A very good episode with a night sky of guest stars that add to the interest of the show.
This involves Burgess Mine Company located outside LA. Mr Burgess had died and left the mine to his wife, Reba Burgess. Everything is going well until Carl Bascom comes to town.
Mr Bascom was the bookkeeper for the mine before Mr Burgess's death. He had found problems with the books and it seemed that Mr Burgess gave half ownership of the mine to Mr Bascom just days before his death. Since Mr Bascom thought the mine was going to shut down and criminal charges was forthcoming he tailed it off to South America.
After the death, Ms Burgess had some diamonds stored in the local bank's vault. She would use them for collateral to try pay off all the outstanding debts and get the mine running again. When Mr Bascom gets wind of this he is back to claim his half of the mine company. Much to the dislike of everyone in the town.
But before he can get his money he ends up dead by Ms Burgess's gun and she is charged with the murder. Perry comes in to defend her in a courtroom outside the boundaries of LA county.
Even with this simple story- the characters do a good job of making the viewer interested in the outcome of the mystery. We have bank presidents to handymen that seem to be a suspect in the case. But leave it to Perry to find the true closure to this set of circumstance.
In this we have a slew of guest guest actors. Bruce Bennett plays the bank president---Elisha Cook plays Reeling Pete---Ben Johnson plays Kelly---Ted de Corsia plays the police chief--- and some of older stars play minor roles like Ralph Moody and Lenore Shanewise (Ms Shanewise played in one of my favorite 'Perry Mason' episode in the 1958 The case of the Fiery Fingers)
This was a good show with a nice twist at the end. Good watch for all viewers.