The Sophie Brettin Murder Case: Broadway Is My Beat (June 27, 1953)

“The Sophie Brettin Murder Case” is an episode of Broadway Is My Beat, the old-time radio show, first broadcast June 27, 1953. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Detective Mugivan arrives at a tenement building where Sophie Bretton, an elderly woman known in the neighborhood as a spiritual advisor, has been shot dead. A man named Harry Madison is found wounded in the same room, shot while chasing the killer. As detectives investigate the sparse clues left behind, they begin to piece together the mysterious circumstances of the crime.

A tenement building on Broadway in Times Square, New York City; also a hospital emergency room and police headquarters.

Characters: Detective Mugivan, Danny, Sophie Bretton, Harry Madison, Dr. Sinsky, The Super, Geno

Listen for: The detectives' discovery of Sophie Bretton's collection of occult and metaphysical books, the mysterious cigarette lighter with initials, and a cryptic appointment marked 'Sophie, 10 o'clock' that may hold the key to the murder.

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.