# Counterspy: Hot Car Killer (A0114)

An episode of [The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio| Daily Mystery Dramas](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/335549005), 15 Aug 2026, 36 min.

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Today's Adventure: David Harding investigates an interstate stolen-car racket after a detective working undercover is murdered. The trail leads to a former race-car driver with a dangerous reputation and a criminal organization determined to keep its operation - and the identity of its leader - hidden. Original Radio Broadcast: September 15, 1949 Originating from New YorkCast: • Don MacLaughlin as David Harding • Mandel Kramer as Harry Peters • Directed by William M. Sweets • Music by Jesse Crawford • A Phillips H. Lord production for Pepsi-Cola To subscribe to this podcast and, go to https://greatadventures.info/ Become one of our ongoing Patreon supporters at https://patreon.greatdetectives.net Patreon supporter of the Day: Dinah, Patreon supporter since October 2025. Support the show on a one-time basis at http://support.greatdetectives.net. Mail a donation to: Adam Graham, PO Box 15913, Boise, Idaho 83715 Take the listener survey at http://survey.greatdetectives.net Give us a call at 208-991-4783 Follow us on Instagram at http://instagram.com/greatdetectives Follow us on Twitter @radiodetectives

## Transcript

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[0:59] Speaker 1: from September fifteenth, nineteen boarding nine, here is Hot care Killer.
[1:10] Speaker 2: That's the Cold P E P S I. That's yours,
[1:13] Speaker 2: Marcus quarter Bye. That's the present counts Flying.
[1:30] Speaker 3: David Honey, Cover Fly Washington, Calling David Honey, counter.
[1:35] Speaker 4: Fly Harding, Countersply Calling Washington.
[1:45] Speaker 5: United States counter Especially appointed to investigate and come back
[1:51] Speaker 5: the enemies in all countries over at home.
[1:54] Speaker 4: And abroad.
[2:00] Speaker 2: By the case of a hot car killer. Another counterspy
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[2:57] Speaker 2: A bright breast ball afternoon around the track raw a
[3:00] Speaker 2: dozen low slung racing cars, sudden death and an added passenger,
[3:04] Speaker 2: and every one axles brush on the straightaway, tires scream
[3:08] Speaker 2: as they skid, un turned, then straightened out again. Oh man,
[3:16] Speaker 2: I'm wearing the armband of an official of the track.
[3:18] Speaker 2: Run to the pit of car number eighteen.
[3:22] Speaker 6: All he's driving, go stay, what's the matter? This is
[3:27] Speaker 6: sagging out full of moss. He's like the way I
[3:29] Speaker 6: said to stop him.
[3:30] Speaker 4: Now, he's just coming in the straight way. He's just
[3:32] Speaker 4: flag you can okay, Ann got you old he is?
[3:43] Speaker 6: He's just track when not call a dancers? You're responsible
[3:46] Speaker 6: drivers like you. By formidding you to finish this race,
[3:49] Speaker 6: I was going to see you with a boss from
[3:50] Speaker 6: every other tack in the country. Now get yourself in your.
[3:53] Speaker 4: Collar in a hurry. Holy smoke, Joe, what are you
[3:58] Speaker 4: gonna do now? No problem, not gonna you off. My
[4:01] Speaker 4: futures all taken care of. I got a wonderful, beautiful
[4:05] Speaker 4: connection there, red hair.
[4:16] Speaker 7: Hello, Hello, honey, Yo, Joe's darling. He's if I didn't
[4:22] Speaker 7: know he coming to New York.
[4:24] Speaker 4: I got a Laura. I've been bounce off the track for.
[4:26] Speaker 7: Good, Joe.
[4:28] Speaker 4: After I take a good long looking for you, I'm
[4:30] Speaker 4: gonna need eat some money.
[4:31] Speaker 8: You got any.
[4:31] Speaker 7: Ideas, Georgia. I'm a business career woman.
[4:34] Speaker 9: Now I'm a secretary private secretary to a corporation. The
[4:39] Speaker 9: corporation is five ft eight, one hundred and fifty pounds,
[4:41] Speaker 9: with gray hair and a big stats bank account.
[4:45] Speaker 7: Please that to me, Joe, I'll get your job at
[4:46] Speaker 7: my corporation. I'm going over this department now, show it's
[4:50] Speaker 7: a penthouse with overstuffed here stopped as marshmallows.
[4:53] Speaker 4: A view of New York.
