title: The Case of the Drowning Duck A Perry Mason Mystery
author:  Erle Stanley Gardner 
description: The Case of the Drowning Duck A Perry Mason Mystery
zlib_text: The Case of the
  Drowning Duck
  Erle Stanley Gardner
  
  Copyright © 1942 by Erle Stanley Gardner. Renewed 1970 by Erle
  Stanley Gardner.
  Electronic Book: Copyright © 2013 by The Erle Stanley Gardner
  Trust
  Published by Della Street Press. All rights reserved. No part of this
  book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without
  the written permission of the copyright holder.
  
  CONTENTS
  Cast of Characters
  Chapter 1
  Chapter 2
  Chapter 3
  Chapter 4
  Chapter 5
  Chapter 6
  Chapter 7
  Chapter 8
  Chapter 9
  Chapter 10
  Chapter 11
  Chapter 12
  Chapter 13
  Chapter 14
  Chapter 15
  Chapter 16
  Chapter 17
  Chapter 18
  Chapter 19
  Chapter 20
  Chapter 21
  Chapter 22
  
  About the Author
  
  Cast of Characters
  DELLA STREET
  secretary extraordinary and alter ego
  PERRY MASON
  lawyer famous for his lack of interest in ordinary litigation
  JOHN L. WITHERSPOON
  a rich man with a problem
  LOIS WITHERSPOON
  his daughter, who knows when she is in love
  MARVIN ADAMS
  who has doubts about his past but none about Lois
  PAUL DRAKE
  head of the 