I recognize all of the above, and groan sometimes when an especially awkward bit of repartee between Perry, Paul and Della takes place, and sometimes - believe it or not - the clueing is not entirely is as seamless and tidied up as completely at the end as it should be. Gardner’s narratives and the dialogue from the mouths of his characters are of one piece, wooden, for the most part, and I suspect, repetitive in cadence and phrasing from book to book. What do Perry and his faithful secretary do after their frequent dinners out together? It was never said, and it never will be. Those readers who like their detective figures to have personal lives have little to look forward to in the Perry Mason books.
Maybe you (well, not necessarily you) don’t like courtroom dramas, especially those that you know pretty much when the courtroom scenes are going to take place, soon after about halfway through, with a break in the action while the courtroom’s in recess while Perry calls on his stalwart private eye Paul Drake to dig up the necessary evidence he suddenly realizes that he needs. I recognize, of course, the various reasons why someone might not care for Gardner’s books. Fair, but not when he’s writing under his own name, but stylistically, they read the same to me. In an unusal split in personality, fiction-wise, a number of people say that they like Gardner in his guise as A. Sometimes one’s mind is made up, and there’s nothing that I could say that could change their opinion, either one way or the other.Ĭase in point: Erle Stanley Gardner, and in particular the Perry Mason stories that he is known around the world for writing. There are certain authors who are so well known that there is very little chance that a review of one of their books is going to convince a would-be reader to read that author or not, even if that would-be reader has never even read that author. Other paperback editions: Pocket Cardinal C-275, August 1958. Hardcover edition: William Morrow, January 1956. Pocket 6108, paperback reprint 1st printing, November 1961. ERLE STANLEY GARDNER – The Case of the Terrified Typist
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