Perry Mason defends Amy Jo Jennings, who is charged with murder after her agent, Harry Bronson, is found dead. Amy Jo had only recently arrived from Tennessee with aspirations to be a singer. She got work at a folk club with musician Jazbo Williams. She is followed to Los Angeles by Lester Crawford, a disc-jockey from back home who has hounded her to marry him. He interrupts her act at Williams' club and at Bronson's office. Bronson saw Amy Jo singing at Williams' club and signed her to a contract but not before getting her--in fact a young heiress to her family firm--to give him $50,000 as an investment in a summer musical in which she will star. Bronson and his partner Al Siebring are deeply in debt and Bronson's wife's lover is urging her to divorce him. Amy Jo had visited Bronson on the evening he was killed to get her money back after she learned that the lead role had also been promised to well-known singer Audrey Stemple. Several people had reason to want Bronson dead and Perry must find the real killer.
—garykmcd