Head Over Heels; the Case of the Stepdaughter's Secret

 

I feel kind of guilty putting this one on here, since it really was more pictures than words, but it was a lovely book, full of candid and casual photos of Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman. They were obviously very enamored of each other and it shows. 

Wealthy businessman Bancroft comes to Mason for advice. He thinks his stepdaughter, who is about to marry a man from a very prominent family, is being blackmailed. Perry doesn't like dealing with blackmailers, so he makes Bancroft promise to let him do it his way and Bancroft agrees. 

Perry comes up with an elaborate scheme that involves using scantily clad women on a speedboat to cause a distraction while a water skier retrieves the blackmail money from a can tossed in the lake. Paul gets to have some fun driving the speedboat and being surrounded by the bikini clad girls, so good for him. Hopefully he got a little something to eat, too. 

The blackmailer ends up dead on Bancroft's yacht with Mrs. Bancroft left holding the murder weapon. It was okay, not as good as some of the earlier ones. It just didn't feel very original to me.