# Pat Novak for Hire: Father Lahey (EP1282)

An episode of [Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1696519927), 11 Aug 2026, 34 min.

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Release Date: June 10, 2014 A priest hires Pat Novak to intercept an escaping convict. However, when Novak allows the convict to make an unplanned stop, trouble of the lethal kind ensues. Original Air Date: April 2, 1949 Support the show monthly at https://patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time basis at https://support.greatdetectives.net Mail a donation to: Adam Graham, PO Box 15913, Boise, Idaho 83715 Give us a call at 208-991-4783 Take the listener survey at https://survey.greatdetectives.net Check out our social media at https://www.greatdetectives.net

## Transcript

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[1:30] Hire. Father lahy that no gay, we'll hire? Sure, I'd well
[2:06] hire. That's what the sign out in front of my office says, have
[2:27] Novak for hire. It's about the only way to say it. Oh,
[2:31] you can vess it up and tell how many shopping days they're auto Christmas.
[2:36] But if you got yourself in the market, you can't waste time talking with
[2:39] you. Gotta be as brief as a paupers will, because down the waterfront
[2:44] in San Francisco, everybody wants a piece of the cake, and the only
[2:46] easy buck is the one you just spent. Oh, it's a good life.
[2:52] If you work real hard and study a little on the side, you
[2:54] got a trade by the time you get to prison. I rent boats,
[3:00] do a few other odd jobs you can't afford to pick it on. Works
[3:04] out alright if you put your tongue in hawk, because down here you shouldn't
[3:08] talk. It's like installing a set of drums and a belfry. You make
[3:13] some noise, but it's never the right kind. I found that out a
[3:16] few days ago. Must have been Tuesday or Wednesday night. Anyway, I
[3:22] was sitting in the office reading Time magazine when the door opened. I looked
[3:25] up and had to keep right on going because the guy was so tall he'd
[3:29] have to bend over to see through a transom, and he had a voice
[3:31] deep enough to read out as a bassoon. Good evening, mister Novak,
[3:38] I'll take your word for it. You have a small opus. I'm small
[3:42] time. What's on your mind? My name is lady, I would hire
[3:45] you. Yeah, sit down. Are you cold? That overcoat around your
[3:47] neck? You're either cold or a priest, though I'm a priest. Mister
[3:52] Novak, I'm sorry, father, you got a slow rogue. What do
[3:55] you need a few hours of your time? I want you to help a
[3:59] man's skiing from prison. Father. You'll never get along with a bishop,
[4:02] mister Novak in a curious way, this is an errand of mercy. Well,
[4:04] this isn't my year for mercy. I'm sorry, father. Maybe you
[4:08] don't like to hear it that way, but if I got the right feet,
[4:10] it wouldn't be mercy anymore. When I say it's an errand of mercy,
[4:12] that's what it is. Sometimes tonight a man is going to break out
[4:15] of Alcatraz. If he's allowed to get into town, he may kill somebody.
[4:18] You want me to stop him, that's right. And if he doesn't
[4:21] kill anybody, he can still be shot down by the police. Man.
[4:24] That's the percentage. Father. If he comes off that Rocky knows that.
[4:27] Stop worrying about him. If you could bring him to me, I know
[4:30] I can talk him into going back tell headquarters. He'll do the same thing.
[4:32] If I did that, I'd break a promise. This is the only
[4:35] thing I can do. Will you help me? Yeah? I suppose how
[4:42] do I pick him up? Treadwater and a bailey comes by? He's due
[4:45] in at Pere nineteen sometime tonight. When he comes to shore, bring him
[4:47] to me. I'll be waiting at the Ferry building. I'll suppose he doesn't
[4:50] want to come. I suppose he wants to party. How am I gonna
[4:51] get him there? I don't ask you how to say the beads. If
[4:55] you're any good, you'll get him there. But you don't want him in
[4:57] sections. I want him all at once, mister Novak, ask you this
[5:00] if it wasn't important. I gotta help him. He's one of my boys.
[5:03] Yeah, sure, what's his name? Joe Feldman? Feldman? Yeah?
[5:08] If I don't worry about the spelling, you don't have to either.
