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Pretty good episode, even if Barbara didn't have much of a part. The woman (defendant) who was back in town to do something about the killer of her son. She's overemotional most of the time, everyone else is a suspect, and I gotta admit, I thought they were all a bunch of suspicious wierdos.

**SPOILER** One thing I noticed was that when the wife of the guy who was gonna run for mayor was in the newspaper office, she was looking for the newsie's ulcer medicine. As she and Perry were leaving the office, it looked like there was a bottle of the stuff in plain view right next to the door; above the light switch. I know: picky, picky ...

Another happy ending for Perry's client, and beautiful Della has at least some lines at the end.

***SPOILERS*** Perry Mason, Raymond Burr, gets himself involved in a murder case where the accused murderess Lucille Forrest, Frances Reid, was in fact trying to get to the bottom of whom she feels murdered her son Richard two years earlier. Having checked out of Forrest Junction after Richards mysterious death,that was declared a suicide by the police, Lucille was now back sure that she knows who murdered her son. That even it would cost her late husband's Jed inheritance if she did have her and his son's death investigated.

The person whom Lucille is sure murdered Richard Ralph Day, Arthur Malet, later is found dead of a severe bleeding ulcer. It's soon discovered that Day got himself drunk on sherry wine at a party the night before that Lucille, who mixed the drinks at the party, served to him. That sherry contained large amounts rattlesnake venom that just played havoc with Day's ulcer that caused it to burst and have him bleed to death! Perry looking at all the clues to Day's death soon comes up with the startling information that he was in fact being blackmailing the very person who murdered Lucille's son Richard!

***SPOILERS*** Perry ends up solving two murders that were committed two years apart in order to exonerate Lucille Forrest in Day's murder! As for the person who committed both of them he murdered Richard, and made it look like a suicide, in that he found out he was embezzling his pop's,Jed Forrest, business. As for Day he was blackmailing Richard's murderer and when he got too greedy he ended up being murdered by him as well! The killers courtroom melt-down under Perry's cross examination exposed just what a unfeeling and cold blooded murdering snake the guy was! Even though he broke down and admitted his crime he still felt that he did the right thing in committing it! That's by feeling that his personal happiness and life style is far more important then anyone's life who's in danger of putting an end to it!