# Counterspy: Murdering Messenger (A0100)

An episode of [The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio| Daily Mystery Dramas](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/335549005), 27 Jun 2026, 33 min.

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Today's Adventure: After an undercover counterspy agent narrowly survives an assassination attempt, David Harding sends Harry Peters to assume his identity and infiltrate a dangerous espionage ring. As Peters follows a trail of coded messages from Detroit to Memphis and on to New Orleans, he finds himself surrounded by people who may be allies—or assassins. Original Radio Broadcast: August 25, 1949 Originating from New York Starring Don McLaughlin as David Harding and Mandel Kramer as Harry PetersDirected by William M. SweetsMusic by Jesse Crawford Produced by the Phillips H. Lord Productions To subscribe to this podcast, go to greatadventures.info Become one of our ongoing Patreon supporters at patreon.greatdetectives.net Patreon Supporter of the Day: Doc, Patreon supporter since May 2019 Support the show on a one-time basis at support.greatdetectives.net Mail a donation to: Adam Graham, PO Box 15913, Boise, Idaho 83715 Take the listener survey at survey.greatdetectives.net Give us a call at 208-991-4783 Follow us on Instagram at instagram.com/greatdetectives Follow us on Twitter/X at twitter.com/radiodetectives

## Transcript

[0:05] Speaker 1: Welcome to the Great Adventurers of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho.
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[0:43] Speaker 1: dot Great Detectives dot net now. From August twenty fifth,
[0:48] Speaker 1: nineteen forty nine, here is the Murdering Messenger.
[1:00] Speaker 2: Pepsicola Pepsi that's your Smartest Cola by Pepsicola presents Counterspy.
[1:20] Speaker 3: Washington calling David Hunting. Counterspy Washington calling David Hunting.
[1:25] Speaker 4: Counterspy Harding counters By Calling Washington.
[1:36] Speaker 5: United States Counterspies especially acquainted to investigate and combat the
[1:42] Speaker 5: enemies of our country, both at home and abroad.
[1:50] Speaker 2: Tonight, the case of the Murdering Messenger. Another Counterspy report
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[2:50] Speaker 2: In espionage, the penalty for mistakes is dead. Every member
[2:55] Speaker 2: of a guilty spy ring is doomed by its far
[2:58] Speaker 2: away superiors. Yet the sentence is rarely carried out by
[3:02] Speaker 2: direct means. A watchwords are concealment and mystery. In the
[3:09] Speaker 2: city of Detroit, a small branch library stands in a
[3:12] Speaker 2: quiet side street. One morning, a young man with eyes
[3:16] Speaker 2: alert entered the building and went to the main reading room.
[3:22] Speaker 8: Excuse me, miss, Yes, sir, I want to turn this
[3:25] Speaker 8: book in Julius Caesar's Commentaries in the original Latin.
[3:29] Speaker 9: Yes, quite a student, mister Argyle.
[3:32] Speaker 7: Caesar was quite a boy.
[3:33] Speaker 9: Hey, are you taking out another book?
[3:35] Speaker 7: No?
[3:35] Speaker 3: I'm leaving Detroit very soon. Goodbye and thanks a lot.
[3:38] Speaker 7: Goodbye, mister Argyle. I beg your pardon. Yes, sir, I
[3:50] Speaker 7: was looking on the shelves for Julius Caesar's Commentaries, but
[3:53] Speaker 7: it doesn't seem to be there. No, it's right here.
[3:55] Speaker 9: Our only copy was just returned a moment ago. Do
[3:58] Speaker 9: you want to take it out?
[3:59] Speaker 7: Yes? Please? Here's my library card. Harry J. Peters from
[4:13] Speaker 7: Peter's Counterspy Field Office, Detroit to David Harding, Washington. Have
[4:18] Speaker 7: just received coded report from Counterspy George Argyle, operating undercover
[4:22] Speaker 7: inside foreign inspiring in the United States. Code used alternate
[4:27] Speaker 7: word and line transposition. What are your orders?
[4:33] Speaker 4: Peters have meant the decoded in Detroit and hole there
[4:36] Speaker 4: and flying Detroit.
