No tenemos una sinopsis en español. Ayúdamos a ampliar nuestra base de datos añadiendo una.

No tenemos una sinopsis en español. Ayúdamos a ampliar nuestra base de datos añadiendo una.

No tenemos una sinopsis en español. Ayúdamos a ampliar nuestra base de datos añadiendo una.

No tenemos una sinopsis en español. Ayúdamos a ampliar nuestra base de datos añadiendo una.

No tenemos una sinopsis en español. Ayúdamos a ampliar nuestra base de datos añadiendo una.

No tenemos una sinopsis en español. Ayúdamos a ampliar nuestra base de datos añadiendo una.

No tenemos una sinopsis en español. Ayúdamos a ampliar nuestra base de datos añadiendo una.

No tenemos una sinopsis en español. Ayúdamos a ampliar nuestra base de datos añadiendo una.

Este, el primer episodio de "Perry Mason", fue un verdadero golpe de suerte. Perry conduce a la escena de un tiroteo y encuentra a la policía recuperando el cuerpo de Harry Merrill de un coche que pasó por la ladera de una montaña. MerriIl tiene una bala en el cuerpo y una funda de almohada en la cabeza. Es una coincidencia, porque la cliente de Perry, Evelyn Bagby, afirma que fue perseguida por un hombre encapuchado en un coche cerca del mismo acantilado ese día. Disparó dos veces al coche del hombre para asustarlo, y ahora la policía la quiere por asesinato.

Peter Cole es sorprendido una noche sonámbulo con un abrecartas y parado sobre la cama de su esposa. Su esposa Doris tiene miedo y decide al día siguiente solicitar el divorcio. Exactamente un año después, cuando el divorcio va a ser finalizado, Frank Maddox, el socio de Peter, se reúne con Doris Cole. Juntos arreglan obligar a Peter Cole a pagarle a Frank Maddox 500 mil dólares para comprar su parte del negocio o Doris detendrá el divorcio que Peter quiere. Esa noche Frank Maddox pasa la noche en casa de Peter Cole e intercambia habitaciones con Phillip Kendall, el hermanastro de Peter. A la mañana siguiente Phillip Kendall es encontrado muerto en la cama y Peter Cole es acusado de asesinato por su conocido sonambulismo.

Sybil Granger contrata a Perry para que le ayude a comprar acciones de la compañía petrolera de su marido a escondidas. Con esto, Sybil espera forzar a la última novia de su marido, Roxy Howard, a dejar la compañía y su vida por completo. Las cosas se complican cuando George Lutz entra en escena y es asesinado a tiros.

Donald Briggs es un inescrupuloso investigador privado contratado por Clyde Waters para descubrir información sobre Marv Adams, el prometido de su hija. Briggs se enteró de que el padre de Marv Adams era Ben Devereaux que fue condenado por asesinato hace 18 años. Donald Briggs intenta chantajear a Clyde Waters y Martha Norris a cambio de guardar silencio sobre ciertos hechos del caso Devereaux. La noche siguiente Donald Briggs es encontrado muerto en su habitación de motel y Marv Adams es acusado del asesinato porque tuvo una pelea con Donald Briggs la mañana anterior.

Fran Celane cree que su tío, Edward Norton, es demasiado restrictivo como albacea del derrochador fideicomiso de su padre. También quiere que espere 18 meses hasta su 25 cumpleaños antes de casarse. Arthur Crinston, el abogado de Edward Norton, llega para reunirse con el Sr. Norton pero se le dice que regrese a las 11pm. Cuando regresa, se reúnen unos minutos y cuando se va, el Sr. Norton le pide que lleve a su secretario, Donald Graves, a recoger unos papeles. Mientras se alejan, el Sr. Graves mira hacia la casa y ve que alguien ataca a Edward Norton. Regresan para encontrar a Edward Norton muerto y Rodney Gleason, el prometido de Fran, es identificado como el asaltante. Rodney Gleason es acusado del asesinato.

Harry Marlow tiene un negocio de floristería y quiere ser dueño de una parte del negocio de orquídeas de Mildred Kimber, pero Mildred Kimber no está interesada. Así que Harry Marlow llega a un acuerdo con el dueño de un club local, Sam Lynk, para engañar al marido de Mildred, Bob Kimber, con su parte del negocio en un juego de cartas. Mientras tanto, una empleada de Sam Lynk, Lola Florey, decide ayudar a Mildred Kimber a recuperar las acciones de Sam Lynk. Cuando Sam Lynk es encontrado muerto en su casa, Mildred Kimber es acusada del crimen después de que su recipiente de medicamentos recetados es encontrado en la casa de Sam Lynk.

Carla Adrian tiene problemas para defenderse del amoroso vecino Mark Cushing. Cuando otro vecino oye un disparo y el grito de una mujer vio a la madre de Carla, Belle Adrian, en la cabaña de Mark Cushing, la policía no tarda en descubrir a Mark Cushing y arrestar a la Sra. Belle Adrian. Perry Mason viene a defender a la Sra. Belle Adrian.

Fay Allison se casará dentro de unos días con Dane Grover. Su compañera de piso, Anita Bonsal, tiene una aventura clandestina con un hombre casado, Carver Clement. Cuando la tía Louise llega temprano a la mañana siguiente para estar con Fay, descubre que tanto Fay como Anita parecen haber sido drogadas. Louise llama a su amigo Perry Mason para que le ayude a decidir qué hacer. Perry y Della descubren la llave de otro apartamento en el bolso de Fay y suben a investigar. Llegan para encontrar a Carver Clement muerto en el apartamento. Fay Allison es acusada del asesinato cuando la policía encuentra sus huellas en un vaso del apartamento.

El productor de Hollywood John Addison recoge a una atractiva joven autoestopista. Lejos de ser inocente, resulta ser una chantajista y testigo de un asesinato del que se acusa a Addison. Perry, como de costumbre, es contratado para llegar al fondo de las cosas.

Ed Davenport se entera de que un sándwich que pidió que fuera analizado por un laboratorio contiene arsénico y culpa a su esposa Myrna. Cuando la confronta con sus sospechas, ella lo niega. Él se va en un viaje de negocios y cae enfermo. El Dr. Renault es llamado para tratarlo en un motel donde más tarde muere Ed Davenport. Antes de morir afirma que su esposa envenenó unos dulces. Después de cerrar la habitación del motel, el doctor llama a la policía. La policía llega para encontrar el cadáver desaparecido. La policía analiza los dulces y encuentra arsénico. Posteriormente, el cuerpo de Ed Davenport se encuentra en una tumba poco profunda. Myrna Davenport es acusada del asesinato.

Mientras Martha Bradford espera su cita en un salón de belleza, conoce a Rita Bradford, quien aparentemente también está casada con Joe Bradford y vive en la misma dirección. Joe Bradford se prepara para una reunión de negocios en San Diego. Hace planes para conocer a su esposa Martha pero no se presenta. Joe Bradford es encontrado muerto en su barco a la mañana siguiente y Martha Bradford es acusada de su asesinato cuando sus huellas dactilares se encuentran en una vela situada en el barco.

Perry Mason y Paul Drake están en un viaje de pesca cuando ven a una joven llamada Sally Fenner siendo perseguida por viciosos perros guardianes en una propiedad de la isla. La única manera de evitar que Sally sea masticada por los perros es saltando al agua y nadando por ella. Perry y Paul sacan a Sally de la bebida y Perry termina defendiéndola por un cargo de asesinato.

El Restrauteur Morey Allen, amigo de Perry y Della, tiene un problema: su camarera, Dixie Dayton, fue atropellada por un coche mientras huía del restaurante después de ver a un hombre acechándola. El único objeto que dejó atrás fue un visón apolillado. Cuando el acosador es encontrado asesinado, Morey y Dixie son ambos fuertes sospechosos y eventualmente son arrestados por el asesinato. El caso también se relaciona con el asesinato de un joven policía varios meses antes.

