Shills can't cash chips : Money in the bank has always been a persuasive factor in Bertha Cool's life -- and Lamont Hawley represented a lot of it. He also represented an insurance company that smelled a rat about a traffic accident claim -- 30,000 smackers for a whiplash injury. The trouble was the claimant had drifted away -- a beautiful blonde who had been most co-operative and levelheaded. In fact, too levelheaded -- she sounded almost professional....

When one of the two prominent men competing for the affections of Maxine, a blonde model, turns up dead, and Maxine disappears, Perry Mason investigates.

Perry Mason becomes involved in a complicated case of fraud when he is hired by former bank president J.R. Bradbury to find Marjorie Clune, a young woman who disappeared after allegedly being duped into believing she was going to star in a motion picture.

If you're young, attractive, and female, resist the advances of Loring Lamont at your peril. The spoiled son of a rich and powerful father, Lamont is a wolf who goes after one pretty lamb too many. For stenographer Arlene Ferris has vowed not to let him get away with his cruel come-ons, though she never had murder in mind. Perry Mason's cardinal rule - always trust your client - finds its sorest test when all the evidence says the unfortunate Miss...