Perry Mason: The Case of the Poison Pen-Pal (1962)
Season 5, Episode 20
6/10
Pen-pal letters lead to murder
16 August 2012
With Gregson Canneries on the verge of merging with Superbrand a problem comes up with the stockholders of the Gregson company. Seems that the merger has been leaked out and someone is buy the Gregson stock making it worth more than the company can buy it back. Gregson Company will either have to renegotiate the merger or go bankrupt. The main goal for the bossy manager Aunt Wilma Gregson, is to find out who on the board is leaking the information.

Peter Gregson, the single parent nephew of Aunt Wilma, has been in the dog-house ever since having a relationship with his ex-secretary named Karen Ross. Aunt Wilma believed that Ms Ross wanted much more than just being a secretary in the company. And Aunt Wilma made Peter fire her.

Aunt Wilma tells Greg to fly to Chicago to take care of the matter. But before flying out, he finds that his daughter has been writing pen-pal letters to another young girl in Chicago. Seems that the daughter has been relating information about the merger in the letters. And with Paul Drake's help, they find out that the girl in Chicago is good friends with Karen Ross.

It is not long before Aunt Wilma is killed and all the evidence points to the former secretary Ms Ross. But Perry will be there defending Ms Ross in court for the murder charge which occurs outside of LA.

With hiding information from Perry and a courtroom scene that produces damaging evidence, Perry will have his hands full defending Ms Ross. The case against Ms Ross begins to unravel when Perry discovers more than just pen-pal letters were leaking out of that company.

There's a lot of suspects to choose from in the mystery but your first guess will more than likely be correct. Maybe not the best mystery in the series but it holds up well due to the actors.
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