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The Sophie Brettin Murder Case

Broadway is My Beat · June 27, 1953 · 28 min · 4,470 words

The transcript of “The Sophie Brettin Murder Case”, an episode of Broadway is My Beat first broadcast June 27, 1953. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Broadway Is My Beat plays Broadway is My Beat free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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Broadways My Beat from Times Square to Columbus Circle, the godiest, the most violent, the lonesome must mile in the world. Broadways My Beat with Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover. Soft night of June, and Broadway's heart loses the beat, pounds to a secret rhythm, because the winds of summer have sewn the pavement with promise and already drift back into the river.

The avenue now is echo of glitter, and where on the throats of women were the quick jewels of summer light, There are shadow-tracings now, and their perfumed walk had been promised, and a hawker's tune promise, and a neon doorway.

It gets late, so go back to it. Dig deep for the buck. Buy remnant of a summer night. It's the chance of a lifetime. And where I was, and Detective Muggivan's summer pastoral, woman in white robe, woman of white hair, and threads of it drifting with flow and ebb of summer wind across the

serenity of her ageless face. Woman dead. upstairs room of tenement room by presence of role top desk converted to office room by presence of death converted to official silences officials searching well not going same things in the desk drawers danny she's got all around the room more books uh...

same type to here's one occult practices of the east and very occult i can understand one sentence and this book here i met a uh... met a let's see Metaphysics. Yeah? Metaphysics for the beginner.

These book shows line with the same type of stuff in categories. Philosophy, metaphysics. Metaphysics, primitive theology, mysticism of the ancients. Yeah, in this whole row, paperback, some philosophy. Very studious old woman I'd say. You find out who, yeah, had a little chat with the super, a new or long time, a Sophie Bretton.

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