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Chargement... The Case of the Hesitant Hostess (Perry Mason Series Book 41) (original 1953; édition 2011)par Erle Stanley Gardner (Auteur)
Information sur l'oeuvreThe Case of the Hesitant Hostess par Erle Stanley Gardner (1953)
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Was not a big fan of this one. Perhaps I am a bit too attached to ESG's formulaic writing, given that the twists are what we are after. So this starts in the middle and goes off in some really weird direction. The plot was also a bit convoluted, so I think he was trying a bit too hard. ( ) Mason is appointed to defend an elderly indigent accused of a holdup; the weatlhy man who claims to have been robbed has a witness who claims to have been in the car with him, Martha Lavina, who runs three successful nightclubs. Cross-examining her, Perry suspects she wasn't there at all, but Inez Kayler, one of her "hostesses" who supposedly picked her up after the holdup, and was prepared to deny it, suddenly runs out on Perry in the midst of the trial. Perry seeks her in one of Lavina's clubs, and finds it is attached to a gambling establishment (illegal min those days). Meanwhile, Perry's client's innocent niece shows up from Minnesota to support him. Perry Mason, abogado criminalista, no acepta un cliente hasta que su sexto sentido le dice que es inocente. Y no importa que el caso le ponga contra las cuerdas; conseguirá la absolución. En el último instante, su brillante exposición de los hechos sacará a la luz detalles, aparentemente sin importancia, que delatarán al verdadero culpable. En los años sesenta, el actor Raymond Burr popularizó en televisión al peculiar investigador aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Appartient à la sériePerry Mason Novels (Book 41) Appartient à la série éditorialeEl País. Serie negra (10) Ullstein Krimi (1018) Est contenu dansThe Case of the Negligent Nymph | The Case of the Hesitant Hostess | The Case of the Restless Redhead par Erle Stanley Gardner The Case of the Daring Divorcee | The Case of the Queenly Contestant | The Case of the Hesitant Hostess par Erle Stanley Gardner Distinctions
Perry Mason has no hesitation about defending penniless ex-salesman Albert Brogan against a charge of armed robbery. That's because nightclub hostess Inez Kaylor's testimony will guarantee that the accusations against the alleged hold-up mon won't hold up in court. But when the hostess has the bad manners to stand Mason up instead of taking the stand, Perry's defense may not have a leg to stand on. Failure to find the AWOL witness in forty-eight hours could cost an innocent mon his liberty and his life, when the prosecution serves up a shocking new charge of murder! But the high-tailing hostess has a host of her own secrets, and a cast of shady characters -- from Los Angeles to Las Vegas -- is determined to keep them (and her) hidden. It all adds up to a whirlwind working weekend for Mason: if he cant get the goods -- and the girl -- by Monday morning when the gavel falls, so will the ax... Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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