This episode has one of those endings that the series is so famous in producing. A person is tripped up by Perry and the house of cards comes falling down as the person confesses to the crime. Classic Mason episode.
It begins when an art collector, Varner, has bought a painting from the Girard Gallery called 'The Purple Woman'. He discovers that the painting is a fake and goes to see the owner of the gallery Milo Girard. When Milo tells Varner that he will have to report this to the newspapers, Varner backs off since he is a well known art collector and might damage his reputation.
Milo Girard is one of those real cads. He hires a talent drunk to paint a forgery, then he sells the painting plus he is also running around on his wife Evelyn- just an all-out rotten guy. So it is not too painful when his secretary, who he has been seeing, finds him murdered in his office. But the bad thing is that it was one day after his wife had threaten to kill him over some letters he found that was addressed to her. So as you can tell Evelyn will be the first suspect that Hamilton Burger's office will seek to issue warrants for murder. Thank goodness Perry will be around to defend Ms Girard.
A nicely written episode with some fantastic acting that really hold the viewer's attention. The courtroom scenes are some of the best work we have seen in some time. With the great ending this episode was top notch. Good watch.
It begins when an art collector, Varner, has bought a painting from the Girard Gallery called 'The Purple Woman'. He discovers that the painting is a fake and goes to see the owner of the gallery Milo Girard. When Milo tells Varner that he will have to report this to the newspapers, Varner backs off since he is a well known art collector and might damage his reputation.
Milo Girard is one of those real cads. He hires a talent drunk to paint a forgery, then he sells the painting plus he is also running around on his wife Evelyn- just an all-out rotten guy. So it is not too painful when his secretary, who he has been seeing, finds him murdered in his office. But the bad thing is that it was one day after his wife had threaten to kill him over some letters he found that was addressed to her. So as you can tell Evelyn will be the first suspect that Hamilton Burger's office will seek to issue warrants for murder. Thank goodness Perry will be around to defend Ms Girard.
A nicely written episode with some fantastic acting that really hold the viewer's attention. The courtroom scenes are some of the best work we have seen in some time. With the great ending this episode was top notch. Good watch.