[5:10] He's one of my boys. Flow down. Nobody's pushing your father. I
[5:14] don't know when he's due, but I'll be at the ferrybuilding from eight o'clock
[5:16] on. Yeah, I only got one worrying. Is there really a guy
[5:19] named father? Lady? I suppose you'll have to take a chance on that.
[5:21] Yeah, Well, it's a big chance. You come in here with
[5:24] a story anybody can see through like a screen door, and I'm supposed to
[5:26] buy it. You could dig up a collar. What happens if you're a
[5:28] fake? Just try to guess, right. Suppose I don't and you're in
[5:30] the same spot. Put His pilot was good night, mister Novak. Whoever
[5:46] Joe Feldman was, he had a good friend, because when father lay he
[5:49] walked out of there, and I knew he was all right. He could
[5:53] tell without even testing him, the way when you pick up a pool cue,
[5:56] you know right away whether it's any good or not. He stood at
[6:00] the door for a minute, and then he walked out. You got a
[6:03] funny feeling that he didn't walk into the night, that he was big enough
[6:06] to wrap it around his shoulders and take it with him. I got a
[6:11] last look at him as he turned the corner under a street lamp. He
[6:15] looked even taller now, and you knew if somebody stood him in an oil
[6:17] field, you couldn't tell him from the rest of the derecks. Well,
[6:21] I made a couple of phone calls, and then I closed shop and went
[6:24] down to the end of here. Nineteen to wait. The bay looked as
[6:28] dark as a bruised crow. The fog was beginning to drift in and over
[6:31] near the piers. By nine o'clock, you couldn't see a thing, and
[6:34] you felt like a guy trying to shave in a bathroom full of steam.
[6:39] I was about thirty feet from the end of the pier when a small boat
[6:43] pulled in and let somebody out. I was sure it was my boy,
[6:46] so I moved behind his shed and waited. The boat pulled away and the
[6:49] guy started down the dock. I waited until he moved past me. Oh
[6:58] sorry, you ought to be glad. How's the huh? You're lonely,
[7:01] mister? What do you care if you are? Buy a beer and talk
[7:03] to that bartoner. I'm busy, all right, you're tough Feldman. Let's
[7:06] go now. You got dates for us. You're gonna see father Lakey.
[7:09] Come on, you're doubling for Gabriel. Let me alone, mister, right,
[7:12] I want to go. Look, Junior, if we draw straws,
[7:14] you're gonna get the shirt one O. They's supposed to be a gun in
[7:17] your pocket. You get a chance to find out. That's what I'm gonna
[7:19] do because I have one too. Let's start to hit your stomach back down
[7:25] always yours, mister Timmid. Bad night for bluffing, so goodbye. Come
[7:30] here one you can let go. We see then come on, come out
[7:34] in the water like you want to start again. No, alright, I'll
[7:42] see you. Man, lady, I gotta make a stop for it,
[7:44] make it after. We'll take five minutes. Look, mister, if you
[7:47] want to do it the easy way, let me make this stop. You
[7:49] go with me, all right, five minutes and then you see father lady,
[7:51] suit yourself that if I'll make heaven. But if you want to run
[7:55] into Ferance, it's all right with me. If you need the credits,
[7:58] you need the credits. Joe Feldman wasn't very friendly. He sat over in
[8:13] the corner of the cab and he didn't say a thing. He just kept
[8:16] looking at me and waiting, like a guy feeding arsenic to a rich aunt.
[8:20] A few minutes later, the cab pulled up in front of a hotel
[8:24] on Geary Street, and we walked in. One look at that lobby and
[8:28] you got the idea. The place was about as cozy as an abandoned mine
[8:31] shaft over by the wall there was an old mohair couch, and the legs
[8:37] on it were so warped. Pretty soon it was going to look like period
[8:39] furniture. There were a few chairs, and over by the stairs a faded
[8:45] calendar of a girl in tights holding a jar of mayonnaise and winking whatever that
[8:48] man. And there was a broken clock over the desk. But you knew
[8:54] it was all right because nobody there cared about keeping track of time. It
[8:56] was something he got rid of in a hurry, like a bent quarter.
