Client: Eva Griffin |
Victim: George C. Belter
A married woman using a false name comes to Perry Mason after being photographed leaving a raided speakeasy. When her blackmailer husband is shot dead, she attempts to frame Mason for the murder.
Forensic Clue: Mason traps the blackmailer and outwits the police, demonstrating that his duty to his client does not mean letting himself become the fall guy.
Client: Fran Celane |
Victim: Edward Norton
A sullen heiress seeks Mason's advice to retain her inheritance without complying with her late uncle's restrictive marriage conditions. When her guardian is found beaten to death, Fran is charged with murder.
Forensic Clue: Mason challenges the biological timeline of blood clotting and reveals the secret marriage contract.
Client: Marjorie Clune |
Victim: Frank Patton
A crooked promoter runs fraudulent beauty contests across the country promoting girls with beautiful legs, taking their money and vanishing. When he is discovered stabbed with a carving knife, Marjorie is the prime suspect.
Forensic Clue: Mason uses trick photography, dental forensics, and a surrogate suspect to crack the alibi.
Client: Arthur Cartright |
Victim: Clinton Forbes
An eccentric neighbor complains of a neighbor's continuously howling dog, calling it an omen of death, and asks Mason to draft a will leaving his fortune to his neighbor's wife. Shortly after, a man is found shot dead.
Forensic Clue: Mason analyzes canine behavior and ballistic trajectories to prove the identity of the corpse was switched.
Client: Helen Carlin |
Victim: Gregory Moxley
A woman married to a wealthy suitor consults Mason under a fictitious name about the estate of a supposed dead first husband who has suddenly re-emerged as a ruthless blackmailer.
Forensic Clue: Mason establishes the legal distinction between manslaughter and premeditated murder through telegraphic time stamps.
Client: Peter Brunold |
Victim: Hartley Basset
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.
Forensic Clue: Mason demonstrates on the witness stand how glass eye prescriptions are as unique as fingerprint arches.
Client: Charles Ashton |
Victim: Peter Laxter
An aging caretaker hires Mason to defend the rights of his cat against the heirs of a deceased millionaire. When the caretaker is murdered and the cat poisoned, Mason uncovers an elaborate arson conspiracy.
Forensic Clue: Mason exposes a fraudulent fire autopsy by analyzing carbon monoxide saturation levels in the victim's lungs.
Client: Edna Hammer |
Victim: Frank B. Loring
A wealthy man who suffers from severe somnambulism awakes to find a bloody carving knife under his pillow and his business partner stabbed to death in the adjoining bedroom.
Forensic Clue: Mason recreates the nocturnal movements of sleepwalkers to expose an engineered framing scheme.
Client: Bishop William Mallory |
Victim: Renwold Brownley
An Australian clergyman who stutters under stress asks Mason to investigate the substitution of a child heiress to a vast fortune. When the patriarch is murdered, the bishop disappears.
Forensic Clue: Mason uses speech pattern pathology and phonetics to prove whether the cleric was genuine or an imposter.
Client: Matilda Benson |
Victim: Sam Carlin
An imperious cigar-smoking grandmother hires Mason to recover gambling IOUs signed by her granddaughter on a floating gambling ship. When the casino operator is murdered, the dowager is indicted.
Forensic Clue: Mason uses tidal currents and maritime ballistics to dismantle the prosecution's timeline.
Client: Rita Swaine |
Victim: Walter Prescott
A pet canary with its claws clipped too short provides the crucial clue when a snooping wife seeks an annulment and her husband is found shot in his apartment.
Forensic Clue: Mason shows how bird behavior in darkness proves the precise moment a gunshot occurred.
Client: Carlotta Newberry |
Victim: Christopher Moeller
A portrait photograph found inside a lost purse during an ocean voyage from Honolulu has had the face swapped with another print. When a passenger vanishes overboard, Mason is drawn into a high-seas murder.
Forensic Clue: Mason uses photographic darkroom chemistry and double-exposure techniques to unmask the real traveler.
Client: Sarah Breel |
Victim: Austin Cullens
An elderly aunt caught shoplifting in a department store is suspected of kleptomania, but Mason soon finds her involved in diamonds, blackmail, and the shooting of a gem dealer.
