When Gordon Dugdale is murdered, his father, the wealthy owner of the Broken Spur ranch in Arizona, threatens to take the law into his own hands. Now it is up to Jeremiah Meade of the Governor's office to find the real killer before there is a lynching. Someone is out to get the Dugdale family - but who and why? And can Meade discover who is responsible before the plot for revenge succeeds and all the Dugdales are dead?