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

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But now, from October 13, 1951, here is the Ed Costa murder case.

Music Foster 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.

Music When it's October, and the night has slipped down over Broadway, the street is spangled with autumn strollers.

They come here, the seekers after something or other, Pick a doorway with promising neon. Pick a smile

and run after it. Pick a postcard, write home about it. It's the place to be. You've got to leave

your mark. Buy a turtle and have your name painted on its back. Buy a necktie, buy a pillow,

and send it back to mom. Sometimes you'll be lucky and get lipstick on your handkerchief. But the odds say you'll

buy a newspaper and go to bed. But it's Broadway, kid, and you've had it.

Where Broadway ebbs off into the side streets, downtown, where I was, close to where I was,

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