I read this book for the Vintage Mystery Bingo Reading Challenge 2015.
The challenge is to read 6 or more Vintage Mysteries. All novels must have been
originally written between 1960 and
1989 inclusive and be from the mystery category.
I read this for the category L-2, “Made into a TV show”
This 1962 novel was made into an episode of Perry Mason first broadcast on January
23, 1964.
The Case of the
Ice-Cold Hands – Erle Stanley Gardner
This 1962 Perry Mason novel is readable enough for a lazy
Sunday afternoon in late summer. But the story is so-so. We’ve also seen before
the victim that nobody will mourn and the attractive client with her pants on
fire from telling so many whoppers.
A point in its favor is that Gardner shows that he did
his homework when it came to keeping current in the field, since he uses a
law, newly passed in California in the early 1960s, that allowed a DA to grant
complete immunity in exchange for testimony that would
incriminate the witness.
Some critics and readers dislike the Perry Mason novels
written in the 1960s. Others say that the mysteries written in the 1950s
represent a falling off. Still others say the novels written before WWII are
better than the ones written after.
Me, I can read them all, as long as heat and
humidity make it impossible for me to read harder novels.
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