The Fifth Head of Cerberus and Mr. Million, adding that its "unseen" heads are his brother David as fourth and, by implication, the fifth and final the narrator's own. Following this logic, the title of the novella therefore refers to the narrator himself, whose story we read. Further parallels between the narrator's family and the mythology of Cerberus can be drawn in numerous other ways throughout this novella. For example, a statue of this mythological creature exists at the front, or "gates" of their family home, which is itself located at 666 Saltimbanque, this number having associations with the underworld dating back to the Greek
The Case of the Howling Dog the dog for a lookalike. He gives Bessie the dog and orders her not to tell anyone what really happened. Perry later tells Della that he is sure that whatever Bessie did was in self-defense. On October 23, 2012, Warner Home Video released the film on DVD in Region 1 via their Warner Archive Collection alongside "The Case of the Curious Bride", "The Case of the Lucky Legs", "The Case of the Velvet Claws", "The Case of the Black Cat" and "The Case of the Stuttering Bishop" in a set entitled "Perry Mason: The Original Warner Bros. Movies Collection". This