The Case of the Drowning Duck Audiobook (Free)

Fowl play? A inactive man in your kitchen, gas fumes permeate the house, a duck seems to be drowning in the fishbowl, nonetheless it didn’t die. Maybe that fact has something regarding murder?John L. Witherspoon, a wealthy patrician, is certainly loath to let his child marry Marvin Adams, the kid of the convicted murderer, something Marvin’s mom managed to maintain a top secret—until now. To set the love-struck lass straight, Witherspoon engages Perry Mason to weigh the twenty-year-old evidence that sent Marvin’s father to the gallows, and show that the young man is kin to the murdering kind.

Reopening the case, however, quickly opens up a can easily of worms. While Mason dredges the past for new hints, a blackmailer threatens to dredge up the whole sordid affair in the society pages. Then the whistle-blower is performed in by a dosage of lethal homemade gas, as well as the damning evidence points to chemistry whiz Marvin. Like dad, like son? Like hell, says Mason, who sets out to bird-dog the clever killer who’s trying to turn the youthful swan into a sitting duck.