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Pat Novak: Agnes Bolton (EP1330) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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as we do with alternations of seven dollars or more. And now we're
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going to go ahead and take a listen to today's episode of Pat Noback for
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Hire. There was actually one lost show, Lola madd in between last week's
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show and this week's, So let's go ahead and today's program what is entitled
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Agnes Bolton. The original air at eight June fifth of nineteen forty nine,
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a couple days after webb It recorded the first episode of Dragnet. So let's
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go ahead and take a listen to Agnes Bolton. That's no back for hire.
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Sure, I'm Pat Novak for hire. That's what the sign out in
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front of my office, says Pat Novak for hire. It's about the only
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way to make a living down on the waterfront in San Francisco, because are
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out here A set of walls won't cause any more skir than mother's day in
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an orphanage. Maybe that's not good, but that's the way it is.
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And I wouldn't do any good to build a church down here because some guy
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had muscle in and start cutting the wine with wood alcohol. All you can
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do is try to make the books balance, and the easiest way to do
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that is keep one hand on your billfold and the other hand on somebody else's.
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Oh, I rent boats and do anything else that'll buy a warm winter
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works out all right. It saves the government a lot of money. But
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if anything goes wrong, your trouble comes hard. That doesn't do any good
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to sing the blues, because down here you're just another guy in the chorus.
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I found that out Wednesday afternoon started to rain up by p here nineteen,
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and I knew there was a storm on the way. The bay looked
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flat and smoothed over. But you can say that for a lot of quarrels.
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So I closed the office and walked down to the barber shop for a
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shave. The barber laddered me up so I couldn't answer back, and started
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to tell me how dean actors and ought to handle things. About five minutes
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later, somebody walked into the shop and started to tap on my foot.
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He got tired of that and moved up to my chest. Hey, you're
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listening, Hey, stop pushing. That's my chest, not a buzzer.
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Yeah, what's on your mind? Hey? I want to talk to you
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alone. He's a barber. He won't listen. Let's go alone. All
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right, let's go. I'll be back in a minute. How do you
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like that? I got a fourteen? He says. I want to hire
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you tonight. Will you do something for me? Not for friendship. I'll
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give you two hundred dollars to follow a woman. I've done it for less,
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Not this kid. Her name is Agnes Bolton. You'll fight her at
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seven o'clock tonight down at this bowling alley. Here's the car dresses there.
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How do I spot her? Read it off an ankle Brakeslet you don't have
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any trouble. She's a large woman about fifty years old with a readish face.
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Oh, that's no help. For fifty she sounds normal, not agnes.
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She couldn't pass for ninety. She'll be playing in the last alley with
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a women's team called the Playmoars. Yeah, you'll follow her out of the
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bowling alley somewhere along the lines. She'll pick up a green leather bag.
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After that, I need your help. It doesn't sound like love. You'll
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go to the yacht harbor, get a board a boat called Seventh Heaven.
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I want you to have your boat ready and follow her into the base.
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She'll leave that bag board some ship. I want to know the name of
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it. How is that two hundred dollars worth? Yes, I'll wait for
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you in your office. Contact me there and be careful. Is she that
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tough? No? That her friends are with a figure like that, How
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come she's got any they're holdovers. I just be careful. Yeah, I
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was easy at these prices. It depends on your luck, mister Novak.
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It turns bad you've been cheating. He stood at the door for a minute
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and his eyes swept the shop like a ten dollars broom, and then he
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turned around and walked off. Well, you couldn't tell anything from his face,
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and his smile was as smooth as a pound of liver and a bucket
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of glizzing. Well after I finished, I went down up here nineteen and
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I took the boat up to the yacht Harbor. I tied up near the
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seventh Heaven and I started downtown to that bowling alley. It was ladies night,
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and I stood against the back rail and watched the women bowl. Most
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of them were wearing slacks, and if I ever get a few bucks ahead,
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I know the right business. At least the demand is there. About
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ten minutes after I got there, Agnes Bolton showed up, and I knew
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right away Max hundred overrated her. She was at least fifty, because you
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can't get that ugly without years of practice. She was wearing a green woolen
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dress, and her figure wasn't any worse than a bail of cotton. Somebody's
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cut The wire on the fat hung down from her arms, and there was
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so much of it you knew even her bones were plumped. And Max was
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right about her complexion. There was red and scratchy, as if she used
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a bag of sand for cold cream. All I must have stood there about
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ten minutes watching him bowl. When the other girl came up, I didn't
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see her, but I felt her as she brushed up against me from behind.
