Hello and welcome to another episode nostalgic mystery Radio. I'm your host Stevie K.

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

For this episode, I bring you Pat Novak for Hire, episode titled Mysterious Set of Books,

originally aired August 10th, 1947, where the neighbor of a man found dead in his apartment

offers Pat $1,000 to bring him the envelope from the dead man safe.

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

Thank you for listening.

The American Broadcasting Company present Novak, for hire.

I'm Pat Novak. For hire.

Yeah. That's what the sign out in front of my office says, Pat Novak for hire.

It's about the only way to make a living down

on the waterfront in San Francisco, because if you ever tried to practice the Ten Commandments

down here, they'd steal nine of them and frame you with the other. So I rent boats and do whatever

else comes in handy to make a buck change pockets. Sometimes the hustle pays off. Sometimes you get

lunch instead.

Last week it was neither of these.

I hung around my place at Pier 19 day after day and nothing turned up at all.

Just when I began to wonder if people had forgotten how to phone, a babe, gives me a jingle.

She sounds nervous and talks about trouble.

Ask me to come up and hold her hand.

I ended up at a joint on the marina slant of Webster Street.

It was probably important stuff once in the way a gold-plated living.

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