Stuff Pat Novak says [#19]

"That's too much dough unless it's murder. And if it's murder, it's not enough." -  461124 Dixie Gillian, Pat Novak for Hire

Stuff Pat Novak says [#18]

"I began to think about the .32 caliber pistol. It's a woman's weapon - well, that doesn't prove anything, so's a bread knife if she's in a bad mood." 
 - 490306 Fleet Lady, Pat Novak For Hire

Stuff Pat Novak says [#17]

"Mike was a tall, wide package, so I gave him a bargain offer. He didn't fold after two, but he had a kind of hurt look in his eyes when I hit him a third time, like I didn't know he could take a hint. 

When he wound up and hit the floor, every window in the house rattled and I figure the Berkley seismograph got a cheap thrill." 

- 490612 Georgie Lampson, Pat Novak for Hire

Stuff Pat Novak says [#16]

"The best trouble always looks good from the outside." 
- 490306  Fleet Lady, Pat Novak For Hire

Stuff Pat Novak says [#15]

"When I came in, she was sitting on my couch drinking my whiskey.  Hmm.  She could have all wanted.  A 1949 Panther model.   Just the right amount of size 12 in a dress that looked like a well-tailored fig leaf. When she was through looking at you, you looked like the Sunday supplement."
                                             - 490220 Jack of Clubs, Pat Novak For Hire

Stuff Pat Novak says [#14]

"I woke up with a head the size of Rhode Island. I rolled over and tried to get up, but I was about as strong as a moth in a wind tunnel. The room was dark and I couldn't see very well. There was a stale, musty odor, could have been a marathon dancer's dressing room, with a little fixing up, the sort of place you wouldn't be found dead in.

There was a guy lying next to me who didn't feel that way about it. One look at the guy and I could see he was dead from the crew cut down. Somebody had wrapped a towel around his throat and forgot to say 'when.'"
- 490327 Joe Candono Blackmail Pictures, Pat Novak For Hire

Stuff Pat Novak says [#13]

"Her voice came right out the oven."
- Pat Novak for Hire 49-05-22

Give Envelope to John St. John

Stuff Pat Novak says [#12]

"The one in the door was a big guy with bushy eyebrows that met near his nose, and the way they ran across his face, you got the idea he got tired of the old ones and grafted on a vine instead. His face wasn't much better. It looked more like a relief map than a face. It was pockmarked and the color of moldy bread. And you knew if a woman kissed him, she'd get blood poisoning."- 490507 Shirt Mix Up At Laundry, Pat Novak For Hire

Stuff Pat Novak says [#11]

"I watched her as she turned and walked out the door. She was wearing a flowered print dress, and as she walked, the roses kept getting mixed up with the daisies. She walked with a nice friendly movement, like the trap door on a gallows."- 490515 The Geranium Plant, Pat Novak For Hire

Stuff Pat Novak says [#10]

"She was wearing black lounging pajamas, tied tight around her slim waist. She looked like a wasp with a nice sting."- 490306 Fleet Lady Pat Novak for Hire

Stuff Pat Novak says [#09]

- Pat Novak For Hire, 490605 Agnes Bolton Case

Stuff Pat Novak says [#08]

- Pat Novak For Hire
episode 400528 Lola Madden Killed on a Train
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Stuff Pat Novak says [#07]

- Pat Novak For Hire episode 400528 Lola Madden Killed on a Train (unavailable program)

Stuff Pat Novak says [#06]

 "She stood leaning there for a minute, sort of a girl who moves when she stands still. She had blonde hair. She was kind of pretty, except you could see somebody had used her badly, like a dictionary in a stupid family."  - Pat Novak for Hire in 490402 Father Lahey, Joe Feldman

Stuff Pat Novak says [#05]

"His head was over to one side, and his body was twisted over the other way, as if he couldn't make up his mind which direction to die in." 

- Pat Novak for Hire in 490402 Father Lahey, Joe Feldman

Stuff Pat Novak says [#04]

"It was a pretty room, if you like dead women on your rugs. She was stretched out in a pale, yellow dressing gown, as quiet as an April morning and twice as pretty." 

- Pat Novak, Private Investigator 490423 Rita Malloy

Stuff Pat Novak says [#03]

Jack Webb as the silver-tongued Novak

"He was crumpled up against the desk and she was staring down at him as if she forgot to water the plants."

- 490604 Agnes Botton

Stuff Pat Novak says

"The sky was the color of a bruised spot on a man's arm."

- 490416 Go Away, Dixie Gillian

Jack Webb as Pat Novak in Pat Novak For Hire, late 1940's

Stuff Pat Novak says

"The veins stood out in his face and made a pattern as if he slept on an alligator bag instead of a pillow."  - 490430 Wendy Morris