Case of the Buried Clock

After catching his shady son-in-law Jack Hardisty in the act of embezzling, banker Vincent Blane plans to hang him out to dry. Then murder turns Blane's mountain retreat into Hardisty's final resting place. When the evidence points to Blane's daughter Millicent, he calls Perry Mason. Now it's up to the legal eagle to unravel a most baffling mystery with a buried clock one of the few clues. But as time runs short, the ticking of the clock sounds more like the rattling of family skeletons that everyone wants silenced...Gardner, Erle Stanley is the author of 'Case of the Buried Clock ', published 1990 under ISBN 9780848802738 and ISBN 084880273X.