[4:54] Speaker 9: There's only one real trouble with the job. He's playing
[4:58] Speaker 9: at shirt and phonograph record and again and again.
[5:01] Speaker 4: And Laura, you've been staring out of that window for
[5:16] Speaker 4: an hour.
[5:17] Speaker 7: Have you always fascinate me?
[5:19] Speaker 10: Maybe you'd rather be down there among those lives with
[5:21] Speaker 10: some younger man like the one you asked.
[5:25] Speaker 4: Me to hire.
[5:26] Speaker 7: I'm your secretary, mister. Besides, young men bore me to
[5:32] Speaker 7: be with or to work force.
[5:34] Speaker 4: Well, how lucky for me, I should hate losing you
[5:37] Speaker 4: as a secretary.
[5:38] Speaker 7: You will, mister Brusters. You don't stop that phonograph sometimes
[5:43] Speaker 7: very well.
[5:45] Speaker 4: I pray that music constantly, Laura, because the orchestra was
[5:48] Speaker 4: playing at the night you and I first mess. Haven't
[5:51] Speaker 4: you any such memories with Joe Stacey, for instance?
[5:56] Speaker 7: I live in the present, not the past, mister Bruce's
[6:02] Speaker 7: a warning. But someone's coming up in the elevator.
[6:04] Speaker 4: Suppose you let them up from me? Just this one.
[6:07] Speaker 4: I don't know how on my desk there. Yes, the first.
[6:11] Speaker 10: Button is the intercom to the elevator. Presses that stops
[6:15] Speaker 10: the warning buzzer. Now you can talk to whoever's in
[6:18] Speaker 10: the elevator while it's held.
[6:18] Speaker 4: On the floor. Below that innercom box on the list, Yes.
[6:24] Speaker 9: Yes, who is it?
[6:28] Speaker 4: Oh?
[6:29] Speaker 10: Yes, say we're bringing you up now.
[6:32] Speaker 4: The button on the right starts the elevator again to
[6:34] Speaker 4: bring him here to the top floor.
[6:38] Speaker 7: Why is that young steer coming here?
[6:43] Speaker 10: Because he and I have a little surprise for you.
[6:47] Speaker 10: Come evening, mister, and only one there. Hello, I've brought
[6:53] Speaker 10: the latest patch of papers for you, mister, all in
[6:56] Speaker 10: good order, yep. Ownership papers a big total wreck that
[6:58] Speaker 10: I brought in for Mike Young guards. You buick a
[7:01] Speaker 10: Chavy or four two Ponti eggs, all from the way well,
[7:04] Speaker 10: all plentiful models and relatively easy to steal.
[7:07] Speaker 4: Fine.
[7:07] Speaker 10: As soon as the cars come in, I can turn
[7:09] Speaker 10: them over to you and you use car sails them
[7:11] Speaker 10: day in a weekend.
[7:12] Speaker 9: It's the booster and a strangers to It's all the
[7:14] Speaker 9: stolen cause of the ordinary use causing the salesman.
[7:17] Speaker 10: That's the left miss month Fair. It's mutest cover up
[7:19] Speaker 10: that was ever in this record Hot cars cooled off.
[7:24] Speaker 4: Okay, it's a bres that leans me up here. I'm
[7:26] Speaker 4: on my left. Said, instead, if you're going for the
[7:29] Speaker 4: very hour, you go to your garage and wait there.
[7:34] Speaker 4: I'll keep that a point. Ah okay, Laura, the elevator
[7:38] Speaker 4: release button, Bree, good night, miss Monday.
[7:41] Speaker 7: Nice. Nice, it's the brewster. You couldn't tell me to
[7:49] Speaker 7: surprise you on the stag head for me.
[7:52] Speaker 4: I've decided to take your childhood sprind just safely into
[7:56] Speaker 4: my auganization bringing stolen cars from other city.
[8:00] Speaker 7: Oh oh, then who's the one? He's coming in on
[8:04] Speaker 7: the Ferris and instead of the says you're going to
[8:07] Speaker 7: meet a new staff, isbout it?
[8:08] Speaker 4: I'm curious about him? Laura, an old friend who so
[8:13] Speaker 4: spot they turned out to be an expert car seat.
