title: The Case of the Worried Waitress/The Case of the Baited Hook (Perry Mason 2 in 1)
author:  Erle Stanley Gardner 
description: From the back of the book:
  
  The Case of the Worried Waitress: Perry Mason had set a trap to catch a potential murder - but nobody walked in. No bait, that's the trouble, thought Mason. So he invented the bait - a letter to a dead man dated four days before his unfortunate demise. And when the phony snare was ready, Mason himself walked straight into it!
  
  The Case of the Baited Hook: Perry Mason had accepted the bizarre case - for $2000 and part of a $10000 bill! He didn't know who his masked client was or how he was supposed to protect her interests. But when a male corpse turned up in the bedroom of an estranged wife, Mason had other vital interests to protect - especially his own!
zlib_text: The Case of the
  Lucky Legs
  by
  Erle Stanley Gardner
  
   
   
  Copyright © 1934 by Erle Stanley Gardner. Renewed 1961
  Electronic Book: Copyright © 2012 by The Erle Stanley Gardner
  Literary Trust
  All rights reserved.
  
  A Note from Erle Stanley Gardner
  Perry Mason shares the prerogative of all good �ctional characters.
  They never grow old. Yet the lawyer’s cases began years ago in what
  now seems almost a di�erent world. The Case of the Lucky Legs deals
  with Perry Mason at a time in his career when there were three
  powerful “slick paper” magazines, The Saturday Evening Post, Collier’s
  and Liberty. Only The Saturday Evening Post has survived. It occurred
  in a period when much of the best food was in speakeasies, when
  sliding-panel doors were standard equipment. Moreover, in these
  earlier cases Perry Mason had the great advantage of complete
  freedom of action.
  Those of you who read Perry Mason’s adventure of The Case of
  the Lucky Legs will, I think, agree that fame has disadvantages; that a
  young, 