The Case of the Grinning Gorilla
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- By: Erle Stanley Gardner
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- Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 23
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 20
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 21
Aspiring actress Stephane Olger just wants to be in pictures. But she may end up in mug shots instead when she gets herself caught up in a crime. Shortly after quitting her job and moving to Hollywood, she is picked up by a well-dressed man while hitchhiking. The man loses control of the car and they end up in a horrible accident. Both Stephane and the driver escape unscathed but the strange man flees the scene leaving Stephane to face a charge of manslaughter.
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5 out of 5 stars
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So many moving parts but fits just like a puzzle
- By G. Lawson on 08-29-18
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The Case of the Moth-Eaten Mink
- Perry Mason, Book 39
- By: Erle Stanley Gardner
- Narrated by: Alexander Cendese
- Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 23
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 21
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Story5 out of 5 stars 22
A waitress in a favorite restaurant of Mason's runs out in the middle of the lunch rush, leaving behind her pricey mink coat. But this is only the first question in a cop-killer case that traps Mason's client with both an impossible story and the murder weapon. With Perry as a prime suspect with a blazing gunpowder trail that leads straight to the heart of the police department....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Such a good series!
- By Kindle Customer on 11-12-19
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The Case of the Hesitant Hostess
- Perry Mason, Book 41
- By: Erle Stanley Gardner
- Narrated by: Alexander Cendese
- Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 24
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 24
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Story5 out of 5 stars 24
Perry Mason had no hesitation in defending Albert Brogan, a broke ex-salesman against a charge of robbery. He's counting on the testimony of the nightclub hostess Martha Lavina to clear him. She had most of the requirements for a good professional hostess, and one was an innocent face. That, plus various other attractions, made her a formidable challenge as she faced Perry Mason on the witness stand.
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The Case of the Angry Mourner
- Perry Mason, Book 38
- By: Erle Stanley Gardner
- Narrated by: Alexander Cendese
- Length: 5 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 26
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 23
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 20
Do birds of a feather plot murder together? When notorious playboy Arthur Cushing is murdered, Belle Adrian suspects that her daughter, Carlotta, is the killer, and Carlotta suspects her mother of the crime.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Badly dated but kind of fun
- By Constance Jenkins on 07-27-18
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The Case of the Runaway Corpse
- By: Erle Stanley Gardner
- Narrated by: Alexander Cendese
- Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 24
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Story5 out of 5 stars 24
The two women in Perry Mason's office were a cat-and-mouse combination. And at first glance it seemed that little Mrs. Davenport was the mouse. But her husband said she was trying to kill him...that she had already murdered once and would not hesitate to strike again. Mason's own curiosity made him take the case, and before long he was wanted for questioning by several different officers of the law. Question: was Myra Davenport a quiet little person, who enjoyed nothing better than pottering about in her garden? Or was she a poisoner, a minx, a modern Lucrezia Borgia?
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5 out of 5 stars
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One of the better Mason books
- By Evie on 03-17-17
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The Case of the Fiery Fingers
- Perry Mason Series, Book 37
- By: Erle Stanley Gardner
- Narrated by: Alexander Cendese
- Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 24
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 22
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 22
Poker-faced Nellie Conway, the nurses bed-ridden Elizabeth Bain, brings trouble when she calls on Perry Mason with a glass phial containing four pills which she suspects are poison. Her employer, Nathan Bain, she says, had promised her money to give them to his wife. But when Mason has one of the pills analyzed it is found to consist of acetylsalicylic - in other words good old-fashioned aspirin. Is Perry Mason's client a hoaxer, a psychopath, or something trickier?
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The Case of the Fugitive Nurse
- Perry Mason, Book 43
- By: Erle Stanley Gardner
- Narrated by: Alexander Cendese
- Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 23
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 20
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 21
Aspiring actress Stephane Olger just wants to be in pictures. But she may end up in mug shots instead when she gets herself caught up in a crime. Shortly after quitting her job and moving to Hollywood, she is picked up by a well-dressed man while hitchhiking. The man loses control of the car and they end up in a horrible accident. Both Stephane and the driver escape unscathed but the strange man flees the scene leaving Stephane to face a charge of manslaughter.
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5 out of 5 stars
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So many moving parts but fits just like a puzzle
- By G. Lawson on 08-29-18
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The Case of the Moth-Eaten Mink
- Perry Mason, Book 39
- By: Erle Stanley Gardner
- Narrated by: Alexander Cendese
- Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 23
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 21
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Story5 out of 5 stars 22
A waitress in a favorite restaurant of Mason's runs out in the middle of the lunch rush, leaving behind her pricey mink coat. But this is only the first question in a cop-killer case that traps Mason's client with both an impossible story and the murder weapon. With Perry as a prime suspect with a blazing gunpowder trail that leads straight to the heart of the police department....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Such a good series!
