The case of the lucky legs
by Erle Stanley Gardner
Category: Criminal defense lawyers

"Suppose you were Perry Mason... with this wire staring you in the face: Sending you special delivery air mail photograph of utmost importance in case I am about to present. Keep photograph and await me in your office without fail. Eva Lamont. ... and you already had the photograph, right in front of you. It was a picture of a beautiful girl--from the tops of her silken-clad legs down! Clipped to it was a slip of paper which read 'The Girl with the Lucky Legs.' Well, if you were Perry Mason, you'd get over-confident--the case was cut-and-dried. But that would be before you met Dr. Doray, notorious, crooked Frank Patton, and Miss Lucky Legs herself. Soon you'd find yourself right up to your neck in a swirl of locked doors, swindles, and brushes with death, capped by a climactic finish that will pull you right out of your chair!" --