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.

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Thanks so much for your support. Well, now, from December 8, 1951, here is the Mary Smith 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 with Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover. When the winter moon dips low over Broadway and hides again behind the scudding mists,

Broadway is numbed.

The year's ending is too swift.

There's too much nighttime in December,

as if the dimness of the subway had moved one flight up,

as if the lights were not quite lights,

but yellow things that drain off into shadows.

It's a time of the muffler, the hurry up, the time of the wind.

The dreams are dying, and it's a long while before April comes again.

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