Category: Boston Blackie

EP2970: Boston Blackie: The Dolly Preston Murder

Richard Kollmar
The police and Blackie are called to a house by a woman. They arrive to find no one in the house listed, and a witness who swears she saw a woman enter the house who was thought dead for the past three years.

Original Air Date: March 9, 1949

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EP2964: Boston Blackie: The Fake Accident Racket

Richard Kollmar

A reporter receives threats after he writes a story that drops a hint about a phony accident racket.

Original Air Date: March 2, 1949

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EP2958: Boston Blackie: Archie Grant’s Club 77

Richard Kollmar

A man hits the jackpot on a crooked slot machine setting off a string of mysteries.

Original Air Date: February 23, 1955

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EP2952: Boston Blackie: The Fred Palmer Waterfront Racket

Richard Kollmar

Blackie tries to bust a waterfront racket as murders accumulate.

Original Air Date: February 16, 1949

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EP2946: Boston Blackie: The Paul Martin Murders

Richard Kollmar

A series of murders breaks out over $50,000 in bonds that were purchased with stolen money.

Original Air Date: February 9, 1949

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EP2940: Boston Blackie: The Five-Note Murder Clue

Richard Kollmar

A composer in a songwriting team is murdered while Blackie’s nearby.

Original Air Date: February 2, 1949

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EP2934: Boston Blackie: The John Frawley Imposter Murder

Richard Kollmar

A man comes to Blackie asking for help claiming to be a man who was declared dead while in Africa.

Original Air Date: January 26, 1949

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EP2928: Boston Blackie: The ‘High and Dry’ Murder

Richard Kollmar

A dead body is found on a boat in the middle of the city five miles from water.

Original Air Date: January 19, 1949

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EP2922: Boston Blackie: The Broken Clocks Murder

Richard Kollmar

A man pays Blackie $5,000 to stay the night. In the morning, the man unable to determine the time, as all the clocks and watches in the apartment are stopped. He’s then murdered.

Original Air Date: January 12, 1949

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EP2916: Boston Blackie: Charlie Kingston and The Vanishing 4th Floor

Richard Kollmar

Charlie Kingston is taken for $20,000 at a crooked gambling den. When Blackie comes to get Charlie’s money they find the gambling den has vanished.

Original Air Date: January 5, 1949

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EP2910: Boston Blackie: The ‘Killer Lightning’ Murders

Richard Kollmar

A woman and her scientist lover murder her husband by lightning.

Original Air Date: December 8, 1948

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EP2904: Boston Blackie: Joe Gatling Murdered Over Marked Money

Richard Kollmar

A man’s father dies and he expects to collect a fortune from a wealthy gangster in exchange for a dollar bill.

Original Air Date: October 6, 1948

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EP2898: Boston Blackie: Carl Grady, Golf Instructor

Richard Kollmar

A racketeer sends one of his henchmen to kill his wife’s golf teacher because he’s jealous. The henchman is killed and found with a list of colleges in his pocket.

Original Air Date: September 29, 1948
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EP2892: Boston Blackie: Charlie Kingston and the Vanishing Office Building

Richard Kollmar

Charlie Kingston is conned to handing over a million dollars to buy a building, only to find the property is a vacant lot.

Original Air Date: September 8, 1948

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EP2886: Boston Blackie: Jeweler John Reynolds Is Murdered

Richard Kollmar

A jeweler offers Blackie a $10,000 necklace for ten cents and is found murdered.

Original Air Date September 1, 1948

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