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Pat Novak for Hire: Wendy Morris (EP1312) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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now it's time for today's episode of Pat Noovack for Hire. This one is
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called Wendy Morris, So let's take a lesson God Novay. Well him sure
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unpack Nova for Ohio. That's what the sign out in front of my office
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says. Pat Novak for Hire it's up there and block letters, but down
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on the waterfront and San Francisco, good printing doesn't mean a thing. You
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get that on the death certificate. If you're trying to make a living John
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here, you're not going to have a new standing in the community except in
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a police lineup. I read for bats and do anything else that goes with
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a weak will and a strong stomach. It's not all bad. Once in
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a while, something happens. It makes you feel good for a moment,
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like remembering somebody get kissed a long time ago. But most of the time
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you buy your beard a hard way. So much all right, because most
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people learned to fall in love with a dollar bill and forget about trouble,
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and everything sounds all right. But sometimes it isn't like saying happy newly hear
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to a lifer. I found that out Wednesday night. I was sitting in
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the office with a sports page, reading about those big tears that Washington Senators
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were setting, and I saw Crockett oat him for the first time. He
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was a big, red faced guy, and Levings stood out in the station
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and made a pattern as if he slept on an alligator bag instead of a
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pillow. He walked over to the desk instead of to get quiet and a
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loud voice. I want to talk to humist to Novak ahead, pile of
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a lead. I don't even got him. You've heard of crocodile him.
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I don't get around tell me about it. I'm a lawyer. I want
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you to watch a client for me. The name is Wenda Morris. If
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you hard to watch, you get upshot eyes just looking at her. He
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drinks a little? What's a little? How should I answer? That's the
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way you like a plaint of court? What's a little? Od him your
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GPS? So you'll leave it there. You can make a quarter Jim disappear
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while anybody else is looking for the corps school. What am I supposed to
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do? Hide the bottle with a no bank a full girl? Not?
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If this couldn't do that, I'm afraid this is more serious. It involves
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her husband. Let her take a drink and lose him. It'll save your
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money. It involved her husband, or if somebody's supposed to be your husband,
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right, he's got a bad memory. Very well, say girl for
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Novak. Five years ago she married a man but the name of Stanley Morris.
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Immediately after it he went into the uniforms. You make this stuff.
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It's she's been gone over since until a month ago, spend most of that
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time overseas the rest of the government hospital. You know now that he's back,
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something very peculiar has happened. I don't think the man is a husband.
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That's a hard part to play. He got any theory. I think
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she suspects too. I don't know why I feel that way. He seems
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to have picked up where he left talk. He knows everything about it right,
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seems normal. But I'm sure the man is an impact lord god to
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find a corner and patch up that story. You can't get that near sighted
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on five years booze, You don't understand it's novak. He was seriously injured.
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That makes that identification hide. You think Stanley Morris is dead. I
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think you guys heading her along the line and this man took his place.
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That's a lot of trouble just to stare aboard the room with a boozie Normalf.
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He can shirt with someone else on her money. That's why I want
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you to watch her, particularly tonight. Quieter at is Stanley full of temper.
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It's been leading up to this he wants her to go to a gambling
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club, and I know he's too friendly with the owner of the club.
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I want you to go along as a friend. I look, mister,
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I wouldn't go as her friend to a masquerade ball. If you're making it
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deal, make it out in the open, do it your own way,
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Novak. It's three hundred dollars ORNs anything way you can. Yeah, there's
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the club he'll take you. Just pick her up a fish, a bread.
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Just you know about him, you understand Jims. In fact, that's
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the only risk you run. I told her she drinks most of the time.
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When she doesn't do the patchb some cheese instead, I don't do any
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good. It's not the flavor she likes her. So no, that is
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the punch. The night one old Tom walked out of there, I knew
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he was the kind of a gun to put the wolf at your door if
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we could get one wholesale. On the way up the pier, he stopped
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and looked out at the bay as if he intended to do away with it
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before morning, and then he turned and disappeared around the corner. I sat
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there for a while, I went over his story. I was sure it
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wouldn't hold any more water than i'd gross the holes, but I had nowhere
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at checking. Finally, about seven o'clock I closed the office and I went
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by the address he gave me. It was a modernistic apartment up on Telegraph
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Till for one of those places where they let a guy out of the basement
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long enough to think murals on the front. This one had a guy waving
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a blond wave in front of a tin o monk named Fause. One day
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More's apartment was up on the second floor, and when I rang the butter,
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she opened the door with the NINEX. Was emotional, like a cat
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getting ready to eat it's young. Obviously right away what Odin was talking about.
