The Mary Smith Murder Case: Broadway Is My Beat (December 8, 1951)

“The Mary Smith Murder Case” is an episode of Broadway Is My Beat, the old-time radio show, first broadcast December 8, 1951. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Detective Danny Clover investigates the murder of a woman found dead in the Hotel Savannah, registered as Mary Smith. When fingerprints reveal her true identity as Peg Ramsay, a talented editor at the publishing firm Taggart and Ramsay, Clover begins uncovering the connections between her professional life, her discoveries of new literary talent, and the mysterious people in her circle.

New York City, primarily the Hotel Savannah and the offices of Taggart and Ramsay publishing firm on Madison Avenue.

Characters: Danny Clover, Sergeant Gino Ataglia, Mr. Burgess, Mr. Taggart, William Walter, Mrs. Janice Kirk

Listen for: The atmospheric opening describing Broadway at night, the details about Peg Ramsay's secret identity and her role as a book editor, and the emerging mystery surrounding the writer William Walter she helped bring to the city.

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.