form y separately published work icon The Case of the Necktie Murders single work   radio play   crime  
Note: Probably Ron Ingleby, but not confirmed.
Issue Details: First known date: 1950... 1950 The Case of the Necktie Murders
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'HE was only a little man—five feet two and skinny—and he was also a very frightened little man. Yet he walked into Larry Kent’s office with one of the most incredible stories Kent had ever heard.

'A commercial traveller, he had returned from an eight weeks’ trip to his flat in Maroubra to find a reception committee of four dead men seated on his lounge. Each was a stranger, and each had been strangled with a blue necktie.

'Larry and the little man call on Inspector Daniels, whose men waste little time in making an arrest.

'Daniels is elated and loses no time in telling his rival, Kent, how he broke the case by approved police methods.

'He is interrupted by a call to tell him that another body has been found —a woman, with a blue neck tie knotted about her neck. Larry goes along with the Inspector and makes a bet with him that he will prove that the woman was murdered, not by the psychopathic killer the police held, but by someone else. His attempt to do this results in a surprising discovery which leads to the solution of the mystery.'

Source: 'Commercial Radio Plays for Next Week', ABC Weekly, 8 July 1950, p.27.

Production Details

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

    Cast: Ken Wayne (Larry Kent), with Ivan Vander, Edward Smith, Dinah Shearing, Madi Hedd, Jack Raine, and Clarence Graham.

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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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