The Case of the Demure Defendant by Erle Stanley Gardner

The Case of the Demure Defendant

Perry Mason

by Erle Stanley Gardner

unabridged

Pan Books, 1964, paperback

Very Good Condition, some edge and shelf wear, some rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, age toned pages, no inscriptions, slight lean (see photographs)

“’A lawyer isn’t supposed to take steps to suppress evidence,’ said Perry Mason.  Yet that was just what the celebrated lawyer-investigator had done – and Hamilton Burger knew it.  Mason’s client was a young woman who had confessed – when under the influence of a truth drug – to murder by poisoning.  But was the confession admissible in court?  And was it truly the truth?
For the fiftieth Perry Mason case, Erle Stanley Gardner has contrived a brilliant puzzle in which the court-room climax provides one of the sharpest legal battles in fiction.”