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for 364 days a year San Francisco is a

Party Town Cars and cabs take women in

gowns and men in tuxedos down roller

coaster Hills to party somewhere parties

on Knob Hill

and in Chinatown in the financial

district in north beach every day except

on Christmas Eve when men remember their

families and go home to warm fires and

eggnog and the city becomes

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calm for me this Christmas Eve was the

Calm before the storm

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hey nice boy hey

hey get

away get

away get down get away from

me good boy down get away from me Franco

go on good boy good boy

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Merry Christmas don't drip on the

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rug Merry

Christmas

K

kitties not Daddy dressed up as Santa

Claus

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again Daddy all right let's sit down and

see what we have here have you been good

little

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kitties all right let's see what s has

in his

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bag come on kids bedtime kiss your daddy

good night wait a minute sweet things

wait a minute come down to

Daddy a good boy yeah all right give me

a big hug come on give me a big one big

squeeze my

boy Tak care of

give me

please

who brush your teeth

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here you

Goyo it's hot supposed to be that's why

they call it hot buttered rum are you

planning on staying Kenna no I want to

watch my kids open their gifts I'll send

you a photograph hey it's twoo hours

into the city this Christmas

Eve my nice it used to be we wake up

chair in my pajamas and watch the kids

playing with their gift was nice but

your pajamas have long since gone to the

Goodwill about all the Goodwill I get

around here huh you got a hot buttered

rum you get a kiss on the cheek and a

Merry

Christmas can't have everything can I

have anything

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kiss goodbye as you go out the door back

to your apartment in the

city that's it huh well I don't want to

make Santa miss his appointed round

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she didn't buy mine let me watch the

kids open their presence line but I knew

if I had pressed her she would have let

me stay if I had I wouldn't have been

driving down that lonely rainy Road and

I wouldn't have stopped for that one cup

of coffee at that Roadside Cafe they say

hindsight is 2020 I should have pressed

her

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Mr

Bojangles I'm that's a small joke

very coffee please

black no I once knew a guy Berkeley drew

his own Christmas cards

maybe he had Santa Claus strung up on

the crucifix Jesus meditating in a full

Lotus position at the foot of the

cross

why

protest against what not against

anything just

protest a Mr

Bojangles I suggest you find a better

nickname you know what you get when you

bury black guys up to the

next afro

Turf so how about to ride into the city

I wouldn't give you a ride to the

cemetery oh come on it's Christmas Eve

I'm going to H this waitress here all

night drive me away you'll be doing her

a favor you sure

will how far you going I live in selo no

dialogue naturally

in the glove

compartment what are you on anyway M

muffin

Reds I'm expecting a phone call maybe

she'll keep

trying come on use it huh

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Michael Brennan private

investigator so you're the original Sam

Spade don't press your L now how much

you charge you order to find somebody

too much for

you all Lady she's

split divor will cost you 50

bucks we got four years get

them be grateful

she's so beautiful

man they're always

beautiful she got big blue

eyes she can't keep her eyes closed even

when she's sleeping real freaky

man did she say why she left you she

said she loved me too much to

stay buddy you want a private

investigator try to phone book and maybe

you need some time to think it over I

just

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did Brennan I once bought a dog from a

black guy when he climbed up on the

furniture I yelled get down that dog

would start to snap his fingers and

dance oh

God I didn't know his name then I didn't

want to I had met dozens like him before

who big kicking life as they get under

your skin particularly if it's of

another color I had discovered the best

way to deal with them was By ignoring

them besides his type attracted trouble

and his began on New Year's Eve right

around

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midnight yeah stick it you guys

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from high above San Francisco we're

about to welcome in the new year so join

me in the

countdown 10 9 8

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hey guys don't you see the players get

out of the way come on

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1 they hire an extra crew on New Year's

to sweep up the confetti and pull drunks

out of doorways they pay double time

because it's hard to find people who

work on New Year's they don't want to

miss the Rose Parade the games the

hangovers the regrets and last night's

confetti is this morning's soggy

trash it's

happy New Year a

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Sergeant Cory well who in the hell is on

