This episode starts with an incredibly stupid act. Vaughn Taylor who is county tax assessor in doing an inventory of the estate of a recently deceased man and finds a fortune over $150,000.00 in old style Greenback notes that could be redeemable under certain circumstances with the government. So what does this nitwit do? He takes them home to show the wife and in the meantime stops at a convenience store where someone lifts them. Panicking Taylor seeks out the advice of Perry Mason.
As is always the case he needs him because a little investigation leads to a rather elegant fence played by Liam Sullivan who when Taylor goes to confront him turns up very dead. Now Taylor needs Raymond Burr.
One twist in this case is usually clients aren't completely truthful with Perry Mason for one reason or another and there's always a scene where he has to shake truth out of them to gain an acquittal and find the real culprit. In this case poor Taylor is completely guileless and tells him the whole truth and thereby aids in getting out of the jackpot he put himself in.
This episode had a little too many improbable coincidences for me. But it also had a beautiful ferret faced, sneaky looking red herring in this that you swore had to be the killer. As for the real killer, it's not one you would immediately suspect. That made up for the improbabilities.
As is always the case he needs him because a little investigation leads to a rather elegant fence played by Liam Sullivan who when Taylor goes to confront him turns up very dead. Now Taylor needs Raymond Burr.
One twist in this case is usually clients aren't completely truthful with Perry Mason for one reason or another and there's always a scene where he has to shake truth out of them to gain an acquittal and find the real culprit. In this case poor Taylor is completely guileless and tells him the whole truth and thereby aids in getting out of the jackpot he put himself in.
This episode had a little too many improbable coincidences for me. But it also had a beautiful ferret faced, sneaky looking red herring in this that you swore had to be the killer. As for the real killer, it's not one you would immediately suspect. That made up for the improbabilities.