The John Lomax Murder Case

Broadway's My Beat, from Times Square to Columbus Circle, the godiest, the most violent, the lonesome must mile in the world. Broadway's My Beat, with Larry Thor as detective Danny Clover. Broadway, it's a time and a place in a state of mind, where you bang your head against a wall so the lights will be brighter, the noise is louder,

thereby furnishing proof that you're enjoying yourself. And at holiday season you bang your head harder and conjure of visions the new year, the new promises. The golden girl who will smile via from the crowd and beckon.

It could happen. It's Broadway. My people. There's a place on Broadway at Nudge's On a Columbus Circle and calls itself the Dover Hotel Then retires into its own faded respectability. At eight o'clock of a cold weekday morning, Broadway walks past it on its way to work.

So was I when a man darted out of its doorway, saw me, darted some more, and tugged at my sleeve. He said he knew me, knew I was a policeman, and that's what he needed.

So then we were in an elevator, and he said his name was... Why did you say your name was... Box, Louis Box. Well, just what seems to be your trouble, Mr. Box? I said to myself, I said, Mr. Box, there's trouble in room 812. Big trouble.

Oh, very big Mr. Clover. He won't answer. He won't let Mr. Box in. He won't. Who won't? Who won't, Mr. Box? A guest in 812, right this way, Mr. Clover. Right down the hall. Every time I open my door, he throws a bottle at Mr. Box's hand.