duty hey I know it's New Year's I can

hear a roach parade on every TV in this

city I mean what are you guys doing

anyway huh watching the

floats just a minute hey why can't you

find a cop with I said just a minute

look man I've been robbed my place is

open your door that's fast what are you

Ane social it's a nice suit

prin you have a nice part of here last

night hey I just got home and found this

yeah well somebody had a nice party here

last night Cory what are you doing here

once you change your clothes first US

you look like a panda bear out on a date

then I want you to come down with me and

help me solve a little problem we're

having come down where the morg on New

Year's time and death wait for no man

hey is this a request call it a request

this angle you can see the difficulty in

trying to handle the 200lb back with

speed Mobility number 28 Washington

fresh

robins3

yon I prefer velvet lapels

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myself more day

class yeah I know him I gave him a lift

Christmas Eve how you bu it run them up

midnight near the bridge had car trouble

set out flares and everything just like

the auto club tells you he's fixing a

fan belt something comes across the fast

lane picks him up bang picked them up

like a puppet and wrapped them around

the motor of his

Volkswagen rure the order Crush pelvis

compound fraes there blood all over the

place I really need to hear this you

know that cor I think patent leather

pumps or P for men don't you driver the

other vehicle split all hi and

run we got a description from a passing

motor is black van black do windows no

Chrome heavy duty cow catcher so it's

not no accident no felony hit run it's

first degree murder brunon and you're

the only name we have it's a two bit

dealer Joey Robert Crawford sold grass

Coke acid mostly Chinatown rap sheet

from Washington State Nickel Dime

somebody bangs him near the bridge why

I'm not his friend Cory and I never go

to Chinatown we found this in his

wallet it's yours I think look I gave

him a ride huh I don't know him I'm not

his friend you got to smoke those things

you tell me if you did know him oh man

why are you taking it so hard you just

told me you didn't know him I don't know

him I got 50 bucks on Iowa in a rose

ball yes I do have to smoke these things

Dr

AIS listen I'm not going to find out

that you know more about Joey Crawford

than you're telling me would I be that

dumb I don't know you bet 50 bucks on

Iowa

def Brennan this is Marty at the finance

company call me back I've got a blue

wagon I want you to

repossess your 50 bucks on Iowa is

covered watch the game I'll be around to

collect on the

second Brandon Joey Crawford I guess you

got your retainer by now huh it's to

find Danny for me I told you I need her

Brennan I can't live without her that's

truth to that I want you to find her for

me Brennan you can't use the grand oh

you return it to my house boat slip 10 Q

with sauco and Brandon do you know

what's black and brown and looks good on

a black guy a

thamman

god Brenan where and when Brennan what

where and when I don't know what you're

talking about tell us where and when are

are you sure you got the

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right 11 men died building the Golden

Gate Bridge and over 700 others have

used it as a jumping off spot to a

better world Jory Crawford was just

another another statistic connected with

the bridge Jory Crawford a small time

dope dealer in Chinatown who helped me

learn that Grover Cleveland's pictures

on $1,000 bill Joey Crawford the slip

tin q and salao who begged me from

Beyond the Grave to find his girl Danny

never was employed by a dead man before

but the Thousand couldn't do Joey any

good and I like the way Grover Cleveland

smiles

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I didn't expect anyone to answer the

door I knew Joey couldn't and since no

one had come to identify the body I

figured Danny was still missing but I

had to start

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somewhere Joey had invited me to his

house booat I didn't think he'd complain

if I took a few

Liberties it's amazing how every once in

a while the things I learned in a

misspent youth come in handy

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freeze man put your hands up hey you're

a trespasser and a thief man bu come on

down and do it Slow blow you way right

now hey man I'm a private investigator

I'm working for Jo should keep them high

I did a stink with the m County

Sheriff's Department hey buddy just take

a look at my wallet here you see my on

the ground on your face turn around put

your hands behind your head that's it

and don't move or I'll make your birth

control

retroactive all you do is look at my ID

yeah right look black guy sneaks out of

boat he breaks in here what the hell am

I supposed to

think Sam's bade H little advice never

joke with a man with Magnum hey I'm

sorry man look I was just looking out

for my friend's property okay okay give

my gun back right

when who are you anyway Alex Simon

Simons my boat's the first one on the

key look look I just look out for my

friend's property because I happen to be

Sheriff's Department okay you were never

Sheriff's man if you were you to call a

backup and not run in here like John

Wayne he I'm looking for Joey Crawford's

girlfriend Danny you seen her yeah yeah

yeah nice was she oh yeah oh B blue eyes

man get lost in those eyes did you get

lost in those eyes Simon well I'll tell

you my man I bought her drink once one

drink yeah I ran into a late one

afternoon she I asked her if she want a

drink those eyes big blue eyes yeah and

yeah and not a man

nothing what do you talk about doing

that one drink oh you you know ladies

talk about you I mean you know

biorhythms

astrology uh yogurt she uh she drank

Amara I remember that yeah she drank

Amara Amar on Ice you seem to remember

awful lot for one drink hey that that's

it that's it Amaro and blue eyes okay

huh you hit owner right hey man I just

told you I only talked to her one time

where did she go when she left I don't

know uh oh was she uh she has a place uh

yeah yeah an address at Pacific Heights

I remember Pacific Heights what address

on Pacific Heights I don't know I uh you

you know what probably on that food

stamp book you just put in your

pocket little more advice you take a man

down with a gun you stick it in his

ear Joey never did tell me her last name

I guess he thought he'd be around to

fill in the gaps Danny and a to a street

address in Pacific Heights and some

scribbled numbers

27130 and

17 were the numbers Danny's new street

address a bank account I didn't know I

did know that in San Francisco Pacific

Heights means old money and people who

live in Pacific Heights distinguish

between old money and new money because

they find new money offensive I think

threatening would be a better word

because it had to be

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earned the mansion in Pacific Heights

red of old money and it in the food

stamp book didn't match unfortunately

neither did my wardrobe

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yes Michael brenen for danana toll she

