When Mike's old friend, a carnival clown, is murdered, he hunts for the killer.

Mike is asked by a psychiatrist to investigate a patient who claims to have committed a murder but can't remember the details.

Lanyard goes from New Orleans to Hawaii to discover how rubies and opium are being smuggled in from Hong Kong.

Lanyard gets a request from Father Picard to make a last-ditch effort to save the life of a prisoner on death row with 36 hours to live.

Mike helps an Italian family in Chicago get rid of an impostor.

Lanyard flies to Los Angeles to clear the name of an old friend, a journalist accused of stealing a priceless Van Gogh painting.

Lanyard suspects that a hit-and-run accident was murder.

In London, Lanyard is investigating threats against the life of a world-famous ballet dancer when she apparently commits suicide.