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"When beautiful blonde Diana Regis appears at Perry Mason's office with a nasty black eye, the lawyer agrees to investigate. What does he find? A spoiled young man whining about a diamond theft, a rich old man looking for a missing grandson, a pretty young woman desperate for a driver's license--and a rain-soaked corpse. Only Perry Mason, with the quick-thinking help of Della Street and Paul Drake, can crack the case of the black-eyed blonde." --Tags
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Big Ship
6 October 2018
Big Ship
6 October 2018
"My name's Mason. I'm a lawyer. I'm representing Diana Regis. Bartsler can see me here and now or he can see me later and in court."
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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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I classici del giallo [Mondadori] (1, 6, 1355)
Kaiser Krimi (018)
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- Canonical title*
- Kadonnut pojanpoika
- Original title
- The Case of the Black-Eyed Blonde
- Original publication date
- 1944
- People/Characters
- Perry Mason; Paul Drake; Della Street; Lieutenant Tragg
- Related movies
- The Case of the Black-Eyed Blonde (1958 | IMDb)
- First words
- Perry Mason drew his secretary to one side.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)I'll be waiting over there with my companion, and if you'll join us for an after-dinner brandy, I'll give you the high lights.
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