[9:01] We went up to the second floor. We walked down a long hall that
[9:03] smelled like an ante room to a sewer. When Feldman knocked in the door,
[9:07] she opened it right away. The room was full of taboo. She
[9:13] stood leaning there for a minute, a sort of a girl of moves when
[9:16] she stands still. She had blonde hair. She was kind of pretty,
[9:22] except she could see somebody had used her badly, like a dictionary and a
[9:26] stupid family. Feldn seemed to know her. Oh, Anne, well,
[9:31] the harvest hands arrived all at once. Yeah, it's good for the cross,
[9:35] but tough on a woman. Come in, who's your friend? A
[9:41] missionary? I guess he grabbed me down to the docks. Does he talk
[9:43] or just stand there looking healthy? He growls a little, you really growls.
[9:48] Come on, hurry up, lady. Your friends got a date.
[9:50] I'll bet you bite instead. Don't worry about him. He can go over
[9:54] in the corner and place it will now. Look he's got five minutes.
[9:56] Use him quick. Yeah. I came up with a message, jam,
[10:00] time's been changed, stay around till ten o'clock. All right at all?
[10:05] Yeah, it's all you want the other four minutes, let's go all right?
[10:09] Opened it door? Yeah, he didn't open it fast enough. When
[10:31] Feldman hit me, I wabbled for a minute and went down like a price
[10:33] of winter. Whek Fatheray, he had any loose prayers lying around, now
[10:37] is the time to crate them up and ship them over. Because I wasn't
[10:39] going to stay awake long enough to test the varney. I rolled on the
[10:43] floor a couple of times, and then I took a rain check. On
[10:46] the next couple of hours. When I woke up, it was like buying
[10:48] a new nash and then finding out you can't drive. Joe Feldman was lying
[10:52] next to me with his throat cut like a pound of rib roast. His
[10:56] head was over the one side and his body was twisted it over the other
[11:00] way, as if he couldn't make up his mind which directs him to die.
[11:01] And I got up and rolled him on his back. He was grinning
[11:07] like a pullman porter at the end of the line, and his mouth was
[11:09] half open, as if he expected you to drop in the suggestion on your
[11:11] way by. I noticed right then how thin and small he was, about
[11:16] as fat as a shadow, and tall him if to scrape his head on
[11:18] a lamp shade. Oh, there wasn't anything I could do but wish him
[11:22] luck. So I called the check stand at the Ferry building and had them
[11:26] page father lady. About two minutes later he answered, hello, I'll lay
[11:31] there's no back father, yes, calling the outfield your boys dead. I
[11:35] see what happened. Somebody didn't like him lots. I wasn't around for the
[11:39] main event. No, I'm in some cave up on Geary Street. He
[11:43] wanted to come by here. First, Father, who's Anne? I don't
[11:46] know. Speldman got a girlfriend. He's got two sisters living. One of
[11:50] them was named Now A tall blonde with lots of speed. That's your definition.
[11:54] It'll probably she was around for a while. In case you ever want
[11:58] to check, what are you going to do? Get out on the backstairs
[12:01] and pretend I never heard of Joe Feldman. I'm silly, mister Gobick,
[12:05] I'm silly. It work out that way, so, my father, if
[12:07] you liked him, I'm sorry. He may have been a nice little guy.
[12:09] Oh I could do without him. But if you like it, I'll
[12:11] say he was a good little guy. Oh little, I don't know.
[12:15] We could start to pick at fence with him. Why because you've got the
[12:16] wrong man, mister Gobik. Huh. If he's on the six feet,
[12:20] you've got the wrong man. Whoever you've got a player, isn't Joe Veltman.
