The Spy Who Came To The Brink
Written by
Edward Hoch
Copyright 1965
Published in 2 issues of Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, (US - Dec. 1965 & UK - Dec. 1965), then in 3 printed versions of the anthology Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories To Stay Awake By (Random House - 1971, Dell - 1973 & Pan Books - 1974 in Book One). Also reprinted in the collection
A film crew is allowed into the Foreign Office to make a documentary. A woman from the Message Center notices one of the actors making a wax impression of a key to the code-room and reports it. Jeffery Rand is put on the case which is complicated when that actor is found murdered.