Joe Harvey leaves Doc Weaver's surgery with a new face, $50,000, and no fingerprints linking him to his crime.
1. Boston Blackie Radio presents "A New Face For Joe Harvey," a crime drama about a stolen $50,000 and a surgically altered identity.
2. Boston Blackie investigates Joe Harvey's arrest, Inspector Faraday handles the police case, and Doc Weaver performs the face-changing operation that drives the mistaken-identity plot.
3. The episode asks whether Boston Blackie can prove that the man jailed as Donald Tate is actually Joe Harvey before the identity confusion causes further danger.
4. Joe Harvey spends four weeks isolated while Doc Weaver removes bandages from the face he reconstructed.
5. Harvey says he stole $50,000 from his firm's safe and believes police will never identify him because they never had his fingerprints.
6. A cab driver and a traffic officer recognize Harvey as Donald Tate, who is wanted for killing a police officer.
7. At police headquarters, Inspector Faraday and Rollins rely on Tate's photograph, witnesses, and the suspect's resemblance rather than fingerprints.
8. Harvey asks Boston Blackie to verify his identity by recalling a barbershop visit, a cab ride, Mary Wesley's apartment, and the color of Blackie's suit.
9. Harvey claims Doc Weaver deliberately gave him Donald Tate's face after Harvey threatened him and paid him $5,000.
10. Harvey warns Blackie that the real Donald Tate could kill Doc Weaver after seeing newspaper reports about the surgeon.
11. Mary Wesley tells Inspector Faraday that she is Joe Harvey's girlfriend and identifies a birthmark as the test for Harvey's identity.
12. Mary does not find Joe Harvey's birthmark on the jailed man and tells Faraday that the prisoner is not Harvey.
13. Blackie continues to argue that the prisoner is Joe Harvey even after Mary's identification appears to support Faraday's conclusion.
14. Donald Tate abducts Mary Wesley outside a drugstore and threatens her with a bottle he claims contains acid.
15. Mary gives Tate the address of Shorty's hideout on Water Street after he pressures her to reveal where Blackie is keeping Doc Weaver.
16. Tate later admits that the bottle contained water, while Mary explains that she recognized the abduction as part of Blackie's plan.
17. Tate uses Mary as leverage and demands that Blackie exchange her for Doc Weaver on a road near Northwoods.
18. The final confrontation brings Blackie, Tate, Inspector Faraday, Rollins, and Doc Weaver together beside the cars used for the exchange.
19. Fans of vintage radio crime dramas and identity-driven detective plots.
20. Listeners seeking factual true crime or contemporary crime reporting.
