Edward Garvin is a very successful businessman with a very unhappy ex-wife—who wants his money. So Garvin calls on lawyer Perry Mason to protect his company from her schemes, and ensure the divorce they’d gotten in Mexico is actually finalized.
This whodunit is part of Edgar Award–winning author Erle Stanley Gardner’s classic, long-running Perry Mason series, which has sold three hundred million copies and serves as the inspiration for the HBO show starring Matthew Rhys and Tatiana Maslany.
作者简介
厄尔·斯坦利·加德纳(Erle Stanley Gardner)是一位擅长写法庭侦探(——译公堂戏剧性派)小说的高手。他一生写了146部著作,其中最引人入胜的是以律师佩里·梅森为主人公的85部探案小说,每部均在美国销售百万余册,而这套小说全球总销量已超过三亿册。美国影视界自1957年把他的这些小说陆续改编成电视连续剧《佩里·梅森》,由著名影星雷蒙德·布尔主演,一连放映达8年之久,更使梅森律师成为美国家喻户晓的人物。
Erle Stanley Gardner (1889-1970) was the top selling American author of the twentieth century, primarily due to the enormous success of his Perry Mason Mysteries, which numbered more than eighty and inspired a half-dozen motion pictures and radio programs, as well as a long-running television series starring Raymond Burr. Having begun his career as a pulp writer, Gardner brought a hard-boiled style and sensibility to his early Mason books, but he gradually developed into a more classic detective novelist, providing clues to allow astute readers to solve his many mysteries. For over a quarter of a century, he wrote more than a million words a year under his own name as well as numerous pseudonyms, the most famous being A. A. Fair.