Whitney Blake

A private detective helps a prostitute being assaulted, and notices that she is wearing a very unique ring. She is later found murdered and there is no trace of the ring, which turns out to be part of a cache of jewelry stolen by the Nazis during World War II and smuggled out of France after the wary by an American army colonel. (imdb)

Managing Editor Sam Gatlin arrives in the afternoon and departs early the next morning, having assembled a morning newspaper for Los Angeles. During this implausibly active day in the life of a metropolitan newspaper, Sam and his wife Peggy argue about adopting a child. The reporter's grandson pilots a military plane from Honolulu to New York. A child is lost in the LA sewers (Gatlin composes a warning headline with picture: "Children Stay Out of These"). (imdb)

George Baxter is a highly successful corporation lawyer who is always in control of everything at the office, but almost nothing at home. When he returns from the office at day's end, to his wife Dorothy and his young son Harold, he enters the world of Hazel. Hazel is the maid and housekeeper who runs the Baxter household more efficiently than George runs his office. She is always right, knew exactly what needs doing and pre-empts his authority with alarming, though, justified regularity. (imdb)

Mr. Prentiss is an appraiser at his firm, the House of Prentiss. He is about to go to Florida to appraise a vast collection of a recently deceased collector, Van der Locken, when he receives an unwanted visit from Ivor Hager, who informs him of "The Left Fist of David," a valuable but mysterious art object that was stolen from a Mexican church. Hager offers a bribe but Prentiss firmly rejects it and heads to Florida.... (imdb)