Broadway's My Beat: The Gordon Merrick Murder Case (EP5013)
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Who is Gordon Merrick and what happened to him?
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Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Kalispell, Montana. This is your host, Adam Graham. Yeah, we are taking a special trip here. A bit impromptu. So hopefully we'll get the next three days program recorded from Kalispell. Now, if you are enjoying the podcast, please follow us using your favorite podcast software. Today's program is brought to you in part by the financial support of our listeners. You can support the show using the Zelle app to box 13 at greatdetectives.net. I want to thank Thomas for supporting the program that way. You can also become one of our ongoing Patreon supporters for as little as $2 per month. Thank you so much to Doug.
What clues does Lieutenant Danny Clover find at the crime scene?
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The Gordon Merrick Murder Case
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, with Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover.
When Broadway leaps into the nighttime, the sound is a thing compounded of trumpet and machine and hiss and a gaudy laugh. They melt together, and the noise you get is shock. When the month is March and the rains of spring fall softly into the riot, shock scatters and huddles tightly behind this facade and that, in that doorway, behind that window. The street is hurry up and get out of the weather. The street is stragglers, is bleeding neon. So make a phone call. Find a friend. It's lonely in the rain. There were ceiling-to-floor windows where I was to enjoy the view high above the city and look out over it, blurred now by the spinning raindrops, the penthouse apartment, and violent death on the 40th floor with its own private entrance and Detective Mugovan kneeling over it.
It's a way to die, Danny. With a .32 slug, I'd say. Shot in the back. Of course, it's frowned on by 100% sports. Who is he, Mugovan?
How does Carol Royce relate to Gordon Merrick's murder?
Name's Gordon Merrick. You know, Angel Merrick. I hope he makes Angel work. Merrick, huh? The showbacker with the golden touch. Isn't that what they call him, Miss Cullen? Yeah. They'll think of a better one after tonight. Let's have it, Muggerman. What happened? Pretty definite when he was shot. A hotel like this times everything. Calls, requests for room service, you know. Merrick called down for champagne at 11.30. And the table service. For two? Would you drink champagne alone on a rainy night in a place like this? Sure, for two. Waiter brought everything a half hour later at midnight. No answer.
What evidence links Vic Kane to the murder?
Walked in, saw Merrick lying there. Any callers on the desk you have? Uh-uh. Anybody could get on the public elevator to the 35th floor, get off, take the private elevator to here. No way of checking. That painting underneath him looks like he grabbed it when he fell. I don't blame him. All I got that resembles that picture I had to cut out of a magazine and paste in my locker. With Merrick, it's a life-sized oil painting. Comes the time I back a show starring that woman... Carol Royce. Beautiful girl, Michael. I saw her a couple of weeks ago coming out of the theater where her show was playing. Well, I would have found some excuse to stop her and talk to her. You know, your car's parked in the wrong zone or something.
Well, work to do, huh, Danny? And through the window, the pattern of the city far below, sodden now with rain and mist, The sunken city, its roar muted, its brilliance dimmed and sallowed in the haze of night rain. Then the quick, phosphorescent gleam of neon. And only neon has the power of flight through this darkness. All other lights are slowed, their shimmer flows on the currents of wind.
Who is Jackie Scarn and what role does he play in the investigation?
And here and there are trapped, gathered into a blob, shapeless, blurred.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Who is Gordon Merrick and what happened to him?
0:00–2:02
2
What clues does Lieutenant Danny Clover find at the crime scene?
2:02–4:00
3
How does Carol Royce relate to Gordon Merrick's murder?
4:00–4:30
4
What evidence links Vic Kane to the murder?
4:30–5:35
5
Who is Jackie Scarn and what role does he play in the investigation?
5:35–6:32
6
What is revealed about Sophie Henry and her connection to the case?
6:32–7:06
7
How do the detectives piece together the timeline of events?
7:06–7:53
8
What is the conclusion of the investigation and its implications?
7:53–37:24