Oil! Olympic Games! Talking Pictures! Evangelical Fervour! And a child kidnapping gone very, very wrong. When the case of the decade breaks down his door, Mason’s relentless pursuit of the truth ...

Perry is suing a gutter-trash newspaper that is running a story about a love affair between him and Della. The editor also has "dirt" files on an Army General, his banker, and other "clients".

David's young daughter Melanie had followed him to Las Vegas, and when he's arrested she runs to Perry Mason, who is in town with Ken for a boxing match. Perry knows of Richard's methods ...