No Steed in this one, so far as I could tell. An Eastern European state circus is up to no good, arranging the 'suicide' of the eponymous trapeze girl so that a dissident's daughter can be substituted for her and taken back as a hostage. Dr Keel jumps right in and gets out of his depth; some good scenes where he and the circus people are both pretending to fall for the other's deception. Edwin 'Captain Hart' Richfield as the chief crook (something about the look and atmosphere of these episodes makes 'crooks' the only possible word for the villains).
Some quite clever bits in this, like where a shot of someone looking down a microscope swims in and out of focus as he adjusts the instrument.
I also appreciated Keel's clever algorithm for his brute force search of the papers for a photo of the dead girl: his nurse/sidekick doesn't know what the girl looks like, so she marks all the pages with pictures of women on them, thus enabling the search to proceed in parallel.
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