The Case of the Daring Decoy — Erle Stanley Gardner

Take a no-holds-barred proxy war for a rich Texas oil company, with Jerry Conway, its young president, fighting for survival. Add a beautiful woman in a mudpack and not much else who gives up a freshly fired .38 to Conway before she shows him the door. Top it off with the body of another young woman with a bullet in her chest fired by the same gun, and you have the recipe for the perfect murder -- and the perfect frame-up.

Perry Mason has two problems. His client, Jerry Conway, is the prime suspect. And Perry himself is the accused accessory....