 is my beat with Larry Thor has detective Danny Clover the death of autumn passes not unobserved on Broadway there's the tolling of bells by thin shivering fellas in white wigs and baggy Santa Claus suits and hands of hawkers are not so nimble and fleet numbed with winter darkness and from trumpet's solemn removal of derby for the passing of autumn song and modulate quick scream into Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer and remember how were the days of the falling leaf taste their glow watch them flicker watch them die then go search somewhere else only 25 more shopping days and north on Broadway and then east where wealth is fringed by winter river the room is paneled wood gleaming in fire like a carved desk and sheen of wine red leather chair and soft glow of firelight also on the face of a boy dead of a bullet wound between the eyes and the man over in need shot wouldn't you say yes as it was Mr. Barker I'd say never knew what hit him wouldn't you say and Eddie please please we're listening Kora what is it you want to tell us nothing just nothing frightful thing I suppose for a woman you see Mr. Clover my wife has never looked upon death not at least to my knowledge Kora dear is this the very time for me Mr. Barker exactly what happened how it happened quite obvious wouldn't you say just tell me quite obvious I would say the open safe the money he tried to steal now littering my library floor where I potter them Eddie stop it why should I dear the man asked me he has to know exactly how it was that sorted little thief could have killed me if I hadn't got there first would you just move away from me Mr. Barker of course how these things work out we were all for a second little honeymoon Kora and me reservations the whole deal fun sunshine desert the Rossmore and Palm Springs then word at the airport that our plane was grounded back here and then there's nothing on him loose change pack of cigarettes no gun no identification I was saying we came back here and we sat for a while talking then to bed Kora fell asleep I read there was a sound on the fire escape I got my gun I found him here in the library with the safe open it was simple between the eyes we'd best hit the sack Kora we're leaving tomorrow cancel it stick around look we've got Eddie any boy you wish to add something Kora you liked it you liked killing him didn't you Eddie boy a thief dear in my house come now can you think of another way and the man named Edward Barker squared his shoulders clasped hands behind back made glinty the eyes and stood at parade rest in a double-breasted pinstripe a few minutes later the men from technical made their entrance Mr. Barker made more glinty the eyes and I left home now in one flight up the magazine story continued next month sleep life continued next day next day breakfast that explodes in your poor the milk on it coffee and back to headquarters the man sitting in your office waiting for you as detective Dennis morning Danny hi Dennis and nippy out huh yeah you know just how fast Christmas is coming this year every year it comes fast except the payments to the Christmas club those week after slow we kill you got anything for me Dennis and zero no identification of the boy enough strange to the way open that safe clean real fine professional job you think he had a record mug of and let the notation of the boys Prince check with nothing at all we've got so a mug of and sent him to Washington we'll see that's all what you don't for Christmas Danny I hadn't thought of it it sounds real oblong but my girlfriend's got a girlfriend warm sunny southern type she used to dance and I'll help think about turn the chair through steamed window the winter city and tread wheel and beyond harbor and freighter you know it's barnacle summer seas and turn back into it begin a waiting you've known before wait on the identity of a boy who lies still and nameless in the morgue fill in the time of waiting across the street with coffee and a sandwich back into headquarters and corridor is swift winter twilight and the new sheaves of violence on bulletin board and at the turn it's detective Dennis I told the girl to have a seat where you got back what girl the girl who ran out of husband last night all night looked for him all day came here for a hour is she girl with this problem where else would she be morgue need me anymore than he know go back turn into another corner and at the end of it the swaying light bulb it's yellow on the winter mist hair of a girl who sits erect on the warm bench miss I was told to wait here the men said I asked somebody about Johnny I don't remember who but he was tall and kind of well I was detective Dennis and this Johnny my husband Johnny Clark I'm Peggy Clark Johnny said he was going out for a little walk last night and he didn't come back I sat up all night then this morning I went to where he works and he