A Perry Mason Mystery story. It begins with Rita Swaine. She was young and attractive, and she came into Perry Mason's law office with a caged canary and a hard-luck story about he sister's domestic troubles. It obviously wasn't a case for Perry Mason, who specialized in homicides. But then Perry noticed the canary was lame... His curiosity got the best of him...

(Key Words: Murder Mysteries, Canaries, Perry Mason, Erle Stanley Gardner).