Boston Blackie, Vol. 3 Audiobook (Free)

Boston Blackie-the amateur detective who was simply the enemy to those that produce him an foe, friend to those people who have no friend!

Created by article writer Jack Boyle, Boston Blackie was a reformed jewel thief and safecracker, constantly suspected of crimes he didn’t commit and pressured to enjoy the role of detective to clear his name. His girlfriend, Mary Wesley, helped Blackie every once in awhile, as do his pal Shorty. Compelled to guard himself against the accusations of New York Law enforcement Inspector Faraday, about Boston Blackie, Vol. 3 Blackie constantly managed to stay one stage ahead of the cops in solving a crime.

The wisecracks exchanged between Blackie and Faraday produced the program a pleasurable mix of comedy and mystery. Chester Morris played the type in fifteen Boston Blackie films for Columbia. When The Amos ‘n’ Andy Display needed a summertime replacement unit in 1944, Morris was lured towards the NBC microphone to get a short-lived Boston Blackie series. The following year, Boston Blackie was syndicated by Ziv with Dorothy Kilgallen’s husband, Dick Kollmar, in the name role. This syndicated series lasted until 1950. In 1951, the series made the step to television starring Kent Taylor as Blackie, Lois Collier as Mary, and Frank Orth as Faraday.

This volume features sixteen thirty-minute episodes of Boston Blackie:

7/16/46 – “The Green Line Trucking Murder”7/23/46 – “The Murdering Cuckoo Clock”8/13/46 – “The Smuggled Diamonds Murder”8/27/46 – “The Rockwell Diamond”11/26/46 – “The Lenny Powell Murder”1/7/47 – “The Candy Store Murders”2/4/47 – “The Walter Peters Murder Mix-Up”2/11/47 – “The Duke Collins Murder”4/1/47 – “The Cy Gardner Murder”4/29/47 – “Slammin’ Sammy Saunders”5/7/47 – “The Hilda Peterson Murder”5/28/47 – “The Ghost of Florence Newton”6/4/47 – “The Stalking Killer”7/23/47 – “Boston Blackie in Wax”8/6/47 – “The Butcher Mob”8/13/47 – “The Sally Lang Murder”