[8:18] Speaker 4: I'll tell bab what's the quickest way for me to
[8:20] Speaker 4: get to that Paris? I wish you gotta like I
[8:38] Speaker 4: think so they think, never say no? And then who
[8:45] Speaker 4: supports himself? Here's a car second in line. You were
[8:50] Speaker 4: instructured to be first. A truck cut out in front
[8:53] Speaker 4: of me. I thought you will form a racing drive
[8:55] Speaker 4: playoff versus O ye. Laura Montclayer said, you would bet
[8:59] Speaker 4: you about having ruled off the side, But I am.
[9:02] Speaker 4: You will find we'll get along if you carry out instruction, Spacey,
[9:07] Speaker 4: if you don't cheat your mouth off when you leave
[9:10] Speaker 4: the ferry drive to the garage at eight sixteen East
[9:13] Speaker 4: twenty eighth pick up of shades to see through his
[9:17] Speaker 4: junkyard in New Jersey. Okay, that's the phase. Look like,
[9:23] Speaker 4: Oh about your hat with an entirely black instet and
[9:28] Speaker 4: do I see you again? Bust This will be our
[9:30] Speaker 4: only meat white one. Laura talks so highly of you.
[9:35] Speaker 4: I wonder fire, jurious, ruston or jealous as you so
[9:43] Speaker 4: picturesquely put it space in lay off. I'm a trifle
[9:48] Speaker 4: touching myself. Goodbye, h.
[10:02] Speaker 7: Hello talk he has he returned from the starry listen.
[10:08] Speaker 4: I went back to my garage before me and on
[10:11] Speaker 4: my ass, and I had a new guy.
[10:12] Speaker 11: And I fathered him for the cop.
[10:16] Speaker 6: The company is there now, and you gotta head you
[10:19] Speaker 6: stay up?
[10:20] Speaker 4: Can you do it?
[10:21] Speaker 7: No? I can't, It's too late. You must see at
[10:23] Speaker 7: the garage right now. Oh I afird?
[10:46] Speaker 4: All right, Joe, come one out of the star. You
[10:49] Speaker 4: look fraid. Yeah, one out of the stars.
[10:54] Speaker 11: Come on.
[10:56] Speaker 4: You much bet paid? Oh man, that's come out not
[10:59] Speaker 4: a covered view.
[11:26] Speaker 5: Attention all countered final personnel in Washington, Lton received from
[11:32] Speaker 5: New York Field Office.
[11:34] Speaker 4: Refer to count fine final.
[11:37] Speaker 3: X New York detective Garry Winners found murdered and garage.
[11:43] Speaker 4: At eight one six eight twenty Street. Further information being
[11:48] Speaker 4: rushed here by New York police. No clue to kill
[11:52] Speaker 4: her at yet.
[11:56] Speaker 11: David Harding to Harry Peters. Meet me at the airport
[11:59] Speaker 11: in exactly half an hour. We're flying to New York. Peter,
[12:11] Speaker 11: you saw the message about the murder of protected Jerry Winters.
[12:14] Speaker 4: Yes, David, I.
[12:15] Speaker 11: Didn't want to make of it. Read this letter Peters,
[12:18] Speaker 11: Winter's division chief. Still a type it in.
[12:22] Speaker 4: Yes.
[12:22] Speaker 11: Gee, I'm scribbling this in a hurry in a cheap
[12:25] Speaker 11: boarding house, since I may not get a chance to
[12:27] Speaker 11: write again. I've made a connection that may get me
[12:30] Speaker 11: a job in a garage that's a trendsfer point for
[12:32] Speaker 11: that interstate stolen car racket we're investigating with the counters fides.
[12:37] Speaker 11: I'll know details tonight and we'll record times. Jerry Winters
[12:41] Speaker 11: when'd you get this day this morning, right after the
[12:44] Speaker 11: notice from New York of his murder. You must have
[12:47] Speaker 11: gotten a job then been covered so closely he couldn't
[12:50] Speaker 11: even make a phone call here. When New York police
[12:53] Speaker 11: are covering every angle they can hit. The first thing
[12:55] Speaker 11: we'll do is find who's comb.
[12:57] Speaker 2: That garage.
[13:12] Speaker 4: Day. I've been interviewing all the.
[13:13] Speaker 11: Employees in a strong so they all swear that if
[13:15] Speaker 11: there was anything crooked going on here, they didn't know
[13:17] Speaker 11: a thing about it. How about the owner, his name
[13:20] Speaker 11: is George les say? They say, they rarely seem and
[13:23] Speaker 11: nobody knows where he might be right now. How you
[13:25] Speaker 11: making out well? I've been working with the examination crew.