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You ever build a house, you watch somebody like her in the blueprints
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leaned against the doorway, and she was wearing a take the evening garnment.
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I supposed to let you know that nature had given her a square or she
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didn't say anything at first. She just kept fingering her glass and looking at
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you as a few news who was full of gin and comfort. It makes
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a nice rattle, are yoused to know that? Yeah? I rattled too,
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and me in, Oh no, that's you do are y all paid
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to like me? Will it drink help me to know that? Yeah,
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I'll get Let me talk at Teather. He said you got first. It's
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you mentioned them talk up things for related there's sole confession with the medical profession
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to your husband. Where I thought that was a problem. Sounds poring.
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There must be a way to spot old husband. Oh, I wouldn't know.
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Do you think Daniel Norris is dead? I don't know much. You
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know that you carry it away as long as i'm face No, Stanley,
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there's no bargain. I don't know. I suppose I compuse the hangover with
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love about as lively as a dish rag in a steam bag. It doesn't
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make any difference now to know that I'm frightened. It's got to help him
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for three hundred dollars, that's all. Where is this gramblings joy a Hungary
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boulevard. It's called the mother Load. The sense of humor belongs to Frankie
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Famine. He's funny enough to deal with, Stanley. I don't know.
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Danny's been out there every night for two weeks now. He's forcing me to
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go. There must be a reason. That must be a reason for what
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don't chempt his family. Isn't you know that? My husband? I've never
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heard of you. Those rank He's got me worried, he's offended. What
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is he good? A trick? My husband is doing stand. We don't
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know anybody well enough to take him with us. You don't have to feel
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a burden all taken as you welling out that lead. Now looks mister on
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here in a straight deal, cash and kerry, and you'll cut it through
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from now on that mouth your's cost. You do look better with your lips
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turned in, all right. If you're liking it, goes, I'll have
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to make another reservation. Hand me the yeah, yeah, let's go,
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Wendy, you find that job. I hope they got a good price for
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my head, because when I started down, shoulder blades are the best I
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could do for height. I rolled over once and then I stretched out on
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the floor as heard as a piece of chillings. I'm in the theater's seat.
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I don't know how long I actually sed that woman in the so must
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have been about an hour. When the phone began to ring. I tried
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to get up once or twice, but I couldn't get a box car off
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my chest, and the phone kept ringing like a piece of crystal in a
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hailstorm. I finally made a ladder out of my knees and got to the
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phone. Yeah, how's your head a little right? What's on your mind?
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Something's gone wrong? I have to meet you, not at these prices.
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I just got a message from Crocododum. I'm leaving now. I want
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you to meet me in room three fourteen of the Gallbery Hotel. Where is
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it a third great trapped on Paul Street. It's important. Will you come?
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Yeah? And I'm sorry about your head. I have to r wait
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till I get that. You're gonna rub one of your own. She was
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right about that hotel. In a good season, they couldn't have drawn chance
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in mind. I got there about a quarter to ten. I rode up
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to room three four There was nobody there. Oh. I sat down and
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started to wait. The floor was quiet, except down at the end of
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the hall. Somebody was playing a phonograph record. The music was thin but
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loud, and I knew it with old records, a way back when this
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bird Bits was a man instead of a memory. It stopped after a while
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and I looked at my watch It was after ten, so I left the
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hotel and I went out to the gambling joint. I toured the room,
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but I couldn't find Wendy or stand. I got a guy at the window
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and he remembered somebody like Wendy, so I asked about it. He just
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pointed over at Frankie Fanon's office and went on making change. I crossed over
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and knocked at the door. The guy that opened it had a face like
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three pounds of warm putty. It was moist and thinking he got the idea.
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They put the color in with a spray again and if his heart was
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made of the same stuff, they drained the oil out first. Yeah,
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my name's Novak, who was arguing, I want to talk to you.
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Yeah, where's Wendy Morris? I don't know she was in here tonight.
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It's a jail term. I don't follow women home. Am I supposed to
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buy that? Look, Junior, I don't care whether you live or die.
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I haven't seen her. How about her husband? He owes me gough
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what else? Ask his wife? He said, I owe you to me.
