The Case of the Velvet Claws

California lawyer Perry Mason takes on as client Eva Belter, hated as “all velvet and claws” by his secretary Della Street. Her husband George is behind tabloid editor Frank Locke’s blackmail of Congressman Harrison Burke, who had been at a bungled robbery with Eva; and takes bullet to the heart after his bath. A forged will benefits his nephew Carl, who is engaged to the daughter of Mrs. Veitch, the Belters’ secretive housekeeper.

• Author
• Erle Stanley Gardner

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 215

• Series
• Perry Mason

• Publisher
• Random House Ballantine

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780345323170

• Characters
• Perry Mason, Della Street, Paul Drake, Eva Griffin, Harrison Burke

• Settings
• Los Angeles, California

• Genres
• mystery, fiction, crime, detective, classics, suspense, thriller, novels, historical

• Release date
• 1985