Jimmy Meacham hires his good friend Paul Drake to go to Paris to see what he can learn about Nellie's new husband but when Pierre Dubois is found dead floating in the pool, it's Marie Claudet who is charged with murder. They know they have a rival for the development in Roger Brody who has offered $2 million in cash for the land as is. Nellie is eccentric and flighty and refuses to talk business and their sure Dubois is a gigolo so they try to tempt him to stray, even hiring a pretty French maid, Marie Claudet. Their uncle Herbert died and they wish to pursue the planned conversion of the family estate, Hacienda Grande, into a residential subdivision that could generate $10 million over just a few years, Imagine the shock when she arrives with her new husband, the much younger Frenchman, Pierre Dubois. víceīrothers Todd and Jimmy Meacham anxiously await the return to the United States of their recently widowed Aunt Nellie. They've also determine he had been killed with Jay's own medication. Rahel had actually put three bullets in the old man but it was subsequently determined that he had been dead for several hours when she shot him.
Rachel had a good deal of sympathy from the household staff including the butler Charles Norman and his wife, housekeeper Sadie Norman as well as nurse Phyllis Clover. Lambert, confirms the family situation to Perry. He was constantly threatening to change his will and had only recently demanded that his niece Rachel Gordon, who has spent 15 years of her life caring for him, return some money she had taken for her lover Tracey Walcott. Abner Gordon was a crotchety old man who treated everyone around him very badly. Bruce had already spoken to Perry about $50,000 Abner owed him from an industrial accident some years before.
Perry Mason defends Bruce Jay who is accused of killing his employer, Abner Gordon. It's left to Perry to sort it all out and find the killer. The money is delivered but Bonnie is found dead, leading to Mona's arrest. Mona's uncle, Everett Stanton, agrees to get him the money right away. He concocts a scheme with Bonnie writing him a blackmail note. Hannibal has been trying everything to find the $10,000 Volente has demanded but with Mona in Seattle tending to a sick friend, no one at the family business, Staunton Press, will help him out. Unbeknown to her, her husband Hannibal Harvey was being blackmailed by Nonno Volente who threatened to send Mona's love letters to him from a long-ago relationship to a scandal magazine. Perry Mason defends Mona Stanton Harvey who is accused of murdering her sculptor-husband's model, Bonnie. A quick trip to Vegas eventually leads Perry and private investigator to the killer. David was in debt to gamblers and had written a bad check in Las Vegas and Harry Marig was there to collect the debt. She grabbed the gun and ran, obviously trying to protect her husband or her sister-in-law. Margaret had gone to see David but found him dead. A few days prior to the killing, Jason Foster learned that his underage sister Susan was out drinking with David Cartwell and let it be known that if David didn't leave alone, there would consequences. Perry Mason defends Margaret Foster, the wife of State Senatorial candidate Jason Foster who is charged with murdering David Cartwell, stepson of incumbent Senator Randolph Cartwell. When Vince Rome is killed, Dirk Blake is charged with murder and Perry defends him. Keeping an eye on the girl aboard the yacht is Vince Rome who has been taking care of himself and hoping that Janice will marry him once the divorce goes through. Button is a young heiress having inherited $4 million from her grandfather and Perry Mason is the administrator of the trust. It isn't a case of kidnapping per se and the judge in the case gives temporary custody to Roger and Lois Gray, friends of the family. After Janice refuses to let her soon-to-be ex-husband have Button for his two days of visitation, he takes her and puts her on his yacht, the Blue Nymph. The button in this case is Button Blake, the young daughter of Janice and Dirk Blake who are going through a nasty divorce.
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