The Stacy Parker Murder Case: Broadway Is My Beat (July 25, 1953)

“The Stacy Parker Murder Case” is an episode of Broadway Is My Beat, the old-time radio show, first broadcast July 25, 1953. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Detective Danny Covert investigates the murder of Stacy Parker, a jeweler found dead in the apartment of a married couple, Johnny and Anna Lin. Parker had visited the apartment to collect a debt, and now both the Lins have disappeared, leaving Covert to unravel the circumstances of the killing.

Manhattan in July, including an upscale apartment building on the East Sixties, a jewelry shop on Madison Avenue, police headquarters, and the streets of Broadway.

Characters: Detective Danny Covert, M. Norton, the apartment building manager, Mr. Miller, Parker's jewelry shop clerk, Stacy Parker, the murdered jeweler, Johnny Lin, Anna Lin, Gino

Listen for: The poetic narration that opens the episode, setting the summer atmosphere of Broadway; Detective Covert's methodical investigation moving from the crime scene to interviews with the building manager and the jeweler's clerk.

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.