Forensic Clue: Mason uses blood splatter angles on the woman's shoe to prove she was framed while unconscious.
Client: Helen Sabin |
Victim: Forrest C. Murdock
An eccentric millionaire living in a mountain cabin is murdered, and his pet parrot constantly screams the name of the killer. Mason discovers the bird may have been coached by a third party.
Forensic Clue: Mason uncovers that a second parrot was planted at the scene to deliver pre-recorded perjured testimony.
Client: Phyllis Leeds |
Victim: Alden Leeds
A Klondike gold rush veteran is institutionalized by scheming relatives who want his millions, while loaded dice and a murder in a gambling den complicate Mason's battle for his client.
Forensic Clue: Mason demonstrates the mathematical probability and center-of-gravity physics of tampered craps dice.
Client: The Masked Woman |
Victim: Robert Trafton
A mysterious client delivers a torn ten-thousand-dollar bill to Mason as a retainer, promising the other half if he defends a girl who will soon be framed for murder.
Forensic Clue: Mason matches currency serial numbers and paper grain under court scrutiny to locate the secret donor.
Client: Mildred Kimber |
Victim: Harvey L. Fritch
A young flower shop owner discovers that a loan shark has seized control of her company through silent stock acquisitions, leading directly to a poisoned cup of coffee.
Forensic Clue: Mason uses botanical plant toxicity and corporate ledger audits to expose the embezzler.
Client: Stephane Faber |
Victim: J.T. Tuttle
A young hitchhiker gets picked up by a speeding driver who crashes and flees, leaving her trapped behind the steering wheel while a murder victim is found nearby.
Forensic Clue: Mason proves shoe pedal-friction impressions and steering wheel fiber transfers to exonerate the driver.
Client: Mrs. J. T. Tuttle |
Victim: Elbert C. Dix
A family puzzle involving a Chinese tin can with a false bottom leads Mason into wartime espionage, forgery, and family inheritance disputes.
Forensic Clue: Mason decodes a micro-cryptogram hidden in the solder lines of the tin container.
Client: John Perez |
Victim: Marcus Reed
A chemistry experiment demonstrating water tension reduction using modern synthetic detergents is used to frame a young chemist for cyanide poisoning.
Forensic Clue: Mason conducts a live courtroom demonstration showing how surface-active chemical agents behave.
Client: Helen Kendal |
Victim: Henry L. Brolin
A kitten that walks through poisonous residue reveals the presence of lethal pesticide before an old family friend is shot in his garden.
Forensic Clue: Mason tracks the kitten's contaminated paw prints through ultraviolet luminescence.
Client: Vincent Blane |
Victim: Milton Bell
A clock ticking beneath the dirt in a mountain canyon leads to a buried stash of embezzled bank money and a dead body with a broken spade nearby.
Forensic Clue: Mason calculates the spring-tension unwinding rate of the mechanical clockwork to fix the exact hour of burial.
Client: Barrows White |
Victim: Gerald Griffin
A prospector who found a lost gold mine in the Mojave Desert receives threatening letters signed with a drawing of a mosquito, followed by laced wine at a camp dinner.
Forensic Clue: Mason exposes the pharmacological effects of scopolamine and desert heat on memory recall.
Client: Carol Duncan |
Victim: Fred Milfield
A sheep vessel grounded on mudflats at low tide becomes the scene of a shooting, where a candle warped by heat reveals an altered timeline.
Forensic Clue: Mason calculates tidal shifts and wax melting angles to demonstrate the corpse was moved across county lines.
Client: Diana Regis |
Victim: J. R. Hartley
A blonde with a black eye walks into Mason's office seeking refuge from an abusive employer, leading to a stolen baby and a dead executive.
Forensic Clue: Mason utilizes cosmetic makeup covering techniques and optical reflection to dismantle witness identification.
Client: Linda Carroll |
Victim: Harrington Faulkner
A secret remedy made from goldfish bladder extracts and a bullet hole through a woman's handbag create an intricate puzzle for Mason.
Forensic Clue: Mason performs ballistics trajectory reconstructions through handbag leather to prove self-defense.
