The Case of the Velvet Claws

I’ve been very confused about Perry Mason lately. I’ve never seen the old TV show with Raymond Burr, but general pop culture awareness has told me that Mason was a defense lawyer whose clients were always innocent, and that he’d get them acquitted by figuring out the true guilty party who Mason would......more

5 Stars. It's television in a book! Such a great read - your mind wants to visualize every scene. Even though 'Velvet Claws' is almost a century old, it grabs and holds. No wonder Perry Mason started with such a bang - two and three volumes a year, numerous print runs, movies, the works. This is the......more

A good solid mystery, but the formula used in later books with the big courtroom finale is not here. I can't believe I missed reading this one when I was on my Perry Mason binge back in the 1970s and 1980s.......more

In which Perry Mason is introduced to the mystery readers of the world! Dateline, Los Angeles 1933: A sultry, slinky blonde (to whom Mason's secretary, a young, attractive and starry-eyed Della Street takes an instant visceral dislike) enters the office and introduces herself as Eva Griffin. Griffin te......more

Well-written, but not for me. I prefer my hard-boiled stories to have a little more action. This is by no means a bad book, I just wasn't pulled in through all the legal/lawyer talk. It started off as a good mystery and Perry Mason proved his loyalty to his clients in the Third Act, which I really e......more