Broadway Is My Beat: The Stacy Parker Murder Case 07/05/1952
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Choice Classic Radio Detectives | Old Time Radio
29 min
8 speakers
8 chapters
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What happens in the opening scene of the Stacy Parker murder case?
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Broadway's My Beat, from Times Square to Columbus Circle, the gaudiest, the most violent, the lonesomest mile in the world. Broadway's My Beat, transcribed with Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover.
In the high noon blaze of July, Broadway walks soft. Broadway walks slow. The dream walk, the careful walk. Rhythm to a regret for things that have not yet been. Because other summers have flowed in this street and other winds. And in there ebbing the erratic gutter dance of the litter of the season. The snapshot of the July bathing beauty torn in half, then torn again, and once more. The phone number written in lipstick on a barroom napkin. Crushed, thrown against an alley wall. Because it was a number that rang shrill on emptiness. No answer was the code for last summer. But this time it'll be different. So walk into it. But soft. And in the East Sixties, in the apartment where I was, where Detective Mugovan was, July sun, filtered and cooled by linen draperies, cut summer flowers floating in crystal vessels, sun dancing on the backs of tropical fish drifting in glass cages.
The other thing, the man huddled in death, shot, murdered.
The man doesn't, strictly speaking, belong here, Danny.
Oh?
As near as I can make out, the apartment is owned by a Johnny and Anna Lynn. A couple of letters addressed to them that way on the desk. Snapshot album in the bedroom. Got engraved on its cover, The Life of Johnny and Anna Lynn. Nice looking couple. Real nice. Matchbooks got Johnny and Anna printed on them. Good looking couple. Both of them. Man and a woman. What did you find on him? The usual stuff. Things a well-dressed man in his profession would carry. Gold cigarette case. Gold money clip with money. A wallet. Alligator. Gold tip. Off the dime, Mugger. Oh, yeah. His driver's license. Identification card. Business cards. All of them say he's... Wait a minute. Our Stacy Parker, jeweler to the discriminating, 617 Madison Avenue.
Those liquor stains on the sofa, rugged.
Bourbon. That's how some people live. Bourbon highs at noon, a booze brunch. It's a way to live, a way to entertain. Whoever it was must have stood close to him. It happens like that sometimes. Nice place, huh, Denny? Yeah. Owned and run by a nice-looking couple who just don't happen to be around. Drink and kill, then maybe go take a walk to where it's shady and cool. The way you figure, huh, Munkerman? Happens like that sometimes. Okay, if I put the call in to the boys now.
Yeah, I'll do that, my boy. For an instant after that, somehow, time reversed itself in the mind's eye. Look about the room, the beautifully furnished room, the room warmed by sun and the oddments of love. Books, a sonata opened on the piano rack, and on the mantelpiece, a stone figure worn smooth by the touch of hands. And consider that before this day, it was a room for living. Yesterday, Mr. John Lynn and wife Anna sat here and talked here and had a life here. Then from outside, the intruding sounds, and suddenly the room becomes other things. An overturned glass, whiskey spilled on a rug, and violence, and death. Murder done at high noon. Get with it. Leave there and take the swift and noiseless elevator ride downstairs.
Main lobby. The desk. Show a badge. Ask for the manager. Be directed to an office near the main door. Go there.
Please come in.
Who are the key characters introduced in the investigation?
Sit down, please. Thanks. Police? That's right. Your name, please? Danny Clover. Indeed, mine's Burton. M. Norton Burton.
Yeah, I know. It's on the door. It's on your desk. And there you are.
Yes. Yes, indeed. You know, of course, this is not our first murder. In 46, Mr. Goodenough did away with Mrs. Goodenough up in 516, strangled her with a bed sheet. Also a triangle slaying.
Your department worked... You think the murder upstairs is a result of a triangle?
I'd have no way of knowing. But on the face of it, if you want my opinion... No, we don't.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What happens in the opening scene of the Stacy Parker murder case?
0:00–4:24
2
Who are the key characters introduced in the investigation?
4:24–7:55
3
What evidence is found at the crime scene?
7:55–11:39
4
How does Detective Clover interrogate the suspects?
11:39–15:15
5
What motives are revealed during the investigation?
15:15–18:13
6
How does the investigation lead to uncovering hidden secrets?
18:13–21:31
7
What is the significance of the raised check in the case?
21:31–25:15
8
What conclusion does Detective Clover reach by the end of the episode?
25:15–29:40
Speakers
8 identifiedMore from Choice Classic Radio Detectives | Old Time Radio
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