Erle Stanley Gardner Livres

Entre 1933 et 1974, cet auteur américain a publié 85 romans judiciaires animés par Perry Mason, personnage dont s'est emparé la télévision. Brillant avocat, observateur sagace et imaginatif, celui-ci illustre bien le type de chevalier moderne au service des veuves, des orphelins et des marginaux. Cette jeune fille boudeuse devient la cible d'une deuxième enquête (1933)

'The bestselling author of the century ... a master storyteller' New York Times

SILENCE IS MURDER Perry Mason's beautiful new client isn't giving anything away, not even her name, and he suspects that what she does choose to reveal is mostly lies. Certainly the bag full of cash she carries isn't shopping money. All the mystery woman asks is that Mason make himself available for a few days in case she needs him--for what purpose, she remains silent as the grave. In fact, his headstrong client, who identifies herself only as "36-24-36," is headed for disaster--not only into a blackmailer's clutches but into a lethal trap from which not even Perry Mason's brilliant courtroom sorcery may be able to extricate her. Alive, anyway . . . THE ORIGINAL COURTROOM NOVELS

Emotionally distraught, Mildred Crest assumes the identity of a hitchhiker who has died in a car accident and becomes the victim of a blackmail threat