Gardner, Erle Stanley-The Case of the Counterfeit Eye(Perry Mason) - epub - zeke23

The Case of the Counterfeit Eye (Perry Mason #6)
by Erle Stanley Gardner
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After wealthy businessman Hartley Bassett's apparent suicide, Perry Mason discovers too many suspects who may have wanted him dead to believe the obvious evidence of a suicide note and three guns near the body.

I picked this up as a daily deal. I have never read any of the Perry Mason books, just grew up on the reruns of the TV show.

Still i was not prepared for how good this was and just how interesting the character of the detective-lawyer Perry Mason was. The show presented some of this, but once again the book is always better.




Erle Stanley Gardner
Author profile

born
in Malden, Massachusetts, The United States
July 17, 1889

died
March 11, 1970

gender
male

genre
Mystery & Thrillers



Erle Stanley Gardner was an American lawyer and author of detective stories who also published under the pseudonyms A.A. Fair, Kyle Corning, Charles M. Green, Carleton Kendrake, Charles J. Kenny, Les Tillray, and Robert Parr.

Innovative and restless in his nature, he was bored by the routine of legal practice, the only part of which he enjoyed was trial work and the development of trial strategy. In his spare time, he began to write for pulp magazines, which also fostered the early careers of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler. He created many different series characters for the pulps, including the ingenious Lester Leith, a "gentleman thief" in the tradition of Raffles, and Ken Corning, a crusading lawyer who was the archetype of his most successful creation, the fictional lawyer and crime-solver Perry Mason, about whom he wrote more than eighty novels. With the success of Perry Mason, he gradually reduced his contributions to the pulp magazines, eventually withdrawing from the medium entirely, except for non-fiction articles on travel, Western history, and forensic science.

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