All right, another Perry Mason! (There will be many more 😊). Marilyn Marlow's mother nursed wealthy George Endicott before he died, and he left her a substantial bequest. Marilyn's mother died, leaving everything to her daughter, but Endicott's family is contesting the will. There were two witnesses, both nurses, and now one of them, Rose Keeling, is changing her story and saying she *didn't* see Endicott sign the new will. Marilyn puts an ad in a lonely-hearts magazine, hoping to get a country hayseed she can manipulate into going after Rose, making her fall for him, and then convincing her to change her testimony back. It's a complicated plan (which is pretty typical in Mason books). It gets a lot more complicated when Rose turns up murdered.
One of the things I love about Gardner's books is how many people are so close to the scene at the time of the victim's death. It could be midnight and there's twenty people going in and out of someone's pool, missing each other by mere seconds. Super fun stuff all the time. This time several folks visited Rose mere moments before she died and they all managed to miss each other. The courtroom scenes were great fun.
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