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I don't know what you're doing here, but you'd better make your point.
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Thank I lesk fanon if you've got a party. I don't want to
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blow out the candles, but I want some answers. You know she got
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boosted in here tonight. Why I brought her in for word games? I
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told her if her husband didn't square his fill, I'd working at a Hamburger.
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Now. She offered to bring the funds. And that's all the tough
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you get. Mister, kick the girl on your way out. I need
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the money. Come in, shows up and tell me which one's Novak?
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I am? What's on your mind? The other guy's lucky. I'm Craig
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mumhamicide. Where's hellman? He's got a mouthful of canary novak. That's right.
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I just left room three fourteen of the Galborth Hotel. So today two
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of us made it. Then the girl didn't. No Vaki's trying to tell
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you, Wendy Morris's how do you know she's dead? The only reason cops
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through? You want to see your novak? No, she was better alive.
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Come on down anyway. Maybe I didn't try hard enough. When I
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walked out of there, I felt like a voice teacher with adenoids. Whoever
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Craig was, he was smart and he tagged all the bases because as we
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moved through the lobby emotion to me and the desk clerk nodded. Well.
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I didn't worry about that desk clerk because he hadn't said no for years.
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But when we got to the room three fourteen, I needed tena passage.
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There were three or four Craig's band grouped along a dim hall like dirty shadows,
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and inside Wendy Morris was stetched out looking in the wrong direction. There
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was a white sheet draped over and I wondered where the hotel had borrowed that,
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But Craig wanted to talk. You must have had a big beef novak.
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Sorry, we were friends. Oh but that was fun. I was
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supposed to meet her here. She didn't show. The desk clerk says she
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did not while I was here. I was in that game when joined by
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the best. Clerk says, you asked about Wendy Morris, then you came
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up here and killed her. That's the way. I'm going to a book.
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Check on her husband. You can fit him in near the top of
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the list. She got one. There's a lot of blonde there to keep
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indoors. Huh. Good blondes run like salmon. Wait a minute, Craig,
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give me a cheat. Well, well, Creig, you better not
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book me for Wendy Morris. If you do, you'll mix up all we're
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on duty angels. Because somebody killed the wrong woman. This isn't Wendy Morris.
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You must be wrong. Or how does anybody know? They look different,
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they got different personalities. Take your pick, Craig, but somebody got
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the wrong woman. Take another look. I don't need another with Wendy.
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The first looks for names and faces. Yeah, if you take a second
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look, mistress for love. I guess Craig likes to pack is dead because
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when he found out the woman on the floor was somebody else, he started
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to shake a little in his mouth hung open like a broken screen door.
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I didn't blame him much. I tried to think back and piece it together,
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but it wouldn't work out. It almost made sense, like the broken
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phrases of an old conversation, but not enough of it came back, and
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it was still something missing. What happened to Wendy Morris? And how about
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this girl on the floor? Where did she get her drag with heaven?
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I looked down at her again. She was pretty if you like quiet girls.
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She had a vacant look in her eyes, as if the brains had
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checked out without letting her know, and the color was starting to leave her
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face. The light was bad and he had to look close to see her
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skin. There were little splotches of pink and the rest was white, like
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stimps that hadn't been boiled long enough. Craig was worried, and that's something
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he couldn't hide. I don't know, Craig. We didn't need her soon
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enough to know. You should have checked the hotel register, says Wendy March.
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Who'll reddit for you? How you're tough, Craig. How about you
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got the whino sked stuff. Keep on talking, I'll get you some help.
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Come on in. He likes to make a safety I'm the bed,
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no back. How'd you get your boys, Craig, They look tired.
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I'm the bed, No back, all right, Joe, take your time.
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Yeah. Another to hold his head back against the bed. Where's Wendy
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Morris? No back? I don't know, Copper. You sure you're from
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homicide so it's against the law. Don't tell anybody. I'll make a statement.
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No back, yeah, here's a statement about you, Craig. We'll
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find out down Tom, you can save some teeth. Where's the other girl?
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I don't know? Hold him up? Yeah, where's Wendy Morris?
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Craig, you can go put his head against the bed. It's for exercise
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now, Craig, all right, he's not a season passed. We don't
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have to hang on to him. Craig's boys left me hanging on the foot
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of the bed with somebody's dirty call and an old garter the maid forget to
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pick up. Last month, I felt my way down of the lobby and
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into the street. Most of the time. One question kept going through my
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mind. Craig was going to run me in before. Why had he changed
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his mind? So I found out when I started to turn the corner.
