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When I saw Glamorus Ghost I had to check this out & sure enough it is an Erle Stanley Gardner script. It involves jewel smuggling, murder & a Defendent who lies constantly to Mason to the point that he almost loses confidence in his client. Then he gets a major break.

The break he gets is Paul Drake who does much more than his usual leg work in this case. Drake is involved from the beginning & provides Perry with his main witness to crack the case. Jeanne Cooper, Mrs. Chancellor to Young & Restless Soap Opera fans is the most well known of the guest cast to a very good episode.

At the finish of this one, Della & Paul Drake get rewarded for their efforts in helping crack the case. For the first time in the series, Della offers to buy dinner out.

**SPOILERS**In this episode, Perry, Paul, and Della play equally important roles in finding evidence. There are certainly several good looking young women in various roles, notably, Ziva Rodann. An Israeli beauty queen with an exotic accent and looks very memorable - WOW! A complicated (naturally) plot involving stolen gems, blackmail, and murder all get dumped into Perry's lap like a kid's toybox that's been overturned. No worries; the team of Della, Paul, and Perry sort it out, and in the end, it works out alright. Anyone think it wouldn't?

However, there is a point that doesn't add up. Two weeks of a point. ***SPOILER*** No matter how Hamilton and the police try to work it out, they can't account for two weeks of time of the dead guy, Hepner. I know, morphine, and all that. NOBODY knew where he was? Why didn't his wife notice that his apartment was tossed? Or are we to believe that she didn't have a key to it when it was right across the hall? She was his partner in the theft, blackmail, extortion, and God only knows what other petty crimes; and she didn't know where he was? Bulloney.

In the end, she confesses on the stand to their racket, and good luck figuring out who all they swindled, but she was definitely NOT any part of the murder. She'll probably take a fall for some customs violations and get a slap on the wrist. See, they're gonna want everything she can tell them about THIS crime, the crime of Capital Murder (Murder 1). Planned, and executed by Walter and his accomplice who will face the death penalty; good riddance. Perry can recommend a good attorney for her. His client? Borderline nutcake. After they're paid, they'll be smart to distance themselves from involvements with her and her family; her stepmom is just a little too hinkey if anyone were to ask me.

***SPOILERS***Perry Mason, Raymond Burr, is forced to deal with a number of glamorous babes here that involves a jewel smuggling operation that his client Elenore Corbin, Mary Murphy,is accused of murdering her future husband Dough Hepner, played by what looked like a storefront dummy, just before the two were to elope to Las Vegas. Elenore is found wondering around in her nightgown in the vicinity of Dough's body who claimed to have had amnesia and can't remember a thing that happened.

It soon becomes obvious to Perry that Elenore knows a lot more then she's letting on to but is somehow being framed in her being a pasty for Hepner's murder by those who murdered him. It's Hepner who turns out to be a jet setting gigolo as well as diamond smuggler who uses beautiful woman to get the goods on other diamond smugglers by blackmailing them and forcing them-In him claiming he works for law enforcement- to give him a cut of their ill gotten gains.Elenore who in fact was one of his victims by unknowingly working with him who's now being charged with his murder.

****SPOILERS*** Perry soon finds out that before Hepner was murdered he was kidnapped and drugged by his killers in order to have him tell them where he had the hidden cash of jewelry hidden he's been smuggling. Not in the apartment as suspected that shared with his accomplice but in her make-up kit where it was hidden all along. Despite the almost incomprehensible story-line the hot looking women in the "Perry Mason" episode made it more then worth watching. It was easy to spot the one involved in Hepner's murder in that she was the least glamorous-just a run of the kill plain Jane-of them all. Watch for "Perry Mason" regular Douglas Dick as the snide and creepy looking Apartment manager Watler Richey who spent almost all his time not doing his job but hiding in the women's closets, who live in his apartment house,and spying on them.