Private Investigator Perry Mason, in 1932, obtains photographic evidence of the misdeeds of actor Chubby Carmichael. Pete Strickland, the studio executive who hired Mason, is willing to pay but balks when Mason asks for more money that he originally offered.
E.B. Jonathan hires Mason to look into the case of a dead infant, Charlie Dodson. Mason crosses paths with police detectives who don't care for his interest in the case. Mason wonders about the possibility that the child's father might have something to do with it's death.
Mason's attempt to blackmail the studio doesn't work out very well. He makes a limited amount of progress in the murder investigation.






