SPOT THE LADY
HEN Lester Powell wrote the BBC mystery serial Lady in a Fog, he created one of radio’s most popular detectives, Philip Odell, a wisecracking, drawling young man with no great talent as a detective except the ability always to get his man in the end. The patt was played by a Canadian actor named Robert Beatty, and he has returned to tHe chase for wrongdoers in another exciting and amusing serial-Spot the Lady. In this case Philip Odell, aided by his fiancée,
Heather McMara, iscalled in to solve the mystery of the murder of one Marguerite, a newspaper columnist with a reputation that doesn’t bear looking into too closely. To complicate matters Odell is called in separately by three men, each of whom claims to be her fiancée, and that sets the stage for a snappy little piece of detection on Odell’s part. The strong sup-
porting cast and excellent production make this one of the best serials of its type to be broadcast for quite a while, and it starts from 2YA at 8.0 p.m. on Wednesday, December 7. The part of Heather McMara is played by Brenda Bruce, a Manchester girl who began as a ballet dancer before turning to radio acting.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 545, 2 December 1949, Page 8
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207SPOT THE LADY New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 545, 2 December 1949, Page 8
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