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form y separately published work icon The Swami Murder single work   radio play   crime  
Note: Probably Ron Ingleby, but not confirmed.
Issue Details: First known date: 1950... 1950 The Swami Murder
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'FRANCES MANNERS is a new client of Larry Kent, because her father has been murdered.

'Another client’s wife, Mildred Perkins, is being blackmailed out of a fortune by a phony mind reader and medium. The only clue Kent has of Manners’ murderer is the fact that when he was battered to death one of his assailants left the mark of the letter “N,” evidently from an engraved ring.

'After Kent has started his campaign to unmask the fake Swami, Kent is himself nearly battered to death, and the mirror reveals a similar mark on his face. Thus the murder and the fortune-teller cases become one and the same, and Kent encounters his full share of adventures before he gets his reward in a double solution of his cases and his double fees, to say nothing of the gratitude of two very lovely ladies.'

Source: 'Commercial Radio Plays for Next Week', ABC Weekly, 2 September 1950, p.27/

Production Details

  • Produced by 2UE on Wednesday 6 September 1950, from 8:30pm.

    Cast: Ken Wayne (Larry Kent), with Barbara Brunton, Ivan Vander, John Cazabon, Margaret Christensen, Grant Taylor, Clarice Graham, and Paul McNaughton.

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    • Sydney, New South Wales,: 2UE , 1950 .
      Series: form y separately published work icon I Hate Crime Larry Kent : I Hate Crime; Rola Show : Larry Kent Ron Ingleby , Sydney : Macquarie Network Radio 2UE Sydney Ltd , Z1750974 1949 series - publisher radio play detective

      'Larry Kent is a crime investigator. As a newspaperman in New York, he becomes interested in crime detection and sets up in business in Australia. He has a nose for danger and a habit of playing hunches. A light touch to offset the serious theme of the plays is his eye for a pretty figure, and a favourite occupation of, as he puts it, "Watching the blondes go by" (Australian Radio Series 1930s - 1970s, p.99)
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