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Sat, May 2, 1959
Upon hearing that Roy Markham's (Ray Milland's) good friend, Jim Donovan, has been shot and killed on the steps of U.S. Embassy in Cairo, Markham and his partner John Riggs (Simon Scott) fly to Washington to investigate. Markham believes Boris Vascou (Anthony Eustrel), the "Vanishing Assassin," murdered his friend over information Donovan planned to share with the U.S. government about the country where he had been working as an oil engineer: "Kaleda," a small, oil-rich kingdom on the Persian Gulf. Its ruler, Prince Hassan III, is due to arrive in Washington shortly on a diplomatic visit. After crashing the right cocktail party, Roy meets the Prince's emissary, Ramik Sarid (Arnold Moss), and deduces that an assassination is in the works. He guesses it will take place at a riverside home where a beautiful French actress named Renee Compante (Jacqueline Beer) awaits the Prince. With the help of a friendly socialite boater, Diana Rogers (Betsy Jones-Moreland), Markham, Riggs and Sarid waylay Vascou and kill him.
Sat, May 16, 1959
During a revolution in Costa Dora, a casino magnate was murdered by a crime syndicate because they thought he had half a million dollars in cash. Afterwards, his daughter attracts the attention of the U.S. Bureau of Internal Revenue by spending money lavishly in Paris. Markham is approached by the Bureau to investigate and find the money.
Sat, May 23, 1959
A young woman contacts Markham after moving in with an elderly aunt she hadn't seen since childhood. The niece fears that the old lady is being robbed by an unscrupulous medium whose séances bring back the spirit of the woman's long-dead son. Markham attends one of the sittings and immediately pegs the spiritualist as a phony; he also finds the aunt to be a little too theatrical to be a sheltered old hermit.
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Sat, Nov 21, 1959
Markham comes home to find an unconscious, rich heiress and her three armed kidnappers. The crooks demand $500,000 for her return and know that her father will contact Markham for help since he'd worked for the family before. Knowing that they'll be killed after the ransom is paid, Roy schemes to overtake their captors with a well-timed explosion.
Thu, Mar 3, 1960
Private investigator Roy Markham (Ray Milland) helps a woman, Nancy Booth (uncredited), once a famous actress, test her husband's faith in her by allowing her to use his engraved lighter and a handwritten letter from him. She leaves them in her penthouse and purse respectively, and her husband, a famous sculptor named Philip Booth (Robert H. Harris), finds them and kills her in a jealous rage. Booth then invites Markham over for dinner, and they play cat and mouse during cocktails, all of which culminates in Markham's discovering Nancy's dead body. The viewer then learns that Markham anticipated a confrontation with Booth, but never Nancy Booth's death. Markham had been in love with her for years, and when she came to him for help with her husband, he thought triggering a confrontation among all three parties would enable the Booths to disperse the jealousy and suspicion in their marriage. Booth has every intention of killing Markham, but Markham escapes. By maliakapalena.