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.

THE CASE OF THE LUCKY LEGS

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"The Case of the Lucky Legs" is a 1934 Perry Mason mystery by the prolific author Erle Stanley Gardner, shown here in a 1941 edition. The story concerns a confidence artist who promotes bogus beauty pageants in small towns in California; local merchants put up the money for the event, and the winning woman, "The Girl with the Lucky Legs," is promised a Hollywood film contract. In fact, no such contract exists, and the promoter absconds with the money. Several young women have already fallen prey to this scheme when Perry Mason is hired to find one of them, Marjorie Clune, who has run away from her hometown in shame and is trying vainly to "prove" herself in Hollywood. Then the unscrupulous pageant promoter is murdered, and Marjorie becomes the prime suspect...

SOME PICS FROM THE PERRY MASON TV SERIES.

THE MOUNTAIN OF ADVENTURE

                                

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What could be more exciting that a holiday in the lonely Welsh mountains, staying at a farm in a place called Doth-goth-oo-elli-othel-in (as enunciated by Bill) with a donkey each to ride about on? For once, Mrs Mannering (or Aunt Allie to Jack and Lucy-Ann) is determined to stick with Bill and the children to keep them out of adventure.

THE SEA OF ADVENTURE

                 

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It started off well enough. T he kids are just getting over measles and are bored silly. Their entire hols are ruined! 

THE CASTLE OF ADVENTURE

 

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The book starts with Lucy-Ann and Dinah at school, reading a letter from Mrs Mannering. She wants their house decorated, so has booked a cottage for the holidays. It's a place called Spring Cottage..."

THE ISLAND OF ADVENTURE

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This is the first book in the Adventure Series. In it we are introduced to the orphans Jack and Lucy-Ann Trent and their cockatoo, Kiki. 

Philip is perplexed by a strange disembodied voice—until he realizes it's coming from a parrot in the tree!

PONNIYIN SELVAN

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Ponniyin Selvan

One of the best novels ever written in Tamil. One of the evergreen pieces of Tamil Literature. 2600 pages of historical novel strewn intermittently with a few fictitious characters and incidents for the sake of continuity and clarity.2600 pages of classic – absolute classic from the pen of Kalki Krishnamurthy

The writer Kalki with his characters!

I had already read this book during my school days when it came in parts in a weekly. I started to read this when I was in VIII th standard. I was not a book lover by then and never liked to read books but, my father would read this novel and laugh while

DASHA AVATAR

This comic illustrate the story of lord Vishnu's ten incarnations.

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NANDHIPURATHU NAYAGI

This book is the continuation of Ponniyin Selvan by kalki. I've posted the link of the first part here and I'll try to post the second as soon as possible.

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THE CASE OF THE HORRIFIED HEIRS

In this book Mason defends a woman twice; once on drug smuggling charges, and once on murder charges
A very interesting book from Perry Mason series.

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THE CASE OF THE CARETAKER'S CAT

One of the best book of Perry Mason series.

This was the first book of his which I read. After reading this I started to collect Perry Mason mysteries. Now I have almost all of the books in this series. I would say that, this series is the best of the court room mystery novels which I read.

                                                     

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      After his employer dies in a fire, a caretaker hires Mason to allow him to keep his cat against the wishes of the men who inherit. When the caretaker is killed, Mason defends the woman accused of his murder.

AMAR CHITRA KATHA - BUDDHA

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In the area on the present border of India and Nepal, there was a small kingdom in the 6th century before the Common Era. When the prince was born, fortune- tellers forecast that he would be either a great king or a great saint. The king took every care to keep him in a life of pleasure so he would become king, not saint. The prince grew to be a strong, handsome youth. Yet he was kind; he saved a bird struck by his cousin's arrow and so claimed the bird as his.

One day, on a ride outside the palace through the city, he saw a sick, an old and a dead man. Their sight opened his eyes to the suffering in the world and set him thinking. One night, he left his wife, newborn son and the palace and went in search of knowledge to end suffering in the world.

