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Joan Kirby doesn't believe her husband's story about picking up a stranded woman in the middle of the night and dropping her off at a hotel. She asks Perry Mason to cross-examine him. Mason uncovers a much murkier trail involving murder, illegal adoption, stolen narcotics and blackmail.Tags
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This had its moments and was very readable as ever, but the denouement relied on the murderer having so much on the spot presence of mind and deviousness as to be unbelievable. There was a fair amount of repetition as Della agonized over the fact that Perry had concealed a piece of property stolen from the murder scene and thus put himself on the wrong side of the law. His motive for doing so was tied up with the business the murder victim had been involved in. No one seemed particularly bothered about the morality of keeping this secret, which troubled me a little. Obviously times have changed...
The 52nd book in a series is a strange place to start, but I'd just finished the new HBO series and it was on KU, so here I am. This is a quick read, mostly dialogue, and follows the standard format of the old TV show. I'm guessing most people are not starting with this one, which means you know how a Perry Mason book goes. Either old-fashioned boilerplate mysteries are your thing or they're not, but luckily this was exactly what I wanted it to be. It will not change your life, but I didn't want my life changed this weekend; I just wanted to be impressed with some legal maneuvering and to have Perry Mason solve the case before I did. Mission accomplished.
For a change, Mason regrets taking a case and finds it an obstacle headache. We get plenty of courtroom back and forth with the judge clearly more on Mason's side, perhaps unrealistically so, but the bulk of the story is an investigative mess that is different from the others I've read. Recommended and unique.
One of his better ones
And not because I picked the real culprit about half way through, though not the motivation
Big Ship
20 January 2019
And not because I picked the real culprit about half way through, though not the motivation
Big Ship
20 January 2019
Tentokrát se jedná o vražedný útok na pochybného kalifornského lékaře, který na své klinice provozoval nezákonné machinace s adopcí dětí. Zámožný podnikatel, který se na advokáta obrátil s pozoruhodnou, zřejmě však vylhanou historkou, je do celé záležitosti zapletený a před policií se ocitá v nezáviděníhodné situaci obžalovaného. Pravého pachatele odhalí advokát s pověstným důvtipem v průběhu jednání.
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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- Canonical title*
- Perry Mason e il grido nella notte
- Original title
- The Case of the Screaming Woman
- Alternate titles*
- 1957
- Original publication date
- 1957
- People/Characters
- Perry Mason; Della Street; Paul Drake; Hamilton Burger; Lieutenant Tragg
- Dedication
- So I dedicate this book to my friend:
A.W. FREIREICH, M.D., F.A.C.P. - First words
- Della Street, la segretaria di Perry Mason, entrò nello studio e si avvicinò alla scrivania dell'avvocato.
Della Street, Perry Mason's confidential secretary, entered Mason's private office, walked over to the lawyer's desk and said, "You always like something out of the ordinary,Chief. This time I have a lulu!" - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)- Rilasciandomi un assegno - rispose Mason. Poi soggiunse: - E non illudetevi: il conto sarà grosso.
(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)"And," he added grimly, "don't think for a minute it won't be on the bill."
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