Spring Death Is `Round the Corner: Broadway Is My Beat (March 7, 1953)

“Spring Death Is `Round the Corner” is an episode of Broadway Is My Beat, the old-time radio show, first broadcast March 7, 1953. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Detective Danny Clover investigates when an old man named Harry Carson is found catatonic in a rooming house, clutching a fired .38 caliber gun and refusing to speak. The detective discovers that Carson's successful lawyer son, Robert, sends his father $150 weekly, but a bank clerk reveals the old man hands the money over to an unknown person every Monday at a street corner. When a man is found shot with a .38, Clover must uncover the connection between the silent father, the secretive money transfers, and the murder.

New York City, Broadway area; a rooming house; Robert Carson's apartment building; a bank; police headquarters and morgue

Characters: Detective Danny Clover, Harry Carson, Robert Carson (Bob), Dr. Finsky, Lieutenant Denison, Bank clerk Mr. Whitfield

Listen for: The atmospheric opening describing spring coming to Broadway; the mystery of why Harry Carson won't speak; the revelation of the weekly Monday money handoff at a street corner; the discovery of the murder victim

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.