The Case of the Baited Hook [Mass Market Paperback]

Erle Stanley Gardner (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0345329422 | ISBN-13: 978-0345329424 | Publication Date: January 12, 1986

POLLY WANT A KILLER

Did the wealthy Fremont C. Sabin divorce his wife before his untimely death? That's the multimillion-dollar question. And the right answer will mean a windfall for either the dead man's angry son or headstrong widow. Each has accused the other of destroying Sabin's will--and murdering Sabin. But with no document declaring who the affable eccentric intended to leave his fortune to, Perry Mason faces a particularly prickly puzzle.

Even more puzzling, however, is the talking parrot. Casanova was Fremont Sabin's beloved pet. But the bird found at the crime scene proves to be a foul-mouthed impostor. Suffice it to say that more than a few feathers will be ruffled as Mason sets out to clip a clever killer's wings. . . .

THE ORIGINAL COURTROOM NOVELS

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About the Author

Erle Stanley Gardner is the king of American mystery fiction. A criminal lawyer, he filled his mystery masterpieces with intricate, fascinating, ever-twisting plots. Challenging, clever, and full of surprises, these are whodunits that have delighted mystery aficionados for more than sixty years. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Ballantine Books (January 12, 1986)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0345329422
• ISBN-13: 978-0345329424
• Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 4.2 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,921,640 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Gardner rules!, December 17, 2001

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Carmine Pascuzzo-Lima "Carmine Pascuzzo-Lima" (Barquisimeto, Venezuela) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Case of the Baited Hook (Mass Market Paperback)

A masked woman, a third-part of a ten thousand bill, a dubious deal and a nice murder (of course!): these are the elements in yet another great case in which Perry Mason displays his astonishing abilities to unveil the truth. Alibi analysis is fundamental in this one!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "A Perry Mason Mystery", March 5, 2001

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Kay Cee Messmer (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Case of the Baited Hook (Paperback)

This book is about a Perry Mason Mystery. One rainy night Robert Peltham calls Perry Mason out of bed and asks to meet him at once. Accompanying him is a masked women whom Peltham wants Mason to represent. mason asks wha she is charged with. "Read tomorrow's papers," Peltham says, then he cuts a $100,000 bill in half, gives one half to Mason and the other half to the masked woman. The bait. When Albert Tidings, a financier, is found murdered, Mason knows his client will be indicted. But who? Is it Adelle Hastings , the heiress with no money, whose charities Tidings administered? Or is it Byrl Gailord, whose trust fund Tidings managed. And why must Mason begin his investigation without knowing who retained him? With the top-notch, crakcerjack help of his secretaryDella Street and Private detective Paul Drake, Mason seeks answers to these intriguing questions. This mystery is one in a million. You will love it.

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5.0 out of 5 stars $10,000 Worth of Trouble, May 28, 2002

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Jeffrey Clinard "Jeffrey" (Las Vegas, NV USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Case of the Baited Hook (Mass Market Paperback)

The hook was baited. Mason was summoned from the dead of night to his office, where he received $2,000 in cash, and the small end of a $10,000 bill. The client was a masked woman, and he had no way of knowing who she was, and how to prepare her defense.

Mason stumbles around trying to figure out how to protect his mystery client. Then even after he unmasks his client, he finds himself the victim of a frame-up by a suspect who tells a story which the district attorney is happy to believe.