Although this entry in the series was critically well-received, author Erle Stanley Gardner reportedly hated it as did many of the readers of the Mason novel. Gardner repeatedly offered his services to Warner Bros. as consultant for the screen adaptation, but, in his words, "I have been continually snubbed."
Unlike the novels and the Raymond Burr TV series, which used Los Angeles as a location and/or base, here Perry Mason's offices are in San Francisco. And despite location shots that show San Francisco, many of the street names heard are from Southern California: Norwalk, Hawthorne.
Allen Jenkins, who had played the adversarial Sgt. Holcombe in the first series entry, The Case of the Howling Dog (1934), here becomes Mason's comic sidekick detective friend Spudsy Drake, a part he would repeat in the subsequent third entry, The Case of the Lucky Legs (1935). Spudsy was a replacement for Mason's literary detective/sidekick, Paul Drake.
Donald Woods appears as the character Carl Montaine. In 1937, he would actually play Perry Mason in The Case of the Stuttering Bishop (1937), the last in the Warner Bros. Perry Mason series.