THE CASE OF THE CROOKED CANDLE

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 A key element in a complicated story of a body found on a beached boat is a candle that stands at a steep angle. "The details of the boat grounded at low tide with a corpse in the cabin are superbly handled, and the rest of the story—motives and characters—is both believable and reasonably straightforward.... (It) is an absolutely first-rate job."

THE CASE OF THE DROWSY MOSQUITO

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 wealthy prospector is camping in his own back yard, someone tries to poison Perry and Della, Paul Drake poses as a drunken prospector, and the clue to the murder is the sound of a mosquito flying in lazy circles.

THE CASE OF THE BURIED CLOCK

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A returning war veteran stumbles across a buried clock that is apparently keeping sidereal time. A murder victim is found in a rural area where, it seems, all the neighbors go out for walks at night.

THE CASE OF THE CARELESS KITTEN

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Mason defends Della Street, who is accused of helping a material witness or possible murder suspect vanish from a crime scene. Key clues in the murder case are the behavior of a greedy kitten and the impersonation of an elderly crippled woman.

THE CASE OF THE DROWNING DUCK

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 Perry Mason and Della Street are on a vacation in Palm Springs when a wealthy businessman asks for advice about his daughter's boyfriend, a chemist who drowns ducks and becomes a murder suspect.

THE CASE OF THE STUTTERING BISHOP

THE CASE OF THE STUTTERING BISHOP

Edward McWade asks Mason's help in a case of a young girl, Janice, who may or may not be the granddaughter of wealthy Ronald Brownley. The bishop suspects that she is a fake and it is Mason's job to find the real Janice, whose estranged mother Ida believes her to be one Janice Seaton. But before Brownley can verify this latest claim, he is murdered by what appears to be a woman wearing a light raincoat. A fingerprint in Brownley's car points to Ida as the murderess, but is she guilty? And who is the real Janice Brownley?

Carol Delaney was raised in an orphanage and never knew who her parents were. Charles Burroughs, is a multimillionaire whose only daughter ran away years ago, leaving a baby daughter in an orphanage before she died. When the stuttering Bishop Mallory brings these two people together, he expects a joyous reunion. But when Burroughs is stabbed to death Carol becomes the main suspect. Perry must prove not only Carol's innocence but her right to inherit Burroughs's name and fortune.

The Case of the Stuttering Bishop (1937). A Bishop from Australia comes to Perry, to ask him to take a case of a woman wrongly accused of manslaughter. The case would involve the wealthy Mr. Brownley and his granddaughter, who may be an imposter. Soon after, the Bishop is killed in his hotel room. When, he leaves on a boat and Perry meets, Ida Gilbert. Later that night, Brownley is shot by a woman who drops Ida's gun. Ida is arrested for the murder of Mr. Brownley and Perry gets involved.

THE CASE OF THE EMPTY TIN

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Elston Carr is searching for the heir to the Hocksley fortune, with Alan Neil conducting the preliminary interviews. Miriam Hocksley may be the heiress, but she can't prove it, so Neil coyly offers his services for a fee. Meantime, another woman, Doris Hocksley, also has reliable credentials. The proof is in a tin box in Carr's safe, but when opened it is empty, and Carr is lying on the floor dead.

Doris Hocksley is shown a personal newspaper ad in a Los Angeles newspaper for locating the daughter of Adam Hocksley and providing proof of same. A friend, John Lowell, suggests she pursue the idea to prove she is the rightful heir to Adam Hocksley estate

A deceased war veteran’s estate and his long-lost daughter set the scene for murder and deceit. Perry must set the facts straight and help the daughter, Doris Hocksley, regain her identity and fortune.

THE CASE OF THE SILENT PARTNER

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 A dynamic young businesswoman is in danger of losing control of her flower shop, and someone sends poisoned bonbons to a nightclub hostess. Mason must reacquire some stock and defend the businesswoman. This novel is the first to feature Lt. Arthur Tragg.

THE CASE OF THE ROLLING BONES

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A murder during the California Gold Rush has ramifications that lead to murder in the present day. This novel is the first one for Mason's intrepid switchboard operator, Gertie.

THE CASE OF THE HAUNTED HUSBAND

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A cigarette girl in San Francisco leaves her job and the city abruptly, and hitchhikes to LA, but gets in a car wreck with a would-be Romeo, waking up in the hospital to find herself charged with his death.

THE CASE OF THE PERJURED PARROT

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One of Perry Mason's trademarks is his ability, in court, to switch the physical evidence in a case. He generally does this with guns or bullets, and it confuses the jury, to his client's advantage. In this case, Perry offers a coroner's inquest two parrots, one of which swore like a muleskinner and was found near the body of a millionaire hermit who had been murdered. "This early Perry Mason is uncommonly full of detection, and the games played in it with parrots do not detract from plausibility. Denouement not huddled--all in all, a model in his special genre.^] In the television production of "The Case of the Perjured Parrot," the parrot was voiced by Mel Blanc.

THE CASE OF THE LAME CANARY

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A snoopy neighbor and a canary whose claws have been cut too short give the clues to an illicit affair and a murder.

THE CASE OF THE DANGEROUS DOWAGER

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Mason is hired to retrieve a spoiled granddaughter's gambling IOUs by a wealthy cigar-smoking dowager. A murder aboard a gambling ship is beyond the three-mile limit.

THE CASE OF THE SHOPLIFTER'S SHOE

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Mason defends an elderly woman who claims to have no memory of shooting a man, but he needs to know why she would go shoplifting when she has plenty of money in her purse

THE CASE OF THE SLEEP WALKER'S NIECE

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When two men change bedrooms at a house party, everyone thinks that the sleepwalker with the carving knife killed the wrong man.

THE CASE OF THE HOWLING DOG

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1.    When a potential client wants to see Mason about a howling dog and a will, the attorney is uninterested. He does not enjoy drafting wills, and wonders if the man should not see a veterinarian. However, the man's next question, whether a will is legal if the person who made it had been executed for murder, immediately piques Mason's interest. He finds, in addition to the will and the dog, a man who had run away with the wife of another, and a sexy housekeeper.

THE CASE OF THE SULKY GIRL

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A bratty heiress wants to keep the news of her marriage a secret from the guardian who controls her purse strings, but when the guardian is murdered, her groom is accused.

THE CASE OF THE CURIOUS BRIDE

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A woman claiming not to be a bride consults Mason about her "friend" whose husband, long thought to have died in a plane crash, turns up alive.

THE CASE OF THE BAITED HOOK

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Mason is given a third of a $10,000 bill to represent a masked woman in the future. It takes him almost until the murder trial to find out which cheating woman is his client.

THE CASE OF THE COUNTERFEIT EYE

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Peter Brunold has a bloodshot glass eye to use the "morning after." It is distinctive, closely identified with him, and thus a handicap when a corpse is found clutching a bloodshot glass eye. Later, another corpse is found, with another bloodshot glass eye in hand. But Mason is in almost as much jeopardy as his client, as his fingerprints have been found on one of the alleged murder weapons. This is the first novel in which DA Hamilton Burger appears.

THE CASE OF THE SUBSTITUTE FACE

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During a dark and stormy night aboard ship, a man goes missing. A portrait photograph is mysteriously changed out of a frame. Mason must solve the mystery to save a life.

THE CASE OF THE MOTH-EATEN MINK

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A waitress in a favorite restaurant of Mason's runs out in the middle of the lunch rush, leaving behind her moth-eaten mink, and is hit by a car. Later, a message in lipstick helps Mason disprove the murder case against her framed boss.