A peer of the realm, who's a photographer as well as a cat burglar, comes to America and, in flagrante delicto at a Long Island costume party, witnesses a killing at the hands of Irish bombers, all of which sends McCloud to Blighty, where the target remains to be found.

On Christmas Eve, an assassin stalks McCloud, a spurned mistress attempts suicide, a sidewalk Santa turns mugger, junkies raid a hospital pharmacy, Chris's newspaper organizes a party for orphans at Westside Hospital with Chief Clifford as Santa, and the junkies take hostages.

The State Department sends Chief Clifford and McCloud to Moscow with a touring country & western singer, undercover.

Murder victims are found to be drained of blood, and an elderly star of vampire films is suspected; Chief Clifford is on the hunt for a random sniper.

McCloud is framed for the murder of a drug-dealing hack, and exposes the ring.

The head of a trucking company is killed before eyewitnesses, and McCloud's girlfriend is the culprit.

McCloud escorts a witness from New Mexico to New York City, but loses him to kidnappers and finds himself in a murder case involving Puerto Rican nationalists, a lady novelist, a Wall Street lawyer, and a dead beauty pageant winner.

McCloud goes to help a lady in distress, but gets caught in a shootout that sends him back to Taos on Chief Clifford's orders. At the last minute, the Chief is kidnapped to force McCloud to act as a courier to Paris.

McCloud is becoming famous thanks to press coverage. It doesn't endear him to the boys in blue, who have to deal with a string of drugstore holdups.

McCloud is assigned to shepherd the cowboys at a visiting rodeo. They're old friends, and one of them is killed by a jealous rival over a woman, it appears.

McCloud, whose new-found celebrity (thanks to an article by Chris Coughlin in the Chronicle) vexes the Department, is assigned to protect a British theatrical maven who has received letters assailing his ""filthy, obscene"" productions and threatening his life.

McCloud complains about his assignment to rodeo detail, so Chief Clifford sends him to Special Auxiliary Force VI under the command of Sgt. Dameron, where he works to catch a murderer in Central Park.

In Paris, McCloud and a stewardess try to locate a mysterious arms smuggler with ties to an American mogul and a New York gubernatorial candidate.

The wife of an astrologer and widely-syndicated newspaper columnist is kidnapped in broad daylight.

A football player from Ohio who needs an operation goes to find the New York mobster who owes him money.

An industrial engineer is thought to have been died in an air crash, and his secretary is driven into a mental hospital.

A nabob is menaced by a professional killer with an unknown employer.

Stolen penicillin is diluted and sent south of the border by the director of a famous cemetery.

A musician is framed for the killing of his teacher, a violinist whose long-lost brother was in the mob.

A Broadway producer is implicated in the murder of a detective investigating his business practices.

A TV commentator's critique of police shootings tarnishes the department's stakeout squad, and Chris Coughlin is threatened to force the release of a murder suspect extradited to Taos by McCloud.

A bevy of international stewardesses have a second career as cat burglars.

As part of a pilot program, McCloud is assigned a female partner, and the two go undercover against a big-time auto theft ring.

An ambitious junior executive in the mob uses fashion models to transport heroin into New York.

A dying Roman mobster wills his ""Saracen Horse,"" a jewel-encrusted green jade treasure, to any of his criminal colleagues who can take possession of it.