When a notorious underworld figure like Carlo Franconi is gunned down, there's no shortage of suspects. But when his body disappears from the Morgue before the autopsy suspicion is aroused.a few days later when a mutilated unidentifiable body arrives on his autopsy table forensic pathologist DR. Jack Stapleton is troubled not by it's missing head hands and feet but it's missing liver. Aided by his colleague Dr. Laurie Montgomery he succeeds in identifying the body as Franconi's But this in no way solves the mystery.