Episode 242 - Pat-a-Cake (Pat Novak For Hire)

Published: Sept. 10, 2017, 4 a.m.

If you head down to Pier 19 at the San Francisco waterfront, you\u2019ll find\xa0Pat Novak For Hire\xa0renting boats and doing anything else to keep a few steps ahead in one of radio\u2019s best noir detective dramas. Featuring duplicitous dames, gun-toting toughs, and dialogue right out of a pulp novel, the series packed a punch then and now. Jack Webb stars as Novak in a pair of episodes: \u201cFather Leahy\u201d and \u201cGeranium Plant.\u201d Then, Ben Morris is Novak in \u201cThe Mysterious Set of Books\u201d (originally aired on ABC on August 10, 1947).