The Case of the Black-Eyed Blonde

Black-eyes, blackguards, and glamorous blondes galore, land Perry Mason and Della Street in a pretty sweet pickle — soured beyond repair by the reappearance of Sergeant Holcomb...

Diana Regis was a stunner — and she had a shiner. But the things she didn’t have were even more interesting. For instance, there was nothing under that fur coat but a thin dressing gown — wherever she’d been she’d obviously left in a hurry...

And then Perry and Della found a body — and pretty soon were enmeshed with numerous people unfortunately of interest also to Lieutenant Tragg and Sergeant Holcomb.

JASON BARTSLER: a mining tycoon who spent his time digging up the past.

FRANK GLENMORE: Jason’s close friend and general factotum, who lived strictly in the present.

CARL FRETCH: Jason’s stepson who labored under the conviction that if you socked a female good and hard she would fall in your arms. Diana Regis said he’d been experimenting on her.

MILDRED DANVILLE: one of the blondes Carl Fretch didn’t sock, but she had plenty of trouble all her own.

HELEN BARTSLER: Jason’s own son’s widow, who hated her father-in-law like poison.

ROBERT BARTSLER, Jr.: a very young cause of a lot of baby-snatching.