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She leaned on the railing close to me, and when she started to
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talk, it was like grafting a hot iron under your spine. You look
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sad, mister Novak. Is it the view? What are you the repair
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squad? No? I want you to do me a favor. You do
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me one mm slide over, I bruise easy. Oh, now what's on
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your mind? I want you to do me a favor. Don't follow Agnes
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Bolton. You're pretty, but I got Max Hutter's dough. I'll help you
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spend it. Don't let Agnes Bolton get to that boat. Lucans will go
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warm up an armory. I got a deal. Suppose I tell Agnes Bolton
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you're gonna follow her? You tell her first, not taking by here.
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You know, if you've got something on your mind. Laid on the line,
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I relaxed. I want her worse than Max Hunter does. When she
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gets that green bag. I want you to bring her to me. I
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couldn't move her that far. You better rent a Derek, please, mister
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Noback. It's important to me. I want to talk to Agnes Bolton.
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I can give you more money than Max Hunter. You haven't got enough to
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cover lady. You're talking about kidnapping. That's a federal wrap. The answer
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is no, you're sure unless you want to change the offer. I hope
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you make it, Darling. I may don't bet your two hundred dollars.
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It's bad to die broke. Is anybody that tough? Now it's my turn
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to brush you off. Go ahead and follow her, mister noback, But
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I'll bet you have to roll her the last couple of miles, and unless
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you can prove it's an election, bet, the police will cause your trouble.
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Oh. I watched her. She turned her back and walked out of
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there. She looked real good. She was wearing a tight jersey dress and
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gave you the idea she either thought the weather was warm or she wasn't much
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on details. I turned around and looked for Agnus Bolton. The game was
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breaking up, and she started into the dressing room. A few minutes later
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she came out and started down Market Street. There was no trouble following her.
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You could see her in the crowd, and she rolled from side to
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side as she walked, and when she bumped into anybody that looked back at
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her as if they had been hitting the chest with a sacket jelly. She
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crossed the street at Stockton went into a little coin shop. She came out
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about five minutes later with a green leather bag. She strapped it over her
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shoulder and she held on to her purse with the other hand. At Powell
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Street, she got on the cable car up near the front. I moved
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up there to be safe. She looked heavy enough to tip a cable car
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uphill in that light. She didn't look any better. Part of her hair
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had come undone and hung down in her face like the branches on a dead
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tree. I noticed her eyes for the first time. They were small and
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so close together. They could have saved time and put him in one socket
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well. She got off the cable car at Geary and walked into a hotel.
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I followed her and watched her squeeze into a telephone booth on the other
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side of the lobby the way she fit a sardine. Ought to be happy.
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She took some money out of her person started to dial. A couple
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of people moved in front of her, and I didn't get a look at
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her for about five minutes, and when they moved away, she was still
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talking to somebody. I looked up about ten minutes later, and I knew
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something was wrong. Her head was pressed against the phone. She'd run out
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of conversation. I walked across the lobby and opened the door to get to
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the phone room. She fell out as old as she'd ever get. Hey,
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help me get over the couch, William. Yes, sir, was
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she your wife? What she was? This is the way i'd water.
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Her purse is filled all over the floor. Sure is a mess. Yeah,
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she's some relative. Huh. Look, mister, stopped trying to pair
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us up. I was around when she tumbled out, that's all. Yeah,
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what she died from? I don't know. I just figured you might
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know what she died from. No, I don't. It's a simple question
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to answer when you know what she died here, Come on, all right,
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stand back, give her head. She can't use any more copper.
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Huh. She quit about five minut minutes ago. Who are you? I'm
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not dead she is? Then? Who is she? You better check on
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her stuff, and don't forget that green bag? Yeah? What bag?
