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Author : Erle Stanley Gardner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Detective and mystery stories
ISBN : LCCN:gb67024339
Author : Erle Stanley Gardner
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014-12-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781471908750
'Tantalising on every page and brilliant' Scott Turow, bestseller author of Presumed Innocent and Testimony 'Kingpin among the mystery writers' New York Times 'Why would anyone hire a girl with the figure of a stripteaser and pay her $100 a week to put on weight?' Perry Mason asked Della Street. 'In the course of my secretarial career,' Della said demurely, 'I've seen quite a few approaches, but this is a new one.' 'According to the letter of this contract,' Mason mused, 'if Dianne Alder should marry a millionaire and her husband should die, the party of the first part would be entitled to fifty percent.' Suddenly Mason snapped his fingers. 'You've got it?' Della Street asked. 'I have an explanation. I don't know whether it's the explanation, but it's quite an explanation'.
Author : Thomas M. Leitch
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 0814331211
Perry Mason was one of the most successful television programs from the 1950s and remains one of the most influential crime melodramas from any period. The show's influence goes far beyond its nine-year tenure (1957-66), the millions of dollars it generated for its creators and for CBS, and the definitive identification it provided its star, Raymond Burr. Perry Mason has become a true piece of Americana, evolving through a formulaic approach that law professors continue to use today as a teaching tool. In his examination of Perry Mason, author Thomas Leitch looks at why this series has appealed to so many for so long and what the continued appeal tells us about Americans' attitudes toward lawyers and the law, then and now. Beginning with its roots in earlier detective fiction, stories of fictional attorneys, and the work of Erle Stanley Gardner (the show's creator), Leitch lays out the circumstances under which Perry Mason was conceived and marketed as a distinct franchise. The evolution of Perry Mason is charted here in an inclusive manner, discussing the show's broadcast history (ending with the series of two-hour telemovies that aired nearly twenty years after the original series ended) alongside its generic nature and place within popular culture, the show's ideological dynamic, and issues of authorship in the context of television. This concise study is an excellent tool for television and media scholars as well as fans of the Perry Mason series.
Author : Heather L. Rivera,Robert Arp
Publisher : Open Court Publishing
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780812694949
In 1933 the crime writer Erle Stanley Gardner, himself a practicing lawyer, unleashed the character Perry Mason in the novel The Case of the Velvet Claws. Perry Mason entered into public consciousness as a new conception of the role of the defense lawyer, so that millions of Americans came to expect every criminal trial to have its “Perry Mason moment.” In the 1950s the Perry Mason TV show had a phenomenal success, and Mason came to be identified with Raymond Burr. Now Perry Mason has again been restored to life in the HBO series starring Matthew Rhys and John Lithgow. Meanwhile, the eighty-two original Erle Stanley Gardner novels continue to sell thousands of copies each week. Perry Mason gave America a new conception of the trial lawyer, as someone who was always loyal to his client and always prepared to use dirty tricks such as misdirection and withholding of evidence to protect the innocent and secure the ends of Justice. The Mason of the novels is less scrupulous than the Raymond Burr Mason, and would sometimes be in danger of going to jail if the trial didn’t turn out right—which it always did, largely because of Mason’s cleverness. The Perry Mason icon raises many philosophical issues explored by seventeen different philosophers in this book, including: ● Can we defend Paul Drake’s claim (The Case of the Blonde Bonanza) that Mason is “a paragon of righteous virtue” despite his predilection for skating on thin legal ice? ● Can complex murder cases be solved by facts alone—or do we also need empathy? ● The most convincing way to give a TV episode a surprise ending is by the guilty person suddenly confessing. But in reality, is a confession necessarily so convincing? ● Does Perry Mason represent the Messiah? ● How does the Raymond Burr Perry Mason compare with the more recent TV character Saul Goodman (Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul)? ● Is it morally okay to mislead the police if this helps your client and your client is innocent? ● How does Perry Mason help us understand the distinction between natural law and positive law? ● Do the Perry Mason stories comply with Aristotle’s recipe for a good work of fiction? ● Does life imitate art, when Perry Mason is cited in real-life courtroom arguments? ● How much trickery can be justified by loyalty to one’s client? ● Can evidence in murder trials be evaluated by probability theory? ● Perry Mason is officially a lawyer and unofficially a detective. But isn’t he really a historian and a psychgoanalayst? ● Della Street is a competent legal secretary, but is she something more? ● Mason often says that “Eye-witness testimony is the worst kind of evidence” and occasionally that “Circumstantial evidence is the best evidence we have.” Can these claims be defended?
