The Case of the Golddiggers Purse, Erle Stanley Gardner
The Case of the Golddiggers Purse, Erle Stanley Gardner
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The Case of the Golddigger's Purse

Author: Erle Stanley Gardner

Narrator: Alexander Cendese

Unabridged: 6 hr 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 03/28/2017

Synopsis

In order to help her seriously ill boyfriend, gorgeous Sally Madison sets out to separate wealthy Harrington Faulkner from some of his money by offering him a cure for his ailing exotic fish, but her plan goes awry when the fish mysteriously vanish and Faulkner turns up dead.“You want to consult me about a goldfish?”Perry Mason couldn’t believe his ears. Prospective clients had come to see him about many things but never a matter as seemingly silly as this. He didn’t even have time to tell Harrington Faulkner that he wouldn’t take the case before a process server slapped on a summons and complaint for $100,000.During the evening, a golddigger got Faulkner to write a check for $5,000. Before two days had passed there was a murder. And both Perry Mason and Della Street were in danger of being convicted as accessories.

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 on March 28, 2022

Over the course of a long and distinguished career, Erle Stanley Gardner wrote some of the most convoluted mysteries in the history of crime fiction, perhaps none more so than The Case of the Golddigger's Purse from 1945. It starts out simply enough when the alleged golddigger, Sally Madison, attemp......more

Goodreads review by Lemar on June 08, 2015

"You can't blame a client for lying, any more than you can blame a cat for catching canaries". By that line one can tell that Erle Stanley Gardner was the Scott Turow of his time, a practicing lawyer who was able to use his professional experience to create well written, compelling fiction. While Tu......more

Goodreads review by Amit on December 15, 2020

This novel felt like a relatively mild murder mystery compared to the one just prior to this one, of the Black-eyed Blonde, the last few lines of which heralded this plot, with a business man named Mr. Harrington Faulkner approaching Mason over a case related to his rare goldfish. The shrewd and rut......more

Goodreads review by Bob on July 21, 2020

I've been reading Gardner's Perry Mason books off and on for many years. Many years ago, I was an intense fan of the series, and read them all, at least once. Now, after a lot of water over the dam, I'm looking at them again. Those who are used to really fine mystery writers, such as Ross Macdonald,......more

Goodreads review by Kate on May 15, 2024

and what did the gold digger have in her purse? The murder weapon! And two thousand in cash. And a pretty story about they got there. But she has a bulldog for a lawyer and he worries the truth from her and the incriminating evidence. And the goldfish - Ceiled Moor Telescopes - featured in the story......more

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