[4:37] Speaker 7: Immediately Harding, This is the original message our Guyle left
[4:48] Speaker 7: for me in the library book, disguised as a letter home.
[4:51] Speaker 4: Thanks, still addresses me as Aunt Bessie.
[4:57] Speaker 7: He's the decoded transcript, Aunt Bessie, Dear mister Harding, trouble ahead.
[5:06] Speaker 4: Last night, the only man in the Spy Ring I
[5:08] Speaker 4: ever saw was killed in a car smash out on
[5:11] Speaker 4: Woodward Avenue, a fake accident.
[5:13] Speaker 7: There was an accident, but a man was killed.
[5:16] Speaker 4: What's more, I've been ordered to leave my job in
[5:18] Speaker 4: the turbojet factory here and go to Memphis, Tennessee. I
[5:22] Speaker 4: think the superiors of the Spy Ring now realize that
[5:25] Speaker 4: someone has fed them nothing but false information for a year.
[5:29] Speaker 4: I don't believe they know I was the one, but
[5:31] Speaker 4: evidently all members of the Ring are to be moved around.
[5:34] Speaker 3: Oh fine, I don't like that either, Peters. We still
[5:38] Speaker 3: don't know who the other members of the ring are.
[5:41] Speaker 3: It may be getting dangerous. Want to pull our gun
[5:44] Speaker 3: out and.
[5:45] Speaker 4: Lose three years of our work in preparation. Still, I
[5:49] Speaker 4: don't want our guy to be left entirely alone in Memphis.
[5:52] Speaker 7: Is Aunt Bessie worried? Definitely?
[5:55] Speaker 4: Our guy lads here that he will be at the hotel. Lee, Peters,
[5:59] Speaker 4: brush up on your Southern accent. You're going to be
[6:02] Speaker 4: there too.
[6:16] Speaker 7: Mister. Yes, I'm the hotel fire inspector. Oh, come in
[6:24] Speaker 7: good to see if Peters any news? Ongon. I got
[6:26] Speaker 7: this postcard today in the Southern Beauty Tourist Bureau, Memphis.
[6:32] Speaker 7: Guided Tours of historic Southland see Monuments and Battlegrounds of
[6:37] Speaker 7: the War between the States special feature Visit the High
[6:41] Speaker 7: Mountain Caves.
[6:42] Speaker 3: You'll notice that last one is circled in writ ink.
[6:45] Speaker 3: The High Mountain Caves I notice here, and the schedule
[6:48] Speaker 3: of tours.
[6:50] Speaker 7: Is another circle of read ink around the date Thursday
[6:53] Speaker 7: five pm.
[6:54] Speaker 3: Obviously that's when my next contact with the spir rings
[6:57] Speaker 3: to be made. Look, i'd better join the group tool.
[7:01] Speaker 3: I think that'll be two risky Peters. Those tourist groups
[7:04] Speaker 3: aren't very large. Wherever the contact is will take a
[7:07] Speaker 3: good look at everybody. Well, how are you to be recognized?
[7:11] Speaker 3: My name is known to the ring. I'll simply give
[7:13] Speaker 3: it when I buy my ticket for the tour. Then
[7:16] Speaker 3: I'll just wait and see what happens.
[7:24] Speaker 10: Our hawks were pretty near finished our tour. Famous High
[7:34] Speaker 10: Mountain Cave seen of beauty with the selactites slagmites kind.
[7:38] Speaker 7: Of scary too.
[7:40] Speaker 10: One more little demonstration before we step outside again and
[7:43] Speaker 10: to our loveliest southern evening.
[7:45] Speaker 7: This here underground river.
[7:46] Speaker 11: We've been following them from one of.
[7:48] Speaker 10: These caves to another ends right here, you see in
[7:50] Speaker 10: a deep well or chasm. Let me tell you. The
[7:53] Speaker 10: fellow that falls down here ain't never coming up. You
[7:56] Speaker 10: see this rock, I'm gonna drop it down. Have to
[8:00] Speaker 10: listen hard to hear the splash. Ready, there she goes.
[8:08] Speaker 7: Now that was that?
[8:09] Speaker 10: Now he'll be so good as the step to the exit.
