The Trials of O'Brien

1. Over Defence Is Out

O'Brien babysits the daughter of a client recently released from prison while...

2. Bargain Day on the Street of Regret

O'Brien wins a boxer in a craps game but is less than thrilled when he finds ...

3. Notes on a Spanish Prisoner

No one believes Oliver Maxwell, an amiable but convicted confidence trickster...

4. Never Bet on Anything That Talks

O'Brien's English bookie is charged with the death of an accountant, but the ...

5. What Can Go Wrong

After discovering that a man is dating his ex-wife, O'Brien delightedly sets ...

6. Goodbye and Keep Cool

A woman is accused of murdering her husband and retains O'Brien to defend her.

7. A Gaggle of Girls

O'Brien acts as a middleman between a Presbyterian youth center and a strip b...

8. The Trouble with Archie

O'Brien investigates the death of a partner in the Seventh Avenue Dress House...

9. How Do You Get to Carnegie Hall?

A "heist artist" who is accused of fatally stabbing a dealer of rare violins ...

10. Charlie's Got All the Luck

O'Brien becomes tangled up with a dangerous bookie and a dysfunctional family...

11. Picture Me a Murder

Glen Daley Claude Akins arrives from Oklahoma at Port Authority Terminal in N...

12. Dead End on Flugel Street

A burlesque comedian is involved in murder when his straight man is killed af...

13. No Justice for the Judge

Is Judge Vincent becoming senile? He hires O'Brien to prove he isn't.

14. Leave It to Me

O'Brien tries to have a will declared invalid before three greedy heirs kill ...

15. Alarums and Excursions

A foster father, who is content to keep collecting welfare checks, hires O'Br...

16. The 10-Foot, 6-Inch Pole

O'Brien charges that an assistant district attorney failed to prosecute a bro...

17. A Horse Called Destiny

O'Brien represents a spiritualist in the murder of a wealthy client whose dea...

18. The Blue Steel Suite

Held as a hostage in a jailbreak, O'Brien is asked to take a prisoner's compl...

19. The Partridge Papers

O'Brien suffers a broken leg in a hit-and-run accident. Writer James Partridg...

20. The Greatest Game: Part 1

O'Brien is blackmailed into helping the Macedonian government negotiate the r...

21. The Greatest Game: Part 2

As the thieves start getting killed off one by one, O'Brien becomes the prime...

22. The Only Game in Town

Taking the bench as an interim judge, O'Brien deals with the case of a seaman...