wasn't there and I asked somebody what to do and that's the morgue isn't it those for those doors yes will you take me in please Mrs. Clark Johnny's in there I want to know about Mrs. Clark I'm going to touch I wish to thank you all of you've been very considerate wait I could talk to you later Mrs. Clark at your home or ever you talk about Johnny about why this happened to him he was a good husband he worked very hard they told him at the warehouse they had their eye on him he was killed while he was robbing a place on the East River we live in a two-room flat and we were saving for a house in Queens or Palm Bay I have a girlfriend listening to him she has a kid I guess I nagged Johnny about the house your husband never do a thing like that before steel Rob Johnny and I went to movies who walked in the park and I knew where he was every minute every minute we lived quietly we had a very good friend who said he'd help Johnny by the house if only I'd stop nagging in his presence drove him crazy friend what well who was the friend who was going to help you buy that house that's Frank Grunner a man Johnny met at lunch in your very works he said he'd help Johnny about the house he knew an angle I'll just have to tell him to know you you know where I can find Frank Grunner we've been to his room for beer some nights Johnny not but it's a boarding house to our 2070s 28 it's gonna tell him to forget about the house may I go now my name come in come in let me take your coat please all right now let me look at you my you've changed was it awful yes it must have been and now you've come back I'm from the police my name is Danny Clover oh I thought you sent me the pillow this one no I didn't so many of the boys who stayed here with me send me things soldiers most of them and well I thought you were the one that I want some information about one of them sent me a sword see from Japan a real Japanese used it to hide the information about Frank Grunner only wish he was here now I'd show him how a real Renfrew would use this I'm Betsy Renfrew I'm glad I'm kidding I like Frank I wouldn't harm a hair let's talk about him shall we he's gone you mean for the day gone then he's not coming back is it yesterday pinched my cheek gave me my favorite smile then got mean and said betty you run a flea bag boarding house and I hope we'll never meet again what a kid what if I go you'll never believe me yes I will oh I promise Ruckston Plaza Hotel on Park Avenue from Betsy Renfrew to Park Avenue like that see I told you you'd never believe me may I have my coat Mrs. Renfrew you poor boy having lived the place of brocaded pillows and samurai swords and the motherly Mrs. Renfrew live it just a little longer disengage her toil-worn fingers from my overcoat sleeve and brush aside the gentle tides of gin-scented air and get out across town out of Park Avenue in the Ruckston Plaza Hotel the clerk recovers from the sight of a police badge grasps the desk with both hands and tells you that a Mr. Frank Grunner is a newly arrived guest that he occupies room 1212 and please will there be no trouble please walk away from him ride the elevator with a young woman in conversation with the Pecanese their hand being held by a gray-haired gentleman who talks to no one at all 12th floor down the corridor lined with framed pastel splotches and carpeted silence and room 1212 radio behind it plays no one answers the door try it inside framed pastel larger radio jazz through white lacquer and occupied the man on it was dressed in a blue satin robe whereas initials where FG between them a knife laying against one hand a book a novel in the other hand a corner of bedspread in anguished fold man in hotel room murdered man well listening to Broadway is my beat written by Morton Fine and David Friedkin and starring Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover the light of the new November morning taps Broadway shoulder breaks the clinch that held it all night long the beginning of it the slow moments before going to work time the gesture splash water in your face and get ready for this round then from somewhere the warning buzzer the faraway shriek of a whistle get ready to fight it forget the bumps of yesterday put a clean white shirt over them the pretty necktie get out there a new day just came out of the corner they began when the office lights shone on the plump head of sergeant Gino to tag live good morning Danny I Gino come on in you got there I brought them in today in case you haven't done it yet pick and shoes mmm they're very nice Gino so if you haven't bought your Christmas cards yet I'm taking orders my neighbor Mrs. Renbaum has a home hobby with a paintbrush and scissors so I took a lot of consignment to bring to the office for all the boys to see I'll look at them later Gino if you don't mind any special ideas you have Mrs. Renbaum will be glad to make up Danny for