don't live here I'll wait till she

does just a minute

well

hello bye

I believe it's an invasion of privacy to

go through other people's

mail how many people get fruit stamps

and the nean Marcus catalog doesn't

everyone this letter from Social

Services was sent to Danny an to here

why was she on

welfare there are white people on

welfare in Pacific Heights more than you

think

Mr the private dick

bar Brennan funny I I don't remember a

president named Brennan well

occasionally we were named after just PL

folks how

Democratic what do you want with my

sister who wants her why didn't she

change her address to

Sao The Creep what

creep 5 foot2 little weepy eyes little

runny nose I hope she never sees him

again says in your catalog you can buy a

fireworks display for a little under

$100,000 does it why don't you set one

off cuz Danny I'll never see the little

creep again Brennan you're

dro how come she won't see him

again is he dead

was he

murdered how much how much what do you

charge for

what you are a private investigator are

you not oh hey I'm sorry lady I'm

already been paid by one client on this

case this is to keep Danny's name out of

the papers keep your name out of the

paper where's your sister Catherine I

don't

know she's a free spirit like she says

like the

wind she sings sometimes in

saloons a saloon singer a free spirit

Saloon singer what Saloon

I don't go to saloons was she in the

union I'm Not My Sister's Keeper Goodbye

Mr

Brennan where was this picture taken

some telephon salao days or something

trash like that channel 3 they tape it

now sugar I ain't no media expert I'm

just seeing you

out where did all this money come from

fish anatol fish fish money very old and

very fishy ano fish

company whose Rose is that

mine everybody's drolling around

here she had sung in a ton TV stations

keep records of things like that telepon

sports events disasters a thousand years

from now can they dig up the chronicles

of this time the biggest names will be

Hank Aaron jonest toown and Jerry Lewis

it seems like

happiness is just a thing called

Jo he's got a smile that makes a lilac

want to

grow he's got a way that makes the a

angels He

aide when they

know little

Jaws passing

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by sometime the

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C now I know what Joey Crawford meant

her eyes are as blue as the sea and when

she sings it's as private and intimate

is making love TR fly away and life is

Easy

Go does he love me good that's all I

need to

know seems like

happiness is just a thing called Jo

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can I help you yeah uh you still take

machines all kinds partner got half inch

3/4 beta VHS Sony P that's 3/4 we got

beta JBC pan you sell on time you got a

credit card no driver's license yeah we

sell on time hey uh you want some movies

go with that wetness on Sunday yeah oh

come on what are your favorites a miles

hadn't many brains but he'd had too many

years experiences to detective to be

caught like that by a man he was

shadowing up a blind alley with his gun

his hip and his Overcoat buttoned but

he'd have gone up there with you Angel

he was just dumb enough for that he'd

have looked you up and down and licked

his lips and gone grinning from ear to

ear and you could have stood as close to

him as you liked in the dark and put a

hole through him with a gun you got from

may I come in please

sure I am tan

brenon you were eating your supper I

must leave I will return at a more

convenient time no no no come on in um

can I get you something to drink beer

coffee tea a little tea

perhaps herb tea you drink herb tea well

my wife bought it

from the mainland if it's good enough

for

Nixon is your wife perhaps uh not at

home at her home we're divorced I get

custody of the

tea Mr Brennan look have a seat thank

you uh Mr Brenan I think that you are

probably the very man to solve my

problem what's your

problem uh something has been taken from

my house I wish to commission you to

have it returned to me the police have

not been informed what was taken I was

to receive something valuable from the

mainland let us say a piece of Jade let

us say that the governments involved

exclude this particular piece from

import

export let us say I want my jade what's

this got to do with me find me what I

want Mr Brennan so I can fulfill my

commitments somebody broke into my

apartment looking for something did you

call the police Mr Brennan what were

they looking for I would have no way of

knowing

perhaps I should go now why did you come

to me you came recommended recommended

hey I've been looking over troms chasing

bad checks nobody knows me now all of a

sudden people are recommending me who

recommended me ah that must be kept

confidential as the source and the

destination of the Jade who runs a drug

traffic in

Chinatown ah I see I was

mistaken you are not the man I was

looking for Mr bennon I will go now wait

a minute look somebody wants something

from me and I don't know what it is I

don't know nothing about Jade or dope

but I do know I don't don't like my

place being broken into I don't like

being threatened and I don't like being

considered a fool just so Mr Brennan

goodbye hold it

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you'll never understand me but I'll try

once and then give it up when a man's

partner's killed he's supposed to do

something about it it doesn't make any

difference what you thought of and he

was your partner and you're supposed to

do something about

it and it happens we're in the detective

business well when one of your

organization gets killed it's it's bad

business to let the killer get away with

it

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anatol fish very old and very fishy she

said the fishing industry has always

been a big part of San Francisco and

anatol fish look like one of the biggest

fishing fleet canery frozen food

anatol old money and I even remember the

name on wine bottles from Napa and Danny

ano took up with a loser like Joey

Crawford why

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I'm here to see Mr anol Mr Brenan I

