Ernest Stone has enlisted the help of John Brooks in a scam he has planned against two aging relatives, Sophia and Nineveh Stone. Brooks is to show up at the Stone's home and tell them he is a good friend and one-time shipmate of their nephew, Caleb Stone IV who was born out of wedlock and given to an orphanage when he was very young. The idea is that Brooks will demonstrate detailed knowledge of the house, the family and so on so as to suggest he is the real Caleb Stone IV but always deny that he is. The elderly aunts are soon convinced that he is their long lost relative and approach Perry Mason to change their will in Brooks' favor. Perry realizing the John Brooks may be a scam tries to delay them as he investigates Brooks. Brooks grows to like the old ladies and tells Ernest Stone that he wants out of the scam. When Ernest is found dead, John Brooks is charged with murder and Perry defends him. Written by garykmcd

John 'Uncle Flick' Flickinger breaks into the office of the Honer and Downing Trucking Company and, during a fight, a gun goes off. As he escapes, he throws a gun over the fence, where it is later found and hidden in a shoe-box by Miles, the foster nephew of Flick and his sister, Sylvia Thompson. Sylvia, branch bookkeeper for the trucking company, tells co-owner Joe Downing that $4,000 is missing from the office but both Downing and the other owner, Frank Honer, believe much more money has been disappearing from the branch in recent months and are particularly suspicious of Bill Sheridan, the branch manager, whom she has also been romantically involved with. Panicking over Honer and Downing's suspicions, Sylvia, while looking for Miles, opens the shoe-box in which the boy, Miles, had placed the gun but the box happens to be empty. Still, Sylvia is charged with murder after Downing is killed and she is seen running from the scene and Perry defends her. Perry's bond with Miles may be a ... Written by rbecker28

When Banning Grant is injured in what may not be an accident at an abandoned gold mine, he has Sandy Bowen ask Perry to come to his aid in the town of Gold Gulch. Perry is told by Grant that a mining company in which he was once a major owner is making shady deals for mining properties including deals with Bowen who is known to salt mines. Most of the town residents have shares in the company and depend on dividends from it to help live. He asks Perry to undo a deal between the company and Bowen but Perry is turned down. Grant tells Perry he wanted the property since he found the lost Bolder mine on the property. After someone shoots at Grant, Perry calls Paul to act as a weekend prospector who has found the mine to take the heat off Grant. Paul succeeds but when he returns to his camp, he hears shots and finds the head of the company, James Bradisson, shot nearby. Perry has to help try to solve the case during a very informal coroner's inquest where the dirty laundry of Gold Gulch is... Written by Anonymous

Perry Mason has lost a murder trial and his client, Janice Barton, has been sentenced to death in the gas chamber for murdering her Aunt Amanda. Perry holds little hope for the appeal process as he can find no errors in the trial and his client was caught by Burger lying about her actions that night on the stand. She refuses to tell Perry the truth. Furthermore, her life has been a chain of unfortunate incidents involving the death of a boyfriend in Italy and her sister being paralyzed after a car accident. Perry keeps digging with no luck until he learns there had been a prescription mix up. The aunt had been given an old prescription. She was poisoned when she was given her medicine which was always done by Janice. He learns the reason why Janice lied about her actions the night of the murder but it is of no help. Adding pressure is the fact that the appeals for Janice are all denied. Paul visits Brazil to see the family member, Dr. Andrew Barton, who was Amanda's doctor, but he has... Written by Anonymous

Dr. Aaron Stuart, headmaster of a private school, has been hoping to receive an endowment, but has been frustrated by repeated problems, such as complaints from students' parents, missing materials, employees not being paid, and top students failing tests because they never received the necessary materials. He learns that his assistant dean, Tobin Wade, has been responsible for the sabotage. Stuart also learns Wade came to his house, got his wife to start drinking again, after a year of sobriety, and drove her out to a resort. Stuart confronts Wade by a cliff at the resort and, in a struggle, Wade falls over into the ocean. Stuart goes to the police and signs a confession to manslaughter. But Perry challenges the confession at the preliminary hearing on the grounds that there is no body and no proof that Wade was killed. Then, after one of his teachers calls him and tells him she saw Wade alive, Stuart is arrested for murder, standing over Wade's body. Written by rbecker28

