form y separately published work icon The Frank Scranton Murder single work   radio play   crime  
Note: Probably Ron Ingleby, but not confirmed.
Issue Details: First known date: 1950... 1950 The Frank Scranton Murder
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'WHEN Private Investigator Larry ’ Kent was fishing at Bondi he saved the life of Frank Scranton, as that candidate for murder was toppling over a cliff. Actually it had been an attempt on his life.

'A few nights later Scranton was shot dead. Next morning his solicitor delivers a letter from him to Kent with £500 enclosed and the news that the doctors had given him but six months to live. The £500 was a reward for saving his life, but Kent takes it as a retainer to track down the murderer.

'In his investigations he revisits the scene at Bondi of the near-murder, where an attempt is made to murder Kent, but the would-be killer falls over the cliff and is himself killed.

'From clues unearthed concerning an ex-chorus girl who became Scranton’s wife while she had ambitions to become a famous actress, an unsuccessful theatrical producer who was in love with Mrs. Scranton before and after her marriage, Kent solves the murder itself, but experiences unusual complications as regards an accessory to the murder, with very unexpected and tragic results.'

Source: 'Commercial Radio Plays for Next Week', ABC Weekly, 15 July 1950, p.27.

Production Details

  • Produced on 2UE on Wednesday 19 July 1950, from 8:30pm.

    Cast: Ken Wayne (Larry Kent) with Dinah Shearing, Ivan Vander, Alan White, Charles Tingwell, and Sue Rogers.

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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