Quentin E. Deverill, a turn of the century American scientific genius living in England, discovers a plot to destroy London. Deverill meets the nefarious Dr. Kilkiss, who plans to obliterate London with rockets.
Quentin enters his experimental racing car in the 1912 Grand Prix.
A device that controls machinery, developed by Quentin, falls into the hands of a madman. Anarchists plot to use Deverill's invention, a remote-control device, to detonate a bomb at a conference.
Quentin stumbles upon a lethal nerve gas, which then falls into the hands of terrorists. On a Zurich-bound train, Deverill tries to stop another professor from selling a formula for nerve gas.
Deverill is prompted by a ghost to test a camera that photographs images invisible to the eye.
Deverill and Charlie try to track the drug ring responsible for a series of deaths.