The Case of the Difficult Detour

A hot tempered Jeff York is in need of Perry Mason's services. In fact if he had sought Mason earlier in a civil matter earlier, York might not have needed his help defending him from a charge of killing Jason Evers.

Truth be told Evers was a guy who any number of people would like to have killed. He was a 'developer' who had a nice scheme for making quick profits and then pulling out without developing anything. York who ran a construction firm invested as well as worked for this guy an he's about to be ruined.

Evers also was conning a lot of people in different ways. He was cheating on his wife Suzanne Lloyd with Joan Camden the daughter of Neil Hamilton. Lloyd has Lee Farr just waiting to marry her if she can shed herself of this two timing cad.

What was interesting about the episode is that during the course of the trial it was brought out for reasons of character that the real murderer couldn't be considered a suspect. But in point of fact that person does do the killing.

Still York should have come to Raymond Burr earlier, might have saved him a lot of grief.