Robert Dawson se enfrenta a Albert Tydings, su socio, faltan unos 80.000 dólares de la cuenta fiduciaria de Carol Stanley. Albert Tydings admite que malversó el dinero y chantajea a Robert Dawson para que guarde silencio o revelará algunos hechos escandalosos sobre Carol. Más tarde, Carol llama y hace una cita para reunirse con Albert Tydings en su oficina para discutir la cuenta fiduciaria. Llega para encontrar a Albert Tydings muerto. A la mañana siguiente Perry va a la casa de Albert Tydings y lo encuentra allí muerto. Finalmente la policía determina que el cuerpo de Tydings fue trasladado de su oficina. La policía acusa a Carol Stanley cuando se informa que su coche fue visto en la oficina a la hora en que fue asesinado.

Perry y Della son testigos de un accidente automovilístico que lleva a Perry a defender a una bailarina exótica acusada de asesinato.

Nadine Marshall vive con su tío Martin y el capitán Hugo. Llega a casa emocionada con la noticia de su compromiso con John Locke. Cuando se lo cuenta a su tío Martin, él le muestra algunos papeles sobre su familia que la molestan. Cuando Nadine visita a John Locke, toma unas píldoras de cianuro sin que John se dé cuenta. Más tarde esa noche Nadine hace el chocolate caliente de su tío Martin y él muere poco después. Nadine es acusada de asesinato cuando hace una confesión grabada de que mató a su tío.

Arlene Dowling reporta el robo de todas sus pertenencias, incluyendo un diario que está ansiosa por recuperar.

Perry tiene que abrirse camino a través de un nido de avispas de asesinato, atropello y fuga, matrimonio secreto y un testigo desaparecido en este episodio.

Claire Olger está haciendo autostop porque le robaron su bolso en la estación de autobuses y lo recoge Michael Greeley. Pierde el control del coche y tiene un accidente debido a su intoxicación. Al llegar al lugar del accidente, la policía encuentra a Claire en el asiento del conductor. La oficina del fiscal del distrito la interroga pero no cree su historia sobre otro conductor. Su amiga, Doris Stephanak, le pide ayuda a Perry Mason. Cuando Perry no puede contactar con Claire en su hotel, va allí y encuentra a Michael Greeley muerto en su habitación. La policía acusa a Claire Olger de asesinato, al darse cuenta de que Michael Greeley encaja en la descripción del hombre que ella afirmaba que conducía el coche y cree que tenía un motivo y una oportunidad.

La heredera Marilyn Cartright pone un anuncio en una revista para encontrar amor y compañía. En realidad, Marilyn está buscando al estafador que estafó y llevó a su hermana al suicidio. Marilyn finalmente encuentra al hombre, Charles "Country Boy" Barnaby, y enciende su amplio encanto en su dirección con la esperanza de conseguir la mercancía en él. Pero cuando Barnaby es encontrado envenenado, la policía teoriza que Marilyn lo mató como un acto de venganza.

Arthur West, un investigador privado de mala reputación, ha encontrado a J.J. Stanley en un motel barato. Sabe que el Sr. Stanley y su socio Ned Bain estuvieron involucrados en la malversación del Banco Nacional de Texas. Quiere chantajear a Ned Bain para que le dé dinero para guardar silencio. Harriet Bain, la hija de Ned Bain, responde a la llamada de Arthur West y acepta reunirse con él. Después de escuchar una conversación grabada entre J. J. Stanley y Ned Bain sobre la oferta de chantaje, contrata a Perry Mason. Ned Bain decide pagar y se reúne con J. J. Stanley. A la mañana siguiente J.J. Stanley es encontrado muerto en la habitación de hotel de Arthur West. Harriet Bain es acusada del asesinato cuando sus huellas dactilares se encuentran en el arma homicida.

Janet Norris está acusada de envenenar a su marido médico justo antes de que volara a su muerte en su avión privado. Investigaciones posteriores revelan que el Dr. Norris no murió en el accidente aéreo y que está en México con su enfermera. El hombre que murió en el avión era en realidad un tal Dave Kirby. Esto significa que Janet todavía tiene que ser juzgada por asesinato.

La cena de Della y Perry en un elegante restaurante francés se interrumpe por una llamada telefónica y un sobre con 500 dólares de una misteriosa mujer llamada Marian Fargo. Ella quiere que él haga un intercambio para ella: el dinero para algunos documentos sobre su hermano fugitivo. Sin que Marion lo sepa, su propio marido está involucrado en el plan de chantaje que está siendo planeado por un tal Samuel Carlin. El marido de Marion y Carlin aparecen muertos, pero Marion, que ha huido en un autobús, tiene una testigo ocular, Diana Maynard, que puede proporcionarle una coartada para los asesinatos. Desafortunadamente para todos los involucrados, la Sra. Maynard sólo tiene un ojo bueno y puede no estar diciendo la verdad sobre quién es.

Cuando Robert Crane es acusado del asesinato del marido separado de su hermana, Perry necesita el testimonio de la hermana Helen Reed para librarlo de los cargos. Desafortunadamente para todos los involucrados, Helen sufre de un desorden de personalidad múltiple y la segunda personalidad, Joyce Martel, es la que se necesita como testigo. El psiquiatra de Helen la pone bajo hipnosis para que Joyce pueda decir lo que sabe del caso.

A Doris Hocksley se le muestra un anuncio personal en un periódico de Los Ángeles para localizar a la hija de Adam Hocksley y proporcionarle pruebas de ello. Un amigo, John Lowell, le sugiere que persiga la idea para probar que es la heredera legítima de la finca de Adam Hocksley. Alan Neil es el sobrino de Elston Carr, el albacea. Conoce a Doris Hocksley y sugiere que trabajen juntos, por un precio, para convencer al albacea. Más tarde esa noche Elston Carr es encontrado muerto en su casa por Rebecca Gentrie, la secretaria. Ella cierra con llave la puerta de la habitación para evitar que quien esté dentro escape y llama a la policía. La policía abre la puerta para encontrar a Doris Hocksley. La acusan de asesinato cuando encuentran sus huellas en el arma homicida.

Frank Lawton va a visitar a su viejo amigo Scott Shelby y termina siendo acusado de su fangoso. Afortunadamente para Lawton, Perry Mason es otro viejo amigo suyo y llega a la escena para tratar de resolver el caso.

Stefan Riker ha venido de Alemania buscando a la mujer que se hace pasar por Lisa Bannister y ella cree que puede hacer que la deporten a Alemania. Al intentar ayudar a su madrastra, Doris Bannister finge estar románticamente interesada en Stefan Riker. Durante los meses siguientes, Stefan Riker recibe dinero y regalos de Doris y parece satisfecho. Sin embargo, una noche es asesinado y Doris Bannister es acusada de asesinato porque sus huellas dactilares se encuentran en una escalera fuera del apartamento de Riker.

Daniel Conway está involucrado en una viciosa guerra por poderes con Warner Griffith por el control de una compañía petrolera. La secretaria de Conway, Rose Calvert, está espiando para Griffith. Cuando Rose es encontrada muerta, Conway teme que le incriminen por asesinato y se acerca a Perry en una cena de la asociación de abogados y le pide ayuda. Perry al principio cree que Griffin es el culpable, pero tiene una coartada sólida. Luego aparece otro testigo que tiene memoria fotográfica y puede identificar a la gente por sus zapatos.

Cuando Albert Sanders es acusado del asesinato de Kim Lane, Perry se ofrece a defenderlo gratuitamente porque sabe que Sanders sigue devastado por la muerte accidental de su esposa e hijos ocho años antes. La solución del caso depende de una red de contrabando de heroína que opera en un salón de baile.

