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While I enjoy the bad guys getting justice dealt to them, the resolution was a bit too easy. When the Sheriff said no one could survive the fall, did anyone bother to look for a landing place just below the cliff? And why was Walt Whitman maligned? That was a red herring! But it still was fun.

****SPOILERS**** Perry Mason,Raymond Burr,has his hands full here defending a client Dr. Aaron Stuart, played by the gashes and bubbly Milton Selzer, who he defended previously and got him off an a Corpus Delieti, no proof of a crime being committed, technicality. Dr. Stuart was tried in the murder of his assistant at his pre collage prep school, the Manazni Prep School, Tobin Wade, H.M Wynant, by shoving him off a cliff and into the Pacific Ocean where his body was never recovered. Thus the Corpus Delieti defense on Perry's part worked to get Dr. Sturat, who confessed to the crime, off.

Thinking that the Perry Mason episode was over and as I was about to turn the channel but all of a sudden the dead Tobin Wade pops up again this time really dead or murdered in his cabin with his skull busted by a tire iron! And who do you think is the person who found his body and is now indited in Wade's murder. A murder that unlike the first one Wade was supposedly a victim of this one is the real McCoy! Non other then Dr. Aaron Stuart! speaking of lighting striking twice!

On trial for murder with a real not imaginary murder victim as evidence, the late Tobin Wade, Perry has to back track to uncover the strange circumstances that lead not only to Wade's murder or murders but how is unlucky client Dr.Stuart was involved in both, the real and fake, of them! As Perry soon finds out Wade was trying to get the Manzani Prep School to go out of business by bankrupting it with in fact he did achieved. Wade then planned to sell it and the valuable property around it under an assumed name,since he was supposed to be dead, to the local big time real estate developers who've been itching for years to get their hands on it.

****SPOILERS***** In him feeling outside the law by faking his own death Wade then contacted a real estate agent in the area to, after getting his hands on Manzani Prep School property, pay him off in $50,000.00 in blackmail money in Wade, who set him up, not framing him for his own, who was actually alive at the time, murder! This whole crazy and ridicules plan on Wade's part backfired on him when the man he planned to blackmail ended up murdering him instead! And now it's up to Perry Mason to prove Dr.Sturat's innocent for the second time and this time, without a Corpus Delieti defense, make it stick!