El caso de las garras de terciopelo, 1933
El caso del ojo de cristal, 1935
El caso de la viuda peligrosa, 1937
El caso del anzuelo de cebo, 1940
El caso del gatito imprudente, 1942
Erle Stanley Gardner
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Traducción de Albert Fuertes Sánchez

Aburrido de la rutina de la práctica legal, el abogado Erle Stanley Gardner empezó a escribir para las revistas policíacas que publicaban a autores como Hammett o Chandler.

Creo varios personajes, pero se hizo inmensamente famoso con Perry Mason, un letrado con grandes dotes detectivescas que protagonizó 50 novelas, una exitosa serie de TV en la década de los 50/60 y diversas películas.
Existe una nueva versión del 2020 protagonizada por Mathew Rhys que tengo pendiente aún

He disfrutado un montón escuchando las novelas en @storytel_es.

Perfectas para desconectar y pasar buenos y entretenidos ratos.

Junto al avispado Mason, su ingeniosa secretaria Della Street y el descarado detective privado Paul Drake forman el trío protagonista sobre el que se sustentan los casos, clásicos y llenos de viudas peligrosas, estafadores, herencias, policías bobalicones y jovencitas en apuros.

#perrymason #classicnoir #historiasdedetectives #erlestanleygardner #thecaseofthevelvetclaws #thecaseofthecounterfeisteye #thecaseofthedangerousdowager
#thecaseofthebaitedhook #thecaseofthecarelesskitten
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He kept introducing more suspects throughout the book. I didn't know where to turn to.

Mason frowned thoughtfully and said, "What was it you wanted to ask me about?"
"Bigamy."
"What about it?"
"I'm married to Hartley Basset."
"So I understand."
"I want to run away and leave him."
"Go ahead."
"I have another man who wants to support me."
"Swell."

First appearance of Hamilton Burger.

Spoiler

Who has an incentive to let the only witness see an empty eye socket behind the hastily-made "mask"?

Who the murderer is becomes obvious early on though the motive and some of the details did not occur to me, though they probably should have. It was hard to believe that the murderer would have done some of the tongs that Perry caught onto that helped him solve the crime.

One of my favorites so far. You do learn more than you'd want to know about glass eyes, though. I'm temporarily a mini-expert before my memory fails me again. Hamilton Burger is introduced for the first time, and as fans of the show or books know, he becomes the main competition in the courtroom. Perry smashes him but soothes it over with an olive branch at the end. I'm sure this goodwill won't hold. A funny thing about this one is Perry is representing almost every character in the novel in some shape or form.