La columnista de chismes Mary K. Davis es encontrada asesinada y parece que no hay escasez de sospechosos. Estaba su marido político al que se negó a concederle el divorcio. Estaba su tímida secretaria a la que intimidaba. Estaba el novio de la secretaria que tenía algunos secretos en su pasado. Estaba el doctor que dirigía un plan ilegal de venta de bebés que Mary amenazó con exponer si no le daba un hijo. Leona Walsh, la enfermera del doctor, termina siendo acusada del crimen y esta vez Perry tiene que manipular algunas pruebas para exculpar a su cliente.

Cuando la rica Louise Gordon es envenenada hasta la muerte, su enfermera es acusada del crimen. Perry hace algunas averiguaciones y descubre que la primera esposa del marido de la víctima también murió envenenada. ¿Es el marido realmente el culpable o podría ser otra persona?

Perry y Della están viajando en un crucero que regresa a Los Ángeles desde Vancouver. Carl Houser salta por la borda del barco y se presume que se ha ahogado. Houser aparece más tarde en la orilla pero con una herida de bala en su cuerpo. Anna Houser, la esposa de Carl, es acusada del asesinato de su esposo. El caso se basa en un caso de evasión fiscal en el que la última víctima se sentó en el jurado y pidió la absolución, así como un misterioso hombre a bordo del crucero que estaba en una silla de ruedas y tenía la cara vendada.

El chantajista George Castle mata al dueño de un hotel de Las Vegas, Glenn Faulkner, por una deuda de juego y pone sus ojos en la tierra heredada por la hija de Faulkner, Stephanie. Cuando Castle aparece asesinado también, Stephanie se convierte en la sospechosa número uno.

Enid Griffin, la secretaria de Stewart Brent, intenta suicidarse después de saber que su jefe se ha casado. Arthur Binney intenta chantajear a Stewart Brent con hechos sobre su nueva esposa que ha estado en la cárcel por fraude. Cuando Stewart Brent va a encontrarse con Arthur Binney en un motel para el pago, queda inconsciente. Se despierta y encuentra a Arthur Binney muerto en la habitación de al lado y admite que lo mató cuando el gerente del motel entra. Stewart Brent es acusado del asesinato.

Intentando no chocar con el coche de su padrastro, Patricia Faxon se desvía cuando entra en su casa y choca con los setos. Después de pedirle a su padrastro, Bertrand Allred, que moviera su coche, encuentra a Bob Fleetwood malherido junto a los setos. Asumiendo que Patricia golpeó accidentalmente a Bob Fleetwood, Bertrand y Lucille Allred llevan a Bob a un hotel. A la mañana siguiente Bertrand Allred es encontrado muerto en su auto, cerca del hotel, donde el auto dejó la carretera y pasó por la barandilla. Lucille Allred es acusada de matar a su marido cuando es vista caminando de vuelta al hotel poco después de que el coche de Bertrand se fuera.

Lorraine Stevens está luchando contra los avances del dueño de la empresa de importación y exportación donde trabaja, Philip Larkin. Más tarde esa noche se le pide que recoja algo en la joyería Alcorn. El dueño no sabe qué es lo que debe recoger y le sugiere que haga una llamada para averiguarlo. Llama a Philip Larkin y mientras suena el teléfono vemos a Philip Larkin muerto en su casa. De pie junto a él está Joseph Harrison que borra sus huellas del teléfono y se va. Cuando sus huellas digitales se encuentran en la caja del arma homicida se le acusa del asesinato.

Una visita de una atractiva rubia con secuelas de ojo morado a un caso relacionado con el asesinato de un nieto perdido hace tiempo de un hombre rico.

Mientras una mujer registra la oficina de la Compañía Sudafricana de Diamantes, George Baxter entra para conocer a Walter Lumis y Duane Jefferson. Se da cuenta de las cosas en desorden y cuestiona a la mujer. Ella se escapa, entra en la oficina de Perry Mason y finge ser una mecanógrafa enviada por una agencia temporal. Se va sin avisar poco después. Mientras tanto Baxter llama a la policía asumiendo que ha habido un robo. Esa noche se ve el cadáver de George Baxter siendo arrojado desde un muelle. Duane Jefferson es identificado como la persona que arrojó el cuerpo desde el muelle y es acusado del asesinato. Sin embargo, se niega a identificar a la mujer que podría probar su inocencia.

Cuando Daniel Reed (Edgar Stehli) se encuentra chantajeado por un viejo socio de negocios de su tiempo en Alaska, Perry debe primero salvarlo del manicomio y luego de la cámara de gas. Convencido de que Reed ha perdido la cabeza cuando empieza a extender cheques de 20.000 dólares a desconocidos, sus sobrinos hacen que el viejo sea internado a la fuerza en un manicomio. Perry es reclutado por la novia de Reed, Millie Foster (Kitty Kelly), para sacarlo del manicomio y, apenas se le concede la libertad, su chantajista aparece muerto y Reed es acusado de su asesinato.

Perry receives a telephone call from George Beaumont, a man who supposedly died in a plane crash nearly three years before. In reality, Beaumont missed the plane and after hearing about the accident decided to disappear leaving wife Laura with his life insurance money. Since then, Beaumont has been cavorting with girlfriend Ruth Whittaker and living under an alias. He has grown tired of this life and wants to return home but someone cuts short his return by sticking a letter opener in his back. Ruth is then charged with the murder.

Perry has all kinds of troubles in this one when a murder brings him into the tangled financial and personal affairs of the wealthy Balfour family.

Robbers lift a bundle from the Hargrove Finance Company and Frank Anderson is murdered in the aftermath. Anthony "Pop" Renzi is identified as one of the robbers and charged with both the robbery and the murder. Perry sets out to clear him of both charges.

Major Frank Lessing, a payroll officer on an Army base, is found murdered and Sgt. Joseph Dexter is charged with the crime. The case hinges on a payroll robbery committed in the Phillippines years before. It seems as though some of the bills from that robbery were turning up on the base.

Rhoda Reynolds is charged with murdering her blackmailing ex-husband, Arthur Kane. At the trial, Perry moves the proceedings to the room in which Kane was murdered in order to re-enact the fatal night.

Slimy Jack Hardisty embezzles $100,000.00 from his father-in-law, Dr. Blane. The greedy Hardisty then tries to blackmail the good doctor for more. Perry is hired by Dr. Blane to put an end to Hardisty's machinations but before he can swing into action the rogue turns up dead. Dr. Blane is charged with the murder forcing Perry to do some intricate courtroom work involving a wildlife camera triggered by a buried clock which took misleading pictures of the actual killer.

A moonlighting school teacher is charged with the murder of a male acquaintence he had taken home after the acquaintence had earlier raised a disturbance at his night job at a cafe.

Jockey Tic Barton is in a mess of trouble. First he's fired when his horse loses a fixed race and then he's charged with murder after confronting Johnny Starr, the man actually responsible for the fix. And, oh yes, Tic's wife was having an affair with the murder victim. It's up to Perry to set things right.

An art collector, Rufus Varner, is told by a reputable art critic that one of his most prized art paintings named ""The Purple Woman"" is a forgery. Varner visits the art dealer from whom he purchased the painting, Milo Girard. After he finds out the dealer knew it was a forgery, he realizes the news would damage his reputation as an art collector. At the Girard home, an artist Aaron Hubble, tells Evelyn Girard, the wife of the art dealer, that he painted a forgery of The Purple Woman for her husband. Milo Girard is found dead in his office the next morning and his wife Evelyn is charged with his murder.

Martin Ellis is sent to jail for stealing the sum of $300,000.00. Ellis is later exonerated thanks to evidence discovered by his wife and the real thief, Charles Brewster, is arrested for the theft. Brewster manages to get out of jail on bail but later turns up dead. Ellis is charged with the killing.

The courtroom action in this episode takes place at a coroner's inquest as a parrot holds the key to freeing suspect Ellen Sabin from blame in the murder of her husband.

