The Ricardo Miguel Murder Case

Broadways My Beat from Times Square to Columbus Circle, the gaudiest, the most violent, the lonesome-est mile in the world. Broadways My Beat with Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover. When October dies and the River Wind takes over, Broadway is arranged in plots of crowd and coldness.

There's a new quality on Broadway, shrill, having to do with top coats and early darkness and frosty sounds, and twilight his brief, a darting ebb of light in the sudden autumn chill and hurry, hurry, hurry to this place or that, home, or to a hot dog stand or to the neon that winks a promise, hurry kid, make a phone call, find somebody, it's night

already. And it seems the night comes sooner in the Tenement District, or somehow it never quite leaves in the Barrio, in Spanish Harlem. That's why the people gather together sooner and start their music earlier, in a small nightclub like La Cantina where I was and detective Gomez was and the man who led us across the floor.

You were the one who found him? See, I went down here to my store bin for the place to be for my customers. Well, you will see. Any other entrance to this cellar than all the steps we just came down?

You will see, see. Don't make a drama out of it, Luis. Just tell us. Take it easy, Gomez. There are the big cases stretched out, wet, dead. Now tell us, Luis, how did it get in here?

You see a window through which deliveries are made from the alley. You know, the window is broken through, so... Take a look in the alley, Gomez. Okay. You know who he is, Luis? See, he's a precondimicant, a boy who lives near, a boy who works at the pastel area of San Yoyoka.