form y separately published work icon The Case of the Fellow-Traveller single work   radio play   crime  
Note: Probably Ron Ingleby, but not confirmed.
Issue Details: First known date: 1950... 1950 The Case of the Fellow-Traveller
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'WHEN a street photographer showed Larry Kent, the Crime Investigator, a candid shot, Kent had it published as a competition to identify “the man with whiskers’’ in the background of the photograph.

'Helen Jeffreys sent in a correct entry, but was found murdered be fore she could collect the prize.

'A Canberra special agent contacts Kent and explains that the bewhiskered individual was a wartime traitor who is about to hand over to the headquarters of a subversive organisation plans which could cause a world cataclysm.

'At a low night-club where Helen had worked, one of her club girl friends tells Kent that the bewhiskered fellow-traveller had given Helen a blue brooch as a present.

'Kent locates the shop which sold the brooch, and from a chance remark by the shopgirl secures a vital clue. He gets in touch with the head of the subversive organisation, and, at the same time, far more trouble than he ever bargained for.'

Source: 'Commercial Radio Plays for Next Week', ABC Weekly, 1 July 1950, p.27.

Production Details

  • Broadcast on 2UE on Wednesday 5 July 1950, from 8:30pm.

    Cast: Ken Wayne (Larry Kent), with Guy Doleman, Dennis Glenny, Ivan Vander, Dinah Shearing, Betty McDowell, Sue Rogers, Alan Herbert, Frank Waters, and Alma Butterfield.

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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