Perry Mason: The Case of the Difficult Detour (1961)
Season 4, Episode 21
8/10
Yes Comissioner, Mason Is Holding The Bat Phone
19 January 2010
Warning: Spoilers
Neil Hamilton (Commissioner Gordon in 1960's Batman) makes his appearance on this episode as Ames, a man who has no alibi for when this murder is committed, but who sets up the meeting with Mason's client who is accused of murder.

This starts as heavy equipment with a contractor building an access road for a new housing development working against a deadline. Then Ames stops the project with a court case as he contends the project is on his property. The only thing is the contractor is caught between two mens scheme to try & squeeze him out by messing up the project. Ames (Hamilton) has suddenly come from San Francisco to take the contractor to court to force stoppage to the project.

The contractor is angry & goes around to everybody trying to figure out just who is conspiring against him. His mistake is in beating up the man a few minutes before someone else murders him. Mason navigates through a twisted road of lies and deception because the victim is one of the people who is manipulating people.

When all the smoke has cleared, Mason convinces Ames how to straighten out this web of deceit & exposes a few extra twists in the court room.
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