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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).
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