Joan Ellen's Body: Broadway Is My Beat (March 21, 1953)

“Joan Ellen's Body” is an episode of Broadway Is My Beat, the old-time radio show, first broadcast March 21, 1953. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Detective Danny Covener investigates a murder when a young woman named Georgie is found dead in the trunk of a stolen car. The car was taken by a girl from North Dakota who borrowed it for a joyride, but the real mystery deepens when Covener learns the vehicle belonged to a friend of Joan Allen, a beautiful woman whose husband Robert is a wealthy art collector and historian.

New York City, primarily Broadway and a police headquarters, with a visit to the Allen apartment filled with classical art and antiquities

Characters: Detective Danny Covener, Margarita, Georgie, Joan Allen, Robert Allen

Listen for: The atmospheric opening describing Broadway as a detective's beat, the interrogation of the young car thief, and Covener's visit to the elegant Allen household where he learns about Joan's complicated relationships

Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.