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Marilyn Marlow has inherited a good deal of money from her mother. But the money originated with another will-that of her mother's wealthy employer. Now his relatives are contesting the will, and it's Rose Keeling, the key witness to its signing, whose mind they will need to sway. When Rose is murdered, sleuthing lawyer Perry Mason must navigate a twisted case involving a personal ad that casts a cloud of suspicion over his client, Miss Marlow, in this mystery in Edgar Award-winning author show more Erle Stanley Gardner's classic, long-running series, which has sold three hundred million copies and serves as the inspiration for the HBO show starring Matthew Rhys and Tatiana Maslany. DON'T MISS THE NEW HBO ORIGINAL SERIES PERRY MASON, BASED ON CHARACTERS FROM ERLE STANLEY GARDNER'S NOVELS, STARRING EMMY AWARD WINNER MATTHEW RHYS. show lessTags
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Ah, it was a different age, wasn't it? This one, written some 15 years after the first one, does not immediately bring to mind Raymond Burr and the cast of the TV show. It still reads like a radio script, but Perry Mason comes off as a smart aleck, younger, somehow, than he was at first. I'm finished with this particular exploration of the past. Not bad, but there are better out there.
"But she didn't tell you that she was there at the time the murder was committed?"
"Well, not in so many words."
"Or at about the time the murder was committed?"
"Not in so many words."
"Or that she knew anything about the murder?"
"Not in so many words."
"Well, not in so many words."
"Or at about the time the murder was committed?"
"Not in so many words."
"Or that she knew anything about the murder?"
"Not in so many words."
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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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- Canonical title*
- Perry Mason Und Die Einsame Erbin
- Original title
- The Case of the Lonely Heiress
- Original publication date
- 1948
- People/Characters
- Perry Mason; Della Street; Paul Drake; Robert Caddo; Marilyn Marlow; Rose Keeling (show all 16); Ethel Furlong; Kenneth Barstow; Dolores Caddo; Lieutenant Tragg; Ralph Endicott; Palmer Endicott; Lorraine Endicott Parsons; Paddington C. Niles; Sergeant Holcomb; Deputy District Attorney Hanover
- First words
- Perry Mason extended his hand for the oblong business card which Della Street was carrying as she entered the lawyer's private office.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)"She sure as hell is now," Mason said.
- Original language*
- Englisch
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- ISBNs
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