- By Kindle Customer on 11-12-19
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The Case of the Hesitant Hostess
- Perry Mason, Book 41
- By: Erle Stanley Gardner
- Narrated by: Alexander Cendese
- Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 24
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 24
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Story5 out of 5 stars 24
Perry Mason had no hesitation in defending Albert Brogan, a broke ex-salesman against a charge of robbery. He's counting on the testimony of the nightclub hostess Martha Lavina to clear him. She had most of the requirements for a good professional hostess, and one was an innocent face. That, plus various other attractions, made her a formidable challenge as she faced Perry Mason on the witness stand.
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The Case of the Angry Mourner
- Perry Mason, Book 38
- By: Erle Stanley Gardner
- Narrated by: Alexander Cendese
- Length: 5 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 26
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 23
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 20
Do birds of a feather plot murder together? When notorious playboy Arthur Cushing is murdered, Belle Adrian suspects that her daughter, Carlotta, is the killer, and Carlotta suspects her mother of the crime.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Badly dated but kind of fun
- By Constance Jenkins on 07-27-18
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The Case of the Runaway Corpse
- By: Erle Stanley Gardner
- Narrated by: Alexander Cendese
- Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 24
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Story5 out of 5 stars 24
The two women in Perry Mason's office were a cat-and-mouse combination. And at first glance it seemed that little Mrs. Davenport was the mouse. But her husband said she was trying to kill him...that she had already murdered once and would not hesitate to strike again. Mason's own curiosity made him take the case, and before long he was wanted for questioning by several different officers of the law. Question: was Myra Davenport a quiet little person, who enjoyed nothing better than pottering about in her garden? Or was she a poisoner, a minx, a modern Lucrezia Borgia?
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5 out of 5 stars
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One of the better Mason books
- By Evie on 03-17-17
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The Case of the Fiery Fingers
- Perry Mason Series, Book 37
- By: Erle Stanley Gardner
- Narrated by: Alexander Cendese
- Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 24
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 22
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 22
Poker-faced Nellie Conway, the nurses bed-ridden Elizabeth Bain, brings trouble when she calls on Perry Mason with a glass phial containing four pills which she suspects are poison. Her employer, Nathan Bain, she says, had promised her money to give them to his wife. But when Mason has one of the pills analyzed it is found to consist of acetylsalicylic - in other words good old-fashioned aspirin. Is Perry Mason's client a hoaxer, a psychopath, or something trickier?
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The Case of the Singing Skirt
- Perry Mason Series, Book 58
- By: Erle Stanley Gardner
- Narrated by: Alexander Cendese
- Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 13
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 13
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Story5 out of 5 stars 13
Ellen Robb does more than just sing for her supper - she also dances and sells cigarettes in a two-bit gambling parlor in a one-horse town. But when she hits a sour note with her scheming employer by refusing to help fleece a fat-cat customer in a crooked card game, she finds herself out of all three jobs. That's when she sings her song of woe to Perry Mason, who promises to turn her blues into greenbacks with the help of his crack team, Della Street, and Paul Drake, and a hefty lawsuit.
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The Case of the Half-Wakened Wife
- Perry Mason Series, Book 27
- By: Erle Stanley Gardner
- Narrated by: Alexander Cendese
- Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 28
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 27
In the dead of night, a thick fog lies over the black waters. You are aboard a fancy yacht full of fancy people who loathe one another. Suddenly you hear...A scream! A splash! A shot! The fateful cry, "Man Overboard!" And the next thing you know, you find yourself clutching a beautiful woman wearing only a flimsy nightgown. In her hands she holds a gun. That's the predicament in which Perry Mason suddenly finds himself. But that's only the beginning.
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5 out of 5 stars
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a very good series
- By Kindle Customer on 10-20-19
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The Case of the Lucky Loser
- Perry Mason Series, Book 53
- By: Erle Stanley Gardner
- Narrated by: Alexander Cendese
- Length: 4 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 14
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 14
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Story5 out of 5 stars 14
The voice on the phone was young and silky. The woman it belonged to touched something soft in Perry Mason's cool, legalistic mind. The offer she made was too intriguing to pass up. But what began as a request for a simple courtroom visit turned into an intrigue of baffling complexity...as well as one of the most cleverly rigged frame-ups of Perry's career.