[13:28] Speaker 4: Take a look at this.
[13:29] Speaker 11: Concrete killer figures the concrete jobs dot about two feet
[13:37] Speaker 11: ups from the floor. But as if the contract in it, Yeah,
[13:40] Speaker 11: from one of the employees I talked to earlier that
[13:42] Speaker 11: it must have happened during the night, and how does
[13:45] Speaker 11: that help us? Well, take a look at her through
[13:46] Speaker 11: this pocket magnifier like the Saints two colored. Benson of
[13:53] Speaker 11: the examination crew says, some of the reflects a brown
[13:56] Speaker 11: paint over a year old, and these other reflects of
[13:58] Speaker 11: light blue paints. For the top, so the freshly repainted
[14:01] Speaker 11: can and that's one of the first steps of an
[14:03] Speaker 11: efficient hot car. Offer Peter to give a stolen cars
[14:05] Speaker 11: a quick repaint. From where there's a car with a
[14:08] Speaker 11: vendor defender brown paint underneath blue paint over us. I
[14:12] Speaker 11: want to put out a fast bullet them and find
[14:14] Speaker 11: that car.
[14:29] Speaker 7: I'm waiting for you in the safe to tell me
[14:31] Speaker 7: how you're going to.
[14:31] Speaker 4: Help Joe station this mon stacy safe in my junkyard
[14:35] Speaker 4: over in Jersey Betimes, Laura. He sounds like a man
[14:38] Speaker 4: who helps himself.
[14:40] Speaker 7: I introduced him to you, mister Bruce. He killed a
[14:43] Speaker 7: detective to protect your rackets.
[14:44] Speaker 4: Who've got to help him on his account?
[14:48] Speaker 7: On yours? And Mark, I wonder if.
[14:51] Speaker 4: I can afford to have a cup skill in my organization.
[14:55] Speaker 7: How are you getting that it is?
[14:57] Speaker 4: Remember what happened to White? He driving along a mountain
[15:01] Speaker 4: road in his car when over the side of a
[15:02] Speaker 4: crystal accidental. Laura, I won't help him to Brusa, Laura,
[15:07] Speaker 4: my dear safety nose in custody. You're going to invite
[15:11] Speaker 4: him for a ride and a safe. You got him
[15:15] Speaker 4: into our organization. It don't miss it.
[15:18] Speaker 10: In Hey, see say it eased mountain road tact Ricky
[15:38] Speaker 10: went worry in Let's say, but.
[15:39] Speaker 4: You had a few drinks and like and drive with
[15:42] Speaker 4: my eyes shut?
[15:42] Speaker 7: Maybe, Job, I would like to be with you when
[15:45] Speaker 7: you try it. Why don't we pull over for a while?
[15:49] Speaker 4: They need to say, baby, what a wonderful view.
[16:01] Speaker 7: That train looks small to look here like a toy.
[16:06] Speaker 4: The guy you drove us Cliff easy in a cry.
[16:10] Speaker 4: It wouldn't rail, wouldn't hold a week's sleep. You're you're
[16:15] Speaker 4: some kiddos. You're put up your.
[16:17] Speaker 7: Hands for sake?
[16:19] Speaker 4: What is it? It means you're going to have the
[16:20] Speaker 4: accident of that you and Bruce cooked up for me. Sorry,
[16:23] Speaker 4: you're a double crossing brewster. And he's stuck on him.
[16:26] Speaker 7: I'm not stuck on I take his nonsense now so
[16:29] Speaker 7: I can take a lot of his money later.
[16:32] Speaker 4: All right, Joe can give me a chance, give me
[16:34] Speaker 4: a break.
[16:38] Speaker 7: Quick, get your identification papers in his pocket.
[16:41] Speaker 9: Duty, make sure you get everything that identifies from his
[16:44] Speaker 9: George is safe?
[16:47] Speaker 4: What weller.
[16:50] Speaker 7: Take a kid? Never mind that well? Was he over
[16:53] Speaker 7: his cloth.
[16:58] Speaker 4: A salute?
[17:00] Speaker 7: Sorry he's coming to stop again. Can you get the
[17:06] Speaker 7: car over the clipp Alan, I don't want my fingerprints,
[17:08] Speaker 7: so what about mine?
[17:10] Speaker 4: More?
[17:10] Speaker 7: Prince, you are sure the police will be it with
[17:12] Speaker 7: you the crash?
