The suspects are a prodigal son, a secretary and a number of people whose livelihood involves children when a writer of children's books is strangled with a typewriter ribbon.
Suspicion falls on the figurehead presidents of his four corporations when shady conglomerate owner Monty Crippen dies chewing on a cyanide laced toothpick at a costume party.
Somehow or other, thirteen circus clowns always manage to squeeze into a tiny car - and get our of it again at the end of the act. But this time, the thirteenth clown is dead.
With Burke in Chicago, the unit must solve the murder of a blackmailing department store maintenance man with unsavory connections past and present and who has a penchant for the horses.
A list of interconnected suspects of people that escaped justice some time ago are left to Burke after Officer Danny Robin, Burke's sponsor for the police department, is shot to death.
Novelist Graham Tree whose smeared characters are thinly disguised awakens on the autopsy table after a severe beating and attempted barbiturate poisoning so Amos believes the culprit must be caught before a successful second attempt.
When a doctor is shot to death, suspicion falls on his young wife who due to an abusive childhood frequently runs away and from time to time falls into a dissociative trance.
When a wealthy banker is found murdered atop a seedy hotel's neon sign, a race to find the murderer develops between Burke and the beautiful private detective who was working for the dead man.
In his first mission as a secret agent, Burke replaces and pretends to be both pilot and deliveryman Schreiner to infiltrate a syndicate that smuggles Red Chinese gold into Latin America to finance rebels.
Burke is assigned to rescue the son of an Algerian diplomat apparently kidnapped for ransom but uncovers a more serious plot to overthrow the French government.
Burke infiltrates the organization of a deported mobster who has employed the talents of a diabolical chemist and the funds of foreign governments to execute a fiendish plan to sack New York City and carry out political assassination.
When persons trying to contact British agents say a password are killed, Burke is directed to investigate and finds a plot to use a Soviet satellite launch and a phony atomic threat to lure British defenses to an underground gas trap.
Amos helps a scientist who has invented a new type bomb and his assistant defect but the scientist is kidnapped during the escape and help for a ransom of uncut diamond under threat of exploding the bomb in Vienna.
Burke in Mexico to ensure the passage of a treaty gets embroiled in a conspiracy to derail the treaty between a Mexican labor leader and a Mexican industrialist who want it to appear that the United States wants to assassinate the leader.
Burke is sent to a Pacific island run by a ruthless dwarf profiteer to extract a U.S. intelligence cryptographer with a photographic memory in order to prevent intelligence secrets from being compromised.
Burke must infiltrate an international criminal organization which plans to use a peace group's plan to use an LSD gas to render the Washington D.C. population ineffective as a cover to steal military secrets.
To gain business and political secrets, a Machiavellian mogul uses a newly developed drug which gains immediate truthful answers followed by the subjects drug induced unstoppable desire to commit suicide.
Burke must thwart the plan of the ruthless wife of an exiled South American dictator to hide the terminal illness so the dictator can get revolutionary financing from the Chinese who want a foothold in South America.
Burke must remove the blackmail threat from a Sicilian official while using this event to locate and stop the shipment of missiles by a ruthless arm dealers to Latin America.
When the government receives a note demanding the release of two spies under threat of the release of a virulent rice fungus on the Asian mainland, Burke is sent to investigate in Ceylon where the developer of the fungus resides.
Burke must collaborate with Russian agents to recover an abducted top Russian intelligence officer feared to be targeted to acquire Russian and American military secrets for the Chinese.
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What is the French language plot outline for Burke's Law (1963)?