That's about as unlucky as you can get. An assistant DA investigating a car theft ring is framed for his wife's murder.

Keeping your double chin up. A draft dodger winesses a murder on his way to the Yukon.

Cannon goes undercover to find a missing man in a gang. ""Why did the barmaid champagne?""

That was my wife? A lady lawyer gets threatened with death for defending punks who robbed a charity.

Served with a good Victor Hugo sauce, preferably. A girl wounded in a holdup mysteriously refuses to identify the crook.

Alien-smuggling.

There's only one way to deal with that: serve equal portions. Freight shipments are stolen by computer, and Cannon's in the middle of a custody fight.

A farmer is missing and guards have replaced the hands.

A corpse missing with valuable bonds.

Dale and Laura Corey are a happily married couple who own an electronics store; he does a lot of electronic eavesdropping for clients, she was a cop on the force with Cannon a few years back, and hires him because Dale is being threatened after bugging some hotel rooms for the owner and catching three guests in compromising positions. The three are being blackmailed, and think Dale is behind it. Cannon interviews them and determines that one of the three is blackmailing the other two.

A murder suspect has a dubious counsel.

Toby Hauser is a compulsive gambler who is $200,000 in debt to Ben Logan (who runs local illegal gaming operations). The bill is due and Hauser has about $5000; they threaten to come after Hauser's wife Cathy if payment isn't made. Toby will turn himself over to Logan rather than have anything happen to Cathy, who, sensing one of them will be hurt, calls in Cannon to help.

Cannon tries to broker a deal with Logan. Cannon can get $25,000 paid up front and the rest on installment. Logan rejects this deal, because it would ruin his reputation if anybody got a break like that. Jason Logan (Ben's son) runs a gambling operation on his own—competing against his father in a juvenile attempt to come out from his father's shadow.

Toby takes one last shot to get the $200,000. He shows up at Jason's house to get in a poker game. Jason has a couple of card-marking plants at Toby's table, but Toby gets $35,000 ahead. Then Cannon shows up undercover as Billy Thompson (owner of Thompson Tool),

A diamond smuggler is drugged to reveal his contraband.

A fellow who intervenes in a fight gets made the fall guy.

A drug dealer's infirm sister takes the rap for a murder.

The co-author of an industrialist's unauthorized biography is murdered.

A case of revenge for a daughter's death at a swinging affair.

A kidnapping case involving the funds of a halfway house and a diabetic lawyer.

A young man is persuaded to extort $50,000 from his father, who turns out to be bankrupt.

One step forward, two steps back as Cannon hunts a mass murderer. Helping to cloud the facts: a police lab technician who's altering the evidence as quickly as it is found.

A serial killer dogs Cannon to put him out of his misery.

A columnist faces contempt charges; Cannon takes the case.

A terrorized woman asks Cannon to find her husband's illegitimate son.