Boston Blackie Podcast; Master Detective · Humphrey Productions

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Clyde Winston is dead, and Bill Jackson says he met him at 4 o'clock the same day.

1. Boston Blackie; Master Detective centers on Clyde Winston, a photographer killed by a sawed-off shotgun and linked to model Evelyn Anderson. 2. Dick Calmer plays Boston Blackie, Inspector Faraday pursues the case, and Joe King, Mary Wesley, Evelyn Anderson, Bill Jackson, Harry Conover, Carl, Gus Thomas, and Mabel all matter to the investigation. 3. The episode asks how a shotgun got into Clyde Winston's studio without being seen and who used that method to frame another suspect. 4. At Joe King's fraternity-house restaurant, Evelyn says she is meeting Clyde Winston to talk about a contract, and Bill Jackson arrives saying he met Winston earlier that afternoon. 5. Blackie hears the murder bulletin on the radio, jokes about the 'little birdie' photographers use, and heads toward Winston's studio with Mary Wesley. 6. Faraday says Winston was shot with a sawed-off shotgun, no gun was found at the scene, and no witness saw anyone carrying a case into the studio. 7. Carl, the elevator man, says a model left around four carrying a round hat box, which pushes suspicion toward Evelyn Anderson. 8. At Harry Conover's office, Sylvia confirms that Evelyn Anderson had an appointment at Winston's studio from 3 to 4 that afternoon. 9. Evelyn tells Faraday she left after Winston said his plates had not arrived, and she later heard about the killing from Bill Jackson at Joe King's Rathskeller. 10. The police then find a recently fired sawed-off shotgun in the back seat of Bill Jackson's car, and Jackson is arrested. 11. Blackie later hears Gus Thomas speak about Winston stealing his patent and learns Thomas had once worked with Winston on photographic equipment. 12. Joe King remembers that Winston and Gus Thomas had a fight about equipment Thomas had developed and Winston had taken. 13. Blackie notices that Winston's studio has no new plates, which helps him realize the key clue is something missing rather than something left behind. 14. He concludes that the shotgun could have been sent to Winston by express in two packages because the weapon breaks apart. 15. Blackie then returns to Winston's studio and confronts Gus Thomas and Mabel, who are moving items in sacks and trash bags. 16. He explains that the gun came in with photographic plates, came out in the trash, and was planted in Bill Jackson's car to build a frame-up. 17. The tone mixes fast radio-style banter, police back-and-forth, and Blackie's sardonic one-liners with Faraday at the studio and Mary Wesley at the restaurant. 18. The format stays brisk and dialogue-heavy, with clues introduced through quick interruptions, mistaken assumptions, and repeated reversals. 19. Listeners who like classic detective radio, planted-evidence puzzles, and wisecracking banter will fit this episode. 20. Listeners who want slow pacing or minimal dialogue may skip it.

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A brisk studio murder with a framed suspect, dry banter, and a tidy dressing case theory.

It opens with a dinner date at Joe King's, then quickly turns into a murder case when Clyde Winston is killed and Bill Jackson ends up under suspicion.

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You want a fast noir knot with a boyfriend under arrest and a very bad studio secret.

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