Review of Perry Mason: The Case of the Glass Coffin

David Katz is a world famous magician and he comes to Denver with his group to perform for a charity gala for disabled children. Also there is Perry and Della as all three are supporters of the charity. Kate Ford, an assistant with an arrogant attitude, tells David that she is, from now on, going to do an illusion in which an assistant is raised in a glass coffin only to disappear when the coffin is opened up in the air (while the assistant climbs out before the coffin is raised.) After a one night stand with David, Kate is pregnant and she blackmails David with this. David and his wife Judy can't have children so that comes as a double blow to them. However Kate, with her attitude, creates much hatred at her from the rest of the group. At the gala, the glass coffin is raised but when it opens Kate's dead body falls to the ground - strangled. While Perry and Della set out to try to find the killer, Ken and PI Terry Weidner set out to find out more about Kate but they discover that nobody in Kate's home town wants to talk about her for some reason...

Another top notch mystery that has Perry Mason defend an illusionist who is accused of murdering a rather horrid woman he impregnated- but there's plenty of people who had motive to do her in such as the magician's wife who overhears her with her husband, another assistant whose trick she takes, the prop guy she annoyed and a stage hand she nastily turned down when he asked her out, and another magician which accuses David of stealing his tricks.

It's an enjoyable mystery with a gripping courtroom scene with Perry Mason doing what he does best.