Even if the first of this episode is not to your liking you will not be disappointed in the last half. The last half is filled with Della on the witness stand, a room-mate giving false information, two women admitting to having a relationship with a married man, a witness threatening to jump out the court house window, a person lead away to be charged with attempted murder, Perry getting some evidence by some rough means and another person lead away to be charged with murder. Talk about being jammed packed with excitement the last half is overflowing.
The story involves two room-mates. Anita Bonsal (Jean Willes) and Fay Allison (Sue England) that live on the sixth floor of the Mandrake Arms. Ms Allsion is a few days away from being married to Done Grover (Douglas Dick) who just happens to be an ex-boyfriend of room-mate Anita Bonsal. Needless to say Ms Bonsal is not overwhelmed at the marriage.
Ms Bonsal is secretly seeing this man, Carver Clements (John Holland) on the seventh floor of the Mandrake. And when things turn cold with the relationship Ms Bonsal seems to turn from upset about the marriage to furious about how things are going in her life.
The next day both Anita and Fay are found poisoned by barbiturates and Mr Clements is found dead. And it just so happened that Perry and Della are at the Mandrake Arms and are the first to find the murdered victim and call Lt Tragg.
When Lt Tragg starts investigating all evidence points to Fay Allison as the murderer of Carver Clements. So now Perry enters the courtroom where all heck breaks out in the last half of the show.
The only problem I had with the show was too many characters that were introduced in haste. When you see a apartment neighbor in one scene in hair curlers and a bathrobe- and then a later scene she is in a sexy dress- well I had to ask myself, who is that? Anyway a good watch for all Perry fans.
Note- There is one situation that puzzled me about this episode. When the true murderer is found then how in the world did Fay's fingerprint get on a glass in Carver's apartment? Oh well, either I missed it or it was TV magic.