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When a murder occurs on an ocean liner docked in New York, the trail leads to Coney Island and a spy ring.
A murder is committed during the auction of a valuable statue. The prime suspect is Boston Blackie, whose reputation for living on the edge of the law makes him an easy target for the police. When the body disappears, Blackie must find it to prove his innocence.
Blackie receives a call from a friend who asks him to retrieve some money from his apartment and deliver it to him in California. Performing this good deed, he is accused of theft, but is allowed to proceed to Hollywood to help the police find a lost diamond.
Blackie is arrested when retrieving stolen gems from a safety deposit box for a friend.
After a rare gem is stolen from an exhibition at a posh hotel, Inspector Farraday decides to recruit former thief Boston Blackie to find the stone. Along with his assistant, "The Runt", Blackie focuses his investigation on the hotel manager, George Daley, and his sister, Eileen. Through disguises and ruses, Blackie and the Runt try to trick their way to discovering the thieves.
Blackie is implicated in a murder when he accidently sells a phony Charles Dickens first edition at an auction.
Blackie helps the police rescue hostage from an escaped maniac on a killing spree.
Blackie runs into a woman he formally loved who now is married with a kid. When her husband gets out of prison he's killed in Blackie's apartment and of course the police thing Blackie pulled the trigger. Blackie must set out to prove his innocence as well as capture the real killers.
Blackie performs in a magic show at a women's prison, which gives an inmate an opportunity to escape.
Blackie is the natural suspect when an expensive pearl necklace is stolen while he is supposed to be guarding it.