The Andrew Jenkins Case: Broadway Is My Beat (March 6, 1949)

“The Andrew Jenkins Case” is an episode of Broadway Is My Beat, the old-time radio show, first broadcast March 6, 1949. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

A young man named Andrew Jenkins disappears from a New York hotel on his wedding anniversary after leaving to buy his wife a surprise present. Detective Danny Clover investigates when Mrs. Jenkins reports him missing, tracing his steps to a pawn shop where he purchased an old-fashioned gold watch at an auction, only to find that he left the shop with two other men and hasn't been seen since.

New York City, Times Square and Broadway, a police precinct, and a pawn shop

Characters: Detective Danny Clover, Mrs. Jenkins, Andrew Jenkins, Eddie the pawn shop owner, Sergeant, two unknown men

Listen for: The mystery of why Andrew Jenkins left with two strangers after buying a watch, and what happened to him afterward.

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.