This is Case closed, your weekly hour of old-time radio crime with new shows every Wednesday at RelicRadio.com.

A first story comes from Pat Novak for hire this week. We'll hear Death in Herald Square from November 30th, 1947.

After that, it's the Crime Club, and no time for murder. That story aired September 25th, 1947.

The American Broadcasting Company presents

Pat Novak, for hire.

I'm Pat Novak, for hire. Down on the San Francisco waterfront, the only use they have for sentiment is to pick your pocket while you're saluting the flag.

If you hang out around there as long as I have,

you'll even learn to sleep with one hand on the cash box.

So I wasn't expecting any cascade of lilies

when Joe Adams drove down to Pier 19.

He'd phoned that he was in a hurry

and would stop by and pick me up in his car.

He'd said he had a quick job for me to do.

I was about all I knew about him I wasn't

worried about that either in my work you get used to odd-shaped hires including those from

guys who look like a bundle of twigs with shoes on and drove like they owned the keys to the

city now Vak this is a soft buck All you got to do is watch a joint.

If you keep driving through red lights like that,

we'll both end up looking at the ceiling in the morgue.

So I disagree with the traffic department.

Look, the joints are North Beach, Vallejo Street.

Here's the number.

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