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Craig had a tail on me, and he was real hard to spot,
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like a red nash at the top of the mark. He moved out from
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under a light near the pool room on the corner, and I watched him
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in the windows as we walked along. After a while, I quit worrying
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about him because I knew in a pinch he couldn't follow a conversation with a
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printed form. So I had a lot of ground to cover, so I
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looked up jack O Madigan. He's a good guy, and he was a
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smart one too. He found out if your eyes get red enough, you
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don't need rose colored glasses. I finally found them at the cafe house,
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as tight as a tennis racket in the rain. God ress, g marry,
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gentlemen. Let nothing you dismay some belated Christmas carols. Patchy, the
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piano player, Quitch, and everybody else dropped out show. I'm doing it
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a cappella by myself, all right, Jacko. Christmas eluded me, Patsy.
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I got up through Christmas Eve, and then I seem to have missed
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Christmas entirely. Did they hold it this year? Well, it wouldn't happen
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if you get up in the morning. I refuse to get up early,
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Patsy. I refuse to get up in the morning until the streets have been
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made. The only things that should be around at that hour are peasants and
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a bunch of random views. Chaco with a listen. I'm in trouble.
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I'm not surprised because you're a counterfeit, Patsy. You're a piece of plate
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in a room full of stirring. You're like some of the rest of these
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people, running around in a hurry play, just plunging into anything. Look
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at the papers. Some people have spent years shooting a rocket one hundred and
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ten miles into the air. Watch the youth, Will you listen? Fotch
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the use? When you get one hundred and ten miles up, all you
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can do is turn around and come on back down again. We're killing time
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one hundred and ten miles in the air instead of learning to spend it down
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here. All right, Oh, it's depressing Petsy running around in a frenzy
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like a rooster in a barnyard full of ducks. I'm ready to take to
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drink. Are you all through? Jackal? Yes? Humanity is a tough
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life. What kind of trouble? I bought a murder wrap for three hundred
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bucks. If it's a bargain, why complain? Who's dead? I don't
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know who she is? Homicide foundering a hotel on Powell Street. I tagged
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by before the murder serves her Right, if I were a woman, I
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wouldn't trust you in the middle of Stamford Stadium with eighty thousand people. It
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was the wrong woman. Who was supposed to be a gowning Wendy Morris,
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but she didn't show that was shrewd of her. I was hired by a
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lawyer named Crocodile him to watch her. Why she's a dipso she must have
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some faults. Odum suspects her husband. He was in uniform, and now
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that he's back, Odum figures he's a fraud out for the girl's money.
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Can't the girl tell the difference? This is not sure. I don't think
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she was observing. Now, look, this is a big story, Jacko.
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I can't fill in all the holes. You got to help me.
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I want you to check on crocodile Er money. I need some money.
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Oh, you'll booze it away and I'll hurry, Jacko. If you need
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money, got a job. I can't go to work, Patchy. I'm
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a victim of my own conscience. I'm stuck with a dilemma. I'm willing
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to go to work, but I work too cheaply, and on the other
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hand, I'll not support slave labor, so it's morally impossible for me to
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go to work. Good Night, lover. It was about eleven thirty when
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I left Jocko and the two beatings begin to catch it up with me.
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I had enough headache to pass out through a Bay Meadows crowd on a bad
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day. The tail behind me again to look tired, so I dropped by
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headquarters to give him a rest. I asked for the head of homicide,
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but the desk told me that Helman was on his honeymoon, and they kind
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of laughed when they said it, as if they thought he'd got the girl.
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There on a bench warrant all laid done at headquarters was identified the dead
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woman. Her name was Emily van Kirk, and she had no record.
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I dropped by the hotel and the first break showed down there. The desk
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Kerk knew about Emily van Kirk. He'd mixed the rooms up and he'd put
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Wendy in the wrong one. That meant that maybe she was at the hotel
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after all. It also meant that Emily was in the clear. She was
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just a girl on her way to Seattle, and she got a longer ride
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than she paid for. I called Wendy's but I couldn't get an answer,
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so I got by my place to wait for Jocko. Stanley Morris was there
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chewing his fingernails. When I walked in, he was up to the wristwatch.