don't show an appointment what is it

regarding fish I am opening up a

restaurant and I want only ano fish well

uh Mr ANL is busy right now well I'll

wait till he's done busy lots of

fish Mr brenon here to see you he says

he wants wants to buy

fish excuse

me ah Ruth and Gideon to see Mr ANL your

business I'm here to see Mr ANL about a

job well we're not hiring now but if

you'd like to fill out an app Ricky

asked me to come by his wife's in the

building that's all right okay it's up

to you honey but she's sometimes violent

that's okay I'll just wait I really need

this job

Mr

Brandon thank

you Mr Brennan Is It Michael Brennan

Rick

anatol I don't have much time pal what

can I do for you I'm a private

investigator and whose husband do you

represent whose husband do you represent

my my wife

Lillian I'm trying to locate Danny

ano whose wife do you represent Nobody's

Wife or husband Mrs ano just an

interested party what do you want with

her

Brennan Joey Crawford hired me to find

her and who's Joey Crawford her

boyfriend well if Danny walked out on

him it's not of my business no he died

before I can find her a bit of tragedy

in our hum drum

lives dead eh Air Freight to Spokane

tomorrow just like a frozen fish and why

are you working for a dead man Mr

Brennan I was hired to find her that's

my job oh that's touching the dedication

you are dedicated and forthright

downright

admirable she has a house boat and

Selita why don't you look there I did

she wasn't there though left a little

too much behind clothes perfumes St you

oh so you came here deductive logic I am

impressed I'm so sorry that I can't help

you Mr Brandon

but well you understand my husband and I

we don't see that much of Danny excuse

me did any have many men in her life I

wouldn't know was she promiscuous I'm

not going to discuss her sex life with

you Bron why not everybody else will

they'll come up with every little piece

of dirt they can think of and you like

dirt don't you no look do you mind if I

talk to your asine mind me now what

makes you ask that it's one thing I've

learned there's a lot of sides to every

story meaning enough sides you can build

a box ah careful Mr

Brennan you don't get buried in

it Mr an

Mr

an you never met Danny did you no I'd

like

to Danny

is Danny's

Danny unique and

original it's not just that she's

beautiful lots of girls are

beautiful that she has the kind of

beauty

that's hard to describe something

special something every

woman you know what we fish this time of

the year sardines why aren't we fishing

sardines The Fishing Game Commission

won't let us they let the Russians the

peruvians and the Japanese but not the

anatol why seek a route for a dead man

Brennan joyy was killed the police think

I know something about it to somebody

else so what do you do wait for the

sardin no Brennan we wait for the soul

you understand about soul don't you

brenon about

Danny yeah well like I said beautiful we

were kids nothing but boys hanging

around our grandfather had to beat him

away with a stick or a check he took her

in after her folks died old the resty

never did have much sympathy for boys or

anything else good old grandpa you and

Danny are first cousins yeah where would

Danny go when she left Joy Crawford how

would I know four years ago she dropped

out a college didn't tell a soul went to

Seattle she told you postcard we always

kept in touch and you took the first

plane North how would you know lucky

guess what happened in Seattle scabs on

her face scabies in her hair face broken

up hepatitis anemic dropped all kinds of

weight NOP she's off it now

that's where she met Joey Crawford in

Seattle they worked on the gutting line

he caught the cruds Danny nurs them back

to help restored him like a classic car

he was like her child she was like his

mother she loved

him where is Danny now Ricky there's a

school of patr Soul heading south from

Alaska we track him on

radar I've got no radar on Danny Brennan

I don't know where she is I wouldn't

tell you if I

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did

hey hey hey uh are you heading towards

Market sure um could you uh just Market

just uh get in

thanks this is great thanks how did it

go uh I didn't get the job his wife

wouldn't even let him see

me where you going uh Suter Street the

young woman's Residence Club you got

it you said you needed a job what have

you been doing um

babysitting for

tourist where do you

babysit hotels mostly I go from one

hotel to another

hotel actually it's not that bad of work

because most of the hotels these days

have these close circuit movies in the

in the rooms and for just am measly $3 I

can watch a movie as many times as I

want yesterday I saw Dr shago three

times did you cry I three

times are you uh babysitting tonight no

tonight's my night

off say how about I take you to dinner I

mean seriously the real thing salad wine

dessert bitter coffee and those little

tiny

cups I'd really like to but tonight I

promise The Girl Next Door I'd be home

for

supper D other

time I'd really like that

yeah hey thanks a lot you really helped

me out oh don't mention it

thanks

um hey I really meant about dinner

another night okay here need my number

I really didn't mean it now okay I'll

call you huh okay

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thanks they say that luck is the resid

do of hard work I had been working hard

at finding Danny with no

luck I had learned one thing Danny was

once a junkie and joy was her supplier

Danny got stuck on Joy like women get

stuck on their psychiatrist and Men on

their secretaries they mistake

dependency for

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love it seems like

Happ and though it would have been easy

to have gotten stuck on Danny's blue

eyes there was something else that kept

drawing me back to that taste smile that

makes

ail want to

grow he's got a way that makes the

angels He

a when they

know little

Jo passing

by sometime the

gloomy bingo the name of the lounge she

sang in and the drummer was the file

clerk I had seen at Anna toes maybe my

luck was changing

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hey man you were rude to your visitor

last

night I'm talking to you r

d That's a statement of racial Prejudice

I

bet take the keys

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hey

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okay Brenan who did it and what's going

on you tell me who is Tain Tain boy you

picked a but he was born in Shang High

about the turn of the century came here

in time for the tongs Rose to chapon

worked his way through Law School

Hastings I think or something like that

it was big and gambling prostitution

protection illegal aliens smuggle during

prohibition switched to Opium in the'

