The Case of the Lame Canary, Erle Stanley Gardner
The Case of the Lame Canary, Erle Stanley Gardner
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The Case of the Lame Canary

Author: Erle Stanley Gardner

Narrator: Alexander Cendese

Unabridged: 5 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 12/27/2016

Synopsis

Do birds of a feather plot murder together?The extraordinary Perry Mason never handles straightforward divorce cases, but this one is an especially strange bird. Rita Swaine is dating her sister’s ex-boyfriend. Her sister, Rosalind, is married to shady insurance adjuster Walter Prescott, who’s got dollar signs in his eyes and ice water in his veins. When Rita’s beau gallantly steps in to warn Rosalind about her heinous husband’s designs, Prescott hatches a plan to prey on them all…by suing for big profit.For Mason, this case should be a lark. But when a murdered man is found in the Prescott home—and a nosy neighbor sings an incriminating song about illicit love and a hidden gun—legal eagle Mason suddenly finds himself defending 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 Jamie

It always seems to me that Perry Mason is as much, or more, a private investigator than an attorney. I'm not at all sure that's an accurate reflection of what criminal defense attorneys really did back in Mason's day, or if it was just Gardner's way of making these stories more exciting. In any case......more

Goodreads review by James

In this outing, Perry gets suckered into taking a divorce case when a young woman shows up in his office carrying a cage with a lame canary in it. Under normal circumstances of course , Perry would never touch something as boring as a routine divorce suit and the woman insists that the lame canary i......more

Goodreads review by Melindam

3,5 stars (view spoiler)[Perry Mason does asks Della to marry him after all, even though not in a very romantic fashion, but then he wouldn't be Perry Mason if he did. :D (hide spoiler)]......more

Goodreads review by Freya

The case starts out interesting but got quite complicated as it progressed. The finish was really twisted and made sense only after the explanation was provided.......more

Goodreads review by Rob

What stands out as the best parts of 'The Case of the Lame Canary is the interaction between the Perry Mason, Della Street and Paul Drake characters. Gardcner is at the top of his writing skills with consistency and character development. This is also true of the rest of the cast of this novel. Dist......more

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