![]() ![]() Perry Mason series - Mason is in a quandary: one of his office typists is out sick and the other is too overwhelmed to take on more work, but an important legal brief must be prepared for delivery the next day. This is no better than average for the series but there is a unique way in which Perry escapes a guilty murder verdict for his client. Her additions to the story are not fully developed and her major contribution may be in the alliterative title. The terrified typist of the title was a young woman mistaken by Mason's staff for a typist from a temp agency. Perry Mason series - Mason is in a quandary: one of his office typists is out sick and the other is too overwhel #49 in the Perry Mason series. Diane Mott Davidson and Joanne Fluke pioneered new tropes. But I just think that we need some new voices in mystery who defy the tropes and create new ones. In romance, it's mail order brides, marriage of convenience, Regency romances, etc. As an author, I understand that certain what they call tropes are popular in different genres. This the case of the Terrified Typist is fast-paced, unpredictable, novel, and thoroughly enjoyable. ![]() ![]() None of their stories are like any other story. I've been reading a lot of Charlotte McLeod(Peter Shandy Mysteries, etc), Rex Stout (Nero Wolfe), and Perry Mason or I mean Erle Stanley Gardner. I'm tired of magical cats, dogs who can outsmart their owners, women who've been divorced or lost a spouse or were jilted and having to move back to their hometown, baking or crafty sleuths, witches that are sleuths or houses that are haunted and have helpful ghosts or nasty murdering ghosts. ![]() I've been reading a lot of Charlotte McLeod(Peter Shandy Mysteries, etc), Rex Stout (Nero Wolfe), and Perry Mason or I mean Erle Stanley Gardner More and more I find myself reading vintage murder mysteries. “Millions of Americans never seem to tire of Gardner’s thrillers.More and more I find myself reading vintage murder mysteries. This mystery is part of Edgar Award–winning author Erle Stanley Gardner’s classic, long-running Perry Mason series, which has sold three hundred million copies and serves as the inspiration for the HBO show starring Matthew Rhys and Tatiana Maslany. But if Mason’s going to untangle this case, finding the typist is key . . . When she disappears, leaving a couple of diamonds behind in her haste, Mason winds up taking on a new client: a gem importer in his office building who’s been charged with smuggling and murder. The Edgar Award–winning author’s tale of a missing woman and a crime ring, featuring the lawyer and detective who inspired the HBO limited series.ĭefense lawyer Perry Mason needs a temporary typist, but the one he hires turns out to be more temporary than expected. ![]()
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