Legal lawyer and all-time #1 mystery author Erle Stanley Gardner wrote close to 150 novels which have available 300 million copies world-wide. His most popular books starred the matchless attorney-sleuth Perry Mason.

The Case from the Lucky Hip and legs is the tale of a confident man who promoted fake beauty pageants in small California cities. Marjorie Clune was one of is own earning victims, “The Girl with the Lucky Legs.” She was promised a Hollywood film contract, however the fraud designer fled with the money. Marjorie fled too, remaining her hometown in shame to “show” herself in Hollywood. Perry Mason can be hired to monitor her down, however when the deceitful pageant promoter arises murdered, Marjorie turns into the prime suspect within this “edge of the seat” murder secret.