Velvet Claws Author:Erle Stanley Gardner "Eva Belter was in double troube--She had been 'indiscreet' with a gentleman who was not her husband. When a blackmailing scandal sheet called Spicy Bite got the evidence and threatened to publish the story, she went to Perry Mason to ask his help in buying their silence. Perry agreed to at least investigate. Then Eva's powerful , wealthy hus... more »band was murdered! Perry rushed to help his client. He asked her to tell him all she knew. "You're sure,' he queried, 'that it wasn't your nephew Carl's voice you heard up in your husband's room?' Eva hesitated a moment. She widened her eyes and stared full into his face with a look of studied innocence. 'No,' she said. 'It was yours.'"« less