| Stateroom One | |
| Format: | drama play |
| Country: | Australia |
| Language: | English |
| First Aired: | 1938 |
Stateroom One is a 1938 Australian radio play by Maxwell Dunn.
Its production was used to launch the Tasmanian station 7ZR (Dunn then lived in Tasmania).[1] (It aired the same night as The Bush Legend.)
The play sold to New Zealand.[2] [3]
The play was popular and was produced again in 1939[4] and 1942.
A copy of the play is at the Fryer Library at the University of Queensland.[5]
"This is a play of many threads, threads that begin their winding in Maidstone, one of his Majesty's prisons on the edge of lonely Dartmoor, weave their tortuous way in and around London, and end on board an ocean liner in the Mediterranean Sea. A baronet, a society woman, a famous jewel, the mysterious Maharaja of Jaladpur and his even more mysterious secretary, a pistol shot at midnight, heard by no one since no one wished to hear it... all threads that are gradually drawn together into an inexplicable knot in a ship's stateroom, a knot that Detective-Inspector Landon tries in vain to unravel... until...?"