When an art dealer is found dead, the suspects include his wife, her lover, the man who bought a fake painting from him...and the artist who painted it.
Detective Paul Drake helps a magazine publisher locate an heiress. But when the publisher is cut out of a deal and a con man is poisoned, the heiress is charged with murder.
A university professor is charged with the murder of a blackmailing songwriter; guest David Hedison.
Perry turns down an electronics manufacturer suing the Navy and instead defends a sailor accused of killing his captain.
A museum worker returns from prison, sent there after being falsely accused of setting fire to an art collection, to settle accounts with the man who framed him, only to find himself held accountable for murder.