Broadway's My Beat: The Tom Keeler Murder Case (EP4913)

Summary

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Podcast Summary: The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio

Episode: Broadway's My Beat – The Tom Keeler Murder Case (EP4913)

Host: Adam Graham
Air Date: February 18, 2026
Original Radio Broadcast: September 22, 1951
Featured Detective: Danny Clover (voiced by Larry Thor)

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Episode Overview

This episode of "The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio" spotlights Broadway's My Beat: The Tom Keeler Murder Case, immersing listeners in a complex murder mystery set amid the evocative turmoil of Broadway. Host Adam Graham guides the audience through the episode, providing context and insightful reflections afterward.

The case centers on Tom Keeler, discovered shot dead in a seedy hotel, and quickly spirals into a tangled web involving a missing lawyer, a fractured family, and deadly secrets. Detective Danny Clover untangles the mystery, encountering lies, blackmail, and the desperation that sometimes haunts those on the fringes of Broadway.

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Key Discussion Points & Plot Breakdown

1. The Discovery of the Crime (03:24–05:51)

• Setting: September day, Broadway, the "lonesomest mile in the world."
• Detective Danny Clover is summoned to the morgue by Dr. Sinski.
• Victim: Tom Keeler, found shot twice (with both a .22 and a .32 caliber). Either shot alone would have been fatal.
  • Quote: “The man was wanted dead. Twice, Danny. He was killed twice. Two bullets, different size. Twice dead.” — Dr. Sinski (05:04)

2. Investigating Tom Keeler's Life (06:07–10:31)

• At the Nixon Hotel: Clover interviews Randy Quantrill, the manager.
  • Keeler, a quiet drifter, received a letter from a bank.
• At the Bank: Keeler had a checking account, mysteriously funded with $50 weekly by attorney George Weber—stopped two weeks earlier at Weber's request.
  • Bank employee reveals George Weber’s connection but withholds details: “Philosophical question, Mr. Clover. Somewhat out of my problem.” (10:00)

3. The Lawyers and the Family (10:31–15:07)

• Weber & Marley Law Firm: Partner Paul Marley claims George Weber is at Fire Island, distressed after arguing with his younger sister, Peggy.
• Twist: Fire Island authorities report Weber never arrived—he is missing.
• Discovery: Clover and the building manager find George Weber dead in his apartment, stabbed with a bone-handled knife.

4. Interrogations and Character Portraits (16:07–22:25)

• Peggy Weber Interview: Peggy expresses resentment for her brother, hints at family strife, and deflects responsibility for his murder.
  • Quote: “Oh, it’s gonna be a lot simpler now with him gone. I’ll wear a black dress like this one for a month and call it a decent interval of mourning.” — Peggy Weber (18:11)
• Ralph Clay Interview: Former law student exiled from the profession by George Weber’s influence, once loved Peggy. He describes Keeler (“Uncle Tom”) as a family confidant and derelict living on the Webers' charity.
  • Quote: “Typical … Uncle Tom was an old friend of Georgie’s and Peggy’s father. … Peggy calls him uncle because he was her confessor, her hero.” — Ralph Clay (21:53)

5. Puzzle Pieces Assemble (22:39–27:28)

• Clover Questions Marley Again: Paul Marley admits to urging Weber to cut Keeler off to protect the firm’s reputation; hints at strife between Keeler and Weber.
• Medical Examiner's Reports: Timeline reveals George Weber was killed around 6pm, Tom Keeler around midnight on the same night.

6. The Final Confrontation and Revelation (26:02–29:28)

• Confronting Peggy and Ralph: Both confess to Keeler’s murder—but inconsistencies arise.
• Clover’s Deduction: Keeler tried to blackmail Peggy and Ralph, making each believe the other killed George Weber. Fearing exposure, each separately killed Keeler—hence the two fatal gunshots of different calibers.
  • Quote: “That’s what you both did. To protect the other. You both shot Tom Keeler.” — Danny Clover (29:17)
• The bleak realism of Broadway is encapsulated in Clover’s closing narration.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

| Time | Speaker | Quote/Description | |---|---|---| | 05:04 | Dr. Sinski | "The man was wanted dead. Twice, Danny. He was killed twice. Two bullets, different size. Twice dead." | | 10:00 | Bank Employee | “Philosophical question, Mr. Clover. Somewhat out of my problem.” | | 13:04 | Paul Marley | “Peggy Weber is headstrong. … My partner was constantly arguing with her. We’re a conservative firm.” | | 18:11 | Peggy Weber | "Oh, it’s gonna be a lot simpler now with him gone. I’ll wear a black dress ... and call it a decent interval of mourning."| | 21:53 | Ralph Clay | “Typical ... Uncle Tom was an old friend of Georgie’s and Peggy’s father. ... Peggy calls him uncle because he was her confessor, her hero.” | | 27:17 | Danny Clover | “That’s what you both did. To protect the other. You both shot Tom Keeler.” | | 29:32 | Danny Clover (closing) | "There’s a time on Broadway when the crowd goes. ... It’s Broadway. The gaudiest, the most violent, the lonesomest mile in the world." |

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Detective Danny Clover’s Style & Tone

• The episode blends hard-boiled detective work with poetic narration, often somber and reflective.
• Clover’s world-weariness and compassion contrast with the cold realities of the street and the flawed people tangled in the case.

