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.

But if Mason’s going to untangle this case, finding the typist is key . . . When she disappears, leaving a couple of diamonds behind in her haste, Mason winds up taking on a new client: a gem importer in his office building who’s been charged with smuggling and murder. In The Case of the Deadly Verdict, Perry’s client receives the death penalty after being found guilty. The frightened young woman hired as a temporary typist by attorney Perry Mason is suspected of breaking into the South African Gem Importing and Exploration. In The Case of the Terrified Typist, he was able to save his client from a guilty verdict. The Edgar Award–winning author’s tale of a missing woman and a crime ring, featuring the lawyer and detective who inspired the HBO limited series.ĭefense lawyer Perry Mason needs a temporary typist, but the one he hires turns out to be more temporary than expected. There were two especially harrowing cases where Perry’s client was determined to be guilty.

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