Sarah Werner asks Perry to find her husband, Hugo Werner, who ran off with her inheritance. Hugo, now using the name Hans Breel, is now working on a gem scam but his scheme backfires when he is murdered and Sarah is charged with the crime.

Eva Martell is hired out of numerous candidates by Melvin Slater to impersonate a woman named Helen Reynolds. Eva is paid extremely well and given a nice apartment to live in with her Aunt Agnes as long as she continues with her impersonation. Both Eva and her aunt suspect a rat and seek Perry's advice. Then Melvin Slater turns up dead in the apartment.

Rollins and Wyatt have discovered a cure for gill fever. As they plan to market the product, they find that Jack Huxley has bought the aquarium business and owns all patents and intellectual property. Huxley is murdered; Wyatt is charged.

Two troubled women, Millie Crest and Fern Driscoll, switch identities. Millie, posing as Fern, stabs shady private eye Carl Davis in the arm in self-defense. Davis then turns up dead from poisoning of the stab wound to his arm. Millie then gets Perry to help her in return for a 38 cent retainer.

A District Attorney is charged with the murder of a chairman of the bids committee to a defectively built hospital whom he is investigating for a series of bribes being passed around.

An heiress to her uncle's fortune is charged with the murder of a female private investigator during a search for her missing uncle.

Danny Ross is a television comedian who is waiting to hear about a new television show. It has been three years since his last television show was cancelled. Charles Goff is an advertising executive who promised Danny he would pitch him for a new show in return for an introduction with the president of a large big-budget advertiser. Danny does his part but learns from Goff's secretary that Goff landed the deal without him. When Charles Goff is found dead in his office the next morning, Danny's friend, Freddie Green, is accused of the murder after finding his fingerprints on the murder weapon.

Wealthy Peter Baxter decides to test the loyalty of his heirs. He pretends to change his will cutting them all out and leaving his entire estate to groundskeeper, James Hing. Hing is then supposed to burn down Baxter's house and Baxter would substitute a medical cadaver for his own body. If any of the heirs contested the will, they would be disinherited. Hing does as he is instructed. He burns down the house but the body discovered inside is really that of Peter Baxter. Perry tries to sort through this muddled mess and arrive at the truth.

Bishop Arthur Mallory is met in his hotel room by Wallace Lang, an associate of a wealthy man named Charles Burroughs. He is warned thru physical violence to stop looking for the real granddaughter of Charles Burroughs. Carol Delaney helps the bishop with his wounds and hears an incredible story that she may be the real granddaughter, Janice Burroughs. She doesn't believe him at first but changes her mind when she is also visited by Wallace Lang and warned to drop this idea. Carol is invited to meet Charles Burroughs and later the same night he is found dead. Carol is accused of his murder when the knife used to murder Mr. Burroughs is found to belong to her carving set.

Playwright Ernest Royce is found shot to death in the same manner as a character in one of his unproduced plays. The play dealt with characters very close to real people and the real life murder of a New York underworld figure years before. Perry's client, Frank Brooks, is charged with Royce's murder and Perry must find the missing final act of the play in order to clear Brooks.

Dr. David Craig discovers that tapes of conversations with his psychiatric patients are missing and being used for blackmail purposes. When the suspected thief and blackmailer, Mark Douglas, turns up murdered, the good doctor is charged with the crime.

Evelyn Forbes escapes from a mental institution only to be charged with murder. The key to the case is a dog that continues to howl no matter what.

A building contractor is charged with the murder of a wealthy political Mr.fix-it.

Harry Bright and Chuck Clark were once best friends and business partners until Margaret entered the picture. Margaret was a much younger woman on the make who entranced Chuck into marrying her. When Margaret is found shot to death, Harry is arrested for the crime but the more Perry digs into the victim's past the more convoluted things get.

Matilda Benson is a tough old broad who rules her children with an iron hand and the promises in her will. Her family then gets involved in a gambling scandal involving sinister nightclub owner Danny Barker. When Barker is found dead the scandal expands to include murder.

Martin Selkirk is a major league rotter who wants Claire Allison in the worst way even though she's dating Dirk Benedict. Selkirk has Dirk's jaw broken and begins sending Claire threatening mail. Then Selkirk is murdered in his beach house and Claire is arrested for the crime. Perry takes the case and finds that the evidence points in the direction of Selkirk's five year old son. Or does it?

Young Jimmy Morrow can't seem to catch a break. Already on probation for car theft he's charged with stealing a valuable Spanish cross and killing its owner. Perry feels sorry for the kid and decides to take the case.

Perry returns to his office late one night and finds an attractive woman climbing into his balcony window. She claims to be Virginia Colfax, the secretary of Ed Garvin who has an office next door to Perry's. Ms. Colfax says that she climbed into Perry's office in order to escape from Garvin's hot tempered wife but Perry later learns that Garvin is married to two women. Garvin and second wife Lorrie are sent to Mexico by Perry until he can clear up the matter but when Garvin's first wife, Ethel, is murdered there's an even bigger mess on the scene. And just who in the world is Virginia Colfax, the woman climbing in the window?

Ruth Prescott wants to divorce Walter Prescott so that she can be with her true love, Jimmy MacLaine. After a brush with death, Ruth becomes convinced that Walter is trying to kill her rather than give her the divorce. Walter then turns up dead and the police are convinced that Ruth shot him but Perry, as usual, doesn't think so. A lame canary and unusual bruises on the victim hold the keys to the puzzle.

Bruce Chapman returns home early from a business trip to find that his wife, Marie, wants a divorce. Chapman is shocked at this turn of events because just before he left on his trip he thought he had found the strangled body of Marie in his office. But if Marie is still alive, who was the dead woman in the office?

Lorna Thomas is a has-been actress who once gave up her baby fof adoption and lived to regret it. George Clark discovers that his wife might be Lorna's long-lost daughter and begins to see dollar signs. The Clarks go to Perry for advice but learn that since Lorna gave up her daughter for adoption she cannot inherit any of her mother's estate. George is devastated over the loss of potential income but he's also under arrest when Lorna is found murdered.

Larry Benton is a hard luck guy. He gets in an argument in a poker game and knocks Mike Granger out cold. Then his "friends" inform him that Granger is dead. Unknown to Larry, the entire scenario is a scam to shake him down for money. Larry forges his brother's check for $5,000.00 but ring leader Johnny Clay tries to bleed him for an additional twenty grand. Johnny's greed proves to be his undoing as he ends up dead himself. Steve Benton tries to cover up Larry's involvement and ends up being charged with Clay's murder. Perry then tries to track down Mike Granger, the man Larry supposedly killed, in order to get to the bottom ot things.

Writer: Ge

Mitsuo Kamuri has been seeing a great deal of Grover Nichols, son of wealthy businessman Hudson Nichols. Nichols doesn't approve of his son's relationship and when Mitsuo is "caught" with a string of valuable pearls belonging to Mrs. Nichols he agrees to drop all charges provided she stops seeing his son. Things then get even more complicated when Mitsuo's uncle, who had originally strung the pearls. is found murdered. The death has been made to look like hara-kiri but the police are not fooled.

Wealthy rancher John Brant forecloses on Jo Ann Blanchard's mortgage and takes possession of her prized stallion. Jo Ann goes to Perry for help in getting the horse back but soon needs Perry's aid in getting her off a murder charge she is arrested for killing Brant.

Donna Kress, a singer, is preparing a demo for a recording contract. She has been carrying on a long term affair with a married man, Frank Thatcher. That night Frank Thatcher is involved in a hit-and-run accident but does not report the incident. He is the son-in-law of Henry W. Dameron, a very wealthy businessman. To avoid publicity, Henry Dameron instructs Frank Thatcher to pay off the dead man's family anonymously. Frank uses Paul Drake to take care of the details. After Paul Drake speaks to the widow he uncovers the fact of the hit-and-run accident which Frank did not reveal. Later he confronts Frank Thatcher, a fistfight ensues, and Paul Drake is knocked unconscious. Later Frank Thatcher is found dead in the same apartment with Paul Drake after he wakes up. Paul Drake is accused of the murder when his gun is found to be the murder weapon.

