The Case of the Counterfeit Eye (Perry Mason Mysteries)

SUMMARY: A reissue of an original Perry Mason novel finds the legal eagle in the hire of a man whose missing glass eye is found in the hands of a slain millionaire businessman surrounded by suspects. Reissue. Perry Mason's office. L.A. Usual kinda day. In walks Peter Brunwold who hires Mason because someone has replaced his precious, skillfully made glass eye with a cheap imitation, so, Brunwold suspects, the stolen eye can be planted at the scene of a murder. Later, Bertha McLane asks Mason to return some money to high roller Hartley Basset which her brother embezzled from him. When Mason goes to Basset's house, the guy's wife Sylvia stows away in Mason's car so she can tell him her husband is holding her prisoner. That's just the first day. Wait till day two when Basset is found murdered, clutching -- you guessed it -- a glass eye They found a glass eye, clutched in the dead man's hand - staring back at them. Unwinking and evil. Did it belong to the mysterious intruder who had attacked the young woman on the couch? But the only person who could help Parry Mason clear his clients had promptly disappeared. There were more complications to come for Mason. At one point, the brilliant lawyer-detective looked like he would soon land in jail himself after he used one eye too many in this baffling case. One-eyed man sees the future and the face of a murder that bears his mark