40s cocaine in the 60s cocaine come on

brenon and I don't have time for this

I'm going on vacation tomorrow right

after the playoffs you want to sign a

complaint or can I go what playoff where

do you live the

49ers I ain't got a

chance going to Tahoe for

vacation my wife's family has a cabin up

there right by the lake I hate Tahoe hey

give me a leite mod Camaro three Chinese

hoods driver has chipmunk cheeks that'

be limb song in us boys I about a year

ago they rolled a drunk who was walking

back the wrong way to his hotel some

tourist saw it took pictures he went up

came out with a high school diploma a

barber's license and a mean outlook on

life now do you want to press charges or

what could be Lim song works for tonight

East to Su Street everyone works for

tonight look I meet Joey Crawford in a

cafe in Marin he tries to hire me to

find his girlfriend who's from money

anatol fish

money that it

yeah smoke body a duck yeah that's too

bad she's a member of the ano fish

family now I know her boyfriend is

Dillan in do in Chinatown so is tanang

who also tries to hire me I'm not in the

popularity contest brenon come on Cory

stay with me here tanang says somebody

took something from him next thing I

know I got three Chinese hoods trying to

drive my head through a windshield and I

keep getting these calls in the middle

of the night some guy asking me where

and when maybe he's angling for a DAT

you going to file a complaint of what

look I know Joey Crawford is tied to

tonight I know they're both dealing in

dope so D has got to be involved in dope

somehow but how this is a case Brenan

about rich people and dope and murder

but knowing you it's the biggest thing

that's ever happened to you and that's

why you can't let

go Cy was right I couldn't let go the

hole in my windshield and the cut on my

cheek had suddenly made this case a lot

more personal

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bath beer and a cold glass huh all

right excuse

me oh I'm sorry I thought you was

somebody

else I thought you had a band we got no

ban we had a ban but they quit didn't

give no notice just called up and said

they weren't coming in musicians what'

you do to your face Danny been around

Danny yeah she sung in a band Danny no

more no more band no more Danny are you

a boxer you look like a boxer how long

was she here about a year more I don't

she quit don't notice drums still here

yeah he left him the drummer Chinese guy

no not a boxer something else baseball

Chinese guy Davey huy that's his name he

played the drums Chinese kind of

lavender you know you played with the

Giants right about Davy Huey lavender

know I can find him what do you want him

for they said he hanged out a place

called jardin's cave A's outfielder you

know where this jardin's place

is she's not living with the drummer

he's sort of lavender you

know too short for

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basketball hey buddy be in a cold glass

pleas my name is Davey isn't this

exciting it's

unusual you know I um I've seen you

somewhere before I don't remember where

exactly but did you go to

Berkeley yeah sure I was Berkeley let's

remember me I was the one who used to

sit on the benches by Sprout playing the

conas yeah over by the Student Union

that's right hey what you do to your

hands

baby too any

cond and you oh racket ball what you

drinking tequila Marie hey

buddy so what have you been up to Davey

this and that hanging out I'm a file

clerk now but I wasn't a man for a while

won't believe this I saw you play the

lounge down by the airport oh yes yes

the

doring you had a girl playing with you

big blue eyes I talked to her down there

she's going to buy a stereo from

you well well maybe I can help you out

now listen this is my home phone and my

address it's like new I mean it's a demo

at one cigarette burn on the right side

well what were you asking for no money

she was getting me a key of good I even

went out the house boat you wasn't here

when last

weekend was Joey there oh the little guy

with the runny nose nah

he's crazy man you know one night he

tried to kill me say

what the first time I go to his boat

they're having a party he and I have

some business things going on you know

anyway I walk into the bedroom and Joey

and Danny and about a half dozen others

are doing some lives they must have had

a mason jar of coke I swear well anyways

I stick my head a little close just like

you would have and Joey starts screaming

and jumps all over me some guys get wide

it got very freaky man what's the

business deal you and Joey had going

well is your license myv 889 yeah you

better get outside someone Sid swiped

your car they tripping it or something

who told you

guy by the way I also do bookkeeping if

I have etal profit

yeah no no

no hey

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where and when

Brenan I don't

know I said where and

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when my luxure had changed I was kissing

concrete instead of women but it's still

felt like a worm blanket compared to

playing 20 questions with a guy with a

sap where and when what I didn't

know I did know that after getting to to

get lost being beaten up twice in the

same day and finding traffic more jammed

than the [ __ ] at jordine's Cave I was

sorely in need of a friendly face

he

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Ruth a get in no visitors after

9:00 what room is she in no visitors

after

9:00 there's another you're going to eat

it

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404 you all through with that dinner

what

happened too much

bear my hits like

explode here sit in this

chair what can I do to

help did you drive him into my police

sure

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hey you go get in the shower and I'll

make some coffee okay that's great it's

over there

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sleep

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Brennan Lilian anatol I have another

side for your box Danny's at Pacific

Heights

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is

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operator credit card call

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please llian ano didn't impress me as

the helpful kind but her call was the

first Real Lead I had as to Danny's

whereabouts and personality judgments

were not what I was being paid

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for hello Sam

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how did you get in here the service

