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The Case of the Substitute Face
(1938)(Book 12 in the Perry Mason series)
A novel by Erle Stanley Gardner
DEATH TAKES A HOLIDAY
When Perry Mason meets Mrs. Carl Newberry on a vacation cruise, she is a woman desperately interested in saving face. For she and her husband are newcomers to the ranks of the rich-and they're sparing no expense at helping their daughter, Belle, make a successful splash in the right social circles. But Mrs. Newberry suspects that her husband embezzled their new-gotten gain-and she turns to Mason for legal advice.
When Mr. Newberry dies suddenly and his wife is left holding his hefty money belt, Perry wonders if his grieving client is really a black widow. . . .
Genre: Mystery
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