Topical Detection
{7 sometimes happens that a radio programme, in spite of being arranged weeks in advance, manages to hit the spot in topical detail. One expects to hear music of the United Nations during United Nations week, Church music on a Sunday, and a breakfast session at 7.0 a.m.; but a detective story hinged on electricity economy seems at the moment a miracle of timeliness. This particular one was in the series Inspector Cobb Remembers. I am not as a rule an ardent follower of detective series, chiefly because I was long ago convinced that Crime Doesn’t Pay and that Scotland Yard always gets its man. But this was different. I tuned in to it by chance during the first week of the Christchurch Power Crisis. The plot concerns. the finding of a corpse with the usual unfinished suicide-note before him, The evidence proved that he had died about midnight, but-and here lies the rubthe room was in complete darkness, The housekeeper, after contriving an otherwise perfect murder, had thriftily turned out the light for which her employer had no further use. But the play had one topical fault; it pointed the wrong moral. Virtue, in other words, swung. for it, while Vice in the form of Inspector Cobb turns on three lights and gets away with it,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 417, 20 June 1947, Page 11
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219Topical Detection New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 417, 20 June 1947, Page 11
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