Pierre The Designer: Boston Blackie (March 26, 1946)

“Pierre The Designer” is an episode of Boston Blackie, the old-time radio show, first broadcast March 26, 1946. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Boston Blackie is accused of robbing Roger Olsen's safe, which contained $25,000 in cash and an IOU signed by Pierre, a fashion designer. Inspector Faraday believes Pierre bribed Blackie to steal the IOU since it was due the next morning. When Blackie and Faraday visit Pierre's office to confront him, they discover the designer dead with no marks on his body and no fingerprints at the scene.

Boston; Roger Olsen's office in the Bridge Building, Pierre's fashion design studio

Characters: Boston Blackie, Inspector Faraday, Roger Olsen, Pierre, Mary Wesley, Harry, Blinky, Mary Topp

Listen for: The mystery of who really robbed Olsen's safe and murdered Pierre; Blackie's attempts to prove his innocence while uncovering the real culprit.

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.