Perry Mason has been batting around the Orient, taking a well-earned vacation. (Yes, Della Street is along.) We pick up on his way to the roar of the city, the jangle of telephones, the blast of automobile horns, to clients who lie to him and yet...
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A talented but overprotective young man has his hands full as trustee of the inheritance of a beautiful blonde but very naive young woman. But his love and her money don't mix. Why would he embezzle a quarter of a million dollars from his client...
Time — As in all Gardner mysteries, now.
Place — A fashionable West Coast resort.
Some of the dramatic and colorful characters involved—
TED SHALE: all he wants is to sell wealthy Addison Stearne some hotel supplies — and he...
Sir Clinton Driffield is a respected police professional assigned the task of solving a convoluted crime of murder. The case involves a coy temptress, her husband, a secret admirer and a young man with a romantic interest in the temptress. Sir...
Автор: Гарднер Эрл Стенли , Пронзини Билл
Серия: Sidney Zoom
Язык: английский
Год: 2006
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