instance this one ordered by officer Wendelkin read it Danny to my wife the best to you this Christmas time darling second cousin of mine Gino poems like that come to Mrs. Renbaum in flashes they work at Gino please indeed from fingerprints found on the deceased at the Rockston Plaza Hotel the deceased is an ex-con by the name of Frank Grunner what kind of record cracked safe was out on a parole hmm for how long party here assignment of probation officer Harry Blaine Harry huh you know what Grunner's been doing since he's been out I'm gonna take a walk down any just leave the Christmas cards on my desk you know and you'll give me an order I'm sure we'll be able to work out something man tries Danny does the best you know sound raise the books and how to be a good probation officer dance the lectures and bluey blows up smacks him in the face you sorry about Frank Grunner yeah he was to put it that way I'm sorry I'll be a customer by now best years of my life I spent being sorry about Grunner Harry good boy I think on his way to being a good boy they won't tell me about it you're out of state prison reported to me regular to the right things said the right things go on you know what he said to me he said Harry you don't bother me I can't shun with the Denimore alumni who needs them but bothers me Harry is I can't vote thing like that is is very painful said to me Harry is Danny Grunner was murdered I'm sorry Danny I didn't mean to take up so much of your time Grunner moved out of a flea bag into a park Avenue hotel oh thank was a boy with taste for nice things we're gonna hold that against me but just tell me how he did it and he had a fine job I raise it for him he's no real fine good reports on him I'm sure it was his job Harry shoes salesman the Andrea's department store a very high-class merchandise high-class customers to Frank developed a knack with shoes in occupational therapy class at state prison he's doing real fine thanks Harry you're very welcome Danny another thing Frank told me now what he said soon he was going into business from himself I patted him on the bank for that one I even offered it I'm sorry I took so much your time Danny I have bigger pardon of course but we're for ladies you know only our police oh then Mrs. Cliff will have to wait won't she off my perch and here we are now I will talk about Frank Grunner delighted mr. van mr. van take mrs. clip for triple a blue sandals gold trim you know the one show her the one she returned last week first she'll never know now to Frank Grunner shall we let's let's indeed talk about your triple a there was one for you there was as a salesman I mean rough but gentle you know who go on how could he miss oh just tell me about him it's something a great shoe salesman is born with Frank Grunner had it many of us try that's not what I want to know I want to know who his customers were yes we'll start from there his favorite one all right a toss up now look between mrs. Barker and this is who mrs. Barker Cora Barker and Frank Grunner always waited on her the long minutes they spent over there by the x-ray machine she with her foot in it he peering into the eyepiece the giggles and the chuckles that went on there real friendly him out of shoes he sold her was the talk of this you know whether he ever saw on the outside he was an ex-convict you know yeah I know that's the only reason for what for meeting him after the store closed for taking him home in her car to make Frank feel that he was not unwanted to make him know that she and we were all pulling for him and we were yeah that's the reason why she picked him up Cora Barker is a married woman sir our customers of course I've been a big help thanks that's about all I want to know of course the mr. van fit you mrs. clip I see walk out of it pass the knee high mirrors pass the reflections of misted silk shod and unshod and have the vague impression that the large toe in one of them had been crooked was beckoning you pull up for an instant look back and see the toe now peeking out of the latest thing in peruvian lizard comfortable there then the door that full opens photoelectrically onto late november avenue walk it against a stone facade pose two names frank runner mrs. Cora Barker and another johnny clark first-time thief who was dead of a bullet between his eyes had become aware of another thing quickening pace of the crowd the fleet curve of november in the evening and race it to headquarters and in your office find the lights already turned on against winter night the man who done a detective denison give a bunch of color on your cheeks danny nippy out there huh yeah you got anything denison yeah i made a routine check on the possessions of the late frank grunner found a thing oh what passbook savings account corn exchange bank frankie boy was a very thrifty character salary commissions he had a good job not this good danny very