When a man dies after signing a policy with the Blackhawk Insurance Company, the company's special investigator, Sam Logan, discovers that a gypsy boy was lynched for the death by a hooded mob, though there was no evidence that the boy was guilty of the crime.
A tough frontier woman, Mary Schuler, and her five sons are out for vengeance against Martin Harris, holder of a $10,000 Blackhawk life insurance policy, who, they claim, killed a sixth Schuler son.
Sam Logan, special agent for the Blackhawk Insurance Company, resorts to "magic" to oppose a money-hungry adult guardian bent on taking the benefits' of a life insurance policy left to a seventeen-year-old youth in a Louisiana bayou town.
Colonel Petite, midget star of Von Danzig's House of Marvels travelling show, receives an anonymous death threat by mail and special agent Sam Logan of the Blackhawk Insurance Company enters the picture. The Colonel's life is insured with Blackhawk for $150,-000, so Sam accompanies the show on tour as his bodyguard.
In a New England fishing town, special agent Sam Logan of the Btackhawk Insurance Company, tries to unearth the facts concerning the death of a Blackhawk policyholder, a man who has died of a harpoon wound.