The Case of the Lucky Loser – Erle
Stanley Gardner
This 1957 mystery starts with a
troubled young woman hiring super-lawyer Perry Mason to attend a court case and give her an
informed opinion as to how a witness to a hit-and-run comes off while on the stand.
His lawyer's intuition says the witness is lying.
Coincidentally enough, the very
next day the defendant's aunt-in-law contacts Mason. The plot becomes spectacularly tangled, as complex a puzzle as a Mason novel ever
provides.
This novel provides an excellent
example of Gardner's uncanny ability to keep us turning the pages to see what
happens next, even when we have given up trying to comprehend the twists.
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