Client: Louise Gordon |
Victim: Scott Shelby
A yacht anchored off Catalina Island becomes the stage for marital sabotage and drowning when an oil lease concession ignites murder.
Forensic Clue: Mason uses maritime foghorn acoustic propagation and marine depth soundings to defeat the prosecution's case.
Client: Eva Martell |
Victim: Orval Kingman
An out-of-work girl is hired by an eccentric agency to impersonate another woman at a swank restaurant, only to find herself accused of homicide when a key player is shot.
Forensic Clue: Mason exposes an intricate doppelganger scheme built around mirror angles and synchronized clothing changes.
Client: Lois Fenton |
Victim: John Callender
An automobile crash on a mountain highway scatters ostrich feather fans, Japanese fans, and horse registrations, ending in a corpse with a blood-stained fan.
Forensic Clue: Mason cross-examines horse pedigree registrations and stage costume props to trap the blackmailer.
Client: Lola Ferriston |
Victim: Bertrand Allred
An unfaithful husband fakes his own disappearance by having his car pushed off a cliff, but Mason finds his bank accounts looted and a fresh body in the patio.
Forensic Clue: Mason uses ink chromatics and forged endorsement stamps to trace the diverted funds.
Client: Marilyn Marlow |
Victim: Robert C. Fleetwood
A contest advertisement in a lonely-hearts magazine uncovers a contest swindle and a wealthy estate disputing a contested codicil.
Forensic Clue: Mason demonstrates that typewriter typeface wear patterns prove the disputed will codicil was forged on a portable machine.
Client: Veronica Dale |
Victim: John Addison
A young runaway girl caught in department store shoplifting becomes the unwitting pawn in an international department store merger and murder.
Forensic Clue: Mason uses hotel switchboard logs and long-distance toll records to break Hamilton Burger's timeline.
Client: Virginia Colfax |
Victim: Edward Garvin
A bigamous marriage, Mexican divorce papers, and two rival wives lead to an ambush in an underground garage and murder.
Forensic Clue: Mason uses conflict-of-laws jurisdictional rules regarding Mexican divorces to destroy the state's motive theory.
Client: Eleanor Corbin |
Victim: Hartwell L. Finch
A hit-and-run driver leaves a dying pedestrian, but two rival suitors try to take the blame before one of them is stabbed to death.
Forensic Clue: Mason analyzes tire tread rubber composition and paint transfer scraping in the police crime lab.
Client: Dorothy Fenner |
Victim: George S. Alder
A girl swimming in the bay to retrieve an incriminating letter from an island estate is framed for jewel theft and murder.
Forensic Clue: Mason analyzes water buoyancy and salinity to show how a sealed bottle message was planted by the prosecution's star witness.
Client: Frances Celane |
Victim: Arthur Carlin
A mysterious phone call leads Mason to an all-night diner where a woman with an eyepatch delivers an envelope containing murder evidence.
Forensic Clue: Mason exposes optical parallax and monocular depth perception limitations during witness cross-examination.
Client: Nellie Conway |
Victim: Nathan Bain
Fluorescent chemical dusting powders trap a suspect handling jewelry, but Mason suspects the police chemical trap was rigged to frame his client.
Forensic Clue: Mason proves in court that chemical luminescence was transferred secondary to police handling.
Client: Belle Adrian |
Victim: Arthur Garvin
A lakeside cabin retreat in the mountains becomes the scene of a wealthy playboy's shooting, with tire tracks matching the defendant's sports car.
Forensic Clue: Mason uses tire pressure differentials and mountain road gradient physics to disprove vehicle presence.
Client: Dixie Dayton |
Victim: Tom Drake
A waitress runs out of a diner leaving behind a priceless moth-eaten mink coat with a pawn ticket sewn inside the lining, dragging Mason into a cop-killing cold case.
Forensic Clue: Mason shows how fur preservation chemistry and tailor stitch threading reveal the true owner.
Client: Helen Cadmus |
Victim: Benjamin Addicks
An eccentric researcher studying gorilla hypnosis and behavioral psychology dies in his study, leaving a caged ape as the alleged murderer.
