Boston Blackie, Volume 4
'Enemy to those who make him an enemy...Friend to those who have no friend'
By Jack Boyle Read by Ensemble Cast Classics / Fiction / Mystery & Thrillers`strong> English, Unabridged 10h 0m Sell Sheet Also available onFormat | Release Date | List Price | Your Price | ISBN | |
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10 Audio CDs | Tue Apr 19 00:00:00 UTC 2016 | 49.99 | 39.99 | 9781682624524 | Add to Cart |
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Part 4 of the Boston Blackie series.
Description
That's Boston Blackie, safecracker turned crime fighter and a long-running favorite with fans of straight-ahead detective fiction in a wide range of media. Beginning inauspiciously in a 1919 short story by author Jack Boyle, Blackie progressed from the printed page into silent films, then into talkies -- and finally, in the 1940s, into radio. The first radio Blackie was Chester Morris, who played the role in a long series of B movies during the 1940s. Beginning in 1944 as a summer replacement series for 'Amos 'n' Andy', Morris brought a certain wrong-side-of-the-tracks charm to his portrayal and gave the character a well-crafted introduction to the broadcast medium. But the longest-running radio Blackie was an odd casting choice: Broadway and sometime soap opera actor Richard Kollmar, best known to radio fans along the Eastern seaboard as the urbane Dick of WOR's 'Breakfast with Dorothy and Dick', a morning show which also featured his wife, newspaper columnist Dorothy Kilgallen.