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'WHEN the famous radio producer Saul Jackson invites the private detective Larry Kent to watch a radio play being produced, he makes Kent an eyewitness to an actual murder. Radio actor John Freely is playing his part opposite radio actress Marie Marsh when he slumps in front of the microphone, dead, with a bullet through his brain.
'Six people saw the murder, but only one knew who was the murderer—and it wasn’t Kent.
'Inspector Daniels is very interested in a gun used for sound effects and the silencer he finds in the studio. The evidence points to sound-effects man Tiny Bishop, until the Ballistics Division of the C. 1.8. reveals that the sound-effects gun did not fire the bullet.
'Kent becomes intrigued, and without his usual fee, because he hates crime, goes ahead to solve the murder, which entails co-opting Marie Marsh, the radio actress, to do some realistic love-making with the man Kent suspects.'
Source: 'Commercial Radio Plays for Next Week', ABC Weekly, 16 September 1950.
Production Details
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Produced by 2UE on Wednesday 20 September 1950, from 8:30pm.
Cast: Ken Wayne (Larry Kent), with Nigel Lovell, Guy Doleman, Madi Hedd, Grant Taylor, Edward Smith, Walter Sullivan, and Ossie Wenban.
