Hargrove, the famed, cowardly, and damned near indestructible protagonist of the Hargrove the Marxist Detective Stories (hence the name), is always willing to help out a stranger, especially if that stranger has several million dollars to share.
1. I need your help
2. Fleecing a Petroleum Corporation? Sign me up.
3. Grumpily Yours
4. A typical scripted reply
5 . Hargrove divulges personal information
6. Dr. Pedro is grouchy
7. And so is Hargrove
8. Pedro backs off
9. Nothing to worry about, just a gunshot wound
10. Easing into the troublesome financial aspects
11. The passport arrives
12. Pedro smells money, and gets chummy
13. Hargrove chats
14. "Can't you use the phone bros?"
15. Care to join our revolution?
16. "We are most careful
not to let out the transaction for obvious"
17. Hargrove leaves town suddenly
18. And returns from Bolivia
19. Pedro gives gift suggestions
20. The first of three documents arrives
21. And the second, although this one provides our tale with
a twist
22. And the third.
23. Hargrove responds, dismayed
24. General chit-chat from Pedro
25. Beware of Detectives Bearing Gifts
26. Pedro gets nervous
27. Apologies all around
28. More grief from Pedro
29. Hargrove responds and Pedro continues to bitch, bitch,
bitch
30. Hargrove sends the phones
31. And still Pedro continues to whine
32. Things are heating up for Hargrove
33. Dr. Grumpy invites Hargrove to Nigeria
34. Time to leave Taff Vale
35. "Look I am the type your mother tells you
about"
36. Hargrove explains
37. Pedro calms down and makes his "die is cast"
speech
38. Hargrove bids a fond farewell
But after a break of several weeks, Pedro writes again
39. "Aaaaa"
40. Hargrove is in France
41. Amsterdam, and the Hotel Ibis, await
42. Pedro plays it cool
43. We attempt to ruffle Frank's feathers