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(0)Erle Stanley Gardner
Author
Publisher
Penzler Publishers
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
vi, 248 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
The bait is half of a $10,000 bill, delivered to Perry Mason by a man who promises the second half of the note should his companion, a silent masked woman, ever require the lawyer's services. When a dead body is discovered soon after, Mason feels the hook--but how can one prove the innocence of a person whose identity is unknown?
Author
Series
Perry Mason mystery volume 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
After her well-to-do Aunt Sarah is caught shoplifting, Virginia Trent is convinced her aunt needs to seek psychiatric help for kleptomania. So why does Virginia turn to legal eagle Perry Mason? Because a cache of valuable diamonds--left in Sarah's care--has suddenly vanished into thin air.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Lost for more than 75 years, ... this tale of adultery and corruption, of double-crosses and triple identities--however shocking for 1939--shines today as a glorious present from the past, a return to the heyday of private eyes and shady dames, of powerful criminals, crooked cops, blazing dialogue, and delicious plot twists. Donald Lam has never been cooler--not even when played by Frank Sinatra on the U.S. Steel Hour of Mystery in 1946. Bertha Cool...
Author
Series
Perry Mason mystery volume 15
Publisher
Ankerwycke
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
viii, 278 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Years ago Alden Leeds found a rich vein of gold in the Klondike. Now his greedy relatives fear he's planning to throw his fortune away on a gold-digging spouse, Emily Milicant. So to prevent the two from joining in holy matrimony, they commit their affluent kin to a sanitarium on a trumped-up charge. Then Leeds escapes, only to end up in the company of Emily's blackmailing brother, John, a manufacturer of fixed dice, rolling bones that always come...
Author
Series
Perry Mason mystery volume 5
Publisher
Ankerwycke
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
viii, 312 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
After con man Greg Moxley married Rhoda Lorton, he took her money and flew, only to have his plane crash. Years later, Rhoda weds millionaire scion Carl Montaine. But now Moxley has turned up alive and well, with plans to pocket the Montaine fortune...or else make Rhoda's bigamy public.
Author
Series
Perry Mason mystery volume 3
Publisher
Ankerwycke
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
x, 312 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Leggy Marjorie Clune, unjustly accused of the murder of sleazy movie promoter Frank Patton, must rely on the able counsel of Perry Mason to clear her name.
Author
Series
Perry Mason mystery volume 14
Publisher
Ankerwycke
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
viii, 254 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Did wealthy Fremont Sabin divorce his wife before his untimely death? That's the multimillion-dollar question. And the right answer will mean a windfall for either the dead man's angry son or his headstrong widow. Each has accused the other of destroying Sabin's will--and murdering Sabin. But with no document declaring to whom the affable eccentric intended to leave his fortune, Perry Mason faces a prickly puzzle. Even more puzzling, however, is the...
Author
Series
Perry Mason mystery volume 11
Publisher
Ankerwycke
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
v, 272 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The extraordinary Perry Mason never handles straightforward divorce cases, but this one is an especially strange bird. Rita Swaine is dating her sister's ex-boyfriend. Her sister, Rosalind, is married to shady insurance adjuster Walter Prescott, who's got dollar signs in his eyes and ice water in his veins. When Rita's beau gallantly steps in to warn Rosalind about her heinous husband's designs, Prescott hatches a plan to prey on them all...by suing...
Author
Series
Perry Mason mystery volume 12
Publisher
Ankerwycke
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
viii, 342 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
While enjoying a leisurely ocean cruise in the company of secretary Della Street, Perry Mason is approached by a passenger who is worried about the well-being of her husband. Not long afterward, her husband is seen jumping off the ship, an apparent suicide--but when the body is recovered, it turns out that he was shot. Accused of murder, the wife puts her fate in the hands of Perry, who in the course of piecing things together unearths the fact that...
11) Turn on the heat
Author
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Hard Case Crime edition.
Physical Desc
252 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Hired by a mysterious 'Mr. Smith' to find a woman who vanished 21 years earlier, Donald Lam finds himself facing a sadistic cop, a desperate showgirl, a duplicitous client, and one very dogged (and beautiful) newspaper reporter--while Bertha Cool's attempts to cut herself in on this lucrative opportunity land them both hip-deep in murder..." -- Page [4] cover.