Richard Allistar Disappears In Vacant Lot: Boston Blackie (July 28, 1948)

“Richard Allistar Disappears In Vacant Lot” is an episode of Boston Blackie, the old-time radio show, first broadcast July 28, 1948. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

A taxi driver reports that a mysterious passenger vanished without a trace in a vacant lot on 10th Street. When a well-dressed body is found dead nearby on 11th Street, Boston Blackie and his companion Mary investigate and discover the corpse belongs to Richard Alistair, a man whose wife has been searching for him. The mystery deepens when cryptic notes with names and numbers are discovered hidden in the dead man's clothing.

New York City streets, including a vacant lot between tenements on 10th and 11th Streets, and a police morgue

Characters: Boston Blackie, Mary, Inspector Faraday, Sergeant, taxi driver, Officer Wilson, Richard Alistair's wife, Richard Alistair

Listen for: Boston Blackie's witty banter with Mary as they uncover clues to Richard Alistair's mysterious death; the cryptic notes with names and numbers that may hold the key to solving the crime

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.