Elderly spinster Meg Wyllie hires Perry Mason to defend Allen Case a young engineer working on a road through her property. The grand mansion in which she resides is in the path of the road that Case's boss Bert Freed, a rather disagreeable and dishonest individual is building. Freed is killed in Wyllie's mansion and Case will certainly need Raymond Burr's help.
Burr suspects early on that the motive has nothing to do with the road and he has both William Hopper and Barbara Hale investigating things that are seemingly irrelevant. But their labors manage to yield the real murderer and that person has one great motive for not wanting to see Wyllie's house destroyed.
Good one, very original.
Burr suspects early on that the motive has nothing to do with the road and he has both William Hopper and Barbara Hale investigating things that are seemingly irrelevant. But their labors manage to yield the real murderer and that person has one great motive for not wanting to see Wyllie's house destroyed.
Good one, very original.