GARDNER, Erle Stanley - Cut Thin to Win - (Hardcover in Wrapper)

Black Boards with gilt lettering to the spine - Firm binding - Jacket is rather poor with internal mending - Not price clipped (21s) - Now in a removable  plastic sleeve -  Has what seems to be a coffee stain on front free end-paper.  >>>   A young woman shows up at Perry Mason's office. She requests his help. All she needs him to do is take some horse race tickets and collect if they are winners. Mason is smart enough to know it's not that simple so he goes prepared. When he shows up at the ticket booth so does someone claiming the money is rightfully theirs. Then so begins a case that will lead to murder - With horse race betting and embezzlement, what's a little murder as well? Perry has to untangle quite a web of intrigue to get to the facts, let alone the truth.  >>>   Erle Stanley Gardner (1889 -1970) was an American lawyer and author. Though best know for the Perry Mason series of detective stories.