[8:11] Speaker 10: There the bustle returns to Memphis and to your hotels.
[8:15] Speaker 10: They say, there's one, two, three, four, five, six seven.
[8:19] Speaker 10: Excuse me, FoST wait out there just a minute. One
[8:21] Speaker 10: of our members seem to be missing.
[8:22] Speaker 9: Here.
[8:23] Speaker 7: I'll located.
[8:24] Speaker 11: I'll be right out here.
[8:29] Speaker 10: Hey, mister mister hey there, you help, please, good heavens,
[8:47] Speaker 10: you've been staffed.
[8:48] Speaker 7: Okay, get me to a doctor creek.
[8:51] Speaker 12: But then, but I must.
[8:55] Speaker 10: Otherwise, how can I finish you off for good?
[9:09] Speaker 3: And our guyle was stabbed to death right there in the.
[9:11] Speaker 7: Cave, Peter, that's right, mister Harting, And it was my fault.
[9:13] Speaker 7: I should have gone right with our guy, no matter
[9:15] Speaker 7: what he said.
[9:15] Speaker 4: I don't blame hisself Peter, you took every reasonable precaution.
[9:18] Speaker 4: How are the plate handling the case?
[9:20] Speaker 7: All members of the tour have been questioned except the guide.
[9:23] Speaker 7: He's disappeared, so he must have been the murderer.
[9:25] Speaker 4: Peters. In my opinion that spiring isn't just being moved around,
[9:30] Speaker 4: it's being wiped out.
[9:31] Speaker 7: Well, Dave, there's one way to make sure. Let me
[9:34] Speaker 7: take our guyles place. Good idea, But how first a
[9:38] Speaker 7: swipping the papers that our guy was only wounded. Second
[9:42] Speaker 7: I enter a hospital under his name, the.
[9:45] Speaker 3: Murderer will make another try.
[9:46] Speaker 7: Peters, all right, letting, Dave, that's exactly what we want.
[10:00] Speaker 10: Nurse you said, mister Argyle, had this here, mister Argyle,
[10:15] Speaker 10: how fortunate you were to have lost nothing but little black?
[10:19] Speaker 12: May I sit down by your bed.
[10:23] Speaker 10: I was about to visit you at your hotel, mister Argyle,
[10:26] Speaker 10: when I read in the papers of the attempt on
[10:28] Speaker 10: your life in the High Mountain cave.
[10:31] Speaker 12: So I came straight here to the hospital.
[10:33] Speaker 10: I'm surprised, if I may say so, to find you
[10:36] Speaker 10: alive receiving visitors.
[10:39] Speaker 7: It was only a flesh woman, mister.
[10:41] Speaker 12: Forgiving mister Argyle.
[10:42] Speaker 10: My name is Anthony Blicks b l I X the
[10:46] Speaker 10: tri State Travel Agency. The reason I was so anxious
[10:49] Speaker 10: to see who was to give you this? Your river
[10:52] Speaker 10: steamship ticket from Memphis to New Orleans, the one you
[10:56] Speaker 10: ordered through our office.
[10:59] Speaker 7: Oh yes, yes.
[11:00] Speaker 10: The boat leaves on tuesday. Mister Argyle. Will you be
[11:04] Speaker 10: able to travel?
[11:05] Speaker 7: I think so. I take it easy.
[11:08] Speaker 12: I'm delight.
[11:11] Speaker 7: Will I be seeing you again? Mister Blick?
[11:12] Speaker 10: The world is growing so small, mister Argyle, I wouldn't
[11:15] Speaker 10: be at all surprised. Oh, by the way, we were
[11:18] Speaker 10: unable to get you a cabin entirely to yourself. I'm
[11:21] Speaker 10: sorry to say you will have a cabin made.
[11:25] Speaker 12: Good Bye.
[11:40] Speaker 3: To Aunt Bessie from Nephew Argyle. First contact made Anthony
[11:46] Speaker 3: Blick's a tri State Travel agency, Memphis. Next contact maybe
[11:50] Speaker 3: somebody on riverboat in New Orleans.
[12:06] Speaker 9: Thank you, Stewart.
[12:07] Speaker 8: Put my suit case down here, then you may go.