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The green bag? Over there on the floor. Well, it was over
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there a minute ago, the same one. The little guy ahead, what
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little guy? When I was talking to you, he just walked out of
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here, carring a green bag. I got out on the street and a
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little manager just crossed Geary. He turned and looked back once, and I
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saw him melt into the crowd and disappear quick like the wake of a ship
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on a dark night. When I came back to the lobby, the copper
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was over the couch, making noises in his throat as if he was trying
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to eat upon a cellophane. The manager of the hotel was wringing his hands
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and making little steps like a ballet dancer with a hot foot. The copper
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took my name and put in a call to homicide, and a few minutes
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later I got into that phone booth. There was a number on the pad
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and I took it down was Greystone four two nine six' one. I
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didn't prove much, but Agnes Bolton was not to approve much. Tonight,
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I began going through the phone book, but there was no Max Hunter listed,
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and when I called the office nobody answered. I knew there was as
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much chance of him showing up as a second piece of butter on a fifty
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cent a lunch. I ran down that Greystone number and found out it was
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an address out on Post Street. I walked through the lobby and out the
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side door. Some of the people were out of the dining room, and
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they looked mad because Agnes Bolton had died during the roast beef instead of later
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well. I walked down Geary to the Union Square garage and gave the guy
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my ticket. He started down the ramp for the car, and I stood
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there waiting. I must have looked lonely because Hellman from Homicide shoved up near
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the cashier's cage and started over. He made his way through the cars,
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and as he squeezed by the last one, he looked like a sea lion.
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Hello Novak, we identified her. You had lots to work with,
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Helman. Where are you going out on Post Street? I'll go with you.
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Her name was Agnes Bolton. You read it somewhere. She was a
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government legion. They got their money's worth. Barner says, she died a
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quick poison. Oh quick, five minutes. You're working him too hard,
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Helman. He's got a license, he says, five minutes she was in
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that phone booth. Ten minutes nobody got to her. She looked dead to
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me, no back. I don't believe you, and I'm hurt. I
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don't believe a thing you said. It's up to you. I'm not starting
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a religion, Helman. I watched her for ten minutes nobody got to her.
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You better check on that little guy. Yeah, she was carrying a
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green bag. A little guy walked out of there with he sounds hard to
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find. You don't, hey, mister, is this is your ticket?
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Yeah, it's a blue leg. You better come down and drive it up.
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Why I can't get to the wheel. The guy on there won't move.
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Huh. I don't blame him either. When you're dead, you got
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a right to rest. Hellman stood there a minute, wiping his teeth with
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his tongue, and it began to sound like somebody beating the bathtub with a
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piece of steak. When he finished making noises, we walked down the ramp
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to the car. Was the little guy who had taken the green bag.
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He was hunched over and he was grabbing a wheel as if he just married
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it. Helman lifted his head up and laid him across the seat. The
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light was bad, but he could see a little of his face. It
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was watering around his forehead and the damp hair was plastered down under his hat
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brim. The perspiration had broken up and started to run down his forehead like
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tears, and you got the id cried out of his hairline instead of his
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eyes. He didn't look surprised or pain. He just stared with a puzzling
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look, as if he'd missed part of the conversation. Helman stood there,
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trying to wipe some egg off his coat and turning to look at the guy
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to make sure he didn't leave. So what happened in Novak? So he
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had an automobile accsent Helman, I don't know he's your passenger. He bummed
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the right himself. When I saw him. He was on his way with
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that green bag. Where is it? He got talked out of it.
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You better checking a guy named Max Hunter O whose cousin is he? He
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gave me two hundred bucks of tail Agnus Bolton. I got another offer too,
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Yeah, a blonde biscuit and she said everything on the beat A total
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stranger. You show him met a lot of people. You better meet a
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lot of them too. He goes one of them, got Agnes Bolton.
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How about Junior here? Did he crawl down the ramp and die on your
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seat? Covered? I don't know how he got here. Well, maybe
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you left him here and forgot. Now he wouldn't slip my mind. I
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haven't murdered anybody in the front seat. But it's lovely though. You better
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get a story. No back, you already got mine. Helmet. You
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won't like the ending about you, do? I like it fine? No
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back, You're the only lead on Augus Bolton. I'll shop around and get
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enough to pin you down. You couldn't pin down a dead butterfly. Helman.
