Perry Mason is hired by a harassed business executive who wants to rid himself of a larcenous, freeloading nephew.
For the first time in his legal career, Perry Mason finds himself backstage in a New York theater when his client, Frank Brooks, is charged with murder. (
Murder results when a confidential tape of patient and psychiatrist is stolen and used for blackmail.
Telescopic photographs of a man in the act of committing a murder become the principal evidence sought by Perry Mason.
Lawyer Perry Mason takes the case of a girl chemist accused of slaying her employer when planted evidence is found to indicate that she had sold secret formulas to a rival cosmetics firm.