[12:13] Speaker 9: I beg your.
[12:14] Speaker 7: Pardon, good morning.
[12:16] Speaker 9: What are you doing in this cabin?
[12:17] Speaker 7: My ticket says I was booked in here.
[12:19] Speaker 9: Why are you lying down? Are you ill?
[12:22] Speaker 7: I'm recovering from an accidents. There was nothing ridiculous about it.
[12:27] Speaker 9: I mean, you're being booked into this cabin. When I
[12:29] Speaker 9: was booked in here too.
[12:30] Speaker 7: Obviously a mistake. Obviously I'll have myself moved around.
[12:35] Speaker 8: No, no, no, it's easier for me. You're halfway settled already.
[12:38] Speaker 8: I'll ring for the steward buttons right here.
[12:44] Speaker 9: Thank you. I'm sorry, mister Ogle. I'm sorry I was angry.
[12:53] Speaker 9: My name is Vali Arden. Are you going to stay
[12:56] Speaker 9: in New Orleans after we get there?
[12:59] Speaker 7: That's hard to say. How about you?
[13:03] Speaker 8: I live in New Orleans, mister Argyle, even though I'm English.
[13:08] Speaker 8: It's I have your next instructions. I'm reaching New Orleans.
[13:12] Speaker 8: You'll to see a man named Avery L. Clark River
[13:15] Speaker 8: Road number eight twenty one. Tell him I sent you,
[13:18] Speaker 8: and say that you're applying to the jobb he has
[13:19] Speaker 8: opened and as angels clear clear, A.
[13:24] Speaker 9: Gentlemen, it's jud well, mister Argyle. How do you hope
[13:30] Speaker 9: your fever is better?
[13:32] Speaker 7: It was a knife for massuden?
[13:34] Speaker 9: A knife? What gracious?
[13:36] Speaker 8: If I had to kill anyone, I'd use poison or
[13:38] Speaker 8: a gun, wouldn't you knives?
[13:40] Speaker 12: Or so? So?
[13:42] Speaker 9: I'm certain? Aren't there.
[13:55] Speaker 7: To aunt Petsy from nephew Argyle. Boat contact made by
[14:00] Speaker 7: one Valerie Arden. Next contact the New Orleans, Avery L.
[14:05] Speaker 7: Clark a twenty one river road to our gyle from
[14:11] Speaker 7: Aunt Bethy.
[14:13] Speaker 4: On arriving New Orleans Register Hotel explanat you will be
[14:17] Speaker 4: given room four eight four. I will be there with
[14:20] Speaker 4: Lieutenant Fabian of New Orleans Police. See you tonight.
[14:32] Speaker 7: Nice to know you, Peters or our gyle, which is it? Peters?
[14:36] Speaker 7: Will be safe Lieutenant Fabian in this hotel room anyway,
[14:38] Speaker 7: any news, mister hunting.
[14:39] Speaker 4: Well, I have ordered a complete check up on that
[14:41] Speaker 4: man Blicks back in Memphis.
[14:42] Speaker 7: Peters. I expect to report very.
[14:44] Speaker 3: Soon about Valerie Arden. Peters, she really lives here in
[14:47] Speaker 3: New Orleans, runs a high toned gift shop. About Avery
[14:51] Speaker 3: Olk Clark, all we know is that he's in the
[14:53] Speaker 3: sugar business.
[14:57] Speaker 7: Well, Dave, Valerie Arden said, I'm to talk to Clark
[15:00] Speaker 7: about going to Los Angeles.
[15:01] Speaker 12: Well, I think that's just talk.
[15:03] Speaker 7: Peters.
[15:04] Speaker 4: I'm pretty sure now that every member of this spir
[15:06] Speaker 4: ring is marked for death by its own employers abroad.
[15:10] Speaker 7: Clark may try to kill you.
[15:13] Speaker 3: I'll have to take that chance to Peters. Did either
[15:16] Speaker 3: Blicks or the woman act like they suspected you're.
[15:18] Speaker 12: Not the real Arger?
[15:19] Speaker 7: No, Lieutenant, but the guide who murdered arn giland the
[15:22] Speaker 7: Caves would know I'm not the right man.
