The Thelma Harper Murder Case: Broadway Is My Beat (May 5, 1950)

“The Thelma Harper Murder Case” is an episode of Broadway Is My Beat, the old-time radio show, first broadcast May 5, 1950. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Detective Danny Clover investigates a murder in Central Park when a woman named Thelma is found shot to death. The investigation leads him to Mark Guilford, whose wife Janet recently attempted suicide, and Clover must determine whether Mark is connected to the crime or if darker secrets lie beneath the surface of their troubled marriage.

New York City, primarily Broadway and Central Park, including a rooming house on West 16th Street and police headquarters

Characters: Danny Clover, Mark Guilford, Janet Guilford, Dr. Simpson, Dr. Sensie

Listen for: The gritty noir atmosphere of 1950s Broadway, the tense interrogation between Clover and Mark in his sparse room, and the revelation of the connection between Janet's suicide attempt and the murder victim Thelma.

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.