Buy from our bookstore and 25% of the cover price will be given to a school of your choice to buy more books. *15% of eBooks.
Audiobooks by Erle Stanley Gardner
Browse audiobooks by Erle Stanley Gardner, listen to samples and when you're ready head over to Audiobooks.com where you can get 3 FREE audiobooks on us
Un fotógrafo consigue una instantánea del famoso político Harrison Burke saliendo de un local de juego acompañado de una mujer casada, Eva Belter. Harrison está preocupado por su carrera y Eva, una mujer mimada, teme las represalias de su marido, George. De este modo, acude a Perry Mason en busca de ayuda, presentándose con su apellido de soltera, y lo informa de que una revista sensacionalista la está chantajeando y de que sospecha que su marido tiene algo que ver. Mason tiene un interés personal en ver cerrada la revista porque un amigo suyo se suicidó a causa de un reportaje que publicó. Esa noche, el abogado recibe una llamada de Eva: George ha sido asesinado. Pero los acontecimientos dan un giro inesperado cuando también le insinúa que lo oyó discutir con su marido. Perry Mason se convierte así en el primer sospechoso de asesinato de este caso. El abogado tendrá que evitar ser engañado y luchar por librar a su clienta de todos los cargos.
The Case of the Irate Witness,' the mystery which is the star of this collection of 4 novelettes, is the only one that the incomparable Erle Stanley Gardner ever wrote featuring Perry Mason in short story form. Each of the stories revolves around the subject of stolen jewels and each story is a gem in itself.
In “The Case of the Irate Witness” (1953), Perry Mason sets off for a peaceful weekend’s fishing in the mountains but even here the master lawyer is unable to leave detection behind. After being stopped at a police roadblock checking on a big robbery in Jebson City, Perry Mason gets involved in defending the accused, culminating in a stunning example of Mason’s famous courtroom dexterity.
In “The Jeweled Butterfly” (1952) , Peggy Castle writes a gossip column in the company paper. She gets a note that the curvy Stella is going to meet the studly Don at a local nightclub. Peggy grabs a table and waits. She ends up getting involved in a jewelry robbery case involving the company and Stella’s murder.
In “Something Like A Pelican” (1942), Leith has a knack for putting together threads of different incidents and coming up with solutions to crimes. In this story he figures out what a woman throwing a fur cape out a window has to do with missing top secret blueprints.
In “A Man Is Missing” (1946), in rural Idaho a man with amnesia is missing. He had a picture taken of himself in front of a cabin he built and sent it to his wife. He said he had bouts of amnesia following a car accident. A detective from the big city is on his way out to solve the case. Local sheriff Bill Catlin shows him country sheriff’s know a thing or two.
The client was young, blonde, and beautiful, and she wanted to disappear. The trouble was she wouldn’t say why, and she wouldn’t give her name. So Perry Mason agreed to a code of identification based on her measurements: 36-24-36. But according to Della Street, the figures were padded, and as it turned out, so was everything the client said. Certainly the bag full of cash she carries isn’t shopping money.
All the mystery-woman asks is that Perry Mason make himself available for a few days in case she needs him—for what purpose, she remains silent as a grave. In fact, his headstrong client 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…
When Mae Farr becomes the presumed stalking victim of wealthy playboy Penn Wentworth, she asks Perry Mason for help. Wentworth says he merely wants her for forging his name on a fat check. Farr claims he just wants her. Enter Harold Anders, a love-struck suitor from Mae's small hometown who's determined to ride to her rescue. But fatal gunplay leaves Wentworth dead, Mae a wanted woman, and Perry Mason in trouble.…
He announced himself as Mr. Cash. His calling card was ten crisp hundred-dollar bills!“My wife has disappeared,” he told Perry Mason. “She’s in trouble of some sort. I want to find her.”Mr. Cash’s wife was indeed in trouble of a most serious sort. First, her jewelry disappeared. Then she disappeared. Perry Mason had to find her before the police could arrest her—for murder.
Marriage is a big commitment…and so is murder.Lorraine Elmore is a well-to-do widow who’s ready to marry again. But nervous Linda Calhoun is certain that the man her aunt Lorraine has fallen for is a fortune-hunting Bluebeard who's out to make a killing—in more ways than one.
Perry Mason alloys Linda's paranoia—until Detective Paul Drake digs up enough dirt to convince the lawyer that dashing, mysterious Montrose Dewitt is digging a grave for his bride-to-be.When the amorous aunt and her amour elope, the chase is on. But when Lorraine's supposedly sinister suitor is the one who ends up murdered, the pressure is on Mason to prove that the blushing bride isn't the one who drew blood.
If the framer fits...Take a no-holds-barred proxy war for a rich Texas oil company, with Jerry Conway, its young president, fighting for survival. Add a beautiful woman in a mudpack and not much else who gives up a freshly fired .38 to Conway before she shows him the door.
Top it off with the body of another young woman with a bullet in her chest fired by the same gun, and you have the recipe for the perfect murder--and the perfect frame-up.Perry Mason has two problems. His client, Jerry Conway, is the prime suspect. And Perry himself is the accused accessory....
A talented but overprotective young man has his hands full as trustee of the inheritance of a beautiful blonde but very naive young woman. But his love and her money don't mix. Why would he embezzle a quarter of a million dollars from his client 'for her own good?' Perry Mason may be able to prove, in fact, that his client is no embezzler…but what happens when murder rears its head?
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 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 Trent 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.…
It all began when pretty Gladys Doyle lost her way and was forced to spend the night in a remote cabin. The next morning she discovered her handsome host gone and a stranger in his place—dead as the proverbial herring.
There follows a courtroom scene in the best Perry Mason tradition, with a most reticent group of witnesses: a lady author whose realistic novel is a bit too true to life; Edgar Carlisle, equally talented at telling stories; Richard Gilman, an old hand at the disappearing act; and a smart, sharp operator never at a loss for clever plots.Action and suspense are at their height and the adroit Mason at his legal best in this superb mystery.
When Norda Allison saw her husband-to-be slap his young son, she immediately called off the wedding. Now she is terrified. Her ex-fiancé has beat up her new boyfriend. Anonymous newspaper clippings are flooding her mailbox—articles graphically depicting what jilted men do to the women who leave them. Then Norda’s life takes an even darker turn. It begins with a barking dog, a child’s scream, a gunshot, and the discovery of a very dead body—and ends when Norda is arrested, charged with a brutal murder.Now only brilliant courtroom strategist Perry Mason stands between Norda and a sentence of certain death.
Wealthy Amelia Corning, owner of the Corning mine interests, might be an old lady in a wheelchair but she doesn't miss a trick. Secretary Susan Fisher has to call in Perry Mason when she finds her boss's seven-year-old son holding a shoebox stuffed with hundred-dollar bills. Miss Corning's life is at risk.
