The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.
Attorney Perry Mason's attractive client claims she was chased by a hooded man in a car. Now she's wanted for his murder...and hasn't been too honest about her past arrest as a jewel thief.
When his stepbrother is found dead, a man is charged with murder and is accused of using his sleepwalking as a cover-up.
A wealthy woman hires Mason to buy stock in her husband's land company, hoping to force his mistress out. But her plan goes awry when she is charged with murder.
Perry Mason, Della Street and Paul Drake head to a small town to defend a young man who is charged with poisoning a blackmailer.
An impetuous niece who demands her trust fund be released comes to Perry Mason for help. But it's her boyfriend who needs defending when he is charged with murdering her controlling uncle.
The owner of a lucrative orchid business is charged with murder after her husband loses shares in the company to sleazy ex-con in a poker game.
There's no rest for Perry Mason. While on vacation at his remote cabin, a woman in the area is charged with the murder of a playboy.
When a lipstick print is found on the forehead of a murder victim, Mason's client is charged with the crime, even though she and her roommate were poisoned and unconscious at the time.
A film mogul discovers that a pretty hitchhiker may be trying to blackmail him. And he has other worries...he's just been charged with murdering his rival.
A man may be faking his own death after he is diagnosed with arsenic poisoning and his "body" disappears.
Two women show up at a beauty parlor and find out they share the same name, address...and husband. When the supposed bigamist is killed, the way a candle burns becomes a clue to the mystery.
While on a fishing trip, Perry Mason and Paul Drake pull a beautiful woman out of the ocean. In her possession is a note she found, intended for her employer, accusing him of killing his rich aunt.
Perry and Della's visit to a restaurant is interupted when a waitress is shot at. After they hide her mink, they discover it contains a pawn ticket that may hold the key to the past murder of a police officer.
A bossy woman walks into Mason's office and demands he represent her ward, a young girl who inherited a large sum of money...$80,000 of which is missing.
When Perry Mason finds some possessions that belong to a fan dancer, he places an ad that several people mistake for a missing horse. Not only does another dancer show up, but so does her husband...dead.
A timid young woman who was browbeaten by her wealthy uncle is charged with his murder. She confesses while under the influence of truth serum, but Perry Mason has his doubts.
A gorgeous woman's trailer was stolen while she was sunbathing, so she asks for Perry's help in finding it. She claims it contains her diary, which details the truthful account of a notorious bank heist.
While investigation a hit-and-run, Perry Mason meets a model who is being blackmailed by her estranged husband. When the husband shows up dead, our hero suspects the two cases are related.
A girl is picked up by a drunk driver who hits a truck and escapes. When the girl is charged with manslaughter, her best friend plays spy for Perry Mason to find out how a movie producer is involved.
Detective Paul Drake helps a magazine publisher locate an heiress. But when the publisher is cut out of a deal and a con man is poisoned, the heiress is charged with murder.
A dowdy woman comes to Perry Mason for help. Her wealthy father is being blackmailed, and she's afraid if her fiance' finds out, he'll break off their engagement.
The wife of a prominent physician is arrested for drugging her husband, causing him to crash his private plane. But then he turns up alive, living in Mexico with a beautiful nurse.
When a woman is accused of killing both her husband and her blackmailer - who were behind an extortion plot - the only witness to her whereabouts is a lady with an eyepatch.
After her brother is accused of murder, a schizophrenic woman is put on the witness stand. So Perry cross-examines both sides of her split personality.
A simple inheritance case turns into murder as Mason's client is found in a locked room, beside a body, with a gun clutched in her hand.
A husband - jealous of his wife's relationship with the hired hand - sets up his own disappearance...only he winds up murdered instead.
When a man from East Berlin threatens a rancher's wife, the rancher's daughter romances him to protect her stepmother - but is then accused of killing him.
An attractive secretary, spying on an oil executive in order to help his rival, is found murdered. And Perry's star witness is an elevator operator who identifies suspects by their shoes.
