Author: Erle Stanley GardnerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
The Case of the Long-legged Models, Etc
Author: Erle Stanley GardnerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
The case of the long-legged models
Author: Erle Stanley GardnerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
The Case of the Long-legged Models
Author: Erle Stanley GardnerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Detective and mystery stories
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
HSA Books and Manuscripts Dallas Auction Catalog #682
Author: Sandra PalominoPublisher: Heritage Capital Corporation
ISBN: 9781599672175
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
The Case of the Horrified Heirs
Author: Erle Stanley GardnerPublisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0345470435
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
Virginia Baxter is the only witness still living who can vouch for the authenticity of Lauretta Trent’s will. Lauretta Trent, a wealthy widow, is also still living. But for how long? Someone has been peppering the spicy food Lauretta loves with arsenic. Could it be the same someone who tried framing Virginia Baxter for drug smuggling? Lauretta doesn’t trust her greedy heirs. But could a scheming servant be behind a master plan to fleece her estate? It all seems to fit. But when Lauretta is murdered on the highway, all the evidence places Virginia Baxter squarely in the driver’s seat. Confused? Just think how Virginia’s lawyer, Perry Mason, must feel.
Justice Denoted
Author: Terry WhitePublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313052573
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
White provides the most comprehensive scholarly compilation of fictional work of legal suspense in existence. Primarily a bibliography of novels, it also annotates plays, scripts for film and television, novelizations, and short-story collections about lawyers and the law. The idea behind the principal of selection is to disdain labels that reduce the variety of the legal thriller to a subgenre of mystery fiction. Novels that range from suspense thrillers through science fiction to the philosophical novel are included if justice is thematically important. It is therefore an eclectic reference source beyond a compilation of books about lawyers as protagonists. Its biographical and scholarly information about authors, major and minor, and their novels or works is traditionally encyclopedic and objective regardless of whether the work has been genre-defined, or worse—deified as a classic or denigrated as a bestseller. Many novels included are long out of print, but historically interesting for their contribution to the lineage of the courtroom drama, showing that the history of the legal thriller is one of the major branches of modern literature since the Age of Reason. The criterion of justice denoted moves beyond the fact of lawyers and courtrooms to select seminal novels like Robert Travers' Anatomy of a Murder as well as the romantic potboiler. Among the more than 2,000 works are the Perry Mason novels of Erle Stanley Gardner, John Mortimer's Rumpole series, along with a staple of fiction by major authors of the genre like John Lescroart, Lisa Scottoline, Margaret Maron, Scott Turow, and John Grisham. There are also individual works by Shakespeare, Goethe, Kafka, Camus, and Twain delineating humanity's obsession with the law as its shining prop of civilization and, alternative, béte-noire of the common individual caught up in its maw. The appendices include comments by lawyer-novelist Michael A. Kahn, a historical introduction to the legal thriller, craft notes by writers and prominent trial lawyers responding to author and lawyer questionnaires, bibliography of critical sources and articles, series characters, and the legal terminology found in courtroom dramas and novels. An essential reference tool for scholars, researchers as well as the occasional reader of legal thrillers.
The Encyclopedia of Murder and Mystery
Author: B. MurphyPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230107354
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 553
Book Description
Bruce Murphy's Encyclopedia of Murder and Mystery is a comprehensive guide to the genre of the murder mystery that catalogues thousands of items in a broad range of categories: authors, titles, plots, characters, weapons, methods of killing, movie and theatrical adaptations. What distinguishes this encyclopedia from the others in the field is its critical stance.
The Case of the Careless Kitten
Author: Erle Stanley GardnerPublisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1434448517
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Mason defends Della Street, who is accused of helping a material witness or possible murder suspect vanish from a crime scene. A classic mystery! Includes an introduction by Karl Wurf.
The Case of the Lazy Lover
Author: Erle Stanley GardnerPublisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
A man tells everyone that his wife has run away with his best friend, who seems to have a strange lack of enthusiasm about the affair. The case leads to murder, and a trial that hinges on multiple sets of footprints.
The Case of the Mischevious Doll
Author: Erle Stanley GardnerPublisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1434441970
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Perry Mason is hired to identify a woman based on an appendix scar, as she fears being a look-alike to an heiress may be a setup for her arrest. A classic mystery!