Slade missed a rendezvous with a man carrying blueprints of bank vaults throughout the territory. He pursues him but finds the man dead. He wants to find the man's killers before they can rob any more banks.

Doc Benson, a harmless old kleptomaniac, is an accepted fact in Central City, until the couple who operate the general store are killed, and all the evidence points to Doc, in "Murder In Gingham."