"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...

Broadway. The Great White Way. In its theatres—one day you’re an understudy, the next a star. Your name in headlines and lights. But Broadway has an underbelly. A troubled side through which to view humanity at its worst: corrupt, dark, venal and violent.For Detective Danny Clover every time he walked that street another case was always just a few footsteps away. He knows everyone along Broadway—from pan handlers to operatic prima donnas—but he’s still sentimental about the street,...

Crime is the dark side of civilisation. The under belly of human failing and greed.Within societies, down through the ages, it has appropriated its rules and taken what it wants by foul and unfair means.‘Crime Classics’ examines all manner of crimes and murders from the past. It carefully recreates the complete crime through thorough and pains-taking research. The cases range from the assassinations of Lincoln and Julius Caesar to the more obscure, such as Bathsheba Spooner...

Crime is the dark side of civilisation. The under belly of human failing and greed.Within societies, down through the ages, it has appropriated its rules and taken what it wants by foul and unfair means.‘Crime Classics’ examines all manner of crimes and murders from the past. It carefully recreates the complete crime through thorough and pains-taking research. The cases range from the assassinations of Lincoln and Julius Caesar to the more obscure, such as Bathsheba Spooner...

Broadway. The Great White Way. In its theatres—one day you’re an understudy, the next a star. Your name in headlines and lights. But Broadway has an underbelly. A troubled side through which to view humanity at its worst: corrupt, dark, venal and violent.For Detective Danny Clover every time he walked that street another case was always just a few footsteps away. He knows everyone along Broadway—from pan handlers to operatic prima donnas—but he’s still sentimental about the street,...

Crime is the dark side of civilisation. The under belly of human failing and greed.Within societies, down through the ages, it has appropriated its rules and taken what it wants by foul and unfair means.‘Crime Classics’ examines all manner of crimes and murders from the past. It carefully recreates the complete crime through thorough and pains-taking research. The cases range from the assassinations of Lincoln and Julius Caesar to the more obscure, such as Bathsheba Spooner...

Crime is the dark side of civilisation. The under belly of human failing and greed.Within societies, down through the ages, it has appropriated its rules and taken what it wants by foul and unfair means.‘Crime Classics’ examines all manner of crimes and murders from the past. It carefully recreates the complete crime through thorough and pains-taking research. The cases range from the assassinations of Lincoln and Julius Caesar to the more obscure, such as Bathsheba Spooner...

Crime is the dark side of civilisation. The under belly of human failing and greed.Within societies, down through the ages, it has appropriated its rules and taken what it wants by foul and unfair means.‘Crime Classics’ examines all manner of crimes and murders from the past. It carefully recreates the complete crime through thorough and pains-taking research. The cases range from the assassinations of Lincoln and Julius Caesar to the more obscure, such as Bathsheba Spooner...

Broadway. The Great White Way. In its theatres—one day you’re an understudy, the next a star. Your name in headlines and lights. But Broadway has an underbelly. A troubled side through which to view humanity at its worst: corrupt, dark, venal and violent.For Detective Danny Clover every time he walked that street another case was always just a few footsteps away. He knows everyone along Broadway—from pan handlers to operatic prima donnas—but he’s still sentimental about the street,...

Broadway. The Great White Way. In its theatres—one day you’re an understudy, the next a star. Your name in headlines and lights. But Broadway has an underbelly. A troubled side through which to view humanity at its worst: corrupt, dark, venal and violent.For Detective Danny Clover every time he walked that street another case was always just a few footsteps away. He knows everyone along Broadway—from pan handlers to operatic prima donnas—but he’s still sentimental about the street,...

Crime is the dark side of civilisation. The under belly of human failing and greed.Within societies, down through the ages, it has appropriated its rules and taken what it wants by foul and unfair means.‘Crime Classics’ examines all manner of crimes and murders from the past. It carefully recreates the complete crime through thorough and pains-taking research. The cases range from the assassinations of Lincoln and Julius Caesar to the more obscure, such as Bathsheba Spooner...

Broadway. The Great White Way. In its theatres—one day you’re an understudy, the next a star. Your name in headlines and lights. But Broadway has an underbelly. A troubled side through which to view humanity at its worst: corrupt, dark, venal and violent.For Detective Danny Clover every time he walked that street another case was always just a few footsteps away. He knows everyone along Broadway—from pan handlers to operatic prima donnas—but he’s still sentimental about the street,...