Tuesday, June 4, 2013

Perry Mason: The Case of the Terrified Typist by Erle Stanley Gardner










    Another Perry Mason case—and this one he actually LOSES (gasp!). But don’t worry—he prevails in the end and the good guys go free and the bad guys get what’s coming to them. And that’s not a spoiler, of course, since we all know that every Perry Mason book ends the same way—with everyone getting his or her just desserts and Perry Mason coming out smelling like a rose. 

     In this one, Perry discovers a fantastic typist, only to lose her a short time later in mysterious circumstances. Then he gets a client who he can’t seem to get through to—could the client be lying? And is he somehow connected to the mysterious typist?

     I like Perry Mason. I liked the TV show, I liked the TV movies and I am liking the books. But this one was a little slower than the others that I’ve read. There were quite a few legal explanations that I found a little dry. Quite a few. Is it because of who the book is dedicated to? I am a compulsive every-page reader, so I read the introduction and it was all about some admirable lawyer guy and I wondered if he was the reason that Erle Stanley Gardner (who is himself an attorney) filled this book with a bunch of “lawyer-ese”.  That stuff slowed me down a bit.

     However, the story was satisfying—and particularly involved, with quite a few twists and turns.  I enjoyed it very much.

Bad language: Nope
Sex: Nope

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