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The Case of the One-Eyed Witness
- Perry Mason Series, Book 36
- By: Erle Stanley Gardner
- Narrated by: Alexander Cendese
- Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 25
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 23
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Story5 out of 5 stars 23
Perry Mason is dining peacefully at the Golden Goose cafe when he receives a mysterious phone call. The frantic woman on the other end of the line is desperate to retain Mason's services, but suddenly vanishes during their cryptic phone conversation. The only clues: a newspaper clipping about a blackmail case, and the combination to a safe scrawled on a scrap of paper.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Perry Mason brilliant as always.
- By Anonymous User on 08-02-18
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The Case of the Long-Legged Models
- Perry Mason Series, Book 56
- By: Erle Stanley Gardner
- Narrated by: Alexander Cendese
- Length: 5 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 17
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 17
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Story5 out of 5 stars 17
This Perry Mason mystery is a tantalizing triple-decker. One threesome comprises three glamorous ladies - all long-legged models with ambitions that range from keeping the home fires burning to putting the home fires out. Another trio is a far-from-pleasant collection of small metal objects called guns.
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The Case of the Crying Swallow
- Perry Mason, Book 83
- By: Erle Stanley Gardner
- Narrated by: Alexander Cendese
- Length: 3 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 14
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 14
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Story4 out of 5 stars 14
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.
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The Case of the Screaming Woman
- Perry Mason Series, Book 52
- By: Erle Stanley Gardner
- Narrated by: Alexander Cendese
- Length: 4 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 18
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 14
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Story5 out of 5 stars 14
Joan Kirby doesn't believe her husband's story about picking up a stranded woman in the middle of the night and dropping her off at a hotel. She asks Perry Mason to cross-examine him. Mason uncovers a much murkier trail involving murder, illegal adoption, stolen narcotics and blackmail.
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The Case of the Cautious Coquette
- Perry Mason Series, Book 34
- By: Erle Stanley Gardner
- Narrated by: Alexander Cendese
- Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 18
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 15
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 15
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.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Great book, good narration
- By Kindle Customer on 03-13-18
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The Case of the Mythical Monkeys
- Perry Mason Series, Book 59
- By: Erle Stanley Gardner
- Narrated by: Alexander Cendese
- Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 19
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 17
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 17
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.
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The Case of the Buried Clock
- Perry Mason Series, Book 22
- By: Erle Stanley Gardner
- Narrated by: Alexander Cendese
- Length: 5 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 30
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 30
After catching his shady son-in-law, Jack Hardisty, in the act of embezzling, wealthy banker Vincente Blane plans to hang him out to dry. Then murder turns Blane's restful mountain retreat into Hardisty's final resting place. When the evidence points to wronged wife Millicent, her father makes a point of calling in Perry Mason. And it's up to the legendary legal eagle to unravel the case's most baffling mystery: a buried clock at the murder scene.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A very good book. Alexander Cendese is the best
- By Kindle Customer on 11-26-19
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The Case of the Crooked Candle
- Perry Mason Series, Book 24
- By: Erle Stanley Gardner
- Narrated by: Alexander Cendese
- Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 30
On his way to finding out, Mason meets Mrs. Milfield, a barely distraught widow, and a slew of suspicious characters all intimately connected to the recently deceased, a man murdered on someone else's yacht. As the surprising scenario unravels, it takes a sharp mind like Mason's, the savvy of his secretary Della Street, and the legwork of investigator Paul Drake to pull all the clues out of the water before the case sinks like a deadweight.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Better Reading
- By sdstellar on 06-07-19
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The Case of the Spurious Spinster
- Perry Mason Series, Book 64
- By: Erle Stanley Gardner
- Narrated by: Alexander Cendese
- Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 18
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 18
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Story5 out of 5 stars 18
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.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great series (Even better than the TV series)
- By Kindle Customer on 09-29-19
Publisher's Summary
Helen Cadmus was dead - but how had it happened?
Suicide, most people said. She jumped off that millionaire's yacht in a fit of despair, her body was never found, and the case was closed. The story was too neat to suit Perry Mason. It didn't add up. Somebody was concealing the truth about Helen's death, and how was going to uncover it even if it killed him.
That's how Mason fell into a trap set by three killers - two humans and one grinning gorilla!
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- E. L. Nicodemus
- 08-11-19
Perry Mason’s very unique case
I’m an Earle Stanley Gardner fan and am enjoying going through the series. This story was one of the more unique plots with some great twists. I like Della Street’s feisty spirit and standing up to Perry to tell him like it is.