Larry Kent Series by Don Haring (.ePUB)
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Larry Kent Series by Don Haring
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Overview: LARRY KENT made his debut as a half-hour program, I Hate Crime, a half-hour show on Australian radio in 1950, created by Ron Ingleby, a prolific writer for radio. This was in response to the very popular Carter Brown Mystery Series.
Originally a newshound from the Big Apple, the story was that Kent emigrated to Australia and set himself up there as a private eye. Like his fictional P.I. counterparts at the time back home, Kent was always getting into trouble, but that never prevented him from appreciating the female form. His favourite pastime was, he frequently reminded us, “Watching the blondes go by.”
It may have been all clichés , but the series proved to be quite popular and in turn inspired Cleveland Publishing of Sydney to try their hand at some Larry Kent novels. In April 1954, the first series of monthly novelettes appeared, for a shilling each, with a second series following the subsequent year.
Ingleby may have written the radio shows, but he never wrote any of the books. Among those who did write under the Larry Kent name were Don Haring, an American like Larry who settled in Australia after WWII, Des R. Dunn from Queensland and Terry Chapman, who wrote three of the suckers. But it’s hard to tell who wrote what, really. They were squirted out so quickly that accurate copyright info and author attribution would have only slowed them down.
Although the books were decidedly hokey pulp affairs, the covers themselves have a gloriously cheesy flavour, painted mostly by Australian artist Stan Pitt and are now quite collectible. In fact, most of the web sites featuring Kent focus as much on the covers than the contents of the books.
Even more encouraging, though, for all you fans of pulp, is that in 2019, Bold Venture in the States and Piccadilly in the U.K. have started to re-publish the Larry Kents in both print and digital. Today there are 25 Larry Kent’s e-books
Genre: Fiction > Mystery/Thriller
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