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Host Adam Graham’s Commentary & Listener Q&A (33:03+)

• Challenge of the Case: Graham highlights the unique legal and forensic dilemma: both suspects are guilty, both bullets fatal, complicating which shot caused death.
  • "This would be a challenge ... if he was dead when one of the shots was received and they couldn't prove which one ..." (33:03)
• Writers' Legacy: Responds to listener Peter about Morton Fine and David Friedkin's prolific OTR work, their co-writing of other series (The Lineup, Gunsmoke pilot, Escape, Suspense).
• Comparing OTR Detective Shows: Comments on the differences and similarities between "Broadway's My Beat" and "Nightbeat," pointing out the emotional weight and narrative style of each.
  • “Nightbeat goes a bit deeper into the full emotional portrait of these characters ... My Beat also has its hero win a lot. It’s justice.”
• Patreon Support: Thanks supporters and encourages new listeners to subscribe and review.

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Key Timestamps

| Segment | Timestamp | |---|---| | Episode introduction & narration | 03:24–05:51 | | Keeler's background/bank investigation | 06:07–10:31 | | Law firm/George Weber | 10:31–15:07 | | Peggy & Ralph’s motives | 16:07–22:25 | | Second Marley interrogation | 22:39–24:28 | | Medical examiner reports align timeline | 25:02–26:02 | | Final confrontation/reveal | 26:02–29:28 | | Adam Graham's commentary | 33:03–39:47 |

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Conclusion

"The Tom Keeler Murder Case" exemplifies the moody, intricately plotted mysteries of postwar radio drama. Clover peels away layers of duplicity, revealing both the darkness and the tragic attachments binding the lonely souls of Broadway. The denouement—where two people, each acting from love and fear, commit the same crime for each other's sake—provides the noir twist typical of the best in radio detective storytelling.

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Transcript

[Detective Danny Clover]

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[Adam Graham]

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[Detective Danny Clover]

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[Adam Graham]

Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho. This is your host, Adam Graham. In a moment, we're going to bring you this week's episode of Broadway's My Bait. But first, I do want to encourage you. If you're enjoying the podcast, please follow us using your favorite podcast software. Also, today's program is brought to you in part by the financial support of our listeners and you can support the show on a one time basis using the Zelle app by sending to box13greatdetectives.net and you can become one of our ongoing Patreon supporters for as little as $2 per [e-mail] greatdetectives.net and I want to go ahead and thank our latest Patreon supporter, Old and Confused. That's the name given. Supporting the podcast at the rookie level of $2 or more per month. Thanks so much for your support. Well, now, from September 22, 1951, here is the Tom Keillor murder case.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Broadway's My Beat From Times Square to Columbus Circle, the gaudiest, the most violent, the lonesomest mile in the world.

[Narrator]

Broadway's My Beat With Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover.

[Detective Danny Clover]

In autumn sunlight, the September day trots out its promises for Broadway's considering displays them in doorways, in push carts, in gutters, decorates them with price tags, invites you to browse. Don't touch, buy, don't squeeze. And at cut rates are the secondhand delights. The tears slash down to any man's purse, the bolt end of dreams, the vendor's simper. The hawkers wink. Buy, kid. That's a winter sun on your shoulder. And the day is short. So buy. And that's what you do, kid. Because on Broadway there's no other choice. And at police headquarters, the September's day has arranged its wearers of violence on your desk, stacked as to category degree grade. Because the day is still fresh. You put off the reaching for them, the touching of them. But it screams close to your ear.

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

In the morgue. Danny, come down. I got something of interest to you.

[Detective Danny Clover]

And walk the corridor to the room of the dead. Through the swinging doors into a place without season. Where all nights, all days are of equal length. Where temperature is constant. Where the wind is conditioned before let flow over death. Walk up to the man who waits for you.

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

A nervous twitch, Danny. To juggle things in my right hand. Maybe I'll be remembered for it.

[Detective Danny Clover]

What have you got, Dr. Sinski?

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

The man lying there, they found him in his bed last night.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Murdered.

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

These that murdered him. Two bullets.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Look.22 and a.32. Wouldn't you say so, Doctor?

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

That I wouldn't know. What I know is only one of these was needed to kill him. Either one. The man was wanted dead. Twice, Danny. He was killed twice. Two bullets, different size. Twice dead.

[Detective Danny Clover]

You know who he was?

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

When they brought him to me last night, there was a tag on him. A name. Tom Keiller. An address to Nixon Hotel. Nothing else. No other word to the living about why such things?

[Detective Danny Clover]

You're sure, doctor? You're sure that each wound was a mortal wound?

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

Danny, Each wound could. Yeah. Yeah, I'm sure. You'll want these, huh?

[Detective Danny Clover]

Yeah.

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

Take them.

