A widow concerned with re-establishing her dead husband's reputation with his wealthy father hires Perry Mason to defend her.
Perry Mason is hired by a distressed girl who assumed the identity of a non-existent cousin to report her own disappearance as a suspected suicide.
Perry helps a nearby county's district attorney, whose graft investigation led to a blackmail threat.
A former lawman, once one of the fastest guns in the West, lives in constant fear of his life because of his failing eyesight.
The cattle market is depressed which forces Slim Sherman and Jess Harper to hit the trail looking for a better place to sell cattle.