(Some Spoilers) Taking a trip to NYC to get an award from the American Bar Association Perry Mason and his private secretary Della Street, Raymond Burr & Barbara Hale, run into an old friend at a local restaurant the founder and editor of Metropolitan Magazine Lauran Jeffreys, Diana Muldaur; not knowing that within the next 24 hours she'd be charged with murder and he'll be the attorney defending her in court. It turns out that Lauren after having a loud argument at the restaurant with rival fashion editor, of the sleazy tell all tabloid Suite 2000, Dyan Draper ,Valerie Harper, she came over to Dyans place later that evening. It was after Lauren left Dyan was found dead with her head cracked open on the floor.
Perry as usual has his work cut out for him with Lauran not only being at Dyan's place the night of her being found murdered but having a motive in killing her. Dyan was going to print an editorial about Lauran taking bribes from fashion designer Marco Sabatini, GIanni Musso,in order to write favorable columns about him in her Metropolitan Magazine. Perry later at cross-examination of Dyan's eventual murder seems to have gotten the two magazines mixed. The mysterious murderer had the favorable columns about Marco written on Dyan's Suite 2000 Magazine personal computer. This was to make it look like it was written by Lauran who coincidently also turned out to be the mother of Dyan's assistant and one of her top fashion, or gossip, writers Julia Collier,Ally Walker!
Trying to track down the link, Designer Marco Sabatini, that can connect Dyan's murder to who murdered her Perry gives that assignment to his hot shot PI the very durable and punch-drunk Ken Malansky, William R. Moses. Malansky gets hooked up with members of the New York Mafia who were financing Marco's career in the world of fashion and who's boss is Marco's distance cousin Albert "Big Al" Nandone, George Dicezzo. Getting nowhere with "Big Al" and his top henchman tough guy "Brooklyn Tony" Loomis, Robert Clohessy, Malansky finally has Perry himself get to step in and get "Big Al" to open up only to have Marco. It's then while "Brooklyn Tony" is slapping the pestering an annoying Malansky around that Marco gets killed by a hit-and-run driver who later turns out to be the person who murdered Dyan.
It takes a while for Ken Malansky to convince "Big Al" to keep his emotions from overtaking his logic in whacking anyone whom he as much as suspects murdered Marco. Malansky later finds out who was involved in Marco's hit-and-run death who also turned out to be the same person who murdered Dyan! It also turns out that the double-murderer was working for Dyan herself and even more shocking Lauran knew who she was and wouldn't report him, or her, to Perry or the police! Seething hatred revenge and a 25 year old grudge against Lauran lead to a maniacal plot to frame her for a murder that she didn't commit against a person, Dyan Draper, whom the killer should have been eternally grateful to.
Perry as usual has his work cut out for him with Lauran not only being at Dyan's place the night of her being found murdered but having a motive in killing her. Dyan was going to print an editorial about Lauran taking bribes from fashion designer Marco Sabatini, GIanni Musso,in order to write favorable columns about him in her Metropolitan Magazine. Perry later at cross-examination of Dyan's eventual murder seems to have gotten the two magazines mixed. The mysterious murderer had the favorable columns about Marco written on Dyan's Suite 2000 Magazine personal computer. This was to make it look like it was written by Lauran who coincidently also turned out to be the mother of Dyan's assistant and one of her top fashion, or gossip, writers Julia Collier,Ally Walker!
Trying to track down the link, Designer Marco Sabatini, that can connect Dyan's murder to who murdered her Perry gives that assignment to his hot shot PI the very durable and punch-drunk Ken Malansky, William R. Moses. Malansky gets hooked up with members of the New York Mafia who were financing Marco's career in the world of fashion and who's boss is Marco's distance cousin Albert "Big Al" Nandone, George Dicezzo. Getting nowhere with "Big Al" and his top henchman tough guy "Brooklyn Tony" Loomis, Robert Clohessy, Malansky finally has Perry himself get to step in and get "Big Al" to open up only to have Marco. It's then while "Brooklyn Tony" is slapping the pestering an annoying Malansky around that Marco gets killed by a hit-and-run driver who later turns out to be the person who murdered Dyan.
It takes a while for Ken Malansky to convince "Big Al" to keep his emotions from overtaking his logic in whacking anyone whom he as much as suspects murdered Marco. Malansky later finds out who was involved in Marco's hit-and-run death who also turned out to be the same person who murdered Dyan! It also turns out that the double-murderer was working for Dyan herself and even more shocking Lauran knew who she was and wouldn't report him, or her, to Perry or the police! Seething hatred revenge and a 25 year old grudge against Lauran lead to a maniacal plot to frame her for a murder that she didn't commit against a person, Dyan Draper, whom the killer should have been eternally grateful to.