[15:24] Speaker 4: Well that's the big risk, Peters. The blicks and the
[15:26] Speaker 4: girl have somehow been worn by the murderer. Are just
[15:29] Speaker 4: leading you are now wanted you to see Clark. The
[15:32] Speaker 4: longer I wait, the bigger the risk.
[15:34] Speaker 7: I think. I'll go right now, eight twenty one River Road.
[15:48] Speaker 11: Well what is it? What is it? Well, don't stand
[15:54] Speaker 11: there on the porch gaping.
[15:56] Speaker 7: I'm sorry, may I ask who you are.
[15:59] Speaker 11: I'm Clark's housekeeper. Come from Oklahoma, and I don't like
[16:02] Speaker 11: New Orleans, and I don't like the riff ranf it.
[16:04] Speaker 11: Comes to see mister Clark. See him, you won't to
[16:07] Speaker 11: see a guess.
[16:08] Speaker 7: Yes, my name is Argyle.
[16:10] Speaker 11: Welcome in, young man, but don't expect me to announce you.
[16:15] Speaker 11: He's in the living room. You can go right in
[16:16] Speaker 11: and an ount yourself.
[16:18] Speaker 7: All right, thank you, and tell.
[16:19] Speaker 11: Him not to ring for drink because I got the
[16:21] Speaker 11: bacon to do.
[16:28] Speaker 7: Mister Clark. Yes, my name is Argile. Come in. I
[16:38] Speaker 7: met a Valerie Arden on the boat from Memphis. She says,
[16:43] Speaker 7: you need a man for a job in Los Angeles.
[16:46] Speaker 13: Hi, girl, somebody's trying to wipe us out. They tried
[16:51] Speaker 13: to get you in Memphis, didn't they. You see first?
[16:56] Speaker 13: You now me?
[16:59] Speaker 7: You do you know who's trying it?
[17:02] Speaker 13: But individual? No, but death for everybody. That's the high
[17:08] Speaker 13: Command's way of punishing failures. Look at that double window
[17:15] Speaker 13: behind me.
[17:16] Speaker 7: One paint is broken.
[17:18] Speaker 13: Three bullets did it ten minutes ago? Those three bullets
[17:23] Speaker 13: are now in my back. Yeah, you need a doctor.
[17:27] Speaker 13: That's no use.
[17:28] Speaker 7: I'm going to die. Whether you're my friend or my
[17:32] Speaker 7: enemy or a guy up.
[17:33] Speaker 13: Never sit with your back to a window.
[17:37] Speaker 7: You better get out of here. You'll be cut for
[17:38] Speaker 7: my murder.
[17:43] Speaker 11: Clock mister Clark about the bacon, I got to say you,
[17:48] Speaker 11: what's the matter with him?
[17:50] Speaker 7: He's dead? He was murdered, Murdy, he's all blood.
[17:55] Speaker 11: You murdered him, your riprapp, You murdered him.
[17:57] Speaker 7: No, I didn't listen. I want you to call a police.
[18:00] Speaker 7: See if you didn't kill him?
[18:00] Speaker 11: Iy, don't you call him?
[18:02] Speaker 1: Where are you going?
[18:03] Speaker 7: Getting out of here? Get out your murdering.
[18:05] Speaker 11: Repret But you won't get away with murder.
[18:07] Speaker 6: I'm calling the police and I'm shotting from the hostops.
[18:10] Speaker 4: Your murdering repret that you you.
[18:20] Speaker 13: Hey, you what.
[18:25] Speaker 7: You're under arrest? Buddy? There was a murder? You under arrest?
[18:30] Speaker 7: Are you the police? Yeah? Me and my friend? Yeah?
[18:33] Speaker 7: Come on, well we got a car. Come on snapping.
[18:36] Speaker 7: I'd like to see your credentials, credentials papers to prove
[18:41] Speaker 7: your police Sure?
[18:44] Speaker 13: Hey, Banks, sure, what do you call him? Credentials? Oh
[18:50] Speaker 13: there's a credentials buddy. Come on, bank, we're taking this
[18:53] Speaker 13: to your guy for a.
