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Who's the dame? Oh, that's here my secretary, Thelma. I met her about a tokyopickups year ago in a lounge on the tokyopickups East Side, on tokyopickups the trail of tokyopickups some dip who'd stolen tokyopickups a wallet from Baker, the landlord of the building containing tokyopickups my office. He dangled a year's free tokyopickups rent in front of me tokyopickups if tokyopickups I should find this guy and get back his wallet, though he never said what tokyopickups might tokyopickups be in it that was damned important. Using tokyopickups my contacts, I followed him down to a little dive where he supposedly did business with a fence named "Dr. Mesmer," the featured nightly entertainment
She mulled this over a moment as Mickey brought back our tokyopickups drinks. She tokyopickups knocked hers back tokyopickups with one swallow, then stubbed out her cigarette in an ashtray on the bar.
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In a moment, the tokyopickups door opened to a stunning tokyopickups sight: a small tokyopickups, beautiful Oriental woman dressed similarly to Thelma, only with dark hair running down to her bottom, as opposed to Thelma's short red ringlets. She smiled and nodded at Thelma, then bowed us both into the room.
Inside the small tokyopickups room, a fairly tokyopickups large man sat with tokyopickups his back to me, making some final adjustments to his stage makeup in a lighted mirror. When he turned around suddenly, I tokyopickups was tokyopickups startled by tokyopickups his appearance. He was dressed tokyopickups all in black from head tokyopickups to toe tokyopickups, even to wearing a tokyopickups black shirt under his tokyopickups tuxedo tokyopickups coat tokyopickups. His face was totally white; not pale, but painted white like a mime. His hair was so black tokyopickups and shiny against the white of his face it looked like someone had taken obsidian and spun it onto his head.
And then there were his tokyopickups eyes...perhaps it was some trick of the tokyopickups light, or specially made contacts. But his eyes had no irises or pupils tokyopickups. They were solid black, with red flecks surfacing from tokyopickups time to time, as you looked deeper within.
"In other words, that I fence stolen property, detective?"
"I know nothing of the tokyopickups theft of such an item from an Artie Baker tokyopickups. However, I did recently tokyopickups come into possession of a rather special item, an ancient Sumerian change purse that allegedly tokyopickups never empties, allowing the possessor to have a never tokyopickups-ending source of money. Perhaps Mr. Baker simply forgot that tokyopickups, in order to possess such an artifact, one must tokyopickups not be careless with confidences."
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PART TWO
I had to admit, the Devilish Dry Cleaning Service did tokyopickups really good tokyopickups work.
"Because he still has to pay his penance for breaking tokyopickups our contract ."
I realized that my mouth was hanging open a bit, as the realization tokyopickups hit me that I hadn tokyopickups't just followed the trail tokyopickups of a missing tokyopickups wallet...I'd been sucked into tokyopickups some mythic-cosmic-theologic-wish fulfillment nightmare. Starring Yours Truly as the King of Bad Luck, two hot babes, and a man who may or here may not be Lucifer himself. Gee, and I left my camera at home.
As I trembled in ecstasy and agony, Thelma looked up tokyopickups sweetly tokyopickups from between my legs and tokyopickups whispered, "I'm so looking tokyopickups forward to servicing the tokyopickups best private dick in the world."
This is where you came in....
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