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Boston Blackie Podcast; Master Detective · Humphrey Productions

Boxers_Murder_Case

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Faraday says Blackie is facing “a charge of murder” after Johnson’s death.
1. Boston Blackie; Master Detective centers on Bob Johnson, a boxer, and a fixed-fight rumor tied to a sixth-round dive. 2. Dick Calmer plays Boston Blackie, while Inspector Faraday acts as the police adversary who keeps turning suspicion back on Blackie. 3. The episode asks who benefits when a fight is supposed to be fixed and a man is found dead after the bout. 4. Blackie confronts Johnson in his dressing room and says he heard the champion was “set to take a dive in the sixth.” 5. Johnson throws Blackie out, and the exchange makes the fight rumor feel immediate instead of theoretical. 6. Faraday later meets Blackie with a sore jaw and a sarcastic attitude, then starts talking about the Johnson-Hollis fight. 7. The betting angle gets louder when Jackie passes along information that Johnson is fixed to lose in the sixth. 8. The broadcast fight coverage describes Johnson landing the hard shots and winning by knockout instead of losing as predicted. 9. After the party, Johnson is missing from the apartment and is found dead in the courtyard of the building. 10. Faraday says a person in a nearby building saw Johnson get pushed, which makes the death look like murder. 11. At headquarters, Faraday tells Blackie there is motive, proof, and a witness, and he says Blackie is going down on a murder charge. 12. Blackie keeps shifting suspicion toward Hollister, Edwards, and Hollister’s manager Joe Beckley. 13. Carolyn Smith tells Faraday that Blackie did not kill Bob Johnson and names Edwards as a suspect because of the betting deal. 14. Blackie and Carolyn go to Beckley’s place, where Beckley is already dead when they arrive. 15. Blackie notices that Edwards could not have killed Beckley because Blackie had just left Edwards only minutes earlier. 16. Blackie then confronts Hollister and says the boxer and Beckley were both killed because they knew too much about the money. 17. The tone mixes fast comic insults, hard-boiled accusation, and a running fight-night atmosphere. 18. The format leans on dialogue, police interrogation, and short bursts of action rather than long exposition. 19. Fans of vintage detective fiction and boxing plots. 20. Listeners wanting slow, character-light mystery setup.

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A boxing rumor turns into a lean, hard boiled murder knot.

Blackie gets pulled into a boxing rumor when he corners Bob Johnson in the dressing room about a fixed fight, and Johnson throws him out. Not long after, Johnson is found dead in the courtyard, and Faraday wastes no time pointing at Blackie because he was the last one seen with…

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You want a fixed-fight rumor, a murder, and Blackie talking his way through both.

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