Evelyn Jones Murder: Boston Blackie (August 13, 1945)

“Evelyn Jones Murder” is an episode of Boston Blackie, the old-time radio show, first broadcast August 13, 1945. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Boston Blackie agrees to protect a woman named Evelyn Jones, who fears for her safety. He escorts her to a house on Willow Street, but while waiting outside, he's knocked unconscious. When he awakens hours later, he finds Evelyn has disappeared, and he becomes entangled in a murder investigation centered around blackmail letters and a case of switched houses.

Boston, primarily at 484 Willow Street and surrounding locations including Evelyn Jones's apartment and Gerald Lawson's office

Characters: Boston Blackie, Shorty, Inspector Faraday, Evelyn Jones, Mary Wesley, Mike Corrigan, Gerald Lawson

Listen for: The clever solution involving two identical houses with switched numbers and doors; Blackie's detective work to prove Gerald Lawson is the murderer; the revelation of a blackmail scheme involving compromising letters.

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.