This was a really fun one. Gladys is a personal secretary to bestselling author Mauvis. Mauvis's book caused quite a sensation and the author is in high demand. She sends Gladys to the Summit Ski Resort to meet with a man named Carlisle, who's purporting to be from the movie studio that has optioned Mauvis's book. She tells Gladys a shortcut to get down from the mountain, since traffic on Sunday is bumper to bumper. Gladys goes and has a great weekend, but hits a snag taking Mauvis's shortcut. There's a bad storm and her car gets stuck. Gladys manages to find a cabin. The man in the cabin seems standoffish and irritated that she's there and refuses to help her get her car out of the mud, claiming he's getting over a bout of pneumonia. Gladys decides she'll take a hot shower and spend the night, and the man, John, doesn't argue.
When Gladys wakes up the next morning and goes looking for John in the other bedroom, she finds a corpse instead--not John, but another man. She flees the cabin, finds someone has pulled her car out of the bog and she races back to the city, only to discover Mauvis's penthouse has been ransacked. Mauvis told her to go to Perry Mason if there's any trouble, so she does.
Mason gets himself (and poor Della and Paul) up to their eyes in trouble with this one, but of course it all worked out in the end.
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