THE CASE OF THE SILENT PARTNER – Erle Stanley Gardner

Successful florist Mildreth Faulkner finds that the flower business is no bed of roses when her arch-competitor, Harry Peavis, secretly buys stock in her small, family owned corporation. While Peavis proposes a partnership, Mildreth suspects he’s really plotting a power play. So to keep the scurrilous shareholder from muscling her out, she seeks Perry Mason’s expertise