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The Kenneth Mitchell Murder Case

Broadway is My Beat · December 1, 1950 · 28 min · 3,985 words

The transcript of “The Kenneth Mitchell Murder Case”, an episode of Broadway is My Beat first broadcast December 1, 1950. 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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It's a long circle, the gaudiest, the most violent, the lonesome of smile in the world. With Larry Thor as detective Danny Clover, the glimpse of pavement, the brilliance of steel, the scarlet neon, it glitters, then shattered against the black of winter's wind.

Then the shrapnel of color screams, whined through the darkness, and you'll run to it. The other fragments close. Be pierced by the winter day of beauty. They write the wind. Look at your hands with a reach in the shadows, and find they hold a sigh, a stain of a tear.

Broadway observes you, Broadway laughs. You pretend it never happens. One by the touch of the afternoon sun, Broadway relent, offered to a token of redress. The man lying with a knife in his back, in an apartment on West 56, likely furnished with death.

And another man touching things, glistening things, replacing them quietly, Even when he talks to you quiet, so to put that in my ear. The call came when you were out to lunch, Danny. I couldn't find it.

They told me to take it. It was a monument. Dennis Mitchell. I rented this place about three days ago. Super-Tomi was a very quiet man. Model Tenant. Wished he had more like it and find under him.

The appointments of a quiet man. Some books, a few magazines, two suits of clothes, the one he's wearing and other in the closet. Three shirts. When I came in the radio was playing some classical music I turned it off.

You're nothing else? Yeah, something else. Come on, I'll show you. In the next room then, Miss Danny. Miss Lady, Miss Ruth Corry. Come in. We're here when the detective mug of an arrived, Miss Torry.

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