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You better look up Max Hunter and check on a boat called the Seventh
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Heaven. I will en. I'll put a tail on you, and no
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back, follow you all over San Francisco. He'll go anyplace. That's fine,
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because I got a suggestion. As soon as Helman left, I took
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a cab out to that address on Post Street. But it was a wasted
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time. I might as well have been peddling tip sheets in a monastery.
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There was a brown house on the corner, and there was a big curved
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window that stuck out from the rest of the house like a ward on the
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back of your neck. A toothy old man answered the door and said he
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didn't know Agnes Bolton. I was pretty sure he was on the level.
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Just kept nodding his head and rubbing the wrinkles on his face. There were
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enough of them there to bundle up and sell as a canal. I left,
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though downtown. I don't on the way. I went by the yacht
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Armor, and the Seventh Heaven had moved out into the stream. Well.
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It was raining harder now, and the docks looked shining, as if somebody
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had given him a coat of egg wife. But I had a couple of
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places to hit, so I looked up jack O Madigan. He's a good
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guy who never learned that if you keep your foot on a bar rail for
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twenty years, it will do more good for your arches than it will for
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your brain. I finally found him in the hunt room at the Bellevue Hotel.
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I drink from mister Novak something to take off the chair. No,
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I don't want to drink, Jacko, and you've had enough to I refused
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to shiver to death. Patsy, I look terrible with a blue face.
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Will you stop drinking, JACKO. I hate to wish me, Patty,
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but I'm bringing you tonight with a purpose. I made a deal with Charlie
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the bartender to buy every eighth drink, and I've got him on the run.
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By morning, i'll have him in bankruptcy. God look, JACKO,
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I'm in trouble. I always know when I've had enough to drink, Patsy.
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When I chilt the glass up, the rim rubs against the bridge of
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my nose. It's a sort of safeguard, so that when my nose begins
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to break out in blisters, I know I've had enough for the night.
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Listen, Patsy, you sound like a young girl coming home from boarding school.
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You will never be on the right side of things. You'll always be
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in trouble because you're a bad citizen. You're a shabby half step in the
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march of progress. Jack You don't know the difference between good and evil.
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For you, all of human endeavor is a big blur in high heels,
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and your vocabulary is a few gutter terms sandwiched in between yes and no.
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You'll never be any good, Patsy. You might as well try to recapture
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melancholy or ventilate a swamp. You haven't a chance, Patsy. You'll never
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be any good. You are through, Jacko. Yes, if you're going
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to be touchy. Herman wants me on a murder rap. Yes, some
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tubby woman died hotel lobby. Sounds like his mother. She was a government
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agent. I followed her in there, Patsy, you got to start trusting
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the government. I was paid the follower, but she ate some poison somewhere
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along the line. That's the trouble with food. I got hired by a
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guy named Max Hutter. Look him up and resign. That's the best way
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out of this thing. I don't know where to find him, and I
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think that Max Hutter is a phony. Oh you gotta help me. Yeah.
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I gave me this card. His points must be on it. Check
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it down at headquarters. Will you find out if he's got a record,
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and then tag by my place. Yes, sir, I better have a
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drink first. There's an ugly taste in my mouth. I think it's saliva.
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Well you hurry up, Jacko. While you do is drink. That's
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all I have left, Patsy. I'm too young to die and too old
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to do almost anything else. Yeah, sure, it's true, Patsy.
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When you get to be my age, most of the quiet pleasures are fattening,
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and most of the active one would kill me. Good night, lover.
