Title: Tight, surprising, not quite perfect
Review: This is one of the tightest Perry Mason mysteries, and it stretches the Mason formula far more than most of the novels do, leading to a great last paragraph.There are some drawbacks. The solution, as often in Perry Mason mysteries, involves a whole lot of new data for the reader to digest. In this particular book, the data are actually clearer and more relevant than usual. But in return, they're less believable. The murderer's plot is too elaborate to work as well as it does, and the murderer's hidden authority would, in the real world, have been known to the police months or years before.I don't mind. The ending is exciting and, as always, the story flows with magical smoothness. Very well done.
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