form y separately published work icon Magazine for Murder single work   radio play   crime  
Note: Probably Ron Ingleby, but not confirmed.
Issue Details: First known date: 1950... 1950 Magazine for Murder
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'Larry Kent, the private detective, was interviewed by Noni James, a very beautiful reporter from a magazine called Faces, he could not know that it was a prelude to murder.

'Immediately the interview is completed, he is invited by a receiver of stolen goods to be his bodyguard. The new assignment lands him in hospital under arrest for the murder of Limpy White. He escapes from hospital to do some sleuthing for his life, and tracks the murderer down, actually through the article in the magazine, only to be nearly murdered himself.

'Once more Noni comes into his life and is indirectly responsible for saving it and for the charge of murder being correctly sheeted home.'

Source: 'Commercial Radio Plays for Next Week', ABC Weekly, 7 October 1950, p.27.

Production Details

  • Broadcast by 2UE on Wednesday 11 October 1950, from 9pm.

    Cast: Ken Wayne (Larry Kent) and Joan Hodson (Noni, the reporter), with Owen Ainley, Russell Jarrett, Ron Whelan, and Alan White.

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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