Moonstone Noir: Pat Novak for Hire

    (Moonstone, 2006)
™ and ©2006 Moonstone

Pat Novak has seen better days. Once one of San Francisco’s most renowned private eyes, he’s now retired and makes his money renting boats on the waterfront. But while you may take the man out of the detective game, you can’t take the detective out of the man. This is good because he is called on by the granddaughter of a disgraced politician he helped bring down forty years ago to re-open the case. He finds that one of his oldest and most controversial investigations wasn’t as open and shut as he once thought.

The series is based on a radio program which aired on the West Coast from 1946–1947 and nationally in 1949 (with Jack Webb of Dragnet fame as Pat Novak). Written by Steven Grant (Punisher) and drawn by Tom Mandrake (The Spectre), the one-shot is a densely packed mystery with many intriguing twists and turns.

— William Gatevackes
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