Art student Maxine Lindsay, as the guest of her mentor, art dealer Colin Durant, attends a reception aboard the yacht of millionaire Otto Olney, who is unveiling his newest purchase, a $130,000 Gauguin. When Durant confides that the painting is a fake, Maxine becomes involved in a complicated series of deceptions. Soon gallery owner Leslie Rankin threatens Maxine. Perry Mason is consulted by Rankin wanting to sue Durant. Perry suggests instead that the owner sue to keep Rankin's name and business out of the news to which Rankin and Olney agree. When Durant confronts Perry at dinner, Perry realizes he has been had. In trying to track down Maxine, Perry and Della go to her apartment but the manager says she has moved out. Hearing the shower running, Della looks for Maxine but finds Durant shot laying in the shower. A beatnik artist who uses Maxine as a model is accused of painting a fake which he does not deny as it is in his apartment. A gun turned in from the lockers at the bus ... Written by Anonymous

Gwynn Elston, a door-to-door encyclopedia saleswoman, is staying at the home of her friend, Nell Grimes. While making a sale at another house, she discovers that Nell's husband, Felton Grimes, has another wife, who knows him as Frank Gillette. She lets it slip that she knows about this when Grimes makes a pass at her, and then goes to Perry because she thinks Grimes may have tried to poison her to keep her quiet. She then thinks she is being followed when she goes back to the home of Grimes' other wife. Though Gwynn starts to believe she may be overreacting, Perry learns that there really was strychnine in the drink Grimes had given her. When Grimes is found dead in the yard of Mrs. Gillette's neighbor, Gwynn is charged with his murder and Perry defends her. To solve the mystery, Perry looks into the mystery of Grimes' father, who died only two days earlier. Written by rbecker28

Juli Eng, in Los Angeles, learns from her grandfather, in Hong Kong, by telephone, that he has just bought a small fortune in diamonds. He dies of natural causes so, when Juli arrives for the reading of his will, she looks for the diamonds but they are nowhere to be found. She contacts her lawyer, Perry, in Los Angeles and is convinced they were stolen by Tudor Sherwin. In fact, the manager of her grandfather's Los Angeles office, Ralph Iverson, is the thief. Iverson is taking a ship back to the USA and partners with a professional thief and smuggler, Gilbert Terrell, to smuggle the diamonds into the United States. Juli is able to get on the same ship with Sherwin and Iverson at the last minute by taking a pilot boat to the ship after it had left the dock. U.S. Customs are on the lookout for Tyrell, thanks to a shipboard snoop and Perry, but they can find nothing when he arrives. When Iverson is literally stabbed in the back and found by Perry as Juli leaves Iverson's office, Juli is ... Written by garykmcd

Just prior to her death, family patriarch Bebe Brent leaves her nurse, Hetty Randall, a certified check for $1 million. She entrusted the check to her lawyer, Justin Grover, but Hetty never received it. Hetty's daughter, Madeline, asks Perry Mason to look into it after learning about it when she overheard her mother and uncle discuss it. Madeline learns the truth from her fiancé, Reed Brent, Bebe's nephew, and she quickly makes an appointment to see Grover and find out what he is up to when he offers to tell her what is going on. When Grover is killed in a house fire that same night and Madeline is caught by the police leaving the house with Grover briefcase containing the check, Madeline is charged with murder and Perry defends her. Perry wants to know why Bebe would have left such a large sum to a nurse, but Hetty refuses to tell him. Written by garykmcd

Tim Balfour has returned from Italy after his parents were killed in a car accident. His artistic father left the family years before due to his bad boy actions. Tim Balfour finds himself in trouble after he gets involved with Chick Montana and another boy who rob a store. Chick tells Tim they hit the owner too hard and it'll cost $200 to make it all go away. When Tim goes to pay Chick he thinks he may have hit a man but can't find him. Chick now tells him he wants $2000 to make things go away. Tim knows it's a shakedown but he has few options open to him. He's only recently started living with his wealthy grandfather, Timothy Sr., but his father had abandoned the family years ago. As a result, the old man is still a bit frosty towards him while his father's brother, his uncle Luke, is downright hostile. About the only person who is nice to him is the family housekeeper Edith Summers. When Chick is killed, Tim is charged with murder and Perry Mason defends him. Written by garykmcd

Eula Johnson wants her husband Grover to sell the 1000 acres they've bought. Their real estate agent, Willard Hupp, hasn't had much luck in finding them a buyer but Grover is less than keen to dispose of the property for too low a price. They suddenly seem to have struck gold when an affable and apparently wealthy Texan, Nelson Barclift, offers them a ridiculously high amount for the property. His untimely death in a car accident, in which the body is burned and recognized only by a dental bridge, causes Grover to see Perry about the future of the property as Barclift still owes them $190,000. Since Perry has a buyer for the property, he agrees to help clear up the estate. It's all a scam of course, cooked up by Eula, to get an insurance policy paid off after an untimely death. She becomes upset, however, when Sidney Weplo shows up saying he is related to Barclift and possibly a heir. Insurance investigator Walter Jeffries has been looking into the highly suspicious claim. When Eula ... Written by garykmcd

