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When Mae Farr becomes the presumed stalking victim of wealthy playboy Penn Wentworth, she asks Perry Mason for help. Wentworth says he merely wants her for forging his name on a fat check. Farr claims he just wants her. Enter Harold Anders, a love-struck suitor from Mae's small hometown who's determined to ride to her rescue. But fatal gunplay leaves Wentworth dead, Mae a wanted woman, and Perry Mason in trouble....Tags
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Wild, independent dame + rich entitled businessman + honest loyal farmer = classic dependable Mason mystery. I could read a million of these but I'll settle for the eighty-something that Gardner wrote.
I wonder if Delia ever gets some character progression. I'd love there to be a spinoff of Delia with her own law firm/detective agency. Also, what's with the weird characterisation of her in this book as someone who's bad at making analogies!?
I wonder if Delia ever gets some character progression. I'd love there to be a spinoff of Delia with her own law firm/detective agency. Also, what's with the weird characterisation of her in this book as someone who's bad at making analogies!?
Why do I get the sneaking suspicion Gardner wrote this over a quiet weekend, perked up on chai and chocolate biscuits?
Seriously, the 82nd Perry Mason novel (but my first) is murder by numbers. The dialogue is uninventive, the mystery intriguing but ultimately more of an exercise than a narrative, and things plod along smoothly with the clockwork sound of an expert pulp writer. There's nothing really wrong with it, and I like that Gardner is (very lightly) self-parodic in the denouement scene, where an eccentric judge somehow convinces all parties to bypass usual trial procedure and just tell their stories to one another.
Still, I doubt I'd go back to this well very much, even if the "golden era" novels are much more clever in their show more execution. It just has that feel of a jobbing writer churning out another volume. There's nothing wrong with that but this book fulfills its function, nothing more. show less
Seriously, the 82nd Perry Mason novel (but my first) is murder by numbers. The dialogue is uninventive, the mystery intriguing but ultimately more of an exercise than a narrative, and things plod along smoothly with the clockwork sound of an expert pulp writer. There's nothing really wrong with it, and I like that Gardner is (very lightly) self-parodic in the denouement scene, where an eccentric judge somehow convinces all parties to bypass usual trial procedure and just tell their stories to one another.
Still, I doubt I'd go back to this well very much, even if the "golden era" novels are much more clever in their show more execution. It just has that feel of a jobbing writer churning out another volume. There's nothing wrong with that but this book fulfills its function, nothing more. show less
Slower start than usual for me but the courtroom was especially amusing because the judge was so unconventional, the district attorney was so mixed with his newness and stiffness, and the banter between Perry and Paul as always was fun (if not overdone if you've read enough of these). The mystery part was clever enough, and there's some twists there....I think this is the first one in memory that references rape without saying the actual word.
Perry Mason odhaluje pravého vraha milionáře na luxusní jachtě.
Feb 25, 2022Czech
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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 Postponed Murder
- Original publication date
- 1973
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- Perry Mason; Della Street; Paul Drake; Hamilton Burger
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