William Morrow and Company, 1949. — 198 p. The reader is warned right at the start that this is not a book of breath-taking adventure . It is a book of leisure, of drifting , of how one’s blood pressure can drop fifty points under the benign influence of nature’s healing hand. You, who are a little tired of trying to keep up with the hectic pace at which we are rushing toward...
Grosset & Dunlap, 1944. — 121 p. The Rimley Rendezvous was the kind of back-street bistro where a tired businessman could drop in for a pick-up, no questions asked. Deep carpets and subdued lights gave the place an air of clandestine class. And solicitous waiters catered to the customer's every whim. All these comforts added up to a steep cover charge, especially since...
Grosset & Dunlap, 1944. — 121 p. The Rimley Rendezvous was the kind of back-street bistro where a tired businessman could drop in for a pick-up, no questions asked. Deep carpets and subdued lights gave the place an air of clandestine class. And solicitous waiters catered to the customer's every whim. All these comforts added up to a steep cover charge, especially since...
Grosset & Dunlap, 1944. — 121 p. The Rimley Rendezvous was the kind of back-street bistro where a tired businessman could drop in for a pick-up, no questions asked. Deep carpets and subdued lights gave the place an air of clandestine class. And solicitous waiters catered to the customer's every whim. All these comforts added up to a steep cover charge, especially since...
Cornwall: House of Stratus, 2012. — 515 p. — ISBN: 9780755140459. Paul Pry, one of Gardner's least-known and strangest characters is showcased here. He picks 'Mugs' Magoo out of the gutter and forma a partnership which makes the big shots of the underworld look pathetic.
Язык книги: EN, 36с.
Because Della Street, Perry Mason's confidential secretary, was spending a two-week vacation with an aunt who lived at Bolero Beach, the lawyer, having consulted with a client in San Diego, drove by on the way home. Since it was Saturday, and a beautiful day, a little persuasion on Della Street 's part, plus a dinner invitation from Aunt Mae, caused the...
Язык книги: EN, 47с.
After his employer dies in a fire, a caretaker hires Mason to allow him to keep his cat against the wishes of the men who inherit. When the caretaker is killed, Mason defends the woman accused of his murder.
After his employer dies in a fire, a caretaker hires Mason to allow him to keep his cat against the wishes of the men who inherit. When the caretaker is killed, Mason defends the woman accused of his murder.
"Peter Brunold has a bloodshot glass eye to use the "morning after". It is distinctive, closely identified with him, and thus quite a handicap when a corpse is found clutching a bloodshot glass eye. Later, another corpse is found, with another bloodshot glass eye in hand. Perry Mason is in almost as much jeopardy as his client: the lawyer's fingerprints have been found on one of...
Язык книги: EN, 46с.
"Peter Brunold has a bloodshot glass eye to use the "morning after". It is distinctive, closely identified with him, and thus quite a handicap when a corpse is found clutching a bloodshot glass eye. Later, another corpse is found, with another bloodshot glass eye in hand. Perry Mason is in almost as much jeopardy as his client: the lawyer's fingerprints have...
BookDesigner, 2007. — 134 p. He announced himself as Mr. Cash. His calling card was ten crisp hundred-dollar bills! “My wife has disappeared,” he told Perry Mason. “She’s in trouble of some sort. I want to find her.” Mr. Cash’s wife was indeed in trouble of a most serious sort. First, her jewelry disappeared. Then she disappeared. Perry Mason had to find her before the police...
After giving the District Attorney another stinging defeat, Perry plans to take a vacation in China. That is, he was, until Rhoda, his old flame, meets him at a restaurant. Even though she says that she is asking for a friend, Perry can see right through her. It seems that her husband Moxley, who had been allegedly dead for four years, is alive and demanding money as she has...
Язык книги: EN, 50с.
After giving the District Attorney another stinging defeat, Perry plans to take a vacation in China. That is, he was, until Rhoda, his old flame, meets him at a restaurant. Even though she says that she is asking for a friend, Perry can see right through her. It seems that her husband Moxley, who had been allegedly dead for four years, is alive and demanding...
