The Case Of The Lonely Heiress

Author : Erle Stanley Gardner
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504061254

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The Case of the Lonely Heiress by Erle Stanley Gardner Pdf

A fight over a rich man’s will turns deadly in this murder mystery by the “kingpin among the mystery writers” from the series that inspired the HBO show (The New York Times). Marilyn Marlow has inherited a good deal of money from her mother. But the money originated with another will—that of her mother’s wealthy employer. Now his relatives are contesting the will, and it’s Rose Keeling, the key witness to its signing, whose mind they'll need to sway. When Rose is murdered, sleuthing lawyer Perry Mason must navigate a twisted case involving a personal ad that casts a cloud of suspicion over his client, Miss Marlow, in this mystery in Edgar Award–winning author Erle Stanley Gardner’s classic, long-running series, which has sold three hundred million copies and serves as the inspiration for the HBO show starring Matthew Rhys and Tatiana Maslany. DON’T MISS THE NEW HBO ORIGINAL SERIES PERRY MASON, BASED ON CHARACTERS FROM ERLE STANLEY GARDNER’S NOVELS, STARRING EMMY AWARD WINNER MATTHEW RHYS

Author : Erle Stanley Gardner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Detective and mystery stories
ISBN : 0417015909

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The Case of the Lonely Heiress by Erle Stanley Gardner Pdf

Author : Erle Stanley Gardner
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 690 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504077019

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The Perry Mason Mysteries Volume One by Erle Stanley Gardner Pdf

Three crime classics in one volume starring the defense lawyer who inspired the HBO series. From the Edgar Award–winning author, these novels from the long-running, multimillion-selling mystery series that inspired the HBO hit starring Matthew Rhys include: The Case of the Lazy Lover Perry Mason is surprised to receive two checks from a stranger named Lola Allred. 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 is caught up in a case involving forgery and murder . . . “The only dull pages in this book are the blank ones.” —The New York Times The Case of the Lonely Heiress Marilyn Marlow has inherited a good deal of money from her mother. But the money originated with another will—that of her mother’s wealthy employer. Now his relatives are contesting the will and the key witness to its signing has just been murdered. It’s up to the sleuthing lawyer to clear the cloud of suspicion over Miss Marlow’s head . . . “No one has ever matched Gardner for swift, sure exposition.” —Kirkus Reviews The Case of the Dubious Bridegroom Edward Garvin is a very successful businessman with a very unhappy ex-wife—who wants his money. Garvin calls on Perry Mason to protect his company from her schemes, and ensure the divorce they’d gotten in Mexico is actually finalized. But when Garvin’s former spouse is struck down by a killer, Mason’s client becomes the chief suspect . . . “A stellar ending.” —Kirkus Reviews

Author : Heather L. Rivera,Robert Arp
Publisher : Open Court Publishing
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780812694949

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Perry Mason and Philosophy by Heather L. Rivera,Robert Arp Pdf

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 : William F. Deeck
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2008-08-01
Category : Detective and mystery stories
ISBN : 9780941028110

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The Mystery Fancier by William F. Deeck Pdf

A bibliography of various mystery novels published between November 1976 and Fall 1992.

Author : Erle Stanley Gardner
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1995-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345470430

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The Case of the Horrified Heirs by Erle Stanley Gardner Pdf

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.

Author : Erle Stanley Gardner
Publisher : Alien Ebooks
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781667623009

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The Case of the Mischievous Doll by Erle Stanley Gardner Pdf

Mason is hired to identify a woman based on an appendix scar, as she fears being a look-alike to an heiress may be a setup for her arrest. Mason later defends the heiress on murder charges.

Author : Erle Stanley Gardner
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2023-03-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781434441973

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The Case of the Mischevious Doll by Erle Stanley Gardner Pdf

Perry Mason is hired to identify a woman based on an appendix scar, as she fears being a look-alike to an heiress may be a setup for her arrest. A classic mystery!

Author : Erle Stanley Gardner
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2023-05-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Case of the Lazy Lover by Erle Stanley Gardner Pdf

A man tells everyone that his wife has run away with his best friend, who seems to have a strange lack of enthusiasm about the affair. The case leads to murder, and a trial that hinges on multiple sets of footprints.

Author : Erle Stanley Gardner
Publisher : Alien Ebooks
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781667624419

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The Case of the Fenced In Woman by Erle Stanley Gardner Pdf

Morley Eden finds an unwanted guest on his property. The ex-wife of his dream house's contractor claims that the property is one-half hers. Eden calls upon Perry Mason to resolve a dispute that is linked to murder.

Author : Thomas Leitch
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2005-09-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780814336762

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Perry Mason by Thomas Leitch Pdf

An exploration of the enduring popularity of the television series Perry Mason and its universal reputation as the most formulaic program in the history of broadcast television.

Author : Terry White
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2003-09-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313052576

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Justice Denoted by Terry White Pdf

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 : Open Road Media
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504061285

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The Case of the Terrified Typist by Erle Stanley Gardner Pdf

The Edgar Award–winning author’s tale of a missing woman and a crime ring, featuring the lawyer and detective who inspired the HBO limited series. Defense lawyer Perry Mason needs a temporary typist, but the one he hires turns out to be more temporary than expected. When she disappears, leaving a couple of diamonds behind in her haste, Mason winds up taking on a new client: a gem importer in his office building who’s been charged with smuggling and murder. But if Mason’s going to untangle this case, finding the typist is key . . . This mystery is part of Edgar Award–winning author Erle Stanley Gardner’s classic, long-running Perry Mason series, which has sold three hundred million copies and serves as the inspiration for the HBO show starring Matthew Rhys and Tatiana Maslany. “Millions of Americans never seem to tire of Gardner’s thrillers.” —The New York Times DON’T MISS THE NEW HBO ORIGINAL SERIES PERRY MASON, BASED ON CHARACTERS FROM ERLE STANLEY GARDNER’S NOVELS, STARRING EMMY AWARD WINNER MATTHEW RHYS

Author : Erle Stanley Gardner
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504061230

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The Case of the Gilded Lily by Erle Stanley Gardner Pdf

A crime thriller starring the sleuthing lawyer portrayed in the HBO limited series—from the Edgar Award–winning “kingpin among the mystery writers” (The New York Times). Stewart Bedford is willing to cooperate with a blackmailer to protect his beloved wife. But when he wakes up in a daze to find the man shot dead with Bedford’s gun and his blond escort missing, he’ll need some help from defense lawyer Perry Mason . . . This mystery is part of Edgar Award–winning author Erle Stanley Gardner’s classic, long-running Perry Mason series, which has sold three hundred million copies and serves as the inspiration for the HBO show starring Matthew Rhys and Tatiana Maslany. DON’T MISS THE NEW HBO ORIGINAL SERIES PERRY MASON, BASED ON CHARACTERS FROM ERLE STANLEY GARDNER’S NOVELS, STARRING EMMY AWARD WINNER MATTHEW RHYS

Author : R. Reginald
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2009-12-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780893700225

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Cumulative Paperback Index, 1939-1959 by R. Reginald Pdf

This was the first bibliography and guide to the American mass market paperback book, and it remains one of the most definitive. The major index is by author, and lists: author, title, publisher, book number, year of publication, and cover price. The title index lists titles and authors only. The publisher index provides a history of that imprint, with addresses, number ranges, and general physical description of the books issued. This is the place that all study of the American paperback must begin.