The Shorty Dunne Murder Case: Broadway Is My Beat (November 24, 1950)

“The Shorty Dunne Murder Case” is an episode of Broadway Is My Beat, the old-time radio show, first broadcast November 24, 1950. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Detective Danny Plover investigates the kidnapping of Mrs. Clara Bryan after her desperate husband brings a ransom note from a man named Shorty Dunn. When Plover tracks down Shorty at the Apollo Hotel, he finds him sleeping. The case takes a dark turn when both Mrs. Bryan and Shorty are discovered murdered in a condemned tenement building, forcing Plover to uncover the true connection between the two deaths and the events of Mrs. Bryan's final evening.

Broadway at night, including the Apollo Hotel, Mission House, a ten-cent store, a lending library, a beauty shop, a chiropractor's office, a bar called Golden's, a junk yard, and condemned tenement buildings

Characters: Danny Plover, detective, Mr. James Bryan, Mrs. Clara Bryan, Shorty Dunn, Paul Foster, mission house manager, Goldie, Joe, junk man, Mr. Liddy, ten-cent store owner

Listen for: The atmospheric opening describing Broadway's neon lights and the detailed investigation unfolding through Plover's interviews with various witnesses who saw Mrs. Bryan on the night before last, each providing pieces of the puzzle.

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.