The Case of the Rolling Bones, Erle Stanley Gardner
The Case of the Rolling Bones, Erle Stanley Gardner
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The Case of the Rolling Bones

Author: Erle Stanley Gardner

Narrator: Alexander Cendese

Unabridged: 5 hr 29 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 01/27/2017


Synopsis

Unlucky in LoveYears ago Alden Leeds found a rich vein of gold in the Klondike. Now his greedy relatives fear he's planning to throw his fortune away on a gold-digging spouse, Emily Milicant. So to prevent the two from joining in holy matrimony, they commit their affluent kin to a sanitarium on a trumped-up charge.Then Leeds escapes, only to end up in the company of Emily's blackmailing brother, John, a manufacturer of fixed dice, rolling bones that always come up seven. But when John is murdered—with Leeds's fingerprints found all over the apartment—Perry Mason must crack a baffling case before his client bumps from the nut house to the jail house.…

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

As the fifteenth Perry Mason novel opens, we find the attorney at his desk, desperately attempting to avoid answering the morning mail, the task which he hates above all others. Fortunately, his secretary, Della Street, come to the rescue at the last moment, telling Mason that there are three people......more

Oh, I love Gardner. The legal aspects of courtroom drama---however overblown---are the perfect environment in which to yank the reader's chain from anxiety to anxiety, page after page, plot twist after plot twist. Yank, yank, yank. This one's a little difficult to follow because he uses the same relat......more

Goodreads review by Girish

I've always held the opinion that Perry Mason in his books with elements of gambling tends to go all overboard in spinning the yarn. This book is an evidence in point. A 70 year old is institutionalised in a sanitarium by his distant relatives who don't want him to marry 'the woman'. 'The Woman' thi......more