New York police detective John Shaft arrests Walter Wade Jr. for a racially motivated slaying. But the only eyewitness disappears, and Wade jumps...

Cool black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.

Detective John Shaft travels incognito to Ethiopia, then France, to bust a human trafficking ring.

John Shaft is back as the lady-loved black detective cop on the search for the murderer of a client.