[Perry Mason 38] • The Case of the Sun Bather's Diary

The naked and the very dead…

The blonde wandering nude at the Remuda Gold Club tells Perry Mason a strange story. She says that while she peacefully sun-bathed near the course, someone made off with her Cadillac, her trailer, and all of her belongings –including her precious diary.

The woman blames the police who suspect her of having stashed away nearly half a million dollars allegedly stolen by her father, who is now in prison. She swears that both she and her father are innocent. So who is bankrolling her leisurely lifestyle? Why is she so desperate to find her diary? And who, if not Mason’s beautiful client, would murder a key witness? In a virtuoso courtroom performance, Mason exposes the staggering truth.

Review"Gardner [is] humorous, astute, curious, inventive--who can top him? No one has yet."--Los Angeles Times

"Erle Stanley Gardner is probably the most widely read of all . . . authors. . . . His success . . . undoubtedly lies in the real-life quality of his characters and their problems, for which he can draw on his own dazzling accomplishments as a trial lawyer."--The Atlantic

"A clean, economical writer of peerless ingenuity."--The New York Times

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From the Inside FlapTHE NAKED AND THE VERY DEAD

The blonde wandering nude at the Remuda Golf Club tells Perry Mason a strange story: While she peacefully sun-bathed near the course, someone made off with her Cadillac, her trailer, and all her belongings--including her precious diary.

The woman blames the police, who suspect her of having stashed away nearly half a million dollars allegedly stolen by her father, who is now in prison. She swears that both she and her father are innocent. So who is bankrolling her leisurely lifestyle? Why is she so desperate to find her diary? And who, if not Mason's beautiful client, would murder a key witness? In a virtuoso courtroom performance, Mason exposes the staggering truth.

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