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All right, Well, now it's time for us to get into Pat
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Novak for Hire. This is our the first time we have run through a
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series the second time. We're not going to run through every single episode.
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I'll get into what we're running through in a second. For those of you
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who didn't listen, weren't listening the first time when we ran through Pat Novak
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for Hire at the beginning of the series. The first version of Pat Novae
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for Hire was born in the fall of nineteen forty six, and there was
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a lot going on. The Hard Boiled Detective was starting to get huge over
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radio. It we got in nineteen forty five with Dick Powell and Rogue's Gallery,
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but nineteen forty six saw the edition of series such as The Fat Man
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and William Gargan in Ideal in Crime, and perhaps most famously of all the
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Adventures of Sam Spade. The Hard Boiled stories were defined by more action,
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sarcastic and unique dialogue, a lot of tough guy talk. But what also
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was going on in nineteen forty six was that KGO Radio in San Francisco was
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trying to establish San Francisco as a radio programming hub along with cities such as
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New York, Chicago, and of course Los Angeles. These efforts were mostly
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unsuccessful, as they didn't tend to produce very high quality programming, but there
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was an exception and it also created some opportunities. Jack Webb came to work
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it for KGO in nineteen forty six out of the Army, and because of
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the experimental nation nature of the work they were doing there, he got to
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try a lot of things. He began with One out of Seven, a
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news and commentary program, and after seven weeks he moved to a comedy show
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called The Jack Web Show. That comedy variety series aired for five months until
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he joined with Richard Breen to create the character of Pat Novak for Hire.
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Pat Novak for Hire took all of the existing tropes of hard boiled private detective
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shows and took them to the next level in a series that quickly became a
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favorite with fans. Was one of the true dramatic hits off of KGO.
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However, writer Richard Breen left for Hollywood and Weba followed him. KGO tried
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to continue the West Coast syndication of Pat Novak with a different rider and with
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Ben Morris in the role. However, Pat Novac for Hire wasn't that one
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of those shows you could just hand off to another writer and actor, certainly
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not with the talent that was available in San Francisco at the time. In
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forty seven, Web was tapped for a series called Johnny Madeiro Pure twenty three
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by the Mutual Network. The series was nearly identical to Pat Novac, so
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much so that they needed to change the show in order to avoid being sued
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by ABC over it. Web continued to have a lot of great success in
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Hollywood, had a few outstanding performances on suspense or on Escape excuse me with
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a shipment of Mute Fate and Operation for de Leize. Beyond this, most
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of his roles as early part of his Hollywood career from forty seven to forty
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nine centered around crime. He played intelligent police foils in Murder and Mister Malone,
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which we heard recently, and also in the syndicated Michael Shane series The
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New Adventure of Michael Shane, as well as playing some hoods and detectives who
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were both on the good and bad side of the law. Also played in
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a series called Jeff Reagan Investigator that ran the second half of nineteen forty eight.
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That series ended but would later be revived and ABC had an offer for
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Web to return to the role he created in Pat Novak for a series that
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would be nationwide, and so a twenty week series of Pat Novak dramas were
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set up. People outside of the Western States, this was their first time
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hearing the series and it definitely left an impression over the course of the next
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eighteen weeks. We're going to take a listen to this run of Pat Novak
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for Hire, although two episodes are lost, including the first episode which was
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entitled John Singer, and this was actually the series that aired right before Web
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would originate Dragnet. In fact, Web actually did Pat Novak for Hire and
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Dragnet. Both series were running for four straight weeks, and so we're also
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trying to replicate that part of the listening experience here. So we've been long
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winded in the introduction. Let's just go ahead and get into it and take
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a listen to Pat Novak for Hire. From February twentieth of nineteen forty nine,
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The Jack of Clubs, Ladies and Gentlemen, The American Broadcasting Company brings
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to its entire network on a radio's most unusual programs Pat Novack or Hire.
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Oh sure, I'm pat Novak for hire. That's what the sign on in
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front of my shop says, Pat Novak for hire. Down here in the
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San Francisco waterfront. Of it's gotta be that way. You gotta rob a
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few graves if you want cigarette money. You need lots of work and roomy
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sleeves if you're going to play a pat hand. Sometimes in a good week
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we can duck trouble three or four days in a row, and then it
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creeps up on you in like an old charge account. Well I should have
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known that. When I went to the bank, I was up to my
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knees in mud and didn't even know it was rainy season. It was Tuesday.
