Jake Randolph in "The Littlest Client" Pt. 29

And so I found myself in an apartment building in Encino looking for a Ricky Rucksack to see if he could point me in the direction of Max Dolan that a little nine-year-old girl paid me a whole dollar to find. Sometimes I really don't understand my life.

There was a Negro in blue overalls mopping the marble floor in the lobby. He looked up at me when I opened the door to the building.

"Excuse me," I said, "do you know what apartment Ricky Rucksack lives in?"

I knew but I wanted to see what he said...