Crooked Carver Brother: Boston Blackie (June 18, 1947)

“Crooked Carver Brother” is an episode of Boston Blackie, the old-time radio show, first broadcast June 18, 1947. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

When stolen money and a murder weapon are found in his dresser drawer, Donald Carver is arrested for a robbery and double murder at his brother Kenneth's employer's office. Boston Blackie doubts the guilt of a man careless enough to hide such evidence so obviously and begins his own investigation into the deaths of Mr. Williams and his secretary Miss Holloway.

Boston; a business office and the Carver family home

Characters: Boston Blackie, Donald Carver, Kenneth Carver, Mrs. Carver (Donald's mother), Inspector Faraday, Mary, Mr. Williams, Miss Holloway

Listen for: The tense family dynamics between the lazy Donald and his hardworking brother Kenneth; Boston Blackie's reasoning about why the evidence seems too convenient; the discovery of the footprints in the mud around the Carver house.

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.