Download or read book The D A Breaks a Seal written by Erle Stanley Gardner and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Major Doug Selby is being transferred to the West Coast and stops at Madison City for a few days. Other people also leave the train. Doug visits Sheriff Rex Brandon for news (Chapter 2). If a person isn't represented by a lawyer he won't get a fair trial. Lawyer A. B. Carr is meeting people. The proprietor of the Madison Hotel calls Sheriff Brandon because a guest dropped dead in his room (Chapter 4). [The reference to sugar reflects war-time rationing.] Doug explains why he suspects a fast-acting poison. Why did Fred Roff order a gardenia? Chapter 5 discusses breaking a will because of "undue influence". Roff's clothes were all clean and unused (Chapter 6). Why did Roff have an earlier breakfast (Chapter 7)? Roff came from Los Angeles and had telephoned Inez Stapleton, the lawyer who is contesting a will (Chapter 11). Selby surmises that the two with gardenias on the train were witnesses who were kept hidden (Chapter 12). Hattie Irwin from Kansas tells about the contest she won with its free trip to California (Chapter 13). Who is Elmer D. Floris? A. B. Carr shows the prejudice of one witness for the plaintiff (Chapter 15). The bellboy in the LA hotel can identify the woman who visited Roff (Chapter 16)! Roff had called Inez Stapleton with an offer about a witness (Chapter 17). Selby questions a witness to bring out the facts about the signing of that will (Chapter 18). Sheriff Brandon tells Selby that Mrs. Irwin was poisoned! Mrs. Irwin tells about the accident she witnessed (Chapter 19). Selby questions a witness and tells what he expects to prove from Mrs. Irwin's testimony (Chapter 20). Selby surmises who the poisoner was and leaves that for Sheriff Brandon. Selby has to leave to catch the train (Chapter 21).
Download or read book The D A Breaks a Seal written by Erle Stanley Gardner and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2010-09-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Major Doug Selby, Madison City's ex-DA is at the Madison Hotel on leave. When a Kansas lawyer called Roff drinks a coffee laced with cyanide Selby becomes involved. A mystery blonde and Carr, the defence counsel, complicate the mystery further.
Download or read book The Case Of The Mischievous Doll written by Erle Stanley Gardner and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2012-09-23 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mysterious young woman, Dorrie Ambler, wishes to prove her identity to Perry Mason. She wants him to witness her appendectomy scar, claiming she has a double. The double turns out to be Minerva Minden, madcap heiress of Montrose. Mason has his work cut out for him when his investigation leads him to a dead man in an apartment building.
Download or read book The D A Calls it Murder written by Erle Stanley Gardner and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Hot Target written by Suzanne Brockmann and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2005-11-29 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bestselling author Suzanne Brockmann knows exactly what makes hearts race and pulses pound: peril and passion. No one succeeds more brilliantly at blending these exhilarating elements in breathtaking novels of men and women forced to grapple with the deepest emotions and the highest risks. And there’s no better proof than Hot Target. Like most men of action, Navy SEAL Chief Cosmo Richter never learned how to take a vacation. So when he finds himself facing a month’s leave, he offers his services to Troubleshooters Incorporated. Founded by a former SEAL, the private-sector security firm is a major player in the ongoing war against terrorism, known for carrying out covert missions too volatile for official U.S. military action. But the first case Richter takes on is anything but under the radar. High-profile maverick movie producer Jane Mercedes Chadwick hasn’t quite completed her newest film, but she’s already courting controversy. The World War II epic frankly portrays the homosexuality of a real-life hero–and the storm of advance media buzz surrounding it has drawn the fury of extremist groups. But despite a relentless campaign of angry E-mails, phone calls, and smear tactics, Chadwick won’t be pressured into abandoning the project. Then the harassment turns to death threats. While the FBI appears on the scene, nervous Hollywood associates call in Troubleshooters, and now Chadwick has an army of round-the-clock bodyguards, whether she likes it or not. And she definitely doesn’t. But her stubbornness doesn’ t make FBI agent Jules Cassidy’s job any easier. The fiercely independent filmmaker presents yet another emotional obstacle that Cassidy doesn’t need–he’s already in the midst of a personal tug-of-war with his ex-lover, while fighting a growing attraction to Chadwick’s brother. Determined to succeed–and survive–on her own terms, Chadwick will face off with enemies and allies alike. But she doesn’t count on the bond she forms with the quiet, capable Cosmo Richter. Yet even as their feelings bring them closer, the noose of deadly terror all around them draws tighter. And when all hell erupts, desire and desperate choices will collide on a killing ground that may trap them both in the crossfire.
Download or read book The Case of the Nervous Accomplice written by Erle Stanley Gardner and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2023-05-16 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mason is hired by a woman whose husband is cheating on her to wreck the affair, then must defend her on a murder charge.
Download or read book The Case Of The Stepdaughter s Secret written by Erle Stanley Gardner and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2012-09-23 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harlow Bissenger Bancroft is head of a corporate empire and happily married. None of his lawyers can help him however when a blackmailer threatens his family’s future. After he calls upon Perry Mason for help, the blackmailer is found dead.
Download or read book The Case Of The Careless Cupid written by Erle Stanley Gardner and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2012-09-23 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selma Arlington is engaged to a wealthy widower. His heirs don’t want him to tie the knot. Perry Mason is asked by Selma to prove she is neither a gold digger nor a murderer of her first husband, but incriminating evidence comes to light.
Download or read book The Case Of The Fenced In Woman written by Erle Stanley Gardner and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2015-05-24 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Morley Eden finds an unwanted guest on his property. The ex-wife of his dream house’s contractor claims that the property is one-half hers. Eden calls upon Perry Mason to resolve a dispute that is linked to murder.
Download or read book The Case Of The Musical Cow written by Erle Stanley Gardner and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2012-09-23 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rob Trenton, an American dog trainer by profession, makes a tour of Paris and Switzerland with fellow passengers from his ship. Artist Linda Carroll arouses his curiosity. Strange Merton Ostrander joins them for the return. When New York Customs search Rob for contraband after a fake tip-off, Rob’s life turns upside down.
Download or read book The Case Of The Perjured Parrot written by Erle Stanley Gardner and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2012-09-23 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only witness to a millionaire’s murder is a parrot that keeps repeating phrases that may identify the killer.
Download or read book Justice Denoted written by Terry White and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2003-09-30 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Case Of The Vagabond Virgin written by Erle Stanley Gardner and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2012-09-23 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Platinum blonde, Veronica Dale, is arrested on a charge of vagrancy, yet she has a hotel reservation in her name. Addison, head of a department store, booked the room for her and is now being blackmailed. Perry Mason can’t decide who is hiding what and then comes murder and one of Mason’s toughest trial scenes.
Download or read book 100 Deadly Skills written by Clint Emerson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-10-13 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers one hundred concise methods of surviving dangerous situations based on the skills of military special forces operatives, covering such topics as evading ambushes, escaping confinement, and winning a knife fight.
Download or read book HSA Books and Manuscripts Dallas Auction Catalog 682 written by Sandra Palomino and published by Heritage Capital Corporation. This book was released on 2008 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Pulp Fiction Writers written by Lee Server and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an introduction to American pulp fiction during the twentieth century with brief author biographies and lists of their works.
