Boston Blackie

Sure, except when it drops from on the floor, Blackie, like now.

From back here.

and the black and waited around a bit that's what you have a gun item don't make me do nothing i'd like nothing better than to do yeah that's been a nice boy i'll take care of these two now blackie i heard enough to prove to me they're the killers we want good make mr mrs barton feel good blackie run up and tell them that we've caught their son's killer

Mother?

Blackie's found out who killed Joe.

He and Miss Wesley are here to tell us all about it.

I told you he'd find out, and he did.

Who killed him, Blackie?

And why was he killed?

Why, what do you mean, Blackie?

That's no way to joke, Blackie.

A string of valuable pearls was stolen sometime today from this shop.

I personally took them out of the safe and put them in the showcase this morning.

That'd be an inside job.

How about your employees, Mr. Gordon?

Well, just those two women you see behind the counters, that's all.

Mrs. Phillips, the short gray-haired woman, has been here 20 came with us 18 years ago.

And I trust both of them implicitly.

Bonded delivery service.

And nobody came into the shop today except regular customers, eh?