April Read/4

Title: The Case of the Bigamous Spouse

Author: Gardner, Erle Stanly

Genre: Mystery

Book Description (from flap of the cover):

            It began the evening pretty Gwynn Elston, hoping to sell a children’s encyclopedia, called at the Frankline Gillett residence. The sight of 7-year-old Frankie was shock enough, but the photograph of Frankline Sr. stunned her with its implication-both father and son were the image of Felting Grimes, husband of her best friend, Nell…

            Later, at the Grimes residence, shock changed to fear when Felting, strangely interested in Gwynn’s recent whereabouts, pressed on her a drink that immediately roused her suspicions. She poured it out, carefully taking a sample of the residue…

            That’s where Perry Mason entered the picture. But he was scarcely on scene before Felting Grimes was discovered, a bullet hoe in his chest…

My Read:

            John introduced me this wonderful author whose books featured the famous TV icon lawyer, Perry Mason. During the early years I had spent in the US the TV series Perry Mason accompanied me and helped me go through these difficult years. In the TV episodes I enjoyed so much the tall and handsome lawyer’s wit and shrewd methods solving mysteries. The intangible relationship between Perry and Ms. Street was a romantic mystery that well spiced the show. Let’s don’t forget the elegant outfit Ms Secretary had had on in each show.

            There is this page that I found interesting in this first read of the Perry Mason series. Here it is:

“Then Baxter became prosperous. They wanted to put his picture in the paper. Naturally, if his brother had been a partner, they would have wanted to put the brother’s picture in the paper, and that would have led to complications. So the brother was forced into a position of insignificance. He had to live his entire life masquerading as a gardener and caretaker. There’s a touch of poetic justice here. Gorman Gillett went to prison, paid his debt to society and was able to live his own life, even if it was rather a frugal life. But it was, nevertheless, an independent life.”