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Pat Novak: Rita Malloy (EP1306) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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can support the show at support dot Great Detectives dot net. Well, it's
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time now for Pat Novak for Hire and today's episode Rita molloy at Novak or
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Hire. Sure, I'm Pat Novak for hire. That's what the sign out
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in front of my office says, Pat Novak for Hire. Down on the
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waterfront in San Francisco, billing doesn't mean much. Everybody's got the same act.
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They're all out to turn a fast buck. And when you're in business
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down here, everything but murder is a parlor trick. Once in a while,
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your eyelids get sore from winking it too much. But it's a living
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You get to meet the best people in town. There's only one hooker.
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You're able to wake up some morning dead because around the waterfront you don't need
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a Union card for trouble. It sneaks up and pause you like a wet
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ghost. I found that out when I'm at Bruno's Weiss. I closed up
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early Tuesday night and I went home to catch up on last month's sleep.
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I don't know how long I was in bed, must have been about eleven.
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When I woke up, the room was dark and as stale as last
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year's Christmas candy. I had the goofy feeling that somebody was in the room
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with me. I was breathing kind of hard, and I stopped to have
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a listen. Somebody was sitting on my bed. Either that or the landlord
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had put in an echo. I listened again. Hello Novak, you're a
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mixed up friend. I pay the rend here. Get your hands away from
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the light, Novac. Just be a good boy and you can collect your
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old age pension. Oh look, I'm not crazy about waking up a stranger
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sitting on my bed, especially if they got baritone voices, and I say
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your piece and beat it. Don't get jumping, mister. When your eyes
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get used to the dark, you're going to see a gun about the food
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away from your nostrils. I want the keys to your boat, Novak.
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Get them in the morning at twenty five bucks a smell. I want them
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now. Just tell me where they are. I'll do the rest. Don't
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get big hearted. I don't want chaddaring cocktails. I want those keys.
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Unless you want your face to look like a rump rost, you'll start talking.
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The keys in the bottom drawer of the desk. That's the boy.
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I'm gonna borrow your boat a while. You get it back by noon tomorrow.
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There's the boat keys. Two of them are the rest open the front
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door of the US Mint. Sorry, I can't stay around, Novack.
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You sound like a card slip tight noway, this will have to do for
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a lulla by. He didn't even give me time to pick a dream.
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I stretched out on the floor as dead as a Philadelphia nightclub. I don't
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know how long I stayed out of the ballgame. Must have been a couple
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of hours, because when the phone rang it was past midnight. I reached
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over to pick it up, but my hands were as steady as a maple
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leaf and a hurricane, and my head was big enough to sell to the
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pound. I finally found it in the dark and started talking Hello, Hello,
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No, that this is Joe paus down a pinnip You awake, Sure,
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groggy, it's a sedative. What's on your mind? One of your
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boats just dripped it in. Guess what I don't have to it's smashed up,
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and you want to offer me fifty bucks salvage. Hey, that's right,
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No bag, you psyche. I'm a patsy. You mean some gun
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still barrowed the boat a couple of hours ago, came in here. It
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told me a bedtime story and took the keys. You better hop right down
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here. It'll keep Joe. No, I won't hurry up, or you'll
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run it that heat with homicide. There's a bad guy in the boat.
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It must be my playmate. I don't know. I didn't say, would
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you better grab a cat and get on down here. There's gonna be a
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lot of questions. Sure, if you made any good answer, save a
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couple from me. From now on, there was no waste motion. I
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knew that if homicide was on the case, that meant inspector Hellman. He's
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a real nice guy if you like his type. I had to do something
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soon. If I didn't, I'd have about as much chance as a pound
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of liver at a cat show. So I jumped into some clothes and I
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was starting out of the apartment when I missed my wallet. The keys were
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attached, and that gunstil had taken the whole works. I began to get
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mad. For seventy bucks, you can get a Scotch hangover instead of the
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kind I had, and if you're lucky, a couple of good memories.
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So when I drew up at Peer nineteen, it didn't look like the sunny
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side of this street. Joe Powers was waiting for me. You got the
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first m Patsy, homicide hasn't showed yet. Full of luck tonight? Where's
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the boat right over here? Lots of fog tonight on, Joe, you're
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walking on it? Well, that is, how's your insurance, Patsy?
