A convict who has just been let out on parole brings his son on holiday to Jersey without telling the boy's mother or his probation officer.

An international financier sets up a meeting of top European moneymen at his Jersey mansion; one of whom is attending the meeting for reasons other than financial gain.

Anonymous phone calls prompt Jim to re-examine a road accident that had been dismissed as routine.

Philippa Vale returns to Jersey planning to recover the jewels she was forced to abandon in a previous encounter with Jim.

Jim is assigned to find a financier who has disappeared.

Jim is assigned to look after an important gang informant's mother, who is in danger of being kidnapped by a vengeful gang leader.

When members of two feuding families decide to settle their differences with an old-fashioned duel, Jim ends up with a murder to investigate.