The Old Shoe Clue: Boston Blackie (November 5, 1947)

“The Old Shoe Clue” is an episode of Boston Blackie, the old-time radio show, first broadcast November 5, 1947. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Boston Blackie receives a mysterious package containing an old, battered shoe along with $1,000 and instructions to deliver it to the police. When police detective Farraday checks the shoe against a decade-old unsolved murder case involving a shoe print, Blackie suspects the shoe may be connected to the killing. Blackie visits Eddie Maley, the prime suspect from years ago, to investigate the matter.

Boston, primarily Blackie's office and Farraday's police headquarters, with a visit to Eddie Maley's establishment

Characters: Boston Blackie, Mary, Crubble, Dick Farraday, Eddie Maley, Sam

Listen for: The mysterious delivery of a worn shoe worth $1,000, the connection to an old murder case, and Blackie's confrontation with the prime suspect Eddie Maley

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.