"After her Aunt Sarah is caught shoplifting, Virgina Trent turns to Perry Mason when diamonds go missing and Sarah becomes the prime suspect in a gem dealer's murder."--

A widow in distress, her attentive, very wealthy swain, and his overly-protective nieces and nephews provide Perry Mason with one of the most challenging cases of his brilliant legal career. It al lbean when the attractive Mrs. Anson came to Perry Mason for advice on how to handle a shadow--a real, live shadow, that is. Mason figured that where there was a shadow of any description, there was substance. The point was how much substance, and what kind?...

An erstwhile young man has his hands full as trustee of a wild young woman's inheritance. But his love and her money don't mix. Perry Mason may be able to prove his client is no embezzler-- but what happens when murder rears its head?

When clever trial lawyer Perry Mason agrees to help a young woman he finds himself searching for clues to a murder.

Waitress Katherine Ellis was young, orphaned, beautiful-- and desperately worried. When Perry Mason heard about her eccentric Aunt Sophia he saw she was in even more trouble than she realized... "When you get off at 9 o'clock, go home. Pack up your things... Get out of that house... It's dangerous..." was his urgent advice.

The client was young blond and beautiful and she wanted to disappear. The trouble was she wouldn't say why, and she wouldn't give her name. So Perry Mason agreed to a code of identification based on her measurements: 36-24-36. But according to Della Street, the figures were padded, and as it turned out, so was everything the client said. Certainly the bag full of cash she carries isn't shopping money. All the mystery-woman asks is that Perry Mason...