User Reviews

Douglas Henderson, (Col Richmond on Wild Wild West) is among a fairly large guest cast in this one involving the murder of an older tyrant Aunt who seems to be upset with everybody. It seems that a merger of two companies is going to happen until the stock suddenly shoots up. It seems the information about the merger has been leaked.

The leak is a bit of an unusual source- two young girls pen pal letters. Richmonds daughter is one end of the puzzle. Richmond has to fly to Chicago to try & save the merger that has been leaked. Meanwhile, the Aunt comes & takes the daughters copies of the pen pal letters to determine who is really behind the scheme. When she finds out, she is murdered though she doesn't die immediately.

Mason's client is a woman who is romantically involved with Richmond. There are enough twists & turns along the way and a good court room sequence to make it worthwhile.

**SPOILERS** If you saw it, you remember that there were TWO little girls that were pen-pals. The first, Sandra, was friends with Jill, whose mom was very HOTT. Sandra's Dad was friends with Karen, and somehow, there was information given back and forth about important mergers, stock prices, etc., and absolutely none of it is believable. These kids were about 11-12 years old, and what they were interested in was Elvis, American Bandstand, Barbie dolls, playing school - the usual stuff girls that age(like my little sister), were interested in. NOT the stock market. But, what the hay.. One guy makes out pretty well because he's milking Jill (kid #2), for the info, but this point becomes THE issue.

We don't ever want to forget that Perry is a genius financial attorney, and when he realizes that the small potatoes investor is NOT involved in anything on the level of market manipulation, it's just a matter of very short time before he isolates the main culprit. I can see her point, too. Her Huz was an uninterested low achiever with very little ambition, so disconnected that even he didn't see what she was doing. Loser.

It's a shame that they didn't have more of a part for Jill's mom, she was very interesting. Karen's good looking enough, and of course she lies to Perry, giving the show time for a break and commercials. I liked the part about Paul getting arrested, and Perry trying to talk sense into Karen before she knew she'd need his help.

The killer would probably get Murder 2, and maybe (if the D.A.can remember to), some S.E.C. violations and fines. If not, then she scored pretty big. She's an old bag herself, so any of her assets will be handled by her Huz. She's probably gonna croak in Tehachapi. I think he'll probably take a nice vacation from her, the company, and after he's had a lot of fun spending the money she made, divorce her and leave her flat for wrecking everything for everyone else. You know, separate any financial benefits from her side of things before she can figure a way to screw things up? Sounds pretty cold, doesn't it? Well, that's business, folks.

***SPOILERS*** Far too confusing at times to follow this Perry Mason episode has something to do with an upcoming meager between Greson Canneries and the Superbrands food packing company that's been compromised when someone gets the inside dope of the meager and manipulated the stock price. Thus having it shoot up over 30% and then dump it before the meager became finalized. This cause the company, Greson Canneries, to come up 65,000 shares short thus with the meager now history it will soon have to file for bankruptcy!

How this information was made public is Greson Canneries President Peter Greason's, Douglas Henderson, 13 year old daughter Sandra, Chrystin Jordan, writing to her pen pal Jill Tatcher, Diane Mountford,about it which got into the wrong hands! When the owner and major stock holder of the company Wilma Gregson,Kathryn Givney, found out about what happened, her company going down the tubes, she threw a fit and was about the fire the entire staff including her nephew Peter. The night she was to put this plan into action Wilma was found badly beaten and barley clinging on to life, she died a few days later, with her skull bashed in with a candelabra by an unknown assailant!

As things turned out it was Peter's old flame Karen Ross,Patricia Breslin, who came under suspicion in Wilma's murder in that she was the last person to see her alive. And the meeting between the two was anything but friendly! Perry Mason, Raymond Burr, who was on a visit to San Francisco where the murder occurred got on the case since his in house private investigator Paul Drake, William Hopper, was secretly hired by Peter to find out where the leak about the merger came from! which in fact was his daughter Sandra!

***SPOILERS*** As usual this murder case was a piece of cake for Perry to uncover and exonerate his client Karen Ross in that Wilma's killer was someone working at the Gresgson Canneries who's head was on the chopping block together with everyone else working there which Karen who was fired two years ago, for having an affair with Peter, wasn't. With all the people about to lose heir jobs it was this parson who had the most to lose in that he wasn't at all qualified to do his job, he got it by paying off, in the first place! And as things turned out Wilma's killer was someone very close to him that did the job on her and ended up paying for it. In that he for his own sake, in avoiding a one way ticket to the state of California's gas chamber, was too gutless to do it himself!