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I went by the bank and drop a hundred bucks. It was about
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time because they were beginning to play handball with my checks. Must have been
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about eleven o'clock when I got to the window. Hell no, mister Novak,
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isn't it a grand morning? If it's your choice, stay with it,
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ah, Yes, deposit a hundred bucks. Yes, let me get
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to your car. It's right here, I think, yes, here,
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we are all right. One hundred bucks. Give me a dupe with it,
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will you? Certainly, my this isn't as big as the vast deposit.
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Look, bloomer girl just marked the slip. Huh. Oh, I'm
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sorry, mister Novak. I yes, I'm not used a thousand dollars deposits?
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What thousand dollars your Friday deposit? I wasn't in here Friday. Oh
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you must have been. The card says you put in one thousand dollars on
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Friday. Give me that card. What did Sadah look like? But I
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will put the dough in? What the guy look like? Oh didn't you?
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No, Look, we'll double back and try to hang on this time
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when you I wasn't in here Friday. I don't know anything about an extra
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grand I. What did the guy look like? I wasn't on guilty Friday.
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Yeah, I'm not even sure about the fellow today? What fella?
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There was a man in here to ask about the account? Did this good
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fairy have a name? No, just credentials. He was from the FBI
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ier. See is there anything wrong mister? No? No, I don't
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mind that complexion. I forgot my foundation cream. Oh I should have known
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right then A mysterious gram tossed into the till, and I didn't wake up
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the trouble. But I'm a smart boy who'd be the village idiot in the
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town the size of New York. Well, I left the bank and went
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up to my apartment. That thousand bucks was already drawing interest. When I
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came in. She was sitting on the couch drinking my whiskey. She could
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have all she wanted, a nineteen forty nine panther model pissed the right amount
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of size twelve in a dress that looked like a well tailored fig leaf.
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When she was through, looking over, you felt like the Sunday supplement.
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Hello, mister, I like your problem. That's good. The view is
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wonderful. Those yours? What's on your mind? How about a drink?
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How poor you talk? My name is Connie Riley? Make me want too?
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Sure as you were saying, my name is Connie Riley. Yeah,
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well I've memorized that much. Gone, here's your drink. Thanks, puts
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it out all right over next to me. I won't buy it, it's
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too bad. Go on, Well, here's new bank account. Patsy look
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sick. If you're here just for the field trials, all right, But
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if you've got to build goods, trot it out. I will I want
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that card too, Patsy, I want it ahead of Chris. I'll catch
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up with another drink in the meantime, you fill in and help me with
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you. Stop sitting on your hands. Angel. You didn't get that thousand
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bucks with the sweat of your brow yet somebody patted your account. So you'd
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be a nice boy. I want you to be nice boy for me at
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the same rates. The Monterey Rose docs today a passenger named Kirk to me
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is carrying a jack of clubs, and it means a lot to me.
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It doesn't mean a thing to me, except the FBI is on my tail.
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Mister Novak, you're turning a momentary advantage into a crow ball. You
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take your deal to some other broker. You're in business whether you like it
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or not. Patsy, You're gonna stub your toe either way. Only to
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me, it'll be more fun. How about the FBI. You've been frightened
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by a group of bureaucrats. That's what Trotsky thought. How much, Patsy,
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how much for that cord? When you get it? The price is
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a grand You're an amusing guy, Patsy, Yeah, a grand I can
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afford to be you don't even know what the Jack of Clubs is all about.
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You never heard of Kirk to me though five minutes ago. But you
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take things in striders at the whole world belong to you. You're like Adam
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when you first spot of the gardeners. These all right, little leave it's
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a thousand bucks. Remember you're sitting on my doorstep. Now either go one
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home, we're coming in the house. Good, I'll take the cad that's
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your prize. Not relax, hm, I'll bet you can't pour me another
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drink? Fancy yeah, sure, in a minute. What comes next?
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I get three guesses, you've got time to take them. I won't need
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them all. What's up to you? Come here? Did you ever hear
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of the early bird? Do I make a nice worm? You're a wriggle
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like one. Aren't you raising the prize? A little miss? To know
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that straight? Eighteen percent? Darling. That's too bad. I wasn't even
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gonna scream. The next place I live is gonna be a cave. Just
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a minutely, hello novak, oh hellman? Oh? Well, am I
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interrupting anything? No? We were just going over an old seed catalog.
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Miss Riley, missus inspector Helman. San Francisco Police, Good morning, inspector.
