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A talented but overprotective young man has his hands full as trustee of the inheritance of a beautiful blonde but very naive young woman. But his love and her money don't mix. Why would he embezzle a quarter of a million dollars from his client "for her own good?" Perry Mason may be able to prove, in fact, that his client is no embezzler...but what happens when murder rears its head?Tags
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I read 2-3 Perry Mason books when I was a kid. I saw this one for a dollar and picked it up. Erle Stanley Gardner started writing the Perry Mason series back in the 30's and this one was one of the last ones he wrote in the middle 60's. Paul is still worried that Perry is going to get his license revoked with his shenanigans and Perry is not near as worried about losing his license as he is about losing the case. Erle Stanley Gardner can still write about the courtroom and all of it's drama without you skimming past all those pages to get back to where there is more action. Della gets to be sexy in this one and Erle Stanley does not really even try to resolve the romantic element between Perry and Della or even the defendant and the show more girl he loves. Erle Stanley just ends the book when the case is solved. The TV show would have had the final fade out where the defendant and his true love were walking off stage left, arm in arm. Not Erle Stanley .... the case is over, let's move on. show less
This book was a fun read. ESG really kept Perry on the verge of losing the case until the book was nearly ended. The cover rather gives a vital clue, however I just thought the artist made a huge mistake when painting it (the murder weapon was a revolver, not an automatic). It wasn't until the end that I realized why the artist painted the automatic handgun.
Not bad. By this point, ESG had matured as an author.
Interesting story, and the first I've read where Mason can't win at trial and it doesn't look good, has to seek outside sources.
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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 ja huolestunut holhooja
- Original title
- The Case of the Troubled Trustee
- Original publication date
- 1965
- People/Characters
- Perry Mason; Della Street; Paul Drake; Kerry Dutton; Desere Ellis
- Important places
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- First words
- Perry Mason, entering his office, grinned at Della Street and said, "What's in the mail, Della, anything startling?"
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)"That last," Dutton said, "is probably the best advice I've ever had."
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