entrance how appropriate I thought so

ma'am she isn't here so what do you want

but she was here she left when yesterday

she thought you were the police she has

an aversion to police so you told her I

was here and Joey Crawford was dead

that's

right what did she

do she locked herself in a room with a

bottle of

Emira I don't know maybe she loved the

guy maybe she just felt sorry for

him but not you Catherine you don't feel

sorry for

anyone so how did you become a private

dick I went to night

school during the day pick cotton where'

you go to school Catherine guess Gucci

Stanford major in

Tanny no Brennan like you I never had to

study that

what about Danny majored in

Pharmaceuticals minor in

business you don't seem to understand

we're rich we never had to go into

business well maybe she left town huh

San Francisco she wouldn't leave San

Francisco nobody leaves San Francisco

nobody leaves Pacific Heights Hunter's

Point it's easy to leave do you know an

address

27130 you know what street that might

belong to

I don't know any such

address I don't know where Danny is and

I wouldn't tell you if I

did there's nothing of interest to you

here Brennan nothing available to you

here you're out of your

class you jammed up my whole weekend

sugar you know that oh baby you know I

didn't want to ruin your weekend weeked

when you lied I was just trying to find

Danny Danny wasn't here when you were

here she was out doing trash how did she

act when she found joy was dead well she

freaked you got to when your boyfriend's

dead she ran upstairs and wouldn't come

out drinking amarella like it taste good

where did she go when she left she

called everybody she ever knew on the

phone of that Ricky cousin for hours

what about Catherine in the bag with a

jug of Brandy Danny made me pack an

overnight case for her I told I want to

go home had things to do she didn't have

no money she forgot it she said the

banks was all closed she tried off of me

but with the cash this family's got uhuh

she ain't getting no money from this

girl all because she thought I was eat

huh she went through all that well

Danny's a fool cuz she should have known

you ain't the heat you're too soft and

pretty put your hands down stupid just

keep moving

what a gun who you working for Joey

Crawford Joey Crawford's dead he still

my

client what happened to your face you

have a lawyer name Tain well he did this

to me by

proxy he wouldn't by any chance be your

lawyer by any chance would he be your

partner don't think I couldn't use this

Brennan I'm a combat veteran I know how

to kill what do you

want my grandfather hired you didn't he

Joey Crawford hired me you're a pawn

dummy don't you know

that what did you and Danny talk about

so long when on the phone last night we

didn't speak last night oh so what's

going on Ricky huh why the gun huh why

is Danny hiding why are people following

me beat me up broke into my

apartment why don't you go ask your

employer

huh yeah that should be fun go see the

the old man but whatever you do don't

ask any more questions around

here where do I find the old

man that's your job isn't it finding

people check the Yellow Pages pal

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hey hey

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man we're losing patient

brenon we want to know where and

when I don't know

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I had bruises on my car and a lump on my

head to remind me that a conversation I

was having with another Chinese in this

case had been

interrupted I had his address on a

napkin from jordine's cave a studio Off

Broadway an add-on just like DAV huie

was to the rest of the crazies I had met

so far this bookkeeper AIS clerk drummer

what else

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the beat had stopped for

Davey no bullet holes or stab wounds and

the music wasn't that bad

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cocaine is usually cut with baking soda

or baby laxative this was cut with

strick

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nine numbers on a pad just like on

Danny's food stamp

book

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43190 and that's 17 Again

yeah send a wagon to 640 Beaker no need

to

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hurry Saturdays half the fathers in the

city pick up their kids take them to

Golden Gate Park or Fisherman's Warf the

other half are still married this

Saturday I had my windshield fixed drove

to the house I once owned and got a real

close look at a fancy sports

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car hey hey give up oh I Won't Give Up