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Don't bother to arrest me. Now, I'm just leasy, so soon
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my sentiments. Bye bye, Patsy. You can get me at the concert
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on push she so you're around? Sure, well you're slipping, Novak,
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no rain check? All right, funny man, what's your problem? You?
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Do you ever see this guy before? Let me see. He's an
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awful looking thug. Yeah, who is it? Your father? A guy
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by the name of Max Coleman. The FBI trailed him to your bank Friday.
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They think he gave you a thousand bucks. Yeah, where'd you get
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the thousand bucks? Novak? What do you care? Helman? Maybe a
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relative, maybe a made nants. Nobody's related to you. Novak. You're
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on a gam lover, and I'm here to push your father in. Max
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Coleman buys his groceries with foreign do what are you weeping about? Arrest the
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guy if you don't like him. This government microfilm come in on the Monterey
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Roads. That thousand bucks makes you a contact man for Coleman to send the
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FBI over them. Where do you fit in waiting for somebody to drop some
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loose change? You're my project Novak. When they asked us for help,
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I stuffed the ballot box to get you. Yea, So relax. I'm
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want to spend the rest of the day here. You're not going to leave
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the living room. I got to spend the day with you. I'll take
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knockout drops, shoot yourself. That's just that's good, Scott. You wouldn't
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know the cheap liquors out in the kitchen closet. That's for you, all
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right. Oh, by the stove of him, that's right. What are
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you keep in here? Novak? Mops? And where'd you buy this one?
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What are you talking about? Where did you buy this one? Smart
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man? Hellman wasn't right. I could tell right away it wasn't a mop
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when Helman pushed him out here, rolled out on a littlenoleum for a little
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guy, except for a piece of cord around his throat tied in a funny
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knot. It was deader than a broken drum. Somebody pulled too hard on
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that piece of cord. The vians were standing out in his forehead, and
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his face looked like a roadmap lying there on the floor. It wasn't pretty.
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Hellman thought so too. Who is he? Novak? Your father.
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I've never seen him in my closet before. Hellman, finders keepers. You
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roll him? Yeah, there's nothing there. Where is his wallet? You'll
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get there by instinct? Yeah, yeah, yeah, here it is.
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His name is Kirk Toomey. That helps? Who is he? The guy
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on the mono ray Rose, the one with the micro film? I guess
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I thought you didn't know anything about it. How do you know it came
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from the mono rail roads my dream book, Helman. What happens now?
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Nothing except I'm on the case now and you've got trouble in a major key.
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You don't think I killed this guy? I don't know, did you?
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You better hop off and tail led girl? She was making herself at
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home when I got here. Yeah, how do I know? You're not
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in it together? It don't co her. Maybe she's lobanim Leopold. When
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you're through with her, you might hit the mono ray and start looking for
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a jack of Club some more dream book, Novak. Everybody's looking for a
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jacket Club's Helman. It must be the end of the rainbow. That's where
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you're gonna find that microfilm. In the meantime, you stay handy, Novak.
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I want to split you with the FBI. You don't think I'm gonna
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take the rap for junior here, do you? It says that in my
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book, it's relaxed until I'm ready to pick you up. I only have
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to find a couple of things. Well, it'll be a long time,
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Helman. You can't find your hip pocket with radar. Yeah, I'll be
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around soon, Novak, I'll bother to pack your bags. You'll be traveling
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like well. When Hellman left, I knew I was a second division club
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that phony plan in the bank to tie up with Max Coleman. And that's
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stiff in the kitchen. Me look real bad. I had to do something
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in a hurry, because the way things stood, I had about as much
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chance as a lawn party in a monsoon. There were a lot of bases
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to tag, so I looked up jock O Madigan, a next doctor who
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invented the hangover, but a good guy. I finally found him over in
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North Beach, a little joint called Loopos. He was eating pizza with one
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hand and strangling a bottle of wine with the other. Hello, Patsy,
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oh frank bottle of wine from Mission Nofak No, I'm short on time,
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Jocko, that's the way you're wrong, Patchy. People always say it,
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but it's a lie. Will you calm down a minute. You will say
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you're short on time, but you have all the time there is. It's
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the one thing that keeps you from being the biggest. There are only twenty
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four hours in the day, and that gives you as much time as Napoleon
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or Alexander Head. Would you shut up a minute and put on that wine.
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I'm celebrating, Patsy. I'm celebrating mission day. Mission day's over.
