Boston Blackie: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Boston Blackie, credited to Jack Boyle, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Boston Blackie by Jack Boyle. Read in English by Winston Tharp. Boston Blackie is the novelization of a group of pulp short stories by Jack Boyle (1881-1928). Blackie, an ex-con with a college education, is a jewel thief based in San Francisco, who outwits the cops with the help of his wife Mary. The character was altered for a later series of popular films and radio shows to become a “reformed” jewel thief turned private eye. (Summary by Winston Tharp)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Boston Blackie
• Author credits: Jack Boyle
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 29
• Listed recording duration: 7:35:06

Catalogue topics

• Mystery
• San Francisco
• jewel thief
• hard-boiled

Opening tracks: first 24 of 29

1. 00 - Foreword — 5:54
2. 01 - Boston Blackie — 4:41
3. 02 - Boston Blackie's Little Pal — 21:39
4. 03 - Boston Blackie's Code — 14:59
5. 04 - The Cushions Kid — 15:00
6. 05 - One Week to Live — 15:39
7. 06 - Not to Snitch on a Pal — 13:47
8. 07 - The Woman Called Rita — 13:48
9. 08 - The Miracle — 21:46
10. 09 - Fred the Count — 17:04
11. 10 - The Price of Success — 21:06
12. 11 - The Spirit of the Cushions Kid — 16:20
13. 12 - A Problem in Grand Larceny — 20:21
14. 13 - The Shot in the Dark — 10:55
15. 14 - Mystery of the S. S. Humboldt — 14:08
16. 15 - Missing Gold — 20:20
17. 16 - The Frame-up — 16:23
18. 17 - The Third Degree — 17:39
19. 18 - An Answer in Grand Larceny — 13:08
20. 19 - Alibi Ann — 18:29
21. 20 - Boston Blackie's Prophecy Comes True — 19:18
22. 21 - The Love of a Woman — 21:23
23. 22 - For Fifteen Years — 11:55
24. 23 - The Revolt — 13:24

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