What happens
Counterspy agent David Harding investigates the apparent suicide of Washington bachelor William R. Terris. Suspecting a woman was involved, Harding learns of a mysterious dark-haired companion on Terris's absences and of an insured diamond ring bought for an unknown woman. Harding enlists prominent Colonel Reynolds to meet the fashionable Avery Rollins and draw her out. The episode is a Counterspy broadcast from 1942, first aired on June 8 of that year.
Washington, D.C., with trips to a Sulphur Springs hotel, South Carolina, Atlanta, and Virginia Beach, during wartime 1942.
Characters: David Harding, Mark, William R. Terris, Colonel Reynolds, Avery Rollins, Martin
Listen for: Harding's methodical trail of checks, appointment pads, and insurance records that leads him to Avery Rollins.
Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.