The Case of the Shoplifter's Shoe Author:Erle Stanley Gardner One morning, Perry Mason saved a kind-looking, white-haired old lady named Sarah Breel from a shoplifting charge. The next day she stepped into Perry's office and informed him that her brother had disappeared on a drunken spree. With him, she said calmly, he had taken five glittering diamonds worth a fortune. — The next thing Perry knew was that ... more »calm, old Sarah had been hit by a car. After the accident happened, a bloodstain was found on her shoe, a gun in her handbag, and the corpse of a diamond-loving gent named Austin Cullens was discovered in a house across the street. Then Perry learned that, besides a broken leg, Sarah Breel was also suffering from amnesia. And this was Perry's payoff: she was his client, she was charged with murder, and she couldn't - or maybe wouldn't - give him any clues at all!« less