Wednesday, May 22 - Perry Mason: The Case of the Baited Hook

Perry Mason: Season 1, Episode 14 The Case of the Baited Hook (21 Dec. 1957)

A young girl named Carol Stanley (Judith Braun) has a trust fund that is being controlled by the investment company of Tidings & Dawson. It seems that Albert Tydings (George Neise) is using the fund as his personal checking account.

When Mr Dawson (Willard Sage) finds out about this he calls the police. But before the police get on the phone Mr Tidings produces a folder that makes Dawson stop the call.

Carol is living with larger-than-life Abigail E. Leeds (Geraldine Wall) that lets everyone she will not be pushed around. She believes that Tydings is stealing from the trust fund and wants Perry to look into the matter. (Ms Leeds says she took Carol to America from Europe to wait for her parents but the parent never showed up and she put Carol in a foster home- but now the foster parents died and she all that Carol has.)

Before Perry can look into the matter, Mr Tydings is found dead. And it just so happened that Carol had an late appointment with Tydings and found the body. This sets off a series of strange events which instead of helping Carol looks like she was covering up the murder.

Lt Tragg puts a tail on Perry which leads right to where Carol was hiding. And now Perry says he will defend her for the murder.