[18:54] Speaker 2: Ride back to counterspy in just a moment. But first,
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[20:30] Speaker 2: And now back to Counterspy. It is late night on
[20:41] Speaker 2: the shores of Lake ponta train outside New Orleans. A
[20:45] Speaker 2: house with all blind shut stands secluded behind a grove
[20:48] Speaker 2: of cypress trees. And inside the lonely house.
[20:55] Speaker 8: Well, mister Argyle, I must say you to have a
[20:58] Speaker 8: long time to recover your senses.
[21:01] Speaker 7: Oh miss Valerie Aan you the one who hit me
[21:07] Speaker 7: on the head.
[21:07] Speaker 8: God gracious, no, miss Argyle, that was Bing for your information.
[21:12] Speaker 8: We're in my house and both Bing and George are
[21:14] Speaker 8: in the very next room.
[21:16] Speaker 7: That's interesting.
[21:18] Speaker 9: I rode alongsome brandy. I thought you might need it.
[21:21] Speaker 7: How about you?
[21:22] Speaker 12: Oh?
[21:23] Speaker 9: I don't need a drink. I haven't committed a.
[21:26] Speaker 7: Murder, meaning Clark, who did it?
[21:31] Speaker 12: You me?
[21:36] Speaker 7: You know better than that.
[21:38] Speaker 9: Your men must have been watching Clark's housekeepers said.
[21:40] Speaker 7: You did it, so he grabbed her too. You worked fast.
[21:44] Speaker 8: I couldn't afford to have us screeching all over New Orleans,
[21:47] Speaker 8: neither until I was sure her.
[21:48] Speaker 9: Screeching was useful.
[21:50] Speaker 7: Useful.
[21:52] Speaker 9: You're a court to spy, aren't you, mister Argyle?
[21:55] Speaker 7: If I were a countess spy, I wouldn't have shot
[21:57] Speaker 7: Clark out of arrested him, wuldn't. I? Clark told me
[22:01] Speaker 7: somebody was trying to wipe all of us out? Is
[22:05] Speaker 7: that you?
[22:05] Speaker 9: It's crazy?
[22:06] Speaker 7: Not anymore.
[22:06] Speaker 9: He's dead, but it's a wild idea. It's absolutely fantastic.
[22:10] Speaker 7: Who's next? Blicks?
[22:12] Speaker 9: You saw Blicks in Memphis?
[22:13] Speaker 7: Didn't you in the hospital? Yes, but you were in
[22:16] Speaker 7: Memphis too. You could have arranged my little knifing. You
[22:19] Speaker 7: could have shot Clark tonight.
[22:22] Speaker 8: Mister o girl, I think I will have some Brande
[22:25] Speaker 8: with pleasure.
[22:29] Speaker 9: Thank you.
[22:31] Speaker 7: You're really scared, aren't you? So? I guess it's not
[22:35] Speaker 7: you who's trying to wipe us out. It's Blicks.
[22:38] Speaker 9: It's our gyle.
[22:40] Speaker 8: Why couldn't you be the one sent out from the
[22:42] Speaker 8: Home Office to get rid of us all?
[22:44] Speaker 3: If I were, why would I have stabbed myself back
[22:46] Speaker 3: in that Tennessee cave.
[22:47] Speaker 9: Wounds can be faked. Where were you knife?
[22:52] Speaker 7: Here in the side right there? Oh, it's really trick
[22:58] Speaker 7: to hit me there.
[23:00] Speaker 9: It's sure you were knife?
[23:01] Speaker 7: Yes, haven't you knocks out your theory of my being
[23:05] Speaker 7: the official killer.
[23:06] Speaker 8: But not of your being a counter spy. Maybe you
[23:09] Speaker 8: could fool Blicks alone or me alone, but not the
[23:12] Speaker 8: two of us together.
[23:14] Speaker 9: Suppose we settle that now tonight?
[23:16] Speaker 7: How blocks his way up in Memphis?
[23:19] Speaker 12: Oh?
[23:19] Speaker 8: No, he arrived here in New Orleans this morning, and
[23:22] Speaker 8: in a few.
[23:23] Speaker 9: Minutes he can be here.
