form y separately published work icon The Eve Benson Case single work   radio play   crime  
Note: Probably Ron Ingleby, but unconfirmed.
Issue Details: First known date: 1950... 1950 The Eve Benson Case
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'LARRY KENT, the Crime Investigator, received an unusual message after interviewing a woman client—a bullet in his body.

'The woman, Eve Benson, happened to be the daughter of a bank robber who had double-crossed his partner-in-crime by disappearing with the £50,000 proceeds of a bank robbery. The partner had him murdered, but not before the money had been hidden.

'The gang after the loot has Eve Benson kidnapped. Kent also is being kidnapped after his discharge from hospital, but, through a clever code signal, as arranged with a lift driver, Kent is able to turn the tables on his thug-kidnappers and, by rough-arm tactics, forces a confession from one of them, which, al though it enmeshes him in further trouble, enables him to contact Eve in the gang’s hideout. The finding of the hidden money is still the problem, which Kent solves in an unexpected manner at an unexpected source.'

Source: 'Commercial Radio Plays for Next Week', ABC Weekly, 17 June 1950, p.27.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • 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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