When a man who hires Banyon as his bodyguard is murdered, Banyon does his best to solve the crime.

Banyon solves a campus killing and saves a bereaved father from the clutches of a greedy woman.

Banyon discovers that politics makes strange dead fellows.

Banyon turns literary detective and finds himself involved in another murder case.

When a hulking Basque prize fighter refuses to purposely lose a match for some dishonest gamblers, it means murder and another case for Banyon.

A band leader hires Banyon to find out who is trying to kill him.

Banyon lays to rest a ""ghost"" that has been haunting his friend, Police Lt. Pete McNeil, for seven years.

Behind the scenes of a dance marathon of the 1930s, Banyon exposes a death hoax and the ""second lift"" of an ex-Busby Berkeley chorus girl.

Banyon walks in a dead man's shoes to solve two murders for the price of one.

Banyon probes the sordid past of a taxi dancer to find out who killed her.

Stolen information smuggled in the brain of Banyon's beautiful secretary makes her a target for murder.

Banyon solves a murder in Pasadena's millionaires' row.

A former girlfriend re-enters Banyon's life in a case involving a missing diamonds.

Banyon exposes a phony gang slaying and frees a double-crossing beauty from an ivory tower.