The Case of the
Nervous Accomplice – Erle Stanley Gardner, 1955
Mrs. Sybil Harlan asks Perry Mason to help her spoil a real
estate deal and thus win back her wandering husband Enright a.k.a Enny. Her
vision has Perry buying stock in a real-estate investment company and making a
nuisance of himself at a director’s meeting.
This disruption of a big deal will bring out the worst in
her hubby’s GF, the tempting redhead Roxy Claffin. Once Enny sees Roxy in her acquisitive
glory, he will fly back to the loving arms of his wife to celebrate their
upcoming fifth anniversary. On the adulterous liaison, her advice, I think
would make a daring date question: “Agree or disagree ‘A woman should never
forgive a man for infidelities. She should remain in complete ignorance.’”
Unfortunately a bad guy gets wind of her hiring Mason. A
murder takes place. The killing of crabby millionaire George C. “Daddy” Lutts
in a deserted house on company land overshadows the domestic drama and lands
Sybil in the dock accused of murder.
The time to read a whodunit is whenever a reader wants to
escape drudgery but still wants the comfort of familiar elements. Perry’s
client lies to him in order to motivate him to work harder.. Perry makes a
witness look silly on the stand. Perry courts disbarment proceedings. Perry’s
antagonist DA Burger gets a comeuppance. Della personifies devotion, Paul a
Doubting Thomas.
Glory in different yet the same….
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