Burke's Law

- Season 2

(1964)

Rising actress and beach queen Tina Romaine surfs a difficult wave, walks a few steps, and drops dead. A bullet grazed her right temple, but the wound was superficial and the autopsy finds that she was killed by an archaic poison. Posing as a beach bum, Tim goes undercover to infiltrate the surfing crowd.

A number of vaudeville old-timers are among the suspects when Burke investigates the death of a comedian.

While the water for her before dinner bath is being drawn, high society blackmailer Cassandra Cass is gunned down in her bedroom in her mansion. The prime suspects are her four victims, all of whom had been invited to dinner that evening. And, of course, there's the butler.

While hosting a garden party on a sunny Sunday afternoon, modeling mogul Charles Lee Horne telephones the homicide squad and asks for Burke. A single rifle shot ends both the phone call and Horne's life. The investigation takes an unexpected and disturbing twist when one of Horne's models, Felice Knight, files an internal affairs complaint alleging that Tim helped her to blackmail Horne into signing her.

Four poker buddies celebrate the first anniversary of their weekly games with a private party at the Hillsdale Country Club. The festivities end when all four men are killed by a bottle of poisoned wine. There is no shortage of suspects. Besides having four unhappy wives, the men had incurred the ire of Butterfield, the club's historian, baseball coach, and busybody.

When the wealthy Emory Cartwheel is murdered at a coin auction, Amos Burke finds himself in jail in the Wild West town of Epitaph Flats.

The life of hotel magnate Cornelius Gilbert comes to an electrifying finish when somebody hot wires the metal ladder in his swimming pool. A torn piece of plaid cloth, a gold St. Christopher's medal, and Gilbert's annual round-the-world charter flight are the clues.

Murdered Lenore has left a note that she's changing her will with the heir as nephew Jay Boy who is involved with daughter of Jim Clover who needs Lenore's land to complete his development but Jay Boy's fiancée Effie Mae is in town.

When wealthy Amenor arrives in town to sell a lucrative oil lease, an apparent sniper attack on Amenor kills his bookkeeper and suspicion immediately suggests the culprit is one of three parties vying for deal.

The De Armand Sisters are a trio of singing siblings. When Alicia - the tall one in the middle - gets murdered, Amos Burke is surprised at how little the other two seem to be upset.

Escape artist Jack Merlin at a convention of competitive magicians attempts his stock in trade trick of staying under water for five hours sealed in coffin with an hour air supply but he dies - from a gunshot wound.

When a businessman, Buddy Jack Cook, with a very shady reputation is found slain in a hotel elevator, Harold Harold, his accountant, is the prime suspect.

Four famous cops (from London, Paris, Tokyo and Budapest), plus an irascible American private eye, are all suspects when yet another famous sleuth is murdered.

After a developer is found stabbed to death and on a meat hook, another man is found dead with the same letter of a list of six names discovered on the developer which includes Amos and then Amos receives such a letter.

When the anchor of millionaire Davidian Jonas's yacht is raised, his corpse is found attached to it.

During a match a professional wrestler is killed by a poison dart that originated from a special section in which only five persons sat.

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.

The nasty boss of a toy firm is murdered.

Who could have murdered the nice old lady who sold maps of the stars' homes? And why?

A tennis star is murdered at a charity event - by an exploding tennis ball.

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.

Cowboy star Clayton Steele is murdered at the rodeo. The suspects are many but only one had the motive and opportunity.

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.

When a boat blows up, killing a notorious gossip columnist, Burke, who is holidaying in the area, finds himself the chief suspect.

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.

A pretentious method actor is killed during a performance of "Hamlet".

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.

An exploding piano kills off a famous musician.

The unpleasant head of a greetings-card company is murdered.