[23:24] Speaker 8: We can find out whether he murders Clark and whether
[23:27] Speaker 8: or not you're a counter spy. I shall phone him,
[23:30] Speaker 8: mister Argyle. Meantime, have another drink, won't you?
[23:49] Speaker 7: Harding speaking? Go ahead? But I got bad news. That's here.
[23:54] Speaker 3: We saw Peters come out of Clark's house fast, but
[23:57] Speaker 3: before he could reach U, two men grabbed him and
[23:59] Speaker 3: took him all.
[24:01] Speaker 7: Did you follow him?
[24:01] Speaker 3: How he lost him on a turn, mister Harding. So
[24:04] Speaker 3: we went back to the house, found Clark shut the tent.
[24:07] Speaker 4: Any idea where Peters is no But I'm on my
[24:10] Speaker 4: way to your headquarters with a report on Blicks from Memphis.
[24:13] Speaker 4: He was the one who abducted the real guide in
[24:15] Speaker 4: the caves, took his place and murdered our guyle.
[24:18] Speaker 3: But Blicks knows Peters is not our guy. Lucky they
[24:22] Speaker 3: caught him in Memphis.
[24:23] Speaker 4: They didn't catch him in Memphis, Lieutenant. He's probably here
[24:26] Speaker 4: in New Orleans right now, and he's the one who
[24:28] Speaker 4: knows that Peters is a plant. We've got to find
[24:31] Speaker 4: him and stay close to him, or Peters won't live
[24:33] Speaker 4: out the night.
[24:48] Speaker 10: My dear Valerie, how exquisite you look as Organs.
[24:52] Speaker 9: Hello, Blick, He've been waiting for you.
[24:55] Speaker 10: And mister our guyle. As I suggested in Memphis. It
[24:58] Speaker 10: is a small.
[24:59] Speaker 7: World and getting smaller, Flicks.
[25:03] Speaker 8: Something's gone seriously wrong among us. Clark was killed earlier tonight. Oh,
[25:09] Speaker 8: perhaps because he become too expensive like U clicks and
[25:13] Speaker 8: me and mister Argyle.
[25:16] Speaker 12: I wasn't aware that mister Argyle so expensive.
[25:19] Speaker 9: He is if he's really a counter spy, she's crazy. Flicks.
[25:24] Speaker 8: You ought to know you saw Argyle in Memphis. He
[25:28] Speaker 8: is a count of spy. Being in Georgia handy, they
[25:30] Speaker 8: can take care of him tonight.
[25:31] Speaker 10: Well, are being ridiculous? I trust mister Argyle as much as.
[25:36] Speaker 12: I trust you?
[25:37] Speaker 8: And how much is that? If our gas to be trusted?
[25:40] Speaker 8: Then who tried to kill him? Who murder Clark?
[25:44] Speaker 9: Flicks? Have you been sent here to get rid of us?
[25:47] Speaker 7: All?
[25:49] Speaker 10: What I heard a Carrent said for your men in
[25:51] Speaker 10: the front room. I want to ask them about the car.
[25:53] Speaker 10: Please trust me that it go and see very well,
[26:02] Speaker 10: Miss Narguyle, always a second. Both our lives depend on.
[26:05] Speaker 10: I know you're not really Argyle. I've known since I
[26:08] Speaker 10: saw you in the hospital in Memphis. I realized then
[26:10] Speaker 10: that my game was up, so I since you were
[26:12] Speaker 10: a longed to meet Valerie Clark purposely as evidence of
[26:16] Speaker 10: my good will. You are a counter spy, don't you?
[26:20] Speaker 7: What if I were?
[26:21] Speaker 10: I am ready to tell you everything you want to
[26:23] Speaker 10: know about this spy group in exchange for your letting
[26:26] Speaker 10: me go free.
[26:28] Speaker 7: So you're the man sent out to wipe off this group.
[26:30] Speaker 10: Huh the information the reel Argyle cent has turned out
[26:33] Speaker 10: all wrong.
[26:34] Speaker 12: All of us are supposed to pay for them.
[26:36] Speaker 7: You don't add uplicks if you've been betraying your own
[26:39] Speaker 7: friends by exposing Valerie and Clark to me, why did
[26:43] Speaker 7: you murder Clark?
