The main guest star in the cast of this episode is Everett Sloane who plays the District Attorney in San Francisco where Perry Mason, Della Street, and Paul Drake go in this case. And it's quite a case with the leaking of the details of a corporate merger in the letters of a pair of young girl pen pals. Today it would be done with e-mails.
Kathryn Givney is the imperious old dowager who runs the company and she is furious about details of the merger being leaked so as to deflate her stock and destroy the company. She's the one who is killed and it's Patricia Breslin who is a former secretary to one of the employees who is accused.
But Givney is probably one of the least mourned for victims the Perry Mason show ever had. There is no shortage of alternate suspects who would like to have done this old bag in. Of course it's not Breslin, but let's say it's someone who was as ruthless as Givney was.
Sloane was a fine District Attorney, but he had no more luck than Hamilton Burger in Los Angeles going up against Perry Mason.
Kathryn Givney is the imperious old dowager who runs the company and she is furious about details of the merger being leaked so as to deflate her stock and destroy the company. She's the one who is killed and it's Patricia Breslin who is a former secretary to one of the employees who is accused.
But Givney is probably one of the least mourned for victims the Perry Mason show ever had. There is no shortage of alternate suspects who would like to have done this old bag in. Of course it's not Breslin, but let's say it's someone who was as ruthless as Givney was.
Sloane was a fine District Attorney, but he had no more luck than Hamilton Burger in Los Angeles going up against Perry Mason.