A young English woman, Linda Blake, arrives in Ladera looking for her father, Addison Blake. She was the product of a World War II liaison between Blake and her mother and had only become aware of his existence when going through her recently deceased mother's papers. She arrives to learn that her father had died several years before in a hunting accident. He had been quite wealthy but, as he died without a will and with no known relatives, his estate was sold and the funds went to the State of California. The newspaper he owned was bought by Clay Elliot who had recently printed negative stories about the local dairy, much to the annoyance of its manager, Floyd Grant. Rumors always blamed the dairy owner, Charles Lambert, for his death but Grant provided Lambert with an alibi at the time and he was never prosecuted. When Grant is found dead, Linda is charged with murder and Perry Mason defends her.
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