Le greffe : un client

"Has he any money ?" Mason inquired.

"I don't think so. Under the will he was left a perpetual job as caretaker. That job pays him fifty dollars a month, and his board and room."

"And he's an old man ?" Mason inquired.

"Reasonably so. An old crank, if you ask me".

"But he loves animals," Mason remarked.

"He's vey much attached to his cat, if that's what you mean".

Mason nodded slowly, and said, "That's what I mean."

The Case of the Caretaker's Cat / L'affaire du chat du gardien, 1935, est le septième roman de la série des Perry Mason. Il a été traduit en français deux fois, la première en 1951 comme

...et la seconde en 1964 sous le titre plus évocateur d'