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Death in Herald Square

Pat Novak, For Hire · November 30, 1947 · 30 min · 5,838 words

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The American broadcasting company present... Pat Novak for hire. Sure I'm Pat Novak for hire. Down on the San Francisco waterfront, the only use they have for sentiment is to pick your pocket while you're saluting the flag.

If you hang out around there as long as I have, you'll even learn to sleep with one hand on a cash box. So I wasn't expecting any cascade of lilies when Joe Adams drove down a pier in 19.

He'd found that he was in a hurry and would stop by and pick me up in his car. He said he had a quick job for me to do. I was about all I knew about him. I wasn't worried about that either.

In my work you get used to odd-shaped hires, including those from guys who look like a bundle of twigs with shoes on and drove like they own the keys to the city. Novak, this is a soft buck. All you gotta do is watch it join.

If you keep driving through red lights like that, we'll both end up looking at the ceiling and the morgues. Oh, I disagree with the traffic department. Look, the joints are north of Beats Vallejo Street.

Here's the number. I wrote it down. So you can read and write. What do you mean? What's a pitch? You afraid of mice? No. And there's no extra cards in his deck. Yeah? So far it makes about as much sense as an eight-fingered glove.

Look, I have to meet a guy and I was saying to us I have much time to make my plane. I lost my keys so I had to bust in the door to get into my place.

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