Dr Blake gets involved investigating the suspicious death of a boxer in the ring where he is officiating as the contest medical official.

The murder of a beautiful gypsy woman takes Blake inside the intriguing and exotic world of Romani travellers passing through Ballarat.

The murder victim is discovered in the freezer of a restaurant kitchen. Evidently the body was there all day, as no one had occasion to enter the freezer.

When a controversial writer is found dead and her sister is found unconscious from a suspected suicide, Blake has to search out some truths about Ballarat in order to understand how and why the woman died.

When Blake is called to investigate the murder of a retired carpenter, his only real suspect is a teenage boy discovered praying over the body and covered in blood.

Despite being housebound as he recovers from his injuries, Blake investigates the death of a teenage girl at her Debutante Ball.

Doctor Blake has to piece together arson and a murder of a farmer. Meanwhile a leak to the paper about Doctor Blake will create difficulties for his relationship with Jean.

The death of a policeman coincides with the reappearance of an old enemy, as the past and the present begin to finally catch up with Dr Lucien Blake.