Forensic Clue: Mason uses primate anatomical reflexes and grip strength metrics to prove a human killer operated the cage.
Client: Inez Kaylor |
Victim: Rodney Banks
A taxi-dance hostess whose testimony convicted Mason's client vanishes right before the retrial, while a double murder erupts at a motel.
Forensic Clue: Mason employs cross-examination of taxi trip sheets and time-clock stamps to shatter the state's timeline.
Client: Sylvia Bain |
Victim: J. J. Fritch
Blackmail recordings made on wire dictating machines threaten a prominent family, culminating in a murder where the tape seems to capture the shot.
Forensic Clue: Mason analyzes magnetic wire recording frequency responses to prove the audio tape was spliced.
Client: Steffanie Malden |
Victim: Dr. Charles Malden
A surgeon killed in a private plane crash leaves an unrecorded fortune in safe deposit boxes and a missing surgical nurse accused of poisoning him.
Forensic Clue: Mason exposes safe-deposit box key duplicate signatures and bank vault access timestamps.
Client: Myrna Davenport |
Victim: Ed Davenport
A husband supposedly poisoned with arsenic has his body mysteriously stolen from the fresh grave before the official coroner autopsy can take place.
Forensic Clue: Mason conducts exhumation legal procedures and toxicology evaluations to uncover medical embezzlement.
Client: Evelyn Phillips |
Victim: Harry Merrill
A young actress acquitted of jewelry theft is ambushed on a dark mountain road and returns fire in self-defense, only to find a murdered man in the headlights.
Forensic Clue: Mason traces ballistic striations and firing pin impressions across multiple snub-nosed revolvers.
Client: Eleanor Corbin |
Victim: Douglas Fane
A woman suffering from apparent amnesia is found wandering in a city park in an evening gown, wrapped in an international jewel-smuggling ring.
Forensic Clue: Mason uses psychological amnesia testing and diamond appraisal certification to expose the charade.
Client: Arlene Duvall |
Victim: George Ballard
A nudist sunbather has her trailer home looted, including her clothes, car, and personal diary recording a major armored-car robbery payout.
Forensic Clue: Mason tracks currency serial numbers from the heist to prove the police informant was the mastermind.
Client: Sybil Harlan |
Victim: George Roper
An oil wildcatting lease investment dispute erupts in gunfire, with Mason called in to protect a client who claims she only fired warning shots.
Forensic Clue: Mason analyzes bullet trajectory angles into redwood trees to verify the angle of fire.
Client: Duane Jefferson |
Victim: South American Syndicate
A temporary typist hired by Mason flees his office leaving diamonds embedded in the chewing gum under her desk, leading to a trial where Mason faces his toughest jury.
Forensic Clue: Mason handles diamond gemological luminescence and typewriter strike-pressure analysis.
Client: Nadine Farr |
Victim: Mosher Higley
A woman confessing to murder under truth serum (sodium pentothal) during psychiatric therapy sparks a legal battle over medical confidentiality and self-incrimination.
Forensic Clue: Mason establishes precedent on the admissibility of psychiatric confessions and recovers submerged poison vials.
Client: Stewart Bedford |
Victim: Binney Denham
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.
Forensic Clue: Mason uses barbiturate metabolic breakdown rates and vehicle odometer readings to crack the frame.
Client: Norma Brooks |
Victim: Margo Garvin
A high-stakes corporate proxy fight turns deadly when a rival shareholder is gunned down in a hotel room with lipstick prints left on the mirror.
Forensic Clue: Mason demonstrates that cosmetic transfer smudges were forged using stencil molds.
Client: Ted Balfour |
Victim: Egan Greeley
A young heir acquitted of manslaughter in a vehicular homicide is suddenly re-indicted for first-degree premeditated murder using a high-powered hunting rifle.
Forensic Clue: Mason invokes double jeopardy protections and rifle rifling barrel twist physics to clear his client.
Client: Norma Keller |
Victim: Dr. Phineas Banning
A barn on a suburban estate is the source of terrifying screams, leading to an illegal adoption ring and a doctor found shot at his desk.
Forensic Clue: Mason traces medical adoption certificates and phone booth coin drops to expose the blackmailer.