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All right, except I'm not carrying any on that dead guy? Who is
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he? Joe? Oh no, he's your passenger. You roll him,
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all right, give me a hand, No push him over? On the
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other side. Well you so I can get him the pocket. See's the
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same guy that took the keys. I don't know if he is. He
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never looked lovely here. Nothing in this pocket. This one's empty except for
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a comb. You sure spent my seventy bucks in a hurry. Must have
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thrown in the wallet for a night camp. No identification. You should have
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bought a scorecard. Hey, hey, here on the floor, Let me
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see that Joe, Room four to twenty five, Royal Arms Hotel. Who
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is it? That's a dive down on Turk Street. Well, say hello
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to homicide for me. Well, you're not right the night, no vank.
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I'm not gonna stay around here. They'll pick me up faster than a
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gin fizz. What am I gonna tell anything? You like? Joe,
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shift in a free wheeling and let him follow. But I'm not gonna hang
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around for a pinch. I won boat in seventy bucks. Short, tell
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it to homicide. I don't like manual labor that much. See you later.
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I started for the Royal Arms Hotel, and on the way I picked
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up the only honest guy I know, a bottle baby by the name of
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Jack o'madigan. He's a good man, except he thinks it's a waste of
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the taxpayer's money to put alcohol in torpedoes. I hauled him out of the
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hunt Room bar and we walked down the street to the Royal Arms Hotel.
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It was the perfect spot for a missionary. A lobby looked like the first
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act of rain. There was a pinball machine in one corner, a couple
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of last year's girls and this year's slacks, and a bleary eyed little night
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clerk. He looked like a well groomed laundry bag, and he gave us
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the fish eye as we started upstairs. Groom four twenty five was down at
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the end of the hall. Chocolate didn't care if we ever got there.
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PETSI, we have no business coming up here. We're in search of fool's
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gold or in search of my seventy bucks exactly. I view you as my
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penance, Patsy, the sackcloth for a misprint life. If you can shake
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off that buzz, you'll find out I'm in trouble. You'll always be in
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trouble because you're a Patsy, and you're dangerous because you move in the twilight
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zone between good and evil without any predisposition toward either one. Yea, all
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right, here it is for twenty five. Nobody home. Let's go in.
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It's house breaking. Now. Look, Jocko, I want my seventy
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bucks. I'm going in, Patsy. Sometimes you terrify me. I think
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you'd pick the lock to the gates of heaven. I would if they had
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my seventy bucks. Come on, the guy's dead down in my boat.
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We won't hurt his feelings. He just snows around a minute and get up.
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There was a pretty room if you like dead women on your rugs.
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She was stretched out on a pail of the yellow dressing gown, as quiet
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as an April morning and twice as pretty. A dull red scar ran across
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her temple, where somebody had laid an iron shovel. She didn't belong in
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this hotel because she was wearing a necklace and a bracelet that left a gap
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in somebody's pocket. And from the ring side she looked all right. Jacko
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noticed it too. She has lots of character. Yeah, but where's my
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seventy bucks? She's a nightclub dancer. How do you know? Her picture's
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plastered all over the wall there. She's the headliner at El Palto, Miss
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Rita Malloy. Wonder who the guy on the desk is there? Boyfriend?
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Probably let's get out of here, Patsy. Wait a minute about that dead
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guy in the boat. Where does he fit in? I'll listen to that
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one, Novak, Oh, Helman, what happened to the girl? She
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died? Laughing at you? It's Rita Maloya, piece of change from the
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l Palato got a hat, Novak. Nope, then you're already. Come
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on. I'll get your brain lined up and look at her. She's been
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dead a couple of hours. You're still eligible, Novak. On your way
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down. You can explain that guy at Peer nineteen or you can't be that
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dumb Helmet. I'm smart enough to see you peeking over the eight ball.
