There is turmoil after the death of Adam York, publisher of the Los Angeles Chronicle newspaper.
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Perry Mason solves the murder of an embezzler and exposes a scheme to steal a valuable paint formula.
During a terrible storm at sea, First Officer Jerry Griffin dumps a million dollars worth of goods into the sea in order to lessen the chances of his cargo freighter sinking. Once on shore, Jerry is hauled before a maritime court which holds him responsible for the loss of the cargo. Captain Bancroft's testimony can clear Jerry but he is murdered before he can give it.
Comic Charlie Hatch learns that the woman he loved and lost, Anne Gilrain, has escaped from a sanitarium to which she was forced to commit herself by her husband, Tom. When Tom Gilrain is murdered, Charlie is afraid that Anne did the deed and sets himself up as a likely suspect to protect her. Perry arrives on the scene to try and free Charlie from his abysmal stupidity.
Murder in a booby-trapped elevator leads Perry Mason to set a spectacular electrical trap in court.
Perry Mason defends a doctor accused both of malpractice and of the murder of a dishonest lawyer.
Perry gets word that the Coast Guard has boarded Cahill's vessel looking for stolen gold. They found some of the bullion and the corpse of a shady character, Karl McGovern. An autopsy reveals that McGovern was killed with a fatal dose of digitalis. Scott Cahill is charged with murder when the police theorize that he and the dead man were partners in stealing the gold.
An artist fakes suicide to boost the value of his work, but the plot backfires when he is found murdered.
A race car driver is murdered after he deliberately wrecks a valuable test car.
Perry Mason defends a one-time all-American football player accused of murdering the owner of a health club.
Charles Cromwell, the president-elect of Euclid College, worries that some less than stellar moments from his past will be exposed when Maisie Freitag arrives on the scene to make an unusual bequest to the college. Needless to say, murder eventually finds its way to the campus.
Perry Mason takes the case of a man accused of killing a newspaperman who was searching for an escaped Nazi war criminal.