1942
June 8, 1942
Washington Woman Spy aka Cherchez la Femme
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A prominent Washington bachelor takes his own life after betraying his country -- and Harding uncovers the female enemy agent who drove him to it.
June 22, 1942
TCOT Border Invaders aka Nazis From Mexico
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With enemy agents parachuting into the border states, Harding tracks a Gestapo man being flown out of a hidden Mexican ranch to be dropped into Texas.
September 3, 1942
Counterfeit Gas Coupons
September 14, 1942
TCOT Loganberry Point Spy
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On a lonely stretch of the Maine coast, a widow who has kept a lantern lit for her lost husband finds an exhausted stranger asleep on her porch.
November 2, 1942
TCOT Gasoline Barge
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December 14, 1942
German Spies
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A Pittsburgh war-plant executive murders his suspicious wife and stages it as a car crash -- hiding that his late nights are Gestapo work.
1943
May 17, 1943
TCOT Confidential Messenger
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1944
September 25, 1944
TCOT Kidnapped War Worker
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1945
June 13, 1945
Washington Woman Spy aka Cherchez la Femme
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What looks like the suicide of an ailing Washington bachelor is really the work of a trained enemy agent skilled at dressing murder up as self-destruction.
July 25, 1945
Explosive Dog aka The Case Of The Dog Of Dynamite
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The former chief of all Gestapo agents in Spain schemes to break into a U.S. government laboratory.
1946
July 27, 1946
Stolen Car Racket
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1947
September 28, 1947
Continental Chase
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October 26, 1947
No Title Given
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1948
May 23, 1948
The Case of the Dream House Nightmare
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May 30, 1948
The Case of the Camera Happy Crook
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A movie company arrives in a small Pennsylvania town to re-stage a famous bank robbery -- and something about the production is not what it seems.
June 6, 1948
The Case of the Recruited Nurse
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1949
February 22, 1949
TCOT Mexican Rancho
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Reports of a uranium strike draw shady characters and foreign agents to a Mexican town, and Harding heads south to sort them out.
February 24, 1949
TCOT Poison Peddler
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A strange-laughing underworld boss, a painted shop window, and a torn jacket lead Harding toward murder and a boy pulled into a hate gang.
August 9, 1949
TCOT Blackmailed Hijacker
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After a truckload of government explosives is hijacked and a driver killed, the one witness who can name the killer is blackmailed into silence.
August 11, 1949
TCOT Murmured Millions
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A quiet seashore meeting between two men sets in motion a scheme that will alter the lives of thousands of women.
August 16, 1949
Statue of Death
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Two atomic-plant workers smuggle a uranium compound out of the country hidden in the neck of a statue bound for Acapulco.
August 18, 1949
Desert Explosion
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Harding sets out to catch a ruthless espionage broker who marches his enemies into the Mexican desert to murder them.
August 23, 1949
Bouncing Bank Robber
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A boarding-house strangling that points to a submariner collides with an armed bank hold-up in the most frantic six hours of Harding's career.
August 25, 1949
Murdering Messenger
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A fast-talking man poses as himself to impersonate someone else -- a con that turns deadly inside a spy ring.
August 30, 1949
Cold Blooded Professor Pt1
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Part one of a two-part case built around the cold-blooded professor.
September 1, 1949
Cold Blooded Professor Pt2
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Professor Horne breaks out of an 'escape-proof' prison using lemon-juice-bleached trousers and a face faked from stolen watch crystals.
September 6, 1949
Arrogant Arsonist
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Chasing a professional arsonist, the counterspies find a trail that reaches back to the 1933 Reichstag fire.
September 8, 1949
Courageous Come on
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A woman good at being bad, a promoter who thinks the sword beats the pen, and a brave 'half-man' -- with a closing word from Vice President Barkley on hiring disabled veterans.
September 13, 1949
Flatbush Fagin
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A pack of teenaged 'terrors' who idolize a small-time heel, and stolen loot paid off with a wet handkerchief and hard cash.
September 15, 1949
Hot Car Killer
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From a hideout high above New York, a criminal mastermind moves people and stolen cars like pawns in a deadly chess game.
September 20, 1949
Postal Pirates Pt1
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Part one of a parcel-post theft case, marked by a black box that snatches a revolver from mid-air and a one-fingered typist who punctuates with bullets.
September 22, 1949
Postal Pirates Pt2
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Coordinated raids nearly end the parcel-post case -- until one small mistake turns an apparent suicide into murder and points to the boss.
September 27, 1949
Visiting Vultures
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The counterspies follow big-time bootleggers from a backwoods Mississippi tavern all the way to the Chicago lakefront.
September 29, 1949
Vicious Visitor
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Closing in on a criminal so dangerous it costs a prison guard a beating, Harding's partner a hail of bullets, and a woman her life.
October 4, 1949
Sweepstakes Murder
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Near the Mexican border, a witness is murdered in a rooming house before he can tell a reporter about a sweepstakes racket.