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You look like a ten to one shot Novak, and I got my money
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on you all the way. If you're gonna make this thing add up,
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you can't do it alone. I'll try. That's what Purpo said. So
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I don't look good on this one. I'll look worse if I leave it
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up to you. You couldn't find a hang nail if youknew what hander was
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on. You got twenty four hours Novak. I'm gonna piece things together,
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and then I'm gonna make a pinch, pick out a soft spot. Yeah
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yeah, stay near the phone. If it rings and a man answers,
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that'll be homicide. Good night. Hellman was right. I looked like a
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sure bet for the roder Gravia section. I was beginning to run out of
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silver linings, and I knew it. I didn't have an answer for anything.
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The guy in the boat was still a stranger, and Rita Malloy was
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still dead. I was sitting in the middle of a high state game with
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a pair of trays when we left the hotel room. I had the funny
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feeling that there was something wrong back there. I didn't know what. I
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just knew there was something wrong. The way you feel when you pick up
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the wrong hat and put it on the position of the body. Those pictures
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on the desk, I didn't know. But there was one detail. It
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didn't set right well. I told Jocko to hang around headquarters and I started
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for the l Palateo. It was like all the rest, a little melancholy
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bar On Mason, a fire trap with a cover charge. The decorps looked
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like early Franco. The floor show was on as I walk my way up
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to the bar. Excuse me, please, I'm sorry, lady. Can
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I get through here? Please? How about a drink? You all right?
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Dev What do you want? Scotch soda? Water? Water? You've
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got a nice club here, We like it. Eighty cents too bad about
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Reading Aloy? Yeah, you don't seem heartbroken about it. I'm not a
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mother. Eighty cents anything wrong edding? No boys, This guy's crying in
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his beer about reading Maloy? Oh? How many ryans you own the club?
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Apiece of it? My name's Novak. Call me Patsy. At the
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moment the police think I killed read them Aloy when you're going trial, mister,
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no, I don't. That's why I came down here to find out
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which one of your people killed her. She was mixed up to her ears
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with some thick Hudlum. You missed the Novac. No, a guy right
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out of your set. He came rolling in with a tide this morning,
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playing rigor mortis all over my boat. Look, Novak, you better go
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see someone else to tell your troubles too. I'm a busy man, well
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so am I getting out of a murder rap. You knew her, Ryan,
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In fact, I got an idea you knew her pretty well. Let's
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not talk that way about the dead. Your picture splattered all over her apartment
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where you engaged to her. That's one way of putting it. You better
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have a big, fat alibi ready for tonight. Homicide's gonna think you killed
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her. I'm betting on you for the finals, Novak. I don't need
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an alibi. She was a friend of mine. That's why you need one.
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People just hate their enemies, but they kill their friends. You better
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stay out of the public library, Patsy. They're not smart enough to understand
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epigrams. I'm smart enough to find out where you were from ten o'clock at
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Hill midnight. Go ahead, circle around the club, but keep a drink
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in your hand. We want for profit. I didn't get much out of
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the dorm, and he wanted a first mortgage to talk, but one of
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the bus boys opened up. He told me that Ryan and the girl had
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brawled the night before, also that Ryan left the club for about an hour
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tonight. I put him on the list anyway, but it began to look
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more and more like a one horse race, and I got one other lead.
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A clarinet player in the band wanted to harmonize with Fredam Alloy, but
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there wasn't much else to go on. And then I spotted the gall who
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had taken Riadam Malloy's job in the show. She was just finishing her number,
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and so I followed her back to a dressing room and she opened the
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door. I got a nice, warm feeling, like a melded cheese sandwich,
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and I was looking around for a rope to hang on. She was
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pretty, and when she said hello, you knew it was time to send
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in the varsity. Good evening for some people. You mind if I come
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in? It's late in the season. I can't be choosy. I'm Pat
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Novak, I'm Tony Drake. What do I do? Tremble talk? Mostly?
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Did you know read them aloy around here? That was an occupational hazard.
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The police think I killed her. Did you know when I got there
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they were tearing down the goal post. That's too bad. I'd have been
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very grateful. That's something I'd like to try. Are you switching the topic,
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mister Novak? Or have I been in the big city too long?
