Boston Blackie: Murder on the Trapeze 04/02/1946
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Choice Classic Radio Detectives | Old Time Radio
27 min
5 speakers
6 chapters
transcribed 1 month ago
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What is the opening premise of the Boston Blackie episode?
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Uh, pardon me, is this the dressing room of the Flying Johnson? Yeah, right in front of you.
Oh, thank you. Come in.
Hello. Uh well you're Valerie Johnson, aren't you? You know, I've been waiting for this circus to come to town so that I could come down here to see you. See me? Oh golly. I'm afraid you don't remember who I am, do you? Your face looks a little familiar. Well, I went to school with you, Clayton School. I'm married. Why, Mary Wesley! Of course I remember you. My, it's been a lot of years. Yes, hasn't it, though? I don't think we ever guessed I'd become a trapeze artist in those days, didn't you? Oh, well, there was a hint you might be. You almost got kicked out of school for climbing trees. Oh, did I? Yes, you did. Excuse me, Mary, but it's almost time for my act. Meet me after and we'll talk. All right. I'd love to.
Let's go. Uh, Valerie, you seem to be a little bit nervous and upset. Well, I am, Mary. Is that because of your act? Oh no. No. But it is awfully dangerous, isn't it? Oh, not really. It's actually foolproof. Matter of timing. Oh.
How does Mary Wesley first encounter Valerie Johnson in the circus dressing room?
Oh, what a beautiful. Oh, he's my favorite. Here, Whitefoot. Here's your lump of sugar. Oh, yeah. Careful, Mary. He's a little nervous. I give him a lump of sugar each time I go up to do my act. Um, for for good luck, huh? Hmm? Something like that. Mary. You said I seemed nervous and upset. Well, I am. I have a feeling that something's going to go wrong with the act tonight. Well, Bowery, not an accident. Here, you take this letter and read it if anything happens tonight. Because if it happens It won't be an accident.
And now meet Dick Calmer as Boston Blackie. Enemy to those who make him an enemy. Friends. To those who have no friends.
Mary. Are you so upset about it? You're supposed to have fun at a circus.
I know, Blackie. But I saw my friend Valerie Johnson and Something she said gave me cold chills.
That isn't a hint for me to put my arm around you, is it?
Please, darling. I I don't feel like joking. Oh, here come the Johnsons.
Maybe what Valerie said gave you a cold chill, but what she's about to do is giving me pneumonia.
Send Kitteler, your attention, please. A flying jump Yeah.
Up here.
I 150 feet above the sawdust. The two most brilliant aerialists in the world, in the most dangerous stunt ever attempted on a swinging trapeze. You know, Mary, I was just trapeze now swinging back and forth, hanging by his knees, you will see Harry Johnson. Notice that he is blindfolded. I'd have to be to go up And down the other platform from which she would swing into the air, leave her trapeze, do a double trouble, and then be caught by the waiting hands of her husband. Is Valerie Gantton? Notice that she too is blindfolded, and that below the Johnson There is no net.
Oh, Blackie, I'm getting scared.
Harry is swinging back and forth. Back and forth. Valerie is waiting for the signal to send her swinging into the air. He wait. Hey Way. Wait. Wait.
Uh
Oh they're very good.
Yes, what is it, please?
Uh I want to see Valerie Johnson.
Nobody can see her now.
I'm Mary Wesley, Doctor. Valerie's sent for me.
Oh, of course she's calling for you. You'll have to bend down close to her. She's very weak.
Ballery. It's Mary West. All right. Read Yep, yeah, yeah, I'm gonna. This was no app. I think it was
Just a minute, Miss Westman. Doctor. I'm afraid, Mr. Johnson, your your wife's dead.
I hope you don't think I'm a sissy, Blackie, because I wanted to get out of Valerie's dressing room. Of course not, Bertie. I, uh I just let let's stay here by the animal cages. There's a lot of light and we can read Valerie's letter. But uh here it is. It will you open it, Blackie?
All right.
What does it say?
I won't know until I read it.
I'm sorry, darling. I guess I'm a little nervous. But read it out loud, will you?
All right. Here's what it says. I have a feeling I'm going to be killed tonight by what will appear to be an accident. But I want whoever reads this letter to call the police in the event of my death.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the opening premise of the Boston Blackie episode?
0:00–1:46
2
How does Mary Wesley first encounter Valerie Johnson in the circus dressing room?
1:46–7:40
3
What does Valerie’s warning letter reveal about the planned “accident”?
7:40–9:40
4
How is the dangerous trapeze act described and why is it central to the mystery?
9:40–14:00
5
Why does Inspector Faraday arrive at the circus and what does he learn first?
14:00–18:35
6
What evidence does Blackie find in the chain‑link file and where is it hidden?
18:35–25:10
Speakers
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