Los Angeles, 1931. On the heels of an unsavory investigationinvolving a famous comedian, Perry Mason - a PI struggling tomake ends meet - and his right-hand man Pete Strickland arehired by attorney E.B. Jonathan, Perry's mentor, to solve aperplexing case: the brutal kidnapping of one-year-old CharlieDodson, whose parents Matthew and Emily were targeted for a0,000 ransom. After meeting with Herman Baggerly, amillionaire elder at the Dodsons' church, Perry, E.B., andE.B'.s legal secretary Della Street ponder why a family ofunmistakably modest means would be extorted for such a steepprice.
