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.
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.
Morley Eden finds an unwanted guest on his property. The ex-wife of his dream house’s contractor claims that the property is one-half hers. Eden calls upon Perry Mason to resolve a dispute that is linked to murder.
But when his investigation also turns up a dead body, the diminutive detective must teach the killer a lesson in justice . . . “Lively wit and machinegun dialogue.” —Ralph E. Vaughan, author of Murder in the Goblins’ Playground ...
A fight over a rich man’s will turns deadly in this murder mystery by the “kingpin among the mystery writers” from the series that inspired the HBO show (The New York Times).