The Case Of The Velvet Claws

GARDNER, Erle Stanley

Verlag: Grosset & Dunlap, 1933

Beschreibung

GARDNER, Erle Stanley [310] pp. Grosset & Dunlap 1933 7.75" x 5.25" Jacket design by Gorska. A cornerstone, of American mystery fiction. Erle Stanley Gardner's first book and first Perry Mason mystery. California lawyer Perry Mason takes on a client, Eva Belter, who is described and instantly hated, as all velvet and claws by his secretary Della Street. Eva's husband George is behind tabloid editor Frank Locke s blackmail of Congressman Harrison Burke. The politician and Eva had been together at a restaurant when there was an attempted robbery. It's not long before George takes a bullet to the heart as he's getting out of his bath. There's a forged will too. It benefits his nephew Carl, who is engaged to the daughter of Mrs. Veitch, the Belters secretive housekeeper. Is this complicated or what! At least Eva Belter had brains; she was smart enough to consult Perry Mason. w/ 1941 gift inscription on ffep *chip to head of jacket spine*. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 35861

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Case Of The Velvet Claws

Verlag: Grosset & Dunlap

Erscheinungsdatum: 1933

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Very Good

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good

Auflage: 1st Edition