Jeff Spencer, hired by a Texas oil dynasty to protect their teenage daughter from a fortune-hunting gigolo, must prove her innocent when she is found with his dead body.

Jeff Spencer is nearly killed himself while investigating the death of a boxer involved in a fight that was fixed.

Exporter Henry Packer hires Jeff to find a missing woman and a small fortune.

A borrowed car with sabotaged brakes leads to murder, and Kookie's quest to find the killer leads him into a tangle of romantic triangles and blackmail.