BLACK WIDOW
There's no love lost between Delane Arlington's fiancée and his frosty family. The wealthy widower's heirs are extremely eager to keep their lovestruck uncle from tying the knot - and thus cutting off their route to easy street. That's what brings Selma Anson, Arlington's beleaguered bride-to-be, to Perry Mason's office.

Wise investment of her late husband's insurance made Selma a well-off widow. But her prospective new groom's avaricious nieces and nephews have her pegged as a gold digger - and a gravedigger! They're determined to prove that Selma poisoned her first husband. Mason is equally determined to prove them liars. But when damning evidence turns up - and Selma takes off - it could make Perry's defense deadly difficult...