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Blackmail leads to murder on a yacht and a cash-filled purse on the bottom of the ocean weighted down with a gun. Detective Perry Mason's case of the stepdaughter's secret.
First publish date: 1963
Genre: Mystery & Detective/Private Investigator
Authors: Erle Stanley Gardner
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πŸ“˜ The case of the crooked candle

Perryβ€―Mason tackles a perplexing homicide in Losβ€―Angeles, where a frantic client and a mysterious lieutenant complicate the investigation.

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πŸ“˜ The case of the lucky legs

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πŸ“˜ The case of the buried clock

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πŸ“˜ The Case of the Silent Partner

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πŸ“˜ The case of the baited hook


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πŸ“˜ The case of the substitute face

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πŸ“˜ The case of the gilded lily

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πŸ“˜ The case of the sulky girl

A slick Perryβ€―Mason mystery where a brash heiress seeks counsel over a will that threatens her inheritance if she marries earlyβ€”only to find her own groom on trial after an uncle’s murder.

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πŸ“˜ The Case of the Rolling Bones

Perryβ€―Mason defends a gold‑prospector whose relatives lock him in a sanitarium, only to have him implicated in a murder of a Dice‑manufacturing businessman.

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πŸ“˜ The case of the beautiful beggar

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πŸ“˜ The case of the blonde bonanza


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πŸ“˜ The case of the spurious spinster

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πŸ“˜ The case of the runaway corpse

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πŸ“˜ The case of the mischievous doll

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πŸ“˜ The case of the calendar girl

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πŸ“˜ The case of the daring decoy


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πŸ“˜ The D.A. holds a candle


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πŸ“˜ The case of the lucky loser

Perry Mason faces another murder case in Los Angeles.

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