***SPOILERS*** Perry Mason, Raymond Burr, starts off his 6th season, with the show's time slot changed from Saturday to Wednesday evenings, like gang busters tackling this book swapping rings out of old man Joesph Kraft's, Maurice Manson, used book store. Kraft has been using a bunch of library crooks to do his dirty work in substituting valuable first editions and replacing them with counterfeit copies.
It's when there's a major slip up in Kraft's book store that involves his behind the counter cashier sweet and innocent Ellen Carter, Phyllis Love, that Kraft blows his cover by overreacting to what he believed Ellen did in lifting a $8,000.00 worth copy of a first edition of "Tristram Shandy", that was on sale for only $8.00, from the book shelf. This opened the door to one of those who had it in for him for years in the shady dealing he was doing to do the guy in by gassing, in turning off the pilot light of his office heater, Kraft to death. Now the #1 suspect in Kraft's death Ellen gets Perry Mason to defend her despite, in her by then being dead broke, not having the cash to pay him!
***SPOILERS*** Perry has his work cut out in this stolen and fake book murder case but he gets to the bottom of it by discovering a secret fuse box in Kraft's bookstore's washroom that his killer used to do him in. The case is broken wide open in court when Kraft's killer, feeling a bit of guilt in implication Ellen in his murder, voluntary admits, without much probing on Perry's part, that he murdered that low life swine in his, off all people, accusing his soon to be murderer of being a thief! That for taking $2,000.00 in cash that he hid in his book store that was to pay off those who doing the stealing for him! This from a guy who's been stealing irreplaceable and valuable first editions from libraries for years.
P.S Check out future TV Batman Adam West as the beatnik like guitarist Peter Norland who hangs around Kraft's bookstore not to buy any books but to be close to his secret love the store's pretty cashier Ellen!
It's when there's a major slip up in Kraft's book store that involves his behind the counter cashier sweet and innocent Ellen Carter, Phyllis Love, that Kraft blows his cover by overreacting to what he believed Ellen did in lifting a $8,000.00 worth copy of a first edition of "Tristram Shandy", that was on sale for only $8.00, from the book shelf. This opened the door to one of those who had it in for him for years in the shady dealing he was doing to do the guy in by gassing, in turning off the pilot light of his office heater, Kraft to death. Now the #1 suspect in Kraft's death Ellen gets Perry Mason to defend her despite, in her by then being dead broke, not having the cash to pay him!
***SPOILERS*** Perry has his work cut out in this stolen and fake book murder case but he gets to the bottom of it by discovering a secret fuse box in Kraft's bookstore's washroom that his killer used to do him in. The case is broken wide open in court when Kraft's killer, feeling a bit of guilt in implication Ellen in his murder, voluntary admits, without much probing on Perry's part, that he murdered that low life swine in his, off all people, accusing his soon to be murderer of being a thief! That for taking $2,000.00 in cash that he hid in his book store that was to pay off those who doing the stealing for him! This from a guy who's been stealing irreplaceable and valuable first editions from libraries for years.
P.S Check out future TV Batman Adam West as the beatnik like guitarist Peter Norland who hangs around Kraft's bookstore not to buy any books but to be close to his secret love the store's pretty cashier Ellen!