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When I left Jocko WHI, I dropped by a chronicle more to look
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up Max Hunter. There was nothing under Hunter. I looked through every Max
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from bare Back to Beerbum, and I couldn't find a thing. Well,
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it was close to eleven when I rode down to the office for a final
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check. It wasn't raining hard anymore. It was a nice, easy drizzle
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and you could hear it playing against the sheds along Pier nineteen. Sounded quiet,
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almost private, like the sound a woman makes when she runs her fingernail
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up and down her stocking, and got on your nerves at first, and
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then you began to enjoy it. And minute I got to the door,
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I knew something was wrong. There wasn't any reason, but I got the
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feeling the same way you know sometimes when you're gonna get the busy signal on
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the phone. I could see her lying there on the floor before I turned
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on the light. It took one look at her and you knew she was
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the sort of girl whose name ought to be Pearl or Myrtle. Somebody'd sapped
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her and she was lying with one hand stretched out and the other under her
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hair. It wasn't really hair. It looked more like a pelter, a
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raccoon, just after a shampoo, was fuzzed up on the sides and on
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top. She'd combed it back so tight it was about to go under the
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scale. She began to move a little. When I had been over,
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she started her mumble, what do you want the red? If you're gonna
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stay long here, put your head up, and mister Novak, it's too
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late to change. Where's Agnes Bolton? Where's you go? Mister Novak?
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I don't know where she went? Was she a good girl? Something's happened
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to her? Don't worry, it won't happen again. Who sent you here?
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Max Hunter? Yeah? Please help me. Come on, I'm Franz
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seeing Kane. I came to find out about Agnes Bolton. You're a deep
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sleeper. What happened? You wouldn't know her? I would if she's a
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tall blond. I'm to make for that green bag. Who is she?
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Joan Hayward and find her at the Geary Theater. She an actress, not
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exactly uh her straight talent's mister Novak a dimensional rather than dramatic. Your smutch'll
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stay away from her. Don't tell him any more, friend, he's payed
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up. Hello, hunter, you over sold men. Give me back the
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two hundred. I'm gonna give you lots for your money. Don't include Agnes
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Bolton. I don't know I think about her? Is that a lie?
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Might be? Here's a green bag Joan Hayward has it? Is that a
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lie? The little guy didn't think, so she left him dead in my
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car. Let's go for it. Now you're in a hurry. Man,
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you're not. I hope you're like you're off of snow bak huh, because
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this is where you're going to spend the night. Don't let him feel bad,
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lady. It must have been his turn. When I left, he
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was crumpled up against the desk, and she was staring down at him as
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if she forgot the water the plants. When I rode by the Gary Theater,
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it was dark, so I looked up Joan Hayward's address. When I
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got out to her place, I knew I'd made a mistake. The landlady
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clutched her bathrobe like a bar of solid gold and told me Joan Hayward left
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the house ten minutes ago. There was a cave at the corner, and
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he said he dropped her at the Gold Bar Club a few minutes before.
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I got down there about one o'clock, and Hellman was wandering around, stopping
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every few feet as if he expected to hear something. The bar was dark
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except for a light over on one side and over near the jukebox. Joan
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Hayward was stretched out, as dead as a deer on a fender. At
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first, Helman didn't pay attention when I walked in. I stood there for
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a while and looked at Joan Hayward. She still looked pretty, accepting the
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dim lighter skin looked coarse and reminded you of a piece of felt that was
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almost worn out. But the rest was all right. And Helman came over
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for another look. What did you forget, novak? My black tie?
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How did it happened? The bar was closed? Where were you crawling out
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from under your thumb? We're going to keep that car and it was quick
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poison. Yeah, we found a needle in her coin purse. She didn't
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know about it and ran into trouble when she started to call up. You
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better find this guy, Max Hunter. That's going to be hard. Yeah,
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there is no Max Hunter. Does she believe that your sugar friend came
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in with a card. We went over the fingerprints that belonged to Jackie Wren.
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He's wanted for espionage for more than that. Now, Helman, maybe
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where have you been? Lork? Helman stopped needling me. I won't go
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on the block for her. Don't you like her? I got an alibi
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you can't break. I've been all over town. Ask your tale, ask
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your tale where I've been? That won't get it? Huh, he reported
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into eleven thirty. You got the wrong idea. No vac you don't wait
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over time. M When I left there, I knew everything was downhill.
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Helman could stick me for everything, but Dan McGrew. My only out was
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to find Jackie Wren. But you can't ring that many doorbells in one night.
