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Alden Leeds, a gold‑rich Klondike prospector, is threatened by greedy relatives who fear his impending marriage to Emily Milicant. They illegally send him to a sanitarium to keep the couple apart. Escaping confinement, Leeds associates with John Milicant, Emily’s brother, who produces dice that always roll a seven. When John is murdered and Leeds’s fingerprints appear at the scene, Perry Mason is called upon to unravel the conspiracy and clear his client before Leeds is sent from the nuthouse to the jailhouse.
First publish date: 1939
Genre: Mystery & Detective/Private Investigator
Authors: Erle Stanley Gardner
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