**SPOILERS*** The Perry Mason,Raymond Burr, show ended the 1964 season with a real knockout of an episode in Perry uncovering and solving two not one murders by the time the show as well as year, 1964, was over. This was all done almost by accident in a construction company trying to bulldoze down old lady Marguerite Keith's, Meg Willie, house to make room for a access road to a housing development in the area. With Mrs. Keith refusing to move out it's the local crusading reporter Quincy Davis, Grant Williams, who comes to her aid with a hard hitting story about how she's being forced to move out of her ancestral, that goes back some three generations, home by the greedy land developer Archer Osmond Barton MacLane.
While all this is going on young hot shot engineer Adam Conrad, Allen Case, is accused by the senior engineer on the project Joe Marshall played by Bert Freed, who's been fighting Conrod over demolishing Mrs. Keith's home, of embezzling the construction company of some $1,3000,00. A mad as hell Case goes to meet his accuser Joe Marshall at the Keith home only to get bopped over the head from behind. It's later after a dazed Conrad left that Joe Marshall in found murdered , with his brains bashed out, in the house a few feet from where Canrad was attacked! Arrested for Marshall's murder Case gets Perry Mason to take on his case. It's Perry who comes up with some interesting clues to Marshall's murder that have nothing at all to do with the demolishing of the Keith house. But do have everything to do with what's inside in it!
****SPOILER*** Unknown to everyone even to Mrs. Keith in that Joe Marshall's murderer had to do with the Keith house being situated on "hollowed ground". Grounds that if disturbed will uncover a murder that happened some three years ago. And as the shocking truth comes out it was the decision to uproot wherever was buried under it that lead to Joe Marshall's murder! Not his differences between himself and Adam Conrad! You see Joe Marshall was blackmailing the person whom he knew was behind the secret of what's buried under the Keith House. And in him thinking he was in control of the situation he in fact ended up dead because of it!
While all this is going on young hot shot engineer Adam Conrad, Allen Case, is accused by the senior engineer on the project Joe Marshall played by Bert Freed, who's been fighting Conrod over demolishing Mrs. Keith's home, of embezzling the construction company of some $1,3000,00. A mad as hell Case goes to meet his accuser Joe Marshall at the Keith home only to get bopped over the head from behind. It's later after a dazed Conrad left that Joe Marshall in found murdered , with his brains bashed out, in the house a few feet from where Canrad was attacked! Arrested for Marshall's murder Case gets Perry Mason to take on his case. It's Perry who comes up with some interesting clues to Marshall's murder that have nothing at all to do with the demolishing of the Keith house. But do have everything to do with what's inside in it!
****SPOILER*** Unknown to everyone even to Mrs. Keith in that Joe Marshall's murderer had to do with the Keith house being situated on "hollowed ground". Grounds that if disturbed will uncover a murder that happened some three years ago. And as the shocking truth comes out it was the decision to uproot wherever was buried under it that lead to Joe Marshall's murder! Not his differences between himself and Adam Conrad! You see Joe Marshall was blackmailing the person whom he knew was behind the secret of what's buried under the Keith House. And in him thinking he was in control of the situation he in fact ended up dead because of it!