The Eugene Bullock Murder Case: Broadway Is My Beat (November 19, 1949)

“The Eugene Bullock Murder Case” is an episode of Broadway Is My Beat, the old-time radio show, first broadcast November 19, 1949. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Detective Danny Clover is called to Primrose Sanitarium where an unidentified man has been brought in with a fatal knife wound. The man dies before he can be identified. When Clover begins investigating, he discovers the dead man is Eugene Bullock, a visitor to New York whose wife reports he went out the previous evening to meet with a man named Ethan Brancher. Clover visits Brancher at his elaborate tropical-themed home to question him about the meeting.

New York City, primarily a sanitarium in Harlem and Ethan Brancher's tropical-themed apartment on Gramercy Park

Characters: Danny Clover, Dr. William Elre, O'Hara S. Vesper, Mrs. Eugene Bullock, Ethan Brancher

Listen for: A mysterious unidentified stabbing victim whose identity leads the detective to a wealthy man with secrets from his past involving a stolen pearl and a South Seas island.

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.