You know that when the participant in an automobile accident reaches first for his lawyer before calling the cops to report the accident we know there's a problem. That's what John Anderson does in this Perry Mason episode after he hits a car where the woman looks dazed and then disappears on him.
Anderson's reason for not reporting the accident is a conundrum for him at least. He just came from the estate of a well known political fixer. Anderson is the construction trade and the building inspectors have descended upon like locusts. In that most bribable of professions fixer George Neisse can make them go away, but very discreetly.
But then Neisse turns up shot to death and Anderson has a real jackpot on his hands. Good thing he's already retained Perry Mason.
My ratings of a Perry Mason mystery rise and fall on whether and how easily I can spot the real murderer. In this case it was pretty easy because the perpetrator was real shifty and declined to help with Raymond Burr's investigation for his client.
In only a preliminary hearing Hamilton Burger's case falls apart at the seams. How that man kept his job as District Attorney is truly a mystery.
Anderson's reason for not reporting the accident is a conundrum for him at least. He just came from the estate of a well known political fixer. Anderson is the construction trade and the building inspectors have descended upon like locusts. In that most bribable of professions fixer George Neisse can make them go away, but very discreetly.
But then Neisse turns up shot to death and Anderson has a real jackpot on his hands. Good thing he's already retained Perry Mason.
My ratings of a Perry Mason mystery rise and fall on whether and how easily I can spot the real murderer. In this case it was pretty easy because the perpetrator was real shifty and declined to help with Raymond Burr's investigation for his client.
In only a preliminary hearing Hamilton Burger's case falls apart at the seams. How that man kept his job as District Attorney is truly a mystery.