The Case of the Reluctant Model

Name: The Case of the Reluctant Model
Released: 1963-10-31
Cast: Joanna Moore, Robert Brown, John Dall, John Larkin, Margaret Hayes

Series: Perry Mason

Season: Season 7

Episode Number: 6

Air Date: 10/31/1963

Duration: 51 min

Crude but wealthy art connisseur Otto Olney throws a party to celebrate his purchasing a painting by famed artist Gauguin. Then a party guest, art expert Colin Durant, says that the painting is actually a fake. Olney then goes to Perry who decides to sue Durant for libel. Durant then claims he never said anything regarding the painting and the only witness, an art student named Maxine Lindsay, confirms his story. Perry then discovers the dead body of Austin Durant, fully clothed, in the shower of Maxine's apartment. Paul Drake then tracks down Maxine but the police are right behind him and they arrest her for murder. Guess who she hires to defend her?