form y separately published work icon The Case of the Montana Mauler single work   radio play   crime  
Note: Probably Ron Ingleby, but not confirmed.
Issue Details: First known date: 1950... 1950 The Case of the Montana Mauler
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'TWICE an attempt had been made in Sydney to kill Joe Rawlins, The Montana Mauler, so he hired Larry Kent as his bodyguard but he was insistent that he didn’t want Kent “to solve anything—just stop me being bumped off.”

'Kent “gate-crashes” a party being given in a society woman’s home, and meets up with her beautiful daughter —and trouble with a butler.

'Enquiry at the C. 1.8. reveals that the woman’s husband had been murdered nine years previously in Ohio, U.S.A., where he was endeavouring to finance a company to exploit oil he was sure he had discovered in Central Australia.

'Kent breaks with Rawlins when he discovers Rawlins is trying to extort £50,000 from the woman for the return of her husband’s aerial photographs which give the location of the oil field.'

Source: 'Commercial Radio Plays for Next Week', ABC Weekly, 6 May 1950, p.27.

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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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