When an irresistible body meets an immovable bathing suit - something's got to give...
Until Dianne signed up with a suspect modelling agency, weight ad wolf-whistles had been her main problems - plus wondering who was peeking at her nude sunbathing.
Why was this gorgeous blonde with lots and lots of figure being asked to put on weight?
Perry Mason looked the situation over and found it easy on the eye - the hard part came later when Dianne was held for murder. If she was innocent, why was she lying?

On a vacation cruise, Perry and Della meet Mrs Newberry, a woman under severe strain. She is trying to keep it quiet that her husband probably embezzled the money that allows them and their daughter Belle to take the elegant cruise. It doesn't help that Belle is the spitting image of a fabulous movie star, because now someone has replaced her photo with a photo of the movie star in a frame Belle's father, Mr Newberry, had locked in his suitcase. Nor does it help that the same suspected embezzler ends up overboard, and his wife, now Mason's client, has his wet money belt....

The story of an adventure that befell that famous and unconventional lawyer Perry Mason. A lovely heiress writes improbable letter to lonely men, using as her post office a shady magazine. Why? Why should a young woman with a million dollars advertise so pathetically that she wants a husband? With the assistance of the attractive Della Street, Mason sets out to solve this mystery and runs straight into murder.

JJ Fritch was a heavy man, especially when he fell dead out of his own liquor cabinet one morning. His profession was blackmail, and somebody paid their last instalment to JJ Fritch with an ice-pick in his back.......

Chinatown.......To baffle the lie-detector clamped on his arm, Terry Clane used the technique of intense concentration that he had learnt in the Orient. But the sight of a little Chinese figure - an old man riding backwards on a mule - sent the lie-detector needle leaping; for he had given it once to Cynthia, his former fiancee and a close friend of a man convicted of murder who had escaped.

A lithe, highly excited brunette calls at Perry Mason's office saying she'd in danger and needs help - then doesn't wait to see him.....She leaves behind a handbag weighted with a recently used revolver.... Perry finds he's the number one target in a case of first-degree murder. But how can he make the plot misfire?