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- When an affluent patient dies in an asylum, Kane suspects foul play.
- When two poker players fall out over a game of cards, one of the men winds up dead. A shoeshine boy who saw the murder flees the scene and Kane tries to find him before the killer can eliminate the only witness to the crime.
- A jockey favored to win throws the race and is fatally stabbed. Kane must figure out who is behind the double cross.
- Hockey star Ace Phillips dies suddenly in the middle of a game and Kane is called upon to determine if it was an accident or murder.
- The artist of a comic strip bases his latest story on an unsolved murder mystery where he claims he will provide the identity of the killer in the last cartoon. Before he inks the denouement, the cartoonist is murdered and Kane, who had urged him to abandon the project and provide his evidence to the police, feels obliged to solve both crimes.
- When a district attorney is murdered right in the courtroom, Martin Kane takes over the investigation. Kane and his associates focus on both prisoners and fellow staff members of the court.
- Everyone in a nightclub has a grudge against a singer who has just been shot to death.
- John Bixby, famed inventor, is found murdered and Martin Kane has few clues to go on. Kane hopes the reading of the Bixby will helps in revealing the killer.
- Martin Kane receives an unsigned letter asking him to pose as a reporter. Martin goes to the yacht of Angus Redfield, a wealthy pearl collector, as instructed but finds Angus killed and himself as the chief suspect.
- En route to a vacation trout fishing, Kane tags along with Captain Burke and Sergeant Ross who are investigating the disappearance of a lawyer, whose last appointment was with an eccentric family living in a remote country house. Kane and the police officers discover the murdered attorney stuffed in a trunk and must investigate the dysfunctional family - three sisters in various states of insanity.
- Major Clements asks Kane for his professional opinion on a device the retired army officer has created to trap the person stealing milk bottles from in front of his door. Kane is impressed; the device works - only it results in the Major witnessing the murder of a small-time card dealer by a gambling syndicate's goon.
- Kane is hired to protect a diamond studded crown that a beauty queen will wear at a ball sponsored by a cosmetics company in Bermuda. The lovely blonde is found dead in her hotel bathtub and there's no shortage of murder suspects - her ex-boyfriend, the wealthy playboy she spurned on the ocean liner, and the wife of the man with whom she engaged in romantic trysts back in New York.
- A hotel waiter and a nervous bookkeeper testify against a criminal ringleader in a sensational murder trial. After the killer is convicted he threatens the lives of the witnesses and, after he escapes from prison, appears to be carrying out his threats when one of the witnesses, the wife of a witness and a police detective are all shot. While the police try to locate the escapee, Kane wonders if the shootings were, in fact, related to the murder trial.
- The landlady of a rooming house asks Martin to investigate when one of her guests has $75,000 stolen that he was carrying in a brown paper bag.
- A fortune teller runs a swindle out of her hotel room. One of her victims asks Martin Kane for help.
- Kane is asked by a dead inventor's secretary to investigate a murder when she and the other beneficiaries are all deemed to be suspects in the killings.
- Warren A. Smith, a gullible old man, is convinced by a fortune teller to move his life savings to a different bank. En route to the new establishment, the con woman's pickpocket confederate steals more than $10,000 from the mark's coat pocket. Smith hires Martin Kane to retrieve the stolen money without involving the police.
- When Arthur Talbot testifies that Harry Nevans gunned down a business associate the accused man promises that he will exact his revenge on his shy bookkeeper even if he is convicted. When the bookkeeper's wife receives a phone call from a woman stating she will kill Talbot per Nevans orders, she goes to Martin Kane for protection.
- Kane investigates when miners are murdered by a masked man spraying poisonous gas.