Murder On Cedar Street: Boston Blackie (April 9, 1946)

“Murder On Cedar Street” is an episode of Boston Blackie, the old-time radio show, first broadcast April 9, 1946. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Boston Blackie is lured to a house on Cedar Street where he discovers a dead blonde woman. Arrested for the murder, Blackie learns the victim is Marion Williams, a member of a holdup gang. While in jail, Blackie sends a locket containing a man's picture to Mary Wesley, hoping she can identify the killer, but her investigation leads nowhere.

Boston, including Cedar Street, a police station, jail, and a bank

Characters: Boston Blackie, Inspector Faraday, Mary Wesley, Marion Williams, Joe Thompson

Listen for: The mystery of who sent Blackie to the murder scene and who the man in the locket photograph is; a bank robbery attempt by members of the holdup gang.

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.