A Quiet Room in Hell — Basil Copper

When Mike Faraday, the laconic L.A. private investigator, is asked by lawyer Andrew Dillon to tail the scientist Dr Hugo Greenbach, he is soon plunged into murder and mayhem up to his eyeballs. For Greenbach had stumbled on a formula which a lot of people were after, including a powerful Chinese Triad organisation. The problems are only finally resolved after a murderous shoot-out in a deserted house as Mike finds a new use for TV channels.