Interpol Calling Season 1, Episode 28: Ascent to Murder

1

The Thirteen Innocents

Sukru runs a trading company to front a drug smuggling operation, using carrier pigeons to carry the drugs.

2

The Money Game

Some conmen convince financial journalist Brownley that leading financier Untermeyer is dead. His report throws the stock market into confusion, allowing the conmen to clear up on the markets. Brownley is then murdered.

3

The Sleeping Giant

An unexploded bomb from World War II is found by a dam, and only the makers will know how to defuse it.

4

The Two-Headed Monster

An ex-con deported to Italy after serving a prison sentence in the U.S.A., has invited a group of protection racketeers to join him in Naples.

5

The Long Weekend

The body of a merchant seaman, reported lost overboard in the Mediterranean, is washed up on the south coast of England with a bullet in his head.

6

You Can't Die Twice

Duval investigates the death of an illegal immigrant killed after he disembarked from a freighter at New York.

7

Diamond S.O.S.

Duval investigates the death of an illegal immigrant killed after he disembarked from a freighter at New York.

8

Private View

Duval investigates the theft of a valuable old master from the collection of Sir Isaac Spendler.

9

Dead on Arrival

Duval investigates the apparently motiveless murder of a N.A.T.O. courier found in a sleeping compartment on the Black Sea Express

10

Air Switch

Duval investigates the disappearance of a valuable antibiotic somewhere between New York and the World Health Organization in Sweden.

11

The Angola Brights

Duval investigates the theft of four uncut matched stones from an Angolan diamond mine.

12

The Chinese Mask

Duval investigates the theft of a cargo of valuable platinum from a flight from Rangoon to Hong Kong after the airplane is forced down by a passenger.

13

Slave Ship

Duval looks into the slave trading racket, investigating the mysterious disappearance of many thousands of natives from Mombasa during the annual pilgrimages to Mecca.

14

The Man's a Clown

Duval is on the trail of forger Eddie Keflik, who has blackmailed a clown in a traveling circus into working for him.

15

Last Man Lucky

Duval investigates the death of a gang member in Paris and uncovers a murder list.

16

No Flowers for Onno

Author Andrew Slater, writing a book about the war, discovers that Onno van Veer, remembered as a hero of the Dutch resistance, was not executed by the S.S. after all. Duval unearths a tale of treachery and murder.

17

Mr. George

A man extorts a large sum of money from an insurance company. Interpol begin a tireless operation to track the man through countries that don't have Interpol agreements.

18

The Thousand Mile Alibi

Duval investigates a murder. The victim's husband appears to have the perfect alibi: he was leading the Italian Mille Migla motor race at the time of her death.

19

Act of Piracy

Duval investigates the theft of a million dollars worth of platinum by three men posing as a U.S. Navy Patrol, who killed the passengers and crew of the S.S. Jensen.

20

Game for Three Hands

In Montreal for Interpol's annual conference, Duval catches up with a wanted man who escaped his clutches back in 1939.

21

The Collector

Gangster Mike Marko amassed a fortune from the rackets, but did not live to spend it. Duval is on the trail of his right-hand man, Pavone.

22

The Heiress

Ronald Millais is a gigolo, living off women who fall for his easy charm. Duval investigates claims that Millais has kidnapped a millionaire's daughter.

23

Payment in Advance

Schroeder was erroneously convicted of the murder of his business partner, Kaltmann. Duval orders that the ex-convict be watched when he hints at committing the crime for which he has already been punished.

24

Checkmate

Duval goes to Madrid on the trail of a young couple who have robbed a Tel Aviv bank, using the female's threat to commit suicide as a diversionary tactic.

25

Fingers of Guilt

Diamond dealer Jacob Moltz and his accomplice, girl magician Frankie Silver, devise a foolproof plan to rob the biggest diamond house in Amsterdam, and frame safe-cracker Sash Moran.

26

The Girl with Grey Hair

The value of paintings by Hugo Ballard begins to soar after his death, so why would his widow slash one of his paintings?

27

Trial at Cranby's Creek

A policeman is shot in the back in the opal mining settlement of Cranby's Creek, in the Australian outback, and the townsfolk claim the shooting was carried out by Emil Brock, who is wanted for murder by Interpol.

28

Ascent to Murder

Insp. Duval is in pursuit of American financier Pearce Clyde, who is wanted for questioning by the U.S. Treasury. When he arrives at Clyde's hotel in the Himalayas, Duval sets off a booby-trap.

29

Slow Boat to Amsterdam

Duval is held up in a small canal town when a strange death occurs. The local authorities think the death is a straight forward suicide, but Duval sees evidence of something more sinister.

30

White Blackmail

Duval responds to a tip-off from an American reporter about a possible organized blackmail racket in a Swiss ski resort and goes to Switzerland posing as his Paris banker friend, Count de Regny. When he arrives in Switzerland he realizes that he has been set up as the next victim.

31

A Foreign Body

Interpol is called in when the police find the body of a French girl in the boot of an American car. Everything points to Ben Stack as the murderer, but Duval is not convinced.

32

In the Swim

Lars Lukas, a French swimmer, is shot after completing a cross-Channel swim from France. It appears to be a motiveless murder until Duval hears a tape recording of Lukas's last words, a lead to a smuggling ring.

33

The Three Keys

Duval is on the trail of Thackeray, an international forger who robs safes and substitutes forged bills for the real thing.

34

Eight Days Inclusive

The driver and hostess of a coach tours company have a profitable sideline carrying out armed robberies in the towns that they visit. Duval investigates the shooting of a Paris jeweler.

35

Dressed to Kill

Duval agrees to help his old friend, Bernarde, the owner of a Paris salon, to keep his latest creations under wraps until the big fashion show, but Harry Grayson and Mamie Bryant have other ideas.

36

Cargo of Death

Duval flies to Delhi to locate a consignment of live cholera vaccine stolen from a laboratory in Karachi.

37

Desert Hi-Jack

Duval is asked to investigate a gun-running racket in North Africa, and suspects archaeologist Professor Velard of involvement.

38

Pipeline

Duval goes to South America to pick up Dave Carson, who is wanted for murder. He walks into the middle of a revolution, and has to work side-by-side with his quarry.

39

The Absent Assassin

Duval is called in after an assassination of an American diplomat. Evidence seems to point to a recently released Nazi seeking revenge. What does puzzle Duval is how he constructs the assassinations.