AustLit

'LARRY KENT, U.S. private investigator, operating in Australia, takes a milk-shake on a wet night in an amusement arcade. He is spoken to by a stranger, who gives him a package, saying: “You’ll deliver, won’t you?’’ “I always deliver,” replies Kent, and takes the package home to find it contains £50,000.

'He hides it and goes back to the city, where he is accosted by a man not unlike himself and dressed similarly. This man, who is one of a band of kidnappers, demands the parcel handed to Larry Kent by mistake. There is a fight, during which the gangster is knocked out.

'The £50,000 was ransom money for Sir John Ashley’s son, who has been kidnapped. A plan is arranged through which it is hoped to recover the child unharmed.

'Kent meets the head of the kidnapping gang, and the play works excitingly and tensely to a satisfactory conclusion.'

Source: 'Commercial Radio Plays of the Week', ABC Weekly, 22 April 1950, p. 27.