The Case of the OneEyed Witness, Erle Stanley Gardner
The Case of the OneEyed Witness, Erle Stanley Gardner
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The Case of the One-Eyed Witness

Author: Erle Stanley Gardner

Narrator: Alexander Cendese

Unabridged: 5 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 04/25/2017

Synopsis

Perry Mason is dining peacefully at the Golden Goose cafe when he receives a mysterious phone call. The frantic woman on the other end of the line is desperate to retain Mason's services, but suddenly vanishes during their cryptic phone conversation.The only clues: a newspaper clipping about a blackmail case, and the combination to a safe scrawled on a scrap of paper. The case: a tangled web indeed, strung between an eccentric widower with something to hide, a sexy cigarette girl selling with plenty to cry about, a real-estate broker with his own home on the selling block, a wife, a lover, and too many loose ends. The common denominator: murder, of course.…

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 Bob

Over the last forty years I've read all of the Mason novels at least once, and most several times. This is one of the best. It was written in 1950, during probably Gardner's strongest period, roughly 1939 - 1953. The earliest novels have a distinct "film noir" feel. By 1939, Gardner was transitioning......more

Goodreads review by Patrick

Terrific read! This was the first Perry Mason novel I've read and I'll definitely pick up more when I see them. At a club for a late dinner with secretary Della Street, a mysterious phone call comes for Perry from a distraught woman. Before he can get any specifics from her she drops the phone on he......more

Goodreads review by James

This otherwise enjoyable book was spoiled for me by the casual racism on which the plot was based.......more

Goodreads review by Giorgia

Molto interessante, come sempre. Però per una volta non ho capito il finale, è tutto molto intrecciato. Un po perché strano ma vero i personaggi non mi sono rimasti bene in testa, quindi spesso non capivo chi fosse la Fargo per esempio o chi fosse Carlin. E quest'ultimo ancora non riesco a ricordare......more

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