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P**N
She Doesn't Remember
That's right -- Perry's client doesn't remember what happened during the murder. Or after it. She says she might be able to remember something, but he tells her not to.This gets very complicated: two murders discovered the same day by Perry leads to two fatal bullets from two autopsies, two guns, and a very recalcitrant police sergeant who rejects any suggestion he may have mixed the bullets up. A real puzzler!
W**R
There was a reason ESG sold so many books around the world...
5-star story! 3-stars for the publisher's laziness... = 4 stars.Erle Stanley Gardner was a consummate master of his genre and, in my opinion, his work is timeless and still appeals to today's readers.There were some elementary OCR proofing errors which made me think the publisher did not even bother to proof the OCR text. Pity... it would have been a simple one-pass proofread to catch the OCR errors.
R**O
one of the best Mason yarns
This is one of the best of the Mason yarns, as Mason accidentally picks up a client over lunch in a department store and one thing leads cleverly to another. Laced with Gardners very nice sense of human nature and humor, and his usual exciting court scenes towards the end.
C**E
Just Who is protecting Whom?
Th Amnesiac aunt, the hysterical niece, and the belligerent sargeant, and who wins. Why Perry Mason and his client, of course.
G**N
TCOT Shoplifters Shoe
A chance meeting launches Perry Mason into a complex (and a bit confusing) case. The ending is tightly plotted but satisfying.
D**T
Nice to see they are reprinting all the early Perry Masons!
This a REALLY NICE and very EARLY Perry Mason novel.You can tell that Gardner is still working out a few kinks in the one. But the plot is fairly ingenious and the pacing is fairly quick. Characters are fairly well developed.A gentle word of warning in this hyperactive time - there are a couple phases that Paul Drake uses (and were common more than 75 years ago) that might upset some people.This is highly recommended - I would rate this a really high 9.0 to 9.5 out of 10!
M**A
One of his better books
I have been reading a lot of fiction lately. I had just finished the first of Richard Phillips Rho series of books and I thought I would read this just as a break. Well, by the second chapter I had discovered the difference between good writing-the Phillips book and great writing. Gardner smoothly moves his characters around and never wastes words. The story is typical Perry Mason-but then that's what i came for.If you want to read a great example of A Perry Mason Novel, this is one for you.
V**R
TV show was better
If you liked Perry Mason on TV, which I did, you will not like these books. Whoever adapted these books was a better writer than Erle Stanley Gardner. They are very wordy and thus extremely boring. The title character bears no resemblance to Raymond Burr, who would NEVER have put his arm around Della. And two pages of the defense arguments would probably have put the judge to sleep. I'm going to try Dashiell Hammet--at least Sam spade would never have talked you to sleep.
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