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
Sex: Nope
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