form y separately published work icon The Car-stripper Murder single work   radio play   crime  
Note: Probably Ron Ingleby, but not confirmed.
Issue Details: First known date: 1950... 1950 The Car-stripper Murder
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'LARRY KENT is in gaol again in this play. This time for burglary. His new imported car was the cause of it all. He had owned it for three hours only when it was stolen, which was very much of an affront to a smart private investigator. Hence his more than usual keen enquiries land him in a police cell, unconscious.

'The head of the gang of car thieves is a rather ruthless individual who is in love with his secretary, who in turn gets very fond of Kent. In fact, she saves his life—by being murdered.

'A slight case of justifiable homicide brings to a tense conclusion an exciting episode in the career of Larry Kent'.

Source: 'Commercial Radio Plays for Next Week', ABC Weekly, 12 August 1950, p.27.

Production Details

  • Produced by 2UE on Wednesday 16 August 1950, from 8:30pm.

    Cast: Ken Wayne (Larry Kent), with Dinah Shearing, E. Smith, Ossie Wenban, Alan White, Owen Ainley, and Paul McNaughton.

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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