**SPOILERS** The Lake? The Ocean? doesn't matter; there are plenty of guilty fish to go around in this potboiler. Seems like everyone has a motive, and by the time it all shakes out, I didn't care WHO did it as long as it was over. WHY? Because this was one of the cases Perry handled in which I didn't like either of the two main suspects: Goody Two-Shoes and her buddy, Dork McDingbat. Yeah, that's right; I couldn't care less about them. Who's to say another benefactor wouldn't have come along to save the Orphanage? I've said this before: if there isn't a great storyline, give Della a bigger part to play. She's beautiful, and Barbara Hale's beauty and acting skills can cover a myriad of faults. These guys just never listen to me (55 years after the fact, but, hey; I'm complaining, here).
Also, it just happens that there are NO other suspects that are worth the powder to blow them up, either. Yeah, yeah, sure... Oh, Gee Whiz...The Kids; the magic mantra. Now, we're supposed to believe that it's all peace and love for the main idiots, the question is begged for: Would YOU trust these turkeys with YOUR kids? If there is a board of directors worth their salt, Perry's clients will either be relegated to minor positions in the organization, or fired outright for professional malfeasance. A new broom sweeps clean, as it were.
Doc's old lady? Well, she knew what she was doing, introduced the murder weapon, and used it with malice aforethought; THAT'S Murder in the first degree, and at that time, the gas chamber was the resultant end.
Also, it just happens that there are NO other suspects that are worth the powder to blow them up, either. Yeah, yeah, sure... Oh, Gee Whiz...The Kids; the magic mantra. Now, we're supposed to believe that it's all peace and love for the main idiots, the question is begged for: Would YOU trust these turkeys with YOUR kids? If there is a board of directors worth their salt, Perry's clients will either be relegated to minor positions in the organization, or fired outright for professional malfeasance. A new broom sweeps clean, as it were.
Doc's old lady? Well, she knew what she was doing, introduced the murder weapon, and used it with malice aforethought; THAT'S Murder in the first degree, and at that time, the gas chamber was the resultant end.