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Said no, that question my wife. You're hiding her. He's good
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enough to hide. But this isn't the ninth Where is she? She must
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have gone to you after that hotel. How do you know she was it?
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Did you drop by two? Does that make any differs a difference for
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me? We're all out of phones. Now. Tell me about that hotel.
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Cocket Otem told me to come there. Why, I don't know.
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I was supposed to be there ten thirty. It was some kind of a
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crazy scheme. It was a dead girl. Next up in one. Sorry
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it wasn't. Wendy put them tried to break up this marriage. I wish
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he had. You don't know her the way I do. She's a cold
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blooded animal, the only cold blooded animal that doesn't there for building a case.
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I don't know whatever I suppose you would. There's a certain localized beauty
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you would go for, but nobody else would have her. Find out what
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she is? A puff atter with a good figure. We're good company.
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Somebody's coming in the door, Washington. There goes the light stand that he
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couldn't have died any faster with a priority. I got to the door and
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drew on the light switch, but whoever it was had gone and the hall
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was dark. When I got back to Stan, he was lying there like
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a well trained sponge. He wasn't a good enough guy to bleed in the
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living room, so I dragged him into the kitchen and left for the back
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way. I had to get word to Jocko's, so I left the message
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at his place, telling him to get in touch with me At Wendy's.
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I went up there to sit on her door step and a wait. If
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it took all night, I wasn't gonna freeze, though, because she opened
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the door as soon as I knocked. She was still wearing that crape down
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and she was yawning and stretching her arms. Oh you might not want to
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bring her home to mother, but you'd want to start anyway. Do you
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always look at grybin this way, Patsy, I feel like ease, And
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I'll bet you get a kitchen full of apples. Do I argue or come
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in? You may argue, but do it in here. When'd you get
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back? Why? Somebody just killed Stan? If you're sure, O,
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the drinks are on me. He didn't like you eat it with the eaven
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if he had anything to stalk with. Don't have a malley, Patsy.
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Look, lady, I'm nursing a murder rap and I need some answers with
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Stanaphony. He's the same guy I'm marry. If that's what you mean?
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What sure? Or four hours ago? I wanted an answer? Then?
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What time? You're too far ahead? Patsy, Come to a trump and
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have a drink. Lady, has anybody ever told you about a slow burn?
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I got one now I'll bet you have, darling. Oh, this
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room isn't big enough for games. Baby, give me a Patsy. We'll
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find a guy with a bang of wild oats. Stop shadow boxing, all
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right, baby? H See that's what makes the poor so happy. They
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don't have phones. Yeah, betchy, this is Joko. What'd you find
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out Crockey Otum is in love with Wendy Morrish? Does they go both ways?
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A different way of exchange? I got something else too, I will
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is a big temptation. Go ahead. If she bows out, all the
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dome goes to a Maybe the guy is a fraud. Oh he's going to
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have it straightened off. What else? The funny part of the will.
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If they're both dead, all the dough goes to Crockett Otum. You better
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see him in a hurry. Oh, that doesn't make sense. If he
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killed her and got all that dough, it had cost him that much to
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get another like her. Maybe not. You haven't seen her, Jacko.
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He wouldn't pass that up. She's nice and speedy. Oh, I can
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explain that. When you're over fifty. You don't mind the speed. It's
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the free wheeling you hate to think about. When Jacko hung up, I
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knew we had a good pair of seats. That story of stance finally made
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sense. It was only one reason why he could have been called there at
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ten thirty, and for the first time I tumbled why Craig had let me
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go back in that hotel room, everything was right in place, like a
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mixed master in a bride kitchen. I dropped my headquarters and left a note,
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and then a girl and I ran into Craig down at the desk.
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I briefed him on what had happened, and we rode up to Odem's apartment.
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When we got to the living room, things turned stormy. Hello,
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Novac, it's too late to start a party. You're gonna like this one
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otum. That's right, darling, you'll love it. This is Craig some
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homicide. He wants you for murder. It doesn't sound right. Craig Novak's
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calling it to see him. I talked to stand before he died. He
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tipped your mid crocket. He couldn't chip a water glass. He was smart
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enough to know you sent for him. That's why he didn't show it.
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Ten thirty. You better have it than riding. No, I don't need
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it that way. I got Craig. He won't let you out that easy.
