Boston Blackie's Chinese Venture is a 1949 mystery film directed by Seymour Friedman, starring Chester Morris.

The suspects include a bored tour guide, a B-girl in a tavern, the inhabitants of an old Chinatown tenement, and Blackie and Shorty themselves.

Investigating the murder one jump ahead of the police, Blackie and Shorty uncover an illegal gambling ring.

George E. Stone, playing Blackie's sidekick The Runt, missed the first and the last films in the series due to illness.

Publisher Pete Harrison called it "Nothing sensational, but it is a good Boston Blackie melodrama; it holds the spectator's interest pretty tense [sic] all the way through...