Judge Edward Martin, a criminal court magistrate, is found dead on a street corner early one morning, and the investigations of a coroner's jury definitely establish the fact that he was murdered. There is no clue, however, to the identity of the murderer, and the police are unable to discover any. Even the shrewd special detectives assigned to the case are baffled by the mystery. Henry Duval, prosecuting attorney and close friend of the murdered man, resolves to untangle the skein of conflicting evidence and locate the guilty man. In spite of the fact that he has of late suffered intensely from nervous trouble, which includes increasingly frequent periods of mental aberration, he foregoes his vacation and remains in the city to probe the mysterious killing of his friend. He is the more interested because he himself is the last person known to have seen the man alive, as he left the judge on his own doorstep late night of the murder
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