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'LARRY KENT, Private Investigator, is invited to a palatial home in the Blue Mountains for a week-end party. During the first evening it is decided to play Murderers.

'The hostess, Tammie Sullivan, explains the game to her guests: “Well, after dinner to-night my butler, Williams, will give someone a card. On the card is printed ‘Murderer.’ Only Williams will know who the murderer is. His choice among the six of us will be decided by picking one of our names from a hat. He will then give the ‘murderer’ the card so none of the others will see—the method must be left to him. After that job is done, Williams will, at any time he chooses, hit the gong in the next room, which will be the signal for the game to begin.”

'There is, of course, a real murder during the game. Two shots are fired, from two different guns, but only one bullet is found, and that in the body of a beautiful model, Barbara Bell. Various suspects include a woman who has been three times a widow, a playwright, a producer, and the butler.

'When the butler is found dead, apparently through suicide, it appears that the case is solved, but through Kent’s tenacity the real murderer is brought to book, and Kent completes a very happy week-end in the true Larry Kent manner.'

Source: 'Commercial Radio Plays for Next Week', ABC Weekly, 3 June 1950, p.27.