Author: Erle Stanley Gardner
Publisher: Fawcett
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780345316806
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Erle Stanley Gardner
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Published: 2014-03-14
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781471908583
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Perry Mason orders a double serving of trouble the night he and Della Street dine at an intimate restaurant after a hard day at law. In the middle of their steaks a waitress flees the premises in terror, leaving the puzzled proprietor holding her mink coat. Why a humble working girl abandons such a pricey wrap is only the first question in a cop-killer case that traps Mason's client with both an impossible story and the murder weapon, makes Perry himself a prime suspect, and blazes a gunpowder trail that leads straight to the heart of the police department itself.
Author: Thomas Leitch
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: 2005-09-19
Total Pages: 139
ISBN-13: 0814336760
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This concise study is an excellent tool for television and media scholars as well as fans of the Perry Mason series.
Author: Heather L. Rivera
Publisher: Open Court Publishing
Published: 2020-09-08
Total Pages: 173
ISBN-13: 0812694945
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In 1933 the crime writer Erle Stanley Gardner, himself a practicing lawyer, unleashed the character Perry Mason in the novel The Case of the Velvet Claws. Perry Mason entered into public consciousness as a new conception of the role of the defense lawyer, so that millions of Americans came to expect every criminal trial to have its “Perry Mason moment.” In the 1950s the Perry Mason TV show had a phenomenal success, and Mason came to be identified with Raymond Burr. Now Perry Mason has again been restored to life in the HBO series starring Matthew Rhys and John Lithgow. Meanwhile, the eighty-two original Erle Stanley Gardner novels continue to sell thousands of copies each week. Perry Mason gave America a new conception of the trial lawyer, as someone who was always loyal to his client and always prepared to use dirty tricks such as misdirection and withholding of evidence to protect the innocent and secure the ends of Justice. The Mason of the novels is less scrupulous than the Raymond Burr Mason, and would sometimes be in danger of going to jail if the trial didn’t turn out right—which it always did, largely because of Mason’s cleverness. The Perry Mason icon raises many philosophical issues explored by seventeen different philosophers in this book, including: ● Can we defend Paul Drake’s claim (The Case of the Blonde Bonanza) that Mason is “a paragon of righteous virtue” despite his predilection for skating on thin legal ice? ● Can complex murder cases be solved by facts alone—or do we also need empathy? ● The most convincing way to give a TV episode a surprise ending is by the guilty person suddenly confessing. But in reality, is a confession necessarily so convincing? ● Does Perry Mason represent the Messiah? ● How does the Raymond Burr Perry Mason compare with the more recent TV character Saul Goodman (Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul)? ● Is it morally okay to mislead the police if this helps your client and your client is innocent? ● How does Perry Mason help us understand the distinction between natural law and positive law? ● Do the Perry Mason stories comply with Aristotle’s recipe for a good work of fiction? ● Does life imitate art, when Perry Mason is cited in real-life courtroom arguments? ● How much trickery can be justified by loyalty to one’s client? ● Can evidence in murder trials be evaluated by probability theory? ● Perry Mason is officially a lawyer and unofficially a detective. But isn’t he really a historian and a psychgoanalayst? ● Della Street is a competent legal secretary, but is she something more? ● Mason often says that “Eye-witness testimony is the worst kind of evidence” and occasionally that “Circumstantial evidence is the best evidence we have.” Can these claims be defended?
Author: Erle Stanley Gardner
Publisher: Alien Ebooks
Published: 2023-07-13
Total Pages: 85
ISBN-13: 166762122X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In the sixth Perry Mason mystery, Perry must defend a young woman framed for a murder. The only clue: the murdered man has a crimson lipstick-print on his bald head.
Author: Erle Stanley Gardner
Publisher:
Published: 2010
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9781415749166
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Contains: The Case of the wintry wife, The Case of the angry dead man, The Case of the blind man's bluff, and the Case of the barefaced witness.