After their father's death, Martin Baylor and his estranged brother, Todd, hear their father's recorded will. He leaves Martin ownership and control of all of the women's department stores that he owns, as Martin expected, but offers Todd the management of the home store, if he wishes it, and half ownership of the entire chain if he can show a substantial annual profit in one year with the home store. This upsets Martin, as Todd had left home due to a disagreement over mismanagement and Martin expected sole ownership with no conditions. Todd at first rejects the offer but changes his mind after seeing Joseph Rinaldi's fashion designs. He decides to sell only Rinaldi designs at his store, but then learns that Martin has an exclusive contract with Rinaldi, which Rinaldi's niece, and Todd's old girlfriend, Carla, had inadvertently talked her uncle into signing. Todd also learns that Martin intends to squeeze him out and sell the entire chain of stores. Todd angrily rushes over to ... Written by rbecker28

For some time now, Katherine Stewart has been visiting her husband Phillip every Wednesday in San Quentin prison who has been serving a year for involuntary manslaughter. He has been serving a term for killing his employer but for the last month, he has refused all visits from his wife. He is released on parole. Katherine consults Perry Mason and is at her wits end. She is now afraid that he will do something silly that sends him back to jail so she wants Perry to offer him a job on the east coast and get state approval for it. Jack Mallory, who contacts Katherine, is a private investigator looking into the theft of the valuable Jakarta diamond that disappeared at the same time Phillip Stewart was accused of his original crime. Phillip has managed to get his old job back with the firm Reed and Webber. Webber is buying out Mrs. Reed's part of the business and brought Phillip back to save the business which Reed nearly destroyed. When Mallory is found dead however, it's Phillip who is ... Written by garykmcd

Since the death of his wife, wealthy industrialist B.K. Doran has been living the high life. Expensive clothes, fine meals, exotic travel are all part of the package. It also includes a very attractive lawyer and companion in the form of Leslie Ross. Doran's son-in-law, Edward Lewis, is concerned about bad business decisions which include buying an obsolete plant in South America. He's also convinced Doran has misappropriated company funds, as well, and threatens to expose him at the next stockholders meeting. Doran tells Lewis that he plans to resign at the meeting but in reality, on the advice of Ross, he is setting up Lewis to take the fall but Lewis does not believe or trust Doran. Lewis consults Perry Mason on the matter who warns him to make sure his evidence of wrongdoing is solid. When Doran is killed, however, Lewis is charged with murder after being seen throwing the weapon in a pond. Perry defends him. Written by garykmcd

Judith Blair is a photographer's model who agrees to a late-night photo session with Jacob Kadar who specializes in calendar photos. Jacob gets to use his cousin Karl's posh photo studios in the evenings but Judith is there for a very specific reason: to get the racy photos that Jacob has been using to blackmail her sister Penny. She pulls a gun on him but he insists that everything was stolen a month before and he has no idea who might be blackmailing her now. While arguing, someone behind a door shoots Jacob and Judith runs out of the studio after dropping the gun. She tells Perry Mason everything that happened but he learns from Lts. Tragg and Anderson that the death has been ruled a suicide. Perry is caught between between solicitor-client privilege and his duties as an officer of the court but his dilemma is resolved when Judith is arrested after a photo of her shows her holding the gun is developed by the police. Perry defends her in court. Written by garykmcd

Nancy Banks hires Perry Mason to hold five $50 tickets she has from the local racetrack. The race hasn't been run yet and, should she win, she wants Perry to collect her winnings for her. Her horse comes in a winner and, when Perry and Della go to the track to collect the winnings, Perry is immediately accosted by Marvin Fremont and policeman Sgt. McClanahan, who claim that Nancy's brother, Rodney, stole the money from his business to buy the tickets and therefore the winnings are his. Perry isn't buying any of it and remains calm while Fremont accuses him of being a crooked lawyer. Rodney is in jail for stealing the money and, at Nancy's request, Perry arranges for his bail. Perry, however, is frustrated by his client's refusal to be honest with him. When Fremont is found murdered in her hotel room, however, it's Nancy who is charged with murder and Perry defends her. His work is made harder by a trick she read in a mystery novel and mentioned to several people earlier. Written by garykmcd

