Characters
See also: List of Perry Mason cast members- Perry Mason – defense attorney (played by Raymond Burr)
- Della Street – Mason's confidential secretary (played by Barbara Hale)
- Paul Drake – private investigator (played by William Hopper)
- Hamilton Burger – District Attorney (played by William Talman)
- Lieutenant Arthur Tragg – Police homicide detective (played by Ray Collins)
- Lieutenant Andy Anderson – Another police homicide detective (played by Wesley Lau)
- Lieutenant Steve Drumm – Yet another police homicide detective (played by Richard Anderson)
- Dr. Hoxie – "Autopsy surgeon" (medical examiner) (played by Michael Fox)
- Sgt. Brice – (played by Lee Miller)
- Gertrude "Gertie" Glade – Mason's frequently mentioned but seldom-seen receptionist (played by Connie Cezon)
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“A criminal trial is like a Russian novel: it starts with exasperating slowness as the characters are introduced to a jury, then there are complications in the form of minor witnesses, the protagonist finally appears and contradictions arise to produce drama, and finally as both jury and spectators grow weary and confused the pace quickens, reaching its climax in passionate final argument.”
—Clifford Irving (b. 1930)
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which stands continually open to our gaze, but it cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and interpret the characters in which it is written. It is written in the language of mathematics, and its characters are triangles, circles, and other geometrical figures, without which it is humanly impossible to understand a single word of it.”
—Galileo Galilei (1564–1642)
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—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)