1935 Perry Mason

The Case of the Counterfeit Eye

Client Peter Brunold
Victim Hartley Basset
Prosecution Hamilton Burger
Investigator Paul Drake / Lt. Arthur Tragg

Case Narrative & Plot Summary

A businessman with a glass eye is accused of murdering an embezzling loan shark. The victim is found clutching a prosthetic eye in his dead hand, but Brunold claims his spare eye was stolen.

Courtroom Cross-Examination & Forensic Trick

Mason demonstrates on the witness stand how glass eye prescriptions are as unique as fingerprint arches.