form y separately published work icon The Sloane Case single work   radio play   crime  
Note: Probably written by Ron Ingleby, but unconfirmed.
Issue Details: First known date: 1950... 1950 The Sloane Case
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'LARRY KENT, the private investigator, is an American detective operating in Australia. Next Wednesday this series presents the unusual story of three confessed “murderers” whom Detective Daniels is quite convinced are innocent.

'This conviction is so pronounced that he co-opts Larry Kent, his friend, to help him, and to this end a sensational story is released to the Press about the first two murders. But it didn’t bring anything to light except the knowledge that both murdered men had been in the theatrical business, and that, ten years ago, they had organised a vaudeville chain that crashed.

'Immediately on publication of the story there is another murder. This time an attractive young woman, manifestly innocent, confesses to the crime. A hurried air-trip to Melbourne from Sydney important interviews with a theatrical agent and theatre personality, provide the clue to the motive, and a tense finale, in which Larry Kent is nearly murdered, satisfactorily rounds off a play for listeners who like “suspense.”'

Source: 'Commercial Radio Plays of the Week', ABC Weekly, 8 April 1950, p.27.

Production Details

  • Broadcast on 2UE on Wednesday 12 April 1950, from 8:30pm.

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    • Sydney, New South Wales,: 2UE , 1950 .
      Series: form y separately published work icon I Hate Crime Larry Kent : I Hate Crime; Rola Show : Larry Kent Ron Ingleby , Sydney : Macquarie Network Radio 2UE Sydney Ltd , Z1750974 1949 series - publisher radio play detective

      'Larry Kent is a crime investigator. As a newspaperman in New York, he becomes interested in crime detection and sets up in business in Australia. He has a nose for danger and a habit of playing hunches. A light touch to offset the serious theme of the plays is his eye for a pretty figure, and a favourite occupation of, as he puts it, "Watching the blondes go by" (Australian Radio Series 1930s - 1970s, p.99)

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