This episode was way overplotted with complex motives and the ordinary viewer might get a bit lost here. Peter Whitney who is a notorious gangster from Boston after appearing at a Senate Crime Committee hearing, bolted and headed west to see his brother R.G. Armstrong. Years before Armstrong left the Boston area and changed his name, but before that Armstrong set up a trust fund for Whitney's daughter. Now Whitney wants to break the trust and use that as both getaway and living money in some no extradition country.
Seems as though the money is in question as the child may have been killed in an accident long ago with Armstrong's wife and daughter. But was it Whitney's daughter? Whoever it is she grew up to be Susan Seaforth.
It's a blackmailing Swiss banker Steven Geray who is the victim, but who did it? Armstrong didn't because he has Perry Mason representing him.
The story has the real murderer coming in from the bleachers. Not the best Mason story.
Seems as though the money is in question as the child may have been killed in an accident long ago with Armstrong's wife and daughter. But was it Whitney's daughter? Whoever it is she grew up to be Susan Seaforth.
It's a blackmailing Swiss banker Steven Geray who is the victim, but who did it? Armstrong didn't because he has Perry Mason representing him.
The story has the real murderer coming in from the bleachers. Not the best Mason story.