[Detective Danny Clover]

And that's the way my day began. And the ingredients of it were a medical examiner, a murdered man and two bullets in a room of no value except to the dead. Except to those whose business is with death. Consider that briefly. Then push it away. Leave.

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

Go.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Get out and hurry. And in the corridor. Find what you're looking for. The breath of air not controlled by a thermostat. Then the walk down the hall, turn over the two bullets to Technical, then outside. And the squad car. The ride to West 25th street into the Nixon Hotel to the five story brownstone that seemed to list from pressure of the insurance housing project next door to it. Go in. Ring a bell? Wait. Be greeted by the man in gray suspenders and no shirt.

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

Morning.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Good morning. I'm Danny Clover, police.

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

Randy Quantrill. Hi.

[Detective Danny Clover]

You had a little trouble here last night, didn't you?

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

Oh, just a mess of it, did.

[Detective Danny Clover]

You know, the man who was killed.

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

You mean Tom, huh?

[Detective Danny Clover]

That's right. Tom Keeler.

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

What do you mean? Know him?

[Detective Danny Clover]

Talk to him, Have a beer with him.

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

Said hi it to him. That's about the extent of my to do with him.

[Detective Danny Clover]

How about visitors? Did he have any?

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

Look at the sign over My shoulder, Mr. Clover. Mr. Clover. You know some Clovers down in Selma, Alabama? You any kin?

[Detective Danny Clover]

No, no, no, no.

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

Look, the sign over my shoulder. No visitors. No visitors.

[Detective Danny Clover]

And you think just because the sign is there, Tom Keeler didn't have any visitors?

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

No. No, I don't, mister. We got a sign and each and every room says, no smoking in bed. In the last year, we had three mattress fires. So what I'm saying is I never saw anybody sneak past this desk. That I said to myself, there's a Tom Keeler visitor.

[Detective Danny Clover]

What else about Keiller?

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

Oh, he got mail this morning. Maybe I ought to tell you that.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Yeah, maybe you should.

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

I'm going to Fresh mail that come this morning. Here. A letter.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Oh, thanks.

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

From the Great Northern National Bank.

[Detective Danny Clover]

So I see.

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

Please come in and talk to us with regards to your commercial account at your earliest convenience.

[Detective Danny Clover]

You read upside down, Mr. Quantrill.

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

I've lived in Baltimore.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Oh, thank you, Mr. Quantrill. Thanks a lot. And for that, Randy Quantrill winked at me, laughed noiselessly at me, leaned against the mail rack, scratched his back with it. It wasn't the moment to intrude any longer on such private pleasures, so I left him. At the Great Northern National Bank. A guard, uniformed in tattletail gray, took my name, my business, walked down a marble aisle with them, an aisle lined with identical desks, identical faces behind them. Unerringly, the guard chose one. The right one. This was a shrewd guard. He muted his voice to the extracurricular business I had brought to the Great Northern, offered it to the man. The man considered it, digested it, and when he had it all in order, motioned me to the chair the guard had placed discreetly close to him.

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

Until we can help you, Mr. Clover.

[Detective Danny Clover]

A man named Tom Keeler had a checking account here.

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

They're aware of it.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Then you know that he was murdered last night in a cheap hotel.

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

I'm aware of many things, Mr. Clover.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Our research. I'm sorry, I can't hear you. What'd you say?

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

I say that our research department makes a point of informing each of us here on many diverse matters, matters that could even most remotely concern.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Thank you.

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

Beg pardon?

[Detective Danny Clover]

I said thank you because you let me hear what you had to say?

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

Hmm. I was appointed, Mr. Clover, should any questions arise about the late Thomas Keeler. Should any questions arise, I was to answer the question. Your interrogation is what, Mr. Clover?

[Detective Danny Clover]

We down at headquarters think it's strange Tom Keeler slept in a flop house when he had a checking account with us.

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

Uh huh. Philosophical question, Mr. Clover. Somewhat out of my problem.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Pardon me?

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

What? I say that all we know of Thomas Keeler is that we were asked to transfer $50 weekly to his account, which we have done religiously until.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Who asked you to do that?

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

Counselor at law, gentlemen. George Weber. If you want his address, we shall give it to you.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Thanks. You were saying you did this until. Until what?

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

Until two weeks ago, possibly. Two weeks? In the fraction of a day when Mr. Weber asked us to discontinue his generosity.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Why?

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

I suggest it is a personal matter concerning Mr. Weber. Don't mind troubling you with it.

[Detective Danny Clover]

What? I'm sorry I said that I. Never mind. Probably wasn't important. And go to the Park Avenue apartments of George Weber. Be told by the person at the desk that Mr. Webber is not at home. Perhaps at his office, the person suggested. And be handed a slip of paper with the office address in a handwriting with the I's dotted with small circles. Weber and Marley. A slip said Attorneys finance building, suite 12. Go there. Go through a door and pass the beam of an electric eye. Wade through a carpet to a desk and an olive skinned girl with tight black hair. Offer your name, show your credentials and be told Mr. Webber is out. Would you see his partner, Mr. Paul Marley? You would. You nodded past another door and another beam and to a slender young man who is waiting for you in front of a wall lined with every law book ever written. Be chaperoned by him through yet another door. There he was. Paul Marley, partner to George Webber, impeccable in morning coat, striped pants and an army discharge button in his lapel.

