form y separately published work icon The Clue of the Scratched Brief-Case single work   radio play   crime  
Note: Probably Ron Ingleby, but not confirmed.
Issue Details: First known date: 1950... 1950 The Clue of the Scratched Brief-Case
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'LARRY KENT, on his way to the Blue Mountains, shares a compartment with a man who is clutching tightly a brief-case with a scratch beneath the lock. After fruitlessly trying to make conversation Kent falls asleep. When he awakens, his compartment companion is dead—murdered. Kent is commissioned by the insurance company, which had insured the jewels contained in the brief case for £10,000, to recover the loot and thus earn £2000. He co-ops Basher Hayes of the underworld as a rumour-spreader to promote certain developments.'

Source: 'Commercial Radio Plays for Next Week', ABC Weekly, 14 October 1950, p.27.

Production Details

  • Produced by 2UE on Wednesday 18 November 1950, from 9pm.

    Cast: Ken Wayne (Larry Kent), with Sheila Sewell, Dinah Shearing, John Cazabon, Deryck Barnes, Alan Herbert, and Vivian Edwards.

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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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