October 6, 1949
The Case of the Genuine Counterfeit
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In a small European country a diplomat's secretary dies in a staged gas 'accident' -- the first move in a plot around $3 million in new bonds.
October 11, 1949
Case of the Society Swindler
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High above Manhattan, a smooth operator watches his alarm wristwatch and runs a phony 'World Refugee Fund' charity racket.
October 13, 1949
Case of the High Class Hijacker
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In Tennessee a trailer-truck is relieved of its cargo by 'Fatso' and his partner in a slick, dangerous operation.
October 18, 1949
The Case of the Photograph Furrier
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Two crooks steal a $60,000 fur shipment from a New York pier by motorboat -- and a candid camera becomes the key to the case.
October 20, 1949
The Case of the International Intrigue
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American atomic scientist Dr. Brewster is kidnapped in Switzerland and offered for sale to the highest-bidding nation.
1950
February 14, 1950
Counterfeit Traveler's Checks
February 16, 1950
Rats of Relief
February 21, 1950
The Case Of The Counterfeit Traveler's Checks
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April 4, 1950
Magic Murder
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Counterspy Peters is shot in the head while interviewing a European jet-engine scientist, and only a surgeon far off in Venezuela can save him.
April 6, 1950
Bootleg Button
April 11, 1950
Mile High Murders
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When a plane full of aliens smuggled from Cuba vanishes, Harding digs into a gang that treats mass murder as routine.
April 13, 1950
Hoodlum's Hero
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Harding takes the trail of 'Slick' Loreto, a small-time crook who specializes in luring wayward boys into a life of crime.
April 18, 1950
Fabulous Formula Part 1
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A chemist perfects a cheap artificial mica -- and his assistant steals the formula and blows him up to fake an accident.
April 20, 1950
Fabulous Formula Part 2
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A woman carrying the stolen formula leaves a trail of death across the country until a cobra 'charms' her into surrender.
April 25, 1950
Hi-Jacked County
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A small South American country rich in pitchblende is the target of an audacious plan -- to seize the whole country at once.
April 27, 1950
Case of the Murdered Confessor
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At a Washington airfield an Iron-Curtain defector is shot dead despite seven counterspies guarding him, and Harding hunts the assassin.
May 2, 1950
Soaring Saucer
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A smuggling ring uses genuine flying saucers to run $2 million in narcotics across the Rio Grande.
May 4, 1950
The Crystalline Double-Cross
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A great diamond given to the United States is stolen from a New York jewel dealer, and the owner's wife joins the chase.
June 13, 1950
Tattooed Eye
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A one-eyed escaped bank robber plans plastic surgery to change his face while 'Uncle Bill' returns for the money he left behind.
August 15, 1950
The Case of the Foolish Father
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A gangster marries an exotic dancer without reckoning on her very strange father.
October 13, 1950
The Case of the Foreign Fires
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The Defense Department calls Harding to investigate a fire at a stockpile depot where sabotage is suspected.
October 20, 1950
The Case of the Curious Conspiracy
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Harding pursues an enemy agent who defrauds American businessmen into signing over the controlling shares of their companies.
October 27, 1950
The Case of the Insidious Impersonation
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A Philippine statesman is due into New York by liner carrying secret island-defense plans, and Harding rushes to intercept him.
November 3, 1950
The Case of the Carbon Consul
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Ashore on a world cruise, an American couple is chased through an African town after an incited anti-American riot.
November 5, 1950
The Case of the Mental Murderer
November 12, 1950
The Case of the Stolen Secret
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November 19, 1950
The Case of the Pseudo Spuds
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November 26, 1950
The Case of the Hideous Hi-Jacker
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December 3, 1950
The Case of the Prattling Paper
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December 10, 1950
The Case of the Infiltrating Agent
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December 17, 1950
The Case of the Invisible Insurrectionist
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Communist saboteurs are at work among the Puerto Rican community of New York City.
December 24, 1950
The Case of the Pretty Plant
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A turncoat spy is murdered for a list of five thousand Americans the Communists might blackmail, and Harding races to recover it.
1951
January 7, 1951
The Case of the Kleptomaniac Clues
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January 14, 1951
The Case of the Captured Contact
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January 21, 1951
The Case of the Double-Crossing Defender
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Harding investigates a supposedly patriotic group that is really a front working to wreck the nation's Civil Defense planning.
1952
February 14, 1952
The Fight Against Narcotics
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The drug-addicted brother of counterspy agent Elaine Stuart is shot dead in a seedy hotel, drawing Harding into a narcotics case.
November 23, 1952
The Case of the Corrupt Counselor
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A dock boss is framed for murder by two rotten men who then double-cross each other.
1953
December 21, 1953
The Case of the Diamond Thieves
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An inventor keeps a secret basement project hidden even from his wife -- but the 'invention' is really stolen jewelry.