****SPOILERS*** Perry Mason's ,Raymond Burr, good and close friend private investigator Paul Drake, William Hooper, in trying to do a good deed for his client this Frank Danko, Bruce Gordon,ends up being charged and indited in murdering him. You see Frank Danko was really Frank Thatcher who just married big time industrial tycoon Henry W. Dameron's, Basil Ruysdael, daughter Judith, Jennifer Howard. It's Tatcher who was involved in a hit and run accident killing this guy Alex Collin while driving home from a party at the Demeron Mansion . Not only that Thatcher left the scene of the accident making no attempt to help the badly injured Collins. Not knowing what he was getting into Drake agreed to be the person to give Collin's widow a check of $25,000.00, in blood money, to smooth the whole nasty incident out! It's when Dake finds out the truth he confronts Danko, or Thatcher, in the pre-arranged hotel room they were to meet and a a fight erupted with Drake knocked out cold and when he recovered finds Thatcher murdered! Not only that but the murder weapon turned out to be Drak'e licensed revolver!
Getting in touch with his friend Perry Mason to get him off the hook Drake's troubles soon suck into Thatcher's murder case his girlfriend of 10 years singer Donna Krass, Venessa Brown, who was at the murder site that day with Thtacher, obviously before he was murdered, telling her that the 10 years love affair between the two was finally over. As it turned out Paul Drake was at the wrong place and at the wrong time and now faces life behind bars or a trip to the San Quentin gas chamber if convicted in Frank Thatcher's murder. Which in the opinion of D.A Hamilton "Ham" Burger, William Thalman, in a slam dunk case for him if there ever was one!
***SPOILERS*** Perry playing a hunch soon comes up with a revenge angle to Thatcher's murder. It has nothing to do with the family or friends of the person that he killed in that hit and run but with Donna Krass herself. The no good low down heel was to drop, after promising to marry, Donna and shack up with Judy, or Judith, Dameron not out of love but money. The money that Judith's big bucks Poppa Henry W. Dameron could provide for him. Just when it looked like Perry was about to crack the case wide open and get Thatcher's murderer to confess his or her crime his real killer came clean and admitted that he in fact "did it": Killed Frank Thatcher. That in him keeping an innocent person from being convicted for the crime who was more then willing to take the rap for him. As for Paul Drake the defendant in the murder trial he was almost invisible, looking at times as he was desperately trying to stay awake, throughout the entire proceeding.
Getting in touch with his friend Perry Mason to get him off the hook Drake's troubles soon suck into Thatcher's murder case his girlfriend of 10 years singer Donna Krass, Venessa Brown, who was at the murder site that day with Thtacher, obviously before he was murdered, telling her that the 10 years love affair between the two was finally over. As it turned out Paul Drake was at the wrong place and at the wrong time and now faces life behind bars or a trip to the San Quentin gas chamber if convicted in Frank Thatcher's murder. Which in the opinion of D.A Hamilton "Ham" Burger, William Thalman, in a slam dunk case for him if there ever was one!
***SPOILERS*** Perry playing a hunch soon comes up with a revenge angle to Thatcher's murder. It has nothing to do with the family or friends of the person that he killed in that hit and run but with Donna Krass herself. The no good low down heel was to drop, after promising to marry, Donna and shack up with Judy, or Judith, Dameron not out of love but money. The money that Judith's big bucks Poppa Henry W. Dameron could provide for him. Just when it looked like Perry was about to crack the case wide open and get Thatcher's murderer to confess his or her crime his real killer came clean and admitted that he in fact "did it": Killed Frank Thatcher. That in him keeping an innocent person from being convicted for the crime who was more then willing to take the rap for him. As for Paul Drake the defendant in the murder trial he was almost invisible, looking at times as he was desperately trying to stay awake, throughout the entire proceeding.