The Case of the Curious Bride (Perry Mason Books) [Hardcover]

Erle Stanley Gardner (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 296 pages
• Publisher: Amereon Ltd (October 1982)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0884114058
• ISBN-13: 978-0884114055
• Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,337,357 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Yet Another Great Perry Mason Mystery, January 15, 2001

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me "slightly-college-obsessed junior" (Los Angeles, California, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Case of the Curious Bride (Perry Mason Mysteries (Fawcett Books)) (Mass Market Paperback)

I am a big fan of all Perry Mason books but this one is definitley one of the best. There are many twists and turns in the plot. You never know who is lying and who is telling the truth. Some characters are telling the truth but not the whole truth others are totally lying and a couple are telling the whole truth. That makes it a very suspenseful and intriguing book. All in all is a book that keeps you on your toes and you can't put it down.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Mason's Clients are Never Guilty, October 23, 2001

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Kenneth Ray Taylor (Superior, WI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Case of the Curious Bride (Perry Mason Mysteries (Fawcett Books)) (Mass Market Paperback)

This is the 24th Perry Mason novel I've read (the 5th in the series), and it's Perry Mason at his best--or worst. For this is not the sanitized Perry Mason of television. The real Perry Mason routinely manipulates, suppresses, and, in this case, even plants evidence. Two eyewitnesses saw the bride kill her husband. She herself claims she did it. But she's Mason's client, so she couldn't possibly be guilty, right?

4.0 out of 5 stars There was too much stupidity committed by the opposition to make the story excellent, November 29, 2009

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Charles Ashbacher (Marion, Iowa United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Case of the Curious Bride (Paperback)

To appreciate the Perry Mason stories by Gardner, it is necessary to cut the author a bit of slack regarding the actions of his characters. Specifically, pushing his way into the apartment of a woman in order to ask her difficult and penetrating questions. In the modern world, this of course would be trespassing and harassment.
Rhoda Montaine is a woman with the habit of marrying the wrong man. Her first husband took off with her savings and faked his own death. Rhoda is a nurse and when she takes care of the weak son of a wealthy man, she falls in love with him and they get married. Suddenly, her first husband reappears and demands blackmail money, which initiates a sequence of events that lead to his being murdered with a fireplace poker.
Rhoda is placed at the scene at the time of the murder and since there is plenty of motive, she is charged with the murder. Mason is her attorney and once again Mason is his brilliant self, although in this case he is assisted by the arrogant incompetence of the district attorney. The case is puzzling until the very end when a secondary legal matter causes the truth to come out.
Many of the Gardner stories have an essential plot line where the police act arrogantly and stupidly, so shifting that to the district attorney was a welcome change. However, when you have read several Perry Mason stories, it is clear to you that the errors of the opposition are critical and you can better see your way to the end because of them. That is the case here and it had me hoping for a story where Mason wins the case by being more brilliant than the opposition rather than having them act stupidly.