Ep.240 Pat Novak For Hire: The Johnny Brown Gambling Ring

Pat Novak For Hire: Classic old time radio showing starring Jack Webb (1946, 1949) and Ben Morris (1947-48) as Pat Novak, a street wise guy who rents boats and anything else a good man pays a bad one to do.

Novak is always getting into scrapes when taking on jobs for hire or occasionally as a favor to a friend. When he does, he goes to see "The Only Honest Guy I Know" an ex-Doctor and a boozer named Jocko Madigan (played by Tudor Owens). Novak's nemesis is Lieutenant Hellman of Homicide (played by Raymond Burr and others) who's constantly trying to get Novak sent to the gas chamber.

The Johnny Brown Gambling Ring: A weasel named John Brown hires Pat to be his bodyguard while he drives to San Francisco. John Brown vanishes and a body is found in the car's trunk.
Originally aired August 3rd,1947.

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