"The girl stepped back from the window. She had a wealth of bronze hair - hair very closely akin in hue to that of Doc Savage. She had been watching the brush that circled like a wall. She was tall; her form was modeled along lines that left nothing to be desired. Her features were as perfect as though a magazine cover artist had designed them. She wore high-laced boots, breeches, and a servicable gray shirt. A cartridge belt was draped about her waist. From it dangled a heavy Frontier Single Action six-shooter - freely admitted by those who know to be one of the most reliable guns ever made. In the crook of her right arm lay a very modern automatic big-game rifle."   (from Doc Savage, The Brand Of The Warewolf, by Kenneth Robeson  Pat first appears in Doc's eleventh adventure, "The Brand Of the Werewolf". Needing a break from the action, Doc plans a vacation to British Columbia, Canada to meet his only living relatives, uncle Alex Savage and his cousin Patricia.

After closing out the matters of her father's estate, with Ham Brooks' help she moves to New York City. She shows up unannounced eight months later to everyone's surprise and delight, just in time to be sucked up into the events of the adventure of "Fear Cay".  In Monk's words, "Pat's regular. What we went through in Canada proves that". Doc allows Pat to "tag along", but mostly because it's just too hard to get rid of her. Besides, Pat is an exception. She is something of a two-fisted scrapper herself, and almost as unique in her own way as Doc is in his.

Pat's quick thinking saves the life of Kel Avery who is more popularly known by her movie-star name of Maureen Darleen. Pat takes quite a bit of rough treatment at the hands of Santini and his thugs. She is shot at, kidnapped, tied-up, threatened at gun-point and hauled from one place to another until she finally winds up on Fear Cay. Only by Doc's ability do they come off the deserted Carribean island alive. Pat ends the adventure asking Doc, "Do you ever overlook anything?"

Immediately following "Fear Cay, in "Death In Silver", shipbuilder Paine L. Winthrop is blown to pieces when his 40th floor office explodes. The Silver Death's-Heads, a mysterious band of New York marauders  have struck again. Lorna Zane, Winthrop's secretary and shipyard superintendent is in imminent danger. The Death's-Heads believe she holds the blueprints for a submarine clandestinely built by Winthrop for the crooks. Doc stops by Pat's new establishment to enlist her aid in looking after Lorna until the mystery is solved.

Pat remarks, "This is the first time you have been here, Doc. I want to show you the gymnasium upstairs. It's a knockout. And I have over thirty beauty operators at work, all highly skilled. I already have all the fashion leaders on my list, waiting to have their youthful figures restored. How I am going to reduce some of those heavy-weights is a mystery to me, but they pay me in advance." "Busy?", Doc asked. "Busy?", Pat laughed. "Say, this business of running a combined beauty salon and gymnasium is no joke. You bet I'm busy." "Want to help me, Pat?" Doc asks. "Help you?" Pat says cheerfully. "Do I want to fly the Atlantic? Do I want to get shot at? Do I want to go in for parachute jumping? All of those are safer than helping you." "Do you want to help?" Doc repeats. "Sure," Pat laughs. "Who is trying to kill you now?"

Pat offers Lorna Zane free beauty services to fill the time. She tells Doc, "I think she's setting her cap for you. She keeps wanting to know about you." Doc replies dryly, "Try to discourage her." Pat knows that Doc is as woman-proof as any man can be and feminine attention only embarrasses him. But, being a woman, she enjoys kidding him about it.

Pat and Lorna Zane are kidnapped from her establishment by the Silver Deaths-Heads. Their leader, Ull uses the girls as live bait in a trap for Doc. The adventure leads to a frightful underwater battle off the Atlantic coast. Doc, Monk and Ham in the Helldiver against Ull and his men in their submarine. Doc almost drowns and the Helldiver is lost. When the girls are rescued from Ull's ship Monks lets out a loud grunt of relief, "Pat! So you are safe after all!" Pat replies caustically, "Do you call this safe?"

Pat Savage is the only female character ever to appear in more than three stories. Here is a listing of the adventures she appeared in.

Trivia Question: What other female character appeared in three Doc Savage adventures? Answer at bottom of this page.