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I'm a native son. We celebrate longer. Now. Look I'm behind the
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eight ball again. Isn't it getting kind of crowded back there? What's the
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matter? Somebody strangled the guy and put him in my broom closet. When
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did you find him? I didn't, Helman did. There's a girl named
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Connie Riley looks good for the job. Why doesn't Helman Booker? Then he's
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still picking up the pieces. The dead guy is Kirk Toomey. He was
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set to smuggle in some microfilm that says here, I'm contact you gotta help
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me, Jocko, You've got me confused with the travel agency. I want
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you to hop down a headquarters. Get all the dope you can on this
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guy to me. I'm gonna look up Connie Riley. How did she get
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in the picture? What difference does it make? She's a wrestler. I'm
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at this morning. I get out of headquarters, will you? That's why
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I like you, Pets. You like a piece of blank verse, A
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bad piece of blank verse. All right, Jocko, I'm gonna make like
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a strip of bacon. If I don't get going, I stay close to
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headquarters. If anything looks good, contact me at Connie Riley's here at this
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address. All right? How many times shall I knock? Love it?
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I left, Jocko and dropped by the apartment. I was smart and full
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of courage, like a field mouse. At Bay. The police had already
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been there. There was fingerprint powder all over. The two bottles of whiskey
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were going. They'd moved Laughing Boy out of the kitchen, and so I
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sat on trying to add things up. I had a short list of friends
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to see, Connie, Max Coleman, and whoever this guy Chris was.
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I had to show up with one of them or approved that Kurt Toomey hung
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himself in my closet. I was getting ready to borrow a piece of cord
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myself and the phone rang. Yeah, helmet, I'm thrilled. What's on
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your mind? I just call on your go friend. What you say?
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Nothing? She wasn't there? Has him been there since ten o'clock this morning?
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That's funny. Yeah, you know where she is? How would I
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know? Just thought she might be in your closet. Picked up too many
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stuff on the Monterey roads. Yeah, would you find on the usual stuff
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a few closed I'm shaving equipment to razor blades, to the past. And
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the pack of playing cards, pack of cards, well you know where to
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go from their helmet, I thought I did grab that jacket clubs? Will
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it ten of hots do? Uh huh? That's right, Novak, a
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nice fat deck. The jacket clubs is missing. Oh you're always too little,
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too late, helmet. I just thought I let you know, friend,
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in case you started a bridge game with fifty three cards in the deck.
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Good night. Oh I was losing money fast, like a street carnival
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and death valley. Well, one or two things happened. Somebody got on
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that boat and took the jacket clubs while Toomey was at my apartment, or
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maybe he brought it with him. If he brought it with him, Connie
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was a possibility, or somebody that got there ahead of Connie. Well,
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anyway, I had to work fast now because whoever had that card wasn't gonna
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put it on a market street float. About ten minutes later I got across
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Union Square and up Bush Street. When I got to Connie's apartment, it
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was about ten o'clock. I got in the back door and started through.
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She wasn't there, So I went to work looking for that jacket clubs.
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It was real easy. I tried the desk and then her bureau drawer.
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You know, I black Chiffon's coming Back in style, because that's where I
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found a card. It looked nice nestling there. Put it in my pocket,
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and that's as far as I got. You run the Lisery County here.
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Know they sounded like a guy named Chris. If it makes you feel
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goot it should we put on the light? No, no, let's stunt.
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Put on the light. His gun might upset you. The police are
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looking for you, Chris. You need more than the dark. I understand
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they're looking for you. Nove that Riley go kind of you on a spot.
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Tell you what I'll do though, Yeah, you'll give me a thousand
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dollars for the jacket clubs. I started to say five hundred around here.
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That's a whisper and even grand mister, you're trying to collect too many places
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want the five hundred. No, I don't all right, but I think
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you're a bum business man. Jacko found me catnapping on Connie's bare rug.
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Must have been right after the sapping. When I woke up, Jacko was
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thumbing my head like a housewife with a bull of margarine. I fell around
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and waited for him to put the floor in again. I reached in my
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pocket. The jacket Clubs was gone, and I started to talk Jocko,
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did you expect someone better help me up with you? I've helped you get
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up so much. I feel like one of the right brothers. I just
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lost round three. Yeah, I saw him getting into the car. Did
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you get a number like Hellman has got yours? Here? It is anything
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breakdown at homicide. They got all the dope on to me. They had
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to piece it together. He had no fingerprint record, and they finally confilmed
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things with a set of false teeth. What does it prove? Nothing much
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except you probably killed him. He was a foreign agent who picked up microfilm
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at Shanghai. Your girlfriend is pretty Did they find her? Yeah? Dead?
