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'HE was only a little man—five feet two and skinny—and he was also a very frightened little man. Yet he walked into Larry Kent’s office with one of the most incredible stories Kent had ever heard.

'A commercial traveller, he had returned from an eight weeks’ trip to his flat in Maroubra to find a reception committee of four dead men seated on his lounge. Each was a stranger, and each had been strangled with a blue necktie.

'Larry and the little man call on Inspector Daniels, whose men waste little time in making an arrest.

'Daniels is elated and loses no time in telling his rival, Kent, how he broke the case by approved police methods.

'He is interrupted by a call to tell him that another body has been found —a woman, with a blue neck tie knotted about her neck. Larry goes along with the Inspector and makes a bet with him that he will prove that the woman was murdered, not by the psychopathic killer the police held, but by someone else. His attempt to do this results in a surprising discovery which leads to the solution of the mystery.'

Source: 'Commercial Radio Plays for Next Week', ABC Weekly, 8 July 1950, p.27.