AustLit

'TWICE an attempt had been made in Sydney to kill Joe Rawlins, The Montana Mauler, so he hired Larry Kent as his bodyguard but he was insistent that he didn’t want Kent “to solve anything—just stop me being bumped off.”

'Kent “gate-crashes” a party being given in a society woman’s home, and meets up with her beautiful daughter —and trouble with a butler.

'Enquiry at the C. 1.8. reveals that the woman’s husband had been murdered nine years previously in Ohio, U.S.A., where he was endeavouring to finance a company to exploit oil he was sure he had discovered in Central Australia.

'Kent breaks with Rawlins when he discovers Rawlins is trying to extort £50,000 from the woman for the return of her husband’s aerial photographs which give the location of the oil field.'

Source: 'Commercial Radio Plays for Next Week', ABC Weekly, 6 May 1950, p.27.