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I just want to know who killed her? You got any ideas. Nope,
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how about your boss? Maybe she was getting a little frayed around the
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edges. How's his temper? No worse than a cobra's. He might have
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done it, but I doubt it. Anybody else he was putting in a
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little overtime with a thug, not a big porky guy with a deep voice.
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I never saw him. I just heard that he was trying. Must
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have been quite a line anybody else. How about that clarinet player, No
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play, It was just a salmon swimming upstream. I see. Don't do
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me a favor with you, Tony. All right, you only get one,
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so make it a good one. Archilling me for a trip over the
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hill unless I show up with a fist full of answers. Now, can
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you give me a list of all I read them Maloy's friends. I can
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write them all down on a piece of CONFETI I mean everybody close to her,
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the people around the club here, the people on the outside. I'll
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pick it up in a half hour at your apartment, at my Yeah,
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at your apartment. I was just inquiring, not complaining. All right.
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One other thing, Angel, don't forget to put yourself on that list.
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Be seeing you fell, it was good to get out of there. When
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she started walking, George, you you felt like a shovel full of scrap
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iron on a Pittsburgh blast furnace. And I called up Jocko at headquarters.
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He didn't seem to be worried about me. He was thirsty. The guy
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on the boat hadn't been identified yet. The coroner said he died of severe
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bruises, and that Riada Malloy checked out with a factured skull. Jocko Tony
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Drake's number, and I started for an apartment. I couldn't have done better
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with a Laddin's lamp. She had the list and a bottle on hand.
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I went over the list with her, and then it turned out she had
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insomnia. The radio was turned down to room temperature. I was working on
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my fifth drink when the phone rang. He let it ring, pantsy.
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I better get it, baby. I think you are sissy. No prison
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power wouldn't look good on me. Hello. Yeah, are you busy?
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Depends on your point of view. What's up? I am not tearing you
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away from that list of suspects. Let's have it, Jacko. They just
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identified the dead guy on your boat. His name is Bruno Schweiss. He's
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wanted in Miami, Florida. He's a hired gunman. Good now jump over
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and see Paul stangle at the Chronicle, Morgan, I already have. There's
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no tie up between Bruno Schweice and Rita Molloy. There's gotta be. Those
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two killings are tied up like ham and eggs. Helman just got a report
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from the Harbor Patrol. They found a boy knocked out of place. They
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figured your boat did it and Bruno got killed in the crash. What does
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that do to things? Oh, clarifies them enormously. This way, you're
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going to hang for only one murder. Good night, lover. I knew
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Jocko was right. Helman could rig me as long as he had only one
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case to work on. He's a single celled animal, and this was just
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about big enough to fit into his brain. I left Tony's apartment and I
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walked over to the l PALATEO must have been about four o'clock in the morning.
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It was still dark enough for me to kick in a back window without
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being seen. I headed straight for Manny Ryan's office and I started going through
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his stuff. It was like trying to separate a ton of salt and sugar
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dumped in the same bin. I went through most of the drawers, and
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then the last one I got a hold of something. I grabbed the phone
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on Ryan's desk, and I called Helman. You. I wasn't sure,
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but I figured he could try this one on for size anyway, gimme Hellman
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and homicide. Yeah, they must have put their best men on his trail,
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because they found him inside a half hour. I'm in Manny Ryan's office.
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He owns the l Palateo. I just rifled his desk. That's a
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minor offense for you. I got a hold of the last month's phone bill.
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Guess what. It's too high. The office put through two calls to
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key West, Florida the last part of this month, four o'clock. I'm
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fairly interested to go ahead. Bruno's Weiss hired out as a gunman. San
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Francisco is a long way from home. Plate. That means somebody sent for
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him, and you're trying to put the finger on Many Ryan. That's right.
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That's silver frame you picked up at Riadam Malloy's. Take a look at
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the guy in it. That's their boyfriend, Manny Ryan. And we'll check
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on it in the meantime. Keep squirming, Novak, you look pretty.
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Oh you're a smooth Helman. It's my talk's not going to keep you out
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of the chair. Novak's stay handy. We've only got to a short extension
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court. Yeah, well, hello Helman, Hello Loopos. Frank is Jocko
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Madigan there? Good? Put him on. Huh hello Jocko. Now listen.
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I'm up at Manny Ryan's place. Yeah, that's right. I'm not
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sure, but I think that Ryan's My head must have looked like a jackpot.
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Everybody in town was hitting it. I rolled over and played dead for
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about five hours. It feels better when you've had a dress rehearsal. I
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woke up in my apartment. The sun was streaming through the window and hit
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the bed. I looked like the mussl encounter after a sail. It turned
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out I was the host and didn't know it. Jocko was sitting at the
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table having breakfast. The bottle was almost half shot. Good morning, how's
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the other world? Can't you leave that stuff alone? Do you have at
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of course I have a headache. Well I haven't, so stopped lecturing me.
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I get up here. I dragged you here by the heel. I
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met all the other hucksters on the way. Stop being funny and help me
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out. I am the victim of a common error. You don't like me
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because I'm not entertaining when I drink. You don't object to my drinking,
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you object to my lack of wid Well, it's discouraging to be condemned on
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moral principle when it's really a flaw in nature. By the way, I
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think they're going to arrest you for the murder of Rita Maloy. What about
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Ryan? I have recommended clements. Come on, what about Ryan? You
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bungled it. By the time Hellman got to him, he had malibi all
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framed. The calls to key West could have been made by anybody in the
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club, and Ryan's covered for the time of the murder. How about the
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others? They look good too. Your girlfriend, Tony Drake was gone for
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a while the night of the murder. Hellman won't bite. She's just sitting
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there ready to spring an allibi. That's right. With legs like that,
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she can dig up a cousin. You better get worried, Patrick. I
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am. I am the el Palateo is a dead end Street. I don't
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know where to go from there. That guy Bruno when the boat could help.
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There's some connection between Bruno's Weiss and read them, Aloy. You're the
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only connection I can think of. Yeah, Hello, noa, this is
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Helman. Yeah, you were right about Bruno's Weiss and read them, Maloy.
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We just went through her safety deposit box. I'll bet you handle the
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money. She had a clipping on Bruno's Wiss from a Miami paper nineteen thirty
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seven. Go on divorce action between Sweiss and miss Alga Pryor. Did you
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look up Alga Pryor? That's where we run out of gas. Nobody knew
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her, we have no description. Well, how about read them, Maloy?
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Any dope on her before nineteen thirty seven? I was gonna ask you.
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You were in the room with her when she died, don't you know?
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No, I don't. I'm disappointed. I figured you to know a
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little about her habits. You wrote the book, mister. I figured you
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for an answer. Yeah, I got one, and you just gave it
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to me. Helman. Meet me at the El Palateo in a half hour.
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If you're a real good boy, I'll tell you who killed read them,
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Aloy, are you going to be there? Yeah, that's all I
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want to know, Novak. Things were falling into place like a fixed roulette
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wheel. Right from the first I knew that there was something goofy about the
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picture and read them Maloy's hotel room. I wasn't sure. I just knew
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I had something in the back of my mind. I didn't tumble until Hellman
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tipped the met and then everything was cakes and ale. I sent Jocko up
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to room four twenty five in the Royal Arms Hotel and I told him to
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get a description of every dress in the closet. I checked at the desk
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and I got the name of reading Maloy's cleaners. I ducked over there and
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I got a list of every dress that she turned in for three months.
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I met Jocko and we compared the list of dresses. It jibed fine,
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except for one thing. There was a missing white dress. It had been
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to the cleaners before, it wasn't there now, and it wasn't in that
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hotel room. Well. We went over to the l Palateeo to find it.
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Jacko didn't want to buy this scheme at all. Patsy, I protest
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the notion of breaking into a lady's dressing room. Stop worrying, will you?
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She's not gonna be there, then it's futile as well as immodest.
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Besides, how do you know Rita didn't throw away the dress. I'll give
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you better than track odds on that one, Jacko. Here we are,
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Come on. Well, look, you take the closets and find that white
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dress. I'm going through the desk for grease paint. You should be going
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through a woman's closet. It's more in the nature of things. Just look,
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huh, there's enough grease paint here for the Holy Rokoi tribe. Do
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you find anything? Yes, watch this, Just look for the white dress.
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Jacko. Hey, what's that corner over here? Hi? Don't she
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go down here? Look? Well, well it feels good, doesn't it,
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Jacko? Like a spell of perfect weather. Shame grease paint. It
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won't take as long to check here. You open a couple of these jars.
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I don't forget you. Patsy. Hello, Tony, what are you
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doing? Getting ready to build a fire under you? You're gonna make nice
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smoke too. I let your better when you were dumb, Patsy you don't
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look good with a PhD. Put away the gun, baby, Remember this
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is your second trip to the plate with it won't fit. Don't worry about
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that. Just talk it over by the door. I'll do better. I'll
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bring it are. Patsy might take it out. Chump, Patty, stay
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out of my way. It's your role, baby, Patty. Pappy please
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stay away from me. Come on, give me that gun, Pappy,
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please give me that gun. That's all I could do. Yeah, sure,
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you want to take a look at her, Jacko, put it down
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on the floor. Yeah, Oh what do you say, Jacko? No
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dice? Yeah, you can't win them all. Tony, play too rough,
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Patsy. You still got a good batting average. No vacuum. Hello,
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Helman, you better make a fast pinch. She do it? Yeah,
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she got kind of clumsy in the last round, didn't She not at
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all copper. But they had me coming and going, and you're as far
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back as I and they don't pick up the option. Let's get out of
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here, Jacko. I'll check with you later. Helman. Be a good
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boy, Patsy. I'm gonna miss you. We're getting to be my favorite
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hobby. Yeah, I know how you were on the distance stuff. He
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was sure something on the sprints. Yeah, be nice to her copper,
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she could go on the mud herself. Well it was blackmail, of course.
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Tony was once married to Bruno's wife. readA Maloy found out and started
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to squeeze Tony. Well, Tony wouldn't buy that, so she killed readA
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Maloy in her hotel room. She made one mistake. I didn't tumble until
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Hellman mentioned a woman's habits, and I knew what was wrong with that picture
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Back in Maloy's hotel room. It hit me like a discordant note in music.
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readA Maloy was lying on the floor in a dressing gown, but she
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was still wearing her bracelet and necklace. Well, when a woman undresses,
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she always takes her jewelry off first, and then she takes off her dress,
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readam Alloy. I didn't do that, So I took a flyer and
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decided that somebody had taken the dress offer and put on a dressing gown.
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Why, because there was something wrong with a dress. It pointed too much
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in one direction. Well, it could be a lot of things, but
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probably grease pain Tony called Bruno ot here he was supposed to use my boat
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to dump the body, and when he didn't make it, Tony got scared
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and plugged away the dress. My seventy bucks only would have looked better on
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a fixed fight. Well, Hellman asked only one question. How did I
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happen to know that when a woman undresses she always takes off her jewelry first?
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I must have read it somewhere. The arm Puss Radio Service has just
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Inspector Helman is played by Raymond Burke. Music was composed and conducted by Basil
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Radio Service, the voice of information and education sessions professionals Welcome back. Given
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that the show tends to be a bit formulaic, any change in the formula
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is a noticeable and here we see jock O Madigan coming to the story as
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kind of early, but mostly it works. Some nice interaction worked in there
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between Pat Novak and Jocko, and also a pretty clever and authentic clue to
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wrap up the story. All right, Well, we do have some listener
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comments and feedback, and this one here is a comment comes from Dave.
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Love the Pat Novack episodes and look forward to them each week. My favorite
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part is the put down shared between Novak and Hellman. I'd love to be
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able to use some of them toward my boss. And at this point we
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should recommend a note just for legal liability purposes that that's not something we recommend,
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but there's definitely some cleverness in there, and certainly, I guess for
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some people listening at the time, there might have even been some Catharsis in
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it of having Novak tael Off an authority figure, and in many ways,
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I think the Inspector Hellman character and motif really is the worst police figure in
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all radio. And one thing that Bring really does try to do is to
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make the character as bad as possible without making him corrupt, so that listeners
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would sympathize with what the way Novak talked to him and treated him and generally
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did a pretty good job with that. All right, Well, that will
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do it for today. We will be back tomorrow with the adventures of Philip
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