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Pat Novak for Hire: Marcia Halpern (EP1252) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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dot net. Well, it's time for today's episode of Pat Novak for Hire.
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Marcia Halper, Ladies and gentlemen, The American Broadcasting Company brings to its
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entire network one of radio's most unusual programs, Pat Novakh. Hi, sure,
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I'm Pat Novak, we hire. There's a sign out in front of
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my office reads that way Pat Novak for Hire. Oh, there's no way
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to dress it up. If you're in business down in the San Francisco waterfront,
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everything but murder is a parlor trade. If you rob a few graves,
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you can pay the rent, and nobody cares if you got sore eyelids.
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You get that way from winking at too many things. Oh, it's
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a good living if you don't run short of bail bonds and bends a dream.
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I discovered that Friday night, after the fight broadcast, I wound up
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in a little whiskey barrel on Powell Street. I had a Glasgow farmer out
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of the red when they closed the bar, and I drifted across the street
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for a cup of coffee. When I came out, it was raining and
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the street was deserted. I stood in the doorway and watched the dull neons
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through the rain. They looked splotched and dim, like watercolors rubbed with a
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damp rag. I was beginning to rain harder. I started out of the
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doorway when she ducked in and bumped up against me. Oh, I'm sorry,
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Yeah, just wait for your blockers on the next one. I guess
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I bumped into you. Don't go out on a limb. Huh, I'm
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very sorry. I guess I didn't know where I was going. It seemed
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to be headed in the right direction. How do you mean forget? I
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noticed raining awfully hard m I wonder if you ever noticed out when it rains
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you feel lonely and lost. Yes, that's it. How when it rained
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you feel lonely loss? Yeah? Well we're both great readers. So if
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you'll let me get by, I want to get a cap. I wonder
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if I could ask you something funny. The bars are closed. No,
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I meant coffee. I'll pay for it all right in here? Sure,
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come on, Connor will due? All right? What's gonna pay? Hey
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you're back again? Yeah, to coffee. I'm nervous too. Coffees.
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You're like a backclall. Maybe you know what we want? Two coffees?
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Yeah, be right, wordy, thank you. I know it's funny asking
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you in here, but I have to talk to someone. I don't know
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what I'm doing. I won't argue. Been away a long time, that's
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a long time. Yeah. The kids will be glad to see you're back.
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Stop it with you, says, get to the point. Put the
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show on the road. Yes, I think I've lost my memory. At
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least it seems that way at first. I don't know. I suppose you
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don't believe it. No, but I convince hard. Yeah, No,
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coffee, everything all right? Yeah, everything's fine. I'll be down ahead.
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Yeah, don't he thought of a name yet? Buster, you'd be
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crazy to believe me. This should be crazy, But I can't remember anything.
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Well, look, lady, if you've got amnesia, see the police.
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You don't believe me. I don't know. Maybe you are elevely,
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but if you're off your rocker, go to the police. But suppose there's
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something that happened before and the police would be looking for me. Please,
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would you try to help me? How bad are you? Do you know
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what town you're in? Yes? Have you been here before? Do you
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live here? I think maybe seems like a place I've been. All right,
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I'll put you in a cab. You go see the police. I
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feel funny. I think I'll go outside for a minute. I don't want
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Hilda or not. Please, I'm gonna see please hell mister. If girlfriends
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are yeah, any suggestions, No, she's your day? All right?
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Here, give me a hand with it. Where you're gonna take her?
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The hospitals an amnesia case. I hope your memory is good. Huh,
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you'll need it for answers. Your girlfriend's passed out for good? Don't tell
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me. I feel a postmister, you're gonna have to start over because she's
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all used up. That's good. You got a whaling wall, sure use
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the collar. I like call homicide. It didn't take twenty twenty vision to
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see I was in trouble. Maybe it was an accident, maybe it wasn't.
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I didn't have any idea why she keeled over there, but with a
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figure like hers, I know it wasn't old age. I called a homicide.
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Matt Hellman was going to be in the picture soon, and then I'd
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stand about as much chance as a cornfield and the stone quarry. Well.
