A Rum Affair is a 1940 Australian radio play by Alec Coppel.

Leslie Rees called it "a short, irresponsible comedy of fantastic situation... Alec Coppel is willing to take types and settings that have served in other plays; his originality is in his wit and deft sense of situation and holding... of suspense... A Rum Affair is a saucy morsel.

[6] The 1946 version starred Peter Finch and was directed by Frank Harvey.

[7] A review of this production called it "a pleasant enough trifle, proving a good starring vehicle for Peter Finch.

For a while he stayed in the substrata of understatement, but on the entrance of the ghost a mos seductive shade played by Sheila Sewell, things got going so you could hear them.