Duval is in a Northern Kashmir mountain hotel at the request of the US Treasury to interview Clyde, a financier whose companies have gone bust in America and Europe. Duval makes it impossible for Baker to exchange the stolen money and devises a plan to force him out of Spain.

Duval arrives in the middle of a South American state's civil war to pick up an American oil technician wanted for murder. The series also features guest appearances from Donald Pleasence, Warren Mitchell, Alfred Burke and Patrick Troughton, among many others.Tracking their targets from searing sand dunes near the equator to icy peaks at the ends of the earth, the unstoppable duo risked their lives daily in a global race against time.

The police had been about to swoop and arrest Keflik, who however swaps raincoats and hats with an unconscious Duval, and escapes the net. Schroder, a Nazi, has to be released from prison after ten years when the man he had supposed to have murdered turns up in hospital badly injured after escaping from East Germany where he had been a prisoner. But it's surely "impossible" for Cliff to be the killer, since he is a thousand miles away in the race. Brock is being tried for stealing opals belonging to Grierson, a trooper, and then seriously wounding him. She's sailing from Southampton - so another race there and surprise surprise, she has six abstract paintings- xrays prove they've been treated with the overpainting trick.

he'd once rounded up Murder Inc, wow, and he gives Duval the helpful encouragement, "this could be one murder that you're not going to be able to stop. even though in reality it was all shot in London with the actors putting on a foreign accent, a different uniform, and standing in front of a back projection of street scenes from around the world. However when Duval checks this out, he finds the ship can float at high tide, and moreover it has been at sea recently. Although everything points to car owner, American, Ben Stack as the murderer Duval is not convinced and he discovers the girl was a nightclub hostess and the owner was deported from America on vice charges. Of course Anita is intending to shoot them for doublecrossing her, but Duval has been keeping a watching brief.

Fingerprints found on a safe at a robbery in Amsterdam belong to Irish safecracker Sash Moran but he is in a London prison awaiting release.

In Rome Duval tracks Miss Emily Prentiss, only to once more wind up with egg on his face when he falls for "the oldest trick in the world.