The Case of the Sulky Girl

Her Uncle was healthy but in order to get wealthy did she plot his demise? Is there evil in the heir? Frances Celane has good reason to pout. Thanks to a provision in her late fathers will administered by her uncle shes caught in the middle of a family feud between matrimony and money. If she chooses marriage she loses a million. But beautiful young Frances has a strong will of her own that shes not afraid to use. One way or another she means to hear wedding bells and cash registers making beautiful music together. Her first move: hire Perry mason to orchestrate things. Unfortunately stubbornness runs in Frances Celanes family as Mason discovers when he confronts her Uncle Edward Norton. After Perrys powers of persuasion fail to penetrate his hard head someone decides the only way of cashing in is by bashing in the uncooperative uncle skull. But when the blood spills so do the secrets. Then its Masons turn to brood as he tries to figure out if a girl as pretty as his client could have a hand in something so ugly..