Young Deborah Dearborn has written a very successful novel which, she has only now learned, is based on the misdeeds of Stephanie Carew, stepmother of Deborah's boyfriend, John. Now that she knows, Deborah tells her agent, Ruben Cason, that she cannot sign the contract she had promised him to make a movie based on the book. When told of this, Gideon Long, the producer who planned to make the movie, decides to sue Cason and make his own deal with Deborah. But Stephanie comes to Deborah and threatens to sue her and ruin John unless she signs the contract with Long and pays her all of the proceeds from it. Mason advises Deborah not to sign. When he and Paul come to see Stephanie at her married lover's house, they find her drowned in the swimming pool. When the autopsy shows Stephanie was actually drowned in the ocean, Deborah is charged with her murder and Perry defends her. Written by rbecker28

Charles Fuller had hired Paul Drake to find his missing mother, Alice. Paul has found her and knows her story. The woman was found unconscious and half dead from exposure and a fractured skull in a field just outside Las Vegas some six months before. She's now living in Los Angeles but Paul also knows that the day she was found she was also responsible for killing her husband, William Bradley. She was upset as her son had lost a junior partnership because he was accused of embezzling funds from an account at the investment firm. Alice Bradley, as she was known, has lost her memory however and is living with a friend, Vera Hargrave, a nurse she met in the hospital. Lt. Anderson is also on her case and arrests her for having killed her husband. Perry Mason soon takes on her case. There were many witnesses to the murder but Perry manages to have the charges dismissed. The death of the man who received the junior partnership instead of Charles however, leads to Charles being charged with ... Written by garykmcd

Phillipe Bertain has been seeing a married woman, Ninette Rovel, while her husband Armand is away at the ski lodge he works at. Using his savings from his job at a bookstore, Phillipe loans Ninette $5000 so that she can obtain a divorce. He also learns that Armand has been beating Ninette. Phillipe consults with Perry about helping Ninette obtain the divorce but when they call her, she refuses to get a divorce telling Phillipe that Armand took the money. Phillipe heads to the ski lodge, where he attacks Armand after learning he has used the money to buy partial ownership of the lodge but is easily repelled by Armand. After becoming inebriated, Phillipe swipes Armand's coffee thermos to take it to him and confronts him again but is knocked out. When Armand is killed in a plane crash, it is discovered that he had barbiturates in his system. Phillipe is charged with the murder and Perry defends him. Perry begins to wonder if the murder of Armand is tied in with the death of the lodge's ... Written by rbecker28

Randolph James and Dr. Hans Lang have finally succeeded in developing a new antibiotic. Randolph's former employer, Hudson Bradshaw, head of a major drug company, wants to buy the rights to the antibiotic, but Randolph refuses to sell. Bradshaw threatens a suit against Lang-James Laboratories for pirating the idea for the drug from his company. Randolph learns that his unfaithful wife Natalie plans to sell her stock in Lang-James to Bradshaw. When she finds out that the stock may be worth three times as much after a loan was approved and production is about to start, she demands three times as much from Bradshaw as he had previously agreed to. After talking with Bradshaw's wife, Natalie is run down by a car resembling Randolph's station wagon. Randolph is charged with her murder and Perry defends him. To save his client Perry may have to locate two witnesses - a mysterious fisherman and his dog. Written by rbecker28

When a warehouse belonging to retired former fire chief Carey York goes up in flames, killing the manager inside, muckraking talk show host Tommy Towne goes on the air and accuses York of setting the fire for insurance purposes. Fire starting materials were found in York's car at the fire. York and the current deputy fire chief go to Perry and ask him to represent him in a libel suit against Towne. Perry demands a retraction from Towne if he cannot prove his earlier accusation. However, when it is found that one of the items destroyed in the fire was a coil winding machine belonging to a business competitor of York's son Dorian, Towne in a prerecorded session instead publicly accuses York of starting the fire to save his son's business. Just after this accusation airs, Towne is found dead after going down a cliff in York's car. York is charged with arson and murder and Perry defends him by proving his innocence outside court. Written by rbecker28

Amy Scott is a naive young woman who goes to her neighbor, Madame Zillia, a fortuneteller, for advice. So why is Amy secretly tape recording their sessions? She has also hired Paul to help her find a man. Paul finds the young man in a bad part of town where he drops Amy. She refuses his help but he stays outside the bar, where the two exit fighting. He has figured out enough to know that she's in over her head and consults Perry on what he has found. Madame Zillia tells Amy something close to her is going to die. After Amy tries to confide in her talkative landlord, Victor Bundy, she finds her pet parrot dead. Afterwards, Madame Zillia visits Amy to tell her their visits must stop. Amy then goes to visit Victor in his apartment where she finds the landlord, himself, dead. Even more secrets and lies than usual must be revealed before Perry and Paul can save their client from a murder conviction. And play Cupid while they're at it. Written by arthurblock