If Della Street had not been so intrigued, Perry Mason may well have missed one of the most baffling cases of his spectacular career… Take one wife, strikingly beautiful… one ex-wife, whittled down to make a comeback… a gorgeous secretary trying to play the role of Ugly Duckling… and you have three lovely and shapely ladies who figure prominently in the life — and death — of Morley L. Theilman. It started with blackmail: the suitcase bulging with $20 bills, the crude, threatening notes, the clever directions for payment — and ended with murder. But why kill the goose who laid the golden egg? Perry Mason pulls some of the fastest legal footwork of his career — in front of judge and jury — before he finds the answer and cracks the case of the prosecution.