The Case of the Fiery Fingers by Erle Stanley Gardner (Pan, 1959)

Another find from the Lifeline Bookfair!

 

ASPIRIN OR

ARSENIC?

Stake...

Half a million dollars 

Method...

Four pills in a phial

Result...

One dead wife

Proof...

The tell-tale effect of ultra-violet light!

The toughest, most complicated web of intrigue that PERRY MASON ever had to fight his way through!

A woman comes to Perry Mason to prevent a murder—naturally murder happens anyway.  If Perry Mason went around preventing murders, how would he get a chance to prove his client innocent in a dramatically contrived courtroom scene?