A Broadway producer is implicated in the murder of a detective investigating his business practices.

An ambitious junior executive in the mob uses fashion models to transport heroin into New York.

While answering a high-rise apartment burglary call, McCloud stumbles on a body, which then disappears. The case leads to a VIP madam under indictment, whose girls are apparently being murdered by a serial killer.

After hanging his Stetson in a diner one night, McCloud is stymied by various attempts to relieve him of it. His clues lead to a ballet company on the verge of folding, and a philanthropic foundation with millions of dollars missing from its account books.

Chris Coughlin's high-rise apartment building is torched by an arsonist for hire.