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'"The Case of a Man Obsessed" is another light sleuthing adventure of a comedy pair who have already been heard on the air in two plays, Messrs Smart and Nicolson. This time they are concerned with the deaths, within a month, of three persons closely connected with a murder trial which happened four years previously. The curious Tim Nlcolson links this up with the recent return to Australia of Harry Champion, chief witness for the prosecution in that trial.'
Source:
'Out of the Bag', Barrier Daily Truth, 2 April 1941, p.3.
Notes
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George Smart and Timothy Nicolson had already appeared in The Clue of the Lisping Man (1939) and The Clue of the Missing Tablet (1940).
Production Details
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Broadcast (nationally) on Wednesday 2 April 1941 from 7:30pm, as part of a broadcast called 'Two Plays', in which the other play was a British play, Norman Edwards's Under Suspicion.
Producer: John Cairns.
Characters: George Smart, of the Smart Detective Agency, Sydney; Timothy Nlcolson, a well known writer of detective fiction; Mrs. Lucy Langrldge, a widow with too much money; Harold, a bar steward; Harry Champion, a victim; Leon Durbinskl, a neutral tenor; Inspector Standish, a cop; Annie, a maid.
Source:
'Out of the Bag', Barrier Daily Truth, 2 April 1941, p.3.
