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'TWO days before the murder, Larry Kent was sitting in a night club “watching the dames dance by.”

'A gambler friend, Lloyd Marble, hails him and they swap notes about women and such, the “such” including a nice little game of poker in which Lloyd had taken Sam Aarons, an unsavoury character, for £30,000. Sam has to delay settling by giving Lloyd a promissory note at 60 days for £30,000.

'The next time Kent sees Lloyd, he is surrounded by a lot of people—at his funeral.

'The promissory note is, of course, missing, and as Kent liked Lloyd quite a lot, and hates crime, he gets on the job without fee —and quite a job it proves.'

Source: 'Commercial Radio Plays for Next Week', ABC Weekly, 30 September 1950, p.27.