The Frank Dunn Murder Case: Broadway Is My Beat (June 16, 1951)

“The Frank Dunn Murder Case” is an episode of Broadway Is My Beat, the old-time radio show, first broadcast June 16, 1951. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Detective Danny Clover investigates the murder of Frank Dunn, a charming bartender at the Trade Winds nightclub who has been shot in his apartment hotel room. As Clover follows leads through Broadway's nightlife, he discovers that both the socialite Louise Hathaway and her poet friend Lily Prokosh had connections to the dead man, and a second murder soon complicates the case.

New York City, primarily Broadway and the surrounding neighborhoods including West 52nd Street, Park Avenue, and the Trade Winds nightclub; also the exclusive apartment hotel where Frank Dunn is killed and Lily Prokosh's apartment in the village.

Characters: Detective Danny Clover, Mr. Tracy, hotel manager, Frank Dunn, bartender, Louise Hathaway, Edward Hathaway, Lily Prokosh, Milt Barker, club owner, Gino

Listen for: The vivid noir atmosphere created by Larry Thor's narration of detective work through Broadway's nightlife; the tense confrontations between Clover and the Hathaways that gradually reveal the tangled motives behind the murders.

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.