After his wife is murdered, a veteran cop quits the police department and becomes a priest. Several years later he is assigned to a parish where he meets the man who killed his wife--and discovers that the killer was gunning for him instead.
Sarge attempts to prevent a murder when Henry, one of his parishioners, upon learning he has only months to live, decides to exact revenge upon a mobster.
Sarge is ministering to the spiritual needs of mental patients when he becomes intrigued by a Jane Doe, who insists she is dead, a wealthy socialite who was the victim of drowning.
Sarge is only peripherally involved in a strange story of a maniac murderer who steals his victims' left shoes, and Lt. Edmonds, the overworked cop who has had one case too many.
In trouble on a bad-check charge, longshoreman Joe Drake is approached by the police to square the account by serving as a paid informant in a waterfront investigation
A Japanese man has committed hara-kari. Only the man was a Catholic and Sarge believes he would not have committed a ritualistic suicide. The priest finds the killing that has something to do with a sunken World War II ship.
A series of attempts on the life of Sarge has Chief of Detectives Barney Verick working around the clock in a a desperate attempt to capture an elusive would-be killer.
A man fresh out of prison, makes threats against Sarge, the patrolman who arrested him. So Sarge starts investigating the old case and the trail befuddles him.