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Requiem For A Stripper #150

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"Just tell me what you want," Harrigan said.

"I need you to check a phone number for me and get me an address."

"Great! Now I'm a telephone operator!"

"I may be close to cracking the case of these missing strippers, Harrigan."

That wasn't true, but I felt I was on the right track.

"What do you know?" he asked.

"Nothing concrete. But that address will help."

He exhaled loudly. "I'll have to send it down to R&I. Give me the number."

I told him and said, "I'm at the office."

"I'll call you back," he said and hung up...

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    Christopher 10 months ago

    They used to say R&I on Dragnet, and if my memory is right it stood for Records & Information.

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    Neville Hunt 10 months ago

    Dragnet! I remember Dragnet. Wasn’t one of their catchphrases “ That’s my jaab, I’m a carp!”?

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    Christopher 10 months ago

    Ha! Yeah, something similar to that. I love the old radio show as well as the TV show. And it's set in LA, too. That's probably why I put Jake in LA, because I already knew a lot of the areas and street names because of Dragnet.

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