Pat Novak is hitchhiking after losing money at the races when wealthy young Lydia Reynolds picks him up and hires him as a bodyguard, claiming she fears something but cannot explain what. After being slugged and finding a dead body in her car, Novak investigates her claims while navigating threats from a man named Two-Spot Post and suspicion from police detective Hellman, who has arrested him for two murders.With Pat Novak, Lydia Reynolds, Detective Hellman, Ira, Two-Spot Post, Charles Reynolds, Jocko Madigan, The Butler.Listen for: The hard-boiled noir detective voice of Pat Novak, snappy period dialogue, and the mysterious circumstances surrounding Lydia Reynolds's unexplained fears and the mounting bodiesFirst aired on November 23, 1947 on ABC.Episode notes written with AI from the recording itself; the audio is the original broadcast.Free, complete and restored, no modern ads. A new episode every week: Pat Novak, for Hire on Stupid Potato, live around the clock.Stupid Potato restores classic radio and TV audio and runs 60 free 24/7 channels and 189 podcasts: old-time radio westerns, detectives, comedy, science fiction and suspense, vintage TV, Saturday-morning cartoons, Halloween and Christmas. No modern ads. Listen free at stupidpotato.com.