You Lie you'll never make me give up

what's your name Daddy You Lie what's

your name okay all right all right give

up hey boss you got me this time guess

what you win all ride in come on get up

St up down okay hey boss whose car is

that Arnold Arnold all right here we go

far okay coming through look out going

through the tunnel

hey hello

I thought I'd come pick the kids up

fine what happened oh that's nothing

listen uh maybe I should no it's

okay I'm going to bring him back after

dinner okay fine you know so you don't

have to hurry home to fix their dinner

well Arnold and I were uh going to go to

dinner uh the sitter will be

here well we're going to come back after

dinner you said that

hey you guys going down the parking

play Arnold has his own

Court hi Daddy I'm

ready kind of name is

Arnold I'm

a and St here is my handle here is my

spout when I get all stinged up I just

shout chip me over and pour me

out hey how do you feel about Arnold

he's

okay I like George better

okay kids play around close daddy will

be back in just a little while

huh Mr Brenan to see Mr

Anatel come

in this way

Mr

Brennan

glacierization huh coldest winter in 40

years the Glaciers are coming

back when they found the master ardens

in Siberia they were flash frozen like

fish

sticks they had buttercups in their

stomachs yep pretty dumb

boy you've been snooping around poking

your nose boy could get his nose cut off

for that you hear about me Mr

an would you like some

wine try the

white it's called reisling

it's from my

Vineyards okay of fresh fruit dried

apples perhaps a bit young but a year or

two should prove its

potential I come up here for privacy

boy privacy is all I have left I'm a

harmless old

man yeah but you must have been one hell

of a Rum Runner in your day how'd you

find out about that

fish and Fleet is good for smuggling

right that was many years

ago

prohibition were you Syndicate I was

never Syndicate I know them every Runner

did but the West Coast was never there

as people like me ran it amateurs

Freelancers a free economy boy Manifest

Destiny it's what made this country

great you work for the Chinese bosses I

worked for whoever gave me money does

that make me Chinese is that what you

met tday

yeah we started out

together when Grant Avenue was dup Pont

gay and dup Pont gay bought on a toll

fish he ran a Fantan PA and I sold him

booze he's a slick old

boy made himself a lawyer owns half a

Chinatown I used to belong to the clu

CLX Clan you know that used to the good

old

days

billb huy long Gerald l k Smith we had

real bigots

then that's my grandfather over there he

founded the

company ran it 40 years never lost a

boat never lost a man he made deals with

the Chinese helped them sail the bay and

fish for shrimp

you bought the land for The Vineyards

when land here was gone for $10 an

acre was he a Smuggler

too died in the bathtub my

grandfather my mother and I haed him

out it was like a beached

whale his death was the first freedom I

ever had

push me boy I need some

air well come on come

on they don't make him like my old man

anymore Ricky my grandson I tried to

give him the seed he didn't want it he

doesn't want The Vineyards he doesn't

know what he wants well maybe you just

can't give him what he needs he's a kept

man

kept by his duty to a woman he can't

stand that's not a marriage that's a

Torah Duty lilyan I met her she's my

granddaughter you know that your

granddaughter-in-law arrestes a damn

fool she's my

granddaughter their first cousins Ricky

and

her my granddaughter can marry my

grandson but I'm a loome pervert cuz I

sell to the Mob I don't understand how

can your granddaughter marry your grand

it's legal in California don't you know

nothing how the hell can you be a

detective if you don't know the law

that's what the Supreme Court

did take away the PO tax and wo

chaos take me back boy I'm

cold I want to hire you how much do you

cost more than you have areses I'll pay

you double what they're paying you

nobody's paying me I'll pay you triple

I'll pay you to do nothing now what

would huie long say about that you're

interfering with my business I don't

want you around and I want you to stay

away from my family Stick It Old

Man nurse where are these idiots come on

kids

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well did Arnold loses serve are the kids

okay with the sitter yeah the Ferrari

breakdown are uh you alone come

in yeah I know a bad clutch huh lots of

pickup but no endurance what did happen

to your face no I shaved too

high look is something the matter I mean

you don't normally drop in

I mean you never drop

in it's a nice view 3 days a

year what's

wrong

yeah so what case are you on whose

mailbox are you peeking into

oh well I'm stuck with a client who

can't answer any of my questions then

there's this old man anold who

granddaughter got caught up with a two-

bit Dope Dealer who's my client he's

partnered with a Chinatown gangster who

tried to hire me to find something for

him six years you know you would come

home or you wouldn't you were always off

chasing some runaway or some back

alimony always tilting at windmills DAV

hu is probably the goal between he knew

Joy Crawford he knew tanang and he

worked at The Fish Company he knew too

much then I got these numbers but I

don't have a street I don't know if

Ricky ano is involved but I know Danny

is right up to those pretty blue eyes

somebody's got to make the connection

that's probably where David huy came in

you were never home and when you were

there you weren't

there hey

baby are you all right honey listen if

you got a Dependable job if you stop

living this Fantasy Life and forget

trying and if you forget trying to be

Bogart listen to me just go upstairs and

be quiet

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huh it's just a startup pistol just make

noise just trust me be quiet

huh tella leave me alone

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what the hell are you doing

Brenan you could get yourself killed you

know you with somebody

else hello Cory oh hi Chris I thought he

with somebody I he some shooting there's

this car outside you this case that I'm

working on I don't even think it's

loaded some things never change

forget what I said about being solid and

dependable

Cory you just dropped by Dav yui I told

you I don't know any more than you know

what you tell me if you did I mean you

wouldn't hold anything back look I

talked to him once and we got

interrupted I went to his place to talk

to him but he was in no shape to I bet

you let Prince all over the place more

work for the guys at the lab I was word

in the street some heavy stuff's coming

down soon when you think I know would I

be standing here talking to you if I

knew what's the matter with you you

Brennan don't you know that when a crime

happens the police are the last ones to

know droll what's that nothing just a

word I picked up you're still trying to

find that girl yeah I almost had her too

but I lost her yeah why'd you buy

yourself a map later

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BR the homicide rate in this case had

just doubled and all I had to go on was

a set of meaningless numbers and a crazy

family held bent on keeping me from

Danny why I felt Danny could tell me

about the numbers and the numbers would

tell me why Joey and Davey died heavy

stuff coming down soon Corey said what's

the

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day January

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7th

17 17

wait a

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minute get a map Corey said pleas check

out Cory may be a better detective than

I thought

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is

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ah

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you don't need that gun brenon what are

you doing

here checking these receipts I don't

understand what's going

on I work for patcon

detectives private

investigators you set me up no I didn't

I didn't know about you at first honest

who's your

client you know I can't tell you that

old man antit tolde hey you call him

about me no he told you to find out no

that's not true I really like you you're

wrong that's not why I got involved with

you he baby

said

Brandon this is my first solo it's

important goodbye Ruan

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hey you looking for some tuna

hey man how'd you like this through your

air huh what's a matter you touchy

through the doors move anything you say

my

man get

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going spread

them how'd you find

out get up there

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27130 not a street address a

navigational coordinate Davey had the

other sounds like a good place to fish

but not for patrol

Soul very impressive

dummy tell me what is it you think we're

fishing for out here my guess cocaine

you Alex tanang Joey Crawford Davy huy

Danny tie him up let's get on the

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way all

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clear how smart do you feel now huh hey

