The Helen Selby Murder Case: Broadway Is My Beat (January 31, 1953)

“The Helen Selby Murder Case” is an episode of Broadway Is My Beat, the old-time radio show, first broadcast January 31, 1953. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

A young woman named Helen Selby is found shot in an apartment on West 39th Street after a moving man arrives to collect her furniture. Detective Danny Clover investigates and learns that Helen worked as a secretary at the Sun Up to Sun Down Trucking Company and had recently befriended a truck driver named Chris Miller. As police piece together Helen's final days, they race to understand who wanted her dead and why her belongings were being moved to a brownstone on East 78th Street.

New York City in January, spanning from an apartment building on West 39th Street to the Sun Up to Sun Down Trucking Company on Perry Street and a brownstone on East 78th Street.

Characters: Detective Danny Clover, Mr. Barnes, the moving man, Helen Selby, the victim, Alex, Leo Pearson, Chris Miller, truck driver, Morgan, police officer, Doctor

Listen for: The mystery of who shot Helen Selby and why she was having her belongings moved to a new address, along with details about her relationships with the people around her.

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.