Broken Clock Murder: Boston Blackie (January 12, 1949)

“Broken Clock Murder” is an episode of Boston Blackie, the old-time radio show, first broadcast January 12, 1949. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Boston Blackie wakes to find a dead body outside his apartment—a man named Baker who was trying to buy a nightclub called the Club Simpson. A scrap of paper found in Blackie's closet bearing a phone number leads to Joey Wall, who appears to have acquired the club that very morning. Blackie must uncover whether Wall killed Baker to eliminate the competition for the nightclub purchase.

Boston, primarily Blackie's apartment and the police station, with references to the Club Simpson nightclub.

Characters: Boston Blackie, Baker, Inspector Faraday, Joey Wall, Edgar Simpson, Frankie, Mr. Wall

Listen for: The crucial detail about the broken clock that marks the time of the option deadline for the club purchase, and how a simple piece of paper in Blackie's closet becomes the key to solving the murder.

Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.