While Clutch is at an in-store signing for his new book, he gets a telegraph telling him he must go to South America to find a lost friend.
Clutch's tiny Eskimo friend needs him to save a friend from a bird giant.
A twenty-nine pound ruby is missing and Clutch must find it.
Clutch's south seas island vacation is cut short when the natives tell him their rare black pearls are being stolen.
On the way home from a mountain hideaway, Clutch encounters a miner whose gold is disappearing.
Clutch's friend has his car sabotaged in a race.When Clutch shows up, the same thing happens to him.