Perry Mason: The Case Of The Phantom Fortune (Paperback)

from jotoyo

As with most Perry Mason books by Gardner, the story opens quickly, moves at an even faster pace and ends almost abruptly. In this novel Perry is hired to find who may be blackmailing a successful businessman's wife, without letting the woman know that anyone else knows she is being blackmailed. ...

from antiquary

Della Street persuades Perry Mason to accept an offer of $500 to attend a buffet dinner (with champagne) and give a wealthy man an opinion on someone thee --and identify a fingerprint he has. Perry arrange' for Drake's detective agency to set up a fake catering service to collect the china etc. f...

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The 72nd Perry Mason novel is a bit unusual - the first body does not show up until you are in the second half of the book - in most books we are at the trial stage by that point. Which does not mean that there are no crimes before that. A man comes to the lawyer's office to hire him to protect h...

from steve12553

Nice comfortable read. Not dated outside my lifetime but the technology of the world fifty years ago might bother a few people who live on their cell phones. Interesting plot and smoothly paced.

from VincentDarlage

Perry Mason gets blackmailed in this one, but the blackmailer is murdered before Perry can deal with him himself. Not the best Perry Mason, but it was enjoyable.