Pat Novak, For Hire - Fleet Lady

Pat was just about to close his office for the day when a short man walked in. He said "my name is Jackie Gregg, and I'm a jockey. I am supposed to be riding a horse tomorrow in the sixth race named Fleet Lady, but she has disappeared. I will pay you two hundred dollars to find her. Someone took her in a van, and I followed them down here to the waterfront. Do you think you can you find Fleet Lady?" Pat said "I don't know, who owns her?" Jackie says "a woman named Sybil Thornton. She may be mixed up in this". Pat says "why steal your own horse?" Jackie says "I don't know, maybe she is a ringer. Anyway, if you can't find her on the waterfront, maybe you can try looking around the track, ask around there". Pat agreed to it and took Jackie's two hundred dollars, but something felt phony about this job.