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Erle Stanley Gardner

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The Case of the Grinning Gorilla
The Case of the Grinning Gorilla

This sparkling mystery novel reveals a sensational new discovery in the field of scientific criminal investigation...It all began with an auction. If Perry Mason hadn't made a casual, five-dollar bid he wouldn't have bought the personal effects of Helen Cadmus, missing secretary presumed a suicide...If the personal effects hadn't turned out to be diaries and a photograph album, Benjamin Addicks wouldn't have come into the picture...If Benjamin Addicks hadn't been an eccentric millionaire, he wouldn't have been conducting psychological experiments on gorillas...And that brings us to the most spine-chilling scene ever encountered in a Gardner mystery: Perry Mason creeping through a silent house, stalked by A MURDEROUS, GRINNING GORILLA!

Erle Stanley Gardner

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The Case of the Queenly Contestant
The Case of the Queenly Contestant

The client had an extraordinary air of assurance about her — one could almost say a queenly air.There was no doubt that she was in some sort of jam, which had started years before when she had won a beauty contest. The question was, why was she trying to hide what had happened since — and who was trying to expose it?Perry Mason was intrigued, and soon found himself unraveling a past that led straight to a trial for murder.Erle Stanley Gardner is the world's best-selling mystery writer for reasons this fast-paced story makes abundantly clear.

Erle Stanley Gardner

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The Case of the Mischievous Doll
The Case of the Mischievous Doll

Perry Mason is presented with a strange bag of tricks in THE CASE OF THE MISCHIEVOUS DOLL.Dorrie Ambler was a beauty. She also proved to be one of the most startling clients in Mason's career — she insisted that he carefully inspect her appendectomy scar.Perry thought this sort of thing was much more in Paul Drake's line — and indeed, Paul was delighted to oblige...But later, when Dorrie proceeded to make history — and the headlines — at the International Airport, both Mason and Drake realized that any future scars would he theirs battle stars, inflicted by Lt. Tragg and Hamilton Berger...

Erle Stanley Gardner

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Detective Fiction Weekly. Vol. 51, No. 2, June 28, 1930
Detective Fiction Weekly. Vol. 51, No. 2, June 28, 1930

David Redstone , Erle Stanley Gardner , G. Haines Trimingham , H. M. Sutherland , Sinclair Gluck

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The Case of the Golddigger’s Purse
The Case of the Golddigger’s Purse

Goldfish — a golddigger — and a valuable secret formula net Perry Mason the most baffling case of his career — and he nearly gets caught on his own hook...Humorless Harrington Faulkner was fit to be tied. That golddigger was making preposterous demands — but if he didn't pay, his goldfish would die. And they were special goldfish — he'd developed the strain himself — Veil Tail Moor Telescopes, they were, the 'fish of death'...Perry Mason thought he was a crank with a taller fish story than usual.And then the fish disappeared and a body was found on the bathroom floor — beside a shattered goldfish bowl...From then on Della Street and Perry Mason are in the case up to their necks, along with:SALLY MADISON: a beautiful girl with model proportions, definitely not as good as gold...TOM GRIDLEY: a chemist and an idealist — the inventor of formulas and trouble for Sally...JANE FAULKNER: the second Mrs. Faulkner, who turns out to be not as dumb as she looks...ELMER CARSON: cagey co-owner of Faulkner's business with a proprietary interest in other things...GENEVIEVE FAULKNER: the first Mrs. Faulkner and the reason Harrington Faulkner was afraid of divorces...WILFRED DIXON: her business counsellor who knew how to bluff but didn't like to be called...JAMES STAUNTON: a gentleman who underwrites more than insurance...

Erle Stanley Gardner

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Bare Hands
Bare Hands

Surrounded by the bandit horde of smooth Ayala and the lustful "Wolf," the unarmed Americans were helpless — save for Dan Harder's bare hands.

Erle Stanley Gardner

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The D.A. Breaks an Egg
The D.A. Breaks an Egg

Take two luscious redheads... add green-eyed blonde, mysterious burglary, and a bewildered fiancée... stir in a good measure of that unscrupulous attorney Alphonse Baker Carr... season with murder, and no wonder..."You've got to break an egg to make an omelet," said Doug Selby, D.A. of Madison County, and he only hoped it would be one that old A. B. C. couldn't digest.Plenty was on the fire, and Selby knew the only way to solve the case and save his reputation was to act faster than he ever had before... That was when he went to call on A. B. C.Sylvia Martin and Sheriff Rex Brandon do yeoman service as Doug smashes through to bring his most perplexing case to a triumphant conclusion.

Erle Stanley Gardner

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