Welcome back to Case closed, your weekly hour of old-time radio crime.

Our first story this week comes from Broadway is My Beat.

We'll hear the Francesca Brown murder case from June 2, 1951.

That's followed with this as your FBI and the Friendly Forger's from December 31, 1948.

Music 1948 Godway Godway

Broadway my beat

from transverse

Columbus Circle

the Gaudius

the most violent

the lonest

smile in the world.

Broadway's My Feast,

with Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover.

Thank you. In the soft night of June, Broadway's heart beats fast. The girls closed in summer

wear the glow of neon in their hair on their lips. And the glitter of the spectacular winds their

throats with the quick jewels of night. Their perfumed walk mixes well with Broadway's own exotic

odors, the seared electricity, the air, cool, washed, scented by installment plan air conditioning

system. The mist of steam rising from manhole covers. And Broadway follows close on the heels of the frost night,

because somewhere the night turns the corner and vanishes.

And in your hands are its gifts of emptiness and shock.

To me, they were given on the fourth floor landing of a tenement near the river.

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