Defying mysterious threats, two women hire Harry to find proof of malpractice against the doctor they hold responsible for the death of an old man in their family.
Young criminologist Lester Hodges returns and teams up with his college mentor to find out who is systematically killing off members of Lester's family.
A ghetto youth is caught in an aborted car theft that causes the death of an officer, and is threatened with death if he reveals the name of his companion who was doing the driving.
Harry is hired by a rape victim, whose charge is likely to be dismissed because she made a false accusation against another man in a rape case some years before.
Lt. Trench is among the hostages held in a liquor store by a desperate veteran who demands that his addicted girlfriend be found and brought to him within two hours.
The murder of a gambling-club owner leaves Harry with two jobs: caring for her homeless protege, and searching for a book she compiled that would be worth a fortune to an extortionist.
A cop framed for murder hires Harry to find his estranged daughter, a pregnant teenage addict who's on the run from killers but is the only one who can clear him.
Harry's investigation into the murder of another private eye results in a painful reunion with his ex-wife, who visited the victim just before he died.
Student criminologist Lester Hodges returns to bedevil Harry when diamond smugglers kidnap Harry's stewardess friend Sue, and force him to make an unexpected trip to Paris.
An alcoholic attorney, unable to recall the events following a party the night before, hires Harry to ascertain whether she was the driver in a fatal hit-and-run accident.
Harry hits the city's grubbier streets in a search for his client's daughter, a teen-age drug addict who saw a narcotics dealer murder her addict boyfriend.
A puzzling client is a young man just out of a mental institution who claims he shot his drunken brother to protect his sister-in-law, but the sister-in-law knows nothing about a shooting and the brother is very much alive.
Harry now finds himself framed for murder, so he solicits Manny Quinlan's help in finding out who is behind the corporation that is buying up the ranch land.
The death of a man who asked Harry for protection is but the latest in a series of apparently psychic murder predictions by a blind author, all of which have come true.
Harry tries to find out what happened to an AWOL sailor, his only clue being a single shoe mailed to the man's sister, who sells her furniture in order to hire him.
When Harry looks into the murder of a friend's son-in-law, he becomes romantically involved with the man's daughter, a model who happens to be the chief suspect in the killing.