A distraught father comes to The Forum newspaper city room seeking Mike's help, suspecting that his daughter has been murdered.
Andros tries to connect a plane-crash victim's diamonds with a Cabinet-post nominee.
Investigative reporter Mike Andros is convinced by the death of a once-prominent author that Dr. Hans Kipness, highly prized by his chic east side clientele, is administering more than vitamin B-12 in his shots.
Investigative reporter Mike Andros, discovers a political columnist from Washington, DC, is on the take from the New York mob when a reporter for the New York Forum is killed in a car explosion intended for another newsman.
Andros fears for the life of a union leader who disappears without a trace. What he and Sandi piece together leads Mike to a powerful and unscrupulous builder involved in bribes, payoffs and maybe murder.
A mother is heartbroken when she loses her son to a strange religious order.
On the trail of a big story involving a religious cult that preys on vulnerable young people and makes them dupes by using brain washing techniques, Mike Andros stumbles upon a subversive master plan which could subtly overthrow the government.
Marina Angelis thinks she has discovered a man called Dracos, "the Beast of Athens," responsible for scores of murders during the Greek civil war — now living in New York City as Gregory Bron.
College students are being recruited to act as "mules" or carriers of hard drugs from a foreign country to the United States. When one such carrier is killed, Mike Andros turns his attention to cracking the slick operation.
Mavis Higgins, an immigrant witnesses the murder of a toymaker but is terrified because of her immigration situation to go to the police with her evidence. A priest and Mike Andros try to encourage her.
A linebacker is drawn into a cover-up for the murder a quarterback committed.
A hunted radical leader asks Andros to arrange for his safe surrender.
An editor of a scandal publication gets burned out repeatedly for not revealing his sources, and Mike, not fond of the editor, tries to steer an even course through a maze of international figures and reputations.