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Hidden Treasures: Edgar Wallace - On the Spot

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Edgar Wallace - On the Spot

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Will DC John Kelly be able to catch out the notorious Chicago gang leader, Tony Perelli?

4 Extra Debut. 1930s Chicago: Gangland drinks racketeer Tony Perelli is the big shot, but for how much longer? Stars Peter Woodthorpe. From 1976.

Edgar Wallace 's most famous play is set against a completely authentic background of gangland life in Chicago during Prohibition of 1920s and 30s USA: 

Tony Perelli is the Big Shot with his gunmen and his dames – running a drinks racket.

Playing the organ in his fancy home,  he loads "his women with jewels and the coffins of his enemies with orchids” - an appalling figure of polished criminality.

But Detective-Commissioner John Kelly, Chief of Police is after Perelli - and if he catches him, he wants to watch him hang for murder...

Starring Peter Woodthorpe and Trevor Martin

Dramatised by Raymond Raikes.  

Tony Perelli .... Peter Woodthorpe
DC John Kelly, Chief of Police .... Trevor Martin
Shaun O'Donnell .... Leslie Heritage
Minn Lee .... Denise Bryer
Angelo Verona .... Robert Rietty
Con O'Hara .... Michael Kilgarriff
Mike Feeney .... Malcolm Hayes
Maria Pouliski .... Sandra Clark
Jimmy McGarth .... John Forrest
Doctor .... Haydn Jones
Priest .... David Neal

Producer Jean Bower

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1976.

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'On the Spot' is part of BBC Radio 4 Extra's Hidden Treasures collection selected from titles returned to the BBC by various collectors.

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