This is the fifth book in Erle Stanley Gardner's long-running Perry Mason series, originally published in 1934. By then, at least according to the storyline, Perry and his principal associates, Della Street and Paul Drake, were already in the prime of life and Perry had already mounted an impress...
Jilted by her fiancee, a corporate embezzelor who skipped town with company funds, Mildred decides to switch identities with a dead hitchhiker, hoping to create a new life for herself, but her rouse brings even more troubles, so she turns to Perry Mason for help. Reissue.
Peter B. Kent has more problems than a monkey on a rock. His greedy, grasping, avaricious wife wants to take him to the cleaners in a divorce. His business partner is a crooked S.O.B. who's trying to con Kent into paying him a ton of dough. And If that weren't bad enough, Kent has taken to sleepw...
I've been reading Gardner's Perry Mason books off and on for decades. Many years ago, I was an intense fan of the series, and read them all at least once. Now, after a lot of water over the dam, I'm looking at them again.Those who are used to really fine mystery writers (in the literary sense), s...
I first encountered Erle Stanley Gardner, writing as A. A. Fair, while a young boy growing up in the wilderness of northwestern Montana. My father was a big fan of Gardner’s Perry Mason series, but occasionally he brought home one of the Fair books, and eventually he would pass it along to me if ...
Perry Mason lives on -- and on -- in the perennially popular courtroom classics that put legal thrillers on the map. Case closed!
THE CASE OF THE LAZY LOVER. (1947). Erle Stanley Gardner. ****.On the ffep of this edition, there is a blurb in caps: “The Only Author Who Outsells Agatha Christie, Harold Robbins, Barbara Cartland, and Louis L’Amour Combined.” They could probably thrown in T. S. Eliot and Anthony Trollope, ...
A sulky girl came to Perry Mason's office. She has a fairly unusual problem. Her father left her a very big chunk of money in a trust managed by her uncle. In case she marries before she is 25, she must get the approval of the latter: he has the power of giving away all her money to charities if ...
Julia Branner claims her millionaire father-in-law forced her to give up her baby girl for adoption years before. When a woman appears claiming to be her long-lost daughter, Julia insists she is a fake after the family fortune. As events take a sinister turn Julia calls in Perry Mason.
After wealthy businessman Hartley Bassett's apparent suicide, Perry Mason discovers too many suspects who may have wanted him dead to believe the obvious evidence of a suicide note and three guns near the body.
First published in 1935, this is a very early entry in the Perry Mason series, back in the day when there were still cuspidors in the courtroom and when both the police and the lawyers could still cut the kind of corners that would get them arrested, disbarred and jailed in this day and age.Perry...
This is the first book of the series featuring criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his gang: his secretary Della Street and a private detective Paul Drake whose services Mason uses quite often. For those unfamiliar with the series and the TV show based on it, Perry Mason is a guy you really...
I've been reading Gardner's Perry Mason books off and on for decades. Many years ago, I was an intense fan of the series, and read them all at least once. Now, after a lot of water over the dam, I'm looking at them again.Those who are used to really fine mystery writers (in the literary sense), s...
An erstwhile young man has his hands full as trustee of a wild young woman's inheritance. But his love and her money don't mix. Perry Mason may be able to prove his client is no embezzler--but what happens when murder rears its head? HC: William Morrow and Co.
Mason suspects that a ravishing blonde with a millionaire father is being duped by an agent who promises to turn her into a high-fashion model, and who soon turns up dead. Reissue.
Perry Mason and Della Street were both out to lunch. Gertie, the receptionist and telephone operator, was indulging in her favorite noontime occupation - munching chocolates and reading a love story - when the door burst open and a woman rushed in.Gertie got her name, all right, dimly registered ...
"Mr. Mason, Mr. Mason-"The bailiff pounded a gavel. "Everybody rise," he said.Mason walked past the reporters and stood facing the flag as Judge Keyser took his place on the bench.Judge Keyser said, "The Court would like to get this matter finished this afternoon if it is at all possible. Now, Mr...
"I didn't expect you people for a couple of hours yet. What happened, did you lose all your money gambling?""Every cent of it," Mason said, grinning."Don't let him kid you," Della said. "He was thinking about your wife.""Well, this is really going to surprise her," the pilot said. "You're ready t...
Evidently, Lauretta Trent has been in touch with her and has arranged a meeting at a motel called the Saint's Rest, up in the Malibu country somewhere."The motel has a telephone and our client is in Unit Fourteen."So we call her back at the first available opportunity," Mason went on. "I'm lookin...
She beckoned to him to come in without going through the reception room of his office."Someone laying for me, Della?" he asked."Mrs. Tump and Byrl Gailord."Mason said, "Her appointment wasn't until two o'clock.""I know it, but they're all worked up about something. They say that they have to see ...