When a trumpeter is blacklisted, Phil and Cricket try to get him a job.

When a security guard is murdered and a valuable map is stolen from the collection of the late Professor Coleman, Tom finds he isn't short of suspects. Coleman had willed the entire collection to a university and left nothing to his daughters, his Hawaiian ward, or his loyal assistant.

A prowler disturbs the sleep of fading movie queen Nora Stewart, who is vacationing in Honolulu before attempting a comeback in Hollywood. A routine check by Greg reveals that every member of Nora's entourage has reason to prevent her comeback. He then sets out to discover which one is disturbing the actress. Kim provides the needed clue.

Newscasters Van Baxter and Steve Talbot have been publicizing a series of unsolved crimes which culminated in the death of Steve's wife. They pressure Quon into arresting the boyfriend of Phil's part-time secretary, Lois Corey. Phil steps in to clear the innocent man, with some help from Cricket and Greg.

Phil's cousin Lucy McDowell is nice, unattached, and Hawaii-bound. Phil and Cricket's plans to entertain Lucy hit a nasty roadblock when a disreputable writer-type named Victor makes a play for the girl.

Tom adds an old pal, Glen Thompson, to the agency's security staff. Soon after, a jewelry store robbery where Glen is injured puts them both on the spot. Tom is confused. He knows Thompson too well to believe that the obviously inept thieves could have outsmarted him.

Ralph Mason wants Greg to find out the name of his lat wife's lover. Evelyn Mason was killed in an automobile accident after leaving the mysterious man.

Cricket's friend, Luana Mathes, leaves her baby on Cricket's doorstep to keep him away from his grandfather, who is trying to take the child away from her. Meanwhile, Tom is hired by the grandfather to find both mother and grandson. His ire when he finds that Cricket and Phil have been keeping a secret from him is short-lived when he discovers a kidnap plot.

The shooting and robbery of the island's favorite drive-in owner spurs Tom into action, while the Hawaiian Village Hotel's new social director Phil Barton and Cricket believe that Tina Billings knows more about the crime than she should.

The erring husband of a wealthy woman conspires with a Beach Boy to fake a blackmail case against her, but the trick is exposed.

During a tropical storm Greg and a group of tourists are trapped with a mysterious killer in the mansion of elderly widow Felicia Fairweather.

MacKenzie (Grant Williams)runs to help when a car comes tearing down the street, barely misses him, and crashes to a stop. But he's too late. The man behind the wheel is dead - from a shotgun blast.

Barbara Ingalls is accused of murder when her husband's mistress is found murdered. MacKenzie is asked to investigate the crime, but he discovers his life is also in danger because someone doesn't want him to arrive at a different conclusion.

Tracy Steele is blamed when an old girlfriend is found murdered in his car.

Lily Shung has lived all her life in Hong Kong. Her mother died before she was five but not before telling her that her father was from a prominent family in Hawaii. Lily sets out for Hawaii to learn about her father's side of the family.

Tom returns from a covert job where he was tasked with bringing a witness back to Oahu to stand trial. An enterprising photographer learns about the witness and tries to make some money selling his information.

Bill Sinclair brings a rare statuette called the Manabi Figurine to Greg for safe keeping pending its appraisal, and hoped for a tidy profit on the archaeological find for himself and his partners. The figurine is stolen from Greg's safe and a murder is committed. Greg and Tom work with Lt. Quon to track down the killer and recover the figurine.

To expose a waterfront loan shark, Tom Lopaka poses as a loneshoreman who needs a loan.

Someone has just murdered award-winning artist Gordon Montaigne, and Tracy Steele gains the help of a blind girl in serving as bait to catch him.

A crop of 20-dollar bills turns up in Honolulu, and the Treasury Department asks MacKenzie to help find the source. At first glance, the bills appear to be the work of former counterfeiter Capt. Joe, who they thought had gone straight. It turns out he has been kidnapped by the real counterfeiters, but is refusing to cooperate with them in making new $50 plates.

Six Navy men discover they have something in common - they're all engaged to the same woman. They hire Tom to find her and get the money back that they each gave her for expenses.

Tom Lopaka manages to talk an executive out of committing suicide by convincing the man that he will find the person who's been blackmailing him, but in order to accomplish this he must induce his old friend Greg MacKenzie to come to the islands to finger the bad guy. Greg is so taken with Hawaii that he decides to stay, and becomes a member of their detective agency.

Tom Lopaka tries to unravel a conspiracy to kill an orchid grower and steal his most valuable specimen.

