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The Case of the Singing Skirt

The Case of the Singing Skirt

by Erle Stanley Gardner

Publisher Heinemann

Genre: Crime

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Ellen Robb came into Perry Mason's office with a gun in her purse. She had been framed, she said, by her gambler employer because she had refused to help fleece a customer.

The customer had dropped nearly $10,000 in the gambling establishment and then done his best to pick up Ellen. His wife, none too pleased with either shenanigan, ended up dead as a herring.

Della said Ellen was too beautiful to be trusted; Perry thought he could find out by switching guns on her - thus starting a series of explosions that nearly blast him out of court ...

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About the Author

Erle Stanley Gardner

Erle Stanley Gardner was an American lawyer and author. He is best known for the Perry Mason series of detective stories, but he wrote numerous other novels and shorter pieces and also a series of nonfiction books, mostly narrations of his travels through Baja California and other regions in Mexico.


The best-selling American author of the 20th century at the time of his death, Gardner also published under numerous pseudonyms, including A.A. Fair, Kyle Corning, Charles M. Green, Carleton Kendrake, Charles J. Kenny, Les Hillary and Robert Parr.


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  • Book Condition & Notes

    Near-fine first edition, with slight bruising to spine and corners. In a near-fine unclipped dust jacket with some wear to corners spine and light staining to the edges.

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