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HERE'S a Perry Mason story with a murder hinging on as ingenious a trick as has appeared in a mystery in a long time, and containing some of the most exciting courtroom scenes Erie Stanley Gardner has ever written. It's about: Alden E. Leeds, millionaire and black sheep of the family, about to be torn limb from limb by a pack of gold-greedy relatives; Emily Milicant, "that woman"; Phyllis, old man Leed's niece and business manager; Ned Barkler, once his partner in Klondike days; L. C. Conway, who sold dice almost anyone could roll; blonde, hard Marcia Whittaker, who seemed to have said that ali she wanted was a cozy little home; and, of course, Perry Mason, Delia Street, his secretary, and lanky Paul Drake, the private detective. |