Young Ron Starr is Perry Mason's client in this episode, he's been contacted by Hugh Marlowe to help with a con game involving Starr pretending to be the long lost heir of a patent medicine fortune. He gets two maiden sisters, Meg Wyllie and Beulah Bondi to believe him to be their long lost nephew and the idea is for them to change their respective wills.
But Starr backs out and when Marlowe is found clubbed to death with a favorite shotgun of his, it's Starr who's looking real good for the homicide. Raymond Burr who's been brought in by the aunts in the first place, takes Starr's defense at their behest. In fact they're willing to say they killed Marlowe who was not a favorite relative of their's.
The back story here is quite interesting with the young Starr being put in an orphanage in South Carolina where his mother was from and making friend's with a kid who grows up to be Ivan Dixon. When Dixon is called on the stand, he has quite a tale to tell himself. Seems that Starr and he had their own con game going.
This was one of the better Mason episodes of this particular season.
But Starr backs out and when Marlowe is found clubbed to death with a favorite shotgun of his, it's Starr who's looking real good for the homicide. Raymond Burr who's been brought in by the aunts in the first place, takes Starr's defense at their behest. In fact they're willing to say they killed Marlowe who was not a favorite relative of their's.
The back story here is quite interesting with the young Starr being put in an orphanage in South Carolina where his mother was from and making friend's with a kid who grows up to be Ivan Dixon. When Dixon is called on the stand, he has quite a tale to tell himself. Seems that Starr and he had their own con game going.
This was one of the better Mason episodes of this particular season.