The Case of the Shoplifter's Shoe (Perry Mason Series Book 13)
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| Rating | : | 4.80 (721 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B008H769VM |
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| Number of Pages | : | 486 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-06-12 |
| Language | : | English |
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So why does Virginia turn to legal eagle Perry Mason? Because a cache of valuable diamonds—left in Sarah’s care—has suddenly vanished into thin air. Now it appears the lady with the sticky fingers may have blood on her hands.. After her well-to-do Aunt Sarah is caught shoplifting, Virginia Trent is convinced she needs to seek psychiatric help for kleptomania. Virginia thinks Sarah swiped the stones, but gem dealer Austin Cullens begs to differ. In fact, he’s prepared to forgive and forget—until he is mysteriously murdered and Sarah is caught running from the crime scene
Truman was a fan and that it is rumored that when Einstein died, a Perry Mason book was at his bedside. In the mid-1950s, the Perry Mason novels were selling at the rate of twenty thousand copies a day. They further describe that when Raymond Burr met Pope John XXIII, the actor reported that the pontiff "seemed to know all about Perry Mason." Federal judge Sonya Sotomayor frequently mentions how Perry Mason was one of her earliest influences.Starting with his first book, Gardner had a very definite vision of the shape the Perry Mason character would take:"I want to make my hero a fighter," he wrote to his publisher, "not by having him be ruthless to women and underlings, but by creating a character who, with infinite patience jockeys his enemies into a position where he can deliver one good knockout punch." . The first Perry Mason novel, The Case of The Velvet
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 and 271 episodes.As author William F. In the mid-1950s, the Perry Mason novels were selling at the rate of twenty thousand copies a day. At the time of his death in March of 1970, in Ventura, California, Gardner was "the most widely read of
"The Bomb" according to Roxanne L. Jackson. Very very interesting! I loved reading this book.. Acute Observer said Another Intriguing Mystery. The Case of the Shoplifter's ShoeIt starts raining, so Perry Mason and Della Street enter a department store for lunch. Della notices a white-haired woman standing by a window. Perry says she is a shoplifter, and the man following her is a store detective! A younger woman joins her at a table. Perry walks over to help resolve this problem. The younger woman, Virginia Trent, pays for the goods picked up by her aunt Sarah Breel. It seems like just one of life's adventures (Chapter 1). Later Virginia Trent shows up at Perry's office to tell about a real problem. Uncle George Trent, Sarah's brother, has disapp. "Shoplifting Old Lady" according to A Customer. Very well-plotted mystery entangled with two murders and two guns. Events occured one after another from the beginning to the end and I never got bored. Mrs. Breel, the shoplifting old lady, was the most peculiar of all Mason's clients; her attitude was as cold as a cucumber but what she really did were highly irrational. I wouldn't say I liked her, but anyway she was very impressive.