ABA Perry Mason
10 primary works
Book 1
Criminal lawyer and bestselling mystery author Erle Stanley Gardner wrote nearly 150 novels that have sold 300 million copies worldwide. Now, the American Bar Association is bringing back his most famous and enduring novels-featuring criminal defense lawyer and sleuth Perry Mason-in striking trade paperback editions. Married Eva Griffin has been caught with a prominent congressman, and is ready to pay the editor of a sleazy tabloid hush money to protect the politician. But first Perry Mason tracks down the publisher of the blackmailing tabloid and discovers a shocking secret, which eventually leads to Mason being accused of murder. This is the first Perry Mason mystery and our introduction to secretary Della Street, detective Paul Drake, and the great lawyer himself.
Book 2
Criminal lawyer and bestselling mystery author Erle Stanley Gardner wrote nearly 150 novels that have sold 300 million copies worldwide. Now, the American Bar Association is bringing back his most famous and enduring novels-featuring criminal defense lawyer and sleuth Perry Mason-in striking trade paperback editions. Bratty heiress Frances Celane visits Perry Mason to inquire about an odd codicil in her father's will, stating she would be disinherited if she married young. Her uncle is the trustee, and stands to inherit everything if Frances marries-which she has. And when her uncle is found murdered, her groom is accused. The Case of the Sulky Girl combines hard-boiled detective work with the first trial in the novels.
Book 3
Criminal lawyer and bestselling mystery author Erle Stanley Gardner wrote nearly 150 novels that have sold 300 million copies worldwide. Now, the American Bar Association is bringing back his most famous and enduring novels-featuring criminal defense lawyer and sleuth Perry Mason-in striking trade paperback editions. Unfortunately, Marjorie Clune's legs are not as lucky as they first appear-when movie promoter Frank Patton's hype clears, it's obvious his "lucky legs" contest and the movies that were supposed to follow was a fraud. When Patton is found with Marjorie's lover's knife in his chest, Perry Mason must exonerate the young woman and find the real killer.
Book 4
Criminal lawyer and bestselling mystery author Erle Stanley Gardner wrote nearly 150 novels that have sold 300 million copies worldwide. Now, the American Bar Association is bringing back his most famous and enduring novels-featuring criminal defense lawyer and sleuth Perry Mason-in striking trade paperback editions. Arthur Cartwright insists on seeing Perry Mason about his neighbor's constantly howling dog. When Mason gets a district attorney to issue a warning to the neighbor, Clinton Foley, Foley claims that Cartwright is insane. Mason nearly starts to believe him when Cartwright draws up a will leaving everything to Foley's wife. That's why he pays a visit to Clinton Foley's house, where he finds a missing wife, a poisoned dog, and a corpse.
Book 5
Criminal lawyer and bestselling mystery author Erle Stanley Gardner wrote nearly 150 novels that have sold 300 million copies worldwide. Now, the American Bar Association is bringing back his most famous and enduring novels-featuring criminal defense lawyer and sleuth Perry Mason-in striking trade paperback editions. Rhoda Lorton doesn't always marry the right men. Her first husband, Greg Moxley, took off with her savings, only to have his plane crash. Lorton has gone on to marry millionaire scion Carl Montaine when Moxley turns up alive and well and demands money to stay silent about Lorton's first, extant marriage. When Moxley is found dead, two eyewitness claim to have seen Lorton kill him, and she says she killed him, too. But did she?
Book 6
Criminal lawyer and bestselling mystery author Erle Stanley Gardner wrote nearly 150 novels that have sold 300 million copies worldwide. Now, the American Bar Association is bringing back his most famous and enduring novels--featuring criminal defense lawyer and sleuth Perry Mason--in striking trade paperback editions. By all appearances, wealthy businessman Hartley Bassett has killed himself. But Bassett was in his fair share of trouble at the time of his death, and the case gets complicated by corpses with bloodshot glass eyes clutched in their hands. With too many suspects and too many lies, it takes all the resources of Mason, his invaluable secretary Della Street, and clever detective Paul Drake to piece together this fatal family puzzle.
Book 7
Book 8
A bloody knife is found in sleepwalker Peter Kent's bed after a man in his house is found dead. Peter's niece, Edna Hammer, consults with Perry Mason for help.
Book 9
Book 10
Criminal lawyer and bestselling mystery author Erle Stanley Gardner wrote nearly 150 novels that have sold 300 million copies worldwide. Now, the American Bar Association is bringing back his most famous and enduring novels--featuring criminal defense lawyer and sleuth Perry Mason--in striking trade paperback editions. Matilda Benson hires Perry Mason to help her retrieve her spoiled niece's IOUs from a gambling ship. When Mason gets to the floating casino, he finds Benson and her niece onboard, the ship's owner dead from a gunshot wound, and a gun thrown over the ship's railing. Is Mason's client a murderer?