Perry is intrigued when a young blonde, dressed in a fur coat and nothing else, sporting a shiner, comes into his office with an interesting story. She's been employed for a little while reading articles to a wealthy man who has poor eyesight. His stepson, Carl, has been hitting on her pretty much non-stop, so she finally went to dinner with him, only to get tossed out of the car on the way home for not playing along. Carl was going through her room when she got back to the house and he popped her one. She fled the house, grabbing the coat out of the closet, and came to see Perry.
The wealthy man, Jason, had one son, who died at Pearl Harbor. He was married to a woman named Helen. Jason thought Helen was a useless gold-digger and had no use for her, until he found out that Helen gave birth to a little boy a few months after his son died. Jason is wild to get his hands on the kid, but Helen won't play ball.
Believe it or not, the blonde (Diana) and Helen are all mixed up together in some fantastical way, as is the murder victim (Mildred). It was a fast paced story--so fast that poor Paul didn't get to eat his dinner. Perry's so mean to him sometimes.
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