Get Your Copy The Case Of The Cautious Coquette (Perry Mason Series Book 34) Narrated By Erle Stanley Gardner Distributed In Hardbound

story. I enjoyed reading Perry Mason's story during my younger days and I'm just reliving my youth! Terrfic fast paced thriller Enjoyed revisiting my teen age favourite! When Perry Mason and Paul Drake ran the ad, all they were hoping for was a clue to the identity of a hit and run driver.
The first reply looked suspicious, It said that the license number of the wanted car was written down in the notebook of a woman who could be out of her apartment from two to five on a certain afternoon, and a key to the apartment was enclosed.


Could this letter, Mason asked Della Street, have been written by the woman herself I want to get the feminine angle.
Della laughed. There arent any feminine anglestheyre all curved, Fast curves.

From the very first time Perry met the voluptuous blonde, Lucille Barton, she pitched him trouble, She lied about her past, about her many marriages, about her gun, and about her boyfriends, Then the murders began. And the cops turned up with evidence which pointed clearly to one person as the killerPerry Mason! Nothing To say anew.
They are thrillers for the last fifty odd years This is one Perry Mason detective novel as entertaining as the rest of them.
Erle Stanley Gardneris a prolific American author best known for his works centered on the lawyer detective Perry Mason.
At the time of his death in March of, in Ventura, California, Gardner was "the most widely read of all American writers" and "the most widely translated author in the world," according to social historian Russell Nye.
The first Perry Mason novel, The Case of The Velvet Claws, published in, had sold twenty eight million copies in its first fifteen years.
In the mids, the Perry Mason novels were selling at the rate of twenty thousand copies a day.
There have been six motion pictures based on his work and the hugely popular Perry Mason television series starring Raymond Burr, which aired for nine years andepisodes.


As author William F, Nolan notes, "Gardner, than any other writer, popularized the law profession for a mass market audience, melding fact and fiction to achieve a unique blend no one ever handled courtroom drama better than he did.
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Richard Senate further sums up the significance of Gardners contribution: "Although the character of Perry Mason is not unique as a 'lawyer sleuth,' he is the first to come to anyone's mind when it comes to sheer brilliance in solving courtroom detective cases by rather unconventional means.
Besides 'Tarzan,' 'Sherlock Holmes,' 'Superman' 'Perry Mason' qualifies as an American icon of popular culture in the twentieth century.
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Gardner's writing has touched a lot of people including a number of

high profile figures, Brian Kelleher and Diana Merrill say in theirbook, The Perry Mason TV Show Book that Harry S, Truman was a fan and that it is rud that when Einstein died, a Perry Mason book was at his bedside.
They further describe that when Raymond Burr met Pope John XXIII, the actor reported that the pontiff "seemed to know all about Perry Mason.
" Federal judge Sonya Sotomayor frequently mentions how Perry Mason was one of her earliest influences,

Starting with his first book, Gardner had a very definite vision of the shape the Perry Mason character would take:

"I want to make my hero a fighter," he wrote to his publisher, "not by having him be ruthless to women and underlings, but by creating a character who, with infinite patience jockeys his enemies into a position where he can deliver one good knockout punch.
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Author Photo: Courtesy of Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin,