Max Monroe becomes the target of three unknown assassins hired by dying mobster Bruno Petrell while trying to romance a British chess-book author.
Mobsters kidnap Lafontaine Smith, a key witness against them. Max locates Smith to testify against mobster Ray Dominick, only for him to be kidnapped by Dominick's thugs.
Injured Max copes with crutches while helping Susie, a blind witness, identity the murderer of Dr. David Carver, a surgeon.
Sam Frank, a homeless clairvoyant with a knack for predicting when crimes will occur, sends Max and Charlie on the trail of an odd collection of suspects.
Max finds a wounded girl in the trunk of a stolen Rolls-Royce and, after discovering that a bullet in the head has left her with amnesia, tries to help her recover her memory by re-tracing her recent activities.
Max and wounded Charlie reminisce about a homicide case during a shootout.
Max tries to keep a wounded Charlie conscious by recounting the details of a complicated homicide case.
Max and Charlie uncover a drug-smuggling scheme when they go undercover in a monastery to investigate the murder of a monk. A monk's murder sends Max and Charlie undercover in a monastery, where they witness the theft of a coffin containing another monk who died in Colombia.
