Series: Perry Mason
by Author Erle Stanley Gardner
The Case of the Fenced-in Woman (1994)
I've been reading Gardner's Perry Mason books off and on for decades. Many years ago, I was an intense fan of the series, and read them all at least once. Now, after a lot of water over the dam, I'm looking at them again.Those who are used to really fine mystery writers (in the literary sense), s...
The Case of the Velvet Claws (1985)
This is the first book of the series featuring criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his gang: his secretary Della Street and a private detective Paul Drake whose services Mason uses quite often. For those unfamiliar with the series and the TV show based on it, Perry Mason is a guy you really...
The Case of the Caretaker's Cat (1985)
First published in 1935, this is a very early entry in the Perry Mason series, back in the day when there were still cuspidors in the courtroom and when both the police and the lawyers could still cut the kind of corners that would get them arrested, disbarred and jailed in this day and age.Perry...
The Case of the Sulky Girl (1992)
A sulky girl came to Perry Mason's office. She has a fairly unusual problem. Her father left her a very big chunk of money in a trust managed by her uncle. In case she marries before she is 25, she must get the approval of the latter: he has the power of giving away all her money to charities if ...
The Case of the Lazy Lover (1998)
THE CASE OF THE LAZY LOVER. (1947). Erle Stanley Gardner. ****.On the ffep of this edition, there is a blurb in caps: “The Only Author Who Outsells Agatha Christie, Harold Robbins, Barbara Cartland, and Louis L’Amour Combined.” They could probably thrown in T. S. Eliot and Anthony Trollope, ...
The Case of the Lucky Legs (1990)
I've been reading Gardner's Perry Mason books off and on for decades. Many years ago, I was an intense fan of the series, and read them all at least once. Now, after a lot of water over the dam, I'm looking at them again.Those who are used to really fine mystery writers (in the literary sense), s...
The Case of the Sleepwalker's Niece (1991)
Peter B. Kent has more problems than a monkey on a rock. His greedy, grasping, avaricious wife wants to take him to the cleaners in a divorce. His business partner is a crooked S.O.B. who's trying to con Kent into paying him a ton of dough. And If that weren't bad enough, Kent has taken to sleepw...
The Case of the Singing Skirt (1992)
#60 in the Perry Mason series. Instead of his usual L.A. haunts, much of this entry takes place in Rowena, a nearby town controlled by gambling interests. Ellen Robb runs afoul of the gamblers and is run out of town in her cigarette girl costume. She goes to Perry and he decides to gain retributi...
The Case of the Horrified Heirs (1995)
Why I read this book: I finally finished The Mysterious Island after weeks of slogging. While I enjoyed that, I was in the mood for something much quicker.This is another enjoyable and professionally-written (some might say slick) novel by Erle Stanley Gardner. The plotting is ingenious, as alway...
The Case of the Curious Bride (2000)
This is the fifth book in Erle Stanley Gardner's long-running Perry Mason series, originally published in 1934. By then, at least according to the storyline, Perry and his principal associates, Della Street and Paul Drake, were already in the prime of life and Perry had already mounted an impress...