The case of the deadly toy

Erle Stanley Gardner First published 1959

About this book

ENGAGED TO A NIGHTMARE When Norda Allison sees her husband-to-be slap his young son, she immediately calls off the wedding. Now she is terrified. Her ex-fiancé has beat up her new boyfriend. Anonymous newspaper clippings are flooding her mailbox--articles graphically depicting what jilted men do to the women who leave them. Then Norda's life takes an even darker turn. It begins with a barking dog, a child's scream, a gunshot, and the discovery of a very dead body--and ends when Norda is arrested, charged with a brutal murder. Now only brilliant courtroom strategist Perry Mason stands between Norda and a sentence of certain death . . .

Subjects

  • american detective and mystery stories
  • california, fiction
  • detective and mystery stories
  • fiction
  • fiction, legal
  • fiction, mystery & detective, general
  • investigation
  • large type books
  • lawyers
  • lawyers, fiction
  • los angeles (calif.), fiction
  • mason, perry (fictitious character), fiction
  • murder
  • open library staff picks
  • perry mason (fictitious character)
  • private investigators
  • trials (murder)