The Paul Thomas Murder Case: Broadway Is My Beat (July 28, 1949)

“The Paul Thomas Murder Case” is an episode of Broadway Is My Beat, the old-time radio show, first broadcast July 28, 1949. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Lieutenant Danny Clover runs into Paul Thomas, a young man he'd helped get a job months earlier. Paul hints he's in trouble but rushes off to work. That afternoon, Clover is summoned to the office of Jay Arrakarian, a gem dealer, who claims Paul has absconded with a hundred thousand dollars worth of diamonds. Clover visits Paul's mother in Harlem to learn more about the boy's whereabouts.

New York City, primarily Broadway and Harlem, including the Paramount Building gem dealer's office and a tenement rooming house

Characters: Lieutenant Danny Clover, Paul Thomas, Jerry Kirk, Jay Arrakarian, Mrs. Thomas

Listen for: The mystery of what happened to Paul Thomas and the missing jewels; whether Paul is a thief or a 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.