[12:22] Well he's happy about it now, father, whoever he is, I'm
[12:26] sorry. It's the percentage. Why the percentage? If it isn't Joe fe
[12:31] Feldman, Why that's the waterfront? Father, If your name's Joe nobody,
[12:33] you still can't do better than eight to five. At least Joe Feldman was
[12:48] smart. If you're gonna get your throat cut, it's a good time to
[12:50] send in a substitute. As soon as father lay he hung up. I
[12:54] knew hanging around that hotel was going to be a waste of time, like
[12:58] sending mass notes to a bearded la. If I couldn't prove the guy was
[13:01] alive, they were gonna charge extra down at the desk. And if Hellman
[13:05] down at homicide ever found out I brought the guy up here, I'd have
[13:09] about as much chance as a bottle of scotch at a cocktail party. So
[13:13] I picked up my hat and started for the door. I looked at him
[13:16] once more, but he wasn't gonna say goodbye. So I started out,
[13:22] ooo, hello, Hellman expecting me no, mak no, I'd have rolled
[13:26] him first, Invite me in, crash the party, Helman, you'll be
[13:30] more at home, all right. He sure looks lazy. Who is he?
[13:37] He's supposed to be Joe Feldman, But Feldman let him do the hard
[13:39] work. Good friends, you better check. I don't know the guy.
[13:43] Help me roll them over there. Here, here's his wallace. You let
[13:48] me have it. You're gonna break your fingernail, give it here, all
[13:50] right, no money in here. You're gonna drop the case. Here's his
[13:56] God Mike Greeley didn't like you either. You're wearing out the rug helmet I
[14:01] don't know the guy. You brought him up. I checked at the dead
[14:03] well, check on who left. Then I brought him up here on a
[14:05] phony lead, right because I was hired tow him around. He liked the
[14:07] room, so we dropped by and he cut himself shaven. I wasn't around.
[14:09] There was a girl here for the handshakes, kind of good. I
[14:13] don't know, Helman. How many kinds are there? Her name was and
[14:16] he had a fast pulse. That's all I know. You must know more
[14:18] than that. If you don't, you'll never get a lawyer. I won't
[14:20] need one. He'll save money at least, because you got a real hole
[14:22] this time, Novack. We get a phone tip and find you in the
[14:24] murder room. You've got half a story, Helmet, I know, but
[14:26] i'll get the other half until then you're under technical arrest. It's practically the
[14:31] real thing. You got a technical head, Helme, and I wouldn't tip
[14:33] myself off. Somebody else would walk around, no back and tie yourself out,
[14:37] because you'll wind up sitting down. Meantime, I'll have your tail.
[14:41] You're a man, couldn't follow a moose through a revolving door. And I
[14:43] look Helman. I'm gonna double back. This guy's a phony lead. I
[14:46] was supposed to meet a guy named Joe Feldman, but he never showed up.
[14:48] He didn't know. I got a dead coppet to prove he did.
[14:50] Your boy, Joe Feldman killed a sergeant named Grubb at the gold Rush Club
[14:52] club a half hour ago. Got to start that walk, Novak. There
[15:07] are two kinds of raps. You can't ever be cheating a woman with kids
[15:11] and killing a copper. So I knew Joe Feldman could put in for reservations
[15:15] right away, And I knew Helman had stay with him like a February cold.
[15:20] He'd stay with the whole thing, and I'd have a real tough time
[15:22] explaining. I couldn't explain it to myself. What about the message up in
[15:28] that room? Why did the little guy tell Hanne to stay until ten o'clock?
[15:33] Why did he get off at Peer nineteen instead of Joe Feldman once he
[15:35] got there? What was Feldman doing at the gold Rush Club? And why
[15:39] did they spot him so fast? Well it pointed to one thing, a
[15:43] police tip off. But that's as far as I could go. On the
[15:46] way down, I stopped at the desk, and I asked the clerk to
[15:50] see the register. He pushed it over toward me. It was a dirty
[15:52] brown thing that looked like an old tortilla somebody had left behind. They didn't
[15:56] do any good. The registration was a phone. Oh. I had to
[16:02] do something in a hurry, so I looked up the only honest guy I
[16:04] know, an ex doctor and a boozer by the name of Jack o' madigan.
[16:08] He's a good man, and he used to be a smart one too.
[16:11] Still, he started chasing a jigger of beer with a glass of whiskey.
