Lindsay Hardy was Australia’s finest writer of suspense thrillers for radio. Born in Victor Harbor, South Australia, he moved to Sydney, joined the army in December 1939, was wounded twice (once in North Africa and again in New Guinea), returned to Australia, and began writing radio serials. He and his serials soon became household names. He then sought fame in Hollywood and was successful, until McCarthyite hysteria saw him refused residential status. Disappointed, he moved to Canada and London; came back to Sydney, then finally, with very littlework in Australian radio and television for writers of drama, returned to England and permanent expatriacy. (Publication Summary)
Dedication: To Angus ‘Gus’ Dodd of the 2/48th,
who, typical of the vast majority of diggers,
said so little of his war service
that it was only when I researched Hardy’s life
that I gained an inkling of what he endured.
