In the old Stokes mansion fifty miles from the city, Frederick Stokes senior member of the law firm Stokes, Fielding and Midden  is waiting with his two partners for a fatal report from State Prison. Victor Farnell is to be hung for the murder of his uncle, George Carter Farnell. The three lawyers naturally are interested because it had been their combined efforts that had sent Farnell to the death house. However just after they receive a phone call telling them that the deed is done, they receive another phone call from a man that sounds like Farnell...