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 one of his parishioners learns he has only a few months to live and decides to use the time to avenge a humiliating incident of years ago.
Sarge may be a priest, but his mind is still that of a cop. When he meets Dan, the groom-to-be of one of his parishioners, there's something familiar about the face. When Dan, who is having his own subliminal flashes, disappears, Sarge starts a full-scale investigation that leads, as you knew it would from the beginning, to a happy end.
A guilt-ridden pornographer donates $13,000 to the church---just before he's murdered.
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.
Flahery is an overly ambitious newsman who lands Sarge in trouble with a sensational documentary about the priest's labor in the ghetto.
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.
Tom Flynn is an ex-convict who, upon his release from prison, is determined to renew life with his former wife, who has since remarried.
An acting chaplain of a military base, Sarge takes a hand in what he considers the undue harassment of recruit Coopersmith.
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.
Father Burke, a young priest, is accused of hit and run murder while under the influence of alcohol. Sarge begins to suspect the "accident" was arranged.
Bitter over his failure to meet the police department's physical requirements, Michael Grear, a young man, flaunts the law and ends up accused of murder.