The Welcome to the great detectives of old time radio from Boise, Idaho.

This is your host, Adam Graham.

In a moment, we're going to bring you this week's

episode of Broadway's My Beat. But first, I do want to encourage you, if you're enjoying the

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But now, from May 12th, 1951,

here is the Charles Crandall murder case.

Broadway's my beat, from Times Square to Columbus Circle,

the gaudiest, the most violent, the lonesomest mile in the world.

Broadway's My Beat, with Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover.

In the mid-afternoon light of Maytime, Broadway shimmers and languor walks the street.

The dream walk rhythm to the pulse of the sleeping neon, to the sun-worned blues yawned out of loudspeakers,

to the slow, erratic dance of the litter of night, held close, thrown away by a gutter wind.

And with the rest of Broadway you stand and watch, or follow the crowd,

and lend your heart to the whispered cry that this day, this time, will not get away from you.

But it does. It always does.

The web of blood in the alley was already dust heavy.

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