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The client was young, blonde, and beautiful, and she wanted to disappear. The trouble was she wouldn't say why, and she wouldn't give her name. So Perry Mason agreed to a code of identification based on her measurements: 36-24-36. But according to Della Street, the figures were padded, and as it turned out, so was everything the client said. Certainly the bag full of cash she carries isn't shopping money. All the mystery-woman asks is that Perry Mason make himself available for a few days in show more case she needs him--for what purpose, she remains silent as a grave. In fact, his headstrong client is headed for disaster--not only into a blackmailer's clutches but into a lethal trap from which not even Perry Mason's brilliant courtroom sorcery may be able to extricate her. Alive, anyway... show lessTags
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I liked this one. It did not have a full court jury, and initially had a judge not on Mason's side at the preliminary hearing, which isn't always the norm. A murder doesn't happen until after 3/4 of the book is through, but another confusing aspect and tangle of the case catches the lawyer's attention. Thankfully it's not as convoluted as a few of these books. We don't get the usual police force such as Trask, or the usual District Attorney, Burger, but it's a solid story that kept me reading, and you see a softer side of Mason that comes out from time to time.
The Case of the Fabulous Fake (1969) (P. Mason #80) by Erle Stanley Gardner. Perry Mason is faced with one of the cases yet. A young woman shows up in his office asking him to represent her but she doesn’t want to give away any details about herself. She wants to disappear. And she wi;; contact him if she needs his help. Intrigued, perry takes her case but asks how he will know it is her. She suggests something he won’t forget. She will use the code name “36–24-26.
Curious, Perry has Paul Drake investigate.
A personal as appears with the code name embedded. Soon a man is dead, the client is doing her best to ignore Perry’s solutions, and Lt. Tragg is after her.
Another man dies and things manage to get more complicated.
As show more usual this is a fast paced mystery featuring colorful characters, and surprisingly, embezzlement. There’re two courtroom scenes, and personally I enjoy them very much, perhaps knowing that Perry will come up with a brilliant solution to the crimes.
As always this is a complicated plot and an excellent solution. A must read. show less
Curious, Perry has Paul Drake investigate.
A personal as appears with the code name embedded. Soon a man is dead, the client is doing her best to ignore Perry’s solutions, and Lt. Tragg is after her.
Another man dies and things manage to get more complicated.
As show more usual this is a fast paced mystery featuring colorful characters, and surprisingly, embezzlement. There’re two courtroom scenes, and personally I enjoy them very much, perhaps knowing that Perry will come up with a brilliant solution to the crimes.
As always this is a complicated plot and an excellent solution. A must read. show less
Perry Mason es un personaje de ficción que apareció por primera vez en las novelas policíacas de Erle Stanley Gardner. El personaje era un abogado que llegó a aparecer en 80 novelas e historias cortas, la mayoría de las cuales versaban sobre la defensa de un cliente que había sido acusado de asesinato. En general, Perry Mason era capaz de demostrar la inocencia de su cliente mediante la averiguación de la culpabilidad del verdadero asesino, otro personaje de la historia.
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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 Fabulous Fake
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