Maxima Library

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.