Author: Thomas Chastain
Publisher: Avon Books
ISBN: 9780380707874
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260

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Author: Erle Stanley Gardner
Publisher: House of Stratus
ISBN: 0755140532
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 160

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Perry Mason is hired to protect Mae Farr from a presumed stalker, wealthy playboy Penn Wentworth. When Mason learns that Wentworth wants Mae for forging his name on a cheque, things get complicated. But fatal gunplay leaves Wentworth dead, Mae a wanted woman and Perry Mason in trouble.

Author: Thomas Chastain
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780896219748
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290

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Author: Erle Stanley Gardner
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Criminal defense lawyers
Languages : en
Pages : 296

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"Perry Mason wasn't quite sure who his client was. He didn't even know whether she was alive or dead! Equally mystified, Paul Drake couldn't decide whether he was trailing suspects in his usual expert fashion--or leading the killer to the next victim! As for Della Street: she was far from convinced by the desperate telephone voice with the cryptic message: 'I'm sending you an envelope stuffed with money. You've got to help me, Mr.Mason...' " --

Author: Erle Stanley Gardner
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 243

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Author: Thomas Chastain
Publisher: William Morrow & Company
ISBN: 9780688071646
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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A Los Angeles businessman kills his dinner companion and is himself murdered minutes later, leaving his estranged wife, the prime suspect in the case, to contact Perry Mason for help

Author: Erle Stanley Gardner
Publisher: Richmond Hill, Ont. : A Pocket Book edition publised by Simon & Schuster of Canada
ISBN:
Category : Detective and mystery stories
Languages : en
Pages : 218

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Author: Thomas Chastain
Publisher: Avon Books
ISBN: 9780380713189
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228

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Author: Janet G. Husband
Publisher: American Library Association
ISBN: 0838909671
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 793

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A guide to series fiction lists popular series, identifies novels by character, and offers guidance on the order in which to read unnumbered series.

Author: Terry White
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313052573
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 588

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White provides the most comprehensive scholarly compilation of fictional work of legal suspense in existence. Primarily a bibliography of novels, it also annotates plays, scripts for film and television, novelizations, and short-story collections about lawyers and the law. The idea behind the principal of selection is to disdain labels that reduce the variety of the legal thriller to a subgenre of mystery fiction. Novels that range from suspense thrillers through science fiction to the philosophical novel are included if justice is thematically important. It is therefore an eclectic reference source beyond a compilation of books about lawyers as protagonists. Its biographical and scholarly information about authors, major and minor, and their novels or works is traditionally encyclopedic and objective regardless of whether the work has been genre-defined, or worse—deified as a classic or denigrated as a bestseller. Many novels included are long out of print, but historically interesting for their contribution to the lineage of the courtroom drama, showing that the history of the legal thriller is one of the major branches of modern literature since the Age of Reason. The criterion of justice denoted moves beyond the fact of lawyers and courtrooms to select seminal novels like Robert Travers' Anatomy of a Murder as well as the romantic potboiler. Among the more than 2,000 works are the Perry Mason novels of Erle Stanley Gardner, John Mortimer's Rumpole series, along with a staple of fiction by major authors of the genre like John Lescroart, Lisa Scottoline, Margaret Maron, Scott Turow, and John Grisham. There are also individual works by Shakespeare, Goethe, Kafka, Camus, and Twain delineating humanity's obsession with the law as its shining prop of civilization and, alternative, béte-noire of the common individual caught up in its maw. The appendices include comments by lawyer-novelist Michael A. Kahn, a historical introduction to the legal thriller, craft notes by writers and prominent trial lawyers responding to author and lawyer questionnaires, bibliography of critical sources and articles, series characters, and the legal terminology found in courtroom dramas and novels. An essential reference tool for scholars, researchers as well as the occasional reader of legal thrillers.