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Harry Ellerbe becomes a Perry Mason client when Raymond Burr finds a voluptuous blond played by Joan Tabor crossing over from the terrace on Ellerbe's window to the Perry Mason law office which is next door. Later we learn she's a private detective who thinks pretty fast on her feet.

But Ellerbe's got problems of his own. He may be a bigamist with an invalid Mexican divorce from K. T. Stevens who is the first wife and out for blood. She's even got a proxy war going to take control of the company. In all this Stevens winds up dead and it's Ellerbe and the second wife Betsy Jones-Moreland who are suspected.

What makes this episode stand out is the presence of Joan Tabor who was quite a knockout. Sad that she died so young. Check this episode and her out.

This one starts with only Perry Mason doing a late nighter in his office. A woman comes into his office from the company next door. She lies to Mason about having a gun which she dumps after he spots her. Then she gives him a phoney name, and when he escourts her down to the sidewalk of his office building, in order to help her find a flashlight she did not drop from Mason's balcony, she screams and acts like Mason was groping her.

From here we find out about the company next door whose owner is in deep trouble because he divorced his first wife illegally and remarried, and the first wife has decided to have him arrested for bigamy. Then of course the first wife gets murdered. All the time it looks like the groped woman is suspect number 1. Comissioner Gorden from Batman is a guest star.

Milton Krims who took Erles story and converted this to the teleplay did a good job with one of Gardener's better novels. This is one of the 5 episodes Krims would do.

**SPOILER** In case you haven't seen this episode, you might want to before proceeding. Oh. I don't think I'll give anything away; I just think you might not like WHAT I'm gonna say. Like, right from the start the blonde detective (Joan Tabor) was a snake in the grass. She is what makes this episode so interesting. The problem I had with the beginning of the episode, is that Perry absolutely HAD to know that she was a liar, and that something nasty was happening. Still, he let it go, even when she pulled her cheap trick with the uniform cop.

Now, normally when Perry tells his clients to go somewhere and not leave until he tells them to, they always do it anyway.There's a formula to be a client of Perry's, and usually it requires an abundance of stupidity. It's the glue that makes this world go 'round. In this case, the client's stupidity is surpassed by the stupidity of his client's wife. Impulsive, cowardly, childish, and emotionally unstable; she almost hangs her own stupid husband with her mental challenges.

This time, however, there was a really dirty trick (see Alexis from Dynasty) that was as devious as they come. Right; Blondie. She's sneaky, rotten, deceitful, manipulative and cagey. Also, after this case, she's no longer a detective in California if the D.A. had anything to say about it. Even P.I.'s have legal parameters. She's gotta take a hard fall for criminal perjury (felony), she'll probably avoid an accomplice to murder charge, but I'll bet Perry would push the former charge. Add in Grand Theft Auto for taking Perry's beautiful 1959 Cadillac Eldorado convertible. He wouldn't want anyone like that in the same business with Paul, either. Just a little legal revenge. I really hope that Perry is paid for services rendered before his client and his new wife ruin the company that the fight was about.

Good episode, with excellent acting and a hott fox detective who's just plain cold.