When someone in the Vaudeville community is killed, Murdoch suspects the real target was Charlie Chaplin.
Inspector Brackenreid's son, Bobby, is wanted for murder, but the Inspector refuses to let Murdoch investigate.
Canadian government agent, Terrence Myers, informs Murdoch that his friend, scientist/entrepreneur James Pendrick, has been kidnapped by American agent Allen Clegg.
A part time university student is found dead with electrical burns on the head and two newly arrived American psychology professors with a penchant for unusual experiments may be responsible.
While roughing it in the Canadian backwoods with a motley crew of other vacationers, Murdoch and Julia have to solve the murder of a disagreeable man. Meanwhile, at the precinct, Constables Higgins and Crabtree investigate the decapitation of a young woman.
Murdoch investigates the murder of a harlot who was set up for a marriage transaction.
Murdoch, Ogden, Brackenreid and Crabtree are trapped in a deadly escape room while Watts and Louise Cherry investigate a year-old murder that is connected to Ralph Fellows.
Murdoch and Watts are invited to the old Newsome estate, where Rupert Newsome has declared the entire area a sovereign country and asks the pair to help solve a murder.
Murdoch investigates a murder linked to an opium den. Brackenreid investigates a missing persons case and the cases soon become connected.
The brutal murder of a woman from Murdoch's past complicates his life.
Reeling from a personal revelation, Murdoch seeks to avenge the murder of Anna Fulford.