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I went through the book, but there was no Jackie Wren or Max
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Hunter listed. I went home to get some sleep, and if they turned
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Gabriel loose tonight, I was all right with me. Jacko called up about
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nine and said there was still no trace of Wren. Well, some mornings
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you can't trust yourself with a razor. So I got dressed and went down
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to the Greeks on Geary Street for breakfast. The murder was all over page
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one, but there were so many pictures of Hellman you couldn't tell who was
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dead. I was about halfway through breakfast when I noticed the story down on
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a girl named Tony Pritchard had been found dead out in the marina. The
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story said everybody like her. The police didn't have a lead and they couldn't
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find a reason. Seemed kind of funny, but when I got to the
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last paragraph, I began to wonder. It said she was employed by the
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Music Tone Company and worked the late shift as a switchboard operator. I wasn't
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sure, but you can't pass the dice when you only got a buck left.
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So I jumped down to see Frank Lupo. He said the Music Tone
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Company owned the jukebox in the Gold Bar Club, that it worked like all
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the rest. People use a little microphone in front of the box they call
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into a main switchboard for songs. I grabbed jock O. When we got
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up to the music toone company. The guy in shard said, sure.
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They recorded some of the talk just to check on the girls, and sometimes
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the girls did it just for laughs. All We started through the recordings,
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and about half hour later, Jocko rolled a seven. Now, Patsy,
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they're all old ones. Try this. Yeah, I'll put it down.
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I'll handle the needle. Huh there, crazy Jackie, sh'll know somebody's wrong.
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Let me out. You'll get into trouble. I don't want you to
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get into Jackie. Would you let me worry to get back to the hotel.
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Let me to the Kentwood right after lady coming out. You made a
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mistake, John, it's one type of Sure, that's enough, Jocko,
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that's got up the Kenwo. Why don't we think it over a while.
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Put the record down and come on there at the Kenwood. You heard the
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shots. That's what I'm worried about. If that fellow's any kind of a
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mechanic, he's had time to reload. I got down at headquarters and told
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Helman why that girl Tony Pritchard lost her vote. We rode out to the
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Kenwood and Hellman started through the register. There was no Jackie Wren listed and
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we didn't have any better luck with the girl. I briefed the desk clerk
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and he said he thought there were two people in the hotel who looked like
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that, but he didn't know their names. Well, all we could do
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was wait for him to show. So Helman and I walked down the street
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and slid into the car. Must have been about three o'clock and for the
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next four hours we sat in there. About seven o'clock it began a rain
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harder, and it wasn't easy to see the front of the kinlin. I
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got out to wipe the windshield, and that was a mistake because just then
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the door of the hotel swung open. The girl came out first, and
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then Jackie Wrenn. He saw me ride away, and the two of them
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jumped over to the curb and got into a car. Riding with Helman's just
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about as safe as eating an arsenic sandwich. When we got to the corner,
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they turned east and started down bush. It wasn't easy to stay behind
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him. The rain was hitting a windshield and it was like trying to see
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through a mint julip. When we got past Jones, Helman began to close
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in. It must have scared Wren too much because it stocked and he swung
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the car around with Helm and a few feet behind him. It was a
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dead end both ways. You can't get out. Now open the door.
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Yeah, there he is over in the wall over here, Helman hills down
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in the bankment on the other side. You can't. It's too steep the
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side you see him. No, lady's around. I think you got a
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chance now, Rayn coming out. I don't like you that well, mister
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over Ever about the embankment and you see the girl, she's with him over
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the one side, Move up in front or you're confused, Helman, I
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pay the taxes. It's gonna hurt from now on. Ran I'm coming over.
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I hope you'll make a copper all right, copper, unless you want
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to meddle. I'm through. You don't need the gun, then get rid
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of it. Just toss it over there, can't even lift my arm.
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Throw it down, mister Jackie. Please throw it right at your cop ran
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Seed. You're crazy. You want to get Craig. You let him kill
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me. He's going over that embankment. You let him kill me, right,
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No, Jackie, please, Jackie. I tried to stop you try
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to stop your jack No, she's going over. Gave me alone, Jackie.