While defending a client from a murder charge, Perry Mason and secretary Della Street inadvertenlty uncover a crime ring involving dance-hall hostesses.
A powerful newspaper columnist who browbeat everyone around her is murdered. And a book containing the names of innocent pople who could be slandered is now missing.
Perry defends a sweet old lady who was nurse to a wealthy woman. Apparently, when the woman died, arsenic was found in the milk she was given just before her death.
While sailing home on a cruise ship, Perry and Della briefly meet an accountant who is later pushed overboard. His wife is accused of killing him, and his daughter has mysteriously disappeared.
A series of indentical guns are admitted as evidence in a murder trial. But which one killed a sleazy Las Vegas operator who had the goods on everyone he knew?
When a blackmailer is found dead, suspicion falls upon three beautiful blondes: the defendant's wife, his receptionist, and his personal secretary who holds a grudge.
When the ne'er-do-well husband of a wealthy woman is killed, a series of footprints at the crime scene belong to any number of suspects - who all deny having been there.
A secretary, who was harassed by the boss she once dated, has a solid alibi when he is killed. But his stepfather does not - and his fingerprints are all over the murder weapon.
An attractive blonde shows up at Perry's office with a black eye and claims the stepson of her wealthy employer did it. But when her roommate is murdered, the police accuse her.
After a woman tries to steal some letters from an office in Perry's building, she masquerades as a temp for Della in order to escape the police. Later, it's discovered that she stumbled upon a murder plot.
An old man seems to be giving his money away, something his nephew and wife try to stop by having him committed. But once he escapes from the sanitarium, he's accused of murder.
A complex case ensues after Perry Mason receives a telephone call, supposedly from a man whose funeral he attended three years earlier.
Mason defends a young male heir who is charged twice for killing the same man -once for manslaughter, then for first-degree murder.
A thirteen-year-old boy gets Perry Mason involved in one of the toughest cases of his career.
Perry represents an Army sergeant accused of shooting his superior officer, who may have been involved with a notorious payroll robbery in the Philippines.
A young newlywed visits Mason, saying she's there for a "friend."
A camera's flash triggered by a buried clock figures into a murder case, where the chairman of a bank is accused of killing his son-in-law.
A desperate husband, trying to support his wife and daughter, escorts a drunk home after his night job, but is accused of killing him for his poker winnings.
The race is on for Mason to help clear a jockey of a murder charge.
When an art dealer is found dead, the suspects include his wife, her lover, the man who bought a fake painting from him...and the artist who painted it.
A man wrongfully imprisoned for embezzlement is released, but is then accused of killing the person responsible for putting him behind bars in the first place.
The only witness to a rich man's murder is his parrot, who keeps repeating the suspect's name.
A ruthless diamond cutter tries to sell a priceless gem just before he cleaves and shatters it.
Perry defends a dark-haired beauty and her aunt, who are both accused of murdering the man who hired the brunette to impersonate his client.
A tropical fish expert invents a miraculous cure for gill fever.
Two troubled women, Millie Crest and Fern Driscoll, switch identities. Millie, posing as Fern, stabs shady private eye Carl Davis in the arm in self-defense.
A district attorney who is about to expose a building scam must try to explain a racy photo of himself, now that he's been accused of murder.
Perry defends a young heiress who married a fortune hunter, and who now has been accused of murdering the woman who was blackmailing her new husband.
Danny Ross is a television comedian who is waiting to hear about a new television show. It has been three years since his last television show was cancelled.
Wealthy Peter Baxter decides to test the loyalty of his heirs. He pretends to change his will cutting them all out and leaving his entire estate to groundskeeper James Hing.
A woman who was adopted is told by a bishop that her real grandfather is looking for her.
For the first time in his legal career, Perry Mason finds himself backstage in a New York theater when his client, Frank Brooks, is charged with murder.
A psychoanalyst is accused of murdering his nurse's brother, who was trying to blackmail the good doctor with stolen recordings of his sessions.
Perry Mason resorts to some clever-and perfectly legal-skulduggery to prove a client's innocence.
