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 podcast

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for as little as $2 per month by going to patreon.gretectives.net. Well, now, from August 14th,

1950, here now is the Mary Deming murder case.

Arthur Godfrey, who usually comes around with his talent scouts at this time

on Monday, is just about finished his summer

holiday. Godfrey will be back with

us two weeks from tonight on August 28.

Music Broadway's my beat, from Times Square to Columbus Circle, the gaudiest, the most violent, the lonest mile in the world.

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

Music Broadway, it's the shrieking edge of a numb universe that lies in the shadows and licks its wounds. And it's wasteland, a tinseled wasteland that wears the motley, where's the scarlet of neon,

the harsh gold of a trumpet scream,

the kaleidoscope of color a tear makes when it's held up to the light. There's the color of

the desolate wind that sighs through Broadway, nameless and cold. The wind that drifts, touches everything,

seeps in through windows and under doors, lends its quality to whatever room in which it dies,

like the room where I was standing.

Mrs. Branch's roominghouse, cretan drapes, dusty,

beaded lamp, dusty, wash basin, rustained.

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