The Case of the Cautious Coquette

Cast of Characters

Perry Mason — A brilliant and resourceful lawyer caught in an awkward jam

Paul Drake — Topnotch detective for whom none of Mason’s exacting assignments are impossible

Della Street — Mason’s confidential secretary with an intuitive flair for the feminine angle

Lucille Barton — Blond, beautiful, desirable and inexplicable

Arthur Colson — Lucille’s devoted business partner who plays his cards dangerously close

Hartwell L. Pitkin — Stephen Argyle’s butler and chauffeur, possessing a questionable past and hardly any future

Stephen Argyle — Wealthy oil man who was willing to admit his liability

Carlotta Boone — Who usually insists on cash but would settle for a check

Daniel Caffee — Also wealthy and also willing to admit liability

Bob Finchley — The young man whose fractured hip started the whole fracas

Frank P. Ingle — Shrewd insurance adjuster whose nose is put quite definitely out of joint

Lieutenant Tragg — Of Homicide — sarcastic and suspicious though cooperative

Carl Evert Goshen — A most reluctant and unusually distressed witness

Jerry Lando — Tall, athletic, good-natured and ready to take on most anything

Sergeant Holcomb — Also of Homicide, also suspicious and thoroughly uncooperative

Hamilton Burger — The district attorney, big, ponderous, dignified and hostile — and determined to get Perry Mason

Judge Osborn — Administering grim justice does not inhibit his sense of humor