Client: Stephanie Falkner |
Victim: George Casselman
Three identical .38 caliber revolvers are shuffled between suspects, with Mason caught in possession of one of the possible murder weapons.
Forensic Clue: Mason orchestrates a brilliant shell-game with the three firearms to demonstrate reasonable doubt in ballistics.
Client: Fern Driscoll |
Victim: Humphrey Forster
A heartbroken girl assumes the identity of a woman killed in a fiery car crash, only to discover the dead woman was involved in an extortion ring.
Forensic Clue: Mason uses dental records and fingerprint restoration on burned flesh to identify the real corpse.
Client: Dawn Manning |
Victim: George Andrews
A photographer's model whose portrait appears on thousands of advertising calendars is accused of shooting a predatory real-estate mogul.
Forensic Clue: Mason uses lighting shadows in studio flash photography to calculate the precise solar angle and time of death.
Client: Claire Allison |
Victim: Mervin Selkirk
A young boy playing with an elaborate motorized toy boat on a park lake triggers a deadly chain of custody dispute ending in a fatal shooting.
Forensic Clue: Mason reveals how radio-control frequencies and toy mechanics were used to trigger an alibi.
Client: Gladys Doyle |
Victim: Mauvis Meade
A novelist's personal secretary is sent to a secluded mountain cabin to pick up a manuscript, but gets stuck in the mud and finds a dead man in the bedroom.
Forensic Clue: Mason analyzes silk scarf embroidery and tire chain ruts to prove his client was misdirected.
Client: Ellen Robb |
Victim: Slim Marcus
A nightclub singer whose sequined skirt hums when she moves is accused of stealing gambling casino funds and shooting the manager's wife.
Forensic Clue: Mason uses cigarette smoke residue and air-conditioning circulation rates to prove when the crime took place.
Client: Arlene Ferris |
Victim: Loring Lamont
A young stenographer escapes from an aggressive playboy's country cabin, leaving her shoes behind, before the man is found stabbed with a hunting knife.
Forensic Clue: Mason uses tire treads and wood splinter comparisons to prove another car entered the cabin drive.
Client: Marlys Carter |
Victim: Carter Gilman
A father suspects his wife is being blackmailed by a private detective, only to walk into his garage workshop and find a duplicate daughter standing over a corpse.
Forensic Clue: Mason analyzes woodworking saw-blade teeth and sawdust resin to dismantle the prosecution case.
Client: Janice Wainwright |
Victim: Morley Theilman
A secretary sent to deliver blackmail money to a roadside diner sees only a distinctive shapely shadow through the window before finding the body.
Forensic Clue: Mason demonstrates that optical projection using a car headlight can alter shadow silhouettes.
Client: Susan Fisher |
Victim: Ken Gorman
An eccentric elderly spinster who manages a mining corporation turns out to have an imposter running the office safe while embezzling gold ore certificates.
Forensic Clue: Mason uses shoe heel wear and arthritis gait analysis to prove the real manager was dead for months.
Client: Gwynn Elston |
Victim: Felting Grimes
A traveling door-to-door encyclopedia saleswoman discovers that her best friend's husband is leading a double life under another identity in a neighboring town.
Forensic Clue: Mason uses telephone directory print runs and bell-ringer route schedules to solve the cyanide murder.
Client: Maxine Lindsey |
Victim: Otto Grolier
An art gallery authenticity dispute over a valuable master canvas leads to a murder aboard an offshore yacht and a model who denies posing.
Forensic Clue: Mason uses infrared paint layer reflectance to prove the painting was an original and identify the forged replacement.
Client: Dianne Alder |
Victim: Harrison Boring
A glamorous model is hired on a bizarre contract requiring her to eat massive calories and gain weight in public view, disguising an estate substitution fraud.
Forensic Clue: Mason analyzes weight-gain caloric charts and inheritance trust clauses to save his client.
Client: Nancy Banks |
Victim: Rodney Banks
A young woman attending the horse races is handed winning pari-mutuel tickets by a man whose hands are icy cold, pulling her into a motel homicide.
Forensic Clue: Mason analyzes refrigeration dry ice sublimation to crack the refrigerated alibi.
