McMillan & Wife

During the move into the McMillans' new house, Sally is terrified to discover a dead body in one of the barrels delivered by the movers. She calls Mac, but when he and Sgt. Enright arrive, the body is gone. As Sally tries to prove that she didn't imagine it, Mac and Enright investigate the moving company and discover that several people have lost items and have also reported missing persons on the same day.

The Dutchman is a master jewel thief who hasn't been active during the past 10 years. He is known to one person only, who gives himself up to the thief in exchange for Mrs. McMillan, after she has been kidnapped.

Sergeant Enright's abusive ex-wife is shot while locked in a room alone with him, and the bullet that kills her came from his gun.

A birthday celebration for a friend of Mac's mother ends in a murder attempt.

Mac's closest friend from France, a high-ranking police inspector who recently married a San Francisco socialite, comes to town to show her off and talk business with his wealthy father-in-law. Mac can't give his buddy the royal treatment because he's just arrested a bullying lawyer for witness intimidation. The lawyer, from the inside, apparently hires a gunman to follow Mac around and fire warning shots at him. When Mac and Sally attend a fancy-dress ball, the inspector's wife (herself an old friend of Mac's) asks to talk to Mac on an outside balcony. A rifle shot rings out and she falls dead. Everyone thinks that the hired gunman fired at Mac and made a tragic miss, and the police inspector threatens to go ballistic in his search for the killer. But was Mac the real target? The plot thickens when the inspector narrowly escapes a bombing and another person -- with no ties to the gunman -- is murdered. Were the inspector, his wife or possibly both of them the targets, and why?

Mac and Sally waffle about whether or not to sell their house, especially after a break-in, Mac's surprise birthday party, an earthquake, a skeleton, spies and con men, and stolen jewels.

Mac goes onto temporary duty as a Navy JAG and is immediately given a case defending a Navy officer accused of murder. Mac soon discovers the victim isn't who he was supposed to be and his client isn't telling the whole truth.