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Boston Blackie - "John Frawley, While in Africa, Reads That He Is Dead" (Old Time Radio, 1949) (opens the original)
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Boston Blackie presents “John Frawley, While in Africa, Reads That He Is Dead,” originally broadcast January 26, 1949. This is episode 211 of the syndicated detective series produced by Frederic W. Ziv. While in Africa, John Frawley discovers a newspaper report declaring him dead and fears his brother Eddie may be moving to control the family money. He turns to Boston Blackie to help prove who he is, launching an identity case shadowed by troubling figures from Frawley’s past. Maurice Tarplin, h
Boston Blackie - "Death Comes to the Harmonica Man" (Old Time Radio, 1947) (opens the original)
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Boston Blackie presents “Death Comes to the Harmonica Man,” originally broadcast July 9, 1947. Episode 130 of the Richard Kollmar syndicated series is also known by the alternate title “Corpse Plays the Harmonica.” When harmonica player Henry Peterson is wounded in a quarrel with his girlfriend and dies after reaching racketeer Bill Foster’s home, Boston Blackie finds himself drawn into a murder case that is anything but straightforward. Richard Kollmar stars as Blackie, with Maurice Tarplin as
Boston Blackie - "Aggie Rogers Murder" (Old Time Radio, 1947) (opens the original)
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Boston Blackie, “Aggie Rogers Murder,” originally broadcast April 8, 1947, is episode 117. Richard Kollmar stars as Boston Blackie in this case, also cataloged as “Spinster Sisters” and “Rogers Sisters Case.” A worried neighbor reports strange moans from the junk-filled Rogers mansion, home to wealthy and deeply estranged sisters Aggie and Martha Rogers. Blackie and Inspector Farraday investigate the isolated household, where separate living quarters, old resentments, and a disappearance turn a
Boston Blackie - "Harry Benson Murders His Wife" (Old Time Radio, 1946) (opens the original)
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Boston Blackie, “Harry Benson Murders His Wife” (Episode 58), originally broadcast February 19, 1946. In this ABC mystery, Richard Kollmar stars as Boston Blackie, with Maurice Tarplin as Inspector Farraday. Harry Benson has been acquitted of murdering his wife, Mona, behind an apparently ironclad alibi. When Mona’s brother asks Farraday and Blackie for help, Blackie takes on a case the courts have already settled—and begins testing the certainty of Benson’s defense, from the shadow of a remote
Boston Blackie - "Tom Everett - Murder with an Alibi" (Old Time Radio, 1946) (opens the original)
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Boston Blackie presents “Tom Everett - Murder with an Alibi,” originally broadcast March 5, 1946. Listed as episode 60, this Richard Kollmar-era detective drama stars Kollmar as the quick-thinking Boston Blackie, with Lesley Woods as Mary and Maurice Tarplin as Inspector Faraday. John Blake boldly challenges Blackie with a murder he believes cannot be proved. When Tom Evers is shot during a telephone call, Blake appears to be safely accounted for at a police precinct miles away—while clues at th
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