Banacek

1Detour to Nowhere

2Let's Hear It for a Living Legend

3Project Phoenix

4No Sign of the Cross

A golden cross, on it's way from a Mexican church to an American gangster anxious to reform his image, turns into worthless junk without ever leaving the possession of the couriers sent to deliver it. Banacek must figure out where and how the switch was pulled off.

5A Million the Hard Way

A million dollars in cash sits under a glass dome in a crowded casino, guards ever at the ready while tourists have their picture taken. A few brief seconds of distraction, and the cash is gone. How can Banacek "account" for the eccentric casino owner's lost funds.

6To Steal a King

7Ten Thousand Dollars a Page

8The Greatest Collection of Them All

How can a $23 million dollar collection of paintings be put on a truck in New York, travel non-stop to Boston surrounded by guards, and yet all but one painting has disappeared by the time the truck arrives? Depend on Banacek to get the picture.

9The Two Million Clams of Cap'n Jack

1No Stone Unturned

"Man in Harmony," a 3-ton, 11-foot tall sculpture is missing at its gala unveiling. The 5-foot pedestal to which it was attached is all that remains to mark the theft. A ransom demand threatening to turn the large stone into gravel unless $500,000 is paid further complicates the case. Working, and competing, with a Boston Insurance Company colleague, Banacek has only two days to find the statue and collect his fee.

2If Max Is So Smart, Why Doesn't He Tell Us Where He Is?

One morning Max - a huge, complex computer system - is missing from the locked, alarmed and guarded building he filled just the night before. Banacek steps in to find out how tons of computer machinery could be sneaked out leaving only bare walls.

3The Three Million Dollar Piracy

A three-million dollar wedding coach, being sent overseas, disappears shortly after being placed into a shipping container and loaded aboard ship, under the watchful eyes of two Boston Insurance Company employees. Enter Banacek, who must figure out the puzzling theft and find the coach before the ship sails to collect his ten percent.

4The Vanishing Chalice

5Horse of a Slightly Different Color

How can a valuable, highly recognizable thoroughbred horse start a practice run around an open racetrack and be an unknown nag when it reaches the finish line? Bet on Banacek to solve the puzzle before the horse thieves make tracks with the real article.

6Rocket to Oblivion

A small but powerful prototype engine sits sealed in a rotating display case in the middle of a crowded trade-show floor. A power failure turns out the lights for a few seconds, and when the lights return, the rocket engine has vanished. Banacek must beat his competition to the solution before Federal agents step in.

7Fly Me- If You Can Find Me

A charter company jetliner makes an emergency landing at a small desert airstrip, blowing all of its tires and leaving a shaken flight crew. The next morning finds the pilot left guarding the plane dead and the airstrip empty of the immovable aircraft. Enter Banacek - in a chauffeur-driven jeep - to sort out the convolutions of pilots, stewardesses, old business partners and more to learn where the crippled plane has gone.

8Now You See Me, Now You Don't