Client: Dorrie Ambler |
Victim: Miner Summerfield
A young woman claiming she has an identical twin sister wants her appendix operation scar photographed for identification purposes before a shooting occurs.
Forensic Clue: Mason uses surgical scar tissue pigmentation and surgical stitch counting to disprove twin substitution.
Client: Harley Raymond |
Victim: Stefan Boles
Blackmail surrounding a wealthy stepdaughter's secret marriage leads to a murder aboard a luxury cabin cruiser in the yacht harbor.
Forensic Clue: Mason uses nautical knot tying techniques and tidal moorings to pinpoint the killer.
Client: Linda Crowder |
Victim: F. Leslie Montrose
A wealthy widow aunt intends to marry a smooth-talking fortune hunter, until the groom-to-be is poisoned with arsenic at a celebratory dinner.
Forensic Clue: Mason exposes arsenic contamination in hair samples and cross-examines the wine cellar sommelier.
Client: Adelle Hastings |
Victim: Garvin Hastings
A purse left behind in an office contains a loaded .38 caliber revolver and two envelopes of cash, leading directly to a hotel suite shooting.
Forensic Clue: Mason cross-examines the ballistic rifling marks and firing pin strike depth to reveal the real shooter.
Client: Horace Warren |
Victim: Collister Gideon
A prominent executive suspects his wife is being blackmailed over an old scandal and hires Mason, only to have a fingerprint expert murdered in his guest room.
Forensic Clue: Mason uses latent fingerprint lifting chemistry on bank notes to prove forgery.
Client: Virginia Baxter |
Victim: Lauretta Trent
A wealthy woman changes her will to reward loyal household staff, but is hospitalized for food poisoning before being killed in an automobile crash.
Forensic Clue: Mason uses hospital IV fluid chemical assays to establish the real mechanism of homicide.
Client: Kerry Dutton |
Victim: Leonard Melling
An investment fund trustee handling trust accounts for an eccentric inventor is accused of embezzling securities and shooting his colleague.
Forensic Clue: Mason analyzes stock certificate serial registries and safety vault entry records in open court.
Client: Daphne Shelby |
Victim: Horace Shelby
A young heiress returns from Europe to find her wealthy uncle committed to a psychiatric sanitarium by corrupt relatives who looted his estate.
Forensic Clue: Mason uses legal conservatorship statutes and testamentary capacity precedent to restore the estate and catch the killer.
Client: Katherine Ellis |
Victim: Peter Karver
A hatcheck waitress in a financial district restaurant finds blind trusts and corporate stocks hidden in a hat, leading to her uncle's murder.
Forensic Clue: Mason matches hat size ribbons and dry-cleaning tags to identify the mystery patron.
Client: Marian Fargo |
Victim: Glen Falkner
A former beauty queen from twenty years ago seeks Mason's help to stop an inquisitive reporter digging into an adoption, ending in a late-night shooting.
Forensic Clue: Mason exposes newspaper morgue microfilm alterations to prove historical blackmail.
Client: Augusta Hinckley |
Victim: Carl Rollins
A wealthy widow is accused of putting arsenic in her husband's sugar bowl when a blackmailer reveals her deceased husband's secret debts.
Forensic Clue: Mason conducts toxicological evaluations of household pantry spices to exonerate the widow.
Client: Diana Regis |
Victim: John Givens
A woman with plastic surgery alterations asks Mason to arrange an anonymous financial settlement, leading to diamond smuggling and homicide.
Forensic Clue: Mason uses medical cosmetic surgical records and dental radiographs to reveal her true identity.
Client: Morley Theilman |
Victim: Shirley Penn
A bizarre real estate dispute where a house is divided down the middle with a wire fence leads to murder on the patio.
Forensic Clue: Mason analyzes property boundary surveying lines and legal easements to uncover the hidden safe.
Client: Mae Farr |
Victim: Penn Wentworth
A woman asks Mason to investigate her sister's yachting trip, only to find the boat anchored off a quiet cove with a man shot dead through the heart.
Forensic Clue: Mason calculates nautical drift and rifle recoil to prove the murder occurred hours after the purported timeline.