The Case Of The Substitute Face

Author : Erle Stanley Gardner
Publisher : Perry Mason Mysteries
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1634253612

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The Case of the Substitute Face by Erle Stanley Gardner Pdf

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, the wife puts her fate in the hands of Perry, who in the course of piecing things together unearths the fact that the husband had once accepted a huge bribe while serving on a jury. The case takes many shocking twists and turns before revealing its surprising conclusion. With the reissue of this iconic series--many titles of which have not been in print for years--it is our hope at Ankerwycke to introduce a whole new generation of reasers to the investigative brilliance of Perry Mason and the masterful storytelling of Erle Stanley Gardner, drawing together a new and connected family of fans throughout the world.

Author : Erle Stanley Gardner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1938
Category : California
ISBN : STANFORD:36105012349911

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The Case of the Substitute Face by Erle Stanley Gardner Pdf

"No vacation from murder. Perry Mason has been batting around the Orient, taking a well-earned vacation. (Yes, Della Street is along.) And the famous detective can hardly wait to get back to the roar and the stimulation of the city. He doesn't have to wait to get home, however, for excitement to start. Just out of Honolulu, a fellow-passenger comes to him with a very strange story. Now beside the ship's rail, he listens to the queer tale a woman tells in a voice of nervous hysteria. Until two months before she was known as Mrs. Moar. But overnight her husband..." --

Author : Sandra Palomino
Publisher : Heritage Capital Corporation
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1599672170

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HSA Books and Manuscripts Dallas Auction Catalog #682 by Sandra Palomino Pdf

Author : Heather L. Rivera,Robert Arp
Publisher : Open Court Publishing
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 46,9 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 : Erle Stanley Gardner
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,5 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 : 40,6 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 : Erle Stanley Gardner
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 52,9 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 : 310 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781434448514

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The Case of the Careless Kitten by Erle Stanley Gardner Pdf

Mason defends Della Street, who is accused of helping a material witness or possible murder suspect vanish from a crime scene. A classic mystery! Includes an introduction by Karl Wurf.

Author : William H. Young,Nancy K. Young
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 717 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2007-03-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780313088711

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The Great Depression in America [2 volumes] by William H. Young,Nancy K. Young Pdf

Everything from Amos n' Andy to zeppelins is included in this expansive two volume encyclopedia of popular culture during the Great Depression era. Two hundred entries explore the entertainments, amusements, and people of the United States during the difficult years of the 1930s. In spite of, or perhaps because of, such dire financial conditions, the worlds of art, fashion, film, literature, radio, music, sports, and theater pushed forward. Conditions of the times were often mirrored in the popular culture with songs such as Brother Can You Spare a Dime, breadlines and soup kitchens, homelessness, and prohibition and repeal. Icons of the era such as Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, Louis Armstrong, Bing Crosby, F. Scott Fitzgerald, George and Ira Gershwin, Jean Harlow, Billie Holiday, the Marx Brothers, Roy Rogers, Frank Sinatra, and Shirley Temple entertained many. Dracula, Gone With the Wind, It Happened One Night, and Superman distracted others from their daily worries. Fads and games - chain letters, jigsaw puzzles, marathon dancing, miniature golf, Monopoly - amused some, while musicians often sang the blues. Nancy and William Young have written a work ideal for college and high school students as well as general readers looking for an overview of the popular culture of the 1930s. Art deco, big bands, Bonnie and Clyde, the Chicago's World Fair, Walt Disney, Duke Ellington, five-and-dimes, the Grand Ole Opry, the jitter-bug, Lindbergh kidnapping, Little Orphan Annie, the Olympics, operettas, quiz shows, Seabiscuit, vaudeville, westerns, and Your Hit Parade are just a sampling of the vast range of entries in this work. Reference features include an introductory essay providing an historical and cultural overview of the period, bibliography, and index.

Author : Erle Stanley Gardner
Publisher : Fawcett
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Attorney and client
ISBN : 0345437853

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The Case of the Fabulous Fake by Erle Stanley Gardner Pdf

SILENCE IS MURDER Perry Mason's beautiful new client isn't giving anything away, not even her name, and he suspects that what she does choose to reveal is mostly lies. Certainly the bag full of cash she carries isn't shopping money. All the mystery woman asks is that Mason make himself available for a few days in case she needs him--for what purpose, she remains silent as the grave. In fact, his headstrong client, who identifies herself only as "36-24-36," is headed for disaster--not only into a blackmailer's clutches but into a lethal trap from which not even Perry Mason's brilliant courtroom sorcery may be able to extricate her. Alive, anyway . . . THE ORIGINAL COURTROOM NOVELS

Author : Bernard A. Drew
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2010-03-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780786457212

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Literary Afterlife by Bernard A. Drew Pdf

This is an encyclopedic work, arranged by broad categories and then by original authors, of literary pastiches in which fictional characters have reappeared in new works after the deaths of the authors that created them. It includes book series that have continued under a deceased writer's real or pen name, undisguised offshoots issued under the new writer's name, posthumous collaborations in which a deceased author's unfinished manuscript is completed by another writer, unauthorized pastiches, and "biographies" of literary characters. The authors and works are entered under the following categories: Action and Adventure, Classics (18th Century and Earlier), Classics (19th Century), Classics (20th Century), Crime and Mystery, Espionage, Fantasy and Horror, Humor, Juveniles (19th Century), Juveniles (20th Century), Poets, Pulps, Romances, Science Fiction and Westerns. Each original author entry includes a short biography, a list of original works, and information on the pastiches based on the author's characters.

Author : George Woodcock
Publisher : Springer
Page : 788 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1983-04-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349170661

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Twentieth Century Fiction by George Woodcock Pdf

Author : Michael R. Pitts
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0810823454

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Famous Movie Detectives II by Michael R. Pitts Pdf

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

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Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers by NA NA Pdf

Author : Warren French
Publisher : Springer
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1980-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349164165

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Twentieth Century American Literature by Warren French Pdf