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Perry Mason: The Case of the Counterfeit Crank (1962)
Threatened with divorce
The Case of the Counterfeiter Crank (a faked illness), 1962, 5.27.
...Spoiler...
You always have to suspend disbelief in a Perry Mason episode.
Not everything will make sense or get flushed out.
In this one it was the threatened divorce.
Fenton learned of Kenneth's plan to sell the desert land after the airforce base announcement and wormed his way into the deal.
Jay Fenton (John Larkin) hired a private detective to spy on his business partner Don Morley (Michael King) and Sandra Dalgran (Connie Hines). He threatened to expose their affair if Don Morley did not sign over his partnership to Jay Fenton.
Fenton learned that nephew Kenneth Dalgran was planning on killing his uncle August Dalgran (Otto Kruger) and that Kenneth had bought addition land next to their desert holdings, which were going to sky rocket in value once the Air Force announced they were going to build an air base there. Fenton went to Kenneth's house (after Sandra left and before Gus got there), Kenneth thought Fenton had taken Gus' fake suicide note (Sandra had taken it and shown it to Gus at the sanitarium), and thought Kenneth was going to double cross him. They got in a fight, the gun went off, and Kenneth was dead.
I don't know what societies morals were in 1962 but now a days I'm not sure that forcing a divorce between 2 spouses who no longer love each other is a compelling threat or something that you can use for blackmail.
Perry Mason: The Case of the Hateful Hero (1962)
Who was Pierce's partner in crime?
The Case of the Hateful Hero (1962), 6.05.
This one is confusing. I've rewatched the the key parts several times and still I'm not 100% sure.
...Spoilers...
Who was Ralph Pierce's partner? Either Dwight Wilson (William Phipps) or Jerel Leland (Leonard Stone)? Security guard Ralph Pierce blows up the safe. Nephew Dwight Wilson embezzled $25K from Wilson Plastics and proof is in the safe, so he wanted it blown up to destroy the records. Treasurer Jerel Leland knows Dwight Wilson embezzled $25K so he blackmails him to vote yes on the purchase of Hillman Plastics. Leland made $100,000 on that bit of insider trading. It's not clear why Leland would want the contents of the safe destroyed. Ralph Pierce figured out the embezzlement and stole the microfilm containing the financial records which would prove that $25K was embezzled. The microfilm was kept in the office, not the safe. It's not clear who Pierce stole the microfilm from. Probably Leland. Leland would use the microfilm to blackmail Wilson. Security guard Pierce wanted more money from his partner. Leland killed Pierce so maybe they were partners.
Pierce stole the perfume and nitro from the perfume company. He gave the perfume to Otto Norden (William Boyett) who in turn gave it to his mother, Erna Norden (Jeanette Nolan).
Perry Mason: The Case of the Bogus Books (1962)
1st Edition stolen books.
Perry Mason, 6.01, The Case of the Bogus Books (1962). The reason the stolen first editions were altered by Pearl Chute (Allison Hayes) was so Joseph Kraft (Maurice Manson) could sell them as original old books for $6000 instead of $8000. That way no one would know they were stolen first editions.
How about those coke bottle glasses the book store owner Joseph Kraft/Maurice Manson wore during filming--wow--big eyes. The crew must have positioned him on his spot and said, "be careful, don't walk into the furniture."
On all these Perry Mason episodes the answers are always present from the beginning but I only see them if I watch the episode twice.