The Baron

After tracking down a thief who stole his Fabergé bauble, Mannering agrees to help British intelligence take down a ring of art thieves hiding behind diplomatic immunity.

The Baron is an unwilling accomplice in a major jewel robbery when Cordelia is kidnapped.

In order to get an Aztec mask that is worth a fortune, John Mannering makes a deal with a crooked insurance agent.

Mannering travels to a war-ravaged country in order to retrieve a valuable statuette; attempting to return to London, Mannering finds himself impeded by the tyrannical government's secret police.

A secret drop-off goes wrong for Mannering and Cordelia when Mannering's contact is caught by the police and forced to name his contact.

The Baron acquires an exact double as a criminal gang attempts to pull off the most audacious robbery of them all.

To prevent a robbery, Mannering poses as his double who was to have acted as a decoy.

Mannering's assistant is kidnapped from the shop and a ransom is demanded for his safe return; Mannering is forced to sell a fake Renoir painting to secure the money.

Cordelia and Mannering meet an American undercover agent in Switzerland who's stolen a deadly virus.

The Baron is tricked into looking over a deal between the King of Ammak and a millionaire to buy some of the Ammak crown jewels.

The sale of a valuable Samurai sword stirs up old rivalries between a former Japanese Prisoner of War commandant and a British prisoner.

When the Baron comes to the aid of a frightened girl on a lonely country road, he suddenly loses 24 hours of his life; as he pieces together the puzzle of the missing hours he uncovers an assassination plot.

Mannering is convinced that his old friend was murdered, although the police rule it suicide.

A well known thug plans to steal an antiques collection and Mannering takes steps to stop the robbery, but after a wait they suspect the crooks may have changed their plans.

Attempting to locate a missing shipment at the docks in Macau, Cordelia stumbles upon a murder on board a cargo vessel.

Mannering and Cordelia, held captive on a blacklisted freighter, learn that the ship's crew form part of a plot designed to disturb an American space capsule from its orbit.

A famous cameo with a curse attached causes trouble for Cordelia when she tries to broker a deal, only to discover the owner has been murdered, and the killers are going to extreme lengths to get it.

Nikki Holz leaves Germany for London and is abducted before she can hand over important information to Mannering. Cordelia and Mannering discover that her captors are Neo-Nazis.

Discovering that Russian icons he had sold in good faith to a gallery have been substituted by fakes, The Baron attempts to secure the originals by playing the thief at his own game around a rigged poker table.

Investigating the disappearance of a client and friend, Mannering uncovers a bizarre sect intent on defrauding its hapless followers.

The Baron is at the center of an elaborate double-double cross which revolves around the sale of the Seven Eyes of Night, a necklace once owned by the Empress Josephine.

Mannering and Cordelia arrive in a small Balkan state to broker an antiques deal with the widow of its former president, only to find she is on the run from the newly-installed dictator.

After an audacious theft takes place, the Baron is compelled to act as authenticator in the attempted sale of the most famous painting in the world.

When Cordelia goes missing on a routine assignment in South America, Mannering goes in search of her, only to uncover an attempted coup by a deposed former president.

Mannering and Cordelia travel to the West Country to value an estate, and become embroiled in the hunt for the proceeds of a bank robbery several years previous.

Assigned to provide safe escort for a witness to a Mafia murder, the Baron is caught in a standoff with the killers in a lonely Italian hilltop village.

The Baron discovers that his Paris shop is being used for drug trafficking.

Mannering visits Scotland after the death of one of his associates in a car accident; things take a mysterious turn when he spots someone in a local pub wearing the antique ring Mannering had instructed his associate to buy.

Mannering comes up against a rival antiques dealer when a long-lost antique sword resurfaces.

A stolen gold medallion is discovered on a dead airline steward, which links him to one of the biggest art smuggling rings in the world.