A complex case ensues after Perry Mason receives a telephone call, supposedly from a man whose funeral he attended three years earlier.
An old man seems to be giving his money away, something his nephew and wife try to stop by having him committed. But once he escapes from the sanitarium, he's accused of murder.
A road builder facing bankruptcy decides to have things out with the man responsible for his plight, only to wind up being charged with murder.
When a scientist in the Orient invents a serum that permits human flesh to be remolded and shaped at will the Premier sees a way of overtaking the world.