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Boston Blackie is a fictional character who has been on both sides of the law. As originally created by author Jack Boyle, he was a safecracker, a hardened criminal who had served time in a California prison. Prowling the underworld as a detective in adaptations for films, radio and television, the detective Boston Blackie was "an enemy to those who make him an enemy, friend to those who have no friend." The Boston Blackie radio series, starring Chester Morris, began June 23, 1944, on NBC as a summer replacement for The Amos 'n' Andy Show. Sponsored by Rinso, the series continued until...
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · June 2026
A brisk detective drama feed built around murders, rackets, clues, and Boston Blackie's friction with Inspector Faraday.
Boston Blackie Podcast; Master Detective fits PlayNext's Fiction shelf as lean detective drama: murders, rackets, possible frame-ups, and brisk deductions shaped by Boston Blackie's tense back-and-forth with Inspector Faraday.
For you if your comfort crime involves fast mouths, locked doors, and Inspector Faraday losing patience.
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A brisk mystery built around a $75,000 diamond, a shooting, and a dog complaint.
The episode opens with a $75,000 diamond and quickly folds a shooting into Blackie's effort to sort out who can be trusted. The pleasure is in the fast accusations, the bandaged-hand squeeze test, and the dry humor that keeps the danger from getting too heavy.
A brisk noir knot with a late twist and plenty of sharp banter.
Boston Blackie opens with a garage stop that turns into a murder puzzle, then shifts into a family case where money, marriage, and suspicion all crowd the same room. What holds it together is the talk.
A perfume racket, a dead cat, and a murder at Skyview Towers keep Boston Blackie moving.
This Boston Blackie outing opens with a neat little tangle: a woman wants to buy a cat she does not even like, and that sits beside a perfume racket, a dead salesman, and a murder at Skyview Towers.
A dead-man notice sets off a brisk Boston Blackie mystery.
A man in Africa learns from a newspaper that he has been declared dead, and Boston Blackie is the one who starts pulling at the family knot behind it.
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…
A fast, wisecracking murder puzzle with a lavender note, a missing fortune, and Faraday at Blackie's heels.
A lavender envelope, a dead woman, and a missing $50,000 set the trouble in motion, and Boston Blackie spends much of the episode trying to keep the whole scheme from tightening around him.
A shipboard murder keeps Blackie joking while the walls close in.
A cramped overnight boat ride turns into a murder puzzle with a grin, with Blackie balancing a suspicious suitcase, sharp banter, and a case that keeps tightening before morning.
A brisk mystery with dry banter, partnership insurance, and a case that keeps changing shape.
The episode keeps circling a murder case that has enough moving parts to stay lively: quarrels, partnership insurance, alibis, and Blackie's dry little jabs.
Four McElroys narrate a wizard battle-royale tournament across elimination trials on Octave Ziggurat.
A continuous Fabula Ultima actual-play campaign following one party through the world of Perpetua.
An ensemble cast plays teen superheroes through Masks: A New Generation campaigns and guest one-shots.
A recurring cast plays full Pathfinder 2E, Shadowdark, and Pendragon campaigns session by session.
A Dungeon World actual-play campaign following three comedians battling villain Callum Blackhammer.
Boston Blackie and Inspector Faraday investigate a bank safe blown open at 6:10 a.m.
Clyde Winston, a photographer, is killed by a sawed-off shotgun after Miss Anderson says she was meeting him about a possible contract.
Boston Blackie chases a stolen-car and tire racket after a garage phone call, a hidden radio tip, and a shipment of truck tires lead him into Cyclone's crew.
Boston Blackie confronts boxer Bob Johnson with a rumor that Johnson is supposed to “take a dive in the sixth,” and the argument turns physical inside Johnson’s dressing room.
Tom Walton escapes a police transport and heads back to town to kill Boston Blackie, while Henry Lewis worries that Walton may also drag him into a murder charge.
Two songwriters are at each other's throats.
Mary has disappeared.
William Larson is framed as a controlling benefactor, snapping at Jane, Roger, and housekeeper Carrie over money before the story shifts into extortion and murder.
Blackie starts the morning over breakfast with Mary.
Bobby Rogers is sitting in prison with only hours left.
Blackie boards an overnight boat to Westfield with Charlie Kingston’s bonds and a cabin that is already too tight for comfort.
Joan Thompson, the cigarette girl at the Boulevard Club, is arrested after Henry Brightson is found dead on a country road and bloodstains are found in her car.
Charlie Kingston loses the Westfield diamond to Elizabeth Gaines in a card game, and a caller warns Boston Blackie that Kingston is coming to his apartment at 11 o'clock with two men.
A body turns up on the Viking, a boat parked on Montgomery Street, and Inspector Faraday learns the corpse is tied to the Hollywood production High and Dry.
Boston Blackie and Inspector Faraday investigate "a murder at the circus" after magician Rondo is found drowned when the rope holding his trunk is cut over a water tank.
Boston Blackie investigates the murder of songwriter Dick Altman after a scream in Joe Hendricks’s music office leads to a body in the piano room.
Arthur Burke tells Boston Blackie he woke up with amnesia beside George Digby’s body, a lump on his head, and a .38 automatic near the scene.
Tiny Mountain, a 22-year-old farm wrestler from the hay, is pushed by Bill Chase as a future champion while John Farber tries to block the plan.
A fictional detective confronts a woman who plans to kill her husband and frame him.
A classic radio drama episode where Boston Blackie gets involved in a kidnapping case.
Boston Blackie and his friend Mary dine at a restaurant where the owner mistakenly insists Blackie is a wealthy patron named Mr.
In a courtroom, a witness recants his statement that he saw the defendant shoot his wife, claiming police coercion.
In this episode of Boston Blackie, Blackie and his friend discover a dead man hidden in the dining room.
Boston Blackie, a vintage Golden Age radio drama, presents a complex noir mystery involving a $75,000 diamond theft, shooting, police interrogation, and animal protection crisis.
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Boston Blackie assists in what appears to be a kidnapping case when Evelyn Jones asks him to help her meet someone at 484 Willis Street.
Boston Blackie's car is implicated in the hit-and-run death of Carolyn Forbes, leading him to investigate her family and fiancé for murder.
A woman purchases a cat from a pet shop, claiming it will save her life.
John Frawley learns from a newspaper that he has already been declared dead.
Classic radio noir drama featuring two con artists (Douglas and Arnie) executing a scheme: cashing a fraudulent check for $20,000 from Kingston at his own bank, which turns out to be a setup.