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Perry Mason is a grown-up Encyclopaedia Brown and especially so in this one, where the case-breaking clue was so offhandedly waved across the reader's face. Also, I wouldn't say that I love it but the old-timey objectifying of the assorted ingénues and dames in the series is very funny to me. Not to mention Delia the enabler! Why, yes, Perry, your next appointment is extremely suspicious but she does have all them curves that you appreciate! Camera cuts to me having a snorting chuckle.
Audrey Bicknell visits Perry Mason’s office to hire Perry to collect her winnings at the track on Dough Boy, a horse who is a long shot to win. She presents her case, leaves the tickets for her bets and leaves without any further information. Perry know there is more to the story, he just isn’t sure how much more.
Turns out there are embezzlement, murder, financial fiddling, and a lot of lies. The tangled web involves a brother, sister, crooked bookkeeping and dry ice.
This time out, Perry seems to skirt the legal limit without going past it. The fact that he kept his client, even when he doubted her explanations, made me shake my head and wonder.
I did enjoy the courtroom skirmishes between Perry and Burger. The judge was good on show more calling the shots and keeping the sides in line.
The Perry Mason books have long been one of my favourite series. show less
Turns out there are embezzlement, murder, financial fiddling, and a lot of lies. The tangled web involves a brother, sister, crooked bookkeeping and dry ice.
This time out, Perry seems to skirt the legal limit without going past it. The fact that he kept his client, even when he doubted her explanations, made me shake my head and wonder.
I did enjoy the courtroom skirmishes between Perry and Burger. The judge was good on show more calling the shots and keeping the sides in line.
The Perry Mason books have long been one of my favourite series. show less
I really enjoyed the bit of legal trickery employed here. This was a good mystery.
always like these
quite a complicated story line
but he gets there in teh end
I like the interplay between Mason and Della
Big Ship
30 May 2015
quite a complicated story line
but he gets there in teh end
I like the interplay between Mason and Della
Big Ship
30 May 2015
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Mystery writer Erle Gardner was born on July 17, 1889 in Malden, Massachusetts. In 1902, he had moved to Oroville, CA. His parents could not afford to send a second son to college, so he worked in a legal office as a clerk reading law. He spent a short time at Valparaiso University in Indiana but had to drop out because of an illegal boxing show more exhibition. He continued to travel throughout California and read law at several law offices and finally passed the bar in 1911, at the age of 21. He married Natalie Francis Beatrice Talbert on April 9, 1912. In 1916, he formed the Law Firm of Orr and Gardner in Venture, CA. Gardner used many pseudonyms such as Charles Green, Kyle Corning and Grant Holiday. While working as an attorney, he began writing fiction. In 1921, "Nellie's Naughty Nighty" was published in the pulp magazine Breezy Stories. He had a goal of writing 100,000 words a month and would sometimes write two or more stories a day. In 1923, "The Shrieking Skeleton" was sold to the Black Mask Magazine. In the 1930's, Gardner had two manuscripts that were rejected and than "rediscovered" by Thayer Hobson, the president of the William Morrow Publishing Company, and rewritten as courtroom mysteries. During this process, the character Perry Mason was born. In 1933, the first Perry Mason book was written, "The Case of the Velvet Claws." The next one was entitled "The Case of the Sulky Girl" and they were followed by more than eighty additional Mason mysteries. Gardner died on March 11, 1970. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- The Case of the Ice-Cold Hands
- Original title
- The Case of the Ice-Cold Hands
- Original publication date
- 1962
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- Perry Mason; Della Street
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