When Perry Mason stumbles upon a classified ad for a brown haired woman
with very specific physical attributes, he takes note of the seemingly
suspicious circumstances surrounding the job posting. Then the woman
hired for the job gets in touch, describing the strange requests of her
new employer--who pays her and her chaperone to stay inside an apartment
and answer to another woman's name--and Mason knows there's a more
knotted plot at play. But by the time he works out the first mystery, a
second, with murder, is just getting started, and that's only the first
twist that awaits him as he endeavors to prove the innocence of "the
borrowed brunette."
Together with his crime solving team of Paul Drake and Della Street,
Mason winds his way through one of the most puzzling cases of his
career, involving separated ex-lovers, a tangled series of
impersonations, and scores of private detectives. In order to clear his
client of the charges, though, he'll risk getting a few himself, before,
in a final courtroom scene, breaking the case apart to the judge's
satisfaction.
Reissued for the first time in thirty years, The Case of the Borrowed
Brunette is one of the most beloved whodunnits featuring the iconic
Perry Mason character, inspiration for multiple hit television series
bearing his name.