[16:15] I finally found him in the Pied Piper room, arguing with somebody about
[16:18] their words to Annie Laurie. Ah, Patsy, a drink from mister Nova,
[16:23] something cheap but impression. Stop it, will your jacko? Are you're
[16:26] going to be drunk all your life? Yes, it's only a matter of
[16:30] willpower, Patsy. I'm probably the only man in the world who intends to
[16:33] carry a hangover into etorney. We'll stop long enough to give me a hand
[16:37] when I'm in trouble. Of course, you're in trouble. You'll always be
[16:40] in trouble because you can't recognize it. Patsy, you're fuzzy jocko. You
[16:44] have the social outlook of a bull with a hot foot, and there's no
[16:48] hope for you because if from time to time a moral feeling does sweep over
[16:52] you, you mistake you for influenza and go to bed. All right.
[16:56] Oh, you try hard enough, you go through the motions, Patsy,
[16:59] but you ever get anywhere. You go stumbling through life doing a tight wire
[17:03] act and a rubber band. You're always in the middle. Will you listen
[17:07] to me? It's because there's no variety in your life. You won't allow
[17:11] it. You're a broken down banjo, not a very good instrument to begin
[17:15] with, and to make matters worse, you will allow everybody to come along
[17:18] and pluck the same string. All right, are you all thrown our jackal?
[17:22] Yes, you sound angry. I think you have a bad disposition too.
[17:27] What kind of trouble. Well, I try to help some guy out
[17:30] of prison tonight. You got drunk and thought you were the parole board.
[17:33] No, I did it for a good guy, a priest named Lady.
[17:37] Here. The guy was already out and father Lady was trying to hurt him
[17:40] back without getting shot. But this guy Feldman didn't want to play. I
[17:44] never drink. Will clear this up for me. I picked up the wrong
[17:47] guy. I took him to a Geary Street hotel. I napped a while,
[17:49] and I cut him up like a pisa parceling sounds like a gruesome hotel.
[17:53] The dead guy's name is Mike Greeley. I don't even know who he
[17:56] is. Well, this is no time to start building a friend anyway.
[18:00] Who is in the room. Some girl. She may be Feldman's sister.
[18:03] Would she kill a man? If she did, he'd be crushed to death.
[18:07] Now I'm sure somebody else came in that room. You better talk to
[18:11] Feldman. He's a hard man to reach. A sergeant almost made it tonight.
[18:15] Feldman shot his way out of the gold Rice Club. It's one way
[18:18] to get out of a nightclub. The helman steamed up, So you gotta
[18:21] help me, Jocko. You better look up father. Ladies, you'll probably
[18:23] be electrocuted, and if you are, he may have some drag. I
[18:26] want you to go down to the chronicle Morgan, pull the clips on Joe
[18:30] Feldman. Will you get everything you can and then hit the horse parlors find
[18:33] out what they know about him. Huh, maybe he's a heavy drinker.
[18:36] I'll check the box jack, I'll wake up and get on there. If
[18:37] I don't pay helmet on this thing, I'll be a dead pigeon. What
[18:40] am I supposed to do? I don't know. You might start cooing good
[18:44] night, Clover. Well. As soon as I left Jocko, I went
[18:56] down to the gold Rush Club on O'Farrell Street. Was a little nightclub where
[18:59] they charge you eighty cents for a drink of whiskey that had killed her Redwood.
[19:03] The floor show is just as bad, and the headliner was an oriental
[19:06] dancer whose only talent was a zipper. I sat at the bar and I
[19:10] tried to pry some talk loose, but they liked the boss. I finally
[19:14] got a hold of a fat waitress who should have been wearing a harness instead
[19:15] of slacks. She told me a little. The owner was a guy named
[19:19] Charlie Giffen, and he used to make book with Joe Feldman. She told
[19:23] me that Joe's sister worked at the gold Rush Club for a while, but
[19:26] she got sick a few months ago and quit. I asked the girl if
[19:30] tonight's shooting was a police plant. She didn't know, but she said that
[19:33] Feldman had been in to see Giffin tonight and on his way out he ran
[19:37] into trouble. I gave her five bucks, and she looked hurt, as
[19:41] if somebody had given her a plow for Christmas. She showed me where Giffin's
[19:44] office was, and I walked back there. Giffin wasn't there, But the
[19:48] taboo was do you have the right door, mister Novak? You seem to
[19:52] be in all of them? You mind if I lead in the doorway?
