form y separately published work icon One Murder by How Many? single work   radio play   crime  
Note: Probably Ron Ingleby, but unconfirmed.
Issue Details: First known date: 1950... 1950 One Murder by How Many?
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'WHEN Larry Kent, the private investigator, undertook to trace the murderer of Peter Larrimer, blackmailer and worse, he did it at cut rates—£200 if he succeeded, £20 in advance, but no more if he failed. His inquiries took him to a girl’s flat, and very nearly to gaol for battery and assault on a police officer, to say nothing of murder.

'This Peter Larrimer was more than somewhat of a no-good individual. Innumerable people would have been glad to see him dead, anyway, even if it did mean murder, and those people included a number of pretty women, including show girls and actresses. All of which, of course, did not make Kent’s job any easier, especially when he further complicates things by killing a man in the girl’s flat. However, his hatred of crime, plus the connivance of an underworld confederate, sees the “rap” brought home where it be longs.'

Source: 'Commercial Radio Plays for Next Week', ABC Weekly, 22 July 1950, p.27.

Production Details

  • Produced by 2UE on Wednesday 26 July 1950, from 8:30pm.

    Cast: Ken Wayne (Larry Kent), with Guy Doleman, Madi Hedd, Georgie Sterling, Barbara Brunton, Veronica Laird, Ossie Wenban, and Paul McNaughton.

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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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