After Jack took all the pawnstore robbery money, he left Lynn in Chicago, and headed for San Francisco where he re-united with an old flame of his. He used the money to rent a small office and become a private investigator. His woman was his secretary, of sorts. She handled things like placing ads in papers, answering the phone, and doing any typing that might need to be done, even though she had to use the "hunt & peck" method of typing just as he would have to do.
hunt and peck
my friend DPB fired a hunt and peck typist because she
refused to learn the new word processor ..
he replaced her and told us the typewriter sound of a chicken pecking for corn was replaced by the sound of a submachine gun