Richard Vanaman is up for a promotion at his investment firm but is sabotaged and framed for murder.

Wally Dunbar seeks Perry's help in securing ownership of his new summer line of swimwear but the sketches are stolen and worse yet, chief designer Rick Stassi is murdered. Wally's girlfriend, Kitty Wynne, who was being blackmailed by Stassi goes to trial for his murder.

Allen Sheridan has more enemies than you can shake a stick at. even though he's due to inherit the healthy sum of $162,000.00. When Allen turns up dead his killer could be anyone but his cousin Sarette becomes the prime suspect.

Marjorie Cluny wins a contest for best looking legs sponsored by Frank Patton of Stellar Productions. Her prize is a trip to Hollywood and a role in Patton's next picture. Unfortunately, there was fine print in Marjorie's contract and her Hollywood career lasts only two days. Patton is then found stabbed to death with a woodcarving instrument . Marjorie disappears and becomes the leading suspect.

Perry goes on a fishing trip in a small Sierra Nevada town with his old friend, Sheriff Gene Norris but as usual manages to get sidetracked into another murder case when Phil Beecher returns from jail. It seems as though Phil did time for negligent homicide for the car accident which killed the daughter of Sheriff Norris. Charlotte Norris, sister of the decedant, wants revenge and frames Phil for a robbery but is herself killed. Can Perry prevent things from getting out of hand in the village?

A double cross, a double murder, a plane crash, missing money, and yet another innocent widow charged with crimes she didn't commit are the elements of this case.

Ben Sutton is listed as the author of a best-selling book describing his experiences in a Korean POW camp. When the real author is released from an Army hospital, Sutton is slain before he can tell the truth and his widow is arrested for the murder.

DA Hamilton Burger asks Perry to defend an old friend who once saved his life in a boating accident ten years before. The old friend of Burger's is now facing a murder charge.

Corporate intrigue is the backdrop of this episode when embezzling accountant Robert Doniger is murdered and Edward Nelson is charged with his murder.

Charles Houston cleverly get away with killing his wife by making it look like she died in a car accident. Then a wildlife photographer shows up with the murder on film and Charles discovers that his sister-in-law has squandered all the profits from his oil well. The situation then goes from awful to good grief when the sister-in-law is found locked in a room with Houston's corpse.

Author Mauvis Meade sends her secretary, Gladys Doyle, out to a mountain cabin to pick up a package. Gladys gets lost and her car gets stuck in the mud. She then walks to a cabin looking for help and encounters a mysterious man who appears to know her. While Gladys freshens up, the man leaves and Gladys discovers a dead body.

The Big Barn is a legal gambling casino run by George Anclitis. Things are going well at the Big Barn until George's second banana, Slim Marcus, botches a crooked card game and is exposed for cheating. Slim's girlfriend, Vivan Ennis, is then killed and George plants a gun and marijuana on Betty Roberts, one of the girls who works at the club. Betty knows quite a bit about the shady activities going on at The Big Barn so George decides to feed her to the wolves in order to take the heat off himself. It's then up to Perry to try and extricate Betty from her predicament.

Perry arrives in the gold mining town of Placer City looking for an old prospector to subpoena for testimony. He then get involved in a murder case when one of the participants in a barroom fight is found killed and the other is accused of the crime.

A valuable Matisse painting is stolen from a museum. When the thief is found murdered museum employee June Sinclair and her boyfriend David Lambert are charged with the crime.

Mason is sought out by land tycoon Adam Thompson, who suspects one of his nephews of rifling the house safe. The twist? The land tycoon's next in command is found dead, after it's found out that he was the one stealing the secrets.

After one of the biggest names in fashion is poisoned after embarassing her husband on TV, the husband is not rightly the prime suspect.

Cmdr. James Page is the Project Officer for the testing of some electronics equipment for the Navy submarine, Moray. Cmdr. Jerome Burke is assisting the police in the investigation of the murder of a cafe singer. The police believe an unknown sailor on the Moray may be responsible. Cmdr. Page has found out that his father-in-law, Anthony Beldon, owns Alpha Electronics, the manufacturer of the electronics equipment he is testing. Cmdr. Page feels there could be a conflict of interest. On the day of the testing, Cmdr. Page is found dead in the captain's quarters. Robert Chapman, a sailor, is accused of the murder when he is found to be the husband of the dead cafe singer and his shoes contain pieces of broken glass found at the scene of her murder.

When a notorious bank robber's son returns to his hometown it seems as though everyone is interested in missing loot supposedly hidden by the man's father. This leads to murder. Perry comes to the rescue once again.

James Frazer wants a divorce and his cheating wife refuses to give him one. She's also stealing the plans to his invention in order to bait her engineer lover into staying around. Frazer leaves town for three months in order to cool down but on the night of his return he finds his wife murdered in his office and he has the only key to a unique burglar proof lock that he invented.

18 year-old Trudy's mother has died leaving her $10 million and suddenly men claiming to be her long-lost father are coming into town. The only one who could identify the real father, a blind uncle, is killed, but by who?

Tyrannical company president Hartley Bassett returns from the dead after two years. His first act is to fire Peter Dawson which makes Dawson the prime suspect when Bassett is found dead with two bullet holes in him. Perry thinks he has an ace in the hole this time when Dick Hart and his new wife, Teddi, both swear they saw a different assailant at the scene of the crime. Then Teddi and Dick disappear.

Perry defends Richard Hammond who is charged with killing his former girlfriend by running over her with his car.

Jim Ferris is having an affair with his uncle's bored young wife. They concoct a scheme to finagle $80,000.00 from the uncle by faking a kidnapping. Things go horribly wrong when secretary Betty Wilkins, acting as a go-between, is charged with the murder of Jim Ferris.

Perry is accused of obstructing justice in this case when he defends a woman who had previously faked her own suicide by running her empty car off a cliff. It seems as though the police found the body of another woman in the wreckage.

An heiress to a cosmetics company is charged with the murder of the company's owner.

When a man accused of a murder is freed from prison upon newly discovered eyewitness testimony, it starts a chain reaction of blackmail and murder.

A circus clown is charged with the murder of its part owner when a gun is slipped to him during a gun act.

Washed up pianist David Carpenter is knocked out and pushed over a cliff for insurance money. Carpenter's beautiful protege, Donna Ross, immediately comes under suspicion by the police.

Perry's fishing trip to Scotland is interrupted by seven year old Peggy Smith. Peggy is living at a boarding school and searching for her identity since she has no idea who her real parents are. After searching into the matter, Perry comes to believe that Peggy is the daughter of Clark Lawson and Margaret Jeffers Lawson. Margaret was the daughter of wealthy Courtney Jeffers who disowned her after she eloped with Clark. Both parents died shortly after Peggy was born. Jeffers, a mean and miserable old man, has his heart warmed after meeting Peggy and changes his will to leave everything to her. The next day, he is found dead, killed by a blow from a poker.

Lester Martin's life takes a horrible turn for the worse when a man breaks into his apartment, forces him at gun-point to drink half a bottle of Scotch, and then drives him into the country. Lester's circumstances then go from awful to good grief when he's charged with the murder of his step-father who was trying to takeover the family boat company.

Ann Farwell is miserable over the separation of her parents. Things aren't made any better when her father starts seeing Rita Conover, a scheming woman half his age. When Rita turns up dead both Ann and her mother think the other committed the crime which causes Perry great difficulty in defending the ranch hand who's been charged.

A suburban town mayor's secretary is accused of murdering the mayor's wife, who was engaging in blackmail to further her husband's career.

