Kingston And The15-story Disappearing Office Building: Boston Blackie (September 8, 1948)

“Kingston And The15-story Disappearing Office Building” is an episode of Boston Blackie, the old-time radio show, first broadcast September 8, 1948. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Charlie Kingston purchases a 15-story office building for a million dollars from real estate dealers Henry Driggs and Jim Blaine, but when he returns the next morning, the building has vanished and only a vacant lot remains. Boston Blackie investigates the swindle, confronting the dealers and uncovering a murder connected to the scheme.

Boston, at various locations including a real estate office and the corner of Oak and Smith Street where a vacant lot stands.

Characters: Boston Blackie, Charlie Kingston, Henry Driggs, Jim Blaine, Inspector Faraday, Peggy Driggs

Listen for: A clever real estate swindle involving a disappearing building, a shooting, and Blackie's interrogation of the con artists as the plot unravels.

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.