Perry Mason Series / The Case of the Lame Canary / Erle Stanley Gardner

It begins with a woman carrying a canary in a cage offering Mason a case he never takes – a divorce matter. But there’s one thing that bothers Perry about this case – why is the canary lame in its right foot? It’s the kind of insignificant detail that really gets under the skin of a good detective. Perry just has to find out the answer to that question, so he takes the case.

The woman who brought the canary into his office is not actually his client – it is her sister he is acting for. At first it seems to be a depressing, sordid tale of domestic intrigue, but then the murder is discovered. There may be a witness to the murder – a man who may be suffering from traumatic amnesia and may not even remember what he saw. No one knows exactly what this man saw, but everyone is sure it was important. Perhaps even as important as the lame canary.