Perry Mason turns calendar-art photographer to prove a point in defending a building contractor accused of murdering an amateur photographer.
Harry Bright and Chuck Clark were once best friends and business partners until Margaret entered the picture. Margaret was a much younger woman on the make who entranced Chuck into marrying her.
Perry Mason fails to get possession of $7.500in gambling IOU's before they can be used against his client, and a child custody hearing becomes a murder trial.
A jealous suitor carries on a campaign of vindictive harassment until he is killed, and Perry Mason's client is charged with the crime
Perry Mason defends a juvenile, previously convicted of theft, when the boy is charged with stealing a valuable piece of antique jewelry and murdering its owner.
Mason gets slapped by a beautiful blonde private eye and a short time later finds his client charged with murder.
A tiny limping canary convinces Perry Mason his client did not murder her husband though proving it in court is a monumental task.
Perry Mason is challenged to solve a mystery involving a dead wife who sues for divorce, a lovely blonde who is not a sister in a sister act, a husband, and an ex-husband.
Perry Mason is hired by George Clark to establish the fact that Lorna Thomas, a onetime famous actress, is his wife's real mother.
Steve Benton retains Perry Mason to help his brother Larry, who has been forging checks to payoff purported gambling debts.
A puzzling and contradictory case develops as Mason defends pretty Mitsou Kamuri, first, against a charge of stealing some valuable rose pearls, then, against a charge of murder.
Jo Ann Blanchard seeks the help of Perry Mason when John Brant, a wealthy and crippled old man, takes her prize race horse as payment for a mortgage he holds on her property.
After coming to a small town to do a investigation, Paul Drake becomes embroiled in a murder charge and needs Perry's help to keep from going to jail.
The rivalry between Richard Vanaman and Fred Petrie for an executive promotion in an investment firm involves Perry Mason.
A pretty model suspected of selling bathing suit designs to her employer's competition gets Mason involved in the results of greed and jealousy, including murder.
Perry Mason is hired to defend Sarette Winslow, a woman accused of murdering a nephew who neglected his financial obligations toward her.
A worthless movie contract drives a glamor girl into hiding. Mason, asked to find her, finds more than he bargained for, including a romantic triangle and murder.
When a young man just released from prison is accused by the entire town of robbery and murder, Perry Mason changes his plans for a fishing holiday and enters the case.
A widow concerned with re-establishing her dead husband's reputation with his wealthy father hires Perry Mason to defend her.
In a labyrinthine search for the facts, Perry Mason goes from books to bookies.
The usual courtroom battle between Mason and District Attorney Hamilton Burger can't take place as Burger has himself disqualified because the defendant, Mason's client, is a good friend of his.
A bitter contest for control of millions is centered around the theft of $112,000 and an unscrupulous wife's revenge.
Telescopic photographs of a man in the act of committing a murder become the principal evidence sought by Perry Mason.
A mud-spattered, disheveled secretary, telling a story involving a mysterious package, a ransacked apartment, an inquiring reporter and a corpse, seeks Perry Mason's aid.
When Perry is retained as the legal counsel of a singing cigarette girl at a California casino where playing draw poker is legal, he has to prove his client is innocent when she is charged with the murder of a patron's wife after he lost a large sum of money while playing a game there one night.
Perry arrives in the gold mining town of Placer City looking for an old prospector to subpoena for testimony. He then get involved in a murder case when one of the participants in a barroom fight is found killed and the other is accused of the crime.
Treacly paintings of infants and a Matisse masterpiece become equally important to Perry Mason.
Three hundred and nine acres of land, due to be worth five times their going price in a short time, become the test by which a man tries to determine the honesty of two nephews.
The queen of the fashion world is poisoned on the eve of an important spring showing.
Cmdr. Jerome Burke is assisting the police in the investigation of the murder of a cafe singer. The police believe an unknown sailor on the Moray may be responsible.
A boy brought up in an orphanage goes to a small town in California with hopes of finding his people but is accused of murder instead.
An anti-collision device that might eventually prevent midair accidents turns into a motive for murder.