Slimy publishing tycoon Donald Fletcher buys controlling interest in a respectable but financially troubled publishing house. Fletcher turns things upside down by turning the publications into scandal sheet featuring photographs of scantily clad women. Edmond Aitken, whose family once owned the publishing house, wants to oust Fletcher but Perry tells him he has no legal basis on which to do so. Not to worry. Fletcher is found murdered in his apartment but the prime suspect is Aitken's wife, Alyce, whom Fletcher had been blackmailing over lurid photos Alyce made during her younger days.

Perry represents a citizen's group in hearings on a proposed aqueduct to be named after county engineer William Harper Caine. Perry gets a stop work order until a section of the proposed location can be checked for an underground spring. Eventually, Caine needs Perry's help when he's accused of murdering Roger Quigley, the project's chief contractor.

Ralph Duncan is a civil servant whose job is to inventory the estates of wealthy decedants. One day, he returns home with $153,000.00 worth of old greenbacks he discovered while going through a recently deceased old woman's home. Duncan took the money on a lark and was planning to return it the next day but his shifty cousin decides to purloin the bundle. Duncan is then accused of theft and later murder.

Womanizing playboy Loring Lamont has his sights set on Arlene Ferris, his father's shapely secretary. He lures her to his beachfront bachelor pad with seduction on his mind. Arlene slaps the rotter and flees taking Loring's car back into town. Things then go from awful to good grief for poor Arlene. After her departure someone stabs Loring to death and she's suspect number one.

Inventor Walter Randall wants a divorce from his cold-blooded wife Laura in order to be with Phyllis Hudson. Laura decides to get back at Walter by blackmailing one of his assistants into building a bomb that will destroy Walter's underwater sounding invention. While checking on the bomb in the warehouse, Laura is discovered by Phyllis and takes advantage of the situation by knocking her rival out. Phyllis manages to survive the explosion but she is later charged with Laura's murder.

Willard Nesbitt faked his drowning death in a boating accident so his wife could collect the double indemnity life insurance money. Nesbitt thought he had only a short time to live anyway. When Nesbitt's crooked business partner, James Castle, illegally cuts "widow" Eve Nesbitt out of a protitable deal he must rise from the dead to warn her. Then someone kills the "dead man" for good. The police smell insurance fraud and Eve Nesbitt is their number one suspect.

Crooked jewelry store owner Karl Addison learns that he needs an operation which will temporarily blind him. Addison makes plans to rob his own store knowing that his sightlessness will provide him with a perfect alibi. Things go wrong when someone kills the scheming Addison and steals the already pinched jewels. James Kincannon enlists Perry's aid when he's charged with the crime.

The setting in this episode is a small California town where because of a festival all men must wear beards. Paul Drake travels there to try to locate missing money which a former bank president embezzled. Paul eventually finds the money but he also finds a dead body as well. Perry arrives on the scene in order to straighten things out.

Contactor Pete Mallory is charged with the murder of a vacation resort developer.

Hilde Fursten and Tony Osgood work at the San Diego Zoo. When a new baby monkey is found missing, Hilde Fursten is blamed by Dr. Walther Braun, a visiting dentist. Boris Zelbowski also works at the zoo and is dating Frieda Crawson, Dr. Braun's nurse. That evening, Dr. Braun arrives at the zoo to perform oral surgery on a lion and is found dead in the lion's cage. Tony Osgood is accused of the murder when a witness sees someone wearing Tony's blue sportcoat near the lion's cage at the time.

Hard luck Claude Demay was sent up for six years in prison for starting a fire in a warehouse containing the valuable Nathan Claver art collection. After his release, Demay devises a plan to expose the real criminal, Leonard Voss, and prove his innocence. He tediously weaves a perfect imitation of a valuable tapestry supposedly lost in the fire and barters this tapestry to Voss in exchange for an original Buddah statue. Demay knows that the statue will prove that the collection was not destroyed in the fire and will expose Voss as the real criminal. Unfortunately, Voss is murdered before the trade takes place and Demay is arrested for another crime he didn't commit.

Advertising executive Herman Albright is in the wrong place at the wrong time wearing the wrong clothes. These mistakes cost poor Herman his life in a case of mistaken identity. Perry is called on to defend the fashion model charged with the crime. It seems as though Herman had been hitting on her for quite a while with no success.

Jerry Reynolds, an old war buddy of Perry's, is accused of killing an officer at Vandenburg Air Force Base during the investigation into some mysterious missile crashes.

A mixed up mess awaits Perry as he struggles to put all the pieces together. Blackmail, murder, a boyfriend who spent the night, all add up to one great case.

A young man has his head turned by, whatelse, a woman. In his haste to protect her, and her good name, the source of her pain turns up dead.

Lola and Jeff Bronson are going through a divorce and can't wait to be rid of each other until Bill Ryder sabotages Jeff's business and makes a play for Lola. Ryder is then found dead with three bullet holes in his body and Jeff and Lola are the two prime suspects. Now they battle to cover for each other .

The drowning death of a newspaper executive during a fishing trip sets off all kinds of repercussions at the newspaper itself.

Paint manufacturer Amory Fallon suspects that his partner Ned Thompson is behind a mysterious fire and explosion.

Perry and Della attend the wedding of Polly Courtland to Eddy King. The ceremony is halted at the altar when Polly begins screaming, "No! No!" and hurriedly exits the church. It seems as though Polly had spotted slimy George Sherwin holding an envelope containing photos of her younger sister checking into a Las Vegas hotel with a musician named Bongo White. Sherwin plans to ruin Polly and her family's reputation unless she gives up Eddy for him. Sherwin's plan comes a cropper when he's found shot to death. Eddy King is arrested for the crime.

During a terrible storm at sea, First Officer Jerry Griffin dumps a million dollars worth of goods into the sea in order to lessen the chances of his cargo freighter sinking. Once on shore, Jerry is hauled before a maritime court which holds him responsible for the loss of the cargo. Captain Bancroft's testimony can clear Jerry but he is murdered before he can give it. Now Jerry stands accused of that crime too. Perry and Paul try to set things right once again.

Comic Charlie Hatch learns that the woman he loved and lost, Anne Gilrain, has escaped from a sanitarium to which she was forced to commit herself by her husband, Tom. When Tom Gilrain is murdered, Charlie is afraid that Anne did the deed and sets himself up as a likely suspect to protect her. Perry arrives on the scene to try and free Charlie from his abysmal stupidity.

Phony psychic Phillip Paisley meets a grisly death when an elevator that has been tampered with crashes. In the climactic scene Perry sets up another fantastic demonstration to prove his client innocent and expose the real culprit.

Perry finds himself defending Dr. Wayne Edley who has been accused of committing two murders.

Perry and Paul are all set to go deep see fishing on a boat owned by their friend, Scott Cahill, but when Cahill's regular customer wants the boat for the weekend they have to charter another. Later, Perry gets word that the Coast Guard has boarded Cahill's vessel looking for stolen gold. They found some of the bullion and the corpse of Karl McGovern. An autopsy reveals that McGovern was killed with a fatal dose of digitalis. Scott Cahill is charged with murder when the police theorize that he and the dead man were partners in stealing the gold.

Writer: Robb White

Artist Jack Culross fakes his own suicide and sees the sales of his paintings go through the roof. His only problem was that he forgot to inform his wife Edna of the scheme. After Edna sees a completed painting of Jack's that she knows he didn't finish while he was "alive" she gets wise. Edna manages to track down her "deceased" husband but they fight and she knocks him down. Then he's found dead. Edna must stand trial for murder.

A really weird courtroom confession scene highlights this episode about the murder of a race car driver.

Health club instructor Ward Nichols wants to marry the daughter of his employer, Bernard Daniels, but Ward's estranged wife, Veronica, is pressuring him for money and claiming to be pregnant. Things blow up in everyone's face when Bernard is found crunched with a dumbbell at the club. Perry, as usual, arrives on the scene to get at the truth.