I'm talking to you how smart huh

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Alex

Alex Stop inside

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oh

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how much 15 K what' you pay for

it not a

thing then who

did Joey's partner

T So Joey got greedy huh Chang Partners

ended up greeting a new year on the slab

but Tang wouldn't have killed Joy at

least not until he got his Wise Old

hands on that cake that leaves you

Ricky you're navigating pretty good

Brennan joy out of the way Danny missing

so tanang hires Davey huy to go do a

little fishing at

Ana's but before he can tell tanang what

he found out you deep six him all roads

to you cut right on track Brennan maybe

you're not such a dummy the where and

win huh it's the days

drop but why I don't understand I mean

you got money position everything man

what happens now not everything pal not

just

yet as for you

now sorry Brennan you get dumped Alex

cut them loose overboard me hey man I

mean you're headed north there's a lot

of small islands around Vancouver just

drop me off at one of them I'm not much

of a Woodsman I wouldn't be back to

civilization to the spring I think over

the side is a better idea where did you

come from below deck is cramped

isn't it foolish for partners to quarrel

Mr

anatol there is no need for violence we

simply put our guns down dump Mr Brennan

over the side and divide the cocaine

evenly hey wait a minute fellas now I

was hired to find Danny to once I found

her hey that's when I realized what was

going on what do you mean found Danny I

found her this morning Tain found her

first bullet hole in the temple small

caliber did you shoot her tanang you

look like a small caliber man in the ice

house at the factory she's dead Frozen

no more amoretto no more song her eyes

won't even Clos Ricky not even in death

you killed her no no I did not you kill

her we were going in Mexico Danny and me

start a new life with the cocaine

money

yeah well nothing can keep us apart

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now take it easy I'll get you a doctor

you'll be all

right not without her pal

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just stay there he didn't have to do

that he couldn't have gone up he would

have

died he did

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die why you dress like a man cuz we got

big company

well boy you got a white man didn't

you what did Pat KH have to say about me

in their report they said you were

stupid they said you were ignorant they

said you don't know nothing and they're

right sorry about your husband Mrs ano I

guess he knew what chances he was taking

that's a real nice attitude Mrs an who

the hell turned you loose on my family

hey they were smuggling long before I

got involved old man sooner or later the

pros would have stepped on them you did

it boy if you're looking for somebody to

blame

an why don't you take a good look at

yourself I never had nothing to do with

it never you told him about your liquor

running days they were amateurs your few

pounds of marijuana a few ounces of

cocaine but no they were listening to

Grandpa's fairy tales about the the good

old days about the Fantan farers and

Dupont gay all the proof they needed

that amateurs Freelancers could get away

with it I never gave them any advice

what did you expect smuggling is a

family tradition you went against the

pros and got out alive and Rich Manifest

Destiny what other proof that they need

why did you come back here Brennan to

gloat to give my final report oh

yeah I won't be able to keep your name

out the paper

Catherine always

droll Joy Crawford was a smalltime

dealer but he had connections Ricky had

the boat tanang had the money Danny put

them all together it's of no interest I

think it

is tanang found out about Joy's intended

double cross probably from Davey huy he

didn't kill him though he needed to know

when and where the drop was enter yours

to

the Fall

Guy Ricky killed Joey Crawford didn't he

lilan he also killed Davey huy I don't

know what you're talking about sure you

do you knew all about it you also know

Ricky and Danny were sleeping together

oh God they were sleeping together

weren't they Lilian Ricky and Danny hey

he threatened to kill me if I didn't

leave her alone you wouldn't do that for

a cousin but youd do it for a lover she

tried to stop it Danny but she couldn't

there was so much feeling the young have

so much feeling you knew about it he

proposed to her he was going to divorce

Lillian he came to me to ask permission

when did you find out Lillian

yesterday he told me about the cocaine

about the money he told me how he and

Danny were going to run away to Mexico

together with the cocaine money is that

when you did it lilan is that when you

killed Danny millions of dollars

involved and you kill her out of simple

jealousy isn't that right Lillian put a

bullet in her head and stuck her in the

ice house so Ricky could find

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her I'm only sorry that you found her

first it would have been a lovely gift

for

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Ricky got a real close family old

man a lot closer than anybody ever knew

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you'll probably bargain for second

degree Lillian get out in 10 and 12

years and come back and take over the

family fish business how's that for a

future

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I thought you were in Tahoe too much

fresh air see the body yeah good looking

girl big blue eyes frigid though you're

really sensitive you know that cor janor

I heard a sing once good the song sort

of stays with

you you left downtown nah I'm parked out

on the street yeah that's where you

belong well Lillian had her revenge and

Cory had a suspect in custody with a

cocaine bus thrown in for good measure

and I well I was left with

$326.4 from Joy's retainer and a

hospital bill in the

mail they say crime doesn't

pay I'm beginning to be believe it

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