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An Original Audio Drama

The Novack Files

Detroit, 1979. His city. His cases. His rules.

Detroit, 1979 Noir Audio Drama Inspired by Real Case Files
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A city bleeding out. A detective who won't look away.

Dick Novack

Dick Novack runs Novack Security and Investigations from a second-floor office on Grand River Avenue. Guard contracts, celebrity protection, and the cases nobody else wants to touch.

Detroit's dying in slow motion. But Novack isn't leaving. The surface of things don't mean shit. It's what's underneath that matters. And Novack always finds what's underneath.

"The trick ain't askin' the right questions. Any asshole can do that.
The trick is knowin' which answers to believe."
— Dick Novack

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Theories. Questions. Debates about what really happened on those cold Detroit nights.

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Meet JR Novack

JR Novack

JR Novack

Writer & Creator

Dick Novack was my father. I grew up in that second-floor office on Grand River. Ran errands to Khalil's party store. Sat in the back of the New Yorker on stakeouts before I was old enough to drive.

These stories come from case files, memories, and the city that shaped both of us. No Hollywood. No polish. Just the truth.

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Winstons. Seagram's. Detroit after dark.