The Case of the Shapely Shadow Author:Earle Stanley Gardner If Della Street has 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 rold of Ugly Duckling... and you have three lovely and shapely ladies who figure p... more »rominently in the life -- and death -- of Morely 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.« less