. . . Perry Mason's movie career in the 1930s, as its hard-to-follow convoluted plot bears no scrutiny whatsoever. A synopsis of this story might read something like this: Two Australian moms with look-alike daughters the same age run across each other in Salt Lake City, and decide to live together. When Mom A lets slip that her daughter's estranged grandpa is an L.A. millionaire, Mom B immediately hires a detective agency to plant HER OWN DAUGHTER in the Rich Guy's house as a second grandchild. Since this impostor's kind of cute, Gramps instantly announces plans to give 75% of his grandson's inheritance to the stranger girl. Mom A's wedding minister arrives from another continent to inform Mom A of this nefarious plot. Mom A goes to meet her adopted-out grown daughter and her estranged father-in-law, not realizing that Mom B has stolen her registered gun in order to off the Rich Guy before her own daughter is exposed as an impostor. Mom B shoots the millionaire four times, but that's okay, since the Real Killer is one of the Private Eyes with whom she's in cahoots. He shoves the Death Car into the Bay, drowning Mr. Money Bags before he can bleed to death from Mom B's bullets. At best, THE CASE OF THE STUTTERING BISHOP is an argument against gun registration.
Review of The Case of the Stuttering Bishop
