The Apartment Swindler: Boston Blackie (September 17, 1946)

“The Apartment Swindler” is an episode of Boston Blackie, the old-time radio show, first broadcast September 17, 1946. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Boston Blackie investigates a real estate swindle involving the Bryant apartment house project. Swindlers Davidson and his partner have been collecting $300 deposits from unsuspecting customers like Jim Palmer for apartments in a building not yet constructed, planning to pocket roughly $100,000 and flee town before their scheme is discovered.

A real estate office in town and surrounding streets; a new apartment house construction project

Characters: Boston Blackie, Mary, Jim Palmer, Davidson, Tom Johnson, Bill, Charlie, Mr. Bryant

Listen for: Boston Blackie confronts the swindlers and exposes their scheme to the building's owner; a car crash sequence during a chase down a hillside

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.