The Case of the Crooked Candle, Erle Stanley Gardner
The Case of the Crooked Candle, Erle Stanley Gardner
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The Case of the Crooked Candle

Author: Erle Stanley Gardner

Narrator: Alexander Cendese

Unabridged: 5 hr 35 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 03/14/2017

Synopsis

Time and tide wait for no man—neither does Perry Mason.… A mystery in the best Gardner tradition chock full of action (mighty fast), angles (inventive and voluptuous), and aqua pura (meaning watertight solution as well as H20).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.

About Erle Stanley Gardner

Erle Stanley Gardner (1889-1970) was a prolific American author best known for his Perry Mason novels, which sold twenty thousand copies a day in the mid-1950s. There have been six motion pictures based on his work and the hugely popular Perry Mason television series starring Raymond Burr, which aired for nine years.

Reviews

Goodreads review by James

First published in 1944, this is a fair-to-middling Perry Mason novel, but it's not as clever or as entertaining as many of the others. Like most books in the series, it begins fairly innocuously when Perry goes to bat for the victim of an auto accident and wins the client a much larger settlement t......more

Goodreads review by Stephen

I do enjoy these old, moldy Perry Mason mysteries, and I'm not sure why. Maybe because they're simple (in a way, certainly not plot-wise). Mason is always straight-up and forthright, always ready to stand up for the underdog. And there's Della, his faithful puppy...I mean, secretary. And Tragg, and......more

Goodreads review by Sarah-Grace (Azrael865)

Good story, well written mystery, I just have difficulty really getting pulled into the dialog. I think it just the era the stories take place during.......more

Goodreads review by Huma

I thought Perry Mason books were out of print. The only Perry Mason books I have read are either online or by buying ancient yellowed/browned pages paperbacks from second hand book stores. This was the only book of Perry Mason that I found on the Readings website, so it was immediately in my cart. I......more

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