Hello and welcome to another episode of nostalgic mystery radio.

I'm your host Stevie Kay, and it's my honor to bring you the radio show's a guest year.

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

Episode titled The Lydia Reynolds Case, originally aired November 23rd, 1947, where a wealthy but insane young lady

hires Novak to be her bodyguard.

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

Thank you for listening.

The American Broadcasting Company Present atak, for hire.

I'm Pat Novak. For hire. Down around the embarkedero, everybody's clawed his neighbor for a quick buck and everybody knows it.

So if you call you work something else, who are you fooling?

I rent boats when that pays off, and in between I do what I can to keep something on my hip besides the handkerchief.

If you'd been along with me a few days ago, you'd have known that I was ready for work.

A friend of mine called Ira had an inside tip on a hot horse in the third race at Bay Meadows.

I'd gone down there to see if I could promote the news into currency.

It was a good idea, except that my horse was still running in a third when they started the

fourth.

All I had left of my bankroll was an empty feeling.

After checking through my pockets, I went out on a highway and started back to town.

I was still unlimbering my thumb

when a long, low roadster pulled up beside me.

It was a very expensive job, including the driver.

She was just about old enough to vote,

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