Charles Cromwell, the president-elect of Euclid College, worries that some less than stellar moments from his past will be exposed when Maisie Freitag arrives on the scene to make an unusual beguest to the college. Needless to say, murder eventually finds its way to the campus.

A journalist is murdered while tracking an ex-Nazi war criminal who may be posing as an executive at a company called Space Associates, Ltd.

Wealthy Walter Frazer has always blamed his daughter-in-law Sue Ellen for his son Gregson's failures. You can only imagine how he feels when Sue Ellen is accused of Gregson's murder.

Perry is hired to help settle a land dispute in the Manzana Valley but the key witness is blown up by a homemade bomb. As usual, Perry's client is accused of the crime.

Naive secretary Janice Wainwright carries out boss Morley Thielman's orders and places a briefcase containing more than $100,000.00 in a train station locker. Then she waits for the arrival of Thielman's ex-wife but Lt. Tragg arrives instead with an arrest warrant for Janice on the charge of murdering her boss. It seems as though witness Fred Carlyle saw a woman's shapely shadow through the shades of Thielman's office window shortly before the murder occurred.Carlyle believes the silhuette belonged to Janice. Perry manages to get to the bottom of things once the courtroom proceedings begin.

Historian Phillip Andrews tries to make a case that his fiancee, Evelyn Faraday, is entitled to a share of a shipping company fortune. Phillip then finds himself accused of murdering the company's top man.

Axel Norstaad sells his much respected furniture trademark to Martin Somers, described by some as the slide trombone of the furniture business. Somers immediately begins stripping the company of its assets and churning out inferior products. Axel protests these developments vehemently and when Somers is found murdered he gets arrested for the crime. To complicate things, Axel is in love with Edie Morrow whom he suspects might be the actual killer.

Eleanor Corbin pleads amnesia after police find her running and screaming through the woods near her apartment building. Her loss of memory is of little help to her when she is later charged with murder.

A casual pen pal relationship leads to insider information and murder.

Mason tries to clear his young, naive woman client, a corporate executive secretary, as a twisting and wheeling plot of murder, kidnapping, and embezzlement unfolds.

Mike Preston is a bitter man who despises Hugh Jamison because he mistakenly believes Jamison stole $100,000 from him and is responsible for him being crippled. Trying to entrap Jamison, Preston makes a mistake and is set up for murder by the real thief.

Cartoonist Pete Manders is elated when the owner of the comic strip "Zingy" offers to sell him the strip for a song. Pete is less than elated when he learns that his girlfriend Leslie is running away to Europe with Gabe Phillips, the strip owner. When Phiilips is murdered, Pete is charged with the crime and retains Perry's services. Investigating the case, Perry soon discovers that the deceased Phillips was leading a double life.

Ted Chase discovers that his bitchy second wife, Irene, might have killed his first wife and contemplates revenge but someone else gets to Irene first. In his defense of Ted, Perry discovers that Irene's past was even more sordid and corrupt than previously believed.

Astronaut Matthew Heller is suspected of killing his old service rival, General Addison Brand, after Brand is put in charge of the astronaut program.

A baby who mysteriously appears in Perry's office has a rare St. Christopher medal, which could help identify the baby's parents. If only the suspected father wasn't dead.

A crazy man (or is he?), his dead nephew and a military base are tangled up in a confusing Perry Mason episode.

Perry and Della go out for a night at the theatre to see Perry's actor friend, Steve Brock, perform as Paris in Romeo and Juliet. The lights mysteriously go out during the dueling scene between Romeo and Paris and when the lights are restored the audience is shocked to see that leading man Franz Lachman, playing Romeo, has been stabbed to death. When Steve is accused of the murder Perry decides to have the cast re-enact the final scene that was played before Lachman's death.

Aspiring screenwriter Herbert Simms submits his first teleplay to producer Charlie Corby who tries to use the manuscript as his own. Corby's scheme comes a cropper when he gets fatally whacked over the head with a whiskey bottle after a party. Herbert happens to be in the wrong place at the wrong time and is seen running from the scene of the crime. Guess who gets arrested for murder?

Merle Telford is a naive and maladjusted young woman who is about to turn 21 and receive a substantial inheritance. She plans to run away from her guardians and elope with Danny Pierce as soon as she receives her money. Yep, you guessed it already, Danny is a greedy schemer and Merle's supposed friend, Gina Gilbert, is his accomplice. Merle's guardians know of her plans and hire Paul Drake to keep Merle from fleeing on the night of her 21st birthday party. When a murder is committed during the party Merle becomes the prime suspect.

Perry and the team investigate the murder of an antiquarian bookseller with an interest in forgery.

Carleton Gage, a major financial supporter of an orphanage, wants to keep it open but lapses into a coma and later assumes room temperature. Gage's nephew, George, wants to close the orphanage and he is being secretly aided by Ernest Demming. Joane Proctor, Carleton's sister-in-law, wants to keep the orphanage open but her good intentions are complicated by the murder of Demming.

Boxing trainer Jimmy West thinks he's finally found a championship contender in Davey Carroll. Unfortunately, Davey has a hard time keeping it in his pants and his tangled love life leads to Jimmy being charged with murder.

A company bookkeeper's wife is charged with the murder of a female employee who had been blackmailing her.

Young cop Jimmy Anderson, cousin of Lt. Anderson, and veteran Otto Norden come across a robbery at the Wilson Plastics Company while on patrol one night. A shooting occurs and Otto is killed. Evidence then points to Jimmy as having been an accomplice in the burglary and he is suspended from the police force. Then the night watchman at Wilson Plastics, a disgraced ex-cop, is found strangled to death. Lt. Anderson then asks Perry to look into things and defend Jimmy against all charges.

Phil Schuyler is a two bit songwriter who comes to a bad end on Halloween night. Someone enters his bungalow while Phil is taking a bath and tosses an electric heater into his tub thus turning him into a crispy critter. Damian White, husband of a famous musical comedy star, was seen entering the bungalow around the approximate time of the murder by an eyewitness. But what about all the trick or treaters?

An unscrupulous uncle, who is in reality the father of his niece, returns home from the sea seeking money from the sale of oil leases on his land. When the uncle is found murdered, his shipmate is charged with the crime.

Two brothers at separate times have claimed the same young girl as their daughter. One brother owns a fleet of tuna boats; the other is a mobster. Then banker Franz Moray reveals that $100,000 due to the girl via a trust fund has been mishandled. When Moray is found murdered Perry steps in and discovers an old family secret.

Della asks Perry for $25,000 for her friend Janet Brent, who is being blackmailed. Edward Franklin, an employee of Janet's husband, has staged compromising photos of her in a motel. At a party, Janet confronts Franklin and hits him with a small statue of a "weary watchdog." The police arrest Della when they find her driving Janet's car from the scene of the argument. Franklin is dead, struck three times on the head with the statue. Perry defends Janet knowing that if he loses, Della will go to prison as an accessory.

A young widowed high school English teacher in a small town is accused via letter of making passes and more towards some of her male students. But a small town is small town and it seems that all the key figures are involved somehow, the principal, the lawyer, the doctor, the local barkeep, and of course the oldest boy, who's really more of a man, in the high school.

When Jennifer is alone after her father's heart attack, her only friend is her filly Tiger Lily. She's penniless until a present from her late father is dropped in her lap, but it turns out that the present is worthless, although Brad Shelby did pay $50,000 in order to capitalize on it.

A wealthy woman is confronted by two girls who claim to be the daughters she was forced to abandon 20 years before.

A chronic shoplifter later finds herself charged with murder. Her niece hires Perry for the defense.

A young girl searching for the father she has never seen seeks Mason's help when she's charged with murder.

On trial: the estranged wife of a professor who's written a lurid novel.

Recently widowed attorney Constant Doyle comes to the aid of a young man charged with breaking into a factory and assaulting the night watchman. Later, she has to clear the young man of a murder charge as well as clear the reputation of her late husband.

