The Case of the Cautious Coquette

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Summary: The Case of the Incautious Lawyer
Review: 34th Perry Mason Mystery written in 1949. Openings of Mason Mysteries are always strange, and this book's opening may be one of the strangest. Mason investigates a hit-and-run case. An anonymous letter comes to him, which encloses a key of an apartment and invites him to trespass. Mason feels it a trap, but he visits the apartment. And incidents happen after that are so rapid, strange and unexpected. Even Mason gets a little dizzy and incautious, and he makes a serious mistake and gets into a jam worse than ever.

But Mason wouldn't waste time to being depressed. He instantly takes a bold and clever action to upset the triumphant authorities. That IS Perry Mason! That makes me laugh and applaud heartily. And the mystery is very tightly plotted. It is superb all strange incidents in the early stage are solved neatly and logically like jigsaw puzzle pieces fit in. Highly recommended.

Rating:
Summary: The Case of the Incautious Lawyer
Review: 34th Perry Mason Mystery written in 1949. Openings of Mason Mysteries are always strange, and this book's opening may be one of the strangest. Mason investigates a hit-and-run case. An anonymous letter comes to him, which encloses a key of an apartment and invites him to trespass. Mason feels it a trap, but he visits the apartment. And incidents happen after that are so rapid, strange and unexpected. Even Mason gets a little dizzy and incautious, and he makes a serious mistake and gets into a jam worse than ever.

But Mason wouldn't waste time to being depressed. He instantly takes a bold and clever action to upset the triumphant authorities. That IS Perry Mason! That makes me laugh and applaud heartily. And the mystery is very tightly plotted. It is superb all strange incidents in the early stage are solved neatly and logically like jigsaw puzzle pieces fit in. Highly recommended.

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Summary: Brilliantly Deceptive
Review: In this case, Perry Mason starts out looking for a witness to a hit-and-run car accident, meets a divorcee who tries to hire him in an alimony suit, eventually unearths two men who admit to being the driver of the car that hit and ran. Then he comes across a body, obviously murdered, lying in the divorcees garage and things start to get really interesting.

Mason has to set up a couple of brilliant deceptions to avoid being implicated in the murder when it looks as though the evidence is beginning to stack up against him - evidence such as his fingerprint on the murder weapon and an eyewitness who saw him at the garage around the time of the murder. Once again, the courtroom scenes are very entertaining as Perry Mason weaves his usual magic, trying to prove himself innocent as well as his client.