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A wealthy woman is robbed and murdered in New York. The police find a black man running down the street a few blocks away. They bring him to the woman, who is waiting for the ambulance. She seems to identify him before she dies.

The case goes to court, Arch Gold is the defender and he's one of the best. After checking on some of the things that the young man told him, Arch believes him and decides to look into the history of the murdered woman. What he finds puts a scare into him.