The Jane Arnold Murder Case: Broadway Is My Beat (May 19, 1950)

“The Jane Arnold Murder Case” is an episode of Broadway Is My Beat, the old-time radio show, first broadcast May 19, 1950. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Detective Danny Pober arrives at a gala spring gathering of the International Order of Fuzzy Bears to find entertainer Jane Arnold dead in her sequined costume. A magician named Marvin the Great claims she remains hypnotized from his act, but Pober quickly determines she has been poisoned. With the victim's identity confirmed and suspicion falling on entertainers and Fuzzy Bears alike who all had access to poisoned drinks, Pober begins questioning the performers who were present at the event.

New York City, including the International Order of Fuzzy Bears hall where a spring gathering takes place, and various locations where Pober questions entertainers the following day.

Characters: Danny Pober, Robert Grover, Marvin the Great, Jane Arnold, Celia Stewart, Ernie, Joe Lilly, Charlie

Listen for: The mystery of who poisoned Jane Arnold's drink at the Fuzzy Bears party, and what Pober learns from questioning the entertainers and those connected to the victim.

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.