form y separately published work icon Two and a Half Murders single work   radio play   crime  
Note: Probably Ron Ingleby, but unconfirmed.
Issue Details: First known date: 1950... 1950 Two and a Half Murders
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'WTHEN Larry Kent, the private investigator, gets an S.O.S. from a lovely lass, he races to her apartment in time to knock her would-be murderer unconscious with the butt of his gun.

'While he is in the next room pouring out a drink, Maggie gives the semi-conscious gangster another nudge with a pistol butt and he is dead. But Maggie hadn’t meant to kill him. Her fiance had been murdered a fortnight before, and Maggie is in the middle of telling Kent about that murder and her half-murder and the motives when murder No. 2 takes place—Maggie is stabbed to death.

'Kent is hard put to it to save himself from being bumped off, but he does so with the connivance of Inspector Daniels and at the same time traps the murderer.'

Source: 'Commercial Radio Plays for Next Week', ABC Weekly, 23 September 1950, p.27.

Production Details

  • Produced by 2UE on Wednesday 27 September 1950, from 9pm.

    Cast: Ken Wayne (Larry Kent), with Dinah Shearing, Edward Smith, Ron Whelan, Own Ainley, Donald Crosby, and Alan Herbert.

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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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