The John Lomax Murder Case: Broadway Is My Beat (December 31, 1949)

“The John Lomax Murder Case” is an episode of Broadway Is My Beat, the old-time radio show, first broadcast December 31, 1949. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Detective Danny Clover investigates a curious case when a drunk man claiming to be John Lomax appears at a hotel, insisting he's alive despite being declared dead in a hit-and-run accident four days earlier. When Clover visits Lomax's widow and discovers a mysterious pianist living in her home, he begins to suspect the identity of the dead man may not be what it seems.

Broadway and Times Square area of New York City, including a hotel, the Lomax home in Queens, and a Turkish bath called Baghdad's.

Characters: Detective Danny Clover, Louis Box, John Lomax, Martha Lomax, Paul Rand, Ephraim, Waldo

Listen for: The setup of a murder mystery hinged on mistaken identity, with questions about who really died in the hit-and-run accident and what role Paul Rand plays in the Lomax household.

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.