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Peter Warren owns a novelty company and is divorcing his wife, who has developed a gambling habit. She becomes involved in a scheme to pass chips at Nevada casinos with evidence Peter made them. When she is murdered, Peter is charged.

Perry Mason is meeting with Peter Warren, going over the final documents for Peter's divorce from his wife, Myrna. After Perry leaves, Peter receives a panic phone call from her. She's a chronic gambler and, after an incident at a Lake Tahoe casino, is afraid that casino enforcers are now after her. Her neighbor, Irene Prentice, had run into her at the casino and asked her to go to a show. While waiting to cash in her chips, a man in glasses asks to see Myrna, taking some chips from her and telling her she is in trouble. She runs out and runs over a casino employee who pulls a gun on her. Peter rushes to her house only to find her calm and collected and telling him it was all a mistake. Soon after, however, he returns to the house and finds her dead in her bedroom. Rather than call the police or tell Perry, he heads off to the casino she had been at the night before. It's clear that her death has to do with counterfeit casino chips that have been circulating in Nevada casinos. Chips that may have been manufactured by Perry's client, who own a novelty games business.—garykmcd