The Case of the Shoplifter's Shoe (Perry Mason Series Book 13)
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| Rating | : | 4.57 (715 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B008H769VM |
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| Number of Pages | : | 292 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-08-24 |
| Language | : | English |
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"The Bomb" according to Roxanne L. Jackson. Very very interesting! I loved reading this book.. "Another Intriguing Mystery" according to Acute Observer. The Case of the Shoplifter's ShoeIt starts raining, so Perry Mason and Della Street enter a department store for lunch. Della notices a white-haired woman standing by a window. Perry says she is a shoplifter, and the man following her is a store detective! A younger woman joins her at a table. Perry walks over to help resolve this problem. The younger woman, Virginia Trent, pays for the goods picked up by her aunt Sarah Breel. It seems like just one o. A Customer said Shoplifting Old Lady. Very well-plotted mystery entangled with two murders and two guns. Events occured one after another from the beginning to the end and I never got bored. Mrs. Breel, the shoplifting old lady, was the most peculiar of all Mason's clients; her attitude was as cold as a cucumber but what she really did were highly irrational. I wouldn't say I liked her, but anyway she was very impressive.
The first Perry Mason novel, The Case of The Velvet Claws, published in 1933, had sold twenty-eight million copies in its first fifteen years. Besides 'Tarzan,' 'Sherlock Holmes,' 'Superman' ? 'Perry Mason' qualifies as an American icon of popular culture in the twentieth century."Gardner's writing has touched a lot of people including a number of high profile figures. Brian Kelleher and Diana Merrill say in their 1987 book, The Perry Mason TV Show Book that Harry S. In the mid-1950s, the Perry
In the mid-1950s, the Perry Mason novels were selling at the rate of twenty thousand copies a day. They further describe that when Raymond Burr met Pope John XXIII, the actor reported that the pontiff "seemed to know all about Perry Mason." Federal judge Sonya Sotomayor frequently mentions how Perry Mason was one of her earliest influences.Starting with his first book, Gardner had a very definite vision of the shape the Perry Mason character would take:"I want to make my hero a fighter," he wrote to his publisher, "not by having him be ruthless to women and underlings, but by creating a character who, with infinite patience jockeys his enemies into a position where he can deliver one good knockout punch." . Nolan notes, "Gardner, more than any other write
Virginia thinks Sarah swiped the stones, but gem dealer Austin Cullens begs to differ. In fact, he’s prepared to forgive and forget—until he is mysteriously murdered and Sarah is caught running from the crime scene. So why does Virginia turn to legal eagle Perry Mason? Because a cache of valuable diamonds—left in Sarah’s care—has suddenly vanished into thin air. After her well-to-do Aunt Sarah is caught shoplifting, Virginia Trent is convinced she needs to seek psychiatric help for kleptomania. Now it appears the lady with the sticky fingers may have blood on her hands.