Boston Blackie Podcast; Master Detective · Humphrey Productions

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Westfield offers $200,000, while Blackie pushes him to settle Kingston's debt for cash instead.

1. Boston Blackie and the Westfield diamond drive the episode's plot through Charlie Kingston, Elizabeth Gaines, and Inspector Faraday. 2. Boston Blackie matters as the detective who keeps getting pulled into the diamond dispute, while Elizabeth Gaines acts as the gambler who wins Kingston's stone and Faraday keeps the murder case moving. 3. The episode asks who has the Westfield diamond, who killed the switchboard operator, and why Charlie Kingston cannot keep his story straight. 4. Charlie Kingston tells Gaines that he lost the Westfield diamond and asks for the chance to retrieve it from Boston Blackie. 5. Gaines sends Harry and Bill to watch Kingston closely and later says she has a professional interest in the gaming tables. 6. A phone tip warns Blackie that Kingston is coming to his apartment at 11 o'clock with two men after losing the diamond in a card game. 7. Blackie mails the diamond to himself in care of general delivery after learning that Gaines's men are coming for it. 8. Inspector Faraday arrives at Blackie's building and finds the switchboard operator stabbed through the heart. 9. Faraday says the elevator man saw Blackie as the last person talking to her, so he orders Blackie to stay in the building. 10. Blackie explains that the diamond was sent by mail, and Faraday heads to the post office to look for the letter. 11. The post office says the letter for John Q. Jones in care of general delivery has already been picked up. 12. John Westfield appears and says he originally sold the diamond for $100,000 with a written option to buy it back within six months. 13. Westfield says he will pay $200,000 to recover his diamond and tells Blackie he will stop at nothing to get it back. 14. Elizabeth Gaines meets Robert Rodgers and says she does not have the diamond, even though her men have been searching for it. 15. Rodgers finds Bill dead in his room and keeps pressing Gaines about the missing stone. 16. Blackie shows Rodgers the blotter letter to John Q. Jones and explains how it pointed him to the general delivery trick. 17. Blackie says Martin Afton killed the switchboard operator after she learned about the letter and the diamond. 18. The episode uses fast back-and-forth dialogue, post office clues, and apartment door interruptions to keep the pace tight. 19. Listeners who like vintage detective stories, missing-object puzzles, and Blackie-Faraday banter will get the most out of it. 20. Listeners who want slow character drama or modern realism may skip it.

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