[17:13] Speaker 4: Okay, dadie, how you get? I can't go. I'll slatter
[17:18] Speaker 4: into a skid. I'm good at that, and jump. Get
[17:21] Speaker 4: that door open, right, all right before another cock?
[17:24] Speaker 7: I'm the last.
[17:25] Speaker 4: Take it easy, baby, got show. Come in just a moment.
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[19:14] Speaker 4: Back to convers five.
[19:20] Speaker 3: Routine report to Statistical Department, Washington received from State Police,
[19:25] Speaker 3: New Jersey at counters by.
[19:26] Speaker 4: New York Field Office.
[19:28] Speaker 8: Fatal contract or Highway six A car identified as having
[19:33] Speaker 8: been stolen four days ago in Baltimore, Maryland. Relay this
[19:37] Speaker 8: bulloting to David Harding now in New York.
[19:44] Speaker 10: File copy of instructions hiding Theeters check on that stolen.
[19:48] Speaker 4: Car and Highway six A accident.
[19:55] Speaker 3: Peters, according to hunting Rick, almost complete, but left fender
[19:59] Speaker 3: shows them corresponding to gash and concrete pillar and let's
[20:02] Speaker 3: say undercoat of paint brown, outer coat blue. They con
[20:09] Speaker 3: tentitively identified from fingerprints on car and papers as one
[20:13] Speaker 3: Joe Stacey fingerprints.
[20:15] Speaker 4: Forward and the walking still interested in the bright lights
[20:36] Speaker 4: down there, Laura the.
[20:38] Speaker 7: Ghost stating among now, mister buster, I know.
[20:42] Speaker 4: It is difficult for you, Laura, stay for me. I
[20:47] Speaker 4: had no trust neither did I.
[20:52] Speaker 7: You so often said yourself. We're in a tough racket,
[20:57] Speaker 7: aren't we.
[21:08] Speaker 11: Dave Washington reported yet on Joe Stacy. Yes, but the
[21:11] Speaker 11: fingerprints on the body in that smash car were not
[21:14] Speaker 11: those of Joe Stacey, who then George le Sage was safe.
[21:19] Speaker 11: What's the name we were looking for? He owned the garage,
[21:22] Speaker 11: who detected windows was murdered. That's right, murdered by Joe Stacey.
[21:26] Speaker 4: Stacy. How do you figure? Now?
[21:27] Speaker 11: Somebody took a great deal of trouble to make us
[21:29] Speaker 11: think Stacey was dead, and that would suit Stacy very well. Besides,
[21:33] Speaker 11: look at his record.
[21:35] Speaker 12: Bracing driver ruled off the trunks for dangerous and crooked driving,
[21:39] Speaker 12: hold up giant to spend his sentences calling an officer.
[21:42] Speaker 4: Thirty days bad boy.
[21:45] Speaker 11: Yes, but it's hardly probable a hot head like Stafey
[21:47] Speaker 11: is the boss of the entire rocket, nor that Lesage was.
[21:51] Speaker 11: We're looking for the top man, Peters and Stacey might
[21:54] Speaker 11: lead you to him, lead me to him. You're going
[21:57] Speaker 11: under cover feeds to locate Stacey. Then we can sell
[22:00] Speaker 11: the trap.
[22:17] Speaker 4: So I'm worried. What about me?
[22:20] Speaker 7: I don't think it's safe for us to meet. It's
[22:21] Speaker 7: such a public place.
[22:22] Speaker 4: For I got a seven in my pocket. It's just
[22:26] Speaker 4: a new mistakesis president. The papers are full of pictures
[22:30] Speaker 4: of the wreck I got killed two days ago.
[22:32] Speaker 9: Remember, Joe Brust will be wanting to see the fakes too,
[22:34] Speaker 9: And then there the other man.
[22:38] Speaker 13: Yeah, wouldn't the platform, it's such, that's right next morning.
[22:42] Speaker 13: So Peak Williams was the guy I met last night
[22:47] Speaker 13: right here, the baristat shooting up.
[22:49] Speaker 4: It's not about racing drivers getting a little log of him.
[22:52] Speaker 4: It turns out to be an all right guy. He's
[22:54] Speaker 4: in the same record.
[22:54] Speaker 7: He's sure, he's all right.
