An amateur magician at a charity performance mysteriously disappears right before the police can arrest him for the theft of over $20 million in securities.

An airliner makes an emergency landing at a desert airfield in Hangston, Nevada after a malfunction, blowing out all six tires. The next day, the sheriff informs them that the plane has disappeared without a trace and the fight engineer watching it was murdered.

An experimental rocket engine on display disappears in the middle of an exhibition... surrounded by a hundred spectators, when the lights go out for three seconds.

A valuable race horse goes missing... in the middle of a time trial in the few seconds when it is out of sight behind a billboard.

A perplexing disappearance of a priceless Greek chalice casts a shadow over a private preview. Cavanaugh turns to Banacek to unravel the mystery, but with a surprising twist: Carlie Kirkland is assigned as his partner.

Carlie is on the spot when a jeweled royal carriage disappears on the same ocean liner that her and her fiancee are taking a triip,

A massive medical super-computer (abbreviated MAX) disappears from the high-security building where it was kept.

Chaos erupts at a museum when the colossal "Man in Harmony" statue vanishes during its own unveiling. Banacek has 48 hours to recover the stolen sculpture.