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Twenty years after Ellen Adair had given birth to an illegitimate child, the result of her affair with the son of a rich tycoon, she finds herself fighting for her son's inheritance and up against those who would deny his parentage.Tags
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I enjoyed this entry to the series. Perry is faced with a liar for a client, and the resolution of the case was quite interesting.
#661. Rarely have I seen the written work and television script coincikde with each other in plot consistancy, charactel;rization (Paul Drake is tall and gangly in both; Della is the same cook, sweet womkan, and Mason is a just the facts ma'am. I am surprised he didn't can the client from day one; she continued to lie to him all the way through the book.
Mason is hired to stop a news story about an old beauty pageant. Later, he ends up defending the former contestant on murder charges
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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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Man's Book-The Case of the Queenly Contestant / One Man’s War / The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 by Erle Stanley Gardner
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- Original title
- The Case of the Queenly Contestant
- Original publication date
- 1967
- People/Characters
- Perry Mason; Della Street; Ellen Adair; Paul Drake; Jarmen Dayton
- First words
- Ella Street, Perry Mason's confidential secretary, answered the telephone, talked briefly with the receptionist, then turned to Perry Mason.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)"I think," the lawyer said, "this is where we came in."
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- ISBNs
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