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I want you rubber, I want you to let me up. Jackie
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long Way don Yeah, too bad. Her name wasn't Jell. The last
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I saw Frand Scene, she was lying down at the bottom of the rain.
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Her head was over to one side, and you knew with a little
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pushy that'd rolled around as easy as a ball bearing on a plate. Her
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face was clean, but the rain was beginning to wash the dirt down,
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and when I left, she wasn't pretty anymore. Jackie ran out, lasted
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at her by a few hours, and Helman used them all. Agnes Bolton
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was carrying government papers bound for China. The poor people were split into teams.
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Jackie, you were in and France Scene were trying to outbid Joan Hayward
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and the little guy. The way Jackie had it, figured he'd find out
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what ship they were going out on and pick it up from there. Joan
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Hayward knew he was dealing with me, so she followed me after I left
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that barber shop. She saw me park the car and that garage and tailed
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me down to the bowling alley. She planted the needle in Agnes Bolton's purse,
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and the little guy tagged along behind, waiting for something to happen,
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Just to be on the safe side in case anything went wrong. Joan doubled
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by the office and gave Francine a headache. When the little guy got the
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green bag, he took it to Joan. It was too good to split,
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so she killed him and left him in my car. Well then made
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a mistake when Jackie called her up and asked her to come down to the
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gold Bar club. She bought. This story would have worked out fine for
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Jackie if he hadn't talked in front of that microphone, but a nosy girl
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heard it and try to put the screws on him. Well, Hellman asked
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only one question about that conversation between Jackie and the girl. Why would a
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person say anything that private in front of a microphone. I don't know,
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but I told him about a couple of others Jacque and I heard he didn't
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say anything. But I'll bet he gets ahold of those records and plays him
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every night before he goes to sleep. The Welcome Back. Well, this
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probably has some of the more nasty putdowns in the course of the whole series,
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which given the situation, how Novak could be that does say something.
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By the way, the lost episode was called Lola Maddin, and it was
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kind of an unusual situation where we actually had a script out there for most
31:44
of the show, even though it was lost. And when I first played
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this show, nobody had actually gone ahead and performed it, but the American
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Radio Theater. In August of twoy thirteen, they released their own version of
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the Lola Madden story. I can't play it for you, but you can
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check it out at a mayor ad dot Lipsen. That's m E r A
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D dot Lipsen l I B s y N dot com. I will say
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that, and they recorded released that August first, twenty thirteen. I will
32:28
say that there is no comparing this to the original, but I think that's
32:36
a very high standard. Uh. You know, even if you don't particularly
32:40
care for the show it was. It's a difficult thing that, you know,
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someone who might be able to do a typical detective show would kind of
32:50
struggle with I was was kind of what I found interesting about it is they
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went with Jocko with a more stereo, a typical Irish sort of accent,
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which while I love to tutor od it was kind of an interesting take.
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But you can listen to it. Ameriad dot Libson dot com. Let me
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know what you think, if you enjoy it or if you don't. Like
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I said, I don't think it anyway compares with the original, but I
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appreciate them recording it so we have an idea of what that performance sounded like.
33:28
All right, listener comments and feedback anti comments on Facebook. I love
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his running pattern. This is regarding Pat Novak, the words and the phrasing
33:38
and how he twists a sentence into a photo. Well, I'm glad you've
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enjoyed the series. We actually only have three more episodes to go, which
33:47
will be to some listener's delight and some listeners chagrin. So the question always
33:53
becomes, what's coming up afterwards? The answer is yours truly, Johnny Doller.
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We have uh, we've been through Johnny Dollar performances by em And O'Brien
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and John Lone as well as Charles Russell, with several of these from that
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era being missing at the time we recorded, but since that time there have
34:17
been some episodes from particularly the John Lon era. We have two episodes that
34:29
have been recovered, and one episode we had that was only available as a
34:35
rehearsal recording we have a full recording of. And then we have a new
34:39
episode from the O'Brien era. So we will be bringing you, uh starting
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in four weeks Johnny Dollar the lost episodes. UH, so be sure and
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listen for that, and coming up this Saturday, the first episode in existence
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of dragging that be sure and listen. Then in the me time, sends
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