Former tennis pro David Hasselhof married Doran Clark. The gossip was that he was washed up on the courts and he married her for her money. When she turns up drowned in a lake, Mr. Hasselhof winds up in a different sort of court. Good thing he's got Perry Mason as his defense lawyer. He always digs up lots of other suspects, makes witnesses recant on the stand and invariably one of them confesses to the murder.
At least, that's how the formula for Erle Stanley Gardner's lawyer-sleuth is supposed to have worked. Even on the TV series, where he tried 271 cases, he won "only" 268... I'm sure William Talman, playing Assistant District Attorney Hamilton Burger, was delirious about those three wins. What if Perry can't find someone to confess?
At least, that's how the formula for Erle Stanley Gardner's lawyer-sleuth is supposed to have worked. Even on the TV series, where he tried 271 cases, he won "only" 268... I'm sure William Talman, playing Assistant District Attorney Hamilton Burger, was delirious about those three wins. What if Perry can't find someone to confess?