![]() ![]() In fact, the plot of this story is nearly identical to one of those episodes. Having a person committed against his will to a prison-like hospital is a plot device I seem to recall Gardner using before, and the Perry Mason television show of the 1950s and ’60s used it several times. She knows her uncle is not senile or violent, as the relatives claim. The uncle’s greedy half-brother is now the conservator of the uncle’s estate by order of a local court. In it, a 22-year-old woman returning to Los Angeles after a three-month trip abroad, finds the wealthy and elderly uncle she lived with all her life has been forced into a sanitarium by relatives. The last novel in this Perry Mason collection was The Case of the Beautiful Beggar, from 1965. The collection was marked $1 – a deal too good to pass up.Įrle Stanley Gardner’s simple, direct writing style, his twisty plots and his fictional lawyer’s quick thinking and sometimes questionable actions are always a pleasure to read. The pages were too clean and some of them were stuck together at the edges the way they will in some brand new books. It didn’t take a Perry Mason to figure out the book had never been read. ![]() On a folding table at a book fair sat an old, but never read, hard cover collection of three Perry Mason novels from late in the series. ![]()
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