The House That Jack Built
A mysterious and widely feared man hires George for protection, pulling him into an underworld struggle involving a powerful crime boss and betrayal within the client's own circle.
Bob Bailey stars as George Valentine, a resourceful troubleshooter who answers requests for help and repeatedly finds ordinary jobs turning into mysteries, danger, and murder.
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A mysterious and widely feared man hires George for protection, pulling him into an underworld struggle involving a powerful crime boss and betrayal within the client's own circle.
George investigates a reclusive couple and a disappearance from years earlier, uncovering a tangle of greed, murder and revenge hidden behind their isolated life.
A wealthy wheelchair-bound man falls to his death at Angel's Grotto, and George questions the accident ruling while investigating the victim's family and their secrets.
A supposedly blind, dying recluse in the desert gathers a group of people with claims on his fortune, and George finds murder and deception among the would-be beneficiaries.
A fading theatrical star hires George to investigate apparent blackmail, but the case soon reveals severe financial trouble and a desperate scheme behind her dramatic claims.
Odd break-ins at a bookshop, where an intruder seems interested only in reading, escalate into arson and murder connected with valuable books and forgery.
George reopens what appears to be a wealthy businessman's suicide after the man's nephew insists it was murder, finding evidence of embezzlement and deception.
A timid clerk confesses to a murder after first denying it, and George investigates how the man's story, a valuable mink coat and a betrayal fit together.
A wealthy man dies from poisoning and a doctor apparently takes his own life, leading George to investigate switched prescriptions and a chain of suspicious deaths.
A lovesick cowboy's search for a glamorous dancer draws George into a theatrical deception involving a mysterious double and two murders.
George investigates crimes attributed to the elusive 'Prairie Dog,' uncovering a pattern of theft and murder that suggests more than one person may be involved.
George is hired to find a man described as present yet unreachable, and the search develops into a case involving a valuable pearl necklace, deception and murder.
George arrives in a small town to help expose a racket but is framed for murder before he can get far, forcing him to investigate while clearing himself.
When bones believed to belong to a long-missing miser are discovered, George uncovers years of hidden identities, greed and murder in a town full of secrets.
George investigates two reclusive brothers living in a mansion haunted by an old suicide and the appearance of nooses, uncovering a scheme connected to missing emeralds.
A seemingly routine personnel problem at a factory becomes a murder case, with George finding a link between the current killing and an older payroll robbery.
A client claims to know about murders before they happen, and George follows the predictions toward a psychiatrist with a concealed past.
George travels to a remote island searching for a missing explorer and finds that the disappearance is connected to a dangerous smuggling operation.
A mysterious voice predicts a series of accidents around a wealthy family, and George is hired to protect them while determining who is arranging the threats.
A string of suspicious accidents at an amusement pier leads George to suspect that someone is deliberately trying to sabotage the business.
George investigates repeated forest fires threatening a remote logging community and finds signs that the destruction is part of a deliberate scheme driven by greed.
A frightened young woman believes she is losing her mind and has only days to live, prompting George to investigate the dark family secret behind her terror.
A wealthy man with a heart condition survives repeated attempts on his life, and George is hired to determine who is trying to make the next attempt successful.
George investigates supposedly supernatural disturbances at an old estate and suspects that a very human scheme is hiding behind the 'ghost.'
George reopens a fifteen-year-old murder while trying to determine whether a wealthy South American businessman is actually someone long believed dead.
A hit-and-run case expands into murder and espionage when George discovers that unusual communications may be carrying coded information.
George travels to Istanbul to recover stolen diamonds and devises a counter-scheme intended to trap the thief responsible.
Stolen documents exposing government corruption pull George into a case involving a gangster who appears to have been carefully framed.
George travels to a South Pacific island to help an ex-government agent suspected of joining a communist group, only to find a deeper espionage operation at work.
George goes to a remote island to help a woman reveal her secret marriage, but the visit turns into a murder investigation after a wealthy captain is killed.
A wealthy, unfaithful businessman disappears, and George's search uncovers layers of greed and deception surrounding the man's family and associates.
George and a reporter go undercover in Bolivia to investigate repeated sabotage at strategically important tin mines.
The murder of a pawnbroker inside a seemingly secure shop leads George to examine the victim's routines and the misplaced trust that may have given the killer an opening.
A recently released prisoner is blamed for attacking his uncle and robbing a safe, but George finds evidence of a larger plot involving kidnapping and hidden money.
George travels to a South American casino town to investigate a supposedly unbeatable gambling system that has become connected to two deaths.
A delivery of valuable paintings leaves George framed for theft and murder, forcing him to uncover a double-cross involving fraudulent artwork.
In a quiet college town, George investigates a suspicious death and a wealthy widow after an eccentric local man brings him a clue pointing toward another killing.
George investigates a man shot after receiving accusatory telegrams, uncovering a painful wartime secret and a betrayal that has resurfaced years later.
An introductory audio feature for the Let George Do It collection.
An introductory audio feature for the Let George Do It collection.