Boston Blackie Podcast; Master Detective · Humphrey Productions

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A policeman, a fake injury, and a bank safe are all timed to the second.

1. Boston Blackie; Master Detective centers on the professor and Rufus robbing a bank safe while timing the crime against a construction blast across the street. 2. The professor drives the plan, Rufus follows orders, Boston Blackie investigates, and Inspector Faraday reacts to the crime scene and the clues. 3. The episode is built around a timing trick: how the bank safe can be blown without anyone hearing it. 4. At 6:10 a.m., the professor watches a policeman pass the bank entrance and tells Rufus to get ready. 5. Rufus uses ketchup on his face to fake an injury and get the night watchman to open the bank door. 6. The watchman is pulled into the scam and the robbery begins with the professor saying he planned it that way. 7. The professor later says, “time is the most important entity in my life,” and keeps checking his watch while the safe is prepared. 8. He explains that the construction gang across the street is part of the cover because their blasting will hide the bank explosion. 9. Blackie and Faraday stand at the intersection and list the surrounding landmarks: a printing press, an all-night diner, a construction gang, and the bank. 10. Faraday questions why nobody heard the watchman being killed or the safe being blown. 11. Blackie identifies the timed blast as the key to the silence and says the construction blaster had to be involved. 12. Blackie names Mario Gosher as the man connected to the construction job and gives Faraday his address. 13. Faraday later says he has seen Mario Gosher, but Gosher has been murdered. 14. A later police summary states that the bullets killing Gosher and the night watchman came from the same gun. 15. Lenore Garsher calls Faraday and identifies the professor as the killer of her husband Mario. 16. She also says the professor will rob another bank and is storing dynamite, wires, and equipment in a white building near the docks on Rover Avenue. 17. The episode mixes clipped noir dialogue with repeated timing checks, police chases, and Blackie’s dry jokes. 18. Faraday’s blunt irritation and the professor’s certainty create a fast, procedural tone with a lot of street-level movement. 19. Listeners who like old-time radio mysteries and timed-crime setups will likely enjoy this. 20. Listeners looking for quiet character drama or a slow pace may skip this.

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