The Case of the Fatal Fortune
A fortune teller tells Pat Kean that she will get married but it will end tragically. She later marries her boss, Max Armstead, a client and good friend of Mason's. However, a few weeks later, Max dies from an apparent case of poi...
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"This episode of Perry Mason finds him defending Julie Adams a young second and trophy wife for Jesse White. She was his secretary, but on the grounds of having her fortune told by an astrologer she marries White. Then White winds up very dead from someone tampering with his digitalis. As Mason was White's lawyer she inherits him as an attorney and of course that's a good thing. I found this episode to be way too much of a reach and way too coincidental. This was the ninth season of Perry Mason and the writers were straining to find original stories that were plausible. This one just..."
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One of the witnesses claims that the digitalis was in capsule form and contained 8 mg. That amount of digitalis is considerably more than necessary to kill somebody. The therapeutic dose is 0.25 mg, and the toxicity margin is very narrow.
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A fortune teller tells Pat Kean that she will get married but it will end tragically. She later marries her boss, Max Armstead, a client and good friend of Mason's. However, a few weeks later, Max dies from an apparent case of poi...