This one was written in 1956, and is very good in some ways, less so in others. On the whole, the ones written by 1950 are the best. That, and the ingenious plots, are why I read Perry Mason. Nonetheless, I still love the general setting: the characters of Perry, Della, Paul, Lt.
Those who are used to really fine mystery writers may find Gardner's writing style a bit stiff and mechanical. I've been reading Gardner's Perry Mason books off and on for many years. An office temporary is the solution, but she behaves very strangely: she arrives in a nervous state, types most of the manuscript, and then quite suddenly disappears! It soon transpires that a nearby office has been burgled, and it seems likely that the woman was involved, but as the matter progresses the circumstances become increasingly peculiar-and when murder rears its ugly head Mason is once more court.more
#CASE OF THE TERRIFIED TYPIST SERIES#
Perry Mason series - Mason is in a quandary: one of his office typists is out sick and the other is too overwhelmed to take on more work, but an important legal brief must be prepared for delivery the next day. This is no better than average for the series but there is a unique way in which Perry escapes a guilty murder verdict for his client.
Her additions to the story are not fully developed and her major contribution may be in the alliterative title. The terrified typist of the title was a young woman mistaken by Mason's staff for a typist from a temp agency. Perry Mason series - Mason is in a quandary: one of his office typists is out sick and the other is too overwhel #49 in the Perry Mason series. Diane Mott Davidson and Joanne Fluke pioneered new tropes. But I just think that we need some new voices in mystery who defy the tropes and create new ones. In romance, it's mail order brides, marriage of convenience, Regency romances, etc. As an author, I understand that certain what they call tropes are popular in different genres. This the case of the Terrified Typist is fast-paced, unpredictable, novel, and thoroughly enjoyable. None of their stories are like any other story. I've been reading a lot of Charlotte McLeod(Peter Shandy Mysteries, etc), Rex Stout (Nero Wolfe), and Perry Mason or I mean Erle Stanley Gardner. I'm tired of magical cats, dogs who can outsmart their owners, women who've been divorced or lost a spouse or were jilted and having to move back to their hometown, baking or crafty sleuths, witches that are sleuths or houses that are haunted and have helpful ghosts or nasty murdering ghosts. I've been reading a lot of Charlotte McLeod(Peter Shandy Mysteries, etc), Rex Stout (Nero Wolfe), and Perry Mason or I mean Erle Stanley Gardner More and more I find myself reading vintage murder mysteries. More and more I find myself reading vintage murder mysteries.
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