The Case of the Sulky Girl, Erle Stanley Gardner
The Case of the Sulky Girl, Erle Stanley Gardner
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The Case of the Sulky Girl

Author: Erle Stanley Gardner

Narrator: Alexander Cendese

Unabridged: 6 hr 31 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 10/11/2016


Synopsis

Her Uncle was healthy, but in order to get wealthy did she plot his demise? Is there evil in the heir?Frances Celane has good reason to pout. Thanks to a provision in her late father’s will administered by her uncle, she’s caught in the middle of a family feud between matrimony and money. If she chooses marriage, she loses a million. But beautiful young Frances has a strong will of her own that she’s not afraid to use. One way or another, she means to hear wedding bells and cash registers making beautiful music together. Her first move: hire Perry Mason to orchestrate things.Unfortunately, stubbornness runs in Frances Celane’s family, as Mason discovers when he confronts her Uncle Edward Norton. After Perry’s powers of persuasion fail to penetrate his hard head, someone decides the only way of cashing in is by bashing in the uncooperative uncle’s skull. But when the blood spills, so do the secrets. Then it’s Mason’s turn to brood, as he tries to figure out if a girl as pretty as his client could have a hand in something so ugly.…

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 Melindam on September 07, 2024

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

Goodreads review by Shobhit on February 05, 2017

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

Goodreads review by Jack on February 15, 2024

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

Goodreads review by Anastasia on January 26, 2019

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

Goodreads review by David on February 09, 2025

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