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What's he talking about, Craig, I'm aside. I'll shake him down
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too fast. You're with a walk him dead now, Craig, I let
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the note they know you killed a girl? Are you crazy Craig to come
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up here? I can't argue now. He's too lucky O him. I
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got all seven tonight, Craig, crocod Odum sold you bad good. He
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did everything wrong. Thanks. I'm gonna leave you, but don't let the
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bag get too hippy. Wait a minute, Craig, you're not gonna let
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me hang for this. If you won't, they burn in the states,
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Stay away from that door, Craig. Sorry, Otem, you jumped me
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in, but I got fat cards. I want to see you play him
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alone. Can you get by this gun? I'll make a try. Hang
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on your sin. You a hand? No, you anything to help you
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die here? How's old him? He'll keep Yeah. I'm sorry, Novak,
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what they do wrong? Everything, but mostly when you let me go
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up in that hotel room. Yeah, I should have pinched you then.
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I mucha send a hearted guy. You're a bum, Craig. I can
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move you down a step lower. Even you're a liar. I checked you're
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not working for the city. They never heard of you downtown. I'm not
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gonna make it, Novak. Lay my head down, Yeah, how about
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it down easy? Goodbye, Craig. I hope you have a long night.
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If Craig made the morning, he had to cheat. They patched up
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Odam and got most of the story out of him. Jocko was right.
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Odum got tired of chasing the girl and went after the money instead. He
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drummed up that phony story to Planter reason for a quarrel, and then he
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tried to pay it off in that hotel room. He offered a cut to
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Craig, for the heavy duty work. Wendy was supposed to show up at
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ten fifteen Craig could kill her and wait. When Stan showed up at ten
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thirty, Craig was supposed to stage a fight and kill him. That way
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he'd be in the clear, and so would Odim. They'd say it was
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a husband and wife quarrel, and Craig had a phony shield to back him
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up. Dreamed up that story about being a cop, but the whole scheme
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went. Hey, why when the desk clerk mixed up the rooms, Craig
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killed the wrong woman and Stan got there late. That's why he got scared
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when it turned out to be somebody else, so he let me go.
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Odum was afraid that Stan had showed up and knew the story, so he
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had a ticket right away. The guy who telled me was handy for that.
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When did I first tumble something wrong? When I was sure, the
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crocoddled him and told a lie. He said the girl was a dipso,
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but when I got there, she was drinking soda with her whiskey, and
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a good dipso won't waste that much time. Well, it works out all
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right. Helman was on his honeymoon, so he didn't have any questions all,
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but his wife did. Vaca Hire was previously released by Amy Lee,
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the American Broadcasting Company or listeners in the United States and rebroadcast for our men
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and women overseas. This is the United States Arm Forces Radio Service, the
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Voice of Information and Education. Welcome back. Well, here we see an
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example of handling an absent actor. The only flaw on this is that you
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had two bodies drop and no actual police showed up on the scene because the
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one that they portrayed was a fake policeman, which you know, I think
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obvious reasons that they did that that way, rather than making him a crooked
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policeman, because even with a pat Novak for hire, there were limits to
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how bad you can make the police look. But that does leave a bit
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of a plot hole here. Well, now we do have an email or
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a voicemail. I've been meaning to play this for a few days. This
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is from Deana. She sent this back on June twenty third, so let's
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go ahead and take a lesson. Hi, this is Diane Nicole. I've
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enjoyed your show so much, Adam, and I'm a little late though in
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listening to them, and I just wanted to answer the pronunciation of the composer
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of the music from Johnny Dollar Steam. It's Dmitri Shostakovich. Someone has probably
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already told you because it's been a while, but just in case, I
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thought, I thought I would call love your show. Thanks bye, Thanks
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so much for the voicemail. I do appreciate it and apologize it took me
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so long to get to it on the show. This was, of course
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thee the our opening theme, which is actually taken from the closing of many
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of the Armed Forces Radio Services versions of pat Novak for Hire. And for
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some reason I just struggled with pronouncing this name correctly. But that is the
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name. For those of you who are wondering where the opening theme comes,
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it comes from pat Novak for Hire and it's by this composer. And I
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appreciate you taking the time to call, and you can leave your own voicemails
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at two eight no one one bright D that's too eight no one one four
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seven eight three and show related comments are the main thing we'd like to receive
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there for technical issues things like that email still works best. Well, that
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will do it for today. We will be back tomorrow with the adventures of
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Philip Marlow, and then be sure and listen to us again next Tuesday for
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