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Perry Mason is hired to protect Mae Farr from a presumed stalker, wealthy playboy Penn Wentworth. When Mason learns that Wentworth wants Mae for forging his name on a cheque, things get complicated. But fatal gunplay leaves Wentworth dead, Mae a wanted woman and Perry Mason in trouble.
Seven intriguing mysteries featuring the talents of the inimitable Perry Mason.
A man tells everyone that his wife has run away with his best friend, who seems to have a strange lack of enthusiasm about the affair. The case leads to murder, and a trial that hinges on multiple sets of footprints.
"Pete Brunold believes that someone has stolen his glass eye with the intention of planting it at the scene of a crime, and he goes to Perry Mason for help. Harry McLane has embezzled four thousand dollars from his employer and is also seeking Mason's help. Later that evening, Hartley Bassett, McLane's boss, is found dead with a glass eye in his hand and a suicide note on his typewriter, and the only person who can help Mason to clear his clients of suspicion promptly disappears."--
Perry Mason investigates a case of blackmail with a side of loaded dice Years ago, Alden Leeds struck it rich when he discovered a vein of gold. Now, aging and single, he finds himself surrounded by family waiting patiently to inherit his fortune. When he announces his engagement to a much younger woman, it sends that family into a panic, fearing that it might threaten their future gains. They have him admitted into a sanitarium, claiming incompetence—and that’s when lawyering super-sleuth Perry Mason gets involved, but the case is about to get much more complicated… Before all is said and done, Mason will tangle with a cheating gambler, a blackmailer, multiple aliases, multiple corpse...
One of Perry Mason's trademarks is his ability, in court, to switch the physical evidence in a case. He generally does this with guns or bullets, and it confuses the jury, to his client's advantage. In this case, Perry offers a coroner's inquest two parrots, one of which swore like a muleskinner and was found near the body of a millionaire hermit who had been murdered.
First Mason gets his face slapped by a beautiful burglar in his office building, then a Tijuana wedding trip leads to a murder.
Mason is hired to identify a woman based on an appendix scar, as she fears being a look-alike to an heiress may be a setup for her arrest. Mason later defends the heiress on murder charges.
When Norda Allison's fiance slapped his little son across the face, she called off the wedding. Now she's scared. Ex-love Melvin has beat up her new boyfriend. Anonymous news clippings about horrible things jilted men do to the women who leave them are flooding her mailbox. And suddenly Norda's nightmare turns to disaster -- a barking dog, a child's scream, a shot in the dark, a dead body, a pistol under her pillow, and finally her arrest for murder. Only brilliant courtroom strategist Perry Mason stands between Norda and a dread sentence of murder in the first degree. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.