The Case of the Deadly Toy — Erle Stanley Gardner

ENGAGED TO A NIGHTMARE

When Norda Allison sees her husband-to-be slap his young son, she immediately calls off the wedding. Now she is terrified. Her ex-fiancé has beat up her new boyfriend. Anonymous newspaper clippings are flooding her mailbox--articles graphically depicting what jilted men do to the women who leave them. Then Norda's life takes an even darker turn. It begins with a barking dog, a child's scream, a gunshot, and the discovery of a very dead body--and ends when Norda is arrested, charged with a brutal murder.

Now only brilliant courtroom strategist Perry Mason stands between Norda and a sentence of certain death . . .

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