[22:56] Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, it's a lot of the same people
[22:57] Speaker 4: I do o the tay see they're going over to
[22:59] Speaker 4: Bruce the apartment, Davy. I'll call you late it okay,
[23:03] Speaker 4: so wrong, honey, hellout, Pete? What goes? I got a
[23:21] Speaker 4: tip for a guy. What guy? A guy named Joe Stacey.
[23:25] Speaker 4: Joe Stacey's dead. I read in the paper.
[23:28] Speaker 12: If he isn't already Maybe he's going to be what's
[23:31] Speaker 12: the tip? The finger is getting put on him by
[23:34] Speaker 12: his boy?
[23:35] Speaker 4: But what if I got says the boss.
[23:38] Speaker 12: I already figured out it wasn't Jill Stacy in that wreck,
[23:41] Speaker 12: but a bird named George Lusade. He figures it with Stacy.
[23:45] Speaker 12: How do you know that boss has been trying to
[23:48] Speaker 12: contact a couple of tiggurements in Chicago?
[23:51] Speaker 4: Why are you telling me? I hate hot tips to
[23:55] Speaker 4: go to win? Can I reach you later? Saying about
[23:58] Speaker 4: an hour?
[23:59] Speaker 7: I mean?
[23:59] Speaker 4: Will you want me to be matter? What here? What
[24:01] Speaker 4: will you do for me? I'll come back and get you.
[24:05] Speaker 4: It's sober? Sure? H Hello, oh honey, it's Joe. Listen.
[24:23] Speaker 4: You were right to be leery of that guy Pete
[24:25] Speaker 4: Williams to try to taper on me. But he tells
[24:28] Speaker 4: me Bruce the court On of the rector. He's not
[24:30] Speaker 4: hiring guys to take care of me. What did Jeric?
[24:33] Speaker 4: How do you figure? Well? How do you have Bruce
[24:36] Speaker 4: the court On already? You know about it, wouldn't you? Well,
[24:39] Speaker 4: wouldn't you?
[24:41] Speaker 7: I've been thinking I've got a scheme boy to get
[24:44] Speaker 7: for the Bruce, to get some bill and take care
[24:46] Speaker 7: of your friends tonight.
[24:47] Speaker 4: Always want Dave Peters, I've landed Stacy. Did he reveal
[25:04] Speaker 4: who the boss is? No, but he's pulling in on
[25:06] Speaker 4: his scheme of revenge on the boss. We're going to
[25:09] Speaker 4: hold him up. Then Stacy plans to kill him. He
[25:12] Speaker 4: goes behind you with one of our mobile squads. We'll
[25:15] Speaker 4: break it up in time. Well, it may not be
[25:16] Speaker 4: easy day. The boss lives in a penthouse and has
[25:19] Speaker 4: some tricky system to control the elevator. Stacy's girlfriend is
[25:23] Speaker 4: on the double. Cross the boss and let us in.
[25:26] Speaker 4: Then you'll have to find some way of letting out
[25:27] Speaker 4: to him. When's the job said for eleven o'clock to night?
[25:51] Speaker 7: What time was that? Mister Bruce?
[25:53] Speaker 4: Hey elever, do you see him restless love board with
[25:58] Speaker 4: your johns?
[26:00] Speaker 7: To believe me, I was never less forward with it.
[26:03] Speaker 4: Someone's in the yelement, not expecting anyone. I'll find out
[26:09] Speaker 4: who it is.
[26:10] Speaker 7: Bruce, stay away from that in the car or.
[26:13] Speaker 4: What's the meaning of that Gun's Laura's as you said,
[26:23] Speaker 4: sut down by the desk, Laura, what is the meaning
[26:25] Speaker 4: of this? Shut up in a flash? I thought you
[26:31] Speaker 4: then Laura told let they act Bruce. I know about
[26:34] Speaker 4: the wood. You were trying to get the running out
[26:35] Speaker 4: rough you what I tell you? I thought you were dead.
[26:37] Speaker 4: You're a lion Brews Bay See who is this other man?
[26:40] Speaker 4: Said Williams. The guy put a finger on you for
[26:42] Speaker 4: putting a finger on me. Now this man is tricking you.
[26:44] Speaker 4: I sweat.
[26:45] Speaker 7: Wait, maybe Bruce is telling the truth. Maybe he did.
[26:49] Speaker 7: We're going to find out meantime. I'm holding the gun
[26:55] Speaker 7: in the right hand draw of the desk accommodation of
[26:57] Speaker 7: the Stay.
[26:59] Speaker 4: Bruce, take a little trip. Just stay in here, Laura.
