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The Case of the Gilded Lily
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Stewart Bedford is willing to cooperate with a blackmailer to protect his beloved wife. But when he wakes up in a daze to find the man shot dead with Bedford's gun and his blond escort missing, he'll need some help from defense lawyer Perry Mason . . .
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.
DON'T MISS THE NEW HBO ORIGINAL SERIES
, BASED ON CHARACTERS FROM ERLE STANLEY GARDNER'S NOVELS, STARRING EMMY AWARD WINNER MATTHEW RHYS
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“A businessman named Stewart G. Bedford is being blackmailed by a man named Binney Denham who comes to him with a proposition from his associate named Delbert: Delbert needs twenty thousand dollars to finance a venture of his. He’s promised to pay back the money within six months.
But Bedford tells him he has no idea who Delbert is. Then Binney threatens him with his wife's criminal records. He knows little about His wife Ann Roann who’s much younger than he is beside the fact that she’s a victim of an unhappy marriage plus her husband’s suicide.
Then Binney presents a mugshot of his wife and adds that she was arrested for insurance fraud. He then threatens to take the shot to a magazine that would be willing to pay just as much to dig up dirt on her. Binney demands traveler's checks which Bedford pays.
At the motel where he does the exchange, Binney turns up dead and his female companion vanishes into thin air. Bedford has little collection of what took place because he was drugged. He shares his ordeal with his secretary Elsa Griffin who hires a famous trial lawyer named Perry Mason to look into the case.
Perry Mason in turn enlists the help of a Paul Drake of the Drake Detective Agency. His secretary Della Street is also there to assist. A good read.”
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About Erle Stanley Gardner
Erle Stanley Gardner (1889–1970) was an author and lawyer who wrote nearly 150 detective and mystery novels that sold more than one million copies each, making him easily the best-selling American writer of his time. He ranks as one of the most prolific specialists of crime fiction due to his popular alter ego, lawyer-detective Perry Mason. A self-taught lawyer, Gardner was admitted to the California bar in 1911 and began defending poor Chinese and Mexicans as well as other clients. Eventually his writing career, which began with the pulps, pushed his law career aside. As proven in his Edgar Award–winning
, Gardner never gave up on the cases of wrongly accused individuals or unjustly convicted defendants.
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