Boston Blackie — 1944

A society woman first fingers Blackie for robbing her grandfather, then begs him to recover her stolen Jonathan diamond before her fiance returns -- and the gem keeps vanishing from a safe that should be empty.

Sent to Fifty Hunter Street to save a friend's bank, Blackie is knocked out, robbed of his gun, and framed for murder, then escapes jail disguised as a woman to clear his name.

Charity-ball funds vanish and Shorty is found knocked cold beside the rifled safe, leaving Blackie the prime suspect on Inspector Farraday's list.

A $200,000 emerald called the Star of the Nile disappears from a train under Blackie's nose, and a tip about a midnight safecracking sets up a theft Farraday can't quite stop.

Black-market hijackers run Blackie off the road and pressure him to join them; a cattle rancher's plea pulls him deeper, until she suddenly swears she has never met him.

A bloodstained coat bearing Blackie's own label ties him to a caretaker's murder at the Devon estate, where a valuable gun collection is being ransacked one room at a time.

A woman leaves with a false Blackie and turns up dead with his gun in her hand, until a phone call reveals the wrong girl was killed and uncovers a wartime Nazi plot.

Blackie saw a trusted old clerk pocket the pearls missing from Gordon's jewelry, but to free her from a blackmailer he must lift a ruby -- straight into Farraday's waiting trap.

Farraday rushes to Blackie's apartment on word that Blackie is dead, and finds a corpse that is not his.

A flood of counterfeit wartime gas coupons puts Blackie on the trail of the ring behind them.