Douglas Selby, the ambitious young District Attorney of the territory around Madison City, had up before him a young man guilty of embezzling a comparatively small sum of money which he had spent gambling.
Carleton Allen, son-in-law of a millionaire tycoon and nervous of publicity, explains to Bertha Cool and Donald Lam that he's mixed up in a first-class scandal.
Bertha Cool has just been released from a sanitarium where she has been recovering from flu and pneumonia, but soon she and Donald Lam are on the hunt for a missing bride-to-be.
'Tantalising on every page and brilliant' Scott Turow, bestseller author of Presumed Innocent and Testimony'Kingpin among the mystery writers' New York Times'Why would anyone hire a girl with the figure of a stripteaser and pay her $100 a week to put on weight?
'For fans of classic hard-boiled whodunits, this is a time machine back to an exuberant era of snappy patter, stakeouts, and double-crosses' LA Times 'Kingpin among the mystery writers' New York TimesMuriell Gilman left her father at the breakfast table while she cooked seconds of sausage and eggs.
'Kingpin among the mystery writers' New York Times'His Mason books remain tantalising on every page and brilliant' Scott Turow, bestselling author of Presumed Innocent Ellen Robb came into Perry Mason's office with a gun in her purse.
'Tantalising on every page and brilliant Scott Turow, author of Presumed Innocent and Testimony'Kingpin among the mystery writers' New York TimesWhen Norda Allison saw her husband-to-be slap his young son, she immediately called off the wedding.
'A master storyteller' New York Times'His Mason books remain tantalising on every page and brilliant' Scott Turow, author of Presumed Innocent 'For fans of classic hard-boiled whodunits, this is a time machine back to an exuberant era of snappy patter, stakeouts, and double-crosses' LA Times The first woman wouldn't even give her name.
Perry Mason - a major new TV series'Tantalising on every page and brilliant' Scott Turow, bestselling author of Presumed InnocentThe ingredients were quite simple: one middle-aged tycoon with a lovely young wife; one oh-so-apologetic visitor to the tycoon's office; one devoted secretary, graduate of a correspondence course of How to Be a Detective.
'Tantalising on every page and brilliant' Scott Turow, bestselling author of Presumed InnocentShe pulled herself out of the water and into a canoe and gasped, 'I don't know who you are .
'This is a time machine back to an exuberant era of snappy patter, stakeouts, and double-crosses' LA TIMES'Amazing originality' NEW YORK TIMESA suspicious personal ad conceals nefarious intent - and eventually lands in the lap of Perry Mason.
'Tantalising on every page and brilliant' Scott Turow, bestselling author of Presumed Innocent'The best American writer, of course, is Erle Stanley Gardner' Evelyn WaughWho was that masked woman?
Perry Mason now a major new TV series'Tantalising on every page and brilliant' Scott Turow, bestselling author of Presumed InnocentFrances Celane has good reason to pout.
When a lone runner is found dead on Miami Beach's North Shore, Detective Sam Becket's first concern is for his adopted daughter, Cathy, a student at Trent University.
Some people find it hard to trust Robin Allbeury, a wealthy lawyer and an expert on marital secrets, who runs an unorthodox sideline helping troubled wives escape from their abusive marriages.
From the day he sets foot in the Hampstead house, Matthew Gardner realises that life with his new wife, Caroline, is going to be rougher than he'd hoped.
On the face of it, the double homicide of Arnold and Marie Robbins looks like just another brutal Miami Beach murder - except that teenage Cathy Robbins is lying between the bodies, traumatised but unharmed.
Though they live fulfilling, independent lives in three different countries, Olivia Segal, Jamie Arias and Annie Aldrich Thomas remain bound to each other by a past tragedy - and by their pact always to be there for each other at times of great need.