A suave Broadway womanizer is caught in a gangster's deadly joke involving the mysterious Brakeman's Daughter.

This The Damon Runyon Theatre broadcast aired on September 18, 1949. It is listed as episode 38 in the archive. The cast includes John Brown. Other credited names include Richard Sanville as director, Russell Hughes as radio adaptor, and Frank Gallop as announcer.

This version dramatizes The Brakeman's Daughter. Damon Runyon is credited as author and Russell Hughes adapted it for radio.

Radio adaptations of Damon Runyon's Broadway stories, narrated by the character 'Broadway' and populated by gamblers, gangsters, show people, dreamers, and other colorful figures of Runyon's New York.

Listeners can expect drama and crime, anthology drama in format, and wry, humorous, and dramatic in tone.