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No, Patsy, you gotta stop thinking of people who's being dead all
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the time. It's demoralizing what you say. She denied knowing anything about to
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me, Jocko, I'm sure she killed that guy up in my apartment.
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I'd stake my life on it, expertly put patchy. I think Hellman believes
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her, after all, she's the only lead. What about Max Coleman?
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Like I had rigged my bank account? Are they letting him die on the
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vine? I was getting to that your friend Max Coleman has disappeared. I
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thought he was being tailed. The kite got away here used my aspir well.
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I took a boat out to the Monterey Rose, but that was a
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waste of time. Helman had it covered like a car Pallen. I still
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had the license number to Chris's car, but that didn't do any good.
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Even if I found him, all I could do was point my finger.
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There was still a lot of things that didn't fall into place. One of
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them was how come that Jacket Clubs was so easy to find in Connie's apartment.
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She hadn't hit it very well, but after all, maybe that was
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a habit with her. Things didn't look any better. The next morning,
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I went into a restaurant next to the Press Club for some breakfast. The
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chronicle was lying on the counter. We were in second place because it was
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a Torso murder all over page one. That second cup of coffee saved me
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because right after that I spotted it on one of the back pages, a
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picture and a small story about some unidentified guy who had been killed over in
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Oakland. I couldn't match the picture too well with Hellman snapshot of Max Coleman,
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but it looked like my best break so far. I got over to
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Oakland and I went straight to the morgue. The guy in the morgue was
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chatty. Which fella you want to stay? Is? The unidentified guy?
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Must have come in last night? Sure, down this way? Okay?
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How do you like on Maud? One of my favorite It's bigger in San
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Francisco? Yeah I figured that. Sure, most people don't know that,
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but it's true, bigger in San Francisco. Here we are right hand.
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Help me slide it out. Sure, roller bearings makes it a lot easier.
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Here, let me get that sheet. Well, well, recognize him?
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Yeah, what time did he die? Carner's report here on the toe
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tag about eleven o'clock last night? Two gunshots, thirty eight caliber festival.
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That's good. Don't look good to me? Was he a friend of yours
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relative or something? Yeah? A relative? He's my maiden aunt. It
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was Max Coleman, all right, was only half the problem. I had
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some of the answers, but not enough. It's like trying to weave a
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rug with a spinning wheel and a bucket of sand. Well, anyway,
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I got to a payphone and I called Jocko. I told him to run
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down that license number, and I headed back across the bridge. When I
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found Jocko, he said the car was registered in the name of Christopher Downs,
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who lived up on Taylor Street. And that was enough of a lead.
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So I telephoned Helman. It took about a half a minute to draw
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a map. Hello Hellman, talking this novak. You still got Connie Riley
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down there? No, I say, match boxes. Why when did you
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leave last night? About nine thirty? It was smart, Helman? Why
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you better put a guard in her front door, and get up the seven
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twenty Taylor Street. The apartment of Christopher Downs a light entry. Now,
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climb out of that Coleman and get going. I'll meet you up there in
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ten minutes. Street. Yeah, it's up on the hill. That's good,
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Novak, I can roll you all the way down. When Jacko and
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I got up the Down's apartment, there was nobody home. I said a
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fast prayer for Connie, and I began going through down stuff for a thirty
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eight caliber revolver. Jacko was looking too over in the liquor cabinet. That's
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as far as we got. Scavenger hunt, mister Novak, Hello, Chris,
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you haven't seen a thirty eight are on? Just one that's in my
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pocket, the same one that killed Max Coleman. You're gonna run out of
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breath, Novak, Slow down. I'm in second already, mister. I
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can't stop, and you won't mind a short ride out the door and down
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the back stairs. Should we bring the lap robe. There's nothing to worry
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about. It's a short trip. You won't even have to wire other folks.
