Terry Clane, an expert in the ways of the Orient, returns to San Francisco after another extended stay in China and is promptly picked up by the police. His former girlfriend, Cynthia Renton, is being sought for questioning. Her fiancé, Edward Harold, who has been convicted of murder of businessman Horace Farnsworth and sentenced to the gas chamber at San Quentin, has just escaped police custody and is a fugitive. Clane, with the help of several...

District Attorney Frank Duryea had more than a simple murder case on his hands. Had someone killed both Addison Stearne and C. Arthur Right and then vanished? Or had it been a murder and a suicide? And, in either case, who died first? A vast fortune depended on the answer. The obvious suspect was Nita Moline, who claimed she discovered the bodies, rushed up on deck of the yacht and fainted. However, nobody had seen her come aboard. And through the...

"Erle Stanley Gardner's famous character, Doug Selby, is back in a lightning-paced mystery -- in which a drunken car thief volunteers a confession that points to a twisting trail of murder ..."-- In Southern California, a car goes out of control and the D. A. finds a body. The dead man's clothes don't fit and why should a ten-year-old letter be so important? Why does Carmen Freelman act so nervous? Selby has help from Sylvia Martin, a lovely newshound,...

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 own gun, he'll need some help from defense lawyer Perry Mason to track down the deceased's blond escort

The blonde wandering nude at the Remuda Golf Club tells Perry Mason a strange story: While she peacefully sun-bathed near the course, someone made off with her Cadillac, her trailer, and all her belongings-- including her precious diary. The woman blames the police, who suspect her of having stashed away nearly half a million dollars allegedly stolen by her father, who is now in prison. She swears that both she and her father are innocent. So who...

Perry Mason's latest case involves blackmail, embezzlement, and murder.

Hired to protect the treasures of a globe-trotting adventurer, Bertha Cool and Donald Lam confront an impossible crime: how could anything be smuggled out of a dinner party -- least of all a 6-foot-long blowgun -- when the guests were X-rayed coming and going? But that's nothing compared to the crime they face next: An impossible murder...