
Mannix is hired to find out any dirt on Govenor-elect Adam Pierson, and that's when the trouble starts: with his syndicate connections, people are dying fast.

Mannix is set up for the murder of an old girlfriend's husband.

A scientist goes missing with a new formula.

An incommunicado coed and a murdered basketball player.

Mannix is hired to vet a prospective bridegroom.

Investigating an insurance claim, Mannix finds himself intensely scrutinized.

A libel suit against a newspaper at the state capital involves politics and the mob.

A psychopath's next victim might be his wife.

The strong friendship between Lew Wickersham and Mannix melts into a violent and deathly feud. The bitter battle begins when Mannix launches an investigation into the theft of a highly secret formula for the development of a laser ray. Stolen plans and sabotage involve Intertect and their agents.

Mannix quits rather than chase a necklace and a mobster, and stumbles into a case of murder and fraud.