When Matilda Benson, a cigar smoking and tough talking widow, walked into Perry Mason's office, he had no idea what the next few days were going to do to him. What started off as a simple request to pay of her granddaughter's gambling debts, ends up as a murder investigation. It just so happens, that the police and a federal grand jury are interested in charging Perry with that...
Язык книги: EN, 47с.
When Matilda Benson, a cigar smoking and tough talking widow, walked into Perry Mason's office, he had no idea what the next few days were going to do to him. What started off as a simple request to pay of her granddaughter's gambling debts, ends up as a murder investigation. It just so happens, that the police and a federal grand jury are interested in...
First published 1957. — (Perry Mason #54). Jerry Conway fights dishonest ex-employee Gifford Farrell for his Texas oil company. "Call me Rosalind" offers him a proxy list, but at the hotel a beauty clad in underwear and a face mud pack frames Jerry with a freshly fired gun. On the hotel bed, lawyer Perry Mason and PI Paul Drake find a woman shot dead by the same gun. Who does...
Ballantine Books, 1981. — 172 p. Perry Mason and Della Street were both out to lunch. Gertie, the receptionist and telephone operator, was indulging in her favorite noontime occupation - munching chocolates and reading a love story - when the door burst open and a woman rushed in. Gertie got her name, all right, dimly registered the fact that she was not only very attractive...
Дело о тонущем утенке Главные черты адвоката Перри Мейсона – эрудиция, глубокие аналитические способности, воля к победе, умение держать удар, бульдожья хватка, преданность клиенту… Эти качества ему не отказывают никогда – ни на отдыхе в отеле «Палм-Спринг», ни на судебном процессе по делу его верной помощницы Деллы Стрит, ни во время расследования преступления, совершенного...
First published 1941. — (Perry Mason #19). A spanking-new tin can, secretly placed among the rows of Mrs. Florence Gentrie's preserves, contains not a speck of food — but it does carry one very damning clue to a murder that took place right next door. Such an unsavory discovery in such an unlikely place can't help but pique the curiosity of a dedicated mystery hunter like Perry...
Дело женщины за колючей проволокой Архитектор-любитель оказался в незавидном положении. В любовно построенный им дом по странному решению суда въехала молодая фотомодель и перегородила дом и участок колючей проволокой. Если архитектор предпримет какие-то шаги или хотя бы заговорит с женщиной, то может начаться судебный процесс… Перри Мейсон берется помочь несчастному… Edition...
Дело женщины за колючей проволокой Архитектор-любитель оказался в незавидном положении. В любовно построенный им дом по странному решению суда въехала молодая фотомодель и перегородила дом и участок колючей проволокой. Если архитектор предпримет какие-то шаги или хотя бы заговорит с женщиной, то может начаться судебный процесс… Перри Мейсон берется помочь несчастному… First...
Язык книги: EN, 37с. This book is another entry in the long line of Perry Mason Mysteries. The book opens with Lauretta Trent in the hospital because of stomach problems .Lauretta Trent is extremely rich and has a lot of relatives living with her. All of these relatives livefor the day when she will die and they will inherit her money. The Trent residence is a big mansion with...
Язык книги: EN, 47с.
"When a potential client wants to see Perry Mason about a howling dog and a will, the attorney is not interested. He does not enjoy drawing wills, and wonders if the man shouldn't see a veterinarian. However, when the man asks whether a will is legal if the person who made it had been executed for murder, immediately Mason becomes interested. He finds, in...
"When a potential client wants to see Perry Mason about a howling dog and a will, the attorney is not interested. He does not enjoy drawing wills, and wonders if the man shouldn't see a veterinarian. However, when the man asks whether a will is legal if the person who made it had been executed for murder, immediately Mason becomes interested. He finds, in addition to the will and...
Дело о хромой канарейке Величайший адвокат литературы XX века Перри Мейсон всегда на страже клиента! Каким бы загадочным ни казался клиент, какими бы странными ни выглядели свидетели, какими бы невероятными ни выглядели обстоятельства дела – Перри Мейсон решит любые проблемы! А поможет ему в этом очаровательная секретарша Делла Стрит! First published 1937 Edition Language: English...
