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The Case Of The Crooked Candle (Perry Mason #24)
Time and Tide... it takes only a minute for Perry Mason to win a hefty accident settlement from a fur company that doesn't want to appear in court. But it takes a little longer than that for Mason to start wondering why the company is buying large tracts of land outside of Los Angeles.
On his way to finding out, Mason meets Mrs. Milfield, a barely distraught widow, and a sl...more
On his way to finding out, Mason meets Mrs. Milfield, a barely distraught widow, and a sl...more
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A Perry Mason mystery. Perry Mason's relationship with Della is a bit more ambiguous in the stories than it was in the television series. Mason is fiercely protective of Della and she insists on going along on his investigations. This time he becomes casually involved with a couple who approach him because of an accident the husband was involved in. When Paul starts checking, the name of the company on the side of the truck doesn't exist and the driver of the truck took the license number away f...more
#24 in the Perry Mason series. A superior entry, Mason depends on logic more than on courtroom pyrotechnics to free his client. Jacques Barzun and Wendell Hertig Taylor include this in their collection of Fifty Classics of Crime Fiction, 1900-1950.
Perry Mason is hired by Carol Burbank to prove her father did not kill a business associate on his yacht. Facts in the case point to Carol and/or her father as the killer, but after clearing Carol of subornation of perjury charge, Mason is able to unra...more
Perry Mason is hired by Carol Burbank to prove her father did not kill a business associate on his yacht. Facts in the case point to Carol and/or her father as the killer, but after clearing Carol of subornation of perjury charge, Mason is able to unra...more
I do enjoy these old, moldy Perry Mason mysteries, and I'm not sure why. Maybe because they're simple (in a way, certainly not plot-wise). Mason is always straight-up and forthright, always ready to stand up for the underdog. And there's Della, his faithful puppy...I mean, secretary. And Tragg, and Hamilton Burger, and Paul Drake...they never change. So I guess they're cosy. And I love those courtroom scenes. Soooo dramatic!
And can you figure out whodunit? Sure! It's not rocket science! All you...more
And can you figure out whodunit? Sure! It's not rocket science! All you...more
I'd never read a single Perry Mason mystery (or watched a single episode of the TV series), but after I finished all of Raymond Chandler's novels and short stories, I moved on to his letters and discovered that he (Chandler) was a very fussy reader with exacting tastes about mystery novels. Chandler had negative things to say about almost every mystery writer out there. But, he LOVED Erle Stanley Gardner's Perry Mason novels--so I decided to give one a try. It was very fast-paced (the storyline...more
Perry does it again, this time using tide charts and geometry. Literary Perry is much grittier than TV Perry: he ruthlessly gets a large settlement for an accident victim, gets an outsized price for a property sale, and takes on the DA's office in ways you'll never see him deal with Hamilton Burger on the tube. Perry and Della have an deep (though not detailed) romance going on. Perry even has a moment of respectful sharing of information with Lt. Tragg.
It's easy to see why the screenwriters ed...more
It's easy to see why the screenwriters ed...more
While most mysteries novels are Meh, IMO! Perry Mason turned out to contain a totally outside-the-box aspect to mystery novella. Not to forget that Perry Mason is a lawyer and not your traditional PI.
The Case of the Crooked Candle remains to be my all time favorite of the few Perry Mason novels I've read.
The Case of the Crooked Candle remains to be my all time favorite of the few Perry Mason novels I've read.
This is another fun mystery by Erle Stanley Gardner. In this mystery the murder occurs on a yacht anchored offshore. The questions are who did the murder and why, when was the murder committed, and how does one prove the answers to any of these questions. The answers are in the times of the tides, the tilt of the yacht when it becomes mired in the mud, and where the body fell when the murder was committed. The crooked candle offers an important clue. Then Perry Mason conducts an experiment on th...more
My first ever book of Perry Mason and I love how I could connect to Perry. Love it!
It's always nice to visit new friends.
This was an alright read. I found it dragged on though.
Good stuff. A fun, quick read (I lost it for a while, then found it, then forgot about it). I like the way almost the entire book is dialogue, and the only description is mostly people. It gives the story an action-packed feel to it, even though there's actually not that much action per se.
one of his toughest cases. everything's got to do with the timing of the tides and the position of the dead body. And yes, also the extent of the candle's burning. mason's reconstruction of the crime scene is the pivotal part of the novel, described to the last painstaking detail.
Não é dos melhores livros da série, não obstante, diverte e entretém o suficiente para alcançar o nível de mediano.
I have always really liked this Perry Mason novel. One of the best.
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Erle Stanley Gardner was an American lawyer and author of detective stories who also published under the pseudonyms A.A. Fair, Kyle Corning, Charles M. Green, Carleton Kendrake, Charles J. Kenny, Les Tillray, and Robert Parr.
Innovative and restless in his nature, he was bored by the routine of legal practice, the only part of which he enjoyed was trial work and the development of trial strategy. I...more
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Innovative and restless in his nature, he was bored by the routine of legal practice, the only part of which he enjoyed was trial work and the development of trial strategy. I...more
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