146 books · Erle Stanley Gardner
Perry Mason, criminal lawyer, is retained by a much-too-beautiful woman who obviously is concealing more than she is telling. She has heard that Mason is not only a law unto himself, but that he never lets a client down. Having been rather indiscreet, she is involved in blackmail. The case is immediately complicated by murder, and Mason finds himself as busy keeping clear of the law himself as he is in saving his client. The action is swift, dramatic, and convincing...