Edgar Albrek

A cunning would-be murderer who concocts an elaborate scheme to strangle his wealthy uncle and then escape prosecution by claiming that his own hands were recently amputated in Africa because of a spreading gangrene infection and replaced, by means of a complex hand-grafting operation, with the hands of a deceased English murderer which now persist in exercising a murderous will of their own which is beyond Albrek's power to control. With Robin's help, however, Batman exposes Albrek's hand­ grafting story as an elaborate hoax and apprehends the would-be killer before he can successfully carry out his uncle's murder.