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Loading... The Case of the Buried Clock (original 1945; edition 2012)by Erle Stanley Gardner
Work InformationThe Case of the Buried Clock by Erle Stanley Gardner (1945)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. 8427207344 "Buried Clock" focuses around a clock that is buried in the forest near some cabins in Kern County that apparently keeps sidereal, or star time. I had no idea what this meant, but apparently the stars gain about four minutes every day on sun time. What does this have to do with murder, you ask? Oh, quite a bit, actually, once you realize that all the people in this remote mountain community wander around at night, taking pictures. The clock actually comes in for a faked alibi. I was wondering right until the end how he was going to finagle that one in! A man named Jack Hardisty embezzles $100, 000 and soon afterwards is found shot dead in a forest cabin currently on loan to a veteran named Henry Raymond. A ticking clock is found buried nearby. iIt being a story written during the war, it follows the convention of the time that veterans are all good guys. no reviews | add a review
Belongs to SeriesPerry Mason Novels (Book 22) Belongs to Publisher SeriesPenguin Books (1293) Vampiro (191)
After catching his shady son-in-law, Jack Hardisty, in the act of embezzling, wealthy banker Vincente Blane plans to hang him out to dry. Then murder turns Blane's restful mountain retreat into Hardisty's final resting place. When the evidence points to wronged wife Millicent, her father makes a point of calling in Perry Mason. And it's up to the legendary legal eagle to unravel the case's most baffling mystery: a buried clock at the murder scene. But as time runs short, the ticking of the clock sounds more and more like the rattling of family skeletons that everyone wants silenced.... No library descriptions found.
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813.52Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1900-1944LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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