The Case of the Angry Mourner

Full of intensity, swing and the usual razzmatazz with Perry Mason pulling legal rabbits out of his magician's hat. A favourite Mason-novel. Perry Mason is having a ski-minibreak in a winter resort, but isn't particularly enjoying it, missing the challenge & turmoil of his work. So isn't it "fortunat......more

For a change, this book has Mason holidaying in the countryside when a murder case ends up in his laps, a murder committed outside the city limits in the countryside, thus allowing for a setting change from the high rise buildings and car tailing through the city traffic. Trouble begins when a girl,......more

I grew up reading Hammett, Spillane, Chandler, Cain and all the hardboiled types. Also the "locked room impossible" cases by Ellery Queen, John Dickson Carr, Rex Stout Agatha Christie and as far as Erle Stanley Gardner, I read his Donald Lam - Bertha Cool books. This may be my only Perry Mason book......more

Perry Mason is trying to take some time off at Bear mountain, get a little skiing in, some relaxation…but of course it doesn’t work. He knows he is at his best back in his office, working cases, and so after only a couple of days of vacation he is ready to return. Fortunately, a local case falls in......more