[27:02] Speaker 4: You can't leave me for this cheap bud. All right?
[27:09] Speaker 4: Take it open.
[27:10] Speaker 7: Yeah, that's just over there on the wall. Chase Now
[27:14] Speaker 7: I can turn that music off of good.
[27:21] Speaker 4: Borrow.
[27:21] Speaker 7: What's the brother? Someone's in the elevator.
[27:25] Speaker 4: I gotta choo, get out of the way.
[27:30] Speaker 2: The elevator.
[27:31] Speaker 4: Come, how do we get out back to the roof?
[27:33] Speaker 4: Come on, you don't sus run? How do you know
[27:36] Speaker 4: who it is?
[27:37] Speaker 7: What? He's right? We'll play where it is. We invite
[27:41] Speaker 7: and we put the street the girl by the way.
[27:43] Speaker 7: You've done, mom, Yeah, you go get by the elevators.
[27:47] Speaker 4: Now hold everything.
[27:52] Speaker 10: There is nobody in the elevator, so quick, all everything,
[27:55] Speaker 10: all of you, Colifie, don't move over with you?
[27:58] Speaker 4: All right? Boys for every door and went off. Okay,
[28:03] Speaker 4: oh right, Peter Hunting. But I wish I'd known you
[28:06] Speaker 4: were coming in from the terrace. Looks like a good
[28:08] Speaker 4: haul you made. This is Joe Stacey, murderer about ready
[28:13] Speaker 4: to have a stroke lost up and this I take
[28:16] Speaker 4: it as a girlfriend.
[28:17] Speaker 7: Not yours. Cuff Take your hands off.
[28:20] Speaker 4: Gladly after I get these handcuffs on you.
[28:24] Speaker 11: Here are cold behind the desk, mister Hunting, the big
[28:27] Speaker 11: fish Andrew Brewster, used car dealer in hot car recative Peter.
[28:32] Speaker 4: He looks so peaceful.
[28:33] Speaker 11: I almost hate to wake him up and give him
[28:35] Speaker 11: all the bad news he got coming to him. But
[28:37] Speaker 11: on second thought, I think it'll be a real pleasure.
[28:40] Speaker 11: Let's get to a theater when your friends drop in.
[28:54] Speaker 11: Be generous, but be thrifty too, sir, Putty up delicious pets.
[28:58] Speaker 11: The Cola Pepsie see twelve out bottle gives you not
[29:02] Speaker 11: just one sparkling glassful, but two. Get a carton of
[29:05] Speaker 11: stick and serve twelve delicious rates. Yes, Pepsi is America's
[29:10] Speaker 11: biggest hold about you. You get twice, the tangy case twice,
[29:13] Speaker 11: the refreshment twice, the PETSI, the why take less when
[29:18] Speaker 11: Petsy's best. Whenever you reach for refreshments, remember.
[29:22] Speaker 4: The call on glasses. Lot lots more value, a lot
[29:27] Speaker 4: more deaths.
[29:28] Speaker 2: Take lest when Testy says, Tune and every Tuesday and Thursday,
[29:32] Speaker 2: same time, same station to Counterspy. Listen next Tuesday for
[29:36] Speaker 2: the exciting Counterspy case of the Postal pirates, the little
[29:41] Speaker 2: black box that caught the revolver in mid air, the
[29:44] Speaker 2: one fingered typist who punctuated sentences with bullets, and the
[29:48] Speaker 2: double crosser who tasted their own medicine and died as
[29:52] Speaker 2: a resultant case of a Postal Pirates on counter Spive.
[30:04] Speaker 2: The Night's Counterspy program, originated in New York, was directed
[30:08] Speaker 2: by William M. Sweet and featured Don McLaughlin and Mandelle Kramer,
[30:12] Speaker 2: with music by Deasy Cropper. Counterspy is a Philip State
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[30:35] Speaker 2: Welcome Back.
[30:37] Speaker 1: I enjoyed Laura's character being really proactive and taking the
[30:43] Speaker 1: story in a direction that you wouldn't have expected and
[30:47] Speaker 1: it is up turning the tables on her boss. Of course,
[30:52] Speaker 1: she had to be captured by Counterspy, but the story
[30:57] Speaker 1: gave her that one moment of trying. There were few
[31:01] Speaker 1: sound effects more satisfying than her breaking that record. To
[31:06] Speaker 1: be clear, it's actually a fine piece of music from
[31:10] Speaker 1: Act four of the opera Less Contest de Hoffmann at four.
