The Case Of The Dubious Bridegroom
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 1st uk ed.,
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage — tears and chips along folds and corners of jacket. Page Condition: Yellowed — tanning consistent with age. Markings: unmrkd. Binding condition: Binding intact.
When a man desperate to escape his first marriage hatches a scheme involving a Mexican divorce and a mysterious new bride, Perry Mason finds himself entangled in a web of deception that turns deadly. Erle Stanley Gardner's The Case of the Dubious Bridegroom is a masterclass in mid-century courtroom suspense, drawing readers into a labyrinth of bigamy, murder, and misdirection that only Los Angeles's most brilliant criminal defence attorney can navigate. Gardner constructs the plot with the precision of a legal brief, each chapter tightening the vice of circumstantial evidence around Mason's client until escape seems impossible. At its heart, this is a novel about the lengths to which desperate people will go — and the even greater lengths Mason and his indispensable team of Della Street and Paul Drake must travel to uncover the truth. Gardner's prose is crisp, fast-paced, and utterly assured, reflecting his own background as a practising attorney and his unmatched command of courtroom drama. One of over eighty Perry Mason mysteries, this entry stands as a sharp reminder that in Gardner's world, the law is never quite what it seems — and neither is the accused.
Author: Erle Stanley Gardner
Format: Hardback
Published: 1954, Heinemann
Genre: Crime fiction
Edition: 1st uk ed.,
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage — tears and chips along folds and corners of jacket. Page Condition: Yellowed — tanning consistent with age. Markings: unmrkd. Binding condition: Binding intact.
When a man desperate to escape his first marriage hatches a scheme involving a Mexican divorce and a mysterious new bride, Perry Mason finds himself entangled in a web of deception that turns deadly. Erle Stanley Gardner's The Case of the Dubious Bridegroom is a masterclass in mid-century courtroom suspense, drawing readers into a labyrinth of bigamy, murder, and misdirection that only Los Angeles's most brilliant criminal defence attorney can navigate. Gardner constructs the plot with the precision of a legal brief, each chapter tightening the vice of circumstantial evidence around Mason's client until escape seems impossible. At its heart, this is a novel about the lengths to which desperate people will go — and the even greater lengths Mason and his indispensable team of Della Street and Paul Drake must travel to uncover the truth. Gardner's prose is crisp, fast-paced, and utterly assured, reflecting his own background as a practising attorney and his unmatched command of courtroom drama. One of over eighty Perry Mason mysteries, this entry stands as a sharp reminder that in Gardner's world, the law is never quite what it seems — and neither is the accused.