The Case Of The Duplicate Daughter Av Erle Stanley Gardner

<p><b>''For fans of classic hard-boiled whodunits, this is a time machine back to an exuberant era of snappy patter, stakeouts, and double-crosses'' <i>LA Times</i></b><br><br><b>''Kingpin among the mystery writers'' <i>New York Times</i></b><br><br>Muriell Gilman left her father at the breakfast table while she cooked seconds of sausage and eggs. When she returned, he had disappeared. <br>She searched the house from cellar to attic. Then she went out to the workshop . . . there, scattered on the floor, were hundred-dollar bills, an overturned chair, and a spreading, crimson stain. That''s when she telephoned Perry Mason.<br><br>Perry Mason has so many questions: why did she call him? Why didn''t she want her step-sister to talk to him? And why was Gillman''s wife being blackmailed - by a female private investigator . . . ?</p>