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- Paul and Steve take refuge from the winter weather in a Scottish motel. The peculiar behaviour of other arriving guests arouses their curiosity. And who is the mysterious Mr Williams?
- In a library in Edinburgh, Scotland, a man waits until the librarian leaves, then goes to the shelf with all the Paul Temple books, and tears out the pages. The next day, it makes all the press. Steve, who is going up to Edinburgh, as coincidence would have it, asks Paul to come with her, and he does so. When they check into their hotel, the clerk calls someone and says, "They're here." Someone calls Paul, and asks to meet him. It turns out to be a reporter who wants to follow Paul around. They meet in a pub. The reporter has a friend named David Moffatt. A long haired hippie comes in. The friend punches him in the stomach - the barkeep throws the hippie out, calling him a troublemaker. In the commune, the hippie mounts the steps and meets a girl who wants him to fix a sewing machine. He says he'll do it later.
- Temple joins the panel of a controversial TV show that rakes over unsolved murder cases with the aim of identifying the perpetrator.
- When a seemingly worthless statuette that Paul Temple wins at an auction is stolen, the trail to its recovery leads Temple to a professional assassin based in Amsterdam.
- Paul and Steve are in Malta where they encounter an eccentric film maker who plays very dangerous games.
- Temple investigates assassination attempts against ruthless businessman Edward Caine.
- While Paul's away, Steve and Sammy try to prevent her friend from marrying a crook whose car dealership is stocked with stolen cars. But is the friend really as oblivious as she seems?
- Paul becomes involved in the investigation of a mysterious outbreak in a research laboratory. An intruder broke in but was later found dead in the Cold Room. The only two people that have access to area were Henry Roach and Robert O'Keefe.
- Paul Temple drives through the mountains in Switzerland to St. Moritz, but instead goes with his wife onto the road to Soglio. At the village's cafe, the Italian gangster Angelo gives Heidi and her father Bernhard a bad time. Temple and his wife then arrive for a meal. Heidi asks them for a lift to St. Moritz where she works. Temple books into his usual haunt, the 'Kulm Hotel'; Angelo then tells Heidi (who works there) to check the rooms for things to steal. To help his son to win the Cresta Run (which he doesn't), Patrick Nolan pays Angelo to cheat for him by heating the blades on the toboggan. His son Dermot then gets him to steal the trophy, but they are both later caught by the inspector at the the airport with Temple's help. The village is then released from the pressure brought on by Angelo.
- Former gangster Sammy Carson is in the frame for a wages job he says he didn't do. He asks Paul Temple to help him but with Sammy's fingerprints everywhere, Temple has his doubts.
- Paul and Steve Temple's friend Ilse is kidnapped soon after arriving in London. Paul and Steve begin to suspect that maybe her Uncle is involved somehow but with no immediate evidence, set about trying to track her down.
- Paul and Steve investigate the deaths of two young boys in an explosion at a derelict French country house.
- Brechand is shot dead by a KGB double who takes his place. Carlton and Springett want Richard Kelly to murder the old Brechand but make it look like a robbery. Instead the KGB man offers to take Kelly, a petty thief in trouble, to Africa.
- An ex-mercenary returns to the UK from an African state. After he unleashes an unprovoked attack on Paul Temple, Temple sets about discovering why the man has what seems to be a split personality.
- The Munich carnival is known all over the world but it also provides ideal cover for some inscrutable criminals. Paul and Steve join the festivities but Paul is there to help Herr Bauman who is getting tormented by mysterious anarchists.
- Paul and Steve are on holiday in Greece. Their car breaks down and find help at a Greek mountain village. Luckily they find Yorkshireman, Joe Hardcastle living there. When he is found dead, Paul thinks the village is hiding a dark secret.
- The trail of the trouble in Amsterdam leads Paul Temple to Bruges. Here he uncovers a corrupt antique dealer Mondelle with international connections and a European-wide smuggling operation.
- Steve avoids crash a car who Susan Grant. who is married to ambitious detective investigating Sammy Carson. Susan is getting death threats but her husband believes it's a crank. Instead she asks Steve and Paul for help but gets kidnapped.
- Paul and Steve are on a weekend boating trip when they hear a man, in the water, calling for help. Commodore Fairbright comes to help but they discover the drowning was no accident. Paul believes it's insurance scam and they are in danger.
- Paul Temple is in Edinburgh at an international crime writers' conference and is approached by a young German girl who asks him to review her first novel. The book is not really what she thinks it is though.
- Paul and Steve are tricked into attending a party at a large run-down family home. Temple is asked to solve an unresolved murder that occurred there 5 years earlier. Can he solve an illogical crime and prove Stephen Bissett is innocent?
- While he is in Munich, the "PT" on Paul Temple's suitcase means he is mistaken for assassin Peter Tasman, who has been held up at the airport and refused entry to Germany. As he begins to get small pieces of information regarding exactly what Tasman has to do, Temple is intrigued enough to play along; however, he soon gets mixed up in a murderous plot of double-cross, all orchestrated by the mysterious but extremely efficient Mr Somerville.
- After uncovering a plot in the first part, Temple now finds himself on the run and against the clock in Munich.
- Paul and Steve take the night train to Inverness. Paul spots a coffin in the mail room, so when Freddie Prince exits the train, at Preston, he gets D. S. Waterhill to help. Sir Harold Malyon says the body in the coffin has been murdered.
- An envelope full of blank paper landing on Temple's doormat one morning, soon arouses interest from Russian, US and British agents. Pestered as a person of interest, he wonders why and sets about investigating why he's suddenly so popular.
- When Italian film star Luciana Benedetti lands in London, Paul Temple soon becomes embroiled in the disappearance of her manager's son Mark.
- Paul's friend Dr. Matthew Fox, a well-known Oxford scientist, dies from gas poisoning. Everyone convinced it was suicide, having intentionally tampered with the equipment. Paul believes that Fox's political beliefs may have made enemies.
- In Stockholm, old friend Ingmar asks Temple for a favour. Temple soon gets embroiled in murder and a drug-smuggling racket, all related to an expensive yacht carrying expensive cargo, neither of which anyone can find.
- Travelling to Milan, the Temples offer Gina, an adolescent girl a lift. They soon discover she is homeless. When their property and that of their host goes missing, Paul Temple tries to get to the bottom of why the girl insists on stealing.
- The theft of expensive artwork from a gallery includes a piece owned by Paul Temple. When the gallery starts to receive ransom demands, Paul Temple investigates.
- After an explosion in a suitcase at the Cordways' house in Riverside, Paul Temple investigates.