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

That'll be all, Robertson. Now sit down please, Mr. Clover. Clover, please sit down.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Thank you.

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

The information you gave out there says you're a policeman.

[Detective Danny Clover]

That's right.

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

And this is about what, sir? What can I do for you?

[Detective Danny Clover]

It's about a man named Tom Keeler.

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

Keeler? Keeler.

[Detective Danny Clover]

A man found murdered last night.

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

Yeah.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Shot twice with different caliber bullets. Either one fatal.

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

Yeah. Is all this a matter of legal advice for the police department? You want to know if a man was shot by two people and each shot.

[Detective Danny Clover]

That's not it at all. Tom Keeler, it seems, was supported by.

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

Your partner, by Mr. Webber.

[Detective Danny Clover]

That's right. Each week, $50 was drawn on Mr. Webber's account and deposited in favor of Tom Keeler. Surely there's no mistake. That's the way it was.

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

But I know Mr. Webber so well. His affairs, everything. Where is he? On Fire Island. Since the day before yesterday. He has a place there. I'm pretty sure he went there.

[Detective Danny Clover]

A lot of season for Fire island, isn't it?

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

Oh, I don't think so.

[Detective Danny Clover]

The end of September.

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

Mr. Webber goes there all year round.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Whenever. Whenever what?

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

Whenever he's disturbed. He has the idea of the sea, the Strand, the loneliness of it.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Personally, what was Mr. Webber disturbed about?

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

But he has a sister, Peggy. She's just 20. So you can imagine.

[Detective Danny Clover]

No, I can't.

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

Beautiful girl of 20, rich and you can't imagine. Look, Mr. Marley, my partner was constantly arguing with her. We're a conservative firm, Mr. Clover. Individually, both Mr. Webber and my sister.

[Detective Danny Clover]

What's that got to do with Peggy?

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

Peggy Webber is headstrong. How? I take my partner's word for it that she's headstrong. Therefore.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Well, they argued. Peggy and her brother. What about?

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

I have no idea.

[Detective Danny Clover]

And he went to Fire island to recuperate.

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

One way of saying it. Anything else, Mr. Clover? No. Then, please. These documents here. If you don't.

[Detective Danny Clover]

And get in touch with the authorities at Fire Island. Check on the whereabouts of Mr. George Weber and wait. And an hour later, a phone call. Mr. Webber is not on Fire Island. Mr. Webber's place there is deserted from the looks of it. Hasn't been inhabited for over a month. So come up with a conclusion. Mr. George Weber was missing. Put out an all points bulletin on him and go back to his Park Avenue apartment. Make a request of the management.

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

We're always glad to accommodate the police.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Then let's go, shall we?

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

Of course. Mr. Webber's apartment. Right this way. Down the hall. Yes, sir. Although I'd like to know why we should intrude.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Don't worry about it.

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

Yes, sir.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Open the door.

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

Of course. And here we are.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Yeah, we are, aren't we?

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

What? What did you say? What did you say, Mr. Clover? I didn't.

[Peggy Weber]

Oh.

[Detective Danny Clover]

It stopped both of us. The management, myself. It was a sight that needed only one glance. And the details were there forever. The free shaped coffee table and the grotesquery of the man spread beside it. The tracery of blood that stopped abruptly.

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

Mr. Webber. That's Mr. Webber.

[Detective Danny Clover]

The pen knife bone handled and cheap in his heart to be remembered details in the death of George Weber.

[Narrator]

You are listening to Broadway's My Beat, written by Morton Fine and David Friedkin and starring Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover. There will be a slight pause while we think of an adjective to describe Mario Lanza.

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

Sorry.

[Narrator]

Guess there just isn't one adjective to describe a guy who sings just as well in the popular range as in the classics. But here's a suggestion. On CBS Radio tomorrow night over most of these same stations, don't miss Mario Lanza's All Request show and more of the same By Lovely Giselle McKenzie and Ray Sinatra's music.

[Detective Danny Clover]

When the night slips out of Broadway's fingers and the false dawn blurs the shadows, Broadway stands bewildered. The carnival is run down Only the stragglers walk it with their step without pattern like their dreams. And the color of their loneliness is the darkened neon, the last sparks of a cigarette butt and pavement gray and they walk it. They never know. Broadway's closed for the night. And somehow or another, whether it deserves it or not, the world gets to be 9 o' clock in the morning. Then there's a place for everybody. It's daytime. Breakfast time, work time, make a dollar time. Or as Sergeant Gino Tartaglia said it.

[Sergeant Gino Tartaglia]

Lend me a dollar, Danny.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Oh, sure, Gino. Here.

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

Thank you.

[Sergeant Gino Tartaglia]

The reason for this transaction, Danny, is.

[Detective Danny Clover]

No, you don't have to explain it.

