Riptide

The guys receive a retainer and anonymous notes urging them to investigate a death that was labeled a surfing accident---in 1964.

The guys accept a Government assignment to escort a mobster's estranged wife back from Mexico to testify against him.

Quinlan hires the guys to investigate a councilman's claim that the police are discrediting the councilman through computer tampering.

With the agency in financial straits, the guys consider a buy-out offer from a corporation, until they suspect the company is involved in the murder of a security guard.

An investigative reporter has reason to believe that her illness is related to the sudden death of a research biologist who was about to give her a big story.

Boz's high-school chemistry partner uses her personal chemistry to entice Boz to help develop a solar car, whose investors include a loan shark anxious to see a return.

Counterfeiters lose their plates and cash to a robbing hood who takes from the rich and gives to the poor---among them a foster parent, who's a favorite.

The new and dangerous hobbies of Nick's old friend worry the man's daughter, particularly after she gets a phone call from him saying he may be away for a long time.

Nick pulls Army Reserve escort duty for a casket that happens to contain the wrong body, a fact the military doesn't want to talk about.

The guys find a new police lieutenant very cooperative, and somewhat distracting, as they investigate a man's suspicion that his roommate is a murderer.

Nick stands to lose a $300,000 inheritance if he proves the claim of another beneficiary that her uncle's death was not an accident.

A millionaire obsessed with a fashion model hires the guys to find her, unaware that she's a mobster's daughter who's prompted a feud between two crime families.

A marginally talented Hawaiian singer disappears after the guys thwart an assault on him during his performance at a club.

When only her cousin's luggage shows up for at her wedding, Lucy turns to her friends at the Riptide Detective Agency to find out what happened.

Cody, Nick and Murray arrive in Martigua on vacation to visit their oceanographer friend Angelo, who with daughter Giovanna and son Tony, is searching for Tyson's sunken treasure.

Cody doesn't share Nick's enthusiasm for going undercover as baseball players to investigate a drug problem on a minor-league team.

Fortune shows herself unkind when a professor learns of the existence of an undiscovered Shakespeare manuscript---and is murdered.

A magazine article names Nick as the major force in the agency, so the guys take separate cases to determine who is the best detective.

Investigating a case of tampering with Government bids, Boz finds a connection between the prime suspect and Joanna's fiance.

The guys moonlight as consultants for a TV detective show, whose bickering costars must follow the guys on a real case.

Boz is strongly affected when he saves Cody's life by shooting an ex-con, whose sister claims was wrongly imprisoned for 10 years.