The Case of the Deadly Toy Author:Erle Stanley Gardner Norda Allison began to get letters. — They came in plain envelopes with her name printed on them. Each one contained a newspaper clipping. Each clipping was a story about a man who had shot a woman - a divorced husband who couldn't live without his wife, a jilted suitor, a drink-crazed lover. — Norda went to a lawyer who called in the postal autho... more »rities. The letters kept coming. Norda went to the police. They were very sympathetic, but what could they do about it?
Then Norda discovered the toy press that was printing her name on the envelopes. She hired Perry Mason to represent her and took him to the house where she'd seen the press.
The press wasn't there, but trouble, real trouble, was waiting. Suddenly Perry Mason had a client who was booked on suspicion of murder. The dead man had been her fiance`.
And the murder weapon was found under her pillow!« less
Someone is sending Norda Allison ominous newspaper clippings. She suspects her X fiance Mervin. Then Mervin is murdered and the police waste no time hauling Norda to headquarters. Why was Mervins X wife, Loraine, so friendly to Norda? Who gave Loraines little boy a gun? Perry Mason, Della Street and Paul Drake need plenty of cunning to uncover the truth.