The Case of the Drowning Duck, Erle Stanley Gardner
The Case of the Drowning Duck, Erle Stanley Gardner
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The Case of the Drowning Duck

Author: Erle Stanley Gardner

Narrator: Alexander Cendese

Unabridged: 6 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 02/28/2017

Synopsis

Fowl play?A dead man in the kitchen, gas fumes permeate the house, a duck seems to be drowning in the fishbowl, but it didn’t die. Maybe that fact has something to do with murder?John L. Witherspoon, a wealthy patrician, is loath to let his daughter marry Marvin Adams, the son of a convicted murderer, something Marvin's mother managed to keep a secret—until now. To set the love-struck lass straight, Witherspoon engages Perry Mason to weigh the twenty-year-old evidence that sent Marvin’s father to the gallows, and prove that the young man is kin to the murdering kind.Reopening the case, however, quickly opens up a can of worms. While Mason dredges the past for new clues, a blackmailer threatens to dredge up the whole sordid affair in the society pages. Then the whistle-blower is done in by a dose of deadly homemade gas, and the damning evidence points to chemistry whiz Marvin. Like father, like son? Like hell, says Mason, who sets out to bird-dog the clever killer who’s trying to turn the young swan into a sitting duck.

About Erle Stanley Gardner

Erle Stanley Gardner (1889-1970) was a prolific American author best known for his Perry Mason novels, which sold twenty thousand copies a day in the mid-1950s. There have been six motion pictures based on his work and the hugely popular Perry Mason television series starring Raymond Burr, which aired for nine years.

Reviews

Goodreads review by James on January 06, 2020

This is the twentieth Perry Mason novel, about a quarter of the way through the series. It's set in 1942, just as the U.S. has entered the Second World War, and as always, reflects the standards and the attitudes of its time. As the book opens, Perry and his secretary are away from the office on vaca......more

Goodreads review by Jessica on October 03, 2024

It gave me pause when Mason asked, "What's a detergent?" Apparently, that must have been a new technology in 1942. It doesn't seem like that long ago. At any rate, I have learned that if you put detergent in water with a duck, the detergent will get on the duck's normally water-repellant oily feathe......more

Goodreads review by Jim on January 06, 2015

I picked this up as a Kindle ebook and Amazon has a number of Erle Stanley Gardner books available. I loved the old TV series with Raymond Burr and the slightly newer ones featuring a much older Raymon Burr. I like that the ebook format is allowing us to revisit a lot of older authors. I am sometime......more

Goodreads review by Rod on February 22, 2024

I used to watch Perry Mason on TV, both the old and new series. I enjoyed those programs so when I saw one of the books by Erle Stanley Gardner that were the source of the TV shows at a used bookstore, I decided to read it. I see that Gardner wrote over 80 Perry Mason books between 1933 and 1973. I......more

Goodreads review by Eric_W on June 19, 2011

I picked up a bunch of old Perry Mason mysteries and thought I’d try one. I fondly remember reading several when I was a kid and they hold up well. There are the usual archaic references to contemporary technology, and one very jarring reference to a Red River Valley in California where there were l......more

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