[Sergeant Gino Tartaglia]

I want to. I want to.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Go right ahead.

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

Thank you.

[Sergeant Gino Tartaglia]

Mrs. Tartaglia forgot to tuck my dollar into my lunchbox today, as is her won't for the little things a man needs during the day. She just phoned me and confessed her deliction of duty in this matter, Gino. It. She said, ask Danny for it and tomorrow she will tuck in $2 so that you will not go hungry.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Tell Mrs. T not to worry, Roger.

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

Wilco.

[Sergeant Gino Tartaglia]

And now, Danny, to the chores of the day. Knife which did George Webber in was of the variety which can be purchased at our leading hardware stores for the nominal sum of $1.98. Practically untraceable prints wiped clean.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Go on.

[Sergeant Gino Tartaglia]

Well, that's about the summon substance of the intelligence which has been shunted from the downstairs to the here, Danny. As of now, however.

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

Yes?

[Sergeant Gino Tartaglia]

A young lady is in the anteroom and wants to see you.

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

Who is she?

[Sergeant Gino Tartaglia]

Ms. Peggy Webber, sister of the most laterally deceased.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Get her.

[Sergeant Gino Tartaglia]

This way to see Danny Clover.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Now. Sit down, Ms. Weber. That'll be all, Gino. I'm glad you came, Ms. Weber. Your name's right here on my calendar to see today.

[Peggy Weber]

I knew you'd want to question me about George.

[Detective Danny Clover]

How did you Hear about his death?

[Peggy Weber]

I was home. The late news on the radio. You see, I didn't live with my brother. We didn't get along. Oh, it's gonna be a lot simpler now with him gone. I'll wear a black dress like this one for a month and call it a decent interval of mourning.

[Detective Danny Clover]

It's not any concern of mine, Ms. Sweber.

[Peggy Weber]

That is entirely your concern, Mr. Clover. Your position demands that you locate people who would have motives for murdering my brother. I would.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Did you kill him?

[Peggy Weber]

A few of my friends and I got together some time ago for kicks. We were going to try things together. You know, just for kicks. Black magic. Well, I spent the first 10 days of my membership sticking pins into my brother's picture. And all that happened is that he got a stye on his eye. Outside of that, I never harmed a hair on his head.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Why all this hate, Ms. Wagner?

[Mrs. Watson]

Simply this.

[Peggy Weber]

I love a boy. I told George about him. George got red, then blue. Red again and then a lovely color I never saw before. He found out who the boy was, ruined him.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Who is the boy?

[Peggy Weber]

Ralph Clay. Now runs a bowling alley.

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

I'm third.

[Detective Danny Clover]

One more thing. Do you know a man named Tom Keeler?

[Peggy Weber]

Not offhand. Why?

[Detective Danny Clover]

Oh, never mind. Leave your address with Sergeant, Ms. Weber. And thank you very much.

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

Yeah, yeah.

[Detective Danny Clover]

You Ralph Clay, huh?

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

Oh, hello. He asked me. It's my dying day. You walked into an empty hall, mister. Feel real sorry about it.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Don't be. This way. We can have a long talk, shall we?

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

Don't let it get away, Miss. Mister, I want to take care of this thing. Coming up. Kingpin. Seven pin challenge. What do you think?

[Detective Danny Clover]

Go ahead.

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

Watch me. Yeah. Never say go ahead to me in that toe, mister. Not on that shot. My quirk. Each day I live for it.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Something Peggy Weber said it sent me to you.

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

Peggy? The girl of class. She tell you I kill her brother?

[Detective Danny Clover]

I got the impression she was in love with you.

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

Pity the girl. She lives in ancient history in a time where she loved and I loved back. But ancient history under the breach.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Feige did something to you?

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

She had a brother, now dead. I read it.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Stopped me for breath on the way.

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

To the sports page.

[Detective Danny Clover]

George Webber did something to you?

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I'm a man who likes to talk about it. My daily nourishment. Share it with me. Yeah. Georgie Borgi Weber didn't like how his sister used to put her hand in mine, so he marked me lousy. How? Standing before you, Mr. Police, is a boy who once thought he Was a lawyer. Cap in hand. He went to Georgia. Soon to be brother in law. Asked for a job. Keep it in the family. Georgie smiled, shook his head no. And with words and music he told me he'd spoil from any job I took from anyone he knew.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Because you loved his sister?

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

I was second in my class in law school.

[Detective Danny Clover]

You want to invent other reasons why hate Peggy for it.

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

Things like that run in the blood. I don't stick around till it comes out in Peggy and slaps me in the head.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Then that gives you a motive for having killed Webber.

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

Ain't that a lucky one?

[Detective Danny Clover]

And Tom Keeler? What did you have for him?

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

Keeler?

[Detective Danny Clover]

A man who got killed in a fleabag. A man Webber supported until.

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

Typical. Typical. They're supporting him. Good old Uncle Tom was an old friend of Georgie's and Peggy's father. After the father died, Uncle Tom still hung around.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Why is he called Uncle?

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

Peggy calls him uncle because he was her confessor, her hero. Everything that ate Peggy, she brought to good old Uncle Tom.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Not to her brother.

