While Mike is at an airport in a small town, a man tries to kill him. However, when he reports the incident to the local police, they dismiss it as a publicity stunt.
A man is photographed right in the act of robbing a restaurant and killing a waitress. All the witnesses believe they recognize the killer as an older man with no previous record. But Mike begins to suspect that the case is too pat.
Mike suspects the body recently pushed into a well belongs to the man he was hired to prove is still alive. Before he can prove the two men are the same, Mike must convince miners he is still alive, since no one will risk their own lives to bring up a corpse.
A friend of Mike's who's a nightclub photographer asks his help when she is threatened by gangsters who are looking to get the negative of a picture she took of a wealthy Texan.
When a police officer's wife goes missing, Mike believes the woman was abducted when she accidentally became involved with smugglers at the Mexican border.
Several witnesses to a murder meet with strange "accidents". Mike doesn't believe they're accidents at all, and sets out to use his camera to catch the killer.
Mike is talked into helping a con man prove a man shot in a burglary was actually innocent. The only clue that might help is a small, burnt piece of a photograph the victim himself tried to destroy.