An heiress with two men claiming to be her father becomes Perry Mason's client.
An executive who has been "missing" for two years returns on the day of an important stockholders' meeting and ends up being slain.
A shady lawyer, a client facing a murder charge and a woman witness demanding a payoff help complicate this case for Mason.
Perry Mason is hired by a harassed business executive who wants to rid himself of a larcenous, freeloading nephew.
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.
Lawyer Perry Mason takes the case of a girl chemist accused of slaying her employer when planted evidence is found to indicate that she had sold secret formulas to a rival cosmetics firm.
Perry Mason is hired by a woman who is being blackmailed by a long-missing witness in the six-year-old murder of her husband.
Perry Mason is hired by a circus clown to untangle a case of bigamy and head off a threat of blackmail.
Perry Mason is hired by a distinguished concert pianist's widow to determine whether the musician's fatal plunge off a cliff was murder or suicide.
A little girl's plaintive request for help in learning who she is leads Perry Mason into an international quest and a murder trial.
Lester Martin's life takes a horrible turn for the worse when a man breaks into his apartment, forces him at gun-point to drink half a bottle of Scotch, and then drives him into the country.
Ann Farwell is miserable over the separation of her parents. Things aren't made any better when her father starts seeing Rita Conover, a scheming woman half his age.
A pretty secretary enlists Perry Mason's help when she finds herself framed in a blackmail plot, then is accused of the death of her employer's wife.
Slimy publishing tycoon Donald Fletcher buys controlling interest in a respectable but financially troubled publishing house. Fletcher turns things upside down by turning the publications into scandal sheet featuring photographs of scantily clad women.
Perry Mason, helping a citizen's committee fight a proposed construction project, gets more deeply involved than he had planned as bribery, political blackmail and murder develop.
Going to Perry Mason for advice after $153,000 in estate money is stolen from his car, civil servant, Ralph Duncan, soon needs more than advice, when he is caught at the scene of a murder where part of the missing money is found.
Womanizing playboy Loring Lamont has his sights set on Arlene Ferris, his father's shapely secretary. He lures her to his beachfront bachelor pad with seduction on his mind. Arlene slaps the rotter and flees taking Loring's car back into town.
Vindictive Laura Randall is slain after she plots to blow up her husband's unique underwater sounding device.
Willard Nesbitt stages his own death so his wife can collect on a large insurance policy. Then he learns his business partner means to cheat the wife out of some mining property royalties. Nesbitt's "return to life" is short lived, and Perry Mason defend
Crooked jewelry store owner Karl Addison learns that he needs an operation which will temporarily blind him. Addison makes plans to rob his own store knowing that his sightlessness will provide him with a perfect alibi.
When convicted embezzler Fred Swan returns to his hometown it means trouble for Iris McKay, a former client of private investigator Paul Drake.
A road builder facing bankruptcy decides to have things out with the man responsible for his plight, only to wind up being charged with murder.
When a new baby monkey is found missing, Hilde Fursten is blamed by Dr. Walther Braun, a visiting dentist. That evening, Dr. Braun arrives at the zoo to perform oral surgery on a lion and is found dead in the lion's cage.
A museum worker returns from prison, sent there after being falsely accused of setting fire to an art collection, to settle accounts with the man who framed him, only to find himself held accountable for murder.
Advertising executive Herman Albright is in the wrong place at the wrong time wearing the wrong clothes. These mistakes cost poor Herman his life in a case of mistaken identity. Perry is called on to defend the fashion model charged with the crime.
A misfiring missile, an inquiry and death on a firing range lead Perry Mason to the defense of an Air Force officer court-martialed on a murder charge.
A mixed up mess awaits Perry as he struggles to put all the pieces together. Blackmail, murder, a boyfriend who spent the night, all add up to one great case.
Young David Gideon has his head turned by, what else, a conniving woman. In his haste to protect her, and her supposed good name, the source of her pain turns up dead. Namely her estranged husband.
It looks as though Perry Mason may finally lose a case when the man he is defending makes a dramatic courtroom confession.
