I read this book for the Vintage Mystery Bingo Reading Challenge 2014.
The challenge is to read 6 or more Vintage Mysteries. All novels must have been
originally written before 1960 and be from the mystery category.
I read this for L-2: Read a Book that’s been made into a
movie. I hope a TV episode is good enough – this was first broadcast on
November 1, 1958.
The Case of the
Buried Clock - Erle Stanley Gardner, 1942
Perry Mason fans regard this WWII-era mystery as one of
their favorites. In the 22nd novel starring the lawyer and his trusty sidekicks
Della Street and Paul Drake, Gardner shows that he’d mastered his distinctive
way with brisk narrative. Plenty of clues make the plot elaborate but not
incomprehensibly complicated: a clock set to sidereal time; the “truth serum”
scopolamine in the vic's body; an uncertain estimated time of death; camera and
negative strangeness; and finally Gardner’s dependable old “two revolvers”
confusion. The Perry Mason novels that Gardner published during WWII make
passing references to war-time culture, such as blackouts, tire rationing, and
frugality with gasoline.
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