![]() ![]() Mason finds a web of greed and treachery among the heirs, and has to put up with a most repulsive attorney who represents some of them. What is at stake in this one isn’t just whether a cat can stay in a house, there’s more: a million dollars in cash and some diamonds. I get a kick out of playing a no-limit game.” All that really counts is a man’s ability to live, to get the most out of it as he goes through it. Mason’s reply is “A man only has a lease on life. ![]() On a whim, Perry Mason takes the case, against the advice of his assistant and his secretary, Della Street. But Laxter’s grandson Sam says the deal doesn’t include the caretaker’s cat. In his will, Peter Laxter guaranteed his faithful caretaker a job and a place to live for life. This, the seventh of Gardner’s Perry Mason novels, has possibly the most convoluted plot of the books in the series so far. The 42nd in my series of Forgotten Books. By Erle Stanley Gardner, © 1935, edition read: Pocket Books, 1962 paperback – Perry Mason # 7 ![]()
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