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

Who goes to a man like that except to kill him? I give you Something to ponder, Mr. Police.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Yeah, you did.

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

I'm glad. Makes me want to live through another day.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Watch the bitter boy make his strike.

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Detective Danny Clover]

And consider the lie he'd flipped to you. The girl's lie. That she didn't know Tom Keeler and wonder over it. Jot it down in memory as a future conversation piece with Peggy Webber. And then remember a man who said he knew all about George Weber. Everything. Everything but the mention of Keeler. Sharon is part of. Go to him. Wait for him to finish his preening. To taste to the full the decorations bestowed upon men of know how.

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

Got this little time machine for being on my toes, Mr. Clover. Handsome tidbit, isn't it?

[Detective Danny Clover]

Yeah. Yeah, it is.

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

Seventeen jewels, Hamilton. All because I proved in court the chap's wife had been unfriendly to said chap. Look what the grateful devil had engraved on the gold. To chum. Paul Marley for setting me free. To chum.

[Detective Danny Clover]

What was there about Tom Keeler that shot your mouth about him?

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

My. My compliments, Mr. Clover. Brilliant strategy. Attack while the enemy celebrates. Minor victories in tactics class at Fort Meade.

[Detective Danny Clover]

You told me about Webber. Personal things. About him, his sister. Why not about Tom Keeler?

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

It pained me. For George's sake. My deceased partner's sake, it pained me.

[Detective Danny Clover]

You'll show me where it hurts.

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

You think you'll be able to understand? Don't answer. It doesn't Matter. Hilo was a derelict, a bum. A hungry shadow in George's closet. That's why George opened that account for him. To keep him from coming here to beg. George and I had a large investment here. The presence of Keelo was.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Webber cut off the account at my insistence.

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

My counsel. It made quite a row the other day between Tom and George. I had to shoo people back to their desk.

[Detective Danny Clover]

You killed George Webber.

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

Attack. Attack. I Admire your method, Mr. Clover.

[Detective Danny Clover]

For the investment. The plush carpets, the perfumed secretaries. The junior partners. All yours now. You kill Webber for that?

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

The death of my partner was a great loss to me, Mr. Clover. A personal loss. Were it in my humble power to hunt out his assassins, I would dedicate my knowledge, my life, my. Yes, Danny?

[Detective Danny Clover]

Something I can do for you, Dr. Sinski? I have an idea about something. I want you to check it for me.

[Peggy Weber]

Get out.

[Detective Danny Clover]

The medical examiner's report on Tom Keiller.

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

Give me a sec. Here. What do you want it for?

[Detective Danny Clover]

I want to put it side by side with this one I've got on George Weber.

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

So?

[Detective Danny Clover]

Here, look.

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

It says Webber died day before yesterday.

[Detective Danny Clover]

At approximately 6pm uh huh. And it says on this report that Keeler died about midnight on the same day. You know what that means, Doctor? No.

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

Why?

[Detective Danny Clover]

There's a pencil on your desk. Figure it out.

[Peggy Weber]

Well, Mr. Clover, you used my address after all.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Mind if I Come in, Ms. Weber?

[Peggy Weber]

This evening you can go as far as calling me Peggy. But you can't come in.

[Detective Danny Clover]

I'm afraid I'll have to.

[Peggy Weber]

You'll have to force your way in. I could relish that, Peggy. But a friend's visiting with me.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Ralph Clay.

[Peggy Weber]

You said the password. If you know that, you might as well come in, Ralph. Come out, come out, wherever you are. Say hello to Mr. Clover, Ralph.

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

I told you a piggy fib, didn't I, Mr. Clover? Well, now you know.

[Detective Danny Clover]

I didn't know whether you'd broken off with Peggy or not. Doesn't matter anymore.

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

You want to ask Peggy questions, huh?

[Detective Danny Clover]

You too, Goody Goody? You lied to me too, Peggy.

[Peggy Weber]

Because I'm a liar. I give Ralph a lot of trouble that way, don't I, Ralph?

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

Let's just listen to what the man has to say.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Your lie about Keeler, Peggy. You said you didn't know who he was.

[Peggy Weber]

I expect explained it to you. I'm a liar.

[Detective Danny Clover]

I found out who killed your brother, Peggy. I said. We heard you. There were a lot of motives floating around, Peggy. Yours.

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

Leave her alone. She didn't kill her. Brother. I did. Oh, cut it out, Peggy.

[Peggy Weber]

Ralph had nothing to do with it. I did it.

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

What's the matter with you, Peggy? You're crazy.

[Detective Danny Clover]

You're a liar.

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

You lie. That's why you're saying you kill your brother.

[Peggy Weber]

Ralph. Ralph.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Neither one of you killed him. You thought Ralph did. Peggy and Ralph.

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

What are you trying to do to us, Clover?

[Detective Danny Clover]

What are you doing? Police methods. Trying to get us to play against each other. Take it easy, Ralph. Come on.

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

Take it easy, Ralph. Take it easy.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Ralph. What are you trying to say?