few people have a this good look i'll show you 17th deposit of 300 simoleons 10th just a week before that deposit two c's plus 50 third which is just a week before the 10th four six seven and 29 cents goes on like that there's something else i got for you danny you're a ball of fire out of there aren't you though today yesterday other days there've been rumors that cora barker danny you know about her i see how well frank grunner was doing struck me i should check how was mrs cora barker doing you know what chum i just tell me a rich girl like mrs barker not a savings account to her name nowhere in no bank i figure the married ladies are spent thrifty anna you follow me come on i use your phone danny promise to david give us turn out the lights and you leave a denison hello you remember me mrs barker yes of course you're the policeman who was here when my husband eddie killed that burglar in the library please come in thanks i'd like to talk to you well don't you think eddie should be here he's just in his room with his gun nice collection i looked at them when i was here if he spends hours with them my husband's hobby guns are calling later well um how do i entertain you mr clovett talk about what what possibly could you murder man oh oh no you're wrong my husband explained it to me that wasn't murder that burglar was robbing our safe and eddie shot him that's not murder murder i'm talking about frank grunner who's a shoe salesman i don't have a lady's shoe shop named andrea's oh he was murdered didn't you read about it yes yes i did i want to call your husband now mrs barker i told you he's cleaning his guns he doesn't like to be disturbed get him very well all right he says you want to see me what do you want to see me about why did you bring the gun along mr barker i was cleaning it in a few minutes i'm going to go on cleaning it nice rifle i like her now what do you want i want you in on a conversation i was having with your wife what were you talking about kora he said something about murder and i explained to him what you explained to me about killing that burglar and yeah then we went on to talk about frank grunner what have you got on your mind clover the usual things for a policeman on homicide who murdered him eddie what he's found out i knew frank grunner so he probably thinks i know something about listen clover what harm is it for my wife to know a shoe salesman she told me about an ex-con who needed a smile and is that why you're here to ask my wife about the smile about the lift's home about frank grunner's bankbook what about it how he was getting rich on a salesman's salary you're saying what gets back to the boy you killed the other night just a kid who opened your safe real neat a kid without a record just a wife and a dream and a need for some fast money a kid a shipping clerk at a wholesale house but don't get sloppy about it clover just say shipping clerk friend of frank grunner frank grunner friend of your wife frank grunner man with growing bank account because of your wife clover listen eddie we talked about it you said you'd forget it i like going over it i like watching what it does to you say it's slow clover there's not much more just slow eddie your wife ran out of money to give to frank she had no bank account of her own so we'll go out of town put upon springs her idea she's a cutie isn't she give frank the combination of the safe so he could rob it get more money only frank wouldn't take any chances not frank for the record he gave a big opportunity to the boy tough about that plane being grounded wasn't it corn please eddie and the way you begged me to take a train anything to stay away from our house what about grunner sure i killed him too him my wife i made her tell me you don't think i'm stupid do you how did that boy know the combination of the safe i didn't tell anyone cora muster what do you want me to do now cora kill him kill you you like guns so much you like killing so much let's have the gun burger watch me cora kill him he's scared clover he's not scared honey he doesn't believe you he doesn't know you like i do what am i honey after you killed that boy after the police left kill eddie do it again real cutie you want a gun clover how do you feel cora you're crazy no more fountains that plume with jewels look at it again trail away on the night wind it's broadway here's my beat stars larry thor as detective danny clover with charles calvert as tortaglia and jack crucian as mugavan the program is produced and directed by elliot louis with music composed and conducted by alexander courage in tonight's story mary jane croft whose foot is cora and edgar barrier as eddie barker featured in the cast were james mccallion lily and byf norma varten leo clary and byron came bill anders speaking come to you through the worldwide facilities of the united states armed forces radio and television service