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The Case of the Baited Hook

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A masked woman, a third-part of a ten thousand bill, a dubious deal and a nice murder (of course!): these are the elements in yet another great case in which Perry Mason displays his astonishing abilities to unveil the truth. Alibi analysis is fundamental in this one!

This book is about a Perry Mason Mystery. One rainy night Robert Peltham calls Perry Mason out of bed and asks to meet him at once. Accompanying him is a masked women whom Peltham wants Mason to represent. mason asks wha she is charged with. "Read tomorrow's papers," Peltham says, then he cuts a $100,000 bill in half, gives one half to Mason and the other half to the masked woman. The bait. When Albert Tidings, a financier, is found murdered, Mason knows his client will be indicted. But who? Is it Adelle Hastings , the heiress with no money, whose charities Tidings administered? Or is it Byrl Gailord, whose trust fund Tidings managed. And why must Mason begin his investigation without knowing who retained him? With the top-notch, crakcerjack help of his secretaryDella Street and Private detective Paul Drake, Mason seeks answers to these intriguing questions. This mystery is one in a million. You will love it.

The hook was baited. Mason was summoned from the dead of night to his office, where he received $2,000 in cash, and the small end of a $10,000 bill. The client was a masked woman, and he had no way of knowing who she was, and how to prepare her defense.

Mason stumbles around trying to figure out how to protect his mystery client. Then even after he unmasks his client, he finds himself the victim of a frame-up by a suspect who tells a story which the district attorney is happy to believe.