Wealthy businessman Hartley Bassett has killed himself. That's easy to see. After all, there's a typewritten suicide note and three guns lying near his body. For Perry Mason, that's evidence overkill. He knows there'd been trouble in Bassett's life: His wife wants out, his stepson hates him, an embezzler can't pay him back--and there's a man with a glass eye who hired Mason even before his missing orb was found in the hands of the deceased.
There are too many suspects and too many lies. But leave it to Mason, his resourceful secretary, Della Street, and clever detective Paul Drake to keep their wits about them and their wiles tucked away, as they piece together the missing parts of this fatal family puzzle.
It doesn't take a blind man to see that there are too many suspects and too many lies. A wealthy business man kills himself. There's a typewritten suicide note & 3 guns lying near his body. Perry Mason knows there's been trouble in the Bassets life: his wife wants out, his stepson hates him, an embezzler can't pay him back--and there's a man with a glass eye who hired Mason even before his missing orb was found in the hands of the deceased!