Professor Lindley is in a pit of trouble when he tries to help a kid dodge a murder rap.

Columnist Elihu Laban is hit with a murder rap when his efforts to obtain secret papers backfire.

Attorney Sherman Hatfield is sought out by a blackmail-plagued industrialist.

Mason goes to the dogs when his defense of a murder suspect hinges on a surprise witness.

Mason's client: a man declared legally dead.

In a case woven with one woman's lies a politician and a murder are entagled.

The victim of a swindle finds his trouble multiplying when he's accused of murder.

A promoter's plan to frame his wife and business partner for embezzlement fails, but they're arrested anyway for his murder.

Mason is hired by a sculptor charged with murdering the overbearing mother of his model.

The ex-wife of an author who has written a lurid expose and is murdered.

A jealous husband is teased into a tizzy after being led on by his sister's lies.

A judge is accused of murdering a government witness who planned to expose him as a crook.

Con artist John Brooks comes up with a new twist to convince Sophia and Ninevah Stone that he's the rightful heir to their fortune. Perry ends up reluctantly defending Brooks when he's charged with murder.

John Flickenger pulls off a carefully planned robbery without a hitch—until his young nephew finds the gun used in the heist.

This case has nothing to do with mosquitos but rather a hidden mine that could lead to a fortune. Plus murder.

Janice Barton is found guilty of the murder of her wealthy relative and sentenced to death. Can Perry find the evidence to clear her of the crime before the pellets in the gas chamber fall?

Perry has to defend the dean of a prep school on charges of murdering a teacher who had been stealing, embezzling, and blackmailing.

Crude but wealthy art connisseur Otto Olney throws a party to celebrate his purchasing a painting by famed artist Gauguin. Then a party guest, art expert Colin Durant, says that the painting is actually a fake. Olney then goes to Perry who decides to sue Durant for libel. Durant then claims he never said anything regarding the painting and the only witness, an art student named Maxine Lindsay, confirms his story. Perry then discovers the dead body of Austin Durant, fully clothed, in the shower of Maxine's apartment. Paul Drake then tracks down Maxine but the police are right behind him and they arrest her for murder. Guess who she hires to defend her?

Gwynn Elston's best friend, Nell Grimes, asks her to move in with her due to the fact that Nell's husband, Felton, is often out of town on business. Gwynn, who has a door-to-door sales job, is then astonished to see Felton's picture in someone else's house where he's known as Frank Gillette. Felton, who's really a nasty mother, tries to poison Gwynn, when she confronts him but she survives and runs to Perry for help. Then Felton is found shot to death and things go from awful to good grief for poor Gwynn--she gets arrested for the crime.

Julie Eng needs Perry's help when some precious stones her grandfather left her turn up missing.

Wealthy but dying Bebe Brent gives the bulk of her estate to her loyal nurse. Needless to say, this act angers the remainder of the Brent clan and leads to a murder.

Three teens cruise Hollywood Boulevard in a cool convertible lookin' for kicks! A liquor store goes down and the blackmail and plot twists begin. Lies and more lies and it's going from bad to worse for young Timmy Balfour who soon discovers that there's every bit as much delinquency from the adults when he's charged with murder.

Grover Johnson manages somehow to talk his much younger bride Eula into living with him on a barren spread of ranch land. Needless to say, Eula hates it and can't wait to sell the property. Along comes wealthy Texas Nelson Barcliff who's ready, willing, and able to purchase the property. But is this big Texan really who he appears to be? Or is it just an elaborate real estate swindle cooked up by Eula? Either way, both Eula and Barcliff end up dead and Grover finds himself charged with Eula's murder.

Brothers Martin and Todd Baylor are feuding over ownership of a successful chain of clothing stores. Martin ends up with a knife sticking out of his back one night and Todd is charged with the murder.

A wife's ears perk up when an insurance investigator informs her that he has proof that her husband was wrongfully convicted of the crime for which he is imprisoned. Then the insurance investigator turns up dead. Goings on in an elevator highlight this episode.

Edward Lewis's increasingly bitter arguments with his father-in-law make him the suspect when the old goat is murdered.

Mystery clouds Mason's search for the murderer of a photographer who was shot while a model pointed a loaded gun at him but didn't pull the trigger.

Sweet but ditzy Nancy Banks wants Perry to cash a bundle of winning racing tickets for her. There's only one problem: her former employer claims the racing tickets as his own. Nancy then gets in even deeper feces when she's charged with her ex-employer's murder.

20-year-old Deborah Dearborn has just written a best selling novel about a cold and calculating woman who bears a strong resemblance to her boyfriend's stepmother. Now Deborah is living at a beach house in Malibu and in the process of selling the rights to her book to a movie producer. Then the stepmother, Stephanie Carew, appears on the scene threatening to sue for libel. When Stephanie's dead body is found floating in a swimming pool, Deborah is charged with the crime.

Mason's client: an amnesia victim on trial for the murder of her husband.

A Frenchman is giving money to an old lady love from his hometown, unaware that she's sharing the cash with her husband. When hubby turns up murdered guess who gets charged with the crime?

Chemist Randolph James has started a successful company to develop a new antibiotic but his former boss, Hudson Bradshaw, files suit claiming that James developed the formula while in his employ. James' wife, Natalie, then begins selling her stock to Bradshaw which would give him control of the new company. James vows to stop his wife at any cost and she turns up dead. James claims that he was fishing at the time the murder occurred but things go from awful to good grief when he can't find the fellow fisherman who can substantiate his story.

A fire chief wants to bring a libel suit against a reporter who accuses him of burning down his own warehouse. Things get even worse for the chief when he's charged with murder.

A woman goes on trial for murder when a fortuneteller's deadly prediction becomes a reality.

Certain that her employer is plotting to murder his wife, housekeeper Nellie Conway launches a counterattack.

Actress Ramona Carver is confronted by a young man who claims to be the son she gave up for adoption. Murder soon results.

Mason is hired by a woman who is convinced, after a series of bizarre events, that she's crazy.

A recovering alcoholic takes to the bottle after he sees his wife, who's supposedly been dead for five years. Then she turns up dead for real and he's arrested for her murder.

A kidnapping hoax leads to murder when the ransom note gets into the wrong hands.

Small town junk dealer/mayoral candidate Mort Lynch gives college dropout Barry Davis a job because he was once close friend's with Barry's uncle. Barry and Mort's relationship is uneasy and he's soon the number one suspect when someone bashes Mort's skull with a monkey wrench and it's found in Barry's car.

Irma Hodge's wealthy step-father, Sumner Hodge, is withholding her inheritance because he dislikes her folksinger boyfriend, Con Bolton. When someone supposedly takes a shot at Sumner, he suggest to the police that Con is to blame. Then another attempt is made on Sumner's life which proves successful. His car goes over a cliff with him behind the wheel and an investigation reveals that the brake line had been severed. Witnesses then claim Con was fooling around with the brakes minutes before the crash and he's charged with murder.

The deceased father of Alice Trilling left behind a strange will. His successful toy company would be left to her ONLY if Alice is married or engaged within a year's time. Until then, her wheelchair bound Uncle Harry and a board of directors will run the company. In searching for a husband, Alice has one major problem: she's coyote ugly and she's the first one to admit it. An artist begins a flirtation and after seeing a portrait he's painted of her, Alice begins to think she could find happiness with him. There's one problem though: nasty old Uncle Harry has been playing matchmaker behind the scenes for reasons of his own. Alice discovers her uncle's perfidity and pushes over his wheelchair. Quickly fleeing the scene, Alice is later arrested when Uncle Harry is found dead. Perry is retained as defense counsel but even he has a tough time in this one because Alice herself thinks she's guilty.

A man's campaign to prove his estranged wife an unfit mother is interrupted when he's arrested for murder.