[19:53] No, but I'll bet you need shoulder pads. By this time, was
[19:57] Charlie Giffen. Why I want to ask him a about Joe Feldman? Ask
[20:00] me, I'm your sister. I'll ask you about Mike Greeley, who killed
[20:03] him. I don't know. Is he dead? Yeah, he couldn't stand
[20:04] the bleeding. It was all right when I left. What were you doing
[20:07] up there waiting for Joe? My sister and I were going to meet him
[20:10] up there. Relax, mister Novak, relax for me. No, when
[20:14] people relax for you, they do it on the floor. I was out
[20:15] long enough for homicide to catch up. They want me for Mike Greeley.
[20:18] But I'm going to send them. You were Joe, you're forgetting my sister
[20:21] Norma. Should I for most things? Yes, But she was up in
[20:22] that room tonight after me. I'll ask her ask her about the money too.
[20:26] Then you're out in front of me on that. You see me better
[20:29] that way. Joe had a lot of money on him tonight, but the
[20:32] police out. He wouldn't carry it with him, And now the money's gone,
[20:34] so's Norma. Mh do you know where it is? No? Well,
[20:40] new growl and you bite a new lie. You must have a full
[20:42] day sit down and relax. I want to see Giffin. He won't be
[20:45] back tonight. I lean back. That's it, Betsy. You really want
[20:52] that money? I can split him motive, then you split it ninety ten.
[20:57] If you can't, you better get your breath back. I won't need
[21:00] it. I don't want to talk anymore. Man made me stop. If
[21:06] I get any closer, I'll be on the other side of you. Yeah,
[21:11] Patsy, you lot a good time and a half. Darling. Hello,
[21:15] I thought you were coming in to curl up with a good book.
[21:18] Uh, mister Novak came by full of questions. This is Charlie Giffon Patsy,
[21:22] I got some questions for you too, given we'll ask him down the
[21:26] bore of this gun. Over to the desk, Novak, did you lose
[21:29] that knife? Given by the desk, that's it. Where's the money Novak?
[21:33] I gave her the last week. Where's the money Joe gave it?
[21:34] Or somebody by the red Cross? Mister, you got a tender face,
[21:40] Novak. Now get out of this club. Before I slept on a cover
[21:42] chart. I was getting second tonight in three hours. I'd seen more service
[21:57] than a mixed master in the school. When I left the gold Rush Club,
[22:03] I dropped my headquarters. Hillman had nothing to show but his badge.
[22:06] They had a dragnet around the city for Joe Feldman, and they'd lined up
[22:08] the record on the dead guy in the hotel. He'd been a friend of
[22:11] Joe's before his trip to Alcatraz. There wasn't much I could do if homicide
[22:17] couldn't find Joe. I couldn't find him, so I looked up Norma Feldman
[22:22] in the phone book. She had an apartment out on the Avenues, but
[22:25] when I called, there was no answer. So I tagged by my apartment
[22:27] to see if Jocko had left a message. When I opened the door,
[22:32] Norma was there and she had a gun to keep her company. Yeah.
[22:37] I came up here to kill you. If you're Norma, the rest of
[22:40] the family's ahead of you. What's happened to my brother? I don't know.
[22:42] Please, what's happened to him? Mister Novak? Well, if he
[22:45] killed the copies hiding out, I know he didn't mean to do that.
[22:47] Mister nova chose not that way. Somebody told the police she was going to
[22:51] do there. That's why I came up here to you. Oh, put
[22:55] down my gun. You can't shoot through the tears. Mister Novak didn't know
[22:57] where he is telling me. Make him give himself, Make him stop hiding
[23:02] like a small flight man. You look big to that copy. Please please
[23:06] find him. Yeah, heh this is Jocko. Yeah, you sound ruffle.
[23:15] Joe Felvin's sister just walked in to kill me. Joe, doc you
[23:18] it's the best offer you've had. What'd you find out? Feldman has two
[23:22] sisters. I know they both go to pieces. The Googress cub is owned
[23:25] by Charlie Giffen. He owed Joe Feldman two thousand dollars and the horse.
