The Name of the Game was actually three series under one title. It rotated among three characters working at Howard Publications, a large magazine publishing company—Jeffrey "Jeff" Dillon, a crusading reporter with People magazine (before there was a real-life People magazine); Glenn Howard, the sophisticated, well-connected publisher; and Daniel "Dan" Farrell, the editor of Crime magazine. Serving as a common connection was Peggy Maxwell, the editorial assistant for each.
Jeff Dillon researches the murder of a model who was involved with an industrialist.
When a Mafia informant is murdered, Dan Farrell instigates a search for another witness—a woman whose suicide was reported eight years ago.
Glenn Howard faces a hostile takeover attempt by Arthur Jellicoe.
His wife murdered in his car, Dan Farrell launches a fraught investigation.
A bunch of protesters plan to sacrifice their lives at a warfare test site in the Nevada desert. To call media attention, they've abducted Glenn Howard, who tries to talk sense to the group as zero hour approaches.
In order to purchase a magazine, Howard travels to England to convince the late owner's daughter. She has remarried to a politician who wants the publication for his own profit.
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A thief pretends to be a charity fundraiser. Dan Farrell and Joe Sample ask an attorney, a fashion editor and an electrician to help them prove that Walter Grayson, a professional fund-raiser, is not the community-minded gentleman he pretends to be.
As special envoy, Howard visits a crisis-torn Asian nation whose chief of state allegedly robbed the treasury and vanished. The ladies reinforce Howard's suspicion of a frame-up and spark a probe that sends him into guerrilla territory.
The story revolves around a soul singer secretly tortured by his culpability in the death of a young woman years earlier.
Crime magazine's Dan Farrell is strong-armed by a renowned lawyer into buying the story of a young artist accused of sending a time bomb that killed his friend, a figure he both admired and hated.
Glenn Howard wakes from a car accident only to find himself transported into a postapocalyptic Los Angeles.