THE CASE OF THE ONE EYED WITNESS – Erle Stanley Gardner

DIAL M FOR MYSTERY, MURDER, AND MASON

Perry Mason is dining peacefully at the Golden Goose café when he receives a mysterious phone call. The frantic woman on the other and of the line is desperate to retain Mason’s services, but suddenly vanishes during their cryptic phone conversation.

The only clues: a newspaper clipping about a blackmail case, and the combination to a safe scrawled on a scrap of paper. The case: a tangled web indeed, strung between an eccentric widower with something to hide, a sexy cigarette girl with plenty to cry about, a real-estate broker with his own home on the selling block, a wife, a lover, and too many loose ends. The Common denominator: murder, of course…