Oil and Slaughter
Sylvia Bain Atwood is a green-eyed beauty who’s seeing red over blackmail. While her mousy sister devotes herself to caring for their father’s health, Sylvia is looking out for the old man’s welfare. That’s why she’s come to Perry Mason. It seems Sylvia’s oil tycoon father, Ned, made his millions with seed money he borrowed from a bad seed named J.J. Fritch—who made his money by robbing a bank. Now Fritch is threatening to tell the police how Ned Bain got filthy rich using dirty money...unless the oil man agrees to grease Fritch’s itchy palm.
Perry Mason claims it’s pure fiction—until murder strikes. Then Perry must scramble through a maze of family intrigue in order to make a killer reveal his (or her?) true colors...