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We went down the back way and into the garage next door. We
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started for a big car in the corner. All right, get in out
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the airport road, Sure, I relax, snowback from here. You look
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like a duck in the pond. All right, Joe, watch time,
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job Joe? Why top is another car coming in? You're right, Chris,
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it was a short ride you all right? No back, stop acting
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like a mother, hen Helm and take this guy's gun, all right,
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mister good at who is he? Christopher Downs? He killed Max Coleman last
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night? Does he convince you, mister, not entirely? Well? Thirty
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eight? Will the open police have two slugs to fit that gun? You
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need more? Now, I'm afraid you've got all the trump snow back,
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all right, let's go you. Let's see you earn that copp upping Know
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that he ain't going far well, Helman, Now you can arrest him for
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jay walk. Yeah, it's too bad. He could have told you a
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lot about that stuff in my closet. Well, go pick him up,
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Helman, and don't forget that jacket clubs in his pocket. Well it worked
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out all right. I left Helman, dropped my headquarters to leave a note,
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and I went home to my apartment. Connie was there. The whiskey
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was out again. She looks real good sitting there in a white crape dress.
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It was one of those tight fitting babies that make a bathing suit look
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like a toga. I told her all about Chris and Max Coleman, and
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we forgot about everything but the Olympics. And she put her arms around you.
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It was a real squeeze. It felt like an old tube of shaving
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cream. I was pouring a drink from the doorbelly. Hello Helman, You
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ready to know that? Sure, but don't stand there gaping arrested for murder.
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Wait a minute, slow down, Patsy. All right, chum,
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it's you were me. I'll be a nice boy, I am. That's
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why you go to Helman. Come on, lady, do you think of
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an answer for that guy that you left in my closet. I didn't leave
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any guy in your closet. You'll have to say it louder, baby.
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They found the story about the cord. That cord came out of your kitchen.
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You're a big mouth cold yeah, you can put that in both face.
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How did you know you're the only one could have taken that jacket clubs
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here in the apartment. That and one other thing. Yeah, that not
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in the cord. It was a funny not you've got an elastic guarder there.
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It's too big, so you're tied a knod in it. The same
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funny not that choked Kirk Tony. Yeah, a funny guy. I know.
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Yeah, you're nice, but you're a hard handle. I should have
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killed you or married you. Ready helmn m Well, Jacket Clubs was a
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phony right from the start. Somebody told Kirk Toomey to deal with me.
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When he came to my apartment, Connie was waiting. She got jumpy and
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killed him. I got there too soon, so she had to stall me
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off. When she got home she found out that the Jacket Clubs was a
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phone. She left it complaints and Chris gobbled up the bait. When he
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discovered there was no microfilm, he went gunning for Max Coleman. Max was
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an innocent thief, lying low, waiting to buy it from me, So
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all three of them were after a phony. Card I began to suspect it
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was funny because everybody hung around. If it was the McCoy, conne would
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have cleared out the same for Chris. The microfilm, well, it was
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in Hellman's desk, but he didn't know it. Jocko finally tumbled. The
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report said that Kirk Toomey had false teeth. When Hellman picked up his stuff
34:40
on the ship, it was a tube of toothpaste, you know, clean
34:45
false teeth with a toothpaste. The word must have gotten around that the microfilm
34:51
was inside that Jack of clubs, so Kirk crossed him up and put it
34:55
in a tube of toothpaste. Well that's all. Well, accept the canceled
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nine thousand dollars deposits. Hellman said it was lucky I noticed her garter.
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Lucky. Well, she had the street anders scenes, didn't she. The
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American Broadcasting Company has just brought you the second of a new series, Pat
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Novak for Hire, starring Jack Webb. Jock O Madigan is played by Tudor
35:38
Owan. Inspector Helman is played by Raymond Byrne. Music was composed and conducted
35:44
by Radio and Television Life Award winner Basil Adlam. In our cast, We're
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Buddy lou Gerson, Victor Perrin, Ted de Corcia, and Herb Butterfield.
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Today we're happy to welcome a new member of the ABC family as Station Ka
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r M in Presno California joins our network and no, this is George Felenman
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reminding you to be with us again. Next week went over most of these
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same ABC stations. We'll bring you Fat Novak or Hire. This program came
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to you from Hollywood. This is ABC, the American Broadcasting Company. Welcome
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back. Well. I actually I think that was one of the smarter episodes
36:30
of the series terms of Novak's thinking, and even though it's not the first
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episode, it still gives great little looks at Jocko in particular. I liked
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his speech for this week. He always gives interesting philosophical thoughts and of course
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Inspector Hellman. And of course there is much more to come next week,
36:53
so be sure and listen for the next eighteen weeks. So seventeen weeks after
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this for Patnovak for Hire Well coming up tomorrow, yours truly Johnny Dollar continues
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