[23:30] People say Joe collected it tonight. If it's in, Jocko, everybody in
[23:33] town's after that dough. They have to look some more. I'm out to
[23:37] knock Well Boulevard. Homicide just fished Joe Feldman out of the gutter. Homicide
[23:42] finished second. He was a lucky guy. He didn't have the dough on
[23:45] him. No, he dashed it somewhere. Then he left it with a
[23:48] woman. Yeah, because he's got a woman's compact in his pocket. You
[23:52] were made to hit the sister's please. Oh do we know he got it
[23:55] there a woman's compact. He didn't get it there. Alcatraz is getting well
[24:11] a minute. Jocko hung up. Things began to fall into place, but
[24:14] I knew the last piece was going to pinch somebody hard, if the Feldman
[24:18] blood was going to turn bad. The father lady was a good man to
[24:19] send in, so I called him. He was off, but I left
[24:22] word for him to get out to Norma Feldman's apartment. Norman and I left,
[24:26] and on the way we picked up Helman. When we got out to
[24:30] her place and started up the stairs, we could hear people moving above.
[24:33] There's no point in trying to keep quiet because Hellman was creeping up the stairs
[24:37] like a stallion with a broken leg. Yeah, if you got a bomb,
[24:41] touch it off too, huh. I'll open at Helman. Hello,
[24:48] No, that did you find a dog giving? You mean my stolen dough?
[24:52] Yeah? Come on, No, you and Anne better wait. This
[24:53] is Helman from homicide. We're leaving. You better move No, that not
[24:56] until you the sudden murder wrapped and you pay it off that fast. I
[25:00] can do it on the way to the door. Oh wait a minute,
[25:02] point the gun at Helman. He's official. I can tag your both,
[25:03] So move away, you too, Norma and and I are leaving. Look
[25:07] Giffing homicide gobbles up nightclub big shots like you nothing to me, Copper,
[25:11] move away. You got the hammer, use it and come on through,
[25:14] all right, I will Copper. Hey, yeah, you need a refill,
[25:18] Giffen. That's right, Darling, hand him your gun, ma'am.
[25:21] And you couldn't have done that. You couldn't have taken him out, all
[25:23] right? So they fell out. That are taking for murder, Helman,
[25:26] you little I'm not leave you all the money I can spend the darling.
[25:30] You better do it fast. Helm Yeah, I got it. You can
[25:33] fucking folse murders Mike Grilly and my brother. I'll testify it. I'll ride
[25:38] there in a cab on your dough Giffen. Yeah, are you gonna pose
[25:45] or take me? Helman if you're anxious? Sorry about you and Norma.
[25:48] You get nothing out of this, but that's better than I got, Diane,
[25:53] lots of lot. Thank you, darling. You know what kind I
[25:59] hope your rough come on, Helmn. I'm achamed of you. Leave me
[26:07] alone, Norma. I'm ashamed of you what you did to Joe. I'm
[26:11] ashamed. Leave me alone, Norma. I'm sick. You know that I
[26:15] didn't know how it was gonna work out. Joe was trying to help you
[26:17] when you got greedy. He was trying to help you. That's the only
[26:21] reason he came out. And you let this happen. I told you I
[26:22] didn't know how it was gonna end. I thought they'd get him and take
[26:26] him back again. It's no good in you, and they couldn't find good
[26:29] in you anyway. You let that happen to Joe. You stood by and
[26:33] watched him walk into something like that. Oh, I stood by? What
[26:36] can we do? A debout it howur except a week and that won't help
[26:37] him. But hate you will. That will help Joe a little line here.
[26:41] At least they hate you for the short time left season, given those
[26:45] you defended fast? Were you better? You better stay depended fast? Ask
[26:48] him at the hospital If that isn't so, what do you mean? Ask
[26:52] him out there what you've got? They don't you asked them what you got?
[26:56] Ask him for tearing you the faces. Ask him. They'll tell you.
[26:59] I'll tell you you've got cancer. Normal, Please, I'll tell you
[27:02] cancer has come. I'll tell you you'll now spend your money. Spend your
[27:07] money and see that all laugh as long as you do. Good fine girls.
