Полное собрание сочинений. Племянница лунатика Том 5

Poker-faced Nellie Conway, the nurses bed-ridden Elizabeth Bain, brings trouble when she calls on Perry Mason with a glass phial containing four pills which she suspects are poison. Her employer, Nathan Bain, she says, had promised her money to give them to his wife. But when Mason has one of the pills analyzed it is found to consist of acetylsalicylic—in other words good old-fashioned aspirin. Is Perry Mason’s client a hoaxer, a psychopath, or something trickier? Nathan Bain’s next move is to accuse Nellie of theft and provide proof by shining ultra-violet light on her fingers. The case which began like a joke suddenly becomes sinister. Perry gets his client out of this spot but trails her to New Orleans where he has a hard job disentangling fact from theory on the subject of Mrs. Bain. One flying trip to New Orleans. One charge of vagrancy--against Perry Mason. Plus two dramatic courtroom scenes climaxed by one of the most spectacular grandstand plays of Mason's distinguished career--add up to Grade-A mystery fare Paul Drake's voice came over the wire so fast that the words seemed to telescope into each other. "Get this Perry, and get it fast," he said. "We're sitting on a keg of dynamite. My man found Ethel Garvin dead as a mackerel, sitting in her automobile with a bullet hole in her left temple." "Suicide?" asked Perry Mason. "Not much chance," Drake continued. "She's slumped over the steering wheel and it's rather messy. The gun is lying on the ground directly beneath the window." "What about the police?" "My operative discovered the body and managed to notify me. He's notifying the sheriff and the coroner's office. He got the number of the gun and I'm trying to trace it. We may be just one step ahead of the police." "Okay," said Perry Mason. "Stay one step ahead of them. I'm on my way." But neither Paul Drake nor Perry Mason was fast enough to stay one step ahead. And only a seemingly miraculous piece of detective work kept Perry Mason's client from being convicted of murder-and Perry from being disbarred. Perry Mason is retained by a woman in an admirable attempt to break up her husbands romance with an attractive divorcee. After buying stock in a company, Mason creates business difficulties to bring out the worst in the other woman. The plan works, but it also creates other events to start moving, and the divorcee becomes an accomplice to a murder pointing to Masons client. In the preliminary hearing, Burgers case is unbelievably sloppy, but Mason has to play the jury trial strictly by ear. He is lucky to pull this one off. Ubiĭstvo v spalne Delo o dnevnike zagorai︠u︡shcheĭ blondinki Delo o krichashcheĭ zhenshchine. Delo o bezzabotnom kotėnke Delo brodi︠a︡zhki-devstvennit︠s︡y Delo nezadachlivogo zhenikha. Delo o nervnom souchastnike Delo perepugannoĭ mashinistki Istorii︠a︡ kukly-neposedy.