Years ago, Alden Leeds struck it rich when he discovered a vein of gold.
Now, aging and single, he finds himself surrounded by family waiting
patiently to inherit his fortune. When he announces his engagement to a
much younger woman, it sends that family into a panic, fearing that it
might threaten their future gains. They have him admitted into a
sanitarium, claiming incompetence--and that's when lawyering
super-sleuth Perry Mason gets involved, but the case is about to get
much more complicated...
Before all is said and done, Mason will tangle with a cheating gambler,
a blackmailer, multiple aliases, multiple corpses, and enough red
herrings to lead even the most astute reader astray. It will push the
attorney's deductive powers to their very limits before all is revealed,
finally, in his masterful courtroom cross-examination.
A fast-paced yarn with a delightfully convoluted plot, The Case of the
Rolling Bones is among the best of the long-running Perry Mason novels,
which would go on to inspire multiple television series as well as
adaptations for radio and film. The book exemplifies the masterful
page-turning action for which its prolific author is remembered today.