When Norda Allison saw her husband-to-be slap his young son, she immediately called off the wedding. Now she is terrified. Her ex-fianc has beat up her new boyfriend. Anonymous newspaper clippings are flooding her mailboxarticles graphically depicting what jilted men do to the women who leave them. Then Nordas life takes an even darker turn. It begins with a barking dog, a childs scream, a gunshot, and the discovery of a very dead bodyand ends when Norda is arrested, charged with a brutal murder.Now only brilliant courtroom strategist Perry Mason stands between Norda and a sentence of certain death.
