- A race car driver gets caught cheating on his wife by his brother-in-law, and in order to keep his indiscretions secret he resorts to murder. Barnaby is hired to investigate by the father-in-law who thinks competitors killed his son.
- Race car driver Mark Landy is caught red-handed by his brother-in-law Kurt Fowler kissing on a young woman named Lori Wright. When he threatens to tell his sister Rita, Mark knocks him out and murders him in a staged car accident. Unfortunately for Mark, Lori witnessed the whole thing. She starts blackmailing him for expensive clothes at first. When Mark is promoted to Kurt's position at the company Lori shows up and blackmails him into buying her a brand new car, an expensive dinner, and a job at his father-in-law's company, which he reluctantly agrees to at first to keep her happy and off his back because he loves her. But Lori is not done or satisfied with the possessions she has by a longshot. She calls Mark and tells him to kill Rita and marry her, indicating to him that he has no choice in the matter if he wants to stay out of prison. Mark, no longer in love with Lori and tired of her blackmail demands decides to kill her too. Barnaby is hired to investigate one murder and must race against the clock to prevent another murder.—charmardee-smith
- Barnaby investigates a married man (who sponges off of the wife's dough and family business) and his mistress because they seem to know what really happened the day of an accident at a race track. Margot Kidder plays the mistress who is beautiful at blackmailing her boyfriend for a new 450SL and has some interesting plans of her own. If only a clue from her cigarette butt didn't put her at the crime scene. Find out what happens when you watch. The music, clothing, and writing were all at its best in fall of 1973.
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