Art student Maxine Lindsay, as the guest of her mentor, art dealer Colin
Durant, attends a reception aboard the yacht of millionaire Otto Olney,
who is unveiling his newest purchase, a $130,000 Gauguin. When Durant
confides that the painting is a fake, Maxine becomes involved in a
complicated series of deceptions. Soon gallery owner Leslie Rankin
threatens Maxine. Perry Mason is called in, a beatnik artist is accused
of painting the fake, and Durant is found fully clothed in Maxine's
shower, shot dead with her pistol.