The Harry Moore Murder Case: Broadway Is My Beat (June 2, 1952)

“The Harry Moore Murder Case” is an episode of Broadway Is My Beat, the old-time radio show, first broadcast June 2, 1952. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Detective Danny Clover investigates the murder of Harry Moore, a 41-year-old construction contractor found shot in his East Side apartment around three o'clock in the afternoon. Moore's wife Vivi has an alibi at a tea luncheon, but Clover must track down the circumstances surrounding Moore's death and identify a mysterious man named Joe Connell that Moore was seen meeting with at a local bar days before his murder.

New York City, particularly Broadway and the East Side, including Harry Moore's apartment building, a construction site at 30th and East River, and various bars and streets of the city

Characters: Detective Danny Clover, Mrs. Vivi Moore, Steve Nelson, Joe Connell, Bartender at Venson's

Listen for: The atmospheric descriptions of June in New York, the detective work as Clover canvasses bars and the streets searching for leads, and the mysterious connection between Harry Moore and Joe Connell that emerges from the bartender's testimony

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.