Broadway Is My Beat: The Paul Tracy Murder Case 09/27/1952
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Choice Classic Radio Detectives | Old Time Radio
29 min
6 speakers
8 chapters
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What is the setting and mood of Broadway's My Beat?
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Broadway is my beat, from Times Square to Columbus Circle, the gaudiest, the most violent, the lonesomest mile in the world. Broadway's My Beat with Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover.
The time of September was too swift. It whirls now in pools of chill twilight, scans the river for the waters where it will die, and autumn has a good hold on Broadway. And the street gives in, stops fighting it. Opens the closet to the top coat and the credit plan dyed fur. And blow the dust away. And here's what is left of the hoarded summer laughter. The budgeted dreams for beach wear. Useless now. So call up someone, make a joke about it. It's autumn on Broadway and the fashion has changed. Because night is colder. Night is longer.
And on a side street, the autumn violence. The dead man, the murdered man, stalled against the litter of jewels and watches. The patter is glint and quick tick of time. Scarlet traceries of scrubbed wood and floor. Jewelry shop on West 46th. Time, 11.30 p.m. And Detective Muggerman there and me. Made it uptown real fast, Danny. Robbery? It looks to me like robbery. Can't really tell in all this mess. Showcases knocked over, all that stuff, jewelry left on the floor. One thing, though. What? Whatever it was, he put up a fight. Look what it got him. You know who he is? That business license on the wall there made out to a Paul Tracy. Stuff I found in his wallet made out to Paul Tracy. There's something else on the wall I want to show you, Danny.
Come here. Bullet hole. I already dug out the bullet. Makes one less for Dr. Sinsky. Who called it in? Passerby. He heard shots. Looked through the window.
What details emerge about the murder of Paul Tracy?
Couldn't see anything. Called a cop. Business must have been good for Mr. Paul Tracy. You doped it out, huh? Easy. A man in a shop this late at night, business must be good. Customers in a rush for things, strive to please. Look what it got him. I know, you told me. Sometimes, not often anymore, sometimes it shakes me that way. There's something else I found, Danny. His inventory book. I'll have the boys check all this stuff against what's in the inventory, then we'll know if the motive was robbery. I'll get it. Hello? Hello?
Who is this? I want to talk to Mr. Tracy.
Who's calling, please?
Tell him Ellen. Tell him his daughter, Ellen Tracy. Tell him it's late and I've kept supper for him. Oh, tell him I just want to talk to him.
Where do you live, Miss Tracy?
What's it to you? You just tell my father.
It's the police, Miss Tracy. Where do you live?
Police? Why, police? Something happened? Listen, where's my father?
Let me talk to him, you... I'll tell you about it when I get there, Miss Tracy. Where do you live?
18-20-70-36. You bring Papa with you, you hear? If he's in trouble, I want to know from his own lips.
I'll be there right away, Miss Tracy. That was his daughter, Muggerman. She was angry because she kept supper for him. Because he was late. Explain it to her, Danny. Tell her it won't happen again.
Dad? My father?
Who is Paul Tracy and what led to his murder?
Tell me. Tell me again what you just said about my father. Listen. He's not dead. I'm not going to believe it. You can stand there and tell me whatever you want. I don't care what you have to say. I'm not going to believe that my father is dead.
He was shot, Miss Tracy. The way it looks, robbers.
Yes.
Why do you say that?
I told him. I told him. How many times did I tell him, don't work late, Papa. You're crazy to work late. A little shop on a side street all by yourself. And now it's happened. Robbers. Thieves and robbers and my father is dead.
What do you do, Miss Tracy?
What?
Do you work? Have a job?
Yes.
Well, that's what I want to know. What do you do?
I take care of my father. He's a baby. I had a job.
You took care of him? That's all you did?
All. All I did. Listen, you... I'm sorry.
I didn't mean it that way.
All I did. The child, a 43-year-old baby, my father... Wash for him and darn and wait on him and cook?
Now he's dead, now you don't have to do that anymore.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the setting and mood of Broadway's My Beat?
0:00–2:25
2
What details emerge about the murder of Paul Tracy?
2:25–4:01
3
Who is Paul Tracy and what led to his murder?
4:01–5:13
4
What clues did Detective Clover find at the crime scene?
5:13–7:33
5
How does the investigation link to Mary Gower?
7:33–9:14
6
What role does Ellen Tracy play in the unfolding story?
9:14–11:25
7
What revelations come to light about the relationship between Mary and Paul?
11:25–14:24
8
How does the episode conclude with the truth behind the murders?
14:24–29:30
Speakers
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