Book excerpt: "Perry Mason's client was guilty--at least of some things. She was living under a false name. She had taken another woman's purse containing $4,000. She had stabbed a man with an ice pick. She had fled from an accident in which another person was killed. But had she committted one murder or two murders? There were certainly two corpses. The police connected her with one on circumstantial evidence. The second person accused her before dying. She had no alibi and her defense was: 'I didn't do it.' But she had retained Perry Mason, for a nickel, and--Perry Mason believed she was innocent!" --