- Ethel Andrews thinks she is about to be married but finds herself accused of stealing $50,000 from her company. On the run, she changes identities with another woman, who dies in an accident. When Ethel's fiancé is killed, she is charged.
- Ethel Andrews is a quiet woman, successful in her career at a financial management firm. She's understandably upset when her coworker, Bruce Strickland, leaves her standing at the altar. As if that weren't enough, she learns that $50,000 she signed for is missing from the office accounts. She decides to look for Strickland who supposedly went on vacation. While driving, she nearly has an accident causing another woman, Peggy Sutton, to run off the road and damage her car. Peggy Sutton, is herself, on the run after she receives an anonymous phone call telling her the mob has put a contract out on her. Ethel needs time to find out what happened to the money so when Peggy suggests they switch identities for a week, she accepts. When Ethel has a flat in Peggy's car, the man who changes the tires finds a package in the trunk which Ethel discovers contains over $50,000. Peggy is soon killed in a car accident and Ethel approaches Perry Mason to help her get out of the jam she's in. He finds her story to be somewhat unbelievable but when she is charged with murder, it's up to Perry to find the real killer.—garykmcd
- The paths of two young women cross fatefully as Ethel Andrews is left "standing at the altar" of a secret wedding when she receives a phone call from her boss asking why she signed for the transfer of $50,000 worth of securities. She hits the road and nearly collides with Peggy Sutton, who is entangled in her own web involving the same sum of money. Waiting for repairs to their cars, she is talked into switching identities, under the illusion that hers is the greater burden and danger. With her discovery of her doppelganger's cache, and the accidental death of same, she lands forthwith in the lap of Perry Mason, with her fantastical tale that challenges even his nose for the truth, as he unravels these and subsequent events to reveal the surprise mastermind and motive behind the convoluted developments ... and how was that again?
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