A midnight visitor...

she came to the confidence man's apartment, terrified of the scandal he threatened to expose. But before she left the building that man was dead...
murdered by the poker she'd taken up against him.

It takes all the power and brilliance of the famous criminal lawyer PERRY MASON to defend Rhoda Montaine in this dramatic CASE OF THE CURIOUS BRIDE

This edition published in association with Cassel by Penguin Books Ltd, in conjunction with Horwitz Publications Inc, Melbourne & Sydney, Australia
First published by Cassell 1935
Published in Penguin Books 1960
This edition 1961

She looked cool and innocent on the witness stand - a formidable challenge for Perry Mason.

She held the jury spellbound - for she had all the trumps to convict an innocent man.

And when Perry sprang his bomb-shell, the hoped-for explosion never came...

That was 5 p.m. Friday, leaving Mason three nights, two days, to break the case against his client... Tense, action-packed hours, with the chips mounting steadily against him.

First published 1959 by Wm. Heinemann Ltd.
This edition published 1961 by Pan Books Ltd., 8 Headfort Place, London, S.W.1

© by Erle Stanley Gardner 1959
© by Erle Stanley Gardner 1953

THE WORST WAY TO DIE!

Lawyer Fred Roff sat down to breakfast in his hotel room, spread a clean white napkin and reached for the coffee cup. A minute later, his body slumped slowly to the floor. Fred Roff had been murdered by poison!

D.A. Doug Selby knew that Roff was mixed up in a $1,000,000 lawsuit. He knew that plenty of people would kill for that kind of dough - vultures like Anita Eldon, a phony Hollywood blonde, or A.B. Carr, the slick mouthpiece.

But the person Selby wanted to meet most was a sultry brunette. She had been seen sneaking out of Roff's room. Then she had vanished completely. Who was she? Where was she running? What did she have to do with $1,000,000?

William Morrow edition published Feb 1946
Pocket Book edition published June 1952
Cardinal edition published June 1958
4th printing May 1960
© 1945, 1946 by Erle Stanley Gardner