Boston Blackie - A New Face For Joe Harvey
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Boston Blackie - A New Face For Joe Harvey

B1IntermediateSeptember 29, 202625 min

A collection of gripping detective stories featuring sharp-witted investigators, puzzling crimes, and clever resolutions. Each episode showcases the art of deduction and the thrill of the chase.

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the scissors busy get the bandages off took weeks of work to give you a new face

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Come on, hurry it up, will you Doc? the scissors busy get the bandages off took weeks of work to give you a new face Joe two more moments won't matter now the job's done only matter to me I want to see myself I want to get outside and see people again for weeks nobody to look at

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nobody to talk to nothing to read you're sitting here waiting for this minute And the last of the bandages, you're just this one across your eye. There. Where's the mirror, Doc? Where's the mirror?

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Oh, here, I'll get it. No, wait. Wait a minute, Doc. Never mind the mirror. I don't want to look in that place. Not just yet.

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