An inmate on death row, scheduled to die that night, offers to give up the name of his accomplice but will only confess to Batman. Once Batman enters his cell, he claims he’s innocent and needs Batman’s help to prove it.

He claims he discovered the body after being run over by the real murderer of a rare book dealer. The convict claims that a man named Steele was an associate of the owner and had some stock losses and could have done it. Batman and Robin learn that Steele too was framed by a counterfeiter named Hawkins and Bower, the convict himself.