Tue, Apr 11, 1967
The Baron is to meet Stanley White, a man he has never seen before,for information about a valuable sword. However film-maker Arkin Morley is also after the sword and has Mannering abducted and imprisoned in a railway goods truck whilst Compton,one of his men, posing as Mannering, makes the contact with White. Mannering has to escape and intercept Compton before he gets to White.
Wed, Apr 27, 1966
A gang led by Morgan Travis is planning to steal the Crown Jewels and also to kill Mannering,replacing him with 'Eddie',a man who has undergone plastic surgery in order to become the Baron's exact double.In fact the gang kill Eddie by mistake but are unaware that Mannering is still alive. Mannering must now impersonate Eddie impersonating himself and convince Cordelia into the bargain.
Wed, May 4, 1966
Having convinced Cordelia what is going on,Mannering goes to London with Morgan Travis's gang to get to the Tower of London. Unfortunately,whilst the Baron is doing his best to copy Eddie's mannerisms,a close friend of the deceased recognizes that he is not Eddie. The gang now force Mannering to assist them in their robbery of the Crown Jewels.
Wed, Mar 23, 1966
Mannering's assistant,David Marlowe,is abducted from the shop and a ransom demanded for his return. Specifically the ransom money is to be obtained by Mannering selling a fake Renoir painting to art collector Sir Richard Ellacott. On Templeton-Green's authority Mannering sells the painting and obtains the money,which is to be delivered to Sir Richard's nephew,Roddy. Mannering knows that Roddy is one of the kidnappers but must be careful not to put David's life at risk.
Wed, Feb 16, 1966
John Mannering does a deal with a crooked insurance agent in order to recover an Aztec mask worth a hundred thousand pounds from an ex-convict,Mark Seldon. However, Seldon's old gang boss wants the mask for himself and threatens Seldon's daughter Anne as his security. Mannering now has to recover the mask by saving Anne.
Wed, Mar 30, 1966
Whilst in Switzerland Mannering and Cordelia meet Peter Franklin, an American undercover agent and an old flame of Cordelia. He has stolen a strain of a deadly germ warfare virus from the laboratory where he was secretly working. When he is killed and the virus goes missing, Mannering intends to get to it before Dr. Ingar Sorensen, who developed it and the unscrupulous free agent Holmes.
Tue, Feb 14, 1967
Mannering is approached by a glamorous French widow,Madame Devereaux,who sells him an expensive necklace,the seven eyes of night. after she has gone,however,he realizes that she is an impostor and a member of a gang duping buyers into believing they have bought something valuable. He hopes to get to the gang by following secretary Nancy Cummings.
Tue, Jan 31, 1967
The Petrograd icons have been stolen but Mannering tracks them down and is about to put them into a safe deposit box when he is knocked unconscious and,on coming to,finds that they have been stolen again. His investigations lead him to the urbane Jim Gaynor and the Peerage gentlemen's club,where Mannering engages in a game of poker - the stakes being the further recovery of the icons.
Wed, Jan 19, 1966
Mannering and Cordelia are in an Iron Curtain country where they are about to hand over some money at a secret rendezvous. However Mannering's contact has been caught by the police and forced to name his contact. Though warned to keep away Mannering and Cordelia fall into a trap and she is taken by the police. Mannering plans to spring her by taking his own prisoner - the chief of police.
Wed, Feb 23, 1966
Louisa Trenton is an old friend of Mannering and she is clearly in financial trouble because she offers to sell him some miniatures which are very valuable and have long been in her family. Later she rings the Baron,who goes to meet her at a discotheque,but finds that she is dead. The police believe that she killed herself but Mannering is certain that she was being blackmailed - and that the blackmailer murdered her. He has several suspects to choose from.