[Sergeant Gino Tartaglia]

Talk. Talk.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Tom Keeler killed Peggy's brother. Clovis will help me out. Listen to me, both of you.

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

Let him talk.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Ralph Keeler killed him because his source of income was cut off. A man like Keeler could kill. Desperate man. A man without livelihood. A tramp who made a habit of living off someone else's generosity.

[Peggy Weber]

Ralph. Ralph. It's all my fault.

[Detective Danny Clover]

You found your brother dead, didn't you, Peggy?

[Peggy Weber]

Yes, and I.

[Detective Danny Clover]

You thought Ralph did it.

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

Yes, I thought.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Oh, Ralph.

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

It's gonna be all right, baby.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Peggy went to her Uncle Tom like she always did when she was in trouble. Told him Ralph had killed her brother. What did Tom Keeley say to you?

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

He said.

[Peggy Weber]

He said not to worry.

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

Just not to worry.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Then he got in touch with you, huh, Ralph? Yeah.

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

Yeah, he did. You know what he told me?

[Detective Danny Clover]

I think so.

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

He told me Peggy killed her brother and he was a killer all the time. And I'm supposed to be a bright boy.

[Detective Danny Clover]

So I had each of you believing the other had killed George Webber. How much money did he want from each of you to protect the other?

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

Oh, what difference does it make? Doesn't matter anymore.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Blackmail. That's why Tom Keeler's dead, too. Murdered.

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

Yeah. You slapped the cuffs on me for that one, Clover.

[Peggy Weber]

No, Ralph. No more.

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

You don't have to anymore.

[Peggy Weber]

Mr. Clover. My uncle said he wanted everything I had to keep quiet about Ralph. So I went up to his hotel.

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

Room while he was sleeping and shot him.

[Peggy Weber]

No.

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

No, Peggy. That's what I did.

[Detective Danny Clover]

That's what you both did. To protect the other. You both shot Tom Keeler.

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

Peg. Peg, baby.

[Sergeant Gino Tartaglia]

Stop her.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Stop her. Oh, man. There's a time on Broadway when the crowd goes. Gives up, goes home. The lights buzz fitfully, die. Then it's a street of dim moonlight and dark whispers and the wind of the autumn night. The wind that scatters everything. Yesterday's headlight, Yesterday's dreams. Yesterday's people. It's Broadway. The. The gaudiest, the Most Violent, the Lonesomest Mile in the World. Broadway My Beat.

[Narrator]

Broadway's My Beat stars Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover with Charles Calvert as Tartaglia and Jack Pruscian as Mugavan. The program was produced and directed by Elliot Lewis with musical score composed and conducted by Alexander Courage. In tonight's story, Lillian Byeff was heard as Peggy Weber, Anthony Barrett as Ralph Clay, Paul Freeze as Randy Quantrill, Bob Bruce as Mr. Chase and Edgar Barrier as Paul Marley. Here are two Sunday features that have captured America's fancy here in and year out. On Sunday afternoon, the distinguished music of the Symphonette directed by Michelle Piastro. On Sunday evening, the outstanding vocals of the Coraliers. Listen for both these musical treats every Sunday on most of these same CBS radio stations. The Symphonet in the Afternoon. In the evening, the Coralaires. Stay tuned now for Songs for Sale which follows immediately over most of the these same stations. Bill Anders speaking. And remember this Monday night, Lux radio theater features 13 Hollywood stars in the gala salute on the CBS radio network.

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[Adam Graham]

