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The Case of the Buried Clock (Mass Market Paperback)
by Erle Stanley Gardner (Author)
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I started reading Erle Stanley Gardner's Perry Mason mysteries over thirty years ago, long before I ever imagined that I would be working in New York publishing -- and specifically for the longtime paperback reprinter of Mr. Gardner. Like so many other people my age, I also grew up with the Perry Mason television series starring Raymond Burr. And Raymond Burr has always been (and always will be) in my mind's eye as I read the novels. Considering how popular the legal thriller genre became with Grisham, Turow, et al., I guess we owe Erle Stanley Gardner (also a lawyer-turned-novelist) a debt of gratitude for starting the franchise so many years ago. (THE CASE OF THE VELVET CLAWS was Perry Mason's debut, back in 1933.) Mr. Gardner died in 1970, and Raymond Burr in 1993; but in the novels (now recently reissued in colorful vintage packages by Ballantine), Perry Mason lives!

--Joe Blades, Associate Publisher
Product Details
  • Mass Market Paperback
  • Publisher: Ballantine Books (July 12, 1983)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0345310136
  • ISBN-13: 978-0345310132
  • Product Dimensions: 7.2 x 4.2 x 1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 4.2 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars 2 customer reviews (2 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 stars Mason's case was almost hopeless, April 28, 2003
By Jeffrey Clinard "Jeffrey" (Las Vegas, NV USA) - See all my reviews
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The buried clock was 25 minutes slow... or was it 35 minutes fast? Mason's explanation of the time difference was that it was keeping sidereal, or star time, which gains 4 minutes a day. He played it up big in the newspapers
to create a juristication battle between two counties, but the clock disappeared, the juristication was settled, and Mason's client went on trial for the murder of her embezzling husband.

The circumstantial evidence was tight, and Mason's only hope was to try and introduce the clock, once again found buried and set on sidereal time. However, there was no legal doctrine he could find to introduce it into evidence... until Mason realized he'd walked into his own baited trap.

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