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'WHEN Private Investigator Larry ’ Kent was fishing at Bondi he saved the life of Frank Scranton, as that candidate for murder was toppling over a cliff. Actually it had been an attempt on his life.

'A few nights later Scranton was shot dead. Next morning his solicitor delivers a letter from him to Kent with £500 enclosed and the news that the doctors had given him but six months to live. The £500 was a reward for saving his life, but Kent takes it as a retainer to track down the murderer.

'In his investigations he revisits the scene at Bondi of the near-murder, where an attempt is made to murder Kent, but the would-be killer falls over the cliff and is himself killed.

'From clues unearthed concerning an ex-chorus girl who became Scranton’s wife while she had ambitions to become a famous actress, an unsuccessful theatrical producer who was in love with Mrs. Scranton before and after her marriage, Kent solves the murder itself, but experiences unusual complications as regards an accessory to the murder, with very unexpected and tragic results.'

Source: 'Commercial Radio Plays for Next Week', ABC Weekly, 15 July 1950, p.27.