Send for George Overton is a book consisting of five detective stories. They are set in the early 1950s and range from explosions on Sydney Harbour to a robbery at Randwick Racecourse. In the first story Overton finds evidence of explosives and stops a plan to set them off all over the city. The second story centres around a murderer that copies exhibits from the Murderer's Museum. The third finds Overton searching for a bank robber and stolen money and the fourth follows his investigation of the death of an elderly lady and her cats. The final story looks into a horse-racing car park and also finds Overton with a lost memory for several days. As with this author's previous books the stories show a variety of interesting situations written with fast, page-turning pace.