The Mary Murdock Murder Case: Broadway Is My Beat (January 7, 1950)

“The Mary Murdock Murder Case” is an episode of Broadway Is My Beat, the old-time radio show, first broadcast January 7, 1950. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Detective Danny Clover is visited by a mysterious woman at police headquarters who dies of poison shortly after arriving. The woman is identified as Mary Murdoch, wife of gangster Vic Murdoch who was imprisoned 20 years ago. When Clover learns that Vic has recently been released and is running a speakeasy, he seeks him out, only to discover Vic murdered with an ice pick. As Clover investigates, he uncovers a tangled web involving a hidden sum of $100,000, Mary's infidelity, and a reporter with dangerous secrets.

New York City, primarily Manhattan including police headquarters, a speakeasy on First Avenue, an apartment in the East 60s, Harlem, and Wall Street Bank

Characters: Detective Danny Clover, Mary Murdoch, Vic Murdoch, Jimmy Ames, Suzy Lane, Joe Miami, Dr. Sinsky, Sergeant Tautaglia

Listen for: The atmospheric noir narration by Detective Clover describing the streets of Broadway; the recreation of a 1920s speakeasy with period music and dialogue; the revelation of secrets surrounding the hidden money and romantic betrayal.

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.