[26:43] Speaker 10: A shrewd question, mister Angyle or whatever your real name is. Frankly,
[26:48] Speaker 10: I thought it best to the last moment to make
[26:50] Speaker 10: myself look good both to my own people at home
[26:54] Speaker 10: and to you. Whatever happened, I'd have a good story
[26:58] Speaker 10: to tell it.
[26:59] Speaker 7: Smart boy.
[27:00] Speaker 10: Now, if you're really a counter spy, let me go free.
[27:03] Speaker 10: I can save us both from this woman those two
[27:05] Speaker 10: plug uglies. If not, I'll have to kill you.
[27:11] Speaker 7: Now. Did you really hear Caratzan?
[27:14] Speaker 12: Of course not. What's your answer?
[27:17] Speaker 7: I'm sure I hear akha? Maybe two?
[27:18] Speaker 10: You are feeding my question, mister Argyle. That means that
[27:21] Speaker 10: you are not a counter spy. Yes, I see, I've
[27:24] Speaker 10: made a mistake that's easily corrected with the gun.
[27:28] Speaker 7: God your gun drop it quick, got.
[27:34] Speaker 3: Sorry, I was Peter's all right? Now, how about the
[27:37] Speaker 3: woman Plu Telapabian.
[27:38] Speaker 4: These men are out front, they've already got hern or
[27:40] Speaker 4: two gunmen, and here we've got the murderer of our
[27:43] Speaker 4: gyle and of Clark.
[27:44] Speaker 10: Haven't a way, mister Harding, you mistake me. I just
[27:47] Speaker 10: made an important offer to this gentleman. Here a full report, legs.
[27:51] Speaker 4: I'll make you an offer. You give us that full
[27:53] Speaker 4: report and we'll see that it reaches the government that
[27:55] Speaker 4: employed you. They wanted this ring wiped out. Now you
[27:58] Speaker 4: can report complete six less with some help from the
[28:01] Speaker 4: counter spies.
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[28:51] Speaker 2: Pepsi's Tune in every Tuesday and Thursday, same time, same
[28:55] Speaker 2: station to counter Spy. Listen next Tuesday for the exciting
[29:00] Speaker 2: spy case of a cold blooded professor.
[29:03] Speaker 4: The secret seller that hid the mysterious inventions of a
[29:07] Speaker 4: calculating killer, the dark patches on the square film that
[29:11] Speaker 4: indicated the suspect would visit a certain type of store,
[29:15] Speaker 4: and the hit and run victim who used a leg
[29:17] Speaker 4: hook and kick to catch the carrier of vitriolic acid
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[30:09] Speaker 1: Welcome back, Well another very solid spy adventure with Peters
[30:15] Speaker 1: getting into some serious jeopardy here. Blex made for an
[30:22] Speaker 1: interesting villain. I loved his answer to Peter's asking if
[30:29] Speaker 1: he would see bles again, although that doesn't mean he
[30:33] Speaker 1: was particularly good at his job. In retrospect, he seems
[30:38] Speaker 1: a poor choice for this task, given that he started
[30:42] Speaker 1: looking for the exit as soon as it became clear
[30:47] Speaker 1: that Counterspy was in some way involved. I did like
[30:52] Speaker 1: the housekeeper as well, even though I don't know maybe
[30:56] Speaker 1: she would identify me as referred to comments and feedback.
[31:01] Speaker 1: Now and we go to Spotify, where we have a
[31:05] Speaker 1: comment from Dawn regarding the episode Desert Explosion, another successful
[31:11] Speaker 1: caper by the Central Federal and Intelligence Bureau Agency of Investigations. Well,
[31:19] Speaker 1: I think that's fair. It's kind of suggesting that this
[31:23] Speaker 1: Counterspy at this point is kind of an amalgamation of
[31:28] Speaker 1: the FBI and the CIA, though I think most functions
[31:33] Speaker 1: of Counterspy we've heard so far could just be handled
[31:37] Speaker 1: by the FBI. Well, now it's time to thank our
[31:41] Speaker 1: Patreon supporter of the day, and I want to go
[31:44] Speaker 1: ahead and thank Doc, Patreon supporter since May twenty nineteen,
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