Hello and welcome to another episode of Nostologic Mystery Radio.

I'm your host Stevie K.

And it's my honor to bring you the radio shows of yester.

For this episode, I bring you Pat Novak for Hire.

Episode titled The Johnny Brown Gambling Ring, originally aired August 3rd, 1947.

Where a weasel named Johnny Brown hires Pat as a bodyguard for his drive down to San Francisco. But trouble occurs

when Brown vanishes and there's a body in the trunk of the car. So sit back and

relax, and I hope you enjoy this nostalgic mystery radio.

Thank you for listening.

American Broadcasting Company presents Pat Novak, for hire.

For hire.

I got a couple of votes down on Pier 19 on the San Francisco waterfront.

Sometimes I rent them out,

but I found out it's easy to keep my budget healthy by risking my health in other ways. So I work around doing our jobs. You can take that any way you like.

Not the best you can say for it is that it beats begging.

At least you don't always limp.

If your luck's in, you can keep a half-lap ahead of the bill collectors if you don't let it go to your head. I did once. I helped a guy who owned seven hotels convince a blonde in San Rafael that her memory wasn't that good after all. The payoff was too rich for my blood. I got the idea that with that kind of money, I could take over the gambling

joints up around Lake Tahoe. I took them three days to show me I was wrong. I'd work my way

down from the gold-plated joints to a place called the broken tea, where they still recognized

a dollar as currency. I was beginning to figure how long it'd taken me to walk back to the bay when the help came

along.

He was a little guy on a pair of eyes I wouldn't trust with anything I wanted again.

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