When Howard Duff, radio’s regular Sam Spade, was dropped from the show, Steven Dunne donned the trench coat. Finding his own brash and boyish style with the role, Dunne’s Spade was much like creator Dashiell Hammett himself a grown-up teenager who loved a put-on, but could be depended on to be loyal and true despite his own troubles.In these digitally remastered capers, Hammett’s hard-boiled hero delves in to the domains of daytime serials, journalism, the waterfront, and international int...

"You walk the pavement, spangled with a thousand colors, but between the light…that's where the darkness is. It's Broadway…my beat."Larry Thor, a staff announcer turned actor with an expressive and powerful voice, played the role of Detective Danny Clover. His beat was Broadway, and each week he narrated a new tale of nighttime drama along the Great White Way.Writers Morton Fine and David Friedkin delivered scripts of elegant intricacy that turned routine description into near poetry. Thre...

Autumn has a good hold on Broadway…and the street gives in, stops fighting it…the fashion has changed…because night is colder…night is longer…For Detective Danny Clover, Broadway is more than just a street it’s a living, breathing creature with a mood and a style all its own. Radio’s most lyrical crime drama comes to life in this 8 CD collection of Broadway’s My Beat, featuring sixteen unique tales of murder along the main stem.The series’ purple prose is counterbalanced by the gritty real...