He traveled far and wide and went through many austerities but realized that, sorrow can be ended, not by starving t he body but by freeing oneself from desire. He set out teaching this. People called him Buddha ('the Enlightened'). He started preaching against animal sacrifice as the means to satisfy desires. Soon commoners and kings alike started listening to him. There were detractors too, but he came out unharmed through all their evil designs. Back to his town during his travels, he finally won over his own family to his teachings.

THE CASE OF THE FENCED-IN WOMAN

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.­

The Case of the Fenced-In Woman (published posthumously) (1972) – Mason becomes involved in the bizarre case of a house split right through the living room with a barbed-wire fence--and a body in the pool.

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Why are good communication skills important for students?

Communication is a vital part of life. Be it your interviews, debate competition or just a casual interaction with your friends, good communication skills indeed matter. A person may not communicate effectively if he does not have good communication skills.                                                                                            

In a student life communication skills are indeed important. After completing your education when you apply for jobs, the first thing that an interviewer does is observing your communication ability.                   

  Communication process includes good reading, writing, speaking and listening skills. Here are some of the important reasons why you should work out on your communication skills:                                                                  

To crack an interview and get a job As mentioned earlier, good communication will matter a lot when you go for an interview. And, if only if you manage to crack the interview, you will stand the chances of getting your dream job. So, while preparing for your dream job, do not forget to brush up your communication skills. It is very very important.

To prove your point

In order to prove your point you need to communicate. Even when you are giving answers to your teacher, you need to justify your answer and for that you need to communicate well.

Extracurricular activities

The ability to communicate effectively is a boon for the students. If you are interested in participating in debates and panel discussions, you will definitely need effective communication skills. If can’t communicate you should better stay away from debates or brush up your skills. We believe the latter is the better idea.

Exams

Communication is not just limited to speaking or having a conversation, it also involves writing and listening. And if you can write well, then it will definitely help in your exams. Mugging up the portion will not help always. You need to understand things and have the ability of putting things in your own words.

How can you brush up your communication skills?

The best way to brush up your communication skills is to read a lot. The reading not only involves your textbook portions but also newspapers, magazines and books. In this way, you will widen your limited knowledge and also learn new words. The reading definitely helps in the long run.

Apart from reading, observation too helps. You should observe people while they are talking. How they use their body language while communicating, the confidence and so on.

Don’t forget good communication is the first ladder to success.

A POWER POINT PRESENTATION ON AFRICA

Below is one of my power point presentation on Africa

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Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most-populous continent. At about 30.2 million km² (11.7 million sq mi) including adjacent islands, it covers six percent of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4 percent of the total land area.With 1.0 billion people (as of 2009, see table), it accounts for about 15% of the world's human population. The continent is surrounded by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, both the Suez Canal and the Red Sea along the Sinai Peninsula to the northeast, the Indian Ocean to the southeast, and the Atlantic Ocean to the west.

Africa boasts perhaps the world's largest combination of density and "range of freedom" of wild animal populations and diversity, with wild populations of large carnivores (such as lions, hyenas, and cheetahs) andherbivores (such as buffalo, elephants, camels, and giraffes) ranging freely on primarily open non-private plains. It is also home to a variety of "jungle" animals including snakes and primates and aquatic life such as crocodile & sand amphibians. In addition, Africa has the largest number of mega fauna species, as it was least affected by the extinction of the Pleistocene mega fauna.

Speakers of Bantu languages (part of the Niger–Congo family) are the majority in southern, central and southeast Africa. The Bantu-speaking farmers from West Africa's inland savanna progressively expanded over most of Sub-Saharan Africa.Bantu-speaking Africans also predominate in Gabon and Equatorial Guinea, and are found in parts of southern Cameroon. In the Kalahari Desert of Southern Africa, the distinct people known as the Bushmen have long been present. 

Amar Chitra Katha

"Immortal Captivating (or Picture) Stories") (Amar Chitra Katha PL) is one of India's largest selling comic book series, the imprint has more than 400 titles that retell stories from the great Indian epics, mythology, history, folklore, and fables in a comic book format. It was created by Anant Pai, and published by India Book House.

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Tales from krishna's childhood