[27:33] Hello, mister Novak, did you miss much? Father? No,
[27:37] tell the man Lucky is running kind of bad tonight. It does for some
[27:41] people. I guess all they get is unhappiness. They were the same way
[27:45] you'd wear a sports code, only they never seem to get a new one.
[27:51] I'm sorry about the night, mister Novak. I'm sorry. It's not
[27:55] a smoother world. Yeah, but if it were, you'd be out of
[27:57] a job. Father, see you later. If you get a bad first
[28:25] break, you never run the table. That's what happened to Joe Feldman.
[28:29] Charlie Giffon owed him dough and wouldn't pay up, but Joe didn't care until
[28:33] Normous showed up. Until him how sick Anne was, so he decided to
[28:36] collect from Giffon and divide the dough between the girls. Fatherly, he couldn't
[28:41] stop him. All he could do was try and make it work out.
[28:45] Joe was going to get the dough and meet the girls in that hotel room,
[28:48] but he changed his timetable and sent Mike Greeley up to tell the girls.
[28:52] Giffon showed up there and figured that Mike had tumbled to a double cross,
[28:56] so he killed him and near the double cross, but she didn't mean
[29:00] to go that far. She wanted all the dough and tipped off Giffon.
[29:07] He was supposed to turn the dough over to her and then have the police
[29:10] pick up Joe, but Joe got there early. He took the door away
[29:14] from Giffon and shot the copper on the way out. Giffin followed Joe and
[29:18] killed him out of Argulo, but the dough was gone. He finally tumbled
[29:22] an enormous place, and that's how her apartment filled up so fast. Well,
[29:26] Helman asked only one question, What did I get out of all this?
[29:30] Nothing? Father Ly, he offered me fifty bucks, but I didn't
[29:33] want it. Jocko was with me, and he offered to give it to
[29:37] charity. I guess he did, because what Jacko spent it the drink's not
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[30:25] This is the United States Enforces Radio Service, the Voice of Information and
[30:30] Education. Welcome back. This one didn't have as many funny lines, but
[31:14] I have to admit I was truly impressed with the powerful verbal pictures painted of
[31:26] Father Leahy by Novak. Was really beautifully written and just a great description that
[31:37] brings the character to life. All right. Well, on to some listener
[31:41] comments and feedback. Dwight says, Adam, seems like when a favorite goes
[31:48] away or shortened, another great detective calms along. I'm liking Pat Novac very
[31:56] much. I love his hard edge and comments. Thanks for bringing these to
[32:00] us all, And another listener says, you can't knock Novak. Well,
[32:08] we do actually have some comments not as favorable on Novak. Brian says on
[32:16] Facebook, I love the quotes, but I really don't care for the delivery.
[32:20] It seems forced. And then we have this from Joel, who says,
[32:25] Hi, Adam, normally I enjoy your program in series choices, but
[32:30] Pat Novak is an exception. The episodes are cut from the same cloth,
[32:35] formulized and hackneyed. The dame, the killing, the confrontation with an overly
[32:40] angry Helman, his drunk doctor friend, and the cliched fog horns, the
[32:46] fancy dialogue and silly metaphors. We're thin after one episode. I look forward
[32:52] to the end of the series. In your next choice, what a shame
[32:54] that there were not more Pete Kelly's blues to showcase web Well. I appreciate
[33:00] your opinion, Joel, and not every listener's going to enjoy every single show
[33:06] we choose. This one to me is nique, and I think they come
[33:13] up with a lot of very interesting assemblies. I will admit I'm not certain
[33:21] I would enjoy this as much if Pat Novak had been on the air for
[33:23] one hundred episodes and we had all one hundred episodes, But at the eighteen
[33:30] network broadcast that we have. It provides a nice sampling. Plus I do
[33:36] think that they mix it up a little bit in the further episodes, particularly
[33:40] the last episode, which I think has some great dramiatic values. So thanks
[33:46] so much for the comments and appreciate I appreciate that Pat Novak's at least exciting
[33:52] folks's interest. All right, well, we will be back tomorrow with the
[33:59] adventures of Philip and then join us back here next Tuesday for another episode of
[34:06] Pat Nooback for Hire. In the meantime, send your comments to Box thirteen
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