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- Elderly country lawyer Samuel Putnam is spitting' mad when his client, Agatha Wentworth, loses her motor court to the deed-holders, the Denhams. Putnam declares he'd rather see the place burn than that couple get their hands on it. It does burn and Putnam is wanted for arson. Maris works to clear his old friend of the charge.
- Herb Maris travels to Paris to close a merger deal with a corporate client and Lt. Weston goes along to learn from Interpol. When his client can't be found, Herb suspects foul play and notifies the French police. Meanwhile, he and Weston discover the missing man's last known whereabouts: a restaurant run by an American.
- Willie Clark, a small-time hustler and criminial is framed for the murder of State Attorney investigating John Kellso, local crime boss. Police Lieutenant John Weston is suspicious about Willie's guilt even though he was arrested with murder weapon, so he solicits attorney Herb Maris. Willie is sprung on bail and Maris convinces him that he has to risk his life and join Kellso in a caper so he can hopefully obtain a bullet from Kellso's gun. Of course Willie is trapped in his double-cross and almost killed. Strangely, the ending is illogical because the bullet still does not prove Kellso killed the State Attorney.
- Maris is out West checking property for a client when he's joined by Lt. Weston, sent to investigate a possible scam involving a worthless mine. The two head to Lost Star, Nevada (population 30) and learn from the old coot sheriff that the mine's owner was murdered. The lawmen try to uncover the killer among the town's residents.
- Maris is called into the case of Tom Sheppard six weeks after the young man was convicted of murdering an ex-girlfriend. An old lady across the street says she saw him chase the woman out of a bar and whack her in the head with a rock. As he investigates, Herb finds that medical officials were not asked relevant questions during the trial, the dead girl had a prior medical condition that no one bothered to inquire about, and the busybody witness made assumptions about what she'd seen.
- Professor Hastings wants to convince his wife not to be so cavalier towards criminals, so when she walks across campus one night, he jumps out of the bushes and pretends to choke her. Lt. Weston doesn't treat it as just a foolish stunt. He arrests the professor as a suspect in the "Compulsion Killer" murders that have been committed on the university campus.
- A road crew finds a skeleton buried under a highway, prompting Herb to reopen one of the few cases his father ever lost. Dan Janis was convicted of killing his business partner, though he still claims innocence. Maris looks at who financially benefited from the man's death and gets the company's old bookkeeper to help flush out the guilty.
- A soldier is accused of killing another soldier in a fight over a woman. Weston, who has known the accused "since he was in diapers" , requests that Maris defend the accused at his Court Martial.
- News commentator Fred Prescott is murdered and his assistant, Jim Keller, is arrested for the crime. The two had been feuding because Prescott had canceled Keller's investigative story on the "accidental death" of a building inspector at a construction site.
- Texas oil millionaire Curly Simmons asks Maris to clear his partner, Tex. At a party they threw, Tex had become jealous when another man was getting too close to his gal. The woman is found dead, but Tex claims he's not the killer. Maris questions the other party-goers for information.
- Teenager Steven Lloyd, unable to repay loan sharks, gives them the keys to his father's car. When one of the crooks commits a hit-and-run while at the wheel, Steven's father is charged with the crime. Maris takes on the case since the accused is one of his old college professors, and finds the sharks are doing a bumper business claiming cars as payment.
- Top designer Harvey Pinkly is murdered and his assistant, Marion Green, is arrested for the crime. She'd made a scene the day before because Pinkly had taken the credit for all the dresses she'd designed in his new line. Maris and Weston fly out to California to question the designer's other employees, all of whom say Marion must have been the murderer. They get a break in the case when an elderly wardrobe woman supposedly commits suicide. Maris' convinced she was murdered because she knew knew too much.
- City councilman Eric Schilling is charged with murdering the man trying to blackmail him into giving up his office. It all stems from Schilling's questioning of a shady contractor, Fred Gallen, who is bidding on a major city project. Maris finds Gallen's backers are a couple of big league hoods.
- A man breaks out of prison, so he can get Maris to clear his name of murder.
- A man involved in a deadly liquor store holdup barges into Marianne Kelly's apartment and promptly drops dead. Weston wants to know if she was in on the robbery or just unlucky. Maris wants to know who paid her bail and sent him almost $1000 to act as her attorney. The pair visit the young artist and learn she keeps strange company by the marina: a salty, overly-protective charter boat captain and a fawning librarian suitor.
- A beauty queen is charged with killing Elston Carter, the bullying millionaire father of her boyfriend who refused to let them marry. She claims the murderer was a fat man she'd never seen who barged in, hit the man on the head, and left. Maris believes the woman's story, but Lt. Weston thinks it's and open and shut case.
- The investigation of a murdered stewardess implicates one of her two roommates, Jean Davis. Maris uncovers romantic jealousies between two of the women who had dated the same pilot, and a secret marriage as potential motives for the killing.
- Ex-con Frank Harbach comes to Herb Maris when a couple of old prison mates pay him a visit. The thugs force him to hold the $30,000 they stole in a robbery, or they'll implicate him in their crime and do harm to his wife. When the pair comes to collect their cash, they discover it missing; Frank's wife had turned it over to her father, a cop. The desperate duo take Frank and Herb hostage. Alarmed by Maris' failure to show up at his office, Lt. Weston jumps into action to save his friend.
- Ken Tyler, a P.O.W. suffering a severe case of claustrophobia and fear of weapons, flees rather than talk to the cops about a murder. Maris tries to talk Ken into controlling his fears long enough to clear himself of killing his girlfriend and in flushing out the actual murderer.
- Maid Angela Valez is charged with killing the woman she works for. She was placed by an employment agency that brings young women to America as domestics before forcing them into the escort business. Maris has his receptionist go undercover and apply to the agency as a visitor from Scandinavia.
- An elderly couple is brazenly attacked and robbed in broad daylight. The thief escapes, and a young police officer with a spotless record is fired, and later thrown in jail, for complicity in letting the robber escape.
- Businessman Martin Reeves knows his teenage son Paul is somehow involved in an attempted robbery and shooting. With a big merger pending, Martin is more concerned with his own reputation. He makes up a phony alibi for Paul and begins bribing witnesses to tell his version of what happened.
- A telegram from a key murder trial witness states that the man convicted of the crime is innocent. Maris and Weston brave a hurricane to speak to the dying man at his Florida home, but arrive too late. With the storm raging, they grill the family members who are obviously trying to hide the dead man's secret.
- Precocious Jennifer Vaughn wants Maris to reopen the year-old case that got her stepmother convicted of killing her father. The junior sleuth even comes armed with new "evidence." Lt. Weston, who investigated the case, is so sick of the pushy, know-it-all kid that he refuses to get near her. Herb thinks Jennifer might actually know something about the murder that she's afraid to tell.