1956 Perry Mason

The Case of the Gilded Lily

Client Stewart Bedford
Victim Binney Denham
Prosecution Hamilton Burger
Investigator Paul Drake / Lt. Arthur Tragg

Case Narrative & Plot Summary

A newlywed executive blackmailed over his wife's past wakes up in a motel room next to a corpse, having been drugged with sleeping pills.

Courtroom Cross-Examination & Forensic Trick

Mason uses barbiturate metabolic breakdown rates and vehicle odometer readings to crack the frame.