The Case of the Sulky Girl

I am pretty much addicted to the Perry Mason series. In my adolescent years I read all the books I could get my hands on in my native language (Hungarian), and was absolutely thrilled to realise how many books were there in the original. Apart from the first book in the series, we are invariably pre......more

I always imagine if Perry Mason was to be played by someone in Hollywood, it would be Matthew McConaughey. The second Perry Mason story begins again with a female client coming to him and lying, but I like the way he handles her and the different characters in the story. The rough and confident lawy......more

4 Stars. There's a modern expression for a leading character in this novel, Frances Celane. A spoiled brat. The only child of a rich and eccentric father, with mother long passed, she obviously missed one aspect of a good family life, discipline. Her temper is volatile, only a millimetre below the s......more

The case of the sulky girl by Erle Stanley Gardner is the second book in the Perry Mason series. Perry Mason is hired to look into the terms of a trust being managed by his clients uncle which is preventing her from marrying. It soon turns into a murder case when the uncle is murdered and his client......more

4.5In man there is implanted a sporting instinct to side with the underdog, but this is in man, the individual. Mob psychology is different from individual psychology, and the psychology of the pack is to tear down the weaker and devour the wounded. Man may sympathize with the underdog, but he wa......more