... than "Negligent Nymph". Perry Mason episode titles usually fall into two categories - titles named after some object that is central to the case, and titles that indicate that a beautiful woman is at the center of the story to pack in viewers/readers (in the case of the original stories). But I digress.
A beachcomber finds a bottle washed ashore with a message in it. The message says it is written by an heiress who drowned at sea while aboard her yacht, and who indicates that she was actually murdered by her nephew for her money.
The nephew, George Alder is a piece of work, regardless of whether or not he is a murderer. He does pay off the beach comber since he only wants a hundred dollars. And he has no problem slapping his perpetually drunk wife around in front of said beach comber AND his secretary. His secretary quits because of Alder's bad behavior. Later that night she sneaks back into the office to try and find that note, because she has always suspected that Alder did kill his aunt for the inheritance. She is discovered by the guards on the premises and chased away. What she didn't notice was that her ex boss' murdered body is behind the couch in the office, obscured from her view.
Perry, nearby on his boat on a sea bass fishing expedition, rescues the girl from the Dobermans, who are in hot pursuit. It seems Perry can't even go on a trip at sea and not end up with a client. The best part of this episode, at least to me, was the Hispanic woman who was Alder's aunt's maid. She works in a restaurant now, but she also likes to make melodramatic speeches that are too much even for attorneys.