Welcome back. Danny does not have to prosecute these cases. And I couldn't think of a time where a policeman would be more than happy just to hand this off to the district attorney because, boy, this would be a challenge. Now, the prosecutor wouldn't necessarily have to prove one fatal bullet if they could really get the jury to conclude that the man was alive when he received both shots and both contributed to the killing. On the other hand, if he was dead when one of the shots was received and they couldn't probe quite which one was the kill shot, this would be a very difficult case. Sometimes the narration, you kind of think about it and go, wait, what? Like when Danny was saying, so you buy kid, because Broadway doesn't give you any other choice. Well, you could technically not buy. I mean, that is a choice. All right, well, listener comments and feedback now. And we start with this from Peter, who writes, did Morton Fine and David Freekin write for any other old time radio program? Loads of different programs. Radiogoldindex.com, which is probably the most complete listing of radio credits based on programs listened to, has more than 300 episodes listed. And I don't think that even includes every episode of Broadway's My Beat, because they don't all include writer credits, but they wrote together on a lot of programs. There are plenty of crime shows like the Lineup wrote for Boldventure. They wrote the pilot episode for Gunsmoke, which was quite a bit different than what listeners would get in 1953. They wrote for Escape and Suspense, and even outside of the crime genre, they did the Hallmark Playhouse, several episodes of that, as well as Elliot Lewis's dramatic anthology program On Stage. And they would even work together on television, although they had careers that kind of diverged and each did some of their own things. But there were some TV scripts they wrote together. One that stands out is they wrote several episodes of I Spy. And the second one they wrote together called A Cup of Kindness, and it was one of David Friedkin's only three acting credits, so they worked together. And of course, their most famous production is 34 Adventure, the story of Roundhouse Rosie and the Siamese Cat, which is a joke for those few listeners who actually remember that amazing World of Radio episode we did back in 2020. Then we have a comment over on YouTube where Dwayne Wright's Nightbeat, starring Frank Lovejoy, is a radio show similar to this. Although both of these shows are the same genre, I like Nightbeat better, mainly due to Frank Lovejoy's narration style. There is a certain nexus in terms of, I think, some of the poetic language used. And one thing I resolved was that I should not play Nightbeat and Broadway's MyBeat at the same time, as they could be a little bit heavy in the same lineup. Because there could be some really dark and sad things that happens in Nightbeat. Although I do think there are some major differences in the stories as a rule, I tend to think that Nightbeat goes a bit deeper into the full emotional portrait of these characters, which often means that when you have something sad or tragic happens, it really hits harder than in Broadway's My Beat. But My Beat also has its hero win a lot. It's justice. He brings about a positive change for the people he meets on the street, which I think contrasts quite a bit with Danny, who I don't really feel like the world weariness ever eases up for him. It does kind of depend on what you're looking for in a radio program as to which is better. Broadway's My Beat gives you kind of a more predictable mix. And you're always going to get a murder mystery, except maybe a couple times at Christmas. And there's a real strong rhythm to it. With Nightmate, there's more of a variety to the point plot lines that can be done and the ways that the story comes, which in a way is a big difference between having a series with a policeman versus a reporter protagonist. Though I do tend to agree with you, I tend to enjoy not beat a bit more. All right, well, now it's time to thank our Patreon supporter of the day. And I want to thank Eliza, patreon supporter since July 2021, currently supporting the podcast at the Psalmist level of $4 or more per month. Thanks so much for your support, Eliza. And that will do it for today. If you're enjoying the podcast, please follow us using your favorite podcast software and be sure to rate and review the podcast wherever you download it from. We'll be back next Wednesday for another Broadway's My Beat. But join us back here tomorrow for.

[Mrs. Watson]

Dragnet, where yes, Doris had been here about six months. Even by that time, I was beginning to see the real side of the girl. No character, Sergeant. No character at all. It shows up every time.

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

Yes, ma'? Am. What? If you'd go on, please.

[Mrs. Watson]

Well, as I was saying, it was after about six months when this man brought Doris home late one night, about a quarter till midnight, I'd say. Upset the whole house.

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

How was that, ma'? Am?

[Mrs. Watson]

The two of them, this man and Doris, they stood right out there in the hall, had a terrible quarrel. Language. It was dreadful. The top of their lungs, too. My husband went out to quiet them down, but the man left before he had a chance to call him down. They upset the whole house.

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

Now, this man that the Frasier woman was arguing with, you're sure that that was her husband?

[Mrs. Watson]

Well, as sure as I can be. That's what Doris told me. Anyway, the day after her, I called her in and told her I just couldn't tolerate behavior like that. It upset her quite a bit. I remember she cried, said it wouldn't happen again. That's when she told me she was trying to get a divorce.

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

Is that what the big argument was about? Would you know that?

[Mrs. Watson]

Yes. She said she wanted a divorce. Her husband didn't. He wanted her back with him. Certainly is sad the way some people mix up their lives.

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

Yes, ma'.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Am.

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

By any chance did you get a good look at this man, the husband, Emmy?

[Mrs. Watson]

Well, he was tall and had dark hair. It's about a all I remember. He was well dressed, too.

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

I see. When Doris Frazier left here, Mrs. Watson, did she leave a forwarding address with you?

[Mrs. Watson]

No, she didn't. I haven't any idea where she moved.

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

What kind of work was she doing while she was living here? Do you have any idea where she was employed?

[Mrs. Watson]

Yes, that was one of the references she gave me. Furniture company down on Venice Boulevard, if I remember correctly. I have the address. My record book certainly is unfortunate, the whole thing.

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

Yes, ma', am, it is.

[Mrs. Watson]

Even tried to talk to her before she left. Sat her down and talked to her for a whole afternoon. I guess it was just a waste of time.

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

How's that man?

[Mrs. Watson]

Trouble with her husband. Terrible thing. He seemed to treat her so badly. Two of them fighting all the time. I believe she was actually afraid of him. She told me he was very jealous. He drank, ran around. That's why I couldn't understand it.

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

Couldn't understand what, ma'?

[Detective Danny Clover]

Am?

[Mrs. Watson]

Doris, when she moved away from here.

[Detective Danny Clover]

Yes, ma'.

[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

Am.

[Mrs. Watson]

She said she was going back with her husband.

[Adam Graham]

I hope you'll be with us then. In the meantime, send your comments to Box13GreatDetectives.net follow us on Twitter @Radio detectives and check us out on Instagram Instagram.com GreatDetectives from Boise, Idaho, this is your host, Adam Graham signing off.

[Peggy Weber]

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[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

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[Various Male Characters (including Randy Quantrill, Paul Marley, Ralph Clay)]

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