Broadway's My Beat: The Raymond Grant Murder Case (EP5003)

The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio| Daily Mystery Dramas

Adam Graham

Performing Arts, Drama, Fiction, Arts

4.4 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2026

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Today's Mystery: When a milkman is found beaten to death outside a young graduate student's apartment, Danny Clover discovers that the victim may have been profiting from secrets he learned on his delivery route. Before the key witness can tell what she knows, she is killed in a suspicious traffic accident, forcing Clover to untangle a web of blackmail, betrayal, and forbidden romance.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: February 16, 1952

Originated in Hollywood

Stars: Larry Thor as Lieutenant Danny Clover, Charles Calvert as Sergeant Gino Tartaglia, and Jack Kruschen as Sergeant Muggavan.

Featured in the cast were Paula Winslowe as Myra Blair, Howard McNear as Robert Blair, Mary Lansing, Charlotte Lawrence, and Shepard Menken.

Produced and directed by Elliott Lewis.

Musical score composed and conducted by Alexander Courage.

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0:00.0	The Welcome to the great detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho.
0:35.1	This is your host, Adam Graham.
0:39.2	In a moment, we're going to bring you this week's episode of Broadway's My Beat. But first, I want to encourage you, if you're
0:44.7	enjoying the podcast, please follow us using your favorite podcast software. Today's program
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1:10.6	Now from February 16th, 19. $2 per month, just go to patreon.orgatedetectives.net.
1:12.4	Now from February 16th, 1952, here is the Raymond Grant murder case.
1:33.8	Music Broadway's My Beat From Times Square to Columbus Circle,
1:36.1	The Gaudiest, the most violin,
1:38.6	the lonesomest mile in the world.
1:45.1	Broadway's My Beat, with Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover.
2:03.4	Winter begins its long dying,
2:06.7	and Broadway reacts to the process about the same as anywhere else,
2:11.8	with a kind of joy, with a smile touched off by the little warmth left inside.
2:15.3	Except on Broadway, there will be things to remember.
2:18.6	The evenings, just as nighttime, drifted in when the lights on the translux were winter fireflies
2:21.4	and twinkled of how it is to be at war in February.
2:25.9	And the coffee smells and the crowd
2:27.8	and the time when you delivered the runaway Pekinese
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