The Case of the Screaming Woman - Erle Stanley Gardner
epub | 156.3 KB | English | Author :Erle Stanley Gardner | 2014 | Della Street Press

Book Description :

Joan Kirby doesn't believe her husband's story about picking up a stranded woman in the middle of the night and dropping her off at a hotel. She asks Perry Mason to cross-examine him. Mason uncovers a much murkier trail involving murder, illegal adoption, stolen narcotics and blackmail.

"It was a rather embarrassing situation."

"Go on," Perry Mason said.

"Well, she suggested that if I'd register as husband and wife, we could get a room at a motel and she could stay in the room and I could go on."

"Did you register under your own name?"

"No sir, you didn't. I registered as Mr. and Mrs. John Wagner of San Francisco. Then I took her to the cabin, gave her ten dollars, told her good night and went on home."

"Does your wife believe that story?"

"Of course she does. Why shouldn't she?"

"That," said Perry Mason, "may be the real problem."

Category : | Mysteries, Legal Thrillers, Mysteries