[31:17] Speaker 1: But I might not feel so warmly about it if
[31:21] Speaker 1: I was having to listen to it on repeat for
[31:24] Speaker 1: months on end as part of a somewhat creepy romantic advance.
[31:30] Speaker 2: So the writer said, yeah, she's.
[31:31] Speaker 1: Got to go to jail, but first we'll let her
[31:33] Speaker 1: break the record. And the boss is the type of
[31:36] Speaker 1: person who sets this whole elaborate system with the elevator
[31:40] Speaker 1: but doesn't think about somebody coming through the terrace, which
[31:45] Speaker 1: was a good improvisation by David Hardy. Peters might have
[31:50] Speaker 1: wanted to know before he risked his life trying to
[31:54] Speaker 1: get the elevator there. But then again, that's the type
[31:57] Speaker 1: of thing you have to expect when we're looking for Counterspy.
[32:02] Speaker 1: We have an email from Lawrence who rides High Adam
[32:05] Speaker 1: and the last David Harding adventure that you played. They
[32:07] Speaker 1: didn't provide a complete cast list, and this is in
[32:10] Speaker 1: reference to the Courageous Come On, but I'm pretty sure
[32:14] Speaker 1: the only woman character in that episode was Mercedes McCambridge.
[32:18] Speaker 1: She had such a unique and distinctive, distinctive voice continued success. Well,
[32:24] Speaker 1: thank you very much, appreciate the alment, and I think
[32:29] Speaker 1: you might be right. When I first encountered Mercedes mc cambridge,
[32:35] Speaker 1: it was through the series we played on The Great
[32:38] Speaker 1: Detectives Defense Attorney, and there's a lot to that voice
[32:43] Speaker 1: into that character. I think it's close to her natural
[32:48] Speaker 1: performing voice, but she does very a little bit, and
[32:53] Speaker 1: there are subtler characters she does and I find those
[32:58] Speaker 1: hard to call for sure, but that would have been
[33:01] Speaker 1: the right era for it. And then some comments on
[33:05] Speaker 1: the same episode on Facebook Matthew Wrights, I love these,
[33:09] Speaker 1: David said, Adam, thanks for the shout after the show
[33:12] Speaker 1: this week, I remind listeners to be mindful of inflation
[33:15] Speaker 1: and up their Patreons donations a couple bucks. I started
[33:19] Speaker 1: at the seven fourteen level in twenty nineteen, and earlier
[33:22] Speaker 1: this year I got to thinking that is not as
[33:25] Speaker 1: much buying for The Great Detectives as it used to be.
[33:28] Speaker 1: It was easy to go into the app and revise
[33:31] Speaker 1: the number. Well, David, I appreciate that, and it's a
[33:34] Speaker 1: fair point. The costco hot dog and the great detectives
[33:39] Speaker 1: of old time Patreon memberships are things that you can
[33:44] Speaker 1: get for the same price as you could back in
[33:46] Speaker 1: twenty fifteen. Really appreciate folks who choose to increase their pledge,
[33:53] Speaker 1: but it's certainly not an expectation I have. My goal
[33:58] Speaker 1: is to find more Patreons, which helps out with inflation.
[34:03] Speaker 1: There are some aspects of the Patreon program I'm going
[34:08] Speaker 1: to look at or I would like to. We've not
[34:12] Speaker 1: changed a whole lot in eleven years, and some of
[34:15] Speaker 1: the goals and benefits that we had when we set
[34:18] Speaker 1: up are rarely used and I don't think are particularly motivating.
[34:24] Speaker 1: So that is on my big list of things that
[34:28] Speaker 1: I would like to get to. But at any rate,
[34:31] Speaker 1: thank you so much. Appreciate your com thought, David. And
[34:34] Speaker 1: now it is time to think our Patreon supporter of
[34:38] Speaker 1: the day, and I want to thank Dinah, Patreon supporter
[34:41] Speaker 1: since October twenty twenty five, currently supporting the podcast at
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[34:49] Speaker 1: Thanks so much for your support, Donna, and that will
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[35:03] Speaker 1: We'll be back next Saturday with another episode of Counterspy,
[35:07] Speaker 1: but join us back here on Monday for the Great
[35:10] Speaker 1: Detectives of Old Time Radio and the Saint. And join
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[35:25] Speaker 1: From Boise, Idaho, this is your host, Adam Graham signing off.

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