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Sammy Levine HARDBOIL

Ben Hricko once accused me of being the last honest card in a marked deck. Guess an ex-Catholic should know since he shuffes cards and gins the world with bits and bytes that make 5=10. But, my camera takes 1 picture 100 times. Figure that out.

Sammy Levine narrates CHARLESTON BLUES

Sammy Levine narrates TAR BABY

Sammy Levine narrates GREEN GODDESS

Sammy Levine narrates THE GREAT RETURN

Sammy Levine narrates NORTH OF NOWHERE

Sammy Levine narrates CITTYKATS


CHARLESTON BLUES..........Take a sobbing SOB matron bent on revenge, a roving husband and an Island drug pervo ya figure what pays my rent - the bimbo, dead teen Jezebel and the snake - them I didnt figure on.

TAR BABY..................Hollywood, yeah more boobs than rubes - between homeboyz, deadly bimbos and snuff films I woulda had plenty ta watch out for. I wuz covering the lez sargents azz stalking Sunset Blvd for the snuffers.  Who figured a swim in the tarpits?

GREEN GODDESS.............I hate dead clients and green snakes - Whats more green about ecology than two olives sunk in a martini? How bouts a randy eco-babe and friends-a-gaia make the dinosaurs pray for asteroids.

THE GREAT RETURN..........The frail wuz a slinky Left coast number and missing a sister. I needed clients like Buddhas frozen belly button: a dame too, I wasn't gonna return nothin'! Clients, Buddhas, numbers and the grift - Hricko wanted numbers, Feds the Buddha - I didn't know the grift any better than the client.

NORTH OF NOWHERE..........No man goes ta the dogs like a southron man goes, with the bitch who drags him. What he knows or a PI thinks doesnt count. I knew plenty - but the dogs were quicker.

CITTYKATS.................Only dames figure cats need obedience ... east-a-the-Nile or South of Broad. My SOB client figured the husband never learned and wanted pictures ta prove it. But babes in the RA, and Charleston Vice had more plans snapping at my heels than a room full a' Nile crocs.

Mebby I should rank on the story TAR BABY and its heroine Anita Bowers -- Sergent Bowers then and detective Captain Bowers now. She got more bravery decorations than a Bar Mitzva and never spilled beans on some honest perp. Anita was Nickys parter then -- the first one to live long enough to make Sergeant. In TAR BABY she's working under-cover on a snuff-film case and I was her alibi, cover, backup and FYEO boyfriend. When and how I failed and what card I finally played was made a slippery steep by Anita and then tar-papered by LaPD. Too many big names were close to the tarpit Anita and I discovered. Mebby the shock of that case left a mark on her sense of rightness; a guy shakes it off only to wake screaming in pitch black night. If he has a dame she makes it OKey again, but some coppers never make it outa that pit. This PI has it easy, cause I think about Anita all the time. Will Scranton who put together this site sez simply pull up your lounge, pour a Turkey ... burn the Camel. Pick a voice. Nicky's heard it all - your turn now.