The Hero's Wife
AM disappointed in the "Nick Carter" series from 4ZB. Nick was always a favourite of mine; my hero-worship dates back to the days when I read him in paper covers, under pain of parental disapproval, at times I ought to have spent on homework. This radio serial is the first inkling I have had that the heroes of one’s youth do not carry their glamour over into one’s adult life. Not only is it just one more of those fastmoving thrillers with a corpse on every page, but it allows the hero’s wife to butt in and discover these corpses--allotting her one split second for registering horror and dismay, and another split second for a fiery love-scene during which it seems one corpse, forgotten by all present, merely lies and waits for the action to finish. The listener, who is the only one who seems interested in the corpse for the moment, is bound to find either. the body or the heroine redundant. No, let us have our detectives unmarried, and relegate the love-stories to the morning-tea session.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 351, 15 March 1946, Page 12
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181The Hero's Wife New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 351, 15 March 1946, Page 12
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