While on vacation in Hawaii, Mavis Purcell is nearly killed in two suspicious accidents and suspects her artist husband is behind them, so she asks Tracy Steele to protect her.

Former Japanese military officer Yato Mitsuki escapes from a mental hospital in Hawaii, and Steele and Lopaka are hired to find him, but time is running out - Mitsuki has amnesia so he does not remember that World War II is over and he may cause a second Pearl Harbor disaster.

When a lovely guest named Marian Summers checks in at the Hawaiian Village Hotel, she attracts the attention of Tom Lopaka, and coincidentally a string of burglaries plague the hotel. Marian is the girlfriend of a gangster facing a grand jury in Chicago and has been sent to Hawaii to keep her from testifying. The gangsters have also sent a hit man to make sure she never speaks again.

From the mainland, investigator Stu Bailey calls on Steele and Lopaka to track down an embezzler who's gone to Hawaii. The trail leads them to a travel bureau which turns out to be a front for illicit activities in which pretty native girls are used in a scheme to defraud and kill wealthy vacationers.

Tracy attempts to clear an army lieutenant who won't try to defend himself against robbery charges.

Tom is hired to protect a woman's husband from an ancient death curse.

Two young Japanese visitors, Hiroshi and Susumu, ask Tom to locate an old man named Noburu. Tom finds him but is reluctant to tell his clients until he knows the reasons for their search. Tom finds out that that the young Japanese men plan to kill Noburu in order to avenge their family's honor.

Returning from Hong Kong, Tracy's plane is hijacked.

When an expensive diamond in their care is stolen, Tracy and Tom suspect a security leak inside their offices.

A gambler kills a man in Kim's cab and steals the man's suitcase, which is full of money. Then a girl in whom Kim has taken an interest is kidnapped to prevent Kim from identifying the murderer for the police.

Irene, the princess from Manhattan, is trying to escape from her husband, Prince Abdur, and Tom Lopaka agrees to help. But it doesn't look like Tom's going to be of much assistance when he's taken prisoner aboard the prince's yacht.

Unknown to Steele, one of the Chinese refugee musicians he is guarding is a Tibetan Lama escaping from the Reds. Kim accidentally hears a song being played by Wang Hai, that provides an important clue. Everybody ends up at the Hotel's Shell Bar to hear Cricket & Kim sing ""Jade Song"".

Micho Koyoto is a Japanese marine who has been a castaway in the Solomon Islands for more than fifteen years. Out to cover a big story, magazine writer Gloria Matthews asks Tracy to help find him. Koyoto is the heir to an industrialist's fortune, but first they must convince him the war is over.

Greg and private investigator Tracy Steele investigate the attempted murder of an oil executive who was about to close a merger with a rival oil company, which is controlled by a woman.

Concert violinist Stafford Price is fond of his $20,000 Stradivarius. Unfortunately, he's not the only one. When the violin is stolen, it's up to Tom and Phil to recover the valuable instrument.

A woman is torn between her lawyer and her estranged husband.

A wealthy widow falls for a faith healer's con game, but Cricket and Phil have to rescue her when she starts to cause trouble after moving into Brother Love's rest home.

Greg MacKenzie falls for vacationing Nora Cobinder, but then finds she is a target of killers because of something that happened to her sister some years earlier.

A law firm in Los Angeles hires Tracy to locate Nancy Campbell, who is missing. Tracy qestions her friends, only to figure out that they are covering up for her. Nancy is being threatened by Harry Gulliver, a man with whom Tracy during the Korean War. Gulliver was the machine gunner on Tracy's plane and had been unable to pull the trigger when they were attacked by enemy planes. Now Gulliver plans to kill Nancy, but once again he cannot pull the trigger when Tracy recounts the Korean incident.

When Tracy and Tom are hired to find the killer of a skin diver, Tracy finds out that a young widow named Lady Blanche Carleton is involved and that a string of black pearls worth a fortune are the reason behind the murder, but the question is whether or not the pearls are real.

A movie star accidentally kills a man in a hit-and-run and flees the scene of the crime, but not before the assistant director of the movie company spots sees her doing so, resulting in a blackmailing scheme that Tracy eventually exposes.

Private eyes Steele and Lopaka are hired by a slick real estate operator to locate a missing man, a released felon whom he needs to complete the deal in a land swindle.

Peter, a beach boy, claims to be the son of wealthy Donna Lane and is arrested when he trespasses on her property. Donna claims her son died in a drowning accident nine years earlier while swimming with his stepfather Carleton. Steele decides to help the boy and prove he is Donna's son and also find out what really happened nine years ago.