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Page : 1152 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Copyright
ISBN : STANFORD:36105006280866
Includes Part 1, Number 1: Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals (January - June)
Author : Sandra Palomino
Publisher : Heritage Capital Corporation
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1599672170
Author : Terry White
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2003-09-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313052576
White provides the most comprehensive scholarly compilation of fictional work of legal suspense in existence. Primarily a bibliography of novels, it also annotates plays, scripts for film and television, novelizations, and short-story collections about lawyers and the law. The idea behind the principal of selection is to disdain labels that reduce the variety of the legal thriller to a subgenre of mystery fiction. Novels that range from suspense thrillers through science fiction to the philosophical novel are included if justice is thematically important. It is therefore an eclectic reference source beyond a compilation of books about lawyers as protagonists. Its biographical and scholarly information about authors, major and minor, and their novels or works is traditionally encyclopedic and objective regardless of whether the work has been genre-defined, or worse—deified as a classic or denigrated as a bestseller. Many novels included are long out of print, but historically interesting for their contribution to the lineage of the courtroom drama, showing that the history of the legal thriller is one of the major branches of modern literature since the Age of Reason. The criterion of justice denoted moves beyond the fact of lawyers and courtrooms to select seminal novels like Robert Travers' Anatomy of a Murder as well as the romantic potboiler. Among the more than 2,000 works are the Perry Mason novels of Erle Stanley Gardner, John Mortimer's Rumpole series, along with a staple of fiction by major authors of the genre like John Lescroart, Lisa Scottoline, Margaret Maron, Scott Turow, and John Grisham. There are also individual works by Shakespeare, Goethe, Kafka, Camus, and Twain delineating humanity's obsession with the law as its shining prop of civilization and, alternative, béte-noire of the common individual caught up in its maw. The appendices include comments by lawyer-novelist Michael A. Kahn, a historical introduction to the legal thriller, craft notes by writers and prominent trial lawyers responding to author and lawyer questionnaires, bibliography of critical sources and articles, series characters, and the legal terminology found in courtroom dramas and novels. An essential reference tool for scholars, researchers as well as the occasional reader of legal thrillers.
Author : Erle Stanley Gardner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Criminal defense lawyers
ISBN : STANFORD:36105047916882
FLASH... Mason gives Della Street two weeks' vacation! That is, it was supposed to be a vacation, but Della turned it into a busman's holiday. Target of interest was a well-stacked blonde--one who incredibly stashed away five enormous meals a day. Her name was Dianne, and when Mason unexpectedly appeared, he and Della discovered she had signed a contract to gain weight quickly in order to model clothes for "stylish stouts." Perry smelled a rat, and when he read the contract he found a nest of them. One led straight to murder....
Author : Harold E. Hinds,Marilyn Ferris Motz,Angela M. S. Nelson
Publisher : Popular Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 087972871X
Since its birth in the 1960s, the study of popular culture has come a long way in defining its object, its purpose, and its place in academe. Emerging along the margins of a scholarly establishment that initially dismissed anything popular as unworthy of serious study-trivial, formulaic, easily digestible, escapist-early practitioners of the discipline stubbornly set about creating the theoretical and methodological framework upon which a deeper understanding could be founded. Through seminal essays that document the maturation of the field as it gradually made headway toward legitimacy, Popular Culture Theory and Methodology provides students of popular culture with both the historical context and the critical apparatus required for further growth. For all its progress, the study of popular culture remains a site of healthy questioning. What exactly is popular culture? How should it be studied? What forces come together in producing, disseminating, and consuming it? Is it always conformist, or has it the power to subvert, refashion, resist, and destabilize the status quo? How does it differ from folk culture, mass culture, commercial culture? Is the line between "high" and "low" merely arbitrary? Do the popular arts have a distinctive aesthetics? This collection offers a wide range of responses to these and similar questions. Edited by Harold E. Hinds, Jr., Marilyn F. Motz, and Angela M. S. Nelson, Popular Culture Theory and Methodology charts some of the key turning points in the "culture wars" and leads us through the central debates in this fast developing discipline. Authors of the more than two dozen studies, several of which are newly published here include John Cawelti, Russel B. Nye, Ray B. Browne, Fred E. H. Schroeder, John Fiske, Lawrence Mintz, David Feldman, Roger Rollin, Harold Schechter, S. Elizabeth Bird, and Harold E. Hinds, Jr. A valuable bibliography completes the volume.
Author : George Woodcock
Publisher : Springer
Page : 788 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1983-04-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349170661
Author : William F. Deeck
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2008-08-01
Category : Detective and mystery stories
ISBN : 9780941028110
A bibliography of various mystery novels published between November 1976 and Fall 1992.
Author : Michael R. Pitts
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0810823454
A sequel to the 1979 offering investigates such celluloid gumshoes as Mike Hammer, Miss Jane Marple, Philip Marlowe, Perry Mason, The Shadow, Sherlock Holmes, and The Whistler, as well as those with brief careers, including Kitty O'Day, Tony Rome, and Lord Peter Whimsey. Reveals the characters, the actors, the films, and the literary works that set off the whole chain of events. Includes dozens of movie stills and corrections to the base volume. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : NA NA
Publisher : Springer
Page : 1585 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349813667
Author : Michael L. Cook
Publisher : Popular Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0879722304
This work is a composite index of the complete runs of all mystery and detective fan magazines that have been published, through 1981. Added to it are indexes of many magazines of related nature. This includes magazines that are primarily oriented to boys' book collecting, the paperbacks, and the pulp magazine hero characters, since these all have a place in the mystery and detective genre.
Author : Erle Stanley Gardner
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1995-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345470430
Virginia Baxter is the only witness still living who can vouch for the authenticity of Lauretta Trent’s will. Lauretta Trent, a wealthy widow, is also still living. But for how long? Someone has been peppering the spicy food Lauretta loves with arsenic. Could it be the same someone who tried framing Virginia Baxter for drug smuggling? Lauretta doesn’t trust her greedy heirs. But could a scheming servant be behind a master plan to fleece her estate? It all seems to fit. But when Lauretta is murdered on the highway, all the evidence places Virginia Baxter squarely in the driver’s seat. Confused? Just think how Virginia’s lawyer, Perry Mason, must feel.