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I went through the girl's stuff. She had no identification. There were a
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couple of snapshots of her, but no name. I told the waiter my
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name and where Hellman could find me. Then I got out of there.
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I looked up jack O Madigan, an ex doctor who liked his booze pretty
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well. Smart guy, but he used a mason jar for a jigger.
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I finally found him hold up and some after hours joined on Geary Street.
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He was talkative. Hello, Patsy, a small jug for mister novacuated.
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I want to talk to you, Jacko PEPSI. You shouldn't be here it's
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after hours. Yeah, look, JOCKO, I need some help. What
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do you know about amnesia? A temporary blessing? I thought I had it
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myself one stop it with you, but it just turned out to be a
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case of bad bourbon a peasants drink. I've decided get up the street level
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long enough for me to talk. I'm in trouble. Yeah, I met
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some blistered night who took a dive after one cup of coffee. I see
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she had amnesia, or she thinks she did. Oh she's dead. Why
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worry about amnesia to minor railment? Because hellman's gonna think I had something to
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do with it. She picked out my lap. Don't you see how it's
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gonna add up? I have high hopes. I gotta do something in a
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hurry. Why was she a nice girl? Yes? I guess so how
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come you met her? What difference does it make tell me about amnesia?
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Could she phony it? Maybe not for long? What makes you think she
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did? I don't know. She acted like a butterfly with a jag on
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and she headed straight from me. It just doesn't add no, what cell
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block? Can I find you? And you can get off your spine and
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go to work for me. You know the hospital circuit. Hit them all
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and find out everything you can about reason amnesia cases. How far back do
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I go until you find one of the jobs with this girl wat Jim Pashable?
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Where do I start? She like Noah when they told him to beat
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the flood. She's blonde, blue eyes, expensive clothes, how big?
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Its just the right size for a good dream. Start checking down and give
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me a ring at my place. No identification and she only said one thing
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when she fell something crude. No, she mentioned the Galvin the name of
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Hilda. That should be easy to trace. Sure, just look it up
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in the phone book. You will find it somewhere between Hellman and the homicide
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right lover. Well, there wasn't anything I could do for the next few
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hours except sublet from an Ostrich. I had to keep undercover because all I
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had to work on was a couple of snapshots and the girl named Hilda.
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Neither figured to get me out of this mess. Helman was bound to ask
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a lot of questions because I had as much business being with a dead girl
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as a lucky Luciana. When a finishing school. After I left Jocko,
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I took a sea car downtown and I went home to grab some sleep.
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When I walked in the apartment, the lights were out, and that didn't
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make any difference. Helman's badge was shining like a lake in Ireland. It
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was making himself at home with my ice cubes. Put the light on so
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I can watch it turn pale. All right, Helman, get to the
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point. Sure, who is your girlfriend? I don't know. She was
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the coy type. So are you a novak? You're gonna look good sucking
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your thumb in the gas chamber. I suppose your corner is full of good
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news. She died of an overdose of sleeping pills. The corner's reporter's murder.
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How about the space marks suicide? No, guys, you don't take
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sleeping pills. Then tour the town for a spot to take a nap.
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So she died in the coffee joint. What am I supposed to carry a
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stomach pump? You're supposed to tell me who she is. We'll go from
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there. I don't know, neither did she. I've got that down as
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a lie. You file out any way you want help, And she was
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amnesia. How are you novak? All right? Hire a medium, then
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I told you she came into the rest of the total stranger. We got
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social, but she died a total stranger. How are you going to prove
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it? I don't know. I know who she was. I wouldn't play
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footsie with you. I have to draw a map. She came in trying
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to sort out our marbles and never got there. I see, what did
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you find out? How about clothes markings? That's your department. How about
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laundry marks? I don't know. I guess she watched her own. Look,
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Novak, you're a big boy. Now you're in a spot. If
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you want to help, now's the time to do it. You've got everything
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I know. From here on. You work the ball downfield, all right.
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You just dandswer the doorbell from time to time. When you see a
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guy grinnin out there, that'll be me coming to pinch you for murder.
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Well that'll take lots of doing, mister, and lots of proof. You
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remember that. I'll try, novec, but I may get amnesia. Good
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night, big shot. Where Helman left, I backed into my head ache
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and went to bed. Oh sure I was in a spot now. The
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scorecard said murder, and I was the medalist on the first round. If
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the police didn't know who she was, that meant she had no record we
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could work on. I still had the funny hunch about that, you know,
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pulling a phony. But if it was phony, I was worse off.
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I had all the best arrows in town pointing to me, and once
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Helman began to build a case, I could throw away those vacation folders.
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I slept until about nine. The phone began to ring, and I rolled
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over, expecting to hear Gabriel on the other end of the line. It
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was just Jacko. Hello, novaktoking. This is Jocko. I've been working
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all night. We'll build a monument later. What'd you find out the morning
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papers is the girl was murdered. Yeah, Helman gave me a preview.
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What'd you find out at the hospitals. I've got a complete list of Amnasia
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victims. I know, more lost souls than a Hong Kong bartender. Yeah,
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most of them men trying to get away from the little woman. Well
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you're a big help, Jocko. Don't hang up to you hear about the
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girl? Go ahead. Nothing on file for the last eight years. In
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nineteen forty one, a seventeen year old girl walked out of California General Hospital.
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She hasn't been heard of since. How's the description fits like last year's
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bathing suit. She was Marcia Helper, the daughter of Emery Helper. Yeah,
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who's he? A pocket heavy guy down on Montgomery Street. I'll get
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right down and thanks, Jocko, you saved my life. Well, I
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hadn't intended to go that far. See you later. Well, it was
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my one chance, even if the odds looked bad. I called up Halpern's
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office and said he wasn't in the tium at home. It was listed for
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a place up on Pacific Heights, so I took a cab over there.
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When I walked in the lobby, I could tell old man Halpern was making
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as much money as you can without your own printing press. The apartment made
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Buckingham Palace look like something Georgia had picked up at a firesale. The doorman
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was a sober looking specimen, the kind of guy that breathes every other Tuesday.
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He gave me the fish eyes. I went up the elevator to the
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third floor. Halpern's apartment was at the east end. The butler showed me
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in and I waited in the living room. It was a real cozy place,
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about the size of a small rugby field. A door opened on the
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side, and two hundred pounds of regency oozed into the room like a wet
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ghost. The bunning I'm mister Taylor. I'm Novak, is helping mister helpon
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is a way on a business trip. I'm Mark Taylor, the family lawyer.
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I believe that's the phrase. Well, I'll drop by later. Huh,
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Perhaps I can help you. I take care of most of mister Halpin's
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business. Now. Did you know his daughter? Yes? Yes, it
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was quite tragic, that's what I hear. She was a victim of amnesia.
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She forgot all the details of her home. Must have been a temptation.
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Did the police ever do anything on her. The police were not advised.
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Mister Halpin had private detectives, but she was never found. Yes,
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it was quite tragic. You wear your mourning a long way, Taylor.
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She'd be about twenty five, now, wouldn't she. Taffy hair, blue
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eyes, nice figure. I believe she had leanings in that direction. Why,
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mister Novak, I think I may know where she is. You don't
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know what that would mean to this family. Mister Novak, you don't know
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what it would mean to me, mister Taylor. Here's a snapshot. Let
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me see it. Well, Taylor, this is not a B movie.
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This is a picture of Marsha Helpin. You sure I don't make many mistakes?
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Must know that? All right? If you've used up your quarter,
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she's downtown. I've got in touch with mister Helping. Right, it willn't
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take your time. She's dead. See when last night she got sleepy?
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But yeah, that's right. Somebody gave her enough sleeping pills to stock a
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drug store. I see, after all these years to come back and then
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this, It was almost tragic, Yes, says I was about to say
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that it'll be a great blow to mister Helping. It will be a very
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great blow to mister Helping. Have the police an the ideas a few?
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Do you know anybody named Hilda? Oh? Why, I'm just sweeping out
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the corner. When's Helping due this afternoon? I have arrange in a surely
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please hello, this is Mark Taylor. No, that can't be right.
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Well what did it have? And yes, yes, please keep me advised.
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You want to wear a purple suit? Taylor? I have bad news,
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mister Novak. Ratios, I'm lightheaded. Go ahead. Mister Halpin was
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killed in the motor accident last night. His cop plunged down a ravine a
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Sacramento. That's very strange. Yeah, it must have been a great blow
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to mister Helpert. Well, I left there and went downstairs. All the
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way down I had the funny feeling that something was wrong, the way a
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person feels when he goes into a doctor's office with an incurable disease. Mayam
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and Taylor, I don't know. He seemed all right. I still had
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that feeling that something was out of place, like a broken line. I'm
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a perfect picture. I crossed the street and called Helman. It was too
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early in the day because he was as sad as a tap dancer in moccasins.
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Helman, this is Novak. How's the case. You look better every
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minute? How's the identification? We're moving slow, so fine. We know
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she's a woman, that's right. Her name is Marcia Halpern. She disappeared
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in nineteen forty one with amnesia San Francisco. Yeah, she's the daughter of
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Emery Halpering. I will check with old man helping better. Send your best
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man because he rolled a car and killed himself last night, Sacramento. I
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got news for you too. Yeah, we got a statement from that waiter
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who wrote it. He says you bought that girl in for coffee. Also,
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you were nice and chumming. I knew her for five minutes, so
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that's a lifetime. The guy said you were good friends. That's the way
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our story's gonna read. You suit yourself. I'm busy. Yeah, where
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you're gone the same place you are, Helman, Sacramento. If I didn't
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move fast, I was deader than a Philadelphia nightclub. When they start taking
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statements, you can wear him for flowers. I called you told him to
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check up on old man Halpern's estate. I borrowed a car and drove up
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the Sacramento. The accident was just outside of there. When I got to
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the spot, Helman was already in charge. He's going to make a fight
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for the job. In last judgment, they were down on the ravine and
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Helman was beating around the bushes, making more noise than of aveneche and blind
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and a typhoon. Hello, Helman, did you find anything? Get your
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own haystack? I'm busy. Where's the body. You get the blues.
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If you don't see one corpse today, he's up in town. Do you
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notice those tracks up there in the road. Yeah, double tracks. Don't
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mean this thing was sure? Maybe two cars fell down and one got lost.
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Wake up Helman. If he drove over the side, he SHU had
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a tough time making up his mind. When you're through on that pipe,
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I'll send over another. I'm going over the car. Helman went over to
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the car and I started looking through the bushes. I don't know what I
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expected to find, maybe an old boy's scout. After about ten minutes,
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I shifted over the other side and it showed up right near the ground under
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a bush. Alman must have seen me, because it came right over.
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What is it? What'd you find my handkerchief? Oh that's funny, that's
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funny about it. So it's a handkerchief. The old man had a nose,
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didn't he. Well, he must have loved it to him. His
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hanky's loaded with perfume. Take off way up here, Yeah, recognize it.
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Sure, I don't know about you, but I smell a rat.
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Things began to move. This was the first break in a helmet. And
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know it I went back to town and I tried to get in touch with
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Jocko, but he was running up a tab somewhere. So I drove over
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to see Mark Taylor again. When I got to the apartment, I found
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out he wasn't in, but the pinch hitter was all right. When she
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opened the door, I got a nice, warm feeling, like a melded
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cheese sandwich. She was standing there in a dark silk evening gown. It
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was strapless, and she had no worries. When she spoke, it was
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like saying, put another log on the fire, good evening. Taylor in
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here, Come in sure, mister Taylor won't be in for a while.
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I'm waiting for him myself. I see. I'm Pat Novak. Is it
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urgent? Anything I can do? If it work, you'll get my vote.
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Who are you? I'm Hilda Travis. I'm a friend of the family.
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Which family would a drink? Take off the rough edges? Mister Novak?
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Good good, I'll make one. I brought Taylor a present. How
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nice a girdle? Maybe? Or am I being caddied? No? I
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hank at you this one? Do you like it? Should? I I
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thought you might want it for a keepsake. I found it in a ditch
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up in Sacramento, about ten feet from Emory Alpern. Poor Emory. He's
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a drink, thanks, poor Emory. Full of perfume. You want to
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smell that wouldn't do any good. You want to know if it matches my
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perfume. It's your idea. Go ahead, all right, no closer,
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that's it. See yeah, Tearley in the evening, mister fail back,
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don't love Hughes. I won't until I find out who killed Marcia Helper.
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Good luck for everybody's sake. By the way, the police think you killed
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her, don't they? Did Taylor brief you a little? I asked him
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this morning if he knew a girl named Hilda. He must have forgotten.
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Yeah, everybody's got amnesia just to make things easy? Did you kill her
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just to make them hard? Did you? I see? Well, just
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tell Taylor I called. Don't be a savage, mister Nolvak. You haven't
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finished her drink. It it's raining outside. I'll finished this one. That's
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good. Sit down beside me here, we'll finish our drinks and pray for
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a club burst. She turned out to be an old fashioned girl. She
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had about eight of them before I got out of there. I tried to
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pump her, but she wouldn't talk about Marcia Helfern. I just became a
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family friend. After I left, I ducked into a drugstore and started phoning
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Jacko. I finally caught him at the hunt room. He worked his way
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below the label already. Hello, Patchy, I'm having a wonderful time.
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Yeah, what'd you find out? I just heard a funny story? It's
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old? What about helping? He barely changed his will after the girl died.
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The whole estate goes to her. Who's next in line, A fellow
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named Mark Taylor. That's the new part of the will, drawn up three
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weeks ago. Good boy, jack So, I looked up the dope on
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Mark Taylor. He's a family friend. It's a new club going looks all
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right. Have some funny bank book stuff though. For instance, Oh,
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he drew three thousand bucks out last month for a Lisbon passage. A girl
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named Helen Dupray. Maybe she's a foreign cinema discovery. He's no talent scout.
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Meet me down in homicide in ten minutes, Jacko. If we're lucky,
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we'll show him in something, how to draw one inside straight, hurry
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up and don't stop for a bracer. Just see you soon. I'd explained
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everything I could to Helman. When Jocko got there, I went over it
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for him and sent him out on an errand he was to meet Helman and
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come up to Taylor's apartment. I went on ahead. It was about eleven
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o'clock when I knocked on the door. Mister Novak, so soon. Yeah,
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I'm coming in, Hello, Taylor. I won't say you're wearing out.
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You're welcome, mister Novak, but it's getting very thin. You better
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take time out and pack your bangs. Is that nice, Patsy? Because
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a guy named Helman wants you for murder. We've been over that once,
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mister Novak. Yeah. We got a whole new infield this time. Helman
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thinks you killed a girl named Helen Duprey. I don't know a girl named
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Helen du Pray. The bank botchers say yes, they say you brought her
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over here six weeks ago. Wait a minute, pats Oh, you made
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the team too, Angel. They got you all fixed up. Roll Man
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Helpern's case up in Sacramento. Get out of here, Novak. I left
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to drink here. I wouldn't want to jam this gun through your face.
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Come on in, helmet. Did you bring him with him? Yeah?
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Come in here. Fellow. Is that the girl? Yeah, that's her.
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What'd you see her before Sacramento last night? He's crazy? It's a
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plant, Mark Tellimore Junior. You sure she's the one? Yeah? She
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was on the road and I've seen her at the car with this old fellow.
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Hang on, lady, the road gets bumpy from here on. My
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lights were out, so cause she didn't see me. Take this little guy
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out of here. I got a story. A senior hit the old fellow,
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then start the car down the benk. I didn't hit him on the
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head. I told you that, Mark, Yeah, she indeed Tell him,
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Mark, tell him I was here? Oh can I when you tipped
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down? Met? That's right, Taylor, get out. Well, you
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can't tell him I was here. Mark, Well, you little fool.
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Don't you know you've told them already. You're a bum guy, Mark,
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you've been a bum guy all along. I keep my mouth shut. I'll
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give you a chance to talk. I'll tell you about him. No,
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back, shut up your little halfway. You're all right on the straightaway.
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But you're a bad guy in the curves market. Keep still tin horn punts
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like you. I'll talk lost. You'd better say it fast. Yeah,
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you get any prize in the house, tailor take your choice. Are you
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working for a living helmet? Ye? All right, then let's go Yeah,
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see you downtown over see all right, CHUCKO, I'm out of practice,
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will Patsy? Do you like it this way? Baby? No complaints.
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I've always gone for his class. I wouldn't like it the other way.
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Yeah, I could have used a little more time, but I'm not
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greedy. Still raining out, No, let's stopped raining, beginning to clear
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up and over come on, JOCKO, I'm talking to myself. Well,
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it seems that Marcia Halpern was dead for years. Somewhere on the other side,
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a girl named Helen Duprey got the story out of her. She looked
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a lot like Marcia Halpern, so she waited until after the war and contacted
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this Mark Taylor. They cooked up a hoax and the pot boiled over.
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She was a post of fake amnesia and stumble into the hospital. The pictures
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in the wallet would be printed. Mark would identify her as Marcia Halpern.
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The same night, they planned to kill the old man the way they did
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that way, Helen dou Pray and Mark could split the dough, but they
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figured it wrong. Another girl named Hilda Travers had this story too. She
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put the squeeze on Mark and he blundered. He found out he didn't need
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a phony Marcia Alfern. After all, the new clause in the will gave
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Mark the dough, so he loaded Helen du Pray with sleeping pills while Hilda
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gave the old man his last ride. All he had to do was wait
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for the dough and then split with Hilda. A few things went wrong sometimes
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it only takes one. Helen did her part, but she was no burn
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hard and then at the last minute she knew something was wrong and mentioned Hilda.
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I kind of began to wonder when Mark identified that picture so fast after
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more than eight years. He identified it immediately, And then there was that
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handkerchief from there, and it was free wheeling. All we had to have
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was a witness on that guy from Sacramento. He was some actor that Jocko
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picked up in the hunt room. Hellman finally cleaned up the mess Taylor's and
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the Clinton. Of course, the girl already picked up her into the check.
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She was nice too, if you don't mind claw Marks. Well,
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it all worked out and Hellman's happy, except that actor keeps calling him up
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for parts. The American Broadcasting Company has just brought you the third of a
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new series, Pat Novak for Hire, starring Jack Webb. Jack Omadagan is
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played by Jack Lewis. Inspector Hellman is played by Raymond Burd. Music was
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composed and conducted by Basim Ablom. This is ABC, the American Broadcasting Company.
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Welcome back. I just continue to enjoy listening to this series again the
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second time through Similaise just fly right through there and of course the great hard
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boiled narration. I know more lost souls than a Hong Kong bartender. Again,
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these episodes are classics for the dialogue and that definitely shows through. I
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did have to call bat on Hellman for not taking away the gun when he
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came in to arrest the guy since it was clearly visible. Of course,
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the part was played by William Conrad, who also announced for this episode.
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Well on to some listener comments and feedback and have an email here from Den
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Hello Adam, I'm disabled and your podcast brings so much pleasure. Please email
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your postal address so I can donate. Was dragged into the digital age,
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kicking and screaming being used to solid media careers and when radio was. This
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has opened up access to so much material I couldn't afford to purchase on a
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fixed income. The archives are much appreciated since I'm usually home by myself.
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Thanks for all your hard work. God bless you and yours well. Thanks
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a lot, Dan, and the same to you. I really appreciate that.
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Now on to Stitcher Reviews Our Lee Rights. Adam hosts the show and
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puts a lot of work into it. He provides history and insight to a
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great collection of old time radio productions. The fact that he puts out so
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many shows week is a tribute to his dedication and a treat for devoted listeners
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like myself. And he says very thoughtfully done with commentary and discussion of listener
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comments and questions and West Coast Mama five hundred rites the variety of old detective
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shows and the commentary. Well, thanks so much for your comments there on
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Stitcher, and if you do listen on the Stitcher app, I do want
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to let you know that we have added The War and The Old Time Radio
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Superman Show to Stitcher, so you can enjoy those podcasts as well well.
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We will be back tomorrow with the adventures of Philip Marlow, and be sure
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and join us next Tuesday for another episode of Pat Novak for Hire. In
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the meanwhile, send your comments to Box thirteen at Great Detectives dot net and
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your host, Adam Graham signing off.