on the quarter hour.
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Not very coherent, but I got the idea he's looking for you. Also
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a call from the hospital. They wanted to know the whereabouts of mister Georgie
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Lampson. What do you mean? It seems she disappeared a few hours ago
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from one of their wards. She perhaps she's sampling at this delicate dollar.
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Bruisie would help try shoot yourself, Patsy myself. I'm an old subscriber to
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the Socrates Plan of self destruction. If you wanted done right, do it?
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You said. By the way, have you noticed our friend's hands lately?
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It looks like he's entertaining a square of paper in his right hand.
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Yes. Wo he seems kind of stingy, but it doesn't he an old
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and not even a coded letter to pussle over for the address Jackal Captain edwardsmore
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s s Calfcutter Paramount Line, Shanghai. Let's now say sure we have another
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dreams lead Jacko right now. We haven't got the time. And that's who
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I think it is pat You're going to have lots of time. I'll just
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whip up a shot, go back talking the last time you checking here in
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ten minutes, off and done and off, going dead or alive? Back
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all right, Helen, there's a dead guy here in my apartment right now.
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Names Captain Edwards Small off the Calcutta. I don't need any more body,
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no back. I can hang out twice with what I got. All
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right, Cover, If you want your picture in the paper tomorrow, you
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can meet me out on sea Clip in fifteen minutes forty eight Camino Drive.
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When I hung up the phone, most of the puzzle streaking out like wet
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wash in a dry way. There's one thing to getting caught on. When
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you're bet on miracles, you buy it ticket straight through. I finally pulled
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up at the lamp seat place, and I started looking around for Helm and
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the joint looked about his crowded as a Kremlin breakfast percentator tap. I was
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taking a fast check, trying to figure how far they could have gone.
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When Helman bought his way through the box heads for the driveway. We flippled
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down behind the garage and around the back of the house. We just made
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it me sign for the curtain scene. Sheila Lampson was backing down slow toward
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the seawall, waving her arms in the air and fagging every inches away,
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when Georgie stumbled after, like the avenging angel, and she had a gun.
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She had a coat crossed over her hospital gown, and the look in
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her eyes told the whole story. Tears and hastily, lots of book.
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No, I look at it. You want to kill me. I'm crazy
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about that sweet pathy, but you weren't bited. Don't get too close to
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the alma your gun, Georgie, don't let it hang you. This is
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helman from homicide. No good pathy. This one's for me, isn't it.
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Isn't it for me? Please, Georgie, don't coper you to pathy.
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Your naked looks good stretch, please, George, said Sheila. Not
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yet. First, I want to tell you, however you are, how
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sweet you looked at my mother's fumul Are you rolling my father? How sweet
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for the other men? She loa magnificence, Judge. Please, I didn't
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know, George, I didn't know it. I swell think, Sheila,
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listen to me, em you sent Hanes to Shanghai. Boss, you wanted
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to kill my father though you were glass, Sheila tins and cream glassy.
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Here's Heela fla j Please you want you got a gun. Let's see.
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Take it easy, baby, you got a long trip. She did,
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doesn't she she did? She didn't die, baby that much led. She
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sank our little cool though it's starting to come in. Remember the party,
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Yeah, I remember, I'd say it. Please say it now, say
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it? Yeah, Georgie, I'd say it, but you're not listening.
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We found a letter in Georgie's coat pocket that told most of the story,
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and men Helman grabbed Mike, and Sheila's sisters let her the rest out of
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them. It wasn't a pretty story, but it moved. When Sheila spent,
27:36
the professor broke and he checked out. Over in China, Georgie decided
27:40
to vote a whist lawn. She made up that tony yarn about the Emeralds,
27:44
and then she let Haines wind her father and walk off with him.
27:47
They were glass. To make it look good, Haines played Paul Baron took
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the boat back with the body, but not before Georgie took the captain.
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When the first mate about that sack of emos Haines was supposed to have saw.
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They went to work. They robbed Haynes and the plant of the fake
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for a fake for the real Captain Owstol. Georgia had little mistakes sometimes that's
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all it takes. She came back here a few days before the cal Kada
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got in so that she could be around for the payoff. One of Sheila's
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pals must have spotted her and trail here to my place, and then the
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sappings started. That was the same night that cal Kata got in and people
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started checking Package didn't pull the triggers when Sheila ponder Package was a fake.
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She figured Haines was being cute, so he got it first, and then
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she went out after that original fake. She tried to double up and hang
28:37
Haynes's body on me get rid of Georgie at the same time, but Georgie
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didn't diet. I don't know how the Captain con and Hobby through Shila,
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but her descil friends to care the person with the nine when he got anxious
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while on thet he count of Cold noses it as a real devil's game.
28:52
Wherever he was. Georgie's old man must have been holding his side and were
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rolling in the aisles. Yeah, real form, and Sheila thought up gets
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enough to the seed, the teast gets better. I'll haven't answer the wrong
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question. How come a sniper like Georgie wants something as Steward's leave English.
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I don't know. She was a lot better about a lot of other things.
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Past included Lois Andrews, Steve Brody, Herbert Lynn, Jerry Taussner,
29:33
Ivan did Mars, ray Erwin Borton, and Hal Sawyer. This is a
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Larry Quindley cat. What do you f Welcome back? Well, a little
30:55
bit on the melodrama in terms, high on the melodrama in the way that
31:00
it ended between the Lampson girls. But other than that, a pretty good
31:07
episode, some great lines, even going right to the introduction to the episode.
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Even then, you can't complain. During the summer, the Morgues the
31:21
coolest spot in town. Uh. The one thing I will say about the
31:25
monologue is that he said there, you know, he said Pat Novak for
31:29
hiring, and there's fifty he said, there's fifty ways to spell it.
31:33
Actually I can only think of three. Let's see, there's Novak in ov
31:38
Ack, there's Novak in ovk and I think you could probably do Novak just
31:45
in Ovac. So I only think there's three ways to spell that about at
31:51
any rate. Onto some listener comments and feedback, and we'll go ahead and
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start out with Annie, who writes it's uh. I love that man's phrasing.
32:02
Regarding episode UH, give envelope to John st John and Daniel Breelan says
32:09
this was a great episode for one liners. Well, that could be said
32:14
of most Novak episodes. On the other side of the Ledger Joel says another
32:21
formula episode, Novacci's guy killed engages drunk, Jocko meets blonde, gets knocked
32:28
out, girl has killed. Helman says Novak did it. Novak's Novak meets
32:32
fem fatale, Novak tracks killer boring, boring, hmmm, so tell me
32:38
what you really think. Another listener emails in. Roger Uh says dear Adam
32:51
started listening about six weeks ago, and I'm hooked. I love the variety
32:54
between days and shows. I have a question about Pat Novak, which may
32:58
pertain to some of the other shows as well. I was initially quite taken
33:01
with the very witty dialogue in metaphors of Novak, But as is mentioned by
33:06
you and other listeners, became aware with each subsequent show as to how very
33:09
formulaic it tends to be. As I checked up Richard Bring, the writer
33:15
of the show, it surprised me that someone who went on to write screenplays
33:19
for movies like Captain Newman MD would be so formulaic. So my question is
33:23
for shows like Novak, how much of the formula was dictated by the producers
33:29
of the show or the stations, and how much leeway did the writers have.
33:32
As I think about other medias, I see the same thing happening with
33:37
early TV shows like Perry Mason. With Novak alumnus Raymond Burke, maybe it
33:42
was just the way media production has tended to be for certain shows. Keep
33:45
up the great work, and that's from Roger Roger. The important thing to
33:52
understand about Pat Novak is that Novak was started in San Francisco, back when
34:08
San Francisco was trying to join New York and Los Angeles in a little bit
34:15
of Chicago in being a source where people went to have programs recorded, and
34:22
there was a great creative freedom there and that's where the series was born,
34:27
and it pretty much remained that way. It was that way because people enjoyed
34:31
it, and it was very successful over ABC it's West Coast programming, and
34:39
so we have this national version of Pat Novak for Hire, and this has
34:45
always pretty much been the same show, the very same that Richard Breen really
34:52
helped to create back in San Francisco. Other shows will vary in many ways,
35:00
maybe both the most and a formulaic and perhaps the most unique of the
35:07
shows. Certainly the way things progress in the show, the standard showdown between
35:16
Novak and Hellman and Novak going to get jock O Madigan. It's reliable in
35:22
most episodes. It happens like clockwork, though in an episode a couple of
35:28
weeks ago, Jocko came into the story a lot more or early than usual,
35:32
so there are some variations even within that. At the same time,
35:37
Pat Novak with and perhaps only Johnny Madero, which was a Pat Novak a
35:45
knockoff that Web made for Mutual and nineteen forty seven was the only mystery show
35:54
to really rely on its dialogue, which all ways seem to come up with
36:01
ways that continue to surprise us to say things, even if there's similar concepts
36:07
in a way that delighted audiences. I think it's to say safe to say
36:13
that no mystery drama before or since has ever relied on its dialogue to that
36:22
degree and turned in such variety. And that's what makes the show really to
36:27
this day, I think a bit of a cult classic. Certainly, it's
36:30
not something that I think, boy, I wish every single show had gone
36:35
out and imitated, but it is something that's incredibly well written. And certainly
36:40
Breen was capable of doing other things, but this is the thing that you
36:46
know, helped him and Jack Webb both began to make their way to Hollywood,
36:54
and on this series, I think they were just letting loose in having
36:59
a good time with the concept and seeing what they could write and which direction
37:04
they could go. And it's that uniqueness there that makes it so worthwhile.
37:09
I mean, a lot of shows can be defined really by formulas, whether
37:15
it's Sam coming into the office to dictate his report to Effie on Sam Spade,
37:23
the general setup of people coming to the office, Sam Spay going to
37:27
the location, or the sitcoms. A lot of even the classics, tended
37:32
to be a bit formulaic. I think what made the show's work was the
37:39
execution and the ability to tell stories well, to act them well, to
37:45
use great dialogue, and it really gets you to enjoy the experience so that
37:50
you weren't like, Okay, we've seen this for the thousandth time, and
37:54
finally, thanks for that question. Finally we have an email from Jackie who
37:59
said, I have a very large collection of old time radio detectives or time
38:06
radio cassettes, detective mysteries, comedies plays, variety shows which I'd love to
38:10
donate. I can always bring them to my library or public radio station,
38:15
but since they're cassettes, I'm afraid they'll wind up in a storeroom somewhere.
38:20
Can you suggest an organization that would like them. Maybe they'd have the equipment
38:24
to convert them to digital. Thank you love the show from Jackie, and
38:34
and my answer to Jackie is there's a couple of organizations I would recommend to
38:40
Jackie, and I would also recommend to anyone who has a large collection of
38:49
old time radio media, whether we're talking about cassette tapes, real to real
38:54
tapes, or transcription disc which are the best of all. I would recommend
39:04
first of all old time radio researchers O T R. R. Dot org
39:09
and UH, great group of people. And you know, if you get
39:15
in contact with someone there, they can find someone to take a look at
39:20
your material. And particularly if you have tapes and things of that sort that
39:25
are not in common circulation to digitize it. You might also check out a
39:31
local radio preservation club, particularly if you're not as begin to the Internet and
39:37
mailing things out. Uh. There's some recommendations by the Digital Deli FTP of
39:49
some good local radio preservation societies and that's at Digital Deli FTP dot com and
39:58
uh you can look for the appropriate link. But the rest of it is
40:06
slash recommendations affiliation dot html. That's Digitaldeli FTP dot com, Slash recommendations capital
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R affiliation dot html and whichever way you go. It's important if you have
40:29
old materials on things such as CDs or not not CDs as much, but
40:37
at one level, but records, tapes, reel to reel, or even
40:44
video media. If you have a few lost episodes of Dragnet or Doctor Who
40:49
or something that are aligning on the house in some old video format, it's
40:53
important to get in touch with a qualified preservationist to make sure that that material
41:00
can last and can be enjoyed by future generations. A lot of inconvenience and
41:08
just plain lost material has occurred through people not getting in touch with someone who
41:14
can care for that. So if you do have any sort of material that
41:22
could or should be digitized, get in touch with some of those sources and
41:29
you will find some assistance there. All right, well, we're running a
41:32
bit late, but we will be back tomorrow with the adventures of Philip Marlow
41:37
and then join us back here next Tuesday, Patnovak for hire. In the
41:42
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