Erle Stanley Gardner
Author
Series
Perry Mason mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
c1961
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Penzler Publishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Private detective Donald Lam is hired by Sandra Birks to serve divorce papers to her husband, a deadly gangster hiding from the police.
"Bertha Cool is the gruff, tough-talking, corpulent head of her private detective agency, opened after the death of her husband; Donald Lam is her meek, slight, and nervy new hire, who makes up for a lack of boldness with brilliant deductive work. The duo couldn't be any more dissimilar but, with their skills combined,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penzler/Penzler Publishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Sleuthing attorney Perry Mason can't resist a good mystery, so when he sees an older woman being accused of shoplifting during a department store outing with his assistant, Della Street, he doesn't hesitate to intervene. Armed with an assumption of innocence and the legal acumen to silence her accuser, Mason leaps to the woman's defense--until her niece appears, acknowledging her aunt's guilt, and pays for the stolen items. Soon thereafter, Aunt...
Author
Series
Publisher
Hard Case Crime
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Español
Description
Beatriz Ballwin hires the Cool & Lam Detective Agency to protect wealthy real estate man Gerald Ballwin from being poisoned by his wife, but when Donald Lam investigates he finds out that his client is not who she says she is.
Author
Series
Publisher
Penzler Publishers
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
When Perry Mason stumbles upon a classified ad for a brown-haired woman with specific physical attributes, he takes note of the seemingly suspicious request. Then the woman hired for the job reaches out, fearing that her new employer--who pays her and herchaperone to stay inside an apartment and answer to another woman's name--might be using her for nefarious purposes. But by the time Mason works out the first mystery, a second, with murder, is just...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penzler Publishers
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Helen Kendal's woes begin when she receives a phone call from her vanished uncle Franklin, long presumed dead, who urges her to make contact with criminal defense attorney Perry Mason; soon after, she finds herself the main suspect in the murder of an unfamiliar man. Her kitten has just survived a poisoning attempt, as has her aunt Matilda, the woman who always maintained that Franklin was alive in spite of his disappearance. Lucky that Helen took...
Author
Series
Publisher
American Bar Association
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Years ago Alden Leeds found a rich vein of gold in the Klondike. Now his greedy relatives fear he's planning to grow his fortune away on a gold-digging spouse, Emily Millicant. So to prevent the two from joining in holy matrimony, they commit their affluent kin to a sanitarium on a trumped-up charge.
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Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
"A lawyer is sucked into a couple’s hostile divorce in this mystery with “a stellar ending” from the original detective series that inspired the HBO show (Kirkus Reviews). Edward Garvin is a very successful businessman with a very unhappy ex-wife—who wants his money. So Garvin calls on lawyer Perry Mason to protect his company from her schemes, and ensure the divorce they’d gotten in Mexico is actually finalized. But when...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
A runaway witness leads a lawyer into a whodunit: “The only dull pages in this book are the blank ones” (The New York Times). Defense lawyer Perry Mason is surprised to receive two checks from a stranger named Lola Allred. And when he speaks with Lola’s husband, he discovers the woman has run off with her daughter’s boyfriend—who happens to be an important witness in a lawsuit. Soon Mason’s caught up in a complicated case involving not...
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013, c1964
Language
English
Description
Features more digitally re-mastered episodes of the popular courtroom drama Perry Mason. Raymond Burr continues to ignite the screen as defense attorney Perry Mason, who stops at nothing to crack the most impossible cases and uncover the truth.