Like many other young women, Marjorie Clune has fallen victim to a con artist who promotes bogus beauty pageants in small California towns. The Girl with the Lucky Legs is promised a Hollywood contract, but in fact, there is no contract, and the promoter absconds with the promotional money put up by local merchants. Cheated of her triumph, Marjorie has fled her hometown in shame...
Язык книги: EN, 50с.
Like many other young women, Marjorie Clune has fallen victim to a con artist who promotes bogus beauty pageants in small California towns. The Girl with the Lucky Legs is promised a Hollywood contract, but in fact, there is no contract, and the promoter absconds with the promotional money put up by local merchants. Cheated of her triumph, Marjorie has fled...
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 deal man’s angry son or 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...
Дело об отложенном убийстве» – последний, посмертный роман Гарднера про известного адвоката, обнаруженный в сейфе писателя и опубликованный его наследниками. (first published 1973) Edition Language: English Series: Perry Mason #82 When Mae Farr becomes the presumed stalking victim of wealthy playboy Penn Wentworth, she asks Perry for help. Wentworth say he merely wants her for...
First published 1973. — (Perry Mason #82). Perry Mason is hired to protect Mae Farr from a presumed stalker, wealthy playboy Penn Wentworth. When Mason learns that Wentworth wants Mae for forging his name on a cheque, things get complicated. But fatal gunplay leaves Wentworth dead, Mae a wanted woman and Perry Mason in trouble.
First published 1938. — (Perry Mason #13). After her well-to-do Aunt Sarah is caught shoplifting, Virginia Trent is convinced she 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. Virginia thinks Sarah swiped the stones, but gem...
Язык книги: EN, 1960, 42с.
Ellen Robb does more than just sing for her supper she also dances and sells cigarettes in a two-bit gambling parlor in a one-horse town. But when she hits a sour note with her scheming employer by refusing to help fleece a fat-cat customer in a crooked card game, she finds herself out of all three jobs. That's when she sings her song of woe to Perry...
William Morrow & Company, 1961. — 108 p. A shoebox full of cash and an elderly mine owner who disappears, wheelchair and all, leave a secretary charged with murder.
Язык книги: EN, 43с.
Bishop William Mallory from Australia comes to Mason for help with an inheritance problem. He claims that the wealthy Renwold C. Brownley had years ago sabotaged his son's marriage and driven his wife, Julia Branner, to give her baby girl up for adoption. After his son died, the grandfather started hunting for his lost grand-daughter and the detective...
First published 1938. — (Perry Mason #12). 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,...
Язык книги: EN, 51с.
A bratty heiress wants to keep the news of her marriage a secret from the guardian who controls her purse strings, but when he's murdered, her groom is accused.
A bratty heiress wants to keep the news of her marriage a secret from the guardian who controls her purse strings, but when he's murdered, her groom is accused.
Heinemann, 1961. — 240 p. "The Case of the Terrified Typist" is one of the best Erle Stanley Garnders Mysteries with great Lawyer Perry Mason. Perry hires a temporary typist who flees in a panic, leaving behind a pair of diamonds hidden in a wad of chewing gum. Down the hall from Perry's office, a co-owner of a gem importing company has been charged in a smuggling scheme, and...
Язык книги: EN, 1965, 39с.
An erstwhile young man has his hands full as trustee of a wild young woman's inheritance. But his love and her money don't mix. Perry Mason may be able to prove his client is no emb
ezzlerbut what happens when murder rears its head?
Язык книги: EN, 49с.
A spoiled woman is keen to keep news of her affairs from her powerful husband, even if it costs Perry his freedom when she swears he was on the murder scene.
2012. — 236 p. Platinum blonde, Veronica Dale, is arrested on a charge of vagrancy. Yet, she has a hotel reservation in her name. Addison, head of a department store, booked the room for her and is now being blackmailed. Perry Mason can’t decide who is hiding what. Then comes murder — and one of Perry Mason’s toughest trials.
Black Mask, 1934. — 40 p. I felt certain that the police, for all they wanted me, would never recognize me as the shabby figure that prowled around Chinatown — the figure of a white hanger-onner who had been crowded out of the society of his own kind and into the dark poverty that fringes Chinatown.
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