I 1970'ernes Los Angeles tvinges den kiksede privatdetektiv Holland March og den professionelle bølle Jackson Healy til at samarbejde for at finde en ung kvinde og efterforske en pornostjernes død. Med stor iver og en hel del held udreder de en chokerende sammensværgelse, som strækker sig til byens øverste magthavere.
I 30'ernes USA slår en hårdkogt politimand sig sammen med en lyssky privatdetektiv med det formål at få bragt nogle gangstere bag tremmer. Skønt de to engang var nære venner, stoler de ikke på hinanden længere, men lidt efter lidt genvinder de deres gamle venskab og effektiviteten i deres fælles arbejde, ikke mindst da de må hjælpe en ung sangerinde mod de slemme forbrydere.
Med en kønt ansigt og pæn udbetaling er det ikke svært for frk. Wonderly af få detektiverne Spade & Archer til at beskytte sig. Men Archer bliver dræbt samme aften, og nu er det op til hårdkogte Sam Spade at redde trådene ud. Inden længe er Spade draget ind i et dødsensfarligt spil, hvor en gruppe forbrydere vil gøre alt for at få fat i en figur af en ridderfalk.
Den kæderygende privatdetektiv Philip Marlowe kører en ven fra Los Angeles til den mexicanske grænse. Da han kommer hjem, er hans lejlighed fyldt med strømere, og han bliver anholdt for mordet på vennens kone. Det starter en lavine af mystiske begivenheder: Hvem er hans ven egentlig? Hvor er han nu? Og hvorfor skylder han mafiaen penge?
Den hårdkogte Los Angeles-detektiv Lew Harper er i pengebekneb, så han siger ja til at finde den rige Elaine Sampsons forsvundne ægtemand. Det lyder som en simpel sag, men snart stifter Harper grundigt bekendtskab med underholdningshovedstadens mørkere sider.
An American salvage diver plunges into dangerous intrigue around a sunken treasure in the Philippines.
A would be private eye gets mixed up in a smuggling case.
A private eye is hired to protect a young woman who has a black book on a crime syndicate.
Tongue-in-cheek account of a private eye hired to find a young porn actress.
A private investigator is hired to track down a missing girl on the run from a mysterious Silicon Valley corporation.
In the teeming, multicultural metropolis of modern-day London, a seemingly straightforward missing-person case launches a down-at-heel private eye into a dangerous world of religious fanaticism and political intrigue.
When a private eye, a jilted bride and a mysterious stranger join forces to track down an elusive mobster, there's more than trouble in the air.
An awkward loner becomes a mail-order private investigator, only to become somewhat of a bumbling stalker for the girl of his dreams.
The story takes place in occupied Korea at the start of the 20th century, where a young student in medicine discovers the murdered body of the son of a government official. Being scared of being accused, he decides to hire Hong Jin-ho (a detective) to help him find the murderer before the police accuse him of the murder.
A private eye is hired by an insurance company to investigate a shipping magnate suspected of deliberately sinking his own ships for the insurance money. He finds himself involved in a web of deception, double-crossing and murder.
A private eye who's over his head in debt takes on a job snapping photos of his client's rich husband in bed with another woman. But when the husband winds up with three bullet holes that seem to have come from the private eye's own gun, he's got to prove he's not the murderer meanwhile getting tangled deeper in a web of deceit, lies, and steamy night club dancers!
In this prospective pilot, Mick Jade, a tennis bum-turned-Las Vegas-song-and-dance man, doubles as a private eye with two female dancers, Ebony and Ivory. The trio go undercover to protect a lady scientist from international hitmen as she heads for Washington D.C. from the near-East with her super-secret formula.
Al Pereira is hired by Lina, the wife of a wealthy man, to recover some compromising photos. She has sex with him by way of a retainer. In the course of his investigation, Al is obliged to commit a couple of murders... and he's left holding the bag when Lina turns out not to be what she seems to be.
A private eye is hired by a mayoral candidate to prevent any sort of adverse publicity. It seems that, somewhere in town, there's a talking blackbird who insists upon saying that the candidate will commit a murder. When the killing occurs, the candidate is implicated, and the detective is off on a hectic pursuit of the incriminating crow and the actual murderer.
After being consulted by a friend concerning a murder case, a private eye learns the friend has become the next victim.
Passport to Treason was put together by Robert S. Baker and Monty Berman, the same team who’d later collaborate on the UK TV series The Saint. Rod Cameron stars as an American private eye, stationed in London. For the sake of a murdered friend, the detective takes over the dead man’s case, which turns out to have international ramifications. The villains are members of a phony pacifistic society, all of whom harbor plans for taking over the world.