I've been trying and trying to work out who the man on the cover reminds me of, and my best guess is Richard Attenborough as he appeared in Brighton Rock. If anyone has any better guesses, please let me know.Perry Mason Suspected!LAWYER-DETECTIVE Perry Mason begins a search for a hit-and-run motorist. A police advertisement brings an anonymous letter, and the letter brings him to a blue-eyed blonde.Mason is delighted--and finds a damaged black sedan that fits the case perfectly.Next thing on his hands is another damaged car and two equally convincing candidates for the role of guilty party!Then a corpse crops up--and the man the police start building their case against is Mason!
As for the book itself--I get the impression that Erle Stanley Gardner had reached the stage where he no longer cared--at least about his Perry Mason stories. After a nice start, the plot isn't terribly coherent, and when Perry solves the mystery it comes out of left field. It's almost as if the author suddenly realised he needed to finish the book, so he closed his eyes and stuck a pin into a list of his characters in order to decide which one was the murderer...
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