In the the world of the hard boiled detective, Boston Blackie comes comes real close to fitting in, but he just doesn't quite. Of course Blackie isnt a detective or private eye, he is a reformed safe cracker and constantly good natured irritant to the cops!
A real Hard Boiled Detective solves the mystery that the cops think he is guilty of, and manages to make the cops look foolish while he does it. So does Boston Blackie.